skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two members of my extended family recently passed away from "community acquired pneumonia" and complications from pneumonia, including sepsis and cardiac arrest, within 1.5 weeks of each other in something of a hotspot. Neither as far as I know was declared covid, but it is suspicious to me.

Regardless, I think there are some activities that are high risk and some that are low risk given the information we have on contact tracing at this point. Generally I do not think the response is too much in my location, and I'd rather there be a few additional restrictions, but it's an okay balance currently, given that Covid is already widespread here so a harder lockdown at this point may not be very effective. I'm not afraid, though I think of myself as pragmatically cautious.
Thanks for clarification. Which underlying (type) theory is used in GNATprove?
State of IT Project and Programme Management in 2020 Report
What I learned during an 8 month investigation into Tim Hortons' data tracking
TIL: Personal Finance StackExchange has a 'sugar-daddy' tag
Radio hams are not allowed to retransmit music, even that is as simple as having music in the background when you key the mike.

I never heard anyone try this on the east coast but around Southern CA and San Diego I heard it all the time on 2 meters.

There is the exception that you CAN retransmit music from the space shuttle or space station however.
It was a great game.

I also remember making gold master floppies for our products going back to 1987. It's actually a scary process because if you made any mistakes, you got back thousands-millions (depending on who you were) worthless disks back. Even sending out updates cost money and often we had to charge people in order to pay for duplication, packaging, shipping and sometimes a manual update. Often updates were the entire package of N disks; if lucky you can manage a patch disk.

Thinking back now I think there were still dinosaurs on the earth at the time too.
Former WincCE 2.x/3.x dev here. I had to work in this platform for a few years due the hardware my company wanted to ship.

MS really could have owned that market. ActiveSync made sure they didn't. They were a good 3-4 years ahead of everyone else tech wise. However, their dev stack was awful and full of gotchas. Apple and Google imploded that and made it easy to dev for. Their crazy BOM build system was a fork of visual studio 6 which was cobbled together with CMD scripts. Then on top of that the OS arch was different than pretty much anything else. There were some seriously bad spots where if you used the wrong system dll you could crash the box. Oh you need a new firmware to fix that good luck as there is no built in firmware update on your box. Have fun spending 2 months getting that patched firmware out of the company too.

Your guess about different depts is almost right. They also outsourced portions of it. Some parts were internal. The licencing around it was byzantine. Also portability was shoddy. That was due to the MIPS/ARM ISA environment. Every phone was slightly different from each other (you can see similar issues today with ARM dev boards). x86 did not end up there as IBM compat was king and if you didnt have that no one bought your board, ARM/MIPS do not have that type of market force. You had to in some cases ship an executable for each phone. Then on top of that the phone carriers wanted to charge 40-50 dollars per megabyte sent/recv.
The US is a democracy - a representative democracy (as opposed to say 'direct democracy'). It can be a democracy and a republic.
> central server scales linearly

Assuming that the server combines all the incoming streams into a single output stream, otherwise it still has to broadcast N-1 streams to each of the N users.
For best practices you're probably better served by looking at standards and guidelines specific for embedded systems. For example MISRA C. There is also the JPL C Coding Standards, which are based on MISRA and are freely available.
>Reddit, at one point, was just science, memes, an occasional atheist post, and and A list Celebrity AMA every other day - a platform that provided niche content mostly for age 18-30 year old Americans.

This seems to mostly outright ignore some of the more controversial subreddits that existed/flourished in the past. There was a significant amount of content, including entire subreddits, dedicated to sexualizing minors.

It feels revisionist to think reddit has only recently become flooded with controversial content.
> You may be right, but do you have any evidence of
> this, anecdotal or otherwise?

It's true everywhere else in the world. I think the burder of proof should be the other way around, and instead you should provide evidence this isn't the case within the YC/VC system?
Right, but there is no shortage of metals and ceramics that can maintain cohesion (and strength!) at high temperature -- I'm thinking about those videos the machinists post of tools slicing through metal at an obscene rate with incandescent tooling. You don't even need ceramics to do that, there are steel alloys that stay hard and strong enough to slice through (soft) steel while incandescent, although for wear optimizaton they typically only actually do it with ceramics. In any case, it seems like someone should be able to figure out a "retract rods, let them glow" mode that dumps the energy into the sky like a lightbulb.

I'm sure there's a reason why it hasn't been done. Maybe you really do need high enough temperatures that you can't engineer compatible cladding, or it's hard to make IR windows low-loss enough to pass the energy, or something. Still... fourth power! The temperature you need the "lightbulb mechanism" to withstand is the fourth root of power/area! That's a powerful wind at one's back! It's easy to think of reasons why it might be impossible but if it's "just" a hard engineering problem then that's where things get interesting.
Reddit was never good
Where are they going?
Ideally C should be avoided as much as possible outside kernel code.

