skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the reason this is lasting so long, and things are shutting back down is because people are ignoring the truth. You can talk about the economy all day long, but the fact of the matter is that if we all would’ve taken this seriously and shut everything down, we would be through the worst of it already.

This is untrue to the point where it hurts. The reason it's lasting so long is because covid-19 is a highly infection virus that's already out in the wild, and it's going to spread despite our best efforts to contain it until a vaccine is invented and deployed or until we reach herd immunity.

We are not gods. We can't wave our hand at biology and make the virus disappear. We must take all necessary and sane precautions, and accept the consequences of our life.
You're implying that total calorie intake is the most (or even the only) important factor.

This is starting to resemble a political thread.
Copyright protects the expression of an idea in a tangible medium. All of these story features are arguably expressions of the same idea, but they're not the same expression, so it's not a copyright issue.

There's an amazing variety of creative products that are based on the same idea; often the better ones aren't the first ones.
Unless they are performance-bound, this is pretty unlikely. The productivity benefits are hard to ignore.
Qualcomm chips are not that far behind Apple's, and Microsoft has Windows on ARM ready for a while now. Those performance advantage won't be there for long.

I think the bigger question is what does this spell for x86-64?
Have a sleepwalker. Related to needing to pee. Absolutely will end up anywhere in the house, in any bucket or shelf. Or out the door. Caught her peeing in Landry buckets, on her sisters head, etc.

We have barriers to keep her on top floor. They have to be sturdy.

Moment we can get kid to pee she is instantly fully awake, confused as to how she got there and goes back to bed for the night.

We’ve leaned to sleep lightly. The moment we hear her first stirrings we swoop in and stick her on toilet.

Crazy times
Yes, they were developed in Servo first, then brought over when mature.

I wonder if this is the end of that model, or more an effort to get external people to contribute more to Servo.
Oregon’s cases are skyrocketing:

https://covid-19.direct/state/OR

Much of this is in Portland:

https://covid-19.direct/county/OR/Multnomah
Jesus.

We Chrises can never get a break... unless its the build. -_-
I don't know stuff has been pretty apocalyptic the past 9 months. In San Jose a normally busy clean commercial street was boarded up on every store front with graffiti on most boards(BLM riots/protests). Trash was everywhere. Everyone was wearing masks. In NYC in April mobile morgue trucks flooded the city as the dead exceeded the capacity of the city's morgues. Drive by some parking lots and see hundreds of cars waiting to get covid tests. During the spring many stores in major metro areas ran out of basic supplies like paper towels/tiolet paper, cleaners, meat. A friend of mine had to wait 3 hours to get toilet paper at a target(3/20). In Italy and Europe busy tourist areas were empty and soldiers were patrolling the plazas with rifles. This stuff is like nothing I have ever seen in my life and my parents and grandparents lives as well.
> Regardless, the thing which is kind of stunning about this chip is that they are getting this kind of performance out of what is basically their MacBook Air CPU.

Or to put it a different way: this is the slowest Apple Silicon system that will ever exist.
It's an open-source project - a lot of us have already been working for free :)
Cobalt is definitely not for someone like you.
Yes, the passive voice is an information packaging construction. There are several others: existential clauses, it-cleft constructions, preposing and postposing, etc. It's just one of the many ways we can adjust the construction of English clauses to suit our purposes.
But the things being delivered by it were mostly being developed by Mozilla devs.
I recently wrote a review on Reddit where I used split screen to code in termux and look at reference in the other. Admittedly Android's split screen mode is super clunky to use but if you're not constantly switching between apps in the reference pane it's okay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/jt41e1/my_max_lu...

Having a Laptop + ereader setup would probably be a mess to set up with the cut+paste stuff. If e-Ink reference materials is your use case I'd probably suggest instead that you either get one of the Boox models that has HDMI in (Max Lumi does) or if you have $ to spend, get the Dasung e-Ink monitor instead, and use it as a 2nd monitor for your laptop. That would be much easier to cut and paste between your coding environment and reference materials.

