skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nobody explicitly specifies "result of an addition of natural numbers should match ..."

Yes they do. In most programming languages, by default integer arithmetic is modulo 2^64 (at best). If you want arbitrary precision arithmetic, you have to explicitly specify that.
> Microsoft wanted to work together with the creator of AppGet - It did not work out

There’s a lot of nuance that gets lost with a euphemism of “it did not work out”.

The drama largely comes down to behaviour that looks and smells a lot like trying to rinse free consultancy from a developer under the guise of recruiting, before ghosting him for months.
My point still stands. If the one setting up the fuzzer is thinking about the condition that A) you're using a valid email that B) already existing in the system and C) cannot be used to authenticate with another system, you can easily check the code for this directly. The fuzzer won't add anything over a simple integration/E2E test here.
NASA Taps 8 Firms to Make Ventilators
The PNG format allows arbitrary ancillary chunks, so it can be as big as you want it to be.
What is the point of your comments? You mention the community as an organism that can't control where the harm is directed, that is acting in self-defense. But the people looting, breaking windows and throwing stones are individuals that chose to participate in violent riots. They are not acting in self-defense.
It also completely depends on what kind of multiplayer game it is. If you're doing a simple turn-based card game, obviously you can run the entire game on the server, and have the clients just do input and display of the game state. If you're doing a fast-paced first-person-shooter, you need to run more logic on each game client and trust them more. Add a real-time physics engine and it gets even trickier, because now you need to make sure it's deterministic regardless of client hardware.

If you can solve the latter problem in a general way, you can easily build a company around it. There's already a bunch that do nothing but this. It's just a fundamentally hard problem because the speed of light is what it is, the distribution of computing hardware is what it is, and the distribution of players is what it is.
"CAs can sign any X.509 certificate."

Please explain how a user who creates a CA pem file with openssl can sign the certificate from example.com. Not a faked up certificate for example.com but the real one the owner of the example.com domain name got from Digicert.
Astronauts at NASA are specially taught in PR. They have to protect their partners. You absolutely can't fight astronaut or military pilot being frank of things they don't like.
American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific
Funny. I too with 14 years also with a lot of love for programming want to have a career like him. Like you I too am leetcoding so that I can get into a proper engineering company where I will not be discriminated based on age.

Hope we both will do the same as what the OP did.
How long until Musk lands a rocket on the moon vertically ?
Can confirm (macOS).

I'm not sure if I like the idea. What does it offer that DBeaver doesn't? DBeaver's auto-complete is a bit eager, and it looks like the Java application that it is, but it works, and the features Beekeeper touts are provided by DBeaver with the same ease. But DBeaver does seem to offer a lot more.
Especially an electric boat.
Tried to access https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-would-lose-any-war-fou... but it’s paywalled. Then stumbled onto this edu.au report based on googling around a couple of key terms.
I keep seeing indications that Teen Vogue editors are more aware of their responsibilities than one might expect.
NVidia has no incentive to provide good opengl drivers for Linux, today despite it being GPL.

Creating a new OS, that is also GPL will not encourage Nvidia more to do the thing they already aren't doing.
That’s true, but I don’t think they do to the extent that is needed to generate good Z80 or 6502 code. They won’t move local variables to global locations, for example. That often is essential on 6502 because of the limited stack space.

I also doubt they’ll use status flags to return data from functions. Such micro-optimizations just aren’t that useful on heavily pipelined CPUs with zillions of registers.

But yes, a link-time optimizer would work, but it would have to be built for these architectures, not, as in gcc’s or LLVM’s case, for the intermediate language.

Edit: for stuff that I don’t see a traditional link time optimizer do, look at CHRGET and CHRGOT in http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/project64/mapping_c64.htm....

Semi-equivalent C code (leaving out returning info in the status flags) is:

void * addr;
void * CHRGOT() { return addr; }
void * CHRGET() { while(shouldSkip(++addr)); return addr;}

The assembly code uses self-modifying code for speed, and makes CHRGET fall-through into CHRGOT, adding an unnecessary while-loop to CHRGOT.

