skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very good point and a shame to see it being downvoted. I have been wishing there was an accessible database-ish software for doing my accounts, as the current mega-spreadsheet I use is pretty hairy and none of the specialised apps quite fit the bill. The closest thing seems to be Airtable, which while nice, is quite expensive.

Recently I was visiting hospital quite a bit (ante-natal) and witnessing the horror of the massive NHS form filling software the nurses and midwives have to use. It's clunky and sprawling but one of the main sins I think is it's lack of adaptability. In the old days of pen an paper, a new form could be written, or adapted, and photocopied easily, and on-site. Now if a new field needs to be added or a process is changed it needs to go (I imagine) to some centralised IT development office and fed into a ticketing system where it might get changed in a few weeks or months. There's no room to quickly adapt at a ground-level, so you end up with things like this excel sheet problem.
> Distributionally, most of the cases were 1-2 days before the error was spotted.

That’s always true though if the virus is spreading exponentially (dunno whether it currently does in the UK).
I usually go to the publishers or, if self published, authors website directly and buy from there. Books are distributed as epub that I can load on my ereader calibre alike.
While that is true, I have a little difficulty imagining that Harding or anyone else senior was involved in the process of shoveling around spreadsheets. As the overall leadership she obviously has the accountability but just saying, "oh what do you expect when you put a crony in?" ignores the reality that a number of people on an operational level had been doing this for months and nobody seems to have stopped it.
Apple quietly disables feature and forces macOS upgrade
I recently noticed that I can no longer collaborate on Numbers.app spreadsheets. This includes old spreadsheets that were already shared as well as collaborating on any new spreadsheets. Numbers helpfully says "It's time to update!" and sends me to the AppStore, but the new version of Numbers requires macOS 10.15 and I cannot upgrade past Mojave (10.14) as I need to keep running some old 32-bit applications.

I don't think it's reasonable to require an OS upgrade to continue using an application feature that was working fine before and I think it's completely unacceptable do so with NO WARNING at all. It's not like I'm even running some super old software, Mojave was released just two years ago and Apple is already disabling features and forcing upgrades?!

No wonder businesses are reluctant to use Apple office software. Not impressed...

/rant over
Oh, I saw excel files that contained screen shots of other excel files over cells containing data. Comments where in text fields, if you were lucky, or again screen shots, from word.

And then the same people wondered why things based on this file didn't work.
High dividend stocks or REITs.

Some markets are currently paying more than 4% as a whole: https://www.starcapital.de/en/research/stock-market-valuatio... . Russian stocks pay above 7%. Asian REITs have high dividends as well, e.g.: https://sreit.fifthperson.com/
New Serverless on Kubernetes Course by the LinuxFoundation
I get a cert warning on https://stdio.sangwhan.com/wtf-japan-covid-19-report/ which really is a good start.
And let's not forget that an iPhone is basically a vending machine in your pocket ...
Columns, they were using a column per case instead of a row per case.
Worth noting the primary source for that claim is the Daily Mail.
Columns.

Row limit is over 1 million.
Might be due to my use of APCs rather than waiting on the object. Not bothered enough to try it myself but I guess you can try WaitForSingleObject on the timer to see if it behaves similarly...
I don't know if something is wrong with my internet or machine, but a lot of graphs/pictures seem to be missing on this page.
We're focusing on the wrong things – what to do if you want to be wealthy
Afaik, the old civilizations were rather rudimentary in perspective? There are some traces of it, but no mind bending anything.
A Future for Debugging Rust
What are you going to use it for?

Mostly it seems to be used for comparing differently populous countries.
According to me, and according to my professionel coder friends who work with the thing daily, it's cue tee.

Same way Tcl isn't tickle, PNG isn't ping, and LaTeX only grumplingly and with quite some self discipline on our side manages to remain la TECH. These jokes were marginally entertaining 30 years ago, tired by the turn of the century, and way past expiry today.
To give an example how this kind of database and software can be used, based on their example:

- Someone "Alex" is convicted, a data point is created
- "X" has a scar on their left leg and a tattoo on their right ankle of a skull, this is registered in their data, along with any other info (height, probable weight, ethnicity, age, what they look like etc.)

Later, a citizen reports a crime, doesn't really see the person but noticed the start of a tattoo on the perp's right ankle under a sock. This info, along with vague height info, etc. could then be used to define Alex as a suspect. Powerful, data comprehension.

Potentially controversial part: not everyone has a data point, and since the article states it, there are probably more data points on black and brown communities. So data comprehension and links found and going to be found in this already-existing pool. A possible solution to this is creating data points for everyone, but that has its own controversies (whether it's a government or a private entity).

