skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coronaviruses make up a smaller portion of colds. Call me a pessimist, but it's more likely for this coronavirus to branch off into new varieties that need updated vaccines.
Around 9/11 I was surprised the airplane manufacturers didn't put in a "big red button", that once mashed would irrevocably autoland to the nearest airport.

they've had the capability.
What pissed me off the most as a green badge was having to pay for the fruit (and the tea!) free to blue badges (which I hear they only limit to 1 now)
GraphQL is like a monster, here comes onql
Someone had to say it. For decades Taiwan has played coy, not wanting to anger its larger neighbor who’s got missiles pointed its way and often war-games invasions. It feels like CNs actions in HK and XJ are laying bare any pretensions, so Taiwan is hoping the West will come to its aid if the day comes. Previous admins have been hesitant to upset commerce, one hopes we don’t have to find out if the current admin has the appetite to engage. But who knows how bent they are on annexing the “renegade province”.
Thanks for filling me in. I wasn't aware this was such a common practice.
I learned from my accounting 101 professor, "debits on the left, credits on the right."

Then later after learning about natural account balances, it all made sense. If an account has a debit balance, a debit increases the balance and a credit decreases it. An asset or expense account has a debit balance.

Credit balance is just the opposite. Liabilities, revenue, accounts. Credit is an increase, debit decrease. (I think equity too but I always have to look it up. Rarely work with equity accounts in my day to day)
ICEs have a track record of decades of catastrophic failures due to major component failure. Water pumps, timing belts, gasket leaks, fuel contamination, the list goes on. I've only ever seen a few catastrophic Tesla failures and only because literally every single time it happens it makes the news. Your single data point doesn't mean a whole lot. I realize this comes across as abrasive but I don't meant for it to. Just being conversational
the JACK ecosystem is in an excellent place right now. i HIGHLY recommend the kxstudio applications for a smoother experience: https://kx.studio/

cadence - manages the JACK server and sets up pulse/alsa/midi bridging

catia - JACK patchbay

claudia - tool for setting up persistent JACK patch configurations

i'd also like to take this time to say that falkTX, the maintainer of kxstudio/jack1/jack2, deserves a medal for all his great work
There is a project called vega that's a Spark implementation in Rust: https://github.com/rajasekarv/vega. It looks promising.

Databricks rewrote the Spark engine in C++ (called the Delta Engine, see here: https://databricks.com/blog/2020/06/24/introducing-delta-eng...).

Hopefully there will be some good alternatives that don't consume so much memory soon ;)
Makes plenty of sense. Thank you!
“Trains” and “automated trains” practically are two distinct concepts like “cars” and “golf cars”
Kotlin 101
Is this like Memsql back in the day?
You basically should read all of https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/recent Physics and Society

https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/recent Social and Information Networks

Two random samplings look to be right on topic, search for survey papers in both disciplines.

Spreading of Memes on Multiplex Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12630

A model for meme popularity growth in social networking systems based on biological principle and human interest dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00533
IANA delegated .au to someone at the University of Melbourne in the 80s. He devised the 2LD structure, and chose .com.au, .org.au, .net.au, and .edu.au as the major second level domains, with various eligibility requirements. Recently, auDA (the Australian domain administrator) started investigating releasing top level .au domains, but the timeline went from "late 2019" to "first half 2020" [0], and I haven't seen anything since.

[0]: https://www.auda.org.au/news/update-on-the-introduction-of-s...
This is gold to me, thank you.

I apologize, what do you mean by proxies?

Do you have any recommendations for a less-abstracted view of history (focusing on individuals rather than their emergent structures)? Or branches of philosophy that are particularly illuminating in this context?
If pickling is what is working best for you, it can't be much data.
> This was the best quote from the article for me. In my experience as a casual news watcher, the messaging about the virus has finally unified into a simple, easy to digest one in the last month (masks help, continue to social distance, etc.). But for the first few months of this all the articles about Covid particles living on every surface for weeks and then the even more nonsensical stories about pets getting Covid thinned out the whole message so much that I empathize with people who didn't take it seriously.

The news reporting (and even some statements from authoritative bodies) on this has been not just bad, but I believe harmful. Months of "facts" reported in an over-confident manner, and subsequently discovered to be wrong, provides great soil for growing conspiracy theories, or just general mistrust throughout the public.

Considering the facts seem to be finally coalescing somewhat, is there a single authoritative (and well advertised) resource where USA residents can go to get a summary of the current guidelines and facts (preferably with supporting evidence, uncertainties fully disclosed), written in a form that people will actually read?

