skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its pronounciation rules are relatively easy.

There's a joke that the most common language in the world is bad English. I have a theory that the diversity of English speakers makes it more forgiving of pronunciation, word order, and tonal mistakes than languages with fewer speakers.
> China can be more efficient than all democratic countries

Not all democratic countries. I live in Thailand, which is at least technically a democracy, and the virus has been completely extinguished here. The crackdown was harsh - a month of curfew! - but it worked, and the public was largely on board. Life is back to normal here, with the addition of masks, for which there is 100% compliance - I just don't understand how the US acts against its own interests in that regard. The virus has been crushed. And it's the same in Singapore, after a couple of hiccups. Hell, Thailand is re-opening to tourism!

China isn't 100% autocracy, anyway. There's a very very large gap between China and, say, North Korea, or even Soviet Russia. You can definitely make the case though that the "pure democracy free for all" model like the USA, with its totally unrestricted (and possibly harmful in the age of social media) free speech, has certainly lost if not prestige, then at least the status of the model of governance other countries should aspire to. I would say the USA's handling of COVID19 has been a big wake-up call to pretty much every other democracy of what can happen when "freedom" goes too far.
I am personally being affected by distraction from every direction. I do not have the luxury of a silent room, or even setting aside quite hours in a day without external distraction. I help dad in his business, so I might be required to help at any moment of the day. Its not that i don't want to help, but i cannot stay focused and my productivity takes hit.

I don't know why i am saying this here. Any hint on how i can stay focused on problem/study at hand, like always.
Most people agree that TV and movies died some time before 2007.
Me too. I think this could be achieved. But there would need to be good editor support to make it successful. And good keyboard support too.
Wow, okay - that explains why we're not doing this already!

I'm curious as to why this logic doesn't apply to the electrostatic precipitator. Or maybe it does and we just have too much capacitance?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_precipitator

ETA: the EP causes Corona discharge, which doesn't sound like it would be too pleasant if you were the electrode.
Yeah, duh. Two tracks for each side.
Or the employer could pay for the extra hours.

So that with cost taken into account, the overtime employee isn't much different from the others. Instead, skill would matter more.
You don't embed plain text XML in CDATA, right? You escape it

function escapeXml(unsafe) {
return unsafe.replace(/[<>&'"]/g, function (c) {
switch (c) {
case '<': return '&lt;';
case '>': return '&gt;';
case '&': return '&amp;';
case '\'': return '&apos;';
case '"': return '&quot;';
}
});
}

Or you convert to the same encoding, strip XML declaration, expand entities. In short work with adequate tools.
I like the Linked-list crate [0] from contain.rs [1] (a collection of Rust datastructure) as it has a cursor which is the thing I miss in the std implementation.

[0]: https://crates.io/crates/linked-list

[1]: https://github.com/contain-rs
To me the big value in Mathematica is the curated datasets.
Nothing but a flamewar tinder. :D
Thank you!
What I am missing is not a whiteboard.
Whiteboard is just a solution that works in the office.
The underlying requirement is: I want to be able to express myself in a visual way together with others.
So a solution to the same requirement, that works remote, shouldn't have to mimick a whiteboard.
Instead I would like the ability to :
* Draw straight rectangles, lines and arrows

* Type text with my keyboard

* Move stuff afterwards

* Let participants point at different places simultaneously

I'm looking forward to trying out Escalidraw.

It seems to cover the first points, but not the last one.
Maybe it was specific for that period, in Hungary we had similar (these are from the period of wwII):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWnZrFDdIcw&list=RDNF7ekokFu...
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"the squeaky wheel" is about someone who complains.

But "tall poppy" is someone who is talented.

No contradiction between punishing talented people,
and serving those who complain.
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I'm paying over 10k to stare at a screen and be told to “teach myself”
There have been plenty of times where I (r/g colourblind) have been able to see paint mis-matches on red coloured cars where people with normal vision haven't seen an issue, and I've been able to tell at a distance which panel has been refinished. I think the input/output curve of my red perception is non-linear compared to normal colour vision, and while on a lot of that scale it is a deficiency, in some situations, I have improved sensitivity.

