skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tangible example:

if you've got a script the likes of:

#!/bin/bash
echo 'Hi!'
sleep 20
echo 'Hello!'

... and runt it

... and while the script is executing the sleep line, modify it so that instead of 'echo "Hello!"' it does something else, like 'echo "Oops!"'...

... once it resumes from the sleep, it'll execute the updated code.

Don't ask me how I know... I just wish it were more well-known.

Don't modify shell scripts while they're running!
This is a great example of "it's not my preferred mode, so it must not be anyone else's."

Dictation is widely used in medical transcription.

Dictation is a killer way to write a first draft quickly, transcribe rough written notes after a meeting, etc. Also, about half of my emails are dictated, and I know I'm not the only one. It takes some time to get used to, but once you're there (like touch typing!), you can't go back.

..etc..
Inversion of control is used on large teams and at it's best it is IMO more leaky and harder to understand than well written control-flow macros in lisp.
I totally agree, I have the same kind of setup with an X series thinkpad and love it.

Do you have any good dual monitor USB-C docks you could recommend? I’ve been wanting to expand my work station a bit.
Jane Street famously uses OCaml for these types of guarantees, so I would think Rust would offer similar benefits.
“Eat shit, Bob!”
The same way it always happens to me: Over time build time creeps up and you don't really look at this code thinking "I implemented shallow clone years ago so there is nothing I can do, it's slower because we have more code."

Until you or some other person looks what the code is doing.

It could also be that it was a new hire. I shallow clone a huge monorepo similar in commits/branches and it takes seconds. My experience would instantly tell me that something is worth looking into.
If you're just writing new functions and data structures, then you're not trying to write a DSL, but avoiding doing so.

Why the functions and structures might not be enough is that there may be situations where their direct use is too difficult or error-prone somehow.

It can make sense to start with the new functions and structures first and then see if some usage pattern calls out "I want to be a new macro".
Well put.

I don't know how much of FAANG's budget goes towards improving voice assistants, but considering how much cash these companies have on hand and their operating budgets (the size of some smaller European countries), the progress in that area is just super disappointing.

The 3 most common use cases were refined a long time ago (Directions, Alarms and Play Music) and everything else ran into a hard wall.
A Pandemic-Induced Bankruptcy Killed the HAL-9000 Smart Speaker
> It doesn't really matter whether 30% of the population supports these things or 60%.

In two-party democracies, 30% and 60% are exactly the percentages that do matter.

At 30% support you can expect no change - even human rights violations will scarcely be considered a relevant political issue with such a level of support.

Once you hit 60% support, you can expect reform that won't be rolled back.

Exactly as we have seen with gay marriage in the USA.
Support for gay marriage reached 40% around 2005 - I can't establish when it hit 30%, as it was rarely polled in the decade before this.
Support reached 60% for the first time in 2015 - the year when the Supreme Court ruled it a constitutional right.
Yeah, fair enough. The truth is that I'm just a little frustrated by people touting the horn of "making the world a better place" when in reality most end up doing nothing of the sort but then criticize people working in Finance :)
> Microsoft is working toward Windows being freely available (zero cost).

Are they?

I know they gave away free upgrades when they wanted more users for the Windows Store and UWP apps, but even then only upgrades, not free licenses.

Currently, it seems the licensing of Windows is giving GitHub and Azure a huge competitive advantage over other CI and cloud hosting providers. Why would they give that up?
Here's a great John Oliver episode about the guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8
It looks spelled correctly in the headline and throughout the article.
> If you accept that tests as carrying intent, then I demand every weapons researcher or biologist to be arrested this instant. Clearly they are only out to murder people.

Well, what do you think weapons are for? I’m not saying arrest them but that isn’t really a great example, considering the sole purpose of weapons is to kill or destroy. Using weapons for anything other than killing or destroying is basically a secondary usage.
The difference is the “compiled representation” of Java is done ahead of time into the .class files while the other two are being done runtime.
Burglar: "Put your hands up and show me where the money is, I won't hurt you..."

Me: "Alright man, I'll tell you where is money ... ALEXA CALL THE POLICE!"

Alexa: "Shuffling songs by The Police"

* EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE plays as I get punched 24 times *

from https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1092034892249079813
I wish the 8266 was opensource... or at least documented!

A few years ago I spent some time trying to reverse engineer the actual parameters for xtensa paremetric CPU they use (in order to implement a debugger and other low level things)
What you’re doing is called a motte and bailey fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

You’re defending diversity training, which nobody is attacking. We’re talking about a particular kind of rhetoric where people take personal responsibility in behalf of their race and label themselves with words that, in ordinary usage, have extremely inflammatory meanings.