(Also, Boox tablets aren't easily rootable so auto-inputting stuff into apps isn't easy. You could solve that by building a virtual bluetooth or USB keyboard with an Arduino that your laptop controls, though.)
FYI - Pluton is a security chip, not a general purpose CPU.
I feel the same. All evidence points to Covid being far less dangerous to children. There are so many other things that are more likely to harm them. As far as climate change, I am worried in general, but I don't think there is anything specific about it that would harm her future. We live in Canada. There will be problems, but we will adapt and figure something out.

My parents lived through the most intense portions of the Cold War. The world could have ended at any moment. That is much more anxiety producing than climate change. And yet they made it through ok.

Honestly, a big concern is how my daughter will deal with things like social media. Young girls are self harming at unheard of rates. Depression and anxiety are through the roof. I don't know how to deal with this.
The Linux Foundation is basically a catch-all foundation for smaller open source projects, this is not "Linux owns a browser engine".

The "Linux" there is more of an indicator of its origins than its purpose.
How to create a HTML contact form with file upload to Amazon S3
That's a plausible reason, but it's definitely not what the person I was responding to said. "There are user reasons that won't work," is a very different answer than scoffing that the person asking the question just doesn't understand the underlying technology.

I also don't think what you said is necessarily true. If person A has pushed and nobody else has pulled, then for most situations there's no reason to prevent A from un-pushing. Even if person B has pulled, a propagating un-push might well be what they want. I generally would. There are certainly some cases where B might not want that, but given that undoability is a has become a strong user expectation, I don't have particular reason to believe that balancing users needs would come out in favor of the current behavior.
I went through a period of customizing my app icons as part of an overall desktop customization phase. It got exhausting. Much of the time when an app updated itself it would happily overwrite the custom icon with its own, meaning I had to run the equivalent of a cron script to open the custom-icon-installer-app periodically to put things back the way I liked them. Not sure if it's still the case, but at some point several years ago I threw in the towel and let the dock be whatever it was going to be, based on the apps I use.

Those who are busy putting these in, has it gotten any better or is it still a constant game of whack-a-mole to keep your customizations?
The latter. Systems have become fast enough recently to do realtime ray tracing.
I'm no expert, but the only big architectural differences are a massively larger decoder and a reorder buffer that's several times as large as x86 designs.

If these are actually the reasons for the performance difference, and it's difficult to do these on x86 because of the instruction set, it seems to this amateur that ARM64 really does have an advantage over x86.
I did not read it as a list of technologies used in chip fabrication, but as a list of “killer apps” driving the need for more performance.
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade
Many schools give teachers freedom to modify their curricula. As such, you cannot replace to kill a mockingbird at the district level without banning it. I'm sure some teachers were already using a different novel (The Hate U Give is apparently popular, but is also banned in some places because it is supposedly anti-police). By barring the book from the curriculum, they force teachers to use better tools.

> Only someone completely incapable of critical thinking would lump To Kill A Mockingbird into the same category as Mein Kampf.

I don't see anyone doing that.
I tried to learn Rust 4 times. I'm sorry, but I can't get past the syntax.

Just _look_ at all these short keywords and special symbols. It's legitimately hard to read without focusing on each character.

#[bla(foo)]

fn print_refs<'a, 'b>(x: &'a i32, y: &'b i32) {
println!("x is {} and y is {}", x, y);
}

impl<'a> Default for Borrowed<'a> {
fn default() -> Self {
Self {
x: &10,
}
}
}

This old fart thinks Rust is the new Perl.
> This format may sound familiar to you!

I don't understand what they mean by that. Just that it's similar to other platforms with temporary-disappearing messages?
I think Apple have screwed themselves over a bit here by sticking ARM-based Apple silicon in their lower-end/entry level devices first.