Having said that, I'd trade in a heartbeat, so I could see bloody charging LEDs properly.
Regarding the ransomware attack, my point is that Garmin's security design was weak enough to allow it to happen. We were all, apparently, simply lucky that the variant of ransomware used didn't happen to exfiltrate all our health data.

Garmin is notorious for their software issues, and Apple is probably much better than Garmin at securing their production environments. But more importantly, because Apple end-to-end encrypts users' health data, nobody would be able to access any of it even if they were successfully attacked.

I agree it's nice that Garmin wearables can mostly keep working independently even if Garmin Connect is down.
The neat thing is that you can use tags to represent custom data structures or functions. For example, AWS Cloudformation uses YAML tags as a shorthand for template functions [0].

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
Also the whole skin cancer thing.
That only helps when it’s coupled to the page. Doesn’t make a ton of sense in our use case as it’s just an arbitrary component. It would have to support queries based on component props, but that’s even more complexity in an existing nightmare.
As an aside, here's a breakdown of who speaks Catalan vs Spanish, in Catalonia, as of 2018:

https://www.idescat.cat/novetats/?id=3446&lang=en

The quick version, in a single image, with the lightest area being the region of Barcelona:

https://i.imgur.com/tPiOuiz.png
I see very little color in the stars

I can't see any color in the stars either. All of them are white. Are you people seeing colored stars ?
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If I were to immigrate to Barcelona I would learn (Galician) Spanish, but perhaps not Catalan. (Though it’s a beautiful language.) I guess I would count as monolingual in their study.
I found the arguments lacking. I don't think there was any plan on preventing infection on the first batch of vaccines, and even the FDA does recommend a minimum of 50% efficacy.

Infection prevention or preventing severe symptoms, are however part of the secondary endpoints of the trials, something that it is not mentioned in the article.

For a counter argument, see https://mobile.twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1308474303810...
The real question is is there a safe wavelength and low enough power where you could swap out fluorescent tubes and effectively manage the virus.
I’m getting fed-up with this constant reinvention of the serialization game. Back in the days I used to be skeptical of IT and informatics precisely for this reason: always arguing about slight variations of the same mundanities: XML, XSD, IDL, ASN.1, Avro, JSON... Emacs vs. Vim, Weakly vs. Strongly typed, and so on...

What can an ICT professional claim at the end of its career? “Hey, I’ve argued about shit all my life!”
It would be interesting to see how the described effect depends on linguistic proximity. Does bilingualism of e.g. English and Chinese or German and Turkish protect better against cognitive decline than Castilian and Catalan?
Same for lab rats.
Unlikely, but I have no special insight.

Many countries in the Anglosphere (US, UK, Australia) seem to have lost their ability to pull off big infrastructure projects.

I don't think London could build their sewers today either, nor their tube system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_sewerage_system#History

I'm glad to be living in Singapore where that kind of building capacity is still alive. They are currently building multiple new underground train lines. Driverless, of course.
Given the recent push towards formally verifying mathematics, it's surprising how comparatively little effort's been put into formalising ethics. Fundamentally an ethical system is not that different from a mathematical one: there are some assumptions, some deductive rules, and a potentially infinite set of conclusions that result from applying those deductive rules to those assumptions. One particularly important property to verify about such a system is consistency: if it can prove conclusion "X", it should not also be able to prove conclusion "not X". An inconsistent system can prove anything, so is essentially useless for reasoning.
Or more like Developers have no incentive to optimise the usage for it purely because so little people have it.
How exactly do you intend to mine, manufacture, and construct things where zero infrastructure exists? Every piece of equipment you would need to do those things would need to be launched not just to low Earth orbit, but all the way to the moon, which is massively more difficult and expensive than building things on Earth and tossing them into orbit here. Building a James Webb equivalent on the moon would cost trillions instead of billions and take decades instead of years.
"When it comes to Newsletter success, consistency, and by that I mean daily, is everything."