However it has gotten so deep into IT infrastructure, thanks to the hegemony of UNIX/POSIX clones, that even if starting today no more greenfield software would be written in C, and its copy-paste compatible languages, Objective-C and C++, it would take generations to clean it up and it would never be 100% replaced, as proven by mainframe environments and their languages.

So for the use cases where C isn't going away no matter what, we should strive for newer generations to improve their code quality and not to repeat bad practices from the past.
I remember my brother playing (and me dicking around a bit with) Zack McKracken first and then Monkey Island. It's always the sword fighting part I remember the most. It's a pity I don't have time for anything anymore, I would love to revisit them some time.
The Dark Side of Event Sourcing [pdf]
I guess that printing an individual book with quality binding would be much more expensive than Manning's bundle.
Reflecting (pun intended) on the Level3 Outage
Agreed. It seems mostly a tool to enrage people now. I cant stomach it anymore, the tin foil hat wearing part of me would say there are larger forces at work here. The flipside of these subreddits(public freakout, etc) is that a non-trivial percentage of these things are/could be fake.

To the main point of the article- Reddit must really get a lot of dough monetizing user data because its as bad or worse than ad/malware...
Why don't you buy the bundle and throw away the digital versions (facepalm)?
I still can't print with windows 10. Tried everything. Canon MF2470 networked or USB.
C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
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Control Key and Capslock Key Positions in Old Keyboards
How did you get the notion that moonshots move forward the society?
Heck large parts the US is 3rd world level I'm infrastructure and education. But US is really good with VC and such.

Sorry, this assumption is just a pipe dream.
Thank you! I’m deeply familiar with the phenomenon!
A good type system will help with # 2, 3, 4, and 6 too.

In fact, types are better for #6 than tests, because they have lower overhead, so they are more likely to be complete at the interruption.
I haven’t used the Facebook app either and now they are going out of their way to make the mobile experience miserable. Facebook now looks like reddit and the marketplace is now pushing unblock able ads mixed in with the listings. Also marketplace took away the ability to sort items from lowest price to highest so you have to search through many listings to find what you want. The experience is worse every day.
The Ontario Basic Income Pilot Shows the Real World Problems with a Basic Income
I just want to let you know the guy is being an asshole. To get a position in government job or something. IRGC doesn't check people's merges on github. His actions are personal choice. You are very welcome to contribute to other Iranian projects.
100% Income Taxes on the Top 1% Wouldn’t Come Close to Balancing the Budget
Privilege... love it.
I think it is easy to feel things are more widespread than they are when guaged from social media.

Eg.I was very critical of Corbyn's stance on Brexit, and having a few followers I captured the attention of the Corbynite WhatsApp group run by Seamus Milne's team, and was heavily trolled...Rachel Swindon et al... and I block trolls, so fell out of the Corbynite bubble. The result of this is I have not seen widespread outrage against the Guardian at all. Perhaps widespread in revolutionary socialist circles is a more correct assertion.
You can buy the printed book alone on Amazon or almost any other book seller. Manning's thinking is that the eBook costs them nothing to distribute so if you buy the print book, they might as well give you a bonus to make you even more happy by giving you the eBook. Source: I have worked with them.
Cobol can be actually quite modern.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/featu...
Powershell pretty much has universal tab-complete. Typing a command, '-', and repeatedly hitting tab will cycle through all available arguments for that command, and arguments will be quite consistent between commands. But you can also tab complete variable names and the commands themselves.

Discovering the cmdlets is not as trivial as it could be, because they are named verb-first instead of noun first. Get-<tab> is not as useful as NetAdapter-<tab> might be, but since things are named sensibly you can do a little guess work and use tab-completion to find what you're looking for in the vast majority of cases.
How ZIZO design framework can help you become more strategic
Then download one of the many applications that use reddit's API and enjoy it before they shut down that too.
I use 4 separate machines with Windows 10 and it never changed my default handler for any file extension...
Reddit is dead.

Unfortunately, it's not turned into HN.
Are we going to completely ignore the fact that this purported Requiem for VMS tells us in great detail why Unix suxx - but literally (and I do mean literally) not a single thing about why VMS should be mourned.

If this is how VMS advocacy looks like, I'm not surprised it disappeared.
Show HN: Chrome extension that adds learning flashcards to NewTab
Then maybe something needs to be added to the manual:

"If the line shows but is faded: retake the test in X days"

Or maybe the test can have lines with different sensitivities.
What you get when corporations demand outcomes based on learnings observed while watching maker communities from the tops of corporate HQs. Still, not as baffling as the Multipoint SDK. LaMetric have done it better before. If you want a non-Windows solution Open Source alternatives exist.
It doesn't work because you are setting associations outside of settings window.
It's true, If everything of value has a price tag.
That, my friend, is an opinion, not a fact.
Many people that bash Cobol aren't aware that the language keeps being improved to follow up on newer trends,

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/featu...

