skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then let the doctors operate without masks, since its not working anyway.

What a joke.
> #[] - why the [] if # already makes that line different from the usual code? seems superfluous

I don't even know what #[bla(foo)] does, or why all that punctuation is needed. maybe nesting is allowed?

> 'a - is that thing next to 'a' a smudge on my display? Did I forget a quote? better wipe the display with my finger

this is a lifetime annotation, which is a genuinely noisy bit of syntax.

> foo! - yelling out function calls. "print!" "exit!" "macro!". Angry Codes!

I guess they really want to make sure you know when a macro is being used. probably a result of ptsd from debugging c and c++ code :)

> fn - by itself not a huge deal, but the list of truncated words that are used frequently is "impl", "mut" and "pub". I save some characters (am I really in such a rush?) at the cost of reading this broken English "f-n impl moot pahb". At least C doesn't have that.

the c keywords aren't too bad, but the standard library is full of this kind of thing. stdio.h and string.h immediately come to mind.

I'm not so much defending rust as I am pointing out that c's syntax isn't that great to begin with. I've been writing c and c++ code every day for several years now, so it's usually pretty easy for me to skim and understand what is going on. but if I try and place myself in the shoes of a newcomer, I don't think the syntax is much better than rust. remember the first time you tried to parse the type of a nontrivial function pointer?
I don't think this is a useful way to think about it:

1. You don't need to convince literally everyone. There are still some people who believe the Earth is flat and probably always will be, but it is not super-relevant to collective actions because they are a tiny minority

2. People do in fact change their minds on things. It usually just happens on larger time scales so while one article isn't moving the needle, the accretion of many articles and arguments can change population-wide beliefs.

3. The population of people with an opinion on any given topic is not static. Even if any individual never changes their mind, the composition of the population can change if new people are forming opinions in one way more often. Science progresses one funeral at a time and all that....
I came across a decent writing tip using Hemingway: try to "balance" yellow and red sentences instead of eliminating them. Readers should be able to handle some yellow and the occasional red, but try not to bombard them.
Facebook on the browser shows stories.
Without grammar, you have words being used completely at random. Using words the way you are, with reduced syntactic structure, is still using grammar, even if you use more punctuation instead of words; that said, the difference between punctuation & word is somewhat blurred even in formal writing.

> Audience knowledge crucial. one style !fits all.

And this is the essence of style.
I agree with this. I don't think I could argue it's table stakes, but having 32GB and being able to run 3 external monitors, Docker, Slack, Factorio, Xcode + Simulator, Photoshop, and everything else I want without -ever- thinking about resource management is really nice. Everything is ALWAYS available and ready for me to switch to.
If you do machine learning or simulations with big datasets and lots of parameters it does become an issue, but I will admit I could just as easily run these things on a server. I don’t think I’ve ever maxed out 32gb doing anything normal.
FizzBuzz – The Vim Way
Thank you and please note who submitted this 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081121

However the topic in this thread is that the properties of the random number generators discussed in 2020 were a part of the user manual of the home computer in 1982, and I find that totally amazing and inspiring.

It is also explainable knowing who wrote both the ROM and the book, which I also mentioned.
You can use something like GitHub or Conan to find specific useful C libraries.

There isn't a universally recognized "standard library replacement" (and people argue about what parts of the standard library they don't like), but here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/486383/safer-alternative...

are a few options:

* Glib (the basis for Gtk): https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib.html

* The Apache Portable Runtime (APR): http://apr.apache.org/

Caveat: I haven't used them.
I found this article interesting:
https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/R...
Virtnbdbackup: Backup utility for libvirt, using latest CBT features
The only thing GPT-3 is good for is producing useless text that humans find hard to process.

So it's great for blog spam.

GPT-3 would produce comments that would get up voted but contribute absolutely nothing.

You'd be better crowdsourcing your idea with a page to point people to explaining how the threads been done before and the common answers.
Whether it is abusive 100% depends on how your kids reacts. Some will stop crying and with cry hard anyway. Others will cry for over 2 hours super strong (and then friend who had such kid decided this wont be done again).

Babies are not copies, they react in various ways.
> iPhone-like specs

iPhone-like performance at least - an iPhone will feel at least as snappy and performant as a flagship Android, but typically with 1/3 of the RAM (flagship androids have up to 12GB of RAM).
I was looking into this as well. The main difference between the two is user acquisition. Airbnb is doing no marketing right now and vrbo is doing lots. Also 46% more of their users go directly to Airbnb.com versus Vrbo. So you can run the exact same business but if one doesn't need to advertise and the other does it can make huge differences to the financials.
One aspect of fatherhood that surprised me is what I call the 'rescue response'. I was not able to find any formal information about this behavior, but I have to think there is something out there.