My favorite newsletter so far was Ruby Weekly, which I read every week for several years, and I can say I wouldn't have been interested in it for daily. So I disagree that "daily is everything".
While you're trying things out, would you mind testing https://browserboard.com? It's a little thing I made similar to these tools. It's not commercial, I just want to make sure it works well.
The context here is rendering performance.
I think that similar approach would work extremely well on pre-moderated boards. So user won't even notice pre-moderation.
Nasnas is a monstrous creature in Arab/Persian folklores :D
> Do tell.

Well, he does need to be voted Secretary by the Central Committee. The change that was made recently was to remove term limits - but in theory he can still be voted out. Weak sauce I know compared to judicial oversight but hey, you asked.

I agree with the GP that labeling Xi a "dictator" is hyperbole. I wouldn't even say he's as entrenched as Putin.
In the three body problem, a computer is created out of 30 million uneducated soldiers that stand in a 6x6km square communicating mostly through flags. 3 soldiers form AND or OR gates. A memory bus is run by cavalry.

I am only half way through the book, so this might not be THE alien computer from the book, but still fitting.
https://visionsofthevistula.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/nikodem...

Foxtrot? My grandmother once said my grandfather insisted on attempting to waltz to every tune, no matter what the beat ... but it was OK in those times, because one rarely danced with one's own spouse.
The first points might also describe a diagram tool like draw.io
Most people probably already have an ipad or android tablet. Drawing with your fingers is already far better than a mouse and a basic active pen like the logitech crayon is within anyone’s range who has an ipad. There are many clipboard sharing options to quickly push a cloud whiteboard from the laptop to the tablet.

I don’t get why anyone would subject themselves to the pain of drawing with a mouse.
Crash my lubuntu 18.04 session every time, when using firefox 80.0.1 (works fine with chromium though), Nvidia-driver 450.51.06, after waiting to load the screen goes black and blinks a few time.
Observing is not Debugging (and other misnomers)
I strongly disagree with "daily is everything."

I think the appropriate frequency is (should be) derived from the subject matter.
Some subjects deserve daily coverage, but the vast majority do not.

Nearly all of the newsletters I subscribe to and actually read are weekly, with a couple of exceptions for highly news-driven content, which does make sense (for me) on a daily basis.
"Anyone" does not scale infinitely: it only specifies who might participate, not how many can. Each project will collapse — lose work for one day or more — under a certain sheer quantity burden of pull requests. When people say "anyone can", they don't always mean "everyone do so all at the same time", as happened here. The term "anyone" makes no statement about the frequency of pull requests, and everyone is generally upset about the frequency of pull requests associated with a third party action (Hacktober). Rightfully so: their time is being wasted and their expectations of reasonable behavior are being violated.
>So as the Andy Grove generation retired out

They had Patrick Gelsinger. But he was pushed out. You left with a Board lead by former CFO Andy Bryant, chooses a CEO that fits his taste.

It was all Politics.
This is just a copy of the press release whose original was posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24671279 .
I flagged this comment for being obtuse and accusing a person of a crime when they just want privacy.

Nor can they use ignorance as an excuse - they're Indian.
Which is why originally WinRT had only asynchronous APIs (and Android as well), because Microsoft and Google both wanted to push developers to do the right thing and not code single threaded UIs.

On WinRT with how everything turned out with UWP, now as per Reunion reboot, they are supporting again both models, as that was one of the reasons why many devs did not jumped into UWP app model.

On the Android side, they eventually came up with WorkManager and Concurrent. Also for those in the Kotlin train, co-routines.

As for what best models, I use to like doing thread based stuff, but came to enjoy using good old processes instead.