I’m from a “diverse background.” I think diversity training and making organizations more diverse is great. But this rhetoric is an explosively bad approach to race relations, and as a non-white person I am very worried about what the result will be.
It becomes less effective after exposure to the virus. You can get it as an older patient, but it drops to under 50% effectiveness after exposure.

Hence why there is a push to vaccinate children before they become sexually active: the effectiveness is around 95%.
I'm definitely not. I also hold such descriptions of these trainings in high skepticism, because I've been through a similar training and had a coworker describe it as such when all the training was doing was surfacing the scientific evidence suggesting unconscious bias is a real phenomenon that people aren't aware of.

The fact my colleague took it so personally says more about them, I think, than the training.
RAM is not the only aspect of a Garbage Collector....

Over a decade ago, we used a third-party pre-trade risk system that was implemented in Java. Since it was a "service" (we connected to a TCP port), the underlying tricks they used to make it "fast" were transparent to us... until it was not.

They highly tuned their GC to where there was seldom any GC. One day, the third-party made a change to a supervisory service to generate more periodic monitoring emails. The file handles from this actor were apparently not GC'd and held by the process until the system ran out of file handles. That made the service stop working properly.

But, in addition to alerting, that service had a more important job: it was a post-trade risk "watchdog" to the pre-trade risk gateways, which we sharded across.

The various pre-trade risk gateways, upon not hearing from the watchdog authority then 1) began cancelling outstanding orders and 2) not allow new orders. We saw this happening haphazardly over 10 minutes and had little time and capability to recover; this also happened near the end of the trading day when some orders (MOC, LOC) are not cancellable. This was across our whole organization so it affected many strategies.
So it wasn't as simple as "stop all" and although we had many checks and recovery procedures, this was a pretty special Chaos Monkey.

We ended up with a >$1B basket of random stocks that cost >$10M to liquidate over the next few days.

$10M evaporating in 10 minutes because of "GC optimizations" and poorly considered OS settings.

The #1 risk in algo/HFT trading is not financial, but operational.

[Some of the technical details may be slightly off, as it was third-party; my outlook is pieced together from post-mortems. Also, no other party (e.g. broker, SIPC, market participant, the third-party) was financially affected besides our firm.]
Are Humans “Lipivore”?
I'm the blogger here - I think my main point is that the perceived oddness is inextricably linked to Tcl's strengths.
The Task Is to Follow Your Curiosity. Go Nuts. 8 Ways to Do It
That's as much to be attributed to the asymmetry between destruction and creation as it is to the pareto principle.
Yep, more detail here:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/investigationa...
You'd have to nail down what rhetoric you mean for me to have any response to that.
I've never used it, however https://n8n.io/ looks quite nice - I also think it's a fellow HN'er (janober)
>The writing is on the wall

Naysaying.

ReactOS has been around for a long time and survived. And AIUI it is, now, more active than ever.

There's not even a hint that now, of all times, it is going to go away.
But your examples are way harder than they sound. Speech or non speech analysers have a hard time with context. What do you mean by "recent" photos. And what percentage? Of people wearing mask in each photo, or of 1 or more people with a mask in the whole set of photos? Or the percentage of photo having all people wearing a mask. We humans make a lot of deduction from context. We haven't been able to teach computers this aspect for 25 years. It has started more recently, deep learning shows potential.
Thanks for the mental support.

I also forgot the "I'll start with tetris. Wait tetris is easy, lets do 2D RPG. 3D is just one more dimensions, so lets focus on that instead of 2D. Oh crap, its too complicated and there is a reason why studios needs hundreds of developers for several years to release a game" - train thought.
For big buys, i generally consult something like the wirecutter(it's supposed to be trust worthy product review site), get a decent recommendation, and go buy it on Amazon - from the manufacturer's store.

Sure beats getting recommendations from a store salesman.
If CO2 release goes down, we would expect the acceleration of climate change to go down. The actual rate of change, or at least, the (large) portion of the rate influenced by greenhouse gases, will only turn negative if the amount of gases absorbed by plants, the ocean, and other chemical processes exceeds the amount produced. We're likely not hitting that even in 2020. Even if we did, we would hardly be moving the needle long term.
Nope, and based on your explanation feel more comfortable moving forward with laws like this.
The Privacy Puzzle: A Baffled Voter's Guide to California's Prop 24
Word recognition and sentence recognition.

It's honestly quite shocking how sparse the research and implementations for everything is once you go beyond a single sentence/command that you shout at your personal assistants.
An Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients
The electoral college is as much of a mess as it is in part because it already includes the proportional ratios of the House into consideration (and as pointed out in related threads, a large reason why it would ever tie in the first place, and isn't just some odd number derived from the number of states). Surely in the case of an EC tie, leaving the House to vote as the House, proportionately representative, is no less a representation of the votes of the states than the electoral college itself at that point?
The S.O.P. around here is to disclose any affiliations when recommending products -- especially commercial ones.

