skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something no one discusses is this is part of the death of brick and mortar retail.

In the 70s you'd go to a warehouse-superstore for electronics lit by incandescent bulbs or maybe old school buzzy flicker fluorescents and it was DARK as electricity cost money.

By the turn of the century its all palaces of consumerism bright lit with modern florescent bulbs.

Now a days the remaining electronics stores sometimes have bright as heck LED illumination.

The stores are more brightly lit than most homes; a device bright enough to stand out on a showroom floor as the bright one will be blinding in an average home.

As brick and mortar retail dies out, somewhat more sane levels of illumination will be acceptable in products. Even now, its already getting to the point that nobody cares about the stylish box if amazon is going to deliver it anyway.
I think Mac Pro customers fall into two bins: 1) Genuine professional users who have demanding workloads and significant budgets, to which the price is not a barrier, and 2) Wealthy enthusiasts who always buy "the biggest and best available".

If you're in category 1, you have a job to do today. Apple's roadmap isn't especially relevant as your job isn't going to wait 6 months to 2 years. If they are planning for the future, the decision tends towards the "safe bet". Mac Pro on Intel is a known quantity that works with their software and workflows today. Future Apple Silicon Mac Pro is a big unknown. They may choose to buy more Intel Pros today while they can, they may try the new ones when available. Or they might investigate switching platforms. I don't think sales here will be impacted greatly.

Category 2 users may decide to wait to purchase a new Apple Silicon whatever when it comes out because they always want the latest and greatest. Whatever they decide to buy is cash in Apple's pocket.

Either way, Mac Pro sales are a drop in the ocean in terms of Apple's revenue.
I'm sad to see the x87 go. I've never been able to convince anyone of the value of 80 bits of precision. Never mind that I've seen engineers convinced their sums were correct (because the computer can't be wrong) because they used insufficient precision for adding too many numbers.

But you can thank (or blame!) me for extending its life - back when Microsoft was developing their 64 bit Windows, they were all set to not save the x87 state during a context switch, effectively killing the x87. I talked them out of it.

Microsoft's VC still doesn't support the x87, their "long double" is 64 bits. I suppose that's for compatibility with other processors it supports.

I'm proud of the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler which still sports full 80 bit long doubles, as well as the D programming language which still (despite opposition) delivers 80 bit precision for type real, even for 64 bit Windows.
Google's Confidential VMs may change the public cloud market
> it’s reasonable to suggest that Elon believed his own projection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_V7ZpkJIM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8377461/Shoc...

Etc. etc.

This sort of stuff has been going on since 2016, or maybe earlier. I've at least been aware of it for the last 4 years.

Mr. Musk is aware of these repeated failures, and yet continues to push "full self driving" as a name to the car features.
I think up to now, despite how easy it is to detect, anticheat has largely ignored VMs. Valorant is noteable for being the first game widely reported to refuse running in a VM.
The only thing in my apartment that has power overnight or when I'm out are the fridge and the internet router. Everything else is turned off and physically disconnected from the power grid. No blinking LEDs, no coil whine from power supplies and my power bill is ridiculously low compared to my friends'.

Some manufacturers noticed this anti-LED trend, though. My work monitors have a nice feature where I can disable the power LED permanently even when it's on.
I used it, Jeremy. Since then I transitioned to sitename@mydomain.email but I still have quite a bit of legacy sitename@myusername.fastmail.fm
yes, in a limited geographic area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__EoOvVkEMo
I think if you're making this trade-off and "optimizing just the traffic going to these [big] sites—with a special protocol clients only use when speaking to these sites—makes the whole Internet faster", then I guess you shouldn't be surprised to be criticized by the majority (according to your own words) not having these problems, yet having to shoulder additional complexity for little or no benefit, and even only serving to increase asymetry on the web. Why can't the "big sites" (it's just Google who's behind QUIC anyways, isn't it?) not then create their own network and take their enormous traffic there? The web was created for easy self-publishing after all.
The problem with software and leaks from it is that not all software holds developers liable. It really really need to change.
No because buckling my seatbelt at the start is free and easy.
Damn. I've had this idea for a while. Design buildings with the use of AI for stylistic design, and SAT solvers for fitting everything in. USM (the Swiss furniture manufacturer) actually designed a modular building system in the 1960's which cut costs dramatically.

I just hope they can factory build me my midcentury modern dream home.
it's because they are testing pollution in our body... that what the test does actually do with the N cycle allied to augment and identify RNA sequences..... babies have less or none of tha because are babies ...
Standards are always evolving and act more as a compliance tool than anything right now. There have been and probably always will be better metrics for "valuing" a business than GAAP financial statements alone.

Companies choosing to disclose non-standardized metrics are attempting to give you a better picture of the business. The problem, as you noted, is that sometimes companies will stretch the truth.