Security and stability issues haven proven that having the process sandbox, with OS level IPC is a much better way to work with parallel/concurrency programming, and processes must not even run all on the same computer, so one can scale across the cluster as well.
Online whiteboards are just awful with a mouse, what's worked really well for my livestreams has been a WACOM like tablet that I can hook up via USB to my laptop or Desktop.

I got this, it's cheap and great https://www.amazon.com/GAOMON-M10K2018-Graphic-Pressure-Batt...

I use it to annotate pdfs and also with the MS whiteboard, it's not necessarily the best to collaborate with but I really like how I can zoom infinitely out to keep adding stuff. I prefer this setup over regular whiteboards for solo brainstorming sessions
Encoding meaning in whitespace is an abomination. That’s all I have to say about YAML.
It is fast while having the best type inference capacities I ever saw in a programming language: you can spend years in a static language without ever writting a type (my one exception is deserialization which makes sense).
The EU does have trade barriers to protect its own industries, there is no reason they couldn't be extended to social media.
> it's only first publication that's relevant.

No, the publishing date is relevant (not the first publishing date).
Which was the end of the last ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period
I'm not colorblind, but the only colored star I remember seeing is Betelgeuse - it's bright and easy to find. Mars is also usually reddish but it keeps moving, so it's harder to find (for me) - also it's not a star.

I think seeing the color of stars is more a question of how dark your night sky is, and how many stars you recognize.
You can mix and match C++20 co-routines, C#/F#/VB co-routines, Kotlin co-routines, that is the whole idea.
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Laughs in vcpkg and conan.
In the case of the article, it’s about living in a region where more than one language is locally spoken.
I work in telecoms and 'template like this' show up from time to time sometimes for reasonable reasons, sometimes for 'optimisations' reasons which are not backed by figures (some programmers like to show off).
I feel the same way. I've settled on JSON everywhere. The only thing I don't have in my toolkit is an easy binary ser/deser format.
Check out the 60 Minutes video "Whistleblowers silenced by China could have stopped global coronavirus spread" [0], and then see if you still feel that way.

[0] https://youtu.be/pEQcvcyzQGE
> I'd say it's more akin to them warning there may be more insidious or less-well-understood dangers to human civilization and the Earth biome than just global warming.

> Personally, mass extinction of species comes to mind. A wide variety of species enables equilibriums to be established with changing conditions, given a proper allowed rate of evolution.

From what I understand, the main existencial issue of CO2 and the subsequent global warming is the extinction of oxygen producing plankton in the oceans, which are apparently much more significant O2 producers than a typical forest.

This isn't a large multi causal multi-species antropogenic extinction, it is a single group extinction failure mode, directly caused by 'just global warming' which will automatically mean game over. We absolutely do need to curb greenhouse gases (not just CO2) and decelerate the trend of global temperature increase.
>Those strings also support things like \0 to get a null byte

WARNING: this is not true in bash!

You can have exactly one null byte in a bash string: the terminating null byte. Try this:

echo $’foo\0bar’

It prints “foo”.

So practically you can’t have null bytes in bash strings, as it will be mistaken for the terminating null of the underlying C string.

In your example read -d ‘’ would work just the same; actually that’s the idiomatic way to iterate on zero-delimited input (or xargs -0). Why does the empty string work? Because -d takes the first char of the string as the delimiter, which for empty C strings is the terminating \0 - this is how bugs become features.
> Hacker News-like comment system ... want ... plug and play

What does plug-and-play mean to you? What's complicated with the ones you've tried?

Actually Talkyard is a bit inspired by Hacker News & Reddit — here're some improvements over HN & Reddit: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-... (I'm developing Talkyard).