EDIT: Others are mentioning more screwups below, such as only the media focusing on reporting total infections. I've had the same complaint (the odd way a lot of the data is reported) even reading reports on the CDC website. Some people don't believe that this obviously flawed approach to informing people accurately is purely due to incompetence.
Can you drop me an email with some more details about what you're trying to do with Rate Limiting? I want to understand your use case/challenge a bit better: pat at cloudflare dot com.
She also wrote a Perl6 implementation IIRC
Oooohhhhhhhh.

It just clicked for me what to "open an account" acually means. Literally adding a node to the DAG, or in the old school accounting world, creating a new page in the entry book.
>Inception via smart speaker.

add small electrical impulses upon the muscles (electronic massager style) and you will feel running. Add temperature changing clothes/blankets - and you're running away from a polar bear... Especially if to add a smell of the bear.
At least they're not networked. The potential threat model seems a lot easier to manage.
The fact that you compare Intel to Hertz is comical. Chips aren't going anywhere, there is only going to be more and more computers, servers, and silicon demand. Intel, despite AMD's gigantic moves is still very entrenched with enterprise (servers). I don't see AMD being the only single player, I see a resurgence of Intel mid-to-long term and both will split the pizza pie.
OK, I have tested a bit more. This is really interesting I took the time to answer all the question it asked me, and here is some more feedback:

- This thing needs anonymous sign up.[0]

- And a delete option.

- Also people needs to be nudged towards using partial names or pseudonyms and not full real names.

- You also probably understand this already, but you are now sitting on a heap of personal data already. This is really, really, really cool but also has the possibility to blow up relationships, families and generally create havoc. Lives have probably been lost over less than what is available here.

- answering all the questions was tedious.

- I want a clear way to vote "whatever" or "prefer not to answer"

- idea: Limit others view of your profile to what you are comfortable to share, like the facts that I: like card games, board games, CSGO, climbing. Leave out that I dislike Trump, liked Obama, still support the 2nd amendment, support decriminalization of marijuana etc etc.

- crazy idea: create linkable public profile with the things I want to share (like above) so I can link to it from my profile here for example.

[0]:You then probably need another way to reduce scammers/spmmers ability to create multiple customized accounts to target/befriend people.
I think the original argument was a meat because a meat is a single, semi-solid, blob of a single item. Salads are non-mixed collections of goods and soups are homogenized(?) liquids.

Or did they collapse the state of matter for soups and meats?

That wouldn't match salad, though.
Is it reasonable to oust a lead engineer because of a product delay while COVID-19 is causing such a massive disruption?

Are any tech companies seriously expecting that their engineers can turn on a dime and perform at the same level they were before the sudden mass exodus to WFH?
My CS ethics course consisted almost entirely of things I already knew, or exploring scenarios where there was an obvious correct choice. At the time, I thought anyone who didn't already have a grasp of ethics would ignore it, and anyone who did would have a better moral compass than the course could provide.

Today, I'm not so sure. People do tend to completely ignore ethics when there's social pressure to do so, but maybe the author of this essay could have benefited from it.
Analyzing the AWS EC2 reservation options
Looks at my wrist

Uh oh...

Or maybe because it’s a $6 watch...

Kinda like how 90% of murderers have been shown to eat bread within 12 hours of their killing.
Whoa thanks!! I'll definitely take a look! Have you happened to come across anything dealing with optimal initial conditions that was particularly noteworthy?
No mention of Tom's Diner in the article?
I suspect the misconception might be that you think individual accounts must balance (Or think that what I'm saying). Transactions always balance, companies always balance.

In double entry accounting you track where money came from to you. You are right in not having to worry where they get their money from. But you do have to track how/why it came to you.

You will have an account in your accounting of 'income' (it's usually called 'Revenue'). If you have even the slightest complexity in your business, you will have many income accounts. Some businesses will definitely track at the level of detail where they have accounts for each customer, so they can see who purchased how much.

Each transaction balances.

Each line in a transaction is associated with an account.

So if you have done 50 weekly transactions of:

Revenue>Consulting $1,000CR

Assets>Bank $1,000DB

Each one balances.

But in total you will have $50,000CR in Revenue>Consulting and $50,000DB in Assets>Bank, but your company will still balance.

If you pay yourself $45,000 in salary from that, let's say in one go at the end of the year (to save me typing) you would have a transaction:

Assets>Bank $45,000CR (it came from your bank account)

Expenses>Salary $45,000DB (it went to your salary)

So at the end, your accounts are:

Assets>Bank $5,000DB

Revenue>Consulting $50,000CR

Expenses>Salary $45,000DB

This still balances. Double accounting always balances companies and transactions.

Historically it balances credits and debits. All I'm saying is it makes more sense to think of debits as negative and credits as positive, and all the math becomes much much simpler. Which is how accounting software is written.
It's amazing to me that our civilization could lose record of something like this so quickly. Like imagine if someone just stumbled upon a 30 foot tall nude statue which kinda looks like richard nixon and no one had any idea who made it or how long it had been there.
360 is evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 20.