I don't think accounting standards are going to fill this gap anytime soon unless the SEC chooses to restrict that type of reporting altogether. I doubt this will happen because investors want more information, not less (even if you have to read between the lines)
Moderna says COVID vaccine trial produced robust immune response in all patients
The same way "anti-cheat" software already works today? With the addition of a sandbox running signed code, which is yet another barrier.
> I believe there are some other languages that support a similar grammar
(Ruby? R? Raku?) but I haven't investigated.

I'm amazed that Guido is not aware of Nim which does precisely this. It works brilliantly too. It would be incredible if Python becomes more like Nim (Nim itself having been inspired a fair bit by Python).
Hard disagree. Some of the best managers I've had are non-coders. I think a technical manager needs to be able to understand technical concepts at a high level, but actually writing code? Nah.

(Some of the worst managers I've had, contrariwise, were people who started as coders and kept trying to work their decades-old knowledge into conversations. No, this service didn't "ABEND," thanks.)
Too ambiguous.

One thing I love about Python is that it's clear when I'm passing a function/method as argument, or aliasing a class, or just generally knowing when I'm calling something vs referencing it.

This is a no-go from the start.
Sure, I work at one. But my manager is a former tech lead/architect who writes code everyday and he reports to a former Startup CTO with a CS Degree from UIUC. Are English Majors with no tech chops seriously managing engineers in 2020?
Interesting, I wonder what discount rate they are getting, or if 'buy' actually just means 'use'. GCP was throwing discounts and credits at companies not too long ago, if you were willing to publicly announce your move from a competitor to GCP.
Definitely, didn't mean to ascribe it to one side or the other. I mainly see posters on HN referencing instances of "the left" getting people fired.

It has more to do with aggregate action, which has recently been made possible with platforms like Twitter, than with the particular ideological stances.
I have been thinking about something else. What is the exact function of a manager other than the annual reviews and hiring? I would like to ask the managers here, what does your day to day look like? How involved are you in the technical things your team does?
Why would it be?

For all the things that can be atomic like that, it's good practice.

The bigger ones just take time, and aren't shown, until ready for use.
I guess. But we've ramped up uncertainty, people are afraid, and people who have been considering coming to the US will now go elsewhere.
USSR detonated a nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well [video]
Attitude is key here. My manager hasn't written non-trivial code in ages, but is deferential to my team when we provide estimates around how difficult something will be to implement, or how long it will take.

> Contrast the idea of a competent boss with the all-too-familiar experience of going to a non-technical middle-management type with an engineering problem, only to be stuck in a teaching session because the boss has never heard of a pub-sub system.

Since we're being reductive, why not posit that if you can't explain your systems to someone who doesn't write code, you shouldn't be building such systems?
What's the app? Are you saying it allows you to use the phone as a video source in OBS?
They don't always make the comment out loud, but you can tell they're thinking it.

They absolutely use lines of code metric at my company. I don't miss any chance to tell my manager it's complete bullshit. His answer: "Engineers are supposed to write code, just like construction workers are supposed to build houses."
More than that, the Khmer Rouge were actively supported by the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States...
Yes, and there the software managers normally report to non software executives. Engineers reporting to non software managers who are not at a director or VP level is a bad idea.
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“I do it for the human culture as well as for the agriculture”

A beautiful sentiment that the world would be much better off if more food producers shared.
If the manager is the best coder, then they'll be tempted to—and arguably they should—code, not manage.
Speaking of remotes, the OP incorrectly associates the LED with the invention of the remote control, but in fact the remote control predates LEDs and solid-state electronics entirely. The first remote control (I owned one!) was acoustic. It had ultrasonic chimes and buttons. Each button hammered a chime. There were circuits in the TV that were excited by the acoustic wave, which changed the channel and all that.

The Zenith "Space Command" ultrasonic remote control appeared on the market in 1956.
There is a mention of it, but it isn't clearly marked that this is in part specifically why: the article author takes a dual monitor approach and presumably restricts all secrets to the monitor that is never involved in any of the scenes (the main laptop monitor in this case).

Though with keyboard camera they probably should be more careful in which scenes show that if any of those secrets are typed rather than say copy/pasted.
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I do not like this idea. I think it is better to stick to one standard of syntax and do not create several ways of doing same thing without added significant benefit.
Yep, it's happening. Even worse, I've dealt with Architects with minimal IT training.
From the numbers I can find from a cursory search, the upper estimates for deaths caused by the White Terror is ~32,000 (28k from the massacre that kicked it off plus 4,000 executed in camps). That's about .35% of Taiwan's then population of ~9 million.

By contrast, the Great Leap Forward alone killed 16 million, and that's at the lower end of estimates. The population of China at the end of this was ~665 million, meaning they killed 2.7% of their population just in the Great Leap Forward.