I mean what's the point in spending £5k on a fully tricked out 16-inch MBP, as I'd been considering, when an entry level Macbook Air or Mac Mini is going to run rings around it?

The reason I'm not going to buy one of these lower end Macs (the Mini would be the best fit) is that I can't stick enough memory in one, and the Air obviously doesn't really have any ports.

So the upshot is I'm not going to be spending any money with Apple anytime soon.

OTOH, if they'd started at the high end, I'd be looking at spending £5k on a tricked out laptop with absolutely unbelievable performance and as much memory and storage as I want/need, and would be entirely happy to do so because I'd feel like I was getting decent value for money rather than being taken for a mug.
That's correct, we don't tend to add dispensable features without multiple users asking for it. Of course, features you demand would mean the world to you, but from where I stand, a feature bloat is the last thing in my mind. And the funny thing is, some users find it reasonable.
Looks interesting -- however much of the app does not work if www.googletagmanager.com is blocked. Is that necessary to the functionality or just an oversight?
The wgpu crate is being developed by Firefox engineers for Firefox. As lastontheboat said we had a student integrate it into Servo this year.
The actual problem with Spain is that they have a decentralised system of contact tracing (which is normally good), but which didn't really get implemented quickly enough.

Madrid in particular did pretty poorly at this.

Additionally, their economy is so dependent on tourism that they felt they needed to open back up to avoid ruination.

This lead to loads more cases, coupled with pandemic fatigue and here we are.
I’m guessing the performance improvements derive from integrating the memory onto the same chip

Nope, LPDDR4x-4266 is LPDDR4x-4266. Apple, Intel, and AMD all have access to the same RAM. The Firestorm core is the real advantage.
It can be a way of adding intonation and other affective, out-of-band communication back into text. I never really see people use them purely to replace words one-for-one. But interspersed throughout a message, emojis can, as you say, add irony, but also communicate that a message that could be taken as ironic isn't, or communicate some other subtext.

Text is a flattening of speech, and emojis can add some of those missing dimensions back -- and, like our IRL verbal cues, tics, and gestures, they can be hard to decode if you're not "in" on the game.
A lot of people misunderstand what Servo was. It was for developing components that could be integrated into a browser. Firefox integrated most of those and continues to develop more code in Rust. Servo lost it's use.
I’m shocked that people who’s job it is to save sick people actually have to save sick people.

These people took an oath to help people. You can’t pick and choose who you help based on intelligence or even mental illness.

It’s also shocking firefighters have to run into fires. /s
Uh, unless there's some new Qualcomm chip I haven't heard of, the Qualcomm chips are all being utterly crushed by Apple's offerings in geek bench and specperf.
Resource allocation.

Intel dying would free up resources for development by other companies.
The constitution on its own doesn't guarantee any freedoms, so we must look to the Bill of Rights. Does mask wearing fall under:

- Freedom of speech? No.

- Freedom of the press? No.

- Freedom of religion? No.

- Freedom of assembly? No.

- Right to petition the government? No.

- Right to bear arms? No.

- Protection against housing soldiers in civilian homes? No.

- Protection against unreasonable search and seizure? No.

- Protection against the issuing of warrants without probable cause? No.

- Protection against trial without indictment? No.

- Protection against double jeopardy? No.

- Protection against self-incrimination? No.

- Protection against property seizure? No.

- Right to a speedy trial? No.

- Right to be informed of charges? No.

- Right to be confronted by witnesses? No.

- Right to call witnesses? No.

- Right to a legal counsel? No.

- Right to trial by jury? No.

- Protection against excessive bail? No.

- Protection against excessive fines? No.

- Protection against cruel and unusual punishment? No.
WoW has been around forever, so perhaps it’s not “modern”, but this seems like an early vote of confidence.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/17/blizzard-updates-...
Why? Unless the browser is proportionately slower, they'll still benefit.
Accept that there is a training process, some men are willing to take lessons from their partner and some aren't.