I have experienced this exactly twice in my life on separate occasions: My child entered a physically and immediately dangerous situation. As soon as I saw their peril, my mind went into a kind of flow state. I didn't take time to weigh options, or consider any type of danger to myself, I simply reacted and before I could consider what was happening, I'd removed my kids from the peril. Later, in one case, I noticed I had bruises from my action. In the other, I received a call from the school principal.

Likewise, my father saved my brother and I from drowning, and I believe he had the same 'rescue response'. As soon as he saw what was happening, he dived in from the pier and swam the 30 feet to retrieve us, only to realize that once he had us, he had no idea what to do next. Meanwhile, my aunt had calmly climbed into a nearby canoe and rowed out to assist.

I don't claim this is strictly a father's behavior, or strictly a male behavior, but personally, I haven't had this identical reaction in the few times I've seen other peoples' kids in similar urgent peril. I have taken other action, such as alerting bystanders, but not immediately put myself into danger. I contemplated options first.
Hey, please don't be a jerk in HN comments. If you know more than others, that's great, but the thing to do is to share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn something. If you don't want to do that, not posting anything is always an option. But please don't post unsubstantive comments and especially not nasty unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure how you'd bootstrap any of the measures you describe in an environment of extreme environmental hostility and complete societal breakdown. Reads like futurism blind to practical reality.
This data doesn't tell us about anyone moving into San Francisco, so the drop may be much smaller.
Downtown is dead, yes, but Polk Gulch and Valencia Street (for example) are very much alive.
Are you saying that your wife has never said "Are you really going to wear that?"
This is common knowledge:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-...

When I worked in startups this was long rumored with little proof. After years it's become quite clear what's happened.

Amazon Show is a knockoff of a Nucleus (https://www.vox.com/2017/5/10/15602814/amazon-invested-start...)

Amazon Echo https://gizmodo.com/did-amazon-rip-off-the-echo-show-from-a-...

This trend goes on
I have to fight the urge myself, but that's a weaker strategy in these times. I've always invested in upgrades to lengthen the life of my laptops (I'm typing on on a 2015 rMBP 13.) It's probably better to spend £2500 now and £2500 in a few years with how things are going to change with ARM.
> That's already pointless on Android, user-installed CAs are ignored by default unless an app developer opts in to using them.

And? App developers should opt in to ignoring transport security. I’m sure a bunch of Android shitware attempts to install CAs either via user interaction or exploitation.

> Once we go down this path there's no turning back to the user-centric Web of the 1990s / 2000s

The landscape we live in now is very different to then. I’m all for a free web, but not at the cost of security. The web is now a multi billion trillion dollar industry. Weakening security just so Bob can see Alices’ holiday pics in situation where Alice can’t figure out letsencrypt, is frankly unhinged.

If you want a ‘free web’ you’re welcome to disable any HTTPS enforcement and disable TLS cert checking entirely. Hell, fork a browser, be very clear about the security weaknesses and publish on github if you feel that strongly, I’ll even star it for you.
Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures
Yikes, attacking others like this will get you banned on HN. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
So what do you think of intensive care bed running out and people dying at the hospital entrances like in Italy? Also, what is the cost you speak about? How many minutes of Bezos income? How many F35? How many days of US budget deficit?

I mean avoiding lockdown is possible at a certain time. After a certain threshold of infection it becomes unavoidable. But lockdown or no lockdown, this must be done right. A few places have not done it right, for example Spain letting people party in the summer or France with packed cafes.

A friend of mine explained it well. When treated, COVID has a mortality of .5%. We are doing better than in March because for example elderly care person wear masks and isolate properly the risk population. If they wouldn’t, the mortality would be in the low percents, which would already be a lot. But when you are running out of ICU capacity, then you land in the 10% deaths. That’s what everyone is trying to avoid at the moment.
All of this is doable in 16GB, I do it everyday with a 3.5GB Windows 10 VM running and swap disabled. There are many options as well such as closing apps and running in the cloud.
> DuckDuckGo is a mirage ... The privacy problems with this claim are many ... good luck verifying ...

Okay, can you list just a few?

If you're going to make counter-claims like this, you're going to have to provide evidence.

Statements like these are not conducive in gaining popular support for increased privacy.
Silicon Valley loses another tech icon
I actually just bought an Intel Mac Mini to run MacOS VMs with using ESXi. I expect it will be quite a while before stable Mac VM support is available for Apple Silicon Macs.
I bought what I thought was a 2020 Mac Mini in April direct from Apple. The only significant difference on paper was that the base model came with 128GB for the 2018, 256GB for the 2020.

As it turns out, that's true: About This Mac says "Mac mini (2018)" even for the 2020.

I replaced the 8GB base RAM with 32GB of aftermarket and have been thrilled with it. But then I was coming from a 2018 MBP 4-Thunderbolt with only 8GB and the fan noise with it drove me nuts.