To play Devil's advocate, Palantir gets a lot of flack for licensing their software to governmental institutions, e.g. ICE, the US army, and for being affiliated to Peter Thiel (see the other comment). Unlike Thiel, Alex Karp (Palantir CEO) is left leaning. Palantir has worked with numerous administrations (Bush, Obama). Their view is that they don't see or pick any sides, but the morality of that is up for everyone to decide, I believe if you don't pick a side, one is often picked for you.
Unfortunately, sometimes timing requirements do arise "out of the void" to adhere, because not all hardware is perfect.

Also sometimes you just need to do timing sensitive processing. I guess you could argue one shouldn't use Windows for that, but unfortunately sometimes we developers don't really have a choice. Doing what you're told pays the bills. :-)
Into a barrier is the good outcome for loss of downforce. The car may make a backward somersault and fly over a barrier or land on top of another car.
But Tennis isn't dictated on who has the most billions to invest in new technologies, its pretty limited to the amount of money you can spend on coaching.
That is actually coming from the Daily Mail, and it's not clear where they get the Excel claim from, it's not sourced.
Doesn't it just solidify status quo where the always richest companies can afford buying whoever they want this way and hollowing out all potential competitors? Honestly curious, maybe it was great for innovation 15 years ago but now the market has solidified.
They.

(I'm assuming you did your research and the CTO is in fact female, but it's better to teach people to use a gender neutral term when they don't know the gender of the person in question, and it is irrelevant to the discussion like it is here)
Excel has a limit of ~1M rows per sheet. Total cases in the UK until now are ~500K. So it seems they use 2 rows per case in the sheet.

Edit: oops, it seems they used columns for the cases and the ~16K column limit was hit when daily cases exceeded that.
Doesn't that just push all the responsibility onto every piece of code that uses the datatype? 'Remember to sort the contents of this set every time before using it' sounds like it is asking for trouble.
In a pandemic winter, dinner comes with a side of propane
Well, the language is indeed inspired by Rebol - in the sense that it is block-based (where blocks are nothing but lists of words and symbols, without any initial meaning). However, it also combines many other concepts. Basically, think of it as a fusion between Haskell and Ruby with the (inexistent) syntax of Rebol.

If you want to get a feel of it, just try it online @ http://arturo-lang.io/ or check one of the many working examples already there. :)
I can answer questions for VCs then I guess
Apache's mod_fastcgi/mod_fcgid used to try and manage its own FastCGI processes, but the result was rather brittle. It was also a non-starter when the FastCGI processes were on a different machine for load balancing purposes.

It's much simpler to use an independent monitoring program to manage your processes than to rely on the web server. Modern init systems can do this for you, or you can use tools like monit. Docker will probably work, too. Node has PM2. PHP has FPM, which can automatically recycle processes on a preconfigured schedule. Not that they need to be recycled, because PHP is very stable these days, but it's just a one-liner in a config file if you need it.
Publishers like O'Reilly explicitly don't put DRM on ebooks you buy from them. They also have a subscription library model in parallel. I use both these methods for books from them and I understood the difference. Somehow O'Reilly remains one of the premium and presumably profitable tech book publishers
I see. It's hard to say if I'm missing something but given what I've heard so far I think what you want is I/O completion ports (though there are other ways to solve this). They're basically producer-consumer queues. I highly recommend looking into them if you do I/O in Windows. They're more complicated but they work very well. Here's a socket example: https://www.winsocketdotnetworkprogramming.com/winsock2progr...
> I absolutely do not discount driver skill.

That's the thing I always wondered. How much skill vs car there is in modern F1. ATM I'm on the side of car being the biggest factor (subpar F1 driver will win in the best car).
On 2004, I tried timeBeginPeriod(1) and calling Sleep(1) 1000 times. Perplexingly it took a bit under 2 seconds.

On 1809 same took about 1.3 seconds.

I'm at loss... Windows timers have yet again managed to do really weird, unexpected things.

I really hope this mess doesn't affect device drivers, or there could be a world of hurt coming up.
How to Be More Concise
If you want to go for it, have the company or zzp registered under your spouse's name. The spouse can employ you legally and even transfer ownership once the contractual time is up. This allows you to go ahead with your plans while saving you from all potential headache. Of course, never brag about this online.
Depends on the year. Working at Facebook post-2010 is a strong negative signal for me.
Yeah, I just came to the same conclusion.

Win10 2004 timer changes are breaking.

Timer frequency adjustments (timeBeginPeriod) don't seem to affect Windows timers in the same process like they used to do!

Again. In Win10 2004, if you do timeBeginPeriod(1), timers in the same process (other than using the deprecated multimedia timer) seem to only trigger every 15-16 ms or so instead of 1 ms.

This is bad.

