skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what the article you linked says. It actually says that only 62,000 people are getting tested for the first time every day. This isn't officially published as a daily stat anymore because it's confusing and not all that useful - there are good reasons why people get tested more than once, for example because they develop potential symptoms again or perhaps more commonly in order to protect hospitals and care homes by testing people before they're admitted to hospital, during their stay, and before they're discharged to a care home. The number of repeat tests is also going to keep going up as time goes on for really obvious reasons that have nothing to do with testing failing.

Now, admittedly it is worded in such a way as to trick people into making the exact mistake you just did. These two sentences are a work of art: "Labelled "official: sensitive", the Department of Health and Social Care report seen by The Sunday Times says most British laboratories are processing fewer tests than their stated capacity due to problems in supply chains. The newspaper said that despite government claims that its system has capacity for 375,000 tests a day, the equivalent of just 62,000 people a day were newly tested in the first week of September." It's very carefully structured to make it sound like only 62,000 people are being tested a day and the rest of the capacity is going idle due to supply chain issues, even though in reality that's not what's happening and there is pretty much no casual link between the two facts it's using to make people think that.

(The testing delay figures also look, off-hand, very similar to what I've seen from other countries around the globe lately.)
I think you’re right about tropes and campiness. But there’s one thing that the movie did other than being realistic and that’s capturing the “feeling” of a thing.

I think hackers did a good job of capturing the “feel” of mid-90s computer users. It was a new frontier, mostly celebrated by outcasts and was inherently anti-authority.

I still get the same vibe from the CCC as I got from the first time I watched the movie Hackers.

Also, people tend to forget about Acid Burn, best hacker in the movie who is only “beaten” because the other members took pity on the main protagonist. That flies a bit in the face of others in the same genre.
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Which is why I'm starting to believe there should be regulations preventing this. I have no idea how could they work while avoiding disastrous second-order effects, but what I want to see is for "ad-subsidized" business model to be legally impossible. Along with its cousin, "razor and blades" model. This is on the grounds that these models are customer-hostile, and make it impossible for less exploitative businesses to compete.
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Same.

My personal theory is the predictability allows you to tune it out, making it invisible to your conscious brain.

Based on my half-baked understanding of Jeff Hawkin's theory that our brains are wired to notice differences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
There's two aspects here. First, "wasn't designed for" and "the future" usually means changes will happen.

But more importantly, by giving it a name the code is more self-documenting. New and old programmers don't have to figure out why 128, or if 128 is right or not in this bit of code.
Your statement implies that “Hacker News” is primarily talking about people. Is that what “Hackers” do now?
Instead of avoiding a BBL at creation time, it seems like it might be less effort to just let it go ahead and create one then, and then remove it before first putting the array into production.

The removal procedure described in the article seems pretty straightforward. The only problem with it seems to be that have to take your server out of production while you do it, which only applies after the server has entered production.
It also does some magic with node modules in lambda functions, so that you can import them without packaging them locally. Any functions using that...I don't know what to call it, module proxy I guess...break in offline mode.
I'd say the opposite, intra-EU trade is more like international trade, at least for B2C. Each country has its own national market situation, companies cannot easily expand to the entire EU because in every EU country they will find different local competitors who know the local market much better than they do. Every product has to be localised for the local language and culture. All marketing has to be localised.

Despite efforts to the contrary the EU functions as a glorified free trade zone, half a century of integration cannot beat 1000 years of fragmentation.
The mask thing is your opportunity to read about the Gel-Mann effect, and join us in the club who believe very little, if anything, coming from the media.

Reminder: the people behind the articles you read are often 20 something ex-bloggers who have no real world experience and also often have an axe to grind.
Random Amstrad memory:

When you were coding in BASIC, I don't think there was clipboard but there was a way to get a second cursor to appear that you could position with the (I think) arrow keys somewhere else on the screen. You could then press a "copy" key and it would copy one character at a time from the second cursor to your current editing position. It's weird thinking back to when you didn't have a proper IDE.

Has a similar UI been seen on a computer before this? There's a "copy mode" in Screen for Linux that has similarities.
I use https://www.pastery.net/, which I think is the best pastebin (because I made it the way I wanted it). Private, no ads, no hassle, and the best part is the editor integration. Highlight some code, press F2, and the paste URL is in your clipboard.