Also, there’s the choice as to what flags to use for returning info.
As someone who runs a quantum computing software company, I can confirm your intuition. Almost everyone we hire to work on quantum computing directly has a PhD.
That price differential can make a lot of soundproofing worthwhile.
There's an open source replacement [1] for UNET that's been improved.

[1] https://github.com/vis2k/Mirror
It would be strange to create such an OS, which is why that's not the case of Fuchsia:

"Fuchsia is designed to let developers bring their own runtime, which means a developer can use a variety of languages or runtimes without needing to change Fuchsia itself"
> Who hired you?
Pre-internet, nobody. Professional computer nerds did hardware. I was a screwup kid only interested in bad ideas from other screwup kids with modems.

> What did you work on?
The internet. We had dial-up BBSs and some pay services, mostly to distribute text files. I spent most of my time writing peer-to-peer networking, distributed file storage, and p2p content discovery.
> How did you Learn?

The book that came with the compiler and/or IDE was usually excellent and all you needed. I tried reading Dr Dobbs, but that was usually closer to hardware, and way over my head. There were all these books full of prose that I didn’t care about. I just wanted code to get things done.

> How did you fix issues?
Change. Compile. Error message. Repeat.

> How did you find talent?
Kids that swapped floppies at school. Started with txtz, then pr0n, then warez, then c0dez.

> War stories?
Lots of screwup kid stuff learned from txtz like making bombs and drugs. Password stealing worms. Eventually pioneered the click fraud worm at the beginning of the internet and that was the end of it for me.
Belgian counts every possible Covid related death, even if it's not confirmed to be Covid.

This frees resources to do something more useful and stress health care less, since we don't test deaths. We just count them as a possible Covid case and add it into the statistics.

Roughly, it seems that halve of the cases are Covid related.

So we have the worst case scenario in statistics every time, the only downside is that not everyone knows this and it seems way worse then it is for them. Even Trump doesn't seem to know this :)

Source: I'm from Belgium and informed ;)
Show HN: Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework
Useful drones can be very light, and much less dangerous to people than, e.g., a tear-gas canister.
Featherweight Go
> You say it is infeasible for a lab to generate sars2, yet it seems Fauci thinks it is feasible enough to fund an attempt.

Saying they were trying to generate SARS-CoV-2 in a lab is a very polemical way of saying that they were studying viral transmission in cell culture. They didn't create SARS-CoV-2. They created viruses that are extremely different from SARS-CoV-2.

> But, what precludes a lab from discovering a virus in the wild that is close to making the jump, and then pushing it the rest of the way?

The Wuhan Institute of Virology publishes identifying genetic sequences of the viruses it samples from the wild. SARS-CoV-2 is not among those viruses. The closest virus (RaTG13) that the WIV found before the pandemic was 4% different from SARS-CoV-2. If SARS-CoV-2 were engineered from RaTG13, then the two viruses would be virtually identical throughout most of their genome. The only differences would be those introduced by the researchers. Yet the two viruses have seemingly random differences throughout their genomes - the types of differences you would not get in gain-of-function experiments. A 4% difference corresponds to many years of divergent evolution. The two viruses might have split as far back as the late 1800s.

So it's certain that SARS-CoV-2 is not engineered on the basis of RaTG13. If you want to claim that the WIV secretly found a different virus, then for unknown reasons didn't publish about that virus, and then started doing gain-of-function experiments on it without telling anyone (including their American scientific collaborators), you're just so far out in the realm of evidence-free conspiracy land that it's not worth responding to.

> copied over the ace2 section from sars

The receptor binding domains of SARS-CoV and SARS-COV-2 are very different from one another. The blog you're looking to is nonsense.

Listen to actual experts, like the virologists at This Week in Virology, not bloggers making wild claims.
> Everything most middle-income Americans think about our police forces is wrong.

