skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I think this would be unfortunate as I don't think JavaScript is the path forward, but computers have always existed to run software (d'oh), which mean the natural selection will obviously make this happen if there is a market advantage.

However I see all high performance web computing moving to WASM and JavaScipt will exist just as the glue to tie it together. Adding hardware support for this is naive and has failed before (ie. Jazelle, picoJava, etc).
In my defense, it was sarcasm. Yes, I know it's the firmly held opinion of many here.
It did not come directly from bats to humans, there was another intermediate host species. We don't know which, pangolins possibly, or minks or some other species, probably in closer contact to humans than bats.
> Which pronunciation will you choose? If you are a prescriptive linguist from Newcastle you will presumably expect everyone to use a short a in 'castle' but someone from the south would use a long a.

It occurs to me that in an alternate universe, the answer could be "both spellings are correct", because logically speaking, if both pronunciations are correct, shouldn't the same apply to the written version?

Come to think of it, the idea that a word with many correct pronunciations has only one correct spelling is actually totally weird! Why should writing be more prescriptive than speech?
Recently someone said to me that the EU really needs a common language - just like how English is spoken across most USA states. But none of the current European languages would be acceptable across the EU.

It didn’t occur to me at the time, but now I wonder if Esperanto could fill that role?
Yes. But for the love of God, we're not a lifeboat.
There are several other platforms/tools taking different approaches to productionizing ML workload. At Polyaxon[1], we used to create a container for each task and also log the git commit for reference, and provide ways to push the container to an in-cluster registry or a cloud registry. In the new version of our platform, we basically improved the process by injecting specific git commit inside pre-built docker images to not only reduce the build time, but also to allow easier integration with external tool such as Github actions.

[1]: https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon
Yeah, I don't know if it is an absolute requirement (probably not) but all the checks I have been issued by the bank and almost all the ones I have received from others have it.

For personal checks, I think the store usually checks that the address matches your photo ID--for corporate checks the address is usually just a P.O. Box. I think the address is also used to look up people in the check acceptance risk system (certegy, chexsystems, etc).
That’s how language has worked throughout history. Alexander the Great spread Greek. Rome spread Latin.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted so hard (perhaps due to your 2nd paragraph).

I very much want to read discussion on your first paragraph.
Our 5 year old XPS 13 isn't showing any signs of wear and tear. Maybe they were built better back then.
yeah, you only need look at reddit's front page now and then to get an idea of what changed about the internet
It's a numbers game. Hide out for a year or two. Protect vulnerable members of society and preserve a mostly normal way of life, except for tourism industry (which is largely dead regardless of what we choose to do in NZ).

If there's a vaccine in 2021 it will turn out to have been a good bet.
Switch has been best-selling console in US 22 consecutive months, a new record
People chearleading lockdowns here, are completely misguided. There's really no evidence that it were masks or lockdowns. (There's really no evidence that mask and/or lockdowns do absolutely anything to COVID or flu, now or in the past, BTW).

It's more likely that COVID just out-competed the normal flu. https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1317186379483406337
A landing page ~= a prototype.
Yes. The main point in the article is that an 'eldery woman... with rare cancer.. and receiving chemotherapy' died after getting covid a second time.

Most people now who get it aren't dying. The number of positive test cases is skyrocketing, but deaths aren't. There'll come a point where only death rates will used to judge whether lockdowns should continue or not, not infection rates.
Could it be like sparrows in China? Killing the common cold could have unknown consequences.

Having no germs in childhood increases the risk for allergies. Maybe something similar happens with the cold?
T14 (not T14s) still available, about 2 weeks wait time in EU.
kind of Marketing 101 - generous policies is a must in the enthusiast luxury goods segment like $100K+ Teslas several years ago while it requires very different approach in the cheapscate mass market of $40K-50K (inflated dollars of today) cars what Tesla is in today.
But credit reports also report the actual money against your name, which in the case of buying a Tesla is going to show tens of thousands of dollars underwater against your name immediately.

And what about the refund on your insurance, your DVLA registration, your time... etc. What an admin nightmare!
Thank you. Would you like to tell me more about the role of government?
I think may are comparing annualised figures for the US and quarterly figures for NZ. Annual growth in NZ was consistently higher than the quarterly change in the past (which couldn't be the case for annualized figures).
*In many places.

For some it might be surprising to find just how many people don't speak English.
International trade does not require free and open international passenger travel.
NZ is an island with a population of a small metro area. Comparing the US to NZ makes no sense.
Exactly! What happens then?
I agree that they did a good job, but I get tired of seeing others comparing NZ to other countries who didn't do so well--countries whose populations are 500-1000x bigger than NZ.
450 deaths a day was not the total, those were only those from confirmed COVID patients. Excess mortality was more like 650.
Very few people pass through NZ, it’s not like london or singapore or whatever.