I love it so much, and everyone that has used it likes it too, so I'm really happy about all this.
I would like to second - "How Innovation Works" by Matt Ridley is an excellent book. I see the kindle version is £1.99 on amazon.co.uk atm - what a bargain.
Most innovations we all enjoy and cherish are a product of long chain of trial and error by different people at different times. Often the theory is understood poorly (if at all) at the time of the invention, and developed after. Luck plays a role in particular person X inventing Y at time Z. But given the number of other people (not-X) that come up with similar invention ~Y at similar time ~Z, looks like Y would have been invented by someone at about time Z.
The time [0] I found out about ptr_b in

int* ptr_a, ptr_b;

isn't actually initialized as a pointer I changed all my C code to marking * before the variable name, fun times. It's helpful to think int as the base type and * the indicator of functionality like [] and ().

Also just found out the author was the developer of Adium [1], which is one of my favorite softwares (best logo) on macOS.

[0] http://c-faq.com/decl/charstarws.html

[1] https://adium.im/
No I'm not. I invite you to read the response you replied to more carefully.
Starring Jonny "Crash Override" Lee Miller and Angelina "Acid Burn" Jolie, both very early in their career.

Also, I believe some of the scenes contain SGI's fsv [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer
> > the mdadm binary in d-i is compiled to have its config at /tmp/mdadm.conf. I don’t know why, but probably there is a good reason

As others have said, /etc is writable during the installer.

More to the point: whatever other reason is likely bad. An app not using it's own config file in the standard location, losing data clobbering it's own config is, from experience (Red Hat used to do this a lot and our customers HATED it), a mistaken decision.
Yeah, that is up there. More phreaking than hacking, though.
How in the heck are we meant to know what the facts are from a report written by someone who's claiming that the Salisbury poisonings were a false-flag by British Intelligence?
The brain-computer interface is coming, and we are so not ready for it
What's this stuff about:

> also, i'm a) a nobody and b) a woman. nothing i wrote would ever gain any traction; any project designed to supplant ncurses needs to come from someone who's actually known to the FOSS community. and a maintainer who isn't a cripple.

Did ncurses gain popularity because of the identity of its maintainer(s)?! I was of the impression that it's whoever gets there first.
> But research has long since existed proving effectiveness of surgical masks spreading airborne pathogens...

No it hasn't! The claim that the evidence is "very meager" has been correct and is still correct. The study that you linked only shows a reduction in viral particles, but it also shows that coarse droplets contain less virus.

It stands to reason that reduced particle counts imply reduced viral load, and that reduced viral load implies fewer or less severe infections. However, that is hypothetical and not scientific proof.

In my view, the narrative has changed because of political pressure. If scientists were asked "Do masks work?", the honest answer would be "I don't know".

However, that's not what people want to hear from the experts. So you rephrase the question to "Could masks confer a benefit?" and then the honest answer is "That is plausible". Now politicians have something that they can tell people to do, to give the impression that something can be done and that something has been done.

That is not to say people shouldn't wear masks. However, it bothers me that this one scientifically plausible but unproven intervention gets a lot of attention, but many others don't. For instance, take vitamin D or zinc supplementation. Somehow, we need gold-standard double-blind placebo-controlled trials on 100,000 subjects before officially declaring those as potentially beneficial interventions.
This. Flutter is amazing after trying React Native, which has a far worse dev experience.
That won't work in automated provisioning of "bare metal". It needs to happen automatically during mass-provisioning of systems.
What do you define the difference between an in-house developed SoC with ARM-IP Cores and Denver's "ARM-based chip"? It is going to be a new architecture, but using a mix of ARM IP blocks and in-house IP following the ARM ISA?
To add to this, even though bad blocks are allowed by the contract between a device and the OS, because they are so rare, all code paths that deal with them are riddled with bugs.

For example, if you power off a disk improperly, all un-acked writes are allowed to contain a mix of the new data, the old data, or an unreadable sector.

If, on Linux, you now try to read one of those unreadable sectors, you will get an IO error - as designed. If you now try to write that sector, you won't be able to. Why? Well the kernel cache is 4k sectors, whereas the disk is 512 byte sectors, so to write a disk sector it needs to read the other nearby sectors to populate the cache.

That pretty much means every time you power off a disk improperly, you'll get a bunch of unreadable data and filesystem errors, even though the filesystem is journaling so should be able to cope with a sudden poweroff just fine.
What is Vietnam, Thailand and Africa doing right that could have been replicated elsewhere?
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I’m glad you were helped but man why it is sad that this is an unexpected story. Why isn’t this normal for people to help each other out in the most basic way.
Yes, sell me on the problem you are solving, sell me on the technology opportunity, sell me on your approach, help me feel a sense of mission and curiosity.
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It has volume control, you can skip songs, there are 4 different channels (Main, Rock, Mellow, Eclectic) and you can even make your own channel of songs that you rated 7 out of 10 or more.