I got the i3 because I thought the CPU wasn't the weak point, the RAM was. And so far, for me, that's held up.
The XPS line is the high-end of Dell, their most expensive one. So basically you're showing that the Macbooks are on par with the most expensive PCs.

That's correct, but that's also the point. They're expensive machines.
My local CVS is .75mi from me, but if I can avoid standing in line (see also: COVID)... I will. They mail my meds.

Once a month they text me saying "hey, your 'script is ready", I click the link, put in my CCV... and 2 days later my meds show up at my house. Every month, like clockwork.
Running Inspect Element on a tweet to edit it into something funny, then taking a screenshot of the result, is a popular trope for humor on Twitter.

There's some plausible deniability, in other words. That's enough for some cases, and not enough for others.
I just tried using nnn and found it to work reasonable well. However, I could not figure out how to change the default editor to open vim in the same terminal.

Then I realized that I can accomplish this task already by running

vim .

It seems almost identical to nnn with the restriction that everything is opened vim.
How do you know China's or the USA's CO2 emissions? Do you have both countries placed into a container with tools to measure the aggregate CO2 output?

Science is based on empirical observation. The map is not the territory & models are often wrong. We don't even know how often the models are wrong.
"Run your own crawler" is not a solution.

Cool my comments are immediately downvoted like that Italian guy's.
aerosols are not a significant source of spread. otherwise, we'd have been inundated with specific stories and studies proving it. distancing overwhelms the effects of masks in nearly all common interaction cases.
You've tried darcs? "patch theory", no branches, simple interface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcs#Model

http://darcs.net/QuickStart

http://darcs.net/

https://darcsbook.acmelabs.space/
Middle East countries have millions of workers from India to Philippines. A quick fact from Wikipedia "In 2013, the UAE had the fifth-largest international migrant stock in the world with 7.8 million migrants (out of a total population of 9.2 million)". Most of them visit their native places once or twice a year. A big fraction of Indians work thousands of kilometers away from home and also need intra-country transportation.
I think this person actually means "We can imagine doing better than DuckDuckGo".
The article seems incomplete. Sure we may be burning three times more coal than we'd have to if we could perfectly convert it to energy. That has literally never factored into an argument I've seen about renewables - it's always "we currently produce X GigaWatts 24x7, and renewables don't let us do that".

Saying we burn coal at 30% efficiency isn't addressing anything useful. And it's one of those articles where many won't completely follow it, but they'll come out with an impression that the premise is true because of some "sciency bits", when with some more content they could've actually been educated in something useful.

Or you could say, "nuclear power would solve this quicker than anything" and you'd be right :-)
The reason to run DHCP is to allow devices to be configured automatically, not to restrict how they can be configured.
Godwin in 3 comments: it's not a record, but it's a contender!
Oh man, that's alot of hardcoded rules to follow. They seem to make sense.

Would it help if we suggested capsule closets to guide you?
For example closet#1 has a set number of items for each category which you can just click and buy in your size and have added to the site closet. Then you can go and generate outfits from everything you own...?
Long I I think that the "Activation Lock" will put a big dent in thefts like this. Basically, make the hardware unusable until it's unlocked by some Apple Store or an authorized re-seller.
I think change of address data isn't reliable in a city where so many people own or rent vacation homes within driving distance. The article only posits that the USPS data may miss some people who moved and didn't change their address officially, but it also likely misses people who officially changed their address because they planned to be away for an extended period (6 months or more) but will still return permanently in the future.

The plural of anecdote is not data, but for what it's worth I personally know of more people in the second bucket than the first. Time will tell, of course.
Let's assume for a moment bitcoin would be worth a million in 5 years. There will have been another halving, so miners will be generating 3.125 bitcoin/block. At 6 blocks an hour, that would be worth 3.125 * 6 * $1M = $18,750,000 per hour.

Bitcoin miners tend to find the cheapest electricity, like near hydroelectric dams. So let's assume they can get electricity for $0.05/kwh. And to keep things simple, assume that 100% of their costs are electricity (in reality there will be capital costs and other operational costs, adjust calculation to your own liking). That means they can collectively consume 18,750,000/0.05=375,000,000 kwh/h= 375 gigawatt of power before they stop making a profit.

Now compare that to global electricity use, which is on the order of 20,000 TWh/year or about 2000 gigawatt. Bitcoin miners would be using on the order of 20% of all electricity!

Except that at those consumption levels, they would start driving up electricity prices, which brings me to my point: will governments really allow everybody's electricity bill to rise significantly because it is profitable for bitcoin miners? I think not.
Things are very different today than they were from March to ~July. The weather has been amazing the last few months. A lot of neighborhoods have closed off main streets to vehicle traffic. Outdoor dining has been on in full swing. Parks, beaches and outdoor areas have been generally full (a bit too much for comfort, in fact). IMO the city has been amazing to live in the last few months.