That statement is a bit vague, everyone is going to substitute their own interpretation in. The police don't target racial minorities because they are racist. People who want power over others sign up for policing - and then go after groups who have the least ability to fight back.

The middle income might know the symptoms, but they are missing the cause. The cause is that if a fellow wants to hurl someone else to the ground, kick them and keep them down without a fair fight then their best chance as getting to that situation is to sign on to the police. This is an inescapable structural pressure that needs constant attention.
This is really great! Keep doing what you are doing, Sir.

I once had the pleasure of interviewing a German consultant who was into Android programming and he was like 48 or 50 years old. The interview was like listening to stories of his programming days with various hardware(Commodore etc) and it was fascinating that too with his precise German English accent.
They do so by using different teams, and their open source variants always lag behind what their closed source drivers are capable of doing across Windows, Apple and game consoles.
Note that it will only get one more major Android version, but Samsung provides 4 years of security updates, so she still has 3 more years before she's on her own.

Certainly not as good as Apple, but I believe that's the best you can find in Android land.
April/May in KDE Itinerary
Exactly. I can't remember which NASA official I'm paraphrasing here (I think Gene Cernan?), but humans are the cheapest, most abundant, and most "fully automated" machines known today.
It would be fun to have her coming to tell if she's still brainstorming or coding.
Looks good. They thing I missing is edit in place feature!
> It could be argued that many modern digital natives are really the locked-in inhabitants of digital cities and walled gardens.

So true. I am lucky that almost all my programming is for personal enjoyment/growth and have gotten a huge amount of pleasure from breaking out of the infinity of abstractions that make up modern operating systems and getting into electronics and microcontrollers (which can now be purchased for pennies). There’s something great about truly understanding a system (also true about larger scale and even non technical systems, but I have particularly felt the change you describe from pioneer/settler to controller citizens on modern computers).
Awesome! I have no plans to retire. I turn 50 in a few weeks and just returned back to the technology field after leaving it for 14 years.

Eventually I plan on getting another masters or a PhD in data science, statistics or some other computer science field.

If I could I'd buy you a cup of coffee and pick your brain. If you went to FAU then we are relatively close.
Drew Devault promotes using aerc as a text email client, especially for working with git patches - https://aerc-mail.org/
Yes it does, since Belgium was the first one to do it like this.

It's possible that other countries now also count this way, but I'm not aware of that/haven't heard it. So, I don't think that other countries count the same way.

Our way of counting has an average of 2 * more deaths in statistics. Since we count suspected cases as confirmed in the statistics.

It's a huge difference.

--

What are the other countries + sources then? I have only seen it mentioned ( and mentioned it myselve) for Belgium.
I live under the Seatac landing pattern. The noise that bugs me are the leafblowers.
Of course they did. It sparked a huge controversy back in ~2010-2013, when some known scientists and popular science authors (I'm pretty sure it was either L. Krauss or M. Kaku, but can't for the life of me find a reference now) started speaking up that sending older people on one-way trips would be a great way to lay foundations for a Mars colony, and there are lots of people who would happily volunteer to work until death on Mars.
UniFi: AR Mode
For those unfamiliar, Private Eve is an excellent magazine with a long history. It takes a humourous but serious investgative look at UK politics, business etc looking at eg corruption and double standards. With cartoons and iconic front page puns.

And for the large part it avoided the pitfalls of moving online. Current issue: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/current-issue
For those not following the topic, among others, the UK, EU, US - all officially endorsed the use of Signal for official government use.
> perhaps helped by a guy in a VR suit back on earth or in a nearby spaceship.

Definitely not "back on earth". Lag is an issue with VR as-is with mere milliseconds of it, and you'd be calling for minutes of latency there.