You failed to do that twice just in this thread.

For many of us, it's a trust thing.

--

ETA:

Speaking of trust, I just read this FAQ on inlets.dev:

> Does inlets PRO "call home"?

> We trust our users to purchase the correct license for their usage, and in return we make licensing simple with a fixed-term license.

So, a few minutes after mentioning that "it's a trust thing", I came across this very simple, to the point, "yes or no" question ...

... and yet I notice that you|your company) (couldn't|didn't), for whatever reason, actually answer the question.

That, of course, makes me even more distrustful than I was a few minutes ago!
Graphene Oxide Effective as Virucide for Covid-19
The Python Software Foundation is an example of such a cult:

https://marc.info/?l=python-dev&m=159351161520376&w=2

This is just one example of the musings of a PSF vice chairman and Steering Council member.

Follow the Twitter for more.
Google Pixel 5 Review
We always look at who our prospects are and if they are unethical then we will be more than happy to deny them service. It's happened a couple of times now.
Nature will be fine. It's us that won't be. Let's stop pretending that it's the same thing.
This is completely incoherent. Consider a book author who has a monopoly on for profit publishing, but anyone else can publish for no profit.

The book author’s expected profits would plummet as it would be the wild west in production.

What you’re really saying is “we should pay massively less for vaccine development”. Which again, sounds nice, but....why would anyone have developed a vaccine? It’s a complex project which costs billions and has taken 12+ months while taking resources away from competing projects.

The public money is an incentive to get people to put those considerations aside and devote all their resources to vaccine development. This is a sensible public investment in a return to normalcy.
I've often asked Google assistant in packed bars and it works great.
> they are an absolutely essential form of communication

For your company, not for the World.
I saw the whole deal as cheap FUD.

They have nothing on ReactOS, but they want to discourage people from looking at it.
On the other hand, 30 million Raspberry Pis have been sold and an enormous number of people are learning to code as a result of free online resources. I'm not so sure the end of general-purpose computing for the masses is all that over.

Even your example describes someone who, while he isn't fluent with it, actually owns a general purpose computer.
Michael Lewis' "Flash Boys" is a great read on the subject of building the high speed trading networks.
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393...
The difference is while few people would claim social media companies are in any way a credible source of truth, there is still a residual notion that the main stream media's role is to be the eyes and ears of society, a role that it obviously no longer deserves.
San Francisco also hosts radioactive waste close by, located at the Farallon Islands[1].

> From 1946 to 1970, the sea around the Farallones was used as a nuclear dumping site for radioactive waste under the authority of the Atomic Energy Commission at a site known as the Farallon Island Nuclear Waste Dump. Most of the dumping took place before 1960, and all dumping of radioactive wastes by the United States was terminated in 1970. By then, 47,500 containers (55-gallon steel drums) had been dumped in the vicinity, with a total estimated radioactive activity of 14,500 Ci. The materials dumped were mostly laboratory materials containing traces of contamination. Much of the radioactivity had decayed by 1980.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Islands
The treatment itself is also free. For a vaccine trial that's not much of an incentive, but for things like cancer trials it can be extremely valuable.
@dang Transfer me your super powers.
It's really not. Mueller went as far as he felt his remit allowed, and turned it over to the Justice Department, where Barr was determined not to follow up on it. Expect this to change in January.
Jubilation as Chile votes to rewrite constitution
Sometimes, election meddling can be seen as an in-kind campaign contribution and thus illegal if it is not within campaign finance rules.

For example, cohen paying off Trump's mistresses was prosecuted as an illegal campaign contribution.
agree. hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper
Weather is also useful! Sometimes reminders, which are basically timers. But yea that's it.
Here [1]. It will be updated with the results, eventually.

[1]: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04516746
I can't count how many times I have seen someone effectively say "My thing is better than your/that thing" but they have not actually researched what the other thing is or how it works, they just simply like their own thing so much that they automatically assume it's better or this case different.
That really doesn't seem appropriate for HN.
> * I guess what you mean is the no-op garbage collector which is available in Java 11*

I think I heard of the same pattern before 2018, so I guess there are other ways to do it. Perhaps Java has some option like memory usage value at which the GC is run.
Could've been better worded for sure (it's a Last Week Tonight reference to one of his workers returning a token check with that phrase on it), but:

> U.S. coal baron Robert Murray, an ally of President Donald Trump and a leading industry voice who called global warming a hoax

> A colorful and outspoken leader of the Ohio company he founded, Murray Energy, Murray blamed environmental regulation for the demise of the coal industry and opposed more stringent coal dust regulations for years.

> While Murray applied for black lung benefits, bankruptcy enabled his company to avoid obligations to employees diagnosed with black lung, shifting its $74.4 million liability to the federal government’s Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, according to Labor Department estimates provided to Congress.