No ads, purely listener supported. It has a phone app too where you can set bitrate per Wifi/Mobile data and you can also set up caching to listen when you're offline or during tunnels when travelling.
Far from it. Has nothing to do with that.
You should see what some of the other alternatives do. I just decommissioned a server and pulled the drives out of it. One of them had SMART data indicating that it reached the "drive failing, replace now" stage six months prior. The hardware RAID controller in the server had been content to give no indication of this at all.

Had another one where the drives were in two external containers and one of them lost power for a moment. The hardware RAID controller thereby marked that half of the drives as failed. This was too many failures to run the array, but it also had no mechanism to assemble an array using the perfectly operational drives it had marked as failed, so that was a restore from backup.

Meanwhile mdadm now supports --write-journal which moots the only real advantage hardware RAID ever held.
Aside from that, some manufacturers, for example a certain one named after a popular fruit, decided it would be prudent to save a few bucks and ship cables that are only able to charge devices, not for any form of data transfer.

Ok, maybe it wasn't to save money and instead force people to use cloud solutions for data sharing. This way we will end up with a lot of disabled cables where people wonder why they don't work.
Great point. When the IRS phone call scam first came around it scared the crap out of me for a second but a quick search revealed the truth.
How a group of people... who make their living typing characters, that encode binary values, that get compiled to machine code... can be so judgemental about transformative artistic license boggles my mind. Does it not occur to people that the visualizations are intended to be a layperson's representation of what the act of coding is like, rather than what's actually on the screen?

Interpreting, modifying, and fitting together higher-dimensional structures is a pretty accurate analogy of what my average day to day feels like, at the 1,000 ft level.

Also, some Orbital, for retro kicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-hSgL1R74

Edit: For those who want support from the work itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMvYx11V-Y&t=4s. The writers / directors were well aware of what actual computer code looks like.
How do you imagine that to be possible?
As usual, men are guilty until proven innocent when it comes to rape.
I think this was meant to be satire.
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RISC-V is a likely architecture to gain in popularity post ARM (which is also RISC). It's open source and freely licensed.
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Nobody's mentioning tin whiskers as a failure mode. Maybe the anaerobic atmosphere slows their growth?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_%28metallurgy%29
This is not correct. There is additional evidence presented in the article which you do not mention. Essentially, to create SARS-CoV-2 in a lab, you would have to pull off several impressive feats of biochemical engineering:

- "a hypothetical generation of SARS-CoV-2 by cell culture or animal passage would have required prior isolation of a progenitor virus with very high genetic similarity, which has not been described"

- "Subsequent generation of a polybasic cleavage site would have then required repeated passage in cell culture or animals with ACE2 receptors similar to those of humans, but such work has also not previously been described."

- "Finally, the generation of the predicted O-linked glycans is also unlikely to have occurred due to cell-culture passage, as such features suggest the involvement of an immune system."

Basically, synthesizing SARS-CoV-2 would require you to do at least three things that are currently unknown to science. Is it possible that a some military lab achieved this working in complete secrecy? Yes. Is it the most parsimonious explanation? No.
I agree with you- we should not dismiss this as a smear nor as a fact, however the original complaintants have withdrawn their cases and it is being pursued by the Swedish government.

Of course the Swedish government are saying that it’s standard procedure to prosecute or chase prosecution if charges are brought and withdrawn. But, it doesn’t look good.
Do you really need to spend the time (and maybe money) for a second host just because your current one might go down for an hour? There's probably a point at which you might rightly consider it, but I doubt many people are legitimately at that threshold. Especially given I don't even remember the last time Netlify had this issue.
The problem with your questions, they're pragmatic with clear goals and ends. The questions in... question... are vague, have no clear defined endpoints and serve as a form of mental masturbation. Which I say in all seriousness. It's similar to English lit "analysis" of blue curtains. No "real" answer. It's all strictly to make the one posing the questions feel smart by stopping people and hoping theres no real answer because a follow up is too difficult for the pretentious ass that formed the questions. The business, econ, AI and philosophy ones are especially terrible.

I've never used a fancy Japanese toilet, but it does make me wonder why there hasn't been a real push to import them into the states. We buy plenty of stupid crap already... haha... fancy toilets seem right up our alley.