And "in a nearby spaceship" would, definitionally, involve getting humans most of the way there; might as well get them all the way there at that point.
Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces
I guess that Linux will quickly get an "NDISwrapper" equivalent that can run Fuchsia binary blobs. We'll all be a little bit worse off as a result, but with mostly working peripherals.
Respect! I plan to do the same when I get old. You are an inspiration Sir.
And self-replicating.
I work at Stripe, in the remote hub, from Tokyo. Stripe has a large and growing workforce outside of North America and so far it seems to be going OK.

The biggest challenge (from a trenches perspective) is timezones, so teams end up being either NA+APAC or NA+EU.
We measure fuel efficiency for cars in "liters per 10 km" in my country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy
I'm a strong FOSS proponent, most of my software is released under MIT, I use Linux daily and help others to use open source as much as I can.

And yet I find this idea total BS.

The reason I could even migrate to Linux when I was a teen was compatibility. It's because free softwares (VLC, Firefox, OOo...) were ported to Windows, a proprietary plateform, so that I could then feel at home later on Linux. And I made a definitive switch thanks to Ubuntu, because it made using most hardware easy, by accepting to use proprietary drivers when required.

Strong arming the industry into Libre never worked. The GPL is one of the least popular licences for this very reason. I, myself, never uses it.

Representing close source as evil doesn't work either.

It's like being vegetarian (which I am) and guilt triping people about meat. It's completly counter productive.

The result we got is that the year of Linux on the desktop never happened, because playing on Linux is hard, because the last cool gadget doesn't work, because you have to carefully chose your laptop to be sure it will work with it (E.G: my XPS 2-in-1 webcam doesn't work on Linux).

It also adds a lot of work to the kernel devs to try to keep up with the outter world, but they have a limited bandwith.

So Linux BT still sucks (even more than regular BT). Wifi is still not on part with the XP on other OS. Batter life is abysmal (I'm dual booting, and the difference is X2).

All for an ideal we never reached anyway.

Help and encouraging for FOSS makes a better world.

Being pushy about it hurts us.
What Happens to Powell’s Books When You Can’t Browse the Aisles?
There’s a story by sci-fi writer Daniel Suarez about that very idea of human mining an asteroid [1]. It’s actually a well thought out thought experiment. I suspect it’d almost require shenanigans like described in the book as modern society is so cautious as to be bordering on paranoid. Space won’t get colonized without significant risk for significant rewards.

1: https://www.marketplace.org/2019/04/24/sci-fi-delta-v-daniel...
Ask HN: Are There “Antibiograms for Antihistamines”?“?
I have a "highly annoying" case of fever hay (allergy to pollen). I use the wording "highly annoying" because I am in the middle of the scale between "a sneeze here and there" and "debilitating". It makes me physically suffer, though - especially during the night.

I consulted several allergists and had skin tests done on several occasions. They all point to allergy to some herbs and trees. The doctors told me I cannot go though desensitization and prescribed several kind of antihistamines across the years.

The problem is that I can hardly quantify whether they work. I usually have in a week 4 or 5 "bad days", and the "badness" is not equal across the day. I could not directly link a pill intake to improvement (or not). I also have the impression that effect fade out after some time of taking a given pill (this is just an impression - due to the above I cannot run any quantitative analysis).

My question: are there equivalents of antibiograms for such treatments?

With an antibiogram you take a sample of your bacterial infection, run several antibiotics and get within 48 hours a list of molecules that may work, and other that will not (because of resistance).

I was hoping there could be an equivalent for antihistamine molecules - showing which are more likely to work. Is this a thing?

Note 1: I am not looking for medical advice, rather for enlightenment on the existence or not of such an approach (and probably learning several things in the process)

Note 2: I am in France, if this matters.
We can do both. We should do both, as both will provide technology for creating and maintaining artificial, closed environments for long-term habitation.