A bit of (polite) disdain is warranted imho. EDIT: Of course don't gloat over the dead in a public forum. If that's your thing, save that for private conversation.
That's called selective enforcement
A third option would be F# - which I enjoy a lot.
Money corrupts. Wall Street money corrupts absolutely.

In a sane market, there would be no advantage to making an investment and then selling it a few milliseconds later. It introduces unnecessary volatility and incentivizes insider trading and other illegal activity[1]. It defeats the original purpose of the market: to make long term investments. It also leads to some unbelievable waste:

Traders’ need for speed has grown so voracious that two companies are currently building underwater cables (price tag: around $300 million each) across the Atlantic, in an attempt to join Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange by the shortest, fastest route possible. When completed in 2014, one of the cables is expected to shave five to six milliseconds off trans-Atlantic trades.[2]

The problem is that our 20% of our economy is "financial services". It's doubled in the last hundred years or so[3]. Technology isn't shrinking this sector because the people who own it also own lobbyists who own Congress. They write the rules so they can play stupid financial games, and then force the government to bail them out when the latest ponzi scheme hits maturity.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/article/first-hft-casualty-finra-f...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/high-frequency-...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/2...
The US government has one of the worst track records in the entire Western world when it comes to access to healthcare and affordable medicine.

They also have 0 experience in developing a vaccine and it's transport.

But I guess they can transport some tanks and troops quickly, sure.
Road to gRPC
Just like his industry.
Good point. I never use speech commands for the same reason I don't use handwriting recognition. I just hate hand writing, typing is my default mode of operating a machine. I can't play with a joystick either, come to think about it.
I previously had (switched jobs a few weeks ago) a thinkpad x1 carbon 14" and it was an excellent laptop. I'm not sure how many monitors it could support, but I'd definitely recommend the line.
There's nothing wrong with bringing privilege and systemic racism up and taking a "course" as a way to make it poignant. Forcing white people to say "all white people, including myself, are racist P's of S" is garbage and I would get up and walk out at that point, no amount of money or "this position is cool" would convince me to do otherwise. If you don't have standards then why even be alive or call yourself an individual? Sure if you're racist speak up and would like to fix it, otherwise it's blackmail and you are working with garbage people.
It was my fault, had misspelled it in the title - has been fixed now :)
I can barely manage to talk to people. Why on earth would I want to talk to a box?
The instigator and driving force of the supposed 'Fox News equivalent' is Andrew Neil. Try putting it to him that he's 'hyper-partisan'! Neil is anything but that, as unprepared politicians across the spectrum from left to right have discovered to their cost.
Alternative explanation: locals widely believed that Barat was an allegory on their ex-President, and his family following uncanny parallels.

Some nifty political acrobatics has happened over last few years, and the clan of ex-President is now dead, and buried without a single shot fired, hence the easing, if not an encouragement.

Some times, the reality beats fiction... even if one don't want it to.
Vaccines often cause a minor cosmetic bump. If you see people with a triangle of bumps on their shoulder for example they have received a common vaccine for healthcare workers.

And the smallpox one can leave an even bigger scar. I suppose they don't want the liability for that which could impact the model's income
Perhaps an unpopular opinion: the government should have a higher standard than many private companies here, since they have a monopoly on physical force. Amazon isn’t going to arrest and deport me.
> The problem is we (as in hn) can type faster than we can think of the words to describe.

Do you suppose it's possible that speed isn't really what counts? In the era of typewriters, authors like C. S. Lewis opined that typing obscured their thinking because it was too fast. It didn't let them savor the words effectively. Maybe what we really need is to slow down?
>This assumes that consumer use of automobiles contributes in a significant way to global warming. Supply chain use of automobiles (trucks, trains, planes, ships, etc.) continued throughout lockdown as goods still needed to be delivered to consumers.

You are right that we haven't completely ended use of transportation but we have seen decreases in all transportation.

That is the prevailing argument is that we need to reduce CO2 which certainly has happened in 2020. If the fix to climate change is far more significant of a reduction. I posit that the fix is untenable or the premise is false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle#/media/File:Carbon...

Why does climate change people always focus on 1800s to today? Perhaps it has something to do with a very large swing in solar activity?
Reading the article my feeling is that the pandemic is a convenient excuse.
Only for clueless developers that don't know their trade.
Can someone explain to me why double blind is necessary or useful for a vaccine trial such as this? It seems obvious to me on something like a pain medicine, but on a vaccine it seem a pointless. Is placebo an actual issue with a vaccine?

It honestly seems borderline unethical to give people a placebo vaccine.
Samsung has Dex too: https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/

I'm not surprised Apple doesn't have something like this as it would probably cannibalize their Macbook sales.