NZ doesn’t rely on cross border lorry drivers either, and is far enough away that any boats are quarantined
>>Now whether it's true or not is irrelevant

No that is extremely relevant, for it to be "disinformation" it would need to be false

If the information is true, then the public should be informed about it, at the point the source is irrelevant.

I cant believe you discount or ignore corruption because was reveled by "evil Russia"

Some how I believe if the Russians where talking about Trump your sensibilities would be much different.. Not that I believe this NY Post story is some Russian plot because I dont,
There are a couple of such claims.

Planet-wide.
Yes, coronavirus safety driven restrictions sometimes lead to hospitals lesser ability to handle common diseases like cancer.

This is the story from the UK, something like this might happen everywhere: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848991/Dead-31-che...
I only briefly tried out Cloud9, but I was impressed enough that I am probably going to make a bigger push to use it once I get back to doing some programming based side projects, which I slowed down on during the pandemic to focus on non-programming projects. Here are some of the positives that I saw.

I have an older Chromebook with a really nice screen that weighs about half as much as my other laptops. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get a local development environment setup, but there was always some issue that made it awkward. The local storage was too small, using an SD card was too slow, etc... I also tried using it as a dumb terminal by SSH'ing into a box, but I like having and IDE, and managing a box is fine but more work. Cloud9 provides an okay-ish IDE, but it also manages the EC2 instance, which is really nice.

Another benefit, is that I generally try to avoid working on side projects from my work computer. But I spend the vast majority of time on my work laptop, including casual web browsing. So if I am on my work laptop, and I come up with an idea, or want to test something out, I can just pop open a browser. I don't have to worry that I will accidentally leave files related to the side project on my work laptop, etc..

But just to be clear, I have no interest in using Cloud9 as a replacement for my day to day work. I agree with you, there are too many tools, environments, libraries, etc... that I use day to day that would be nearly impossible to replicate in a cloud environment.
> Most long-distance travel is by air anyway.

You can't land just anywhere on an island, but you can take lots of roads into large countries on a continent. Islands have much more control over arrivals than landlocked countries with lots of neighbors and very integrated road & train networks.
I agree with the first part of your statement, but we really don’t know what vaccination will look like or when it will be here.

NZ may be isolated for a long time. But given the alternatives, that’s the approach I’d take too.
I had similar issues and will say that quality varies wildly between models. I had a bunch of 9560s that all had awful problems (to the point of return) until I finally returned the last one and got a 9570 (I had done this enough times that the new model had come out.) It's had absolutely no issues.
Looks a lot better then Apple's version (even for men, maybe)
> This pattern seemingly goes against the theory in classical economics in which real wage growth is closely tied to labor productivity changes.

That sounds like a pretty big assumption. Why should labor prices be other than what is demanded?
If they had named the instruction FCVTZSO, would you care? Would you even know?
"left-leaning sites" is not an individual publisher.
The FBI investigates all allegations of this nature, it is not a statement on if they are credible or not.
a) IFR is in fact higher according to that research, and b) US roads are far more dangerous than UK roads.
I agree. NZ isn't very well traveled compared to the U.S. or most of western Europe. And NZ's population is like 1/20th of Los Angeles County. It's not surprising that the little island handled the virus so well--it'd be more surprising if they didn't.
You act as though there is a single freedom, which is not the case by any means. The amendment carves out specific exemptions for prisoners for certain things, but that doesn't make them chattal slaves, nor does it remove the rest of their rights, e.g. cruel and unusual punishment, ability to have representation, or have their speech curtailed.
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> I don't like putting a dollar value on a human life

In the US the value of a human life is about $10 million, or about $150k per QALY.

Every single developed nation has put a dollar value on human life, and continues to do so, because without it you can't possibly allocate scarce resources like healthcare to achieve the greatest good. It helps save more lives than the alternative strategy you propose, i.e. sticking your head in the sand to avoid thinking about it because it's unpleasant.
> No consequences

You would need to do a lot of due diligence to make sure you really have no costs. Many car companies fully split their lending and you might end up with costs on not going through with lending even if you get your money back on the car.. Insurance companies, DMV registration taxes, etc, might try to hit you a little bit on rounding and can have some non-refundable charges but more significantly, will mess with you on paperwork which is all the hassle of work.

I doubt many people went through with that, though I can imagine people who started on impulse created weird situations for their sales teams and weren't worth the hassle.
A lot to learn from NZ. A similar success story is the Atlantic provinces of Canada (everything east of Quebec), which have done exceptionally well.