So even with the numbers most favorable to China and least favorable to Taiwan, Taiwan comes out ahead by an order of magnitude.
At some point people in the administration talked about potentially doing something to that effect.

I highly doubt it will ever materialize.
I've had my gaming machine on a separate box for awhile now. Games and their DRM have been getting worse and worse. Even games like Kerbal Space Program, which I loved, harvested all your browsing data. Like, seriously, WTF?

So I've kept all that garbage on its own box. It's nicer that way anyway, since I don't use Windows as my daily driver it helps me keep a Windows machine around for other toxic software like Photoshop.

I previously did it in a VM with GPU passthrough, which worked quite well and I think is a decent option for people who can't afford the cost/space of a second machine. Nowadays, thanks to the death of Moore's Law, I had a perfectly capable older machine lying around that I could use instead. That's slightly less maintenance, since the GPU passthrough would occasionally need twiddling after qemu or kvm updates.

EDIT: I will add, for the couples years I was doing GPU passthrough, I didn't notice any difference in performance compared to when I moved the same GPU over to a physical box. In fact, there was this weird audio bug that I originally thought was because of the VM, but it persisted on the real machine and turned out to just be a bug in NVidia's audio driver. So besides the maintenance burden, GPU passthrough was great.
When Australia dropped their $0.01 coin in 1992 they originally went with "nearest rounding" i.e. 0.01 and 0.02 go down, 0.03 and 0.04 go up.

That only lasted a few years until they changed it to always "round up" - i.e. it always goes up to 0.05.

For what it's worth, dropping the $0.01 coin is great, every time I'm in the US I try to avoid them like the plague.
This is not something new, I don't know why people now specifically target this one game.
Easy Anti Cheat, BattleEye and Vanguard are ring 0 anti cheats.
OP's piece is heat not much light except maybe replacing HTTP with gRPC (if true). Should have added second path and made it configurable. Storing Kubernetes stuff in ETC is the raison d'etre for multi PAXOS systems: it stores stuff. Also ETCD seems to be an innocent by-stander: the real whine seems to be about K8s.
We have dozens of flagship models, and hundreds of models in use today.

The notch is a pretty stupid design decision and I'm not obsessing over it. I have this phone now because I went through four Google Pixels this year just trying to get one that wasn't defected out of the box. My current phone was a cheap sub-$400 flagship model with support from Paranoid Android meaning it has a much extended lifespan. It's not because I obsessed over an edge to edge display.

I didn't know about the touch-sensitive issue bc I've never purchased a phone with rounded screen edges. That sounds very frustrating.
I've only experienced a non-technical manager once - maybe this more common in older, more traditional companies.

I don't agree that a manager should spend 80% of their time coding, though. Maybe for smaller teams at early stage startups. But for even a team of 4-5, there are typically things they should be doing that are a better use of their time. It helps to code part of the time (maybe 20%) to understand the codebase, your level of technical debt, and proposals from engineers, but coding can be a trap that keeps you from doing what you need to do to enable your team.

In a worse case, technical managers can become micromanagers, and their opinions can have so much outsized influence that they lead to bad decisions.
> Limiting most of our graphs/reporting to the past 3 years (some repos are pretty old) *

I really need the entire history, so limiting time ranges isn't possible. The biggest issue is really with cloning/fetching, since GitHub doesn't like people synching thousands of repos on a daily basis. Outside of those things, my search and analytics engine doesn't really need GitHub, since GitHub is unable to provide the data that I need anyways.

I talked about it before, but what I'm really doing is moving Git's history into SQL (postgres in my case) and Lucene, so that I can slice and dice its history, to surface developer insights. Hence me calling it "business intelligence" for your codes history.

>That sounds awesome, I can't wait to see the product when it goes live!

Thanks and I think your product has potential as well and you should look at the Enterprise angle. Discovery in large companies is actually a serious problem. Companies really need a single place that they can go to, to see all that is available.

GitHub, with their "Discuss" feature gets you part of the way, but companies still need a centralized place that can help them easily discover/discuss what is available internally.
I don't think a manager should be coding at all, but Unless they did enginnering work in the past, it is hard to see them providing effective management.
They are generally vastly more nutrient dense than the non-wild variants.
Death rate has been falling steadily for several weeks and then this past week increased significantly. New cases and hospitalizations are continuing to rise in several states now, along with deaths there. The epidemic is certainly not over yet.
I seriously do not see any worthwhile benefit in this, and significant cost.

Benefits:
You can use spaces instead of parenthesis. It's the same number of characters and function arguments won't work with spaces.