You have a link to your Fauna site? I never heard about Fauna before.
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Intel has an internal systemic problem. The company is run for shareholders, and it is run by sales, marketing and HR teams. The engineers have become second-class citizens, hardware engineers and then at the bottom of the pile are software engineers. When an engineering company is run by a sales-marketing-hr combo, whatever you do it is not going to have better outcomes. Intel is surviving because of achievements of it's founders. They are still reaping the benefits of that. The question is how long!
You mean for annotating the text in the blog post itself? Say, highlighting a sentence, adding a comment, and then others can reply?
Yes, I was referring to the current understanding of newsletters — Agreed on the varying special interest frequency.
> what kind of distilled beverage do grandma and grandpa drink when they tango?

A little glass of home-made berry tincture ("good for your heart"). They got the berries from a neighbour who grows them on her allotment ("not sprayed with chemicals").
Politics mostly, in 2000 no one would believe what JavaScript JITs are capable of, but without the willingness to spend the necessary resources to make it happen, it is hard to prove it is possible.

So most people just hand wave one assumptions as day dreaming and they go back their tools as they always did.
Ruby has influenced https://crystal-lang.org/.
Philosophers have been trying and failing for millennia to come up with hard rules for ethics. A rule that is essential in one context invariably leads to absurdity in others (there are many examples involving people strapped to train tracks). So an attempt at formalizing this will not just be ambiguous, but likely unsound and contradictory. While mathematics seem to be this perfect structure encoded in the fabric of the universe, just waiting for us to discover and describe it, ethics in contrast seems to be a very fuzzy, imperfect, ad-hoc creation of mankind.
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Depends on where your main workload is. On my servers haproxy (doing SSL termination) accounts for about 70% of CPU time spent. Doing SSL termination on my load balancers would mean I would need about 2 "load balancers" for every 1 server - which could be a legitimate setup in other circumstances though.

If I needed to do load balancing via an intermediate server, it would make more sense for me to load-balance on the raw (i.e. TLS traffic) TCP layer.
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Profited? I thought NPM had to be acquired because they couldn’t figure out a sustainable business model.
For all the talk about how much masks help, I haven't seen great studies that aren't in vitro, not specifically in health care settings, and not specifically around someone known to have it. I found this which is at least a natural experiment:

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.0...

> Mandating face mask use in public is associated with a decline in the daily COVID-19 growth rate by 0.9, 1.1,1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 percentage points in 1–5, 6–10, 11–15, 16–20, and 21 or more days after state face mask orders were signed, respectively.

I'm trying to sort of if those percentages are absolute or relative. I think they're absolute because some of the graphs are labeled "percentage point change," but using absolute percentage point changes for an analysis like this is seriously flawed because a 2% reduction could range anywhere from a miracle to statistically significant, but negligible.

It's also not clear if people feel safer wearing face masks, so they engage in riskier activities.

My guess is they're not as effective as claimed because while the Bay Area has pretty high compliance, if masks were systemically very effective, we'd see case rates drop a lot faster, not still be above mid-June numbers. That said, whatever the Bay Area is doing right now is working.
I think ethics is an interesting study. However, using ethics to try to guide behavior is a waste of time. Basically, every ethical system has axioms. By changing your axioms, you can get your ethical system to justify or condemn any behavior you want.

So people end up doing the same thing, they just have more "logical" explanations of why their behavior is justified.
From Craig Murray's articles from the past days, it comes up that cryptome is one of the parties that released early the documents Assange is charged for, and which Wikileaks was trying to sanitize at the time. The evidence for this includes testimony from numerous journalists involved in the sanitizing effort at the time and one of the people in charge of cryptome.

You ad-hominem's do nothing to clarify the matter. Whatever your opinion of Assange may be, at the moment he's just a dude trapped in a Kafkian legal battle for not spending his remaining life in a US maximum security prison for exposing war crimes. If that doesn't deserve a little empathy, I don't know what is.
can you build a company if you were required to make all your future plans transparent to all competitors? Transparency and Privacy both have their place. Everyone should have privacy of information but the rules of privacy should be open to everyone.
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Around the first .com wave, I used to develop on Windows (C and C++) and deploy on SPARC/PowerPC/PA-RISC servers.

The only x86 servers were running a mix of NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.

Apparently it worked.