Decisive action taken early to avoid excessive sacrifices later. And a population that was on board with that decisive action. Many lessons in leadership to learn here.

Here in central Canada I just keep watching the government and populace respond to things two to three weeks late, and half-assedly. Schools were shut down decisively in early March but it took almost two weeks after that to close obvious things like _shopping malls_ and _gyms_. No mask mandates in most cities until August. And apparently we learned nothing from the spring because the second wave is leading to the same inept and slow inaction. 70+ cases alone linked to one gym (a spin studio) near me but that region is still allowed to have gyms (with maskless participants!!) open.
IBM has hardware acceleration for XML processing, of all things, so there is plenty of precedent for this.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_10.0.0...
> Why can we not require companies to design their products differently?

of course you can, you can make any law, if you can gain enough support. Its matter of preference. I'm okay with safety regulation, even then there is a limit with that, I'm not okay with too much safety regulation.
The gains seem pretty good from here on the inside.
Overseas travel is possible, but no thank you. Domestic travel is up among many people I know and there are nice places to go.
Nothing justifies the prolonging of C torture either, except of the C's wide spread. Why do you think modern CPUs still expose mostly C-abstract-machine-like interface instead of their actual out-of-order, pipelined, heterogeneous-memory-hierarch-ied internal workings?
I used Rackspace from 2012-2017 ish and it went noticeably downhill during that time. I had Linode servers at the same time and they had better uptime and better support for a fraction of the price, so that’s where I moved everything. No regrets.
What's the acceptable amount of test data in these suites? I feel like grinding through 20GB of GIS is something that happens to me with certain frequency, but it might not fit in your repo.
And yet what? You have just said everyone understands RP, it means they can watch TV and government speeches without problems.
They are a 400 billion dollar corporation. Not a ma and pa bakery in town. Again, what’s going on with the management?
It’s the default treatment.

Destroying civilization in the off chance that it might help is the approach that’s worrisome.
> it was short and effective

This raises some questions about the flu though, right? The COVID lockdown effect mostly stopped the virus getting a toehold in the country. Does this imply that the flu is mostly imported too?

Maybe the short, sharp lockdown did stop the flu, but it feels more plausible to me that the ongoing severe border controls are what's keeping it down while the country more or less goes about life as normal.
Agree. Look at windperfect. Seems most other commenters have never sailed. Mother nature is unpredictable and having backup power in squalls is important for safety
That trackpad issue sounds like a swollen battery.
The question is also who is paying the price. In the US, certain groups are paying more of the debt than others.
The U.S. PC market just had its best quarter in 10 years, Gartner says
> Perhaps it's just raw numbers, more people = more content.

Definitely not that… Some languages with less speakers generate more content than others with more speakers. It's cultural. It's not just Internet, if you look for science fiction novels for example you'll find more in Polish or German than in Portuguese, even though the latter has far more speakers.
This - and the government bought more doses than usual. It was a well run flu season.
Why would you ever involve a credit card processor in this? Can't you just do a wire transfer?
You just provided one more reason why I'm afraid of commenting ;)

P.S. Of course I didn't mean that HN is a small child.
We have anecdotes of reinfection. But on the whole, it is very, very uncommon. This suggests that there is some degree of lasting protection in most people.
> Note, though: circulating cold & flu viruses serve to "boost" prior immunity via new mild/asymptomatic cases each year. Without these, immunities are decaying.

No, not really. I understand where you're comming from but this is a myth, that even some generalists doctor contribute to.

Yes the immune system can "register" a new pathogen and how to produce antibodies for them, but honestly we have vaccine for (almost) every sickness that can put a non-immunodepressed down if the immune response is too late, and adequate serums and care when a vaccine isn't available.

But your immune system do not "decay" if not stimulated. At all, and it might even be the opposite (the effect is within the error margin of the studies for now).
How many companies out there have a mission that one can give two shits about? They're making some commercial goods and/or providing services, they're not saving the world. The only place that comes to my mind which has a legit mission I could get behind is probably the government and its various agencies.
"Dude, it would so awesome if they like, built a laser torrent to shoot down these things"
"Yeah, that would be sweet"
"Yeah"

Because it's a neat sci-fi idea and you're talking to a colleague...
Which is why Java is getting value types, as that research has proven that there is only so much that automatic escape analysis is capable of.

Bare bones tracing GC in Java were the state of the art like 25 years ago.