As a sidenote about Win10 2004, after timeBeginPeriod(1), Sleep(1) seems to take about 2 ms per call. Or at least it seems to take about 1950 ms to call Sleep(1) 1000 times when I tested it. Confusing.
That could be fixed with 1 additional concept. Instead of

Customer: 1 - 1: Set(Dates)

What if it was

Customer 1 - *: Contract: 1 - 1: Set(Dates)

Overlap achieved.
I'm confused about subtracting the redzone size from the stack pointer. Isn't the redzone "below" the stack?
Once you have a couple of thousands of rows in excell files, one file per day, possibly one per testing center.... possibly with inconsistent structure.... non standard date formats (even different in each row),... add to this the inconsistent namings ("Tested at" column with data: "Testing center 1, London", "TC1, London", "TC1 London", "TC1 LONDON",....), etc...

Yes, anything-sql or whatever would be better, but deciding between putting all the data into sql by hand, or "uhm... i'll think of something and do it tomorrow", me, being lazy, I'd pick the second option,...

...until i'd get shamed on here. Maybe even a few days after.
I think quite a lot of people can speak French, but have a similar stance against the French people, why would we speak French if you can't bother speaking differently language like English.
Nice looking product, but aren’t you worried your great features and functionality would be adopted by the integrated wiki?
Working at McDonalds does not make you responsible for obesity, no.

It does make you responsible for being the kind of person who works at McDonalds, though.

Same goes for Facebook.
This looks to be rewrapped version of the open source knowledge base Outline: https://www.getoutline.com / https://github.com/outline/outline

Specifically, their editor is a separate component: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

I assumed this was a clever marketing product from the outline team, but it seems to be entirely separate.
Gitops: The Bad and the Ugly
There is an interesting discussion going on in r/kubernetes about the limitations of gitops. There are good reasons for adopting GitOps, but the linked article points out 6 downsides:

1.Not designed for programmatic updates
2.The proliferation of Git repositories
3.Lack of visibility
4.Doesn’t solve centralised secret management
5.Auditing isn’t as great as it sounds
6.Lack of input validation

Who among you has tried to implement a full GitOps setup? And what was your experience?
A question, was it possibly a csv?

ie a csv is equivalent to Excel at the Daily Mail, so they printed Excel as the issue due to it being more familiar to their readership.

(Can't think of what the technical issue would be in the case of a csv, also doubt the credibility of the source!)
> All costs considered, an operator who makes $5k per month in revenue might take home something like $2k in profit.

I was looking for the same, the above helped me to get an idea about the net income.
Any of them that sell DRM-free ebooks would work.

Of course, they have a much smaller selection than Amazon and you likely won't find the book you want. So it's not really a proper alternative. You either accept their TOS or you don't get to read the book you want digitally.
Perhaps it was a little absolutist. Maybe it would be better written like this:

If you're not familiar with implementing schedulers and concurrent systems then beware that implementing fibers from scratch is likely to result in some subtle and hard to debug problems.

If you have to use C/C++ you may well get better results using a library. If you aren't tied to the language then Erlang/Elixir, Go and Rust all have excellent implementations that have more language support.
Yep, they got acquired by Ebay back in the days, and "sunsetted" shortly after. For some weird reason.
This is part of approach to programming that is more popular in functional world.

You take requirements and make system exactly right to fit these requirements perfectly and don't bother with any other concerns.

When you design this close to the requirements you get better, faster and more elegant code that's easier to understand - but when requirements change you have to do much more work to adapt. Suddenly a state which was previously invalid is valid, or a part of system that only needed one kind of input needs 4 different inputs from separate parts of your code. Have fun basically rewriting your program.

That's IMHO the main motivation between differences in functional and OO programming - how close to the requirements you want to design your code.
I think you misunderstood. If you want "timing sensitive processing", that's what you can and should expect to use events or multimedia timers for. That way you can actually expect to meet timing guarantees. Using Sleep() and depending on it for correctness in such situations (regardless of its accuracy) is kind of like using your spacebar to heat your laptop... it doesn't seem like the right way to go on its face, even if there was something to guarantee it would work: https://xkcd.com/1172/
You'd be "signing" the macOS EULA as part of the install process.
I’ve had similar issues when signing up but I ended up using my phone number to get past it. You could always use your number now to get in, then erase the number from the account or switch to a dummy number (if allowed). But I think Twitter also allows managing more than one profile through same “account”.

Good luck! working on a new twitteresque conversation site, curious if you could post the article there and use the citation? open beta but welcome to try :) https://sqwok.im
How to Elevate Each Other's Work as Women in Tech October 5th 2020
Except that children are becoming equally ill from flue infections as adults, while from Corona children hardly ever show symptoms.
But those examples do not hold either?

The Muhammad story is about Austria (which I did not discuss and do not know a lot about). I don't know much about the religious issue at hand either, but the possibility of getting fined 500€ for accusing people of paedophilia if your claim does not hold does not strike me as such horrendous. Isn't this slander in the US and illegal as well?