0.02 radians would absolutely be a ridiculous unit of measurement if you were a carpenter or draftsman in the age before computing.
'NO EVIDENCE' is no comfort with regard to any emerging & understudied phenomenon. It's no stretch to think that if a cat got Covid-19 from a human or other animal, & then show symptoms and tests positive – & thus is throwing off fresh viruses – it can pass it on. It's a mammal; it exhales; it sneezes & spits & drools.

This hand-wavy reassurance from Cornell is the same kind of bullshit we got with "no evidence" of aerosol transmission. (Yes, that now seem the main risk.) Or "no evidence" community masking helps. (It obviously does.).

Or most infamously, WHO's credulous relaying of lies from China that there was "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" in mid-January (https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-transmission-coronavi...), when there was growing community transmission inside & outside of China, & the CCP had already mobilized behind-the-scenes for that fact.
Progressive Era
So they promoted the CFO to CEO and now they are firing the chief engineer - that tells a lot on where the company is going and I'm afraid it's not a good place.
I don't follow. Why draw a distinction between the "mode" of speech, and its "content", and what exactly is the difference?

With apologies, it sounds like a "no true Scotsman" position, where censorship is only real when it bolsters one side of the argument.
How about pursuing a software architecture role? You would be creating diagrams that depict code instead of writing code.
I’m often afraid to express my skepticism that most of what we know about Xinjiang comes from Adrian Zenz, because doing so makes people think I actually support those policies.
Also, more pitches increases the chances of a bad pitch )a hanger, etc) and if you create a reputation for having a good eye, umpires will give the hitter the benefit of doubt on borderline pitches (I have no idea how this works now that they have robots calling balls and strikes, but it’d be nice if they kept some of the inexactness that “engages” people more.
> It boggles the mind why a sales person would do something that is likely to be seen as an invasion to the prospect.

Sales droids don't think the same way regular people do. A lot of them really believe everybody is as extroverted as they are and introverts are just pretending. And that everybody would be as excited about their product as they are, if they only knew about it. The best sales people can adopt the point of view of their prospects; mediocre ones cannot.
how many people are you mentoring? obviously if it's more than one then you won't have as much time to code. i was thinking of the simple case where a team of two people is responsible for a single project. if one of them is the project manager, the other a coder, then the pm should not need all day to manage. unless of course they are at the kind of company that wastes everyones time with meetings and whatnot that prevents anyone from getting actual work done.
How should we get in touch with you? Alternatively, you can drop me a note, my email is in the profile.
If it's a multi-gigabyte repo that you are cloning over a slow VPN, it speeds things up quite a bit.
When Unix Learned to Reboot(2)
I had nearly the same reaction to the GoFundMe page, one that I'm sure this person has uttered in his lifetime repeatedly: "maybe they should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps". If that makes me a terrible person, then so be it.
I’m not an Intel employee or contractor, I’m only going off what I’ve heard from about contractors being treated poorly on campus as you described. More crucially, the red tape around information access severely limits contractor’s abilities to actually do their jobs. From what I understand, certain tasks require a their blue badge manager to sign off on and grant access, but the managers have giant dispersed teams to manage and are hard to get to.
Apple and Amazon moving away looking at ARM for client and server. AMD is winning on values but i don't think Intel will die.

Intel still hold x86 license to make x86 chip. the worst outcome maybe Intel became fab less like AMD and just focus on design.
New post about notification channels in Android 8
I wrote about the F-91W last year in a post[1] that went viral-ish. Interestingly, it's probably the only article of clothing worn by both Obama[2], and Osama[3]. I wouldn't go as far as calling it a "terrorist icon" -- it just happens to be literally the cheapest mass-produced digital watch ever made. It's very sturdy, relatively waterproof, the battery should last around a decade, and it even has a (terrible) LED for low light conditions!

I started getting into watches last year, and the F-91W is a sort of rite of passage in watch circles. I've since bought a few expensive† ($1000+) watches for my collection, but I often find myself wearing the Casio. Yeah, I modded it and it has a bit of personal attachment, but it's not just that. There's something really strange about it: it fits so snugly on my wrist, so warm, yet spartan; it simply just feels good.

[1] https://dvt.name/2019/06/03/hacking-the-casio-f-91w-to-handl...

[2] https://static.highsnobiety.com/thumbor/hC8faiWSsiFpNpszRf0l...

[3] http://ethiopiaforums.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/osama-b...

† This is of course relative. Watches can cost up to millions, and serious watch collectors have watches that can easily go up to $50,000++.
If we’re talking “accounting for developers”, I’d like to plug the FOSS accounting system we wrote which uses event orientation to model the entities that a business owner actually things of (invoices, wages, etc). Side effects like taxes and legally required artifacts can be generated by rules.