Java GC's are powering quite some interesting stuff, one just needs to open their mind beyond OpenJDK.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/

Still eventually, even Java would enjoy the value types and determnistic destruction capablities of languages like D, or to go to the days before Java, languages like Modula-3 and Eiffel, which they should have paid more attention to for Java 1.0.
IPA is great for writing down how people speak, but I don't think that's the most important aspect to capture for most writing. An example where this might be useful is the dialogue in Twain's novels, where he would often try to capture the particulars of his characters dialects.

But for most writing the goal is to share meaning, not voice. What would we do for a word like `data`, which has at least 5 different pronunciations that I've heard. Accepting all of them would probably lead to the opposite of the goal. Picking one leads to the same controversy.

Add to that people often aren't aware of their own pronunciation. Personal example is that in my dialect I have the fool/full merger. I wasn't aware of this, I simply heard the language other people spoke as I pronounced it. At university I literally didn't believe people who were telling me that they pronounce those words differently. I just couldn't hear it.
Crust floats on the mantle. Mountains are areas where the crust is thick and it goes down into the mantle further than less thick areas. As the weight from the top is removed, that can push up areas from down below.

We tend to think of mountains as stable things with the constant stress underneath, rather than a layer of congealed fat on top of a warm stove (or, a lava lamp). But the latter is a better model for geologic behaviour over long periods of time.
Currently, CFR for covid is 4%, so 40x multiplier.
Why would the strategy be difficult to understand when the results so obviously speak for themselves?

Sure, NZ's approach cannot be replicated everywhere else, but the fact is they have this under control and their people can (now) go about their lives.
Since you've got the data wrong, it's any wonder why you'd think it's hype. Around 35,000 die of flu per year in the U.S. And by estimate it'll be 400K COVID-19 deaths by February. That's 10x in terms of deaths alone. That doesn't account for the economic impact.

The sheer willful ignorance required to propose that the economic impact is due to policy rather than self-interested reaction to the virus is magnificent. As if restaurants and bars are at partial capacity or closed only because of laws? It's ridiculous.

Laws or not, any business model that depended on close social gatherings, were doomed the moment the virus appeared. And the reality is that quite a lot of business models depend in part on people being closer than 6 feet apart, and they were going to feel an economic impact, no matter what. If that weren't true, we wouldn't see the commensurate drop in the common cold and flu.

It's like some people just want to be simplistic and shift the blame, just because they don't want to accept the unfairness of this virus. And also don't want to confront its disproportionate unfairness either, because that would mean having to at least consider making it more equitable in a distinctly ME ME ME! culture.
this all ties into things like systems dynamics and cybernetics, which look at feedback loops as the fundamental structure in a system. I've been looking for the kinds of communities/fields that recognise the properties you've described and study/discuss them more in-depth, as it's something I've noticed a few years ago and am deeply interested in. It seems the peak of investigation into system properties was in the 50s, and despite the idea (or at least the meme) of cybernetics being embedded into everything futuristic/high-tech, I haven't found much actual interest/community around these ideas outside of maybe academia (which I'm not involved in, or sure how I would even access).
XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486
The file reading isn't the slow part - removing the regular expression and file is read in fractions of a second rather than minutes (as the last python example shows).
Exactly this. You're not a coder, or even a programmer, to bring value to the job. You're an analyst, a systems developer, and a communications expert, with domain knowledge. Leverage this for sure. Monkeys can code. Good developers can think, and use code as tools to solve real world human / system questions.
> Can you name another communicable disease where "herd immunity through natural propagation" is the recommended treatment?

This was the standard of care for chickenpox (herpes zoster, aka shingles) until 10 or 20 years ago, for example. Sure, the mortality rate is lower, especially among healthy children.
2019 is not that long ago. Do you have any examples where the issues or concerns raised in the post have been satisfactorily resolved?
> It's more likely that COVID just out-competed the normal flu.

"Out-competing" another disease requires them to both be present in the population they're competing over. This was never really the case for COVID-19 in New Zealand -- the country went for months with no identified cases of community transmission.
Similar for me. Although I do use LibreOffice instead of MS, I also have 25+ years of software, some quite niche, all of which still works fine on Windows. I don't want to waste time and effort trying to figure out how to make Linux compatible with each individual program or even determine if it can be.

I do like linux for work, and for use as a basic computer for doing basic things like browsing. It has come a very long way over the years, IMHO surpassed Windows 7 and left Mac OS far behind. But Windows 10 is right up there with linux for ease of use, and most importantly has decades of compatibility.

Both have their quirks, so that's a tradeoff, and neither set of quirks really outweighs the other for me. But that compatibility with the last quarter-century of my life is a clear point in favor of Windows.

For Windows though, I do recommend getting the Pro version and configuring it how you want it. That eliminates almost all the problems of W10 that people complain about, like the random reboots and the tiles on the start menu.