For 3, I believe physics says atomic energy is the only other route. I wish I could remember where I read a long and a bit over my head section to a book about this.... and nuke powered cars/planes is a recipe for disaster.
> Web shared libraries is a proposal from Mozilla by which Javascript library resources can be shared across multiple domains without relying on a central serving domain.
I think an interesting compromise would be to have a collaborative project for the design of such a system. Even if it was never implemented, it could highlight many of the problems current architectures have, and provide some ideas going forwards. And if it became very obvious that the new system is so much better, then we could always try to do an actual implementation. Nowadays in comparison everything leaks so much.

Another partial approach would be this: imagine you had a completely new console which had a single programming language, all tools needed to develop integrated, dumb simple, and you could draw on the screen easily, manipulate the audio buffers easily, and had trivial access to button inputs. Even without networking, I bet we would see amazing things happen. A closed, small, understandable and yet practical and performant system? The dream of every programmer. I know some people already think we have libraries that do this, but they can't provide such a platform.
This is an impression that TV and Twitter give. But politicians in all countries often say positive things about policies and ideas they like. But that’s not newsworthy so it appears to not be common.
The atoms that compose your body are going in random directions right now, at pretty high speed, that's what create temperature. Many of your atoms go in totally opposite directions at any given time. Even drawing the line in the set of atoms that is you is ambiguous at each breath.

Yet, it does not sound far-fetched an idea that you have an objectively measurable vertical speed relative to the ground and that it would be safer to maintain that speed under a current level?

Consumers all attach different subjective values to objects, yet, markets converge on a price that is considered consensual, yet almost everyone disagrees on the consensus reached. This is because there is a consensus not in the result, but in the process that leads to that result.

Morality in societies are similar: No one is exactly aligned with everyone else on moral questions, yet, the general state of affairs results in a consensual compromise that can be measured in the same way that you can measure the market price of an item by confronting buyers and sellers.
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That'd be Orbital's Halcyon & On & On which contains a sample from Opus III's It's A Fine Day, sung by Kirsty Hawkshaw.

There's also tracks by Leftfield, The Prodify, Carl Cox, Underworld, ... [1] [2]

Pretty much the alternative (electronic) music at that time. And what a time 90s electronic music was.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/soundtrack

[2] https://www.discogs.com/Various-Hackers-Soundtrack/release/4...
I disguised myself as an Alabama State Trooper and penetrated the FBI NCIC.
Interesting theory. To throw out some 'anecdata' (maybe we can turn this into a sort of study?) - my three-device test (iPhone 6S and Pixel 2 XL at 60Hz, 12.9" iPad Pro at 120Hz) would seem to indicate that the refresh speed does not affect the touch refresh rate, however, this could be the result of the large performance differences between devices used, as the average and maximum times trend down with the newer/faster devices in testing.

Min/avg/max of 10 taps, as fast as possible;

17/26.6/36 -- iPhone 6S
16/23.7/34 -- Pixel 2 XL
17/21.7/33 -- 12.9" iPad Pro

I would probably conclude overall that my hands are just slower than yours!
> Despite that seeming constraint, Adger argues in his new book, Language Unlimited, that the sentences we make are infinite in faculty, form, and expression.

This is such a journalist thing to write. The idea that the number of sentences that can be produced using a given language is potentially infinite is such an old one that it hardly has anything to do with Adger, and Adger hardly needed to "argue" it.
It feels like I am reading a bunch of mostly unrelated value statements put together.
Didn’t swordfish have some manually “hack” 128bit encryption in 2 minutes or something stupid?

Swordfish seemed like the most out of touch of any hackers movie I’ve seen.
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Recent discussion on this topic as it pertains to software used in scientific research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260545
Quite possibly, but that's a world away from your original (and I'm paraphrasing here) "everyone thinks orange man and his associates are bad" comment.

We do seem to agree that proper scrutiny of claims is important.
Yes for teaching software development it's amazing, and I can even see it being really useful for professionals to demonstrate and discuss ideas.

But I can't imagine it's ever going to replace the IDE or the lowly text-editor, because there isn't a problem that needs solving. Most developers version control their configuration and move it between installations.
I knew about the smaller 2x4s, but now I have a sudden irrational anger that the 2x2s are not also smaller...

How 2x4s depreciate according to Twin Peaks: [0].

It appears in the US they start out at 2x4 and are trimmed down to make them look more finished.

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=txPcLOtbG3s

EDIT to ask if OP means 'bigger' rather than 'smaller'?
"History is more or less bunk." — Our Ford.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2018/01/14/fact-check-what-...

(that was 1916. Later, Ford would become more outspoken, leading to current debate as to what degree he sympathised with certain european politicians known for claiming to create a great future and change history.)