We’ve used it successfully for the last years to do our companies bookkeeping.

https://github.com/200ok-ch/easy
Hustle Culture and Work-Life Balance with Natalie Nagele and DHH
I'd recommend checking out Firebase. The Firebase console might give you everything you need, or you could just build a really thin dashboard yourself on top of Firebase auth.
Spring-Boot-2 with Kotlin
Sure, but remember where we started - an argument about whether there is more or less domestic manufacturing than in the past or not. Increasing the performance of the product does not mean more manufacturing is going on - that mistakes value for output.
This deindustrialization was driven by Wall Street.
The important metric is return on invested capital.

Manufacturing companies use a lot of capital for their factories. Shut down the factory and outsource to China, and you have the same sales with a lot less capital, so the stock goes up. Great success.

Maybe repeat by having your suppliers do more and more of the engineering. At a certain point, you are just a brand, with no actual engineering capability.

You can't compete with the people who actually know how to make the things. Then you die. See Hewlett Packard.

The US taxing companies on global income at high rates also has an effect. Say you have 50% of your sales outside the US. You pay taxes in the country where you sell the product. Then you have profits overseas. If you bring that cash back to the US, you pay the difference between the corporate rate in country X and the US, which can be a lot, say 15%.
Might as well take that money and use it to pay for manufacturing at e.g. Foxconn. So it's 15% better to invest in manufacturing capacity outside the US.

The poor health care system in the US drives up costs as well, twice what it is in other industrialized countries for worse outcome. Same for cost of housing because zoning laws won't allow building. Google was allowed to build offices in Mountain View but not residential property for the employees to live in. So everyone has to commute from somewhere else, and cost of rent is driven by how much misery you can handle.

Failures in government policy make US workers much more expensive without creating any more value or improving the quality of life for the employees.
Why? The only part of this that worries me is how China might react to it.
Stop Paying to Gain Injuries
What is the reason for them being almost all men?
What Is Your Meta-Ethical Position?
Created a subscription based Chrome extension: https://www.checkbot.io/

It was a lot of work to get out of the door and I nearly went with one-off payments but it's been going well.
Another recall of potentially toxic hand sanitizers sold nationwide
And it would be even more massive if we actually made anything. In fact if it weren't shrinking by volume it might be growing faster than those other sectors considering how much of the economy is "consumer" driven.

Go to the mall/shopping center, and try to find something made in the US that isn't a bulk chemical product, or something so low value in relation to its weight that its still made in the US (paper). If you go back ~30 years it was the complete opposite. If you found something manufactured overseas it was unusual. So in just a couple decades we went from pretty much 100% of consumer electronics, clothing, furniture, general home appliances, cookware, toys, etc made in the US to a tiny fraction. Even in areas where we still manufacture things, its rare that 100% of the products in a particular segment are produced here. Sure, you can buy American made tires, AC units, etc, but most of the volume isn't made here. But even in the case of AC units its frequently assembled of foreign made compressors/etc where the 4 bolts, two pipes and 4 wires that need to be connected (by $15/hour labor in basically warehouses) get more value add than the actual hi tech parts made in high capex factories. All for the purposes of computing "made in America".
For every one person who vows to never purchase their product, 10 others become useful leads.
> Maybe repeat by having your suppliers do more and more of the engineering. At a certain point, you are just a brand, with no actual engineering capability.

Don't they teach this in business school? It just seems incredibly obvious to anyone with an engineering background.
> that mistakes value for output.

Yes, exactly. My point is that I wouldn't call measuring actual value instead of a pretty meaningless "output" metric a "mistake".

The original point of the pre-existing "output" metric was to approximate actual value creation, after all...
Thorium reactors generate beta particles, gamma rays, and neutrons, not the protons used in the study. They conjecture that neutrons will have a similar effect, but haven't tested it.
> On the one hand, the concept of original sin sounds deeply unfair, but then again, when you look at society, it's kinda hard to deny that most people really are drawn to all sorts of prejudice, selfishness, etc, and it takes real effort to recognise that, admit it, and work to improve.

As a christian I feel this is a major thing: the realization that you can be perfectly innocent in that you:

- didn't do anything that any law can punish you for

- wasn't aware of doing anything wrong as you were doing it

yet you are far from perfect and when you minutes/days/years later you realize despite your best intentions you still bragged/discriminated/were unfair/went too far/didn't go far enough/etc and you'll be sorry and wish you could do better.

To keep this interesting to everyone in this audience I think I'll avoid going further into the topic unless anyone asks but for anyone particularly interested I'll say that I think this is what Paul grapples with in in Romans 7.
Well, if you want to fire all the old, white guys who actually knew how to make stuff and replace them with H1B, he’s an excellent choice.