(Though in all honesty, I want to see both happen because I loved both Star Trek and SeaQuest DSV as a kid.)
Of course

But in aviation you're not only worried about the knowns, but also the unknowns. Example: JAL 123, BA 38, TWA 800 and other cases where you believed things to be safe but in reality they were a ticking time bomb and/or would trigger in very weird conditions.
Restaurants are barely surviving. Delivery apps will kill them
Option as Meta "solves" that in prefs. In quotes because Terminal.app makes it apply to both Option keys so you can't have it as modifier to enter special chars at the same time on the other key (iTerm2 has such an option). This makes that checkbox useless on e.g French layout (which has the pipe, tilde, square brackets, and braces behind Option).

Meta+<key> is actually sending ESC char followed by <key char> veryfastantaneously, so ESC+<key> (at almost the same time, and in that order) works, which has saved me from time to time.

Also see timeoutlen in vim, keyseq-timeout in inputrc/deadline, maptimeout in screen, and escape-time in tmux.
Sir, when you were first starting out what was the standard dress for coders and how have you seen it evolve over the years?
> Numerous people report that Broadcom and Realtek network adapters are barely usable or outright unusable under Linux.

This links to a 5-year-old thread on reddit.

I have personally used both Broadcom and Realtek wifi cards in Linux and while they used to suck 10 years ago (i.e. go to a different computer, find the firmware blob you need, stick it on a USB stick and then come back to the computer you're trying to use and try to work out how to load the firmware blob), I don't recall recently having to do anything to get them to work. They just work straight away in the Ubuntu installer and you can select your network and connect, and this has been the case for several years. I'd say more than 5, but the reddit thread suggests otherwise.

> X.org is largely outdated, unsuitable and even very much insecure for modern PCs and applications.

I don't have any comment to add to this, other than that the word "modern" links to a slashdot thread from 2012. Are we sure this article is 2020 edition?

> Web fonts under Linux often look horrible in old distros.

2 of the linked pages here have dates of 2013 and 2014, the 3rd link is to a Google+ page which no longer exists because Google+ no longer exists. And how are problems in "old distros" a 2020 problem anyway?

> As much as Ubuntu might be commended they still distribute their downloaded ISO images via HTTP in 2020

Aha! Something about 2020. I went to ubuntu.com and tried to download the ISO and it came over https. I tried 3 times and got a different mirror each time, but each one was with https, so I do not understand the complaint. Maybe some of the mirrors aren't https?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, the word "caravan" does have negative connotations for a lot of people. It conjures images of ungainly and flimsy caravans pulled by cars [0]

[0] https://images.app.goo.gl/Lg62ijPT1Bt9apNeA
You want to limit as much as possible what you share about all players, not just for performance but also for cheating reasons. Rule-of-thumb, any information that does not translate into something the player can perceive in his screen/audio for that frame, should not be sent in that frame.
Facebook’s New Remote Salary Policy Is “Barbaric”
Real client-side verification and prediction is usually more complicated than just replicating game logic, you have to be able to restore the world to a correct condition after a wrong prediction in an elegant and unoffending way.
I work at Stripe, though not on anything related to hiring, and will ask someone to take a look. It would surprise me if the situation was actually as strict as that text states.
as KKPMW comments here, "Those protests are ripe for foreign influence escalating the situation."

So are discussion pages like this, "ripe for foreign influence escalating the situation." Let's all be mindful of that.
That's the same idea I want to convey.
Switzerland. This is a safety publication of ours (not safe for vegetarians) https://www.ekas.ch/download.php?id=7869
Even if you don't read german, I think the pictures show why we haven't had the same problems (compare to an image search of conveyer-belt-driven meatpacking in, say, germany) with social distancing and meat.

It probably helps that even though we are a politically third world country, we are an economically first world country: people are expensive and machines are cheap.

For nerds: the slogan on the front page, «Unfall – kein Zufall!», means "Accidents are not happenstance", and the graph on p.8 shows the close relationship between improvement on safety assessments and accident rates.

p.19 is also an interesting workplace safety observation, but that's a different topic.
Phoenix LiveView workalikes for different languages and frameworks
Looks like the goal is radiation tolerance, not n-version programming.