Latest ISO revision is from 2014.
I like it!

It’s the kind of reasonable discussion that I crave in this field.
How big is your company?
For a relatively small scale project (5K users) I am running metabase using my production postgres* on a free heroku dyno (Metabase even have a 1-click deploy for this). Takes about 30 seconds to wake up, but the price is unbeatable. I don't get any of the scheduled features ofc. Would recommend for keeping costs low.

*using a heroku standard-0 db, so $50/mo with relatively good performance
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> What size is your company/team? Different strategies perform well depending on size.

I can't emphasis how important this advice is in general - Use it to validate everything you read about, especially on HN.

If you work in a small organisation or team (the ones that don't make lots of noise) then most of the advice out there, from technology choices to management choices, are going to be biased against your size, some of those choices are the direct opposite depending on size.
>I'm a bit surprised by how many people seem to prefer an unnecessarily complicated and obfuscating solution to the straight-forward one.

This makes many presumptions about the users and whether to them this design is unnecessarily complicated or obfuscating. Beyond whether it actually is for them or not, advertising works or people wouldn't do it...the old tech has been labeled and messaged and reinforced for years as confusing to the point that it can become a normative perception whether or not it is true.
Microsoft basically gave up on "bringing down Google's monopoly" when they switched to using Google's browser as the foundation for their product, at least in the browser market.
> I optimistically hope a not-too-future (within 10y?) major version update of Windows is in reality a *nix distribution.

I very much hope you are wrong, as this will signal the death of personal computing.
Hunger Persists in a Rich Country Like America
I'm still not willing to accept that it's all the imagination of a child running wild at a theme park.
The people who want more non-meme content? I'm not sure. I'm not saying they've all moved on yet, but I bet they will.

For example, I preferred some of the more tech-related subreddits. Then I discovered HackerNews and Lobste.rs. That can't be the only demographic of content that has forums out there. And I imagine more will pop up.

Again, it's just my prediction/guess. I've certainly been wrong before. Perhaps I have it totally backwards. Maybe those people will stay because they're more tolerant of Reddit's bullshit to get to the good content. I don't think that's a smart bet for Reddit to make, though.

EDIT: Also, a lot of people are apparently moving to Discord chats.
I wonder how much you pay your sales people based on the last paragraph.
Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto on Challenges of Updating a Programming Language
Thankfully, there is none. What a blessing.
We are a company of about 4000, our performance management is pretty shite. We essentially function as a company of middle managers with a software engineering department tacked on.

Getting promoted has very little to do with the role profiles of the above grade but instead involves doing some menial task, for example I knew a guy who was a total manchild and would smash the keyboard, groan and hide in the toilet if he encountered some difficult code, he would also never ask for help but because he did support he got promoted.

Also there's a limited number of slots, so you could meet the criteria of the above grade go through the process and still not get promoted. We basically lose all our developers after 2-3 years and most projects are composed of contractors. people who can't leave before 2 years and mediocre developers who are promoted way beyond their means and aren't good enough to work at other companies.

The worst thing is our clients usually have a high opinion of us so our competitors must be even worst.
+1 for Effective C. Great writing and diagrams.
> I'd trust the gut feelings of the majority of people rather than the opinions of a handful of experts

This explains a lot of things happening in the US right now.
Beside AOT compilation to native code, Fujistsu and Micro Focus have Cobol compilers with .NET and Java backends, and I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually come up with WebAssembly support as well.

Also don't forget that languages like C and UNIX are just 10 years younger than COBOL.
> Second, it is legal (in the United States) to perform or play music, even copyrighted music, at personal, private, non-commercial events. These events can be in-person or online.

But it is legal for you and Facebook to enter into an agreement to sublicense that content for Facebook's commercial use? You may get the benefit of Fair Use, but the same may not be the case for Facebook, who also must have a valid right to distribute the content.
I saw the beginnings of this on Twitter last night; not surprised it wound up here. If anyone here isn’t already following @foone, I highly recommend it. Their teardowns are fascinating.

One of the more interesting comments:

“This thing [the chip in the device] is probably faster at number crunching and basic I/O than the CPU used in the original IBM PC, and this one is in something you pee on and throw away.”

(Unfortunately, “...there's no reprogramming this chip to run other programs. We can't run Doom on this pregnancy tester, I'm sorry.”)
I was messing with it a bit several months ago. You'd have to look up newer data structures, but just looking up the man pages gave me the necessary information. While the implementation may be different now, the fundamentals of UNIX are pretty much the same.
A similar argument has also been made about JavaScript. When it comes to market share I guess most users don't care how elegant the solution is under the hood.
If you want to be sure he gets your lovely message you should leave a comment on his blog...I just did :)
They have an incentive to do it because the congressman is my representative, and I am a voter who is a complaining.