Costs:
Python has to support this forever.
Increased complexity.
More difficult to read code, because you could be doing the same thing in multiple ways.
More style guidelines to enforce.
Confusion among new programmers about why they can't use function arguments without parenthesis.
Confusion among new programmers about why they would use spaces instead of parenthesis (or the reverse).

Seriously, I do not see any reason why they would ever want to add this in light of the seemingly obvious costs.
Still think it's funny. But yes, it's no fun while you are the expert.
That isn’t very reassuring. He shouldn’t have had the power to unilaterally make this decision in the first place. While the legislature might have not passed a law that overrode his decision. I doubt they would have passed a law saying it was permissible.
I dream of wild blueberries and refer to the cultivated kind (even the “cultivated wild” kind available frozen) as 3D printed blue spheres.

They don’t travel well, so you’re unlikely to find them fresh outside of Ontario, Quebec. You need Boreal forest for good ones imo.

I don’t understand why they’re hard to find in Toronto when you can find a roadside stand a few hours north that has them, often trucked from more hours north.

Lots grow well around Sudbury because the nickel smelting plant’s acid rain made it even better for acid-soil-loving blueberries.

Similar with Lac St Jean region in Quebec that had a massive fire.
> Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(1, 2, 3)?

Yes, Python, I meant exactly that! I've never seen this error message in error. Now you know what I mean, please fix it automatically, I know you can do that. Heck, throw a single warning if you really want to enforce this. I can ignore warnings that I don't care about.
My last boss is probably one of the few people I know I would consider an actual genuine hero. He singlehandedly rescued his family from the Khmer Rouge and smuggled them out of the country through China, then to Britain and finally Canada. He started a business from nothing here and is probably the best employer i've ever had. His nephew was the manager while I worked there and is one of the greatest people i've met and became a good friend. Him and the rest of my boss' family wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for him. He lost a lot of friends and family because of the genocides.
It looks like they are using affiliation as one measure. From the article:

> we’ve mapped the locations of more than 400 partisan media outlets — often funded and operated by government officials,
political candidates, PACs, and political party operatives

The Colorado Valley Guide links to LocalLabs in its footer. Not that we should trust the Wikipedia on anything political, but the article on LocalLabs redirects to Brian Timpone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Timpone

Further searches on Brian Timpone are strongly suggestive of his political affiliation and that it is managed at a national level.

The Texas Signal is a different situation altogether. If my poking around is reliable, it may actually be a local news site that just happens to be open about its partisanship. I'm not going to go into the details since this poking around involved looking up registrar records (the records are public, but that doesn't imply the domain's owner is a public figure), yet at least one of the people involved appears to be politically active at the local and state level. It is easy to see how a Democrat would use this as a local news source if they are surrounded by partisan Republican news sources.
If you're large enough for it to matter then you're large enough to pay for Github Enterprise and have stronger contracts in place. Then you're not relying on goodwill but the cost of a lawsuit if they fuck with you.

And if you can't handle your business relying on contractually and legally defined interconnections with other entities then you really shouldn't be running a business.
I would say absolutely not. The habit of promoting competent technical people into management makes no sense to me, there is no reason to think a good coder would make a good manager. In fact it's probably the opposite case and the 10x type coders are probably a bit spectrum-y and would have real challenges managing people.
It's not a simplistic label, I used to watch hours and hours of his stuff. Hell, I even used to believe his stuff about race and IQ. I was fortunate to have a friend that recognized I was turning down a bad road and helped deprogram me.

That's the issue with all of this, people like Molyneux put on a smile and a suit, covering up with vague statements and dog whistles.
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> a resignation letter that will be shared far and wide and read by tens — if not hundreds — of thousands of people.

But not in the NY times, where she seems to have been illegally harassed. I'm pretty sure you understand this.
This is on point.

I'm also going to throw another reference to PEP-20 in the mix here: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." This implies either forcing parens everywhere or not using them at all. Paired with "explicit is better than implicit", I'd say that points pretty clearly at using parens everywhere.
I appreciate that the downvote mechanism is low friction. I wish it were easier to learn and improve from it too.
Article is from (2016)
Is it the interviewer's job to dictate what is garbage and what isn't?
Italian Doctors: Effects of Covid-19 could be worse than first thought
> As such I found it sad when even Arch fell to the systemd camp. And it's one of the few things it really enforces, it supports 6 different network initialisation methods for example, where all other distributions just pick one and go with it.

Arch has only supported one init system at all times. We could still have stuck with the sysvinit with hacks to look like openrc, but nobody liked that. The initscripts where a mess to maintain and systemd enabled us to not having to care about these details.

If we stuck with the old system, what would the argument be today? "Arch only supports sysvinit! That is not the UNIX philosophy!"? You don't see any complaints on distributions that only support one init which is either runit, s6 or openrc. But when it's systemd somehow people get sad?
Why do you use shopname@? Once you know the pattern everyone can guess it.