Of course now with the rains and rising cases nationwide it's probably time to hibernate again.
Each qualifier is important, my dude. 'Stateless' is important here.

Explanation in meme format below

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Scientists: Alien life found!

You: Life found? I am life. I've been life for 30 years. This is not a big deal.
These specific claims are flaky at best but hard to argue over since anyone can construct enough cases for or against their position to be right enough not to change their opinion of C.

You can absolutely beat C in everything you list. And you also can't. I don't agree that C is the end all be all of performance or code size, except in a handful of cases where there's nothing else available.
The very existence of this article confirms the impact GitHub has had on the developer experience.
The starting point of video games
we're in the middle of a global pandemic
"...or as BloombergNEF’s Colin McKerracher puts it: 'just sound and fury, signifying nothing.'"

Wow that Colin McKerracher is quite the wordsmith. Quite the bard.

(i.e. it's Shakespeare)
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/6792 If you'd like to follow the progress.
One thing that is not-so-subtly broken is re-entrancy (e.g. in functions like `strtok()`; fixed later with `strtok_s()` in C11:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strtok

About getenv: This sort-of fixed with `getenv_s()` in C11

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/getenv
Some of those people are just moving back to where they grew up. They used to part of those communities but the job opportunities were in the big cities.
What do you use for AI learning?
Man, that's rough.

Our kid had night terrors for about a year. Just about the time the random worrying stopped happening we started getting woken up to blood-curdling screams we couldn't really do anything about.
Mind Maps from Indented Text
In the US we seem to either focus on the medical crisis or the economic crisis. I wish we would focus on both.

How I understand it, how to resolve this would require medical interventions (shutdowns, testing, tracing, therapies, vaccines, etc) and economic interventions (stimulus, deferrals, forgiveness, etc) and yet we seem to mostly be doing the medical ones and getting pushback on it.

I could be wrong on this, but I think one of few institutions in this country that can provide economic interventions is the US Congress. They provided one stimulus bill that helped to provide the economic safety net while we worked on the medical safety net. It shocks and angers me that they haven't provided another one.

I struggle to see why they don't provide more economic stimulus. HN, can you help me understand why Congress isn't providing more financial help to the country?
What grounds do you think anyone would have to get it to the Supreme Court? Assuming nobody is silly enough to try and actually contract people to vote in a specific way.
"The district attorney's office says Montenegro submitted more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications between July and October 2020."

It is unfortunate that the article doesn't detail how these two were caught. Personally, I don't know how to reconcile being told that voter fraud is exceedingly rare when I see articles like this where individuals and teams of people are caught falsifying information on this scale. What if these people only falsified 20 identities instead of 8000? Would they have been caught?

If the process for identifying fraud isn't particularly robust or thorough, how can you legitimately say fraud is extremely rare?
lol, clean your computer.
Literally any by-county electoral map in any presidential election this century. Texas is red, but all the bigger cities are blue. Always.

There IS one exception - military towns, but even that has been upended this cycle.

The explanation is reasonably simple. If a population is spread out, you mind your own business and you are generally opposed to the Law Man telling you what to do.

A dense area changes the dynamics. You have to be more considerate - to keep the peace, there are more laws, regulation, and norms because naturally some people try to break the peace and disturb the herd, and in an urban setting that has an amplified effect. This is a very natural trend in any society.
As soon as they switch to a services business.
The Brave browser has this feature built-in, by the way (Settings > Shields > Upgrade connections to HTTPS [X])
bUt "Ci iS A HaRmFuL DiStRaCtIoN"; you'd expect that from someone that is really-really old-school or that has never worked in a project with more than a few hundred lines of code.
It is, but we are still working on sorting out the screen. You can follow progress here: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer
I've had this happen too, especially in potentially dangerous situations. It's as if time slows down and you have no room to fear, just act.

Then there's the hangover afterward :)
It is mentally difficult for mothers too. Like isolation, there is reason why the stereotype of woman used to be constantly on the phone. Or taking a lot after husband came from work.

Single parenthood is even harder, it sounds that you have done good job with them.
Thanks for providing a real world example of code that looks fine in Rust. If you're not using lifetimes, do you still get all the safety guarantees?
I think the budget for next year was already destined to be a mess because of the quarantine.
This part is perhaps more illuminating to why the protest.

"Nadra Ostrom, another Black parent who filed a complaint, argued that the portrayal of Black people is mostly from a white perspective.

"There's no counter-narrative to this Black person dealing with racism and a white person saving them," she said.

Ostrom added that the current education given to students assumes "that racism is something in the past.""