How is Germany on par with the countries you listed? You may not disturb public peace with speech and not insult people. Example is a dude who printed "The Holy Quran" on toilet paper. Nothing wrong with enforcing human decency via the law. Such insults is also literally what Nazis did in the first stage of the holocaust. Looking at the countries this is supposed to be on par with: Yemen uses blasphemy laws to imprison establishment enemies. Oman is not even on the list. Turkey is extra ironic because there was a comedian who made a parody of the Turkish government and Germany had a diplomatic crisis because Germany refused to do something against it (obv. totally on par). Myanmar put a guy in jail for wearing Buddha headphones. Indonesia's mention is so brief I guess you could say the law sounds similar.

Still not seeing the slope, sorry...
I'm assuming the standalone Steam version is also using Electron?

I've never thought of it being possible to release games with Electron on Steam. I wonder if one could also wrap SVG based game into Electron and put it up to Steam
I'm planning to make granite surface plates myself too. Where I live, we have granite tombstone makers in every small city and several in every big city. You can rather cheaply order any size slab you want and it's typically pretty flat too (polished).
The contract such as "we may block your account for uploading any content against our guidelines. We may rule content to be against our guidelines for any reason and at our sole discrecion."
I went a step further and spent most of my free time this year writing CGI/C apps.

This was not nostalgia either : the reason for doing that is because I was writing webapps for my pinephone. Toying with the phone, I decided I wanted my apps to be webapps rather than GTK apps, so that I can access them either from mobile or laptop (through local network), but I didn't want to have the apps running all the time, in order for them to consume less energy (which directly translates to battery lifetime on a mobile). Turns out that CGI is perfect for that : the only process always running are nginx and fcgiwrap, then all my apps are started only on demand, for the lifetime of the request.

I did expect a big performance hit, but I was surprised it was not so bad. I guess that's because they are C app rather than written in languages which require loading an interpreter before running anything. One app that I rewrote from libmicrohttpd had actually better perfs (although it was the first time I used libmicrohttpd, so it was probably something I didn't do correctly).
I think it's due to my use of APCs like I said. Try replacing SleepEx(100, TRUE) with WaitForSingleObject(handle, INFINITE).

Edit: Never mind. Seems it might not be the APCs. Maybe some callee of Sleep(Ex) is just rounding up the wait interval to a time slice somewhere. Not sure... would need some digging.
Claims without proofs aren't convincing. Clinging to an ideological position despite practical realities doesn't do anyone any good.
Ah yes, using your expert knowledge of food safety practices and cow biology to tell if you are eventually going to consume contaminated milk. It's coming out of the tap contaminated.

Food can be contaminated at any number of places along the supply chain, but I don't see how trust enters into it. It's like trusting that you won't be served a bad oyster, impossible to rule out at even the nicest, most "trustworthy" establishment.
It is absolutely standard that everyone doing office work outside of high-tech jobs uses Excel for data handling.

It's not surprising that this reaches into government.

Even if your canonical database is done properly, there will be a clash here as soon as you share (or give anyone the ability to generate) CSV files that are too large for Excel.
Haven't read the full article but this virus reminds me of something designed in the game Pandemic. Not that I actually believe it's manufactured, it's just that it has so many sinister properties.
oh lol. not surprised there but yeah its annoying because the rest of us hone our skills an exchange time for much less.
You also need to find a place to put the machine. The article mentions paying up to a 25% comission to the owner of the place. Even if you somehow get amazing margins on the machine itself like 70% (assuming you refill the machine for free) it will turn into 45% margin after actually putting the machine down.

>We surveyed 23 vending machine owners with various-sized operations and found that the average operator in our sample owned 13 machines that gross $309 per machine per month.

Warning: napkin math.

$309 x 13 x 45% = $4017 x 45% = $1807.65 profit (excluding cost of machine)

It's just a side hustle. Even with higher margins you can never go above $4017 so it's never going to turn into a scalable business. Once you consider the cost of the machines of around $2k each (very low estimate) your first 14 months will net you nothing.
Hey, at least the UK has automated handling of data! Parts of Germany managed to not tell people they'd tested positive for a week or two because their manual, Excel-based process for handling test results couldn't cope with the increased load from testing people returning to the country - and they're meant to be the competent ones we look up to, according to our press. (I get the impression that German experts have a rather different view.)
Your argument works even better the other way round. Most of these terms of venery are so obscure that the only time they get used is in trivia quizzes.

If, as you seem to say English is decided by usage, then the idea that there is a 'correct' term for a group of bobolinks beyond 'group' is just a fun fiction.

As far as I'm concerned, you're free to describe a group of animals using whatever word conveys the experience best, and since, as you say English lacks a governing council, nobody should worry about using the 'correct' term of venery.