I live near DC, so I guess I assume others know more about the US system than is common knowledge. My apologies. Please let me explain.

Of course the congressman will not actually read the letter. That's not the point. The point is that every congressman has a mechanism for accepting requests from constituents, routing them to the correct agency, and tracking them to make sure they are resolved. You fill in a web form, prove that you are a constituent, and then the information gets routed to their staff. My daughter was did this job a few years ago, there are small armies that do it. It's just part of the US system.

There's absolutely no guarantee that this will be resolved the way I want, but this is the standard US mechanism for dealing with stuck bureaucracies.

Other US citizens could do the same. It might be a good idea, because with multiple complaints, then the US state department would get the clue that this is important and needs to get worked on.
> I think Twitter can be used for it...

I'd argue that though this is an avenue your listeners MAY use, it's not one the author ought to encourage. It's far more valuable to try and drive traffic to a site you own and control.
This. I wish all C books had more chapters on this.
WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg Is Not a Fan of JAMstack
I think most people that use reddit are using it for specific sub-reddits, not for memes or 'shitposting'.

Apollo app makes reddit a really nice experience for me on iOS, but I'm not sure what Android has on that front. Problem is that 3rd party apps that provide a front-end to Reddit need to be in active development. Once the dev steps back for a couple months, everything is going to go to shit.
I always use ratio for this kind of number. Though it could be bigger than 1 since 120% == 1.2
>non-commercial events

I guess it depends on whether DJs are getting bits, subscriptions, etc. from their content.

I think the music companies are cutting off their nose to spite their face but that would probably be the argument against allowing DJs streaming mixes.
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Researcher claims Microsoft is trying to circumvent security bounty payments
I have C74 manual. char was ASCII character occupying lower 7 bit of a signed 2's complement 8-bit number, int was signed 2's complement 16-bit number, no unsigned integers.
This is explained in the tweet here:
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/130179943992159027...
A Maker Without Audience
Eh, I grew up with the faces on TV constantly blabbering about the "decadent West" and yet my country and most of the ex-USSR has deteriorated worse than any western one.

My eyes kind of roll every time someone says decadent society as it reminds me of communist propaganda.

Not seeing much of those four horsemen, either.
Wall Street has never seen a company like Palantir
> then you'll have a world where everything is delivered in small trucks and there will be problems with that

So then tax those problems until taxes represent the true societal cost of things
Does it generate revenue?
cargo events? freight events? shipment events? transport events? manifest events? payload events? package events?
I got a bit nervous when someone found out that the computer we used to burn our master CDs on where infected with a virus. Luckily all disks were clean.
> “ Most things I can name easy enough, such as "Name" or "URL" or "MaxSizeN". The first 2 are self explanatory, the last one is the maximum size of something in relevant data units(as opposed to bytes or some other unit) but that one is easily understood by other programmers too.”

Programmers who think like this frighten me a lot. Those parameter names are not self explanatory at all, and cannot be assumed readily understood by developers picking up the code.

If you think “this is obvious” you need to add “to me” on the end, and “not necessarily to other people.”

This can go off the rails when people start making braindead claims that code should be self-documenting and need for comments or docstrings indicates poor code. But it can also just lead to bad documentation where you think a word is clear enough and you don’t realize others will cone into that segment of code with totally different use cases or contexts in mind, assumptions about the code’s usage constraints, different levels of skill and experience, different levels of comfort with the natural language that comments are written in.

Over-communicating within documentation is a hugely beneficial thing. It only costs a small amount of hassle for the person writing it and a small amount of hassle dealing with the eyesore of it for people already familiar, but it saves so much cognitive load for everyone else.

The main downside is keeping it up to date, but the false adage that wrong documentation is worse than no documentation is no excuse.
The thing I always wonder is how testing/QA worked back in the days for cartridge/disk games. I mean, there've been a few quirks here and there but no game I can recall ever became unplayable — As opposed to nowadays where you can't even launch something before applying 50GBs of fixes.
> Copyright on images and audio is actually how artists make most of their money.

This might be true for images, but I doubt this is true for music. I would bet that musicians as a whole make most of their money from live performances. Music labels make their money from copyright though.
Of course, but this is a discussion about music and not petroleum engineering, right?
But if there is no penalty, you are just limiting rule followers while giving advantage to rule breakers.
> On the one hand, he comes across as the kind of character you'd expect in a horror film. Meticulous, well-dressed, friendly, but affectless in his speech and oddly emotionless and formal.

Are you aware of the The Report Of The Week channel run by 'Review Brah'?

* https://www.youtube.com/user/TheReportOfTheWeek