Also, regarding your friend's children... I know two adults who turned out to be very successful in life and in their careers despite having fathers that abandoned them at a young age.
The new ray tracing is being done in real time rather than being baked into the scenes.
Why is that a worry? What's wrong with being machine-like?

I feel like this attitude reflects a bias against machines and machine-like people that could lead to discrimination against them.
John von Neumann solves the “two bicycles and a swallow” puzzle ( ~16:30)
Hurray for continued class warfare.
And that's why I don't like this concept. Let's be honest, that passage sounds like crap. I'm all for brevity, and I think nowadays people tend to write with too much formality and bureaucracy, but this app is not the way to go about fixing the problem. Arbitrarily capping sentences to ~20 words (I assume that's what they do) makes your writing really choppy and more verbose, ironically. That last paragraph probably could have been just 1 long yet focused sentence.
I never said the president called the virus a hoax. I said he sympathizes with and encourages the "hoax" perspective.

And that perspective is that concern about the pandemic is a plot against his presidency just like the Russia investigation was. Go back and watch the speech. It's clear as day. The way he puts the pandemic in the past tense ("We did one of the great jobs..."). The framing of the issue as a foreign invasion. Mission accomplished guys, what's the big deal? This hoopla is just another hoax.

The broader context is important here as well. The speech was delivered in front of a packed auditorium as calls to avoid such gatherings were being made, to little avail.

The president has repeatedly doubled-down on this stance that the pandemic is being blown out of proportion, both in words and actions.
Ask HN: Diagramming Tools for Explaining Codebases
I inherited a medium-to-large sized, high-complexity C++ codebase with outdated documentation. The documentation was written when the project was in the design phase and the implementation differs in several ways, large and small. I want to document it for myself and those coming after me, and am missing a tool that will help me generate diagrams quickly for a high-level picture.
I am familiar with Doxygen and Graphviz and will be using those.
The code is heavy on C++ templates, so bonus points if it "gets" templating.
Tangent, but, since ~2010,

I believed HN was the smartest publicly available forum. It made sense that the users here would go on to be leaders at innovative companies.

Something changed around 2016 and has accelerated since 2018.

Seeing the "COVID denial" comments in this thread is exactly what I'm talking about.

It's just too bad.
> Minor quibble - HIPAA and HITECH are not the same thing

They are separate legislative actions, but HITECH is largely amendments to HIPAA, and can't really be considered in isolation. References to what HIPAA requires generally refer to not only the original HIPAA enactment but subsequent amendments (such as, but not limited to, those in the ACA and HITECH), and regulations and guidance adopted under HIPAA (as amended). Distinguishing HITECH from HIPAA makes sense in terms of discussing legislatibve history, but less so in terms of discussing current rules.

It is also not accurate to draw the division as HIPAA being "general policy" and HITECH being "how that policy can be implemented in technology." Its true that HITECH (more precisely, guidance/regulation mandated by and adopted subsequently to HITECH's amendments to HIPAA) provides more technical specificity in some areas, particularly privacy/security, than was in HIPAA (and regulations under HIPAA) prior to HITECH, but HITECH also amended aspects of HIPAA that fall into the general policy area (for instance, direct liability of Business Associates), and there were specific technical standards adopted under HIPAA prior to HITECH and also under mandates stemming from post-HITECH (notably, ACA) amendments to HIPAA.
You still need to know how to use git stash, in case the stash doesn't cleanly apply after the pull.
Can I have an update that brings back pistols instead of water guns?
I see a lot of criticism but not very much any suggestion that would avoid users having to learn how to rebase on an origin master branch or how to force push when they rewrite history. All the git interfaces, including github's web interface particularly, are fine to fix a typo but not really to iterate and create a perfect history of commits.
Obviously, to each their own. But what do you mean by your wife being unspoiled? The way you expressed yourself you make it sound like she's still a maiden.
I basically never use git pull. I use git fetch and then I check (using git diff, git log or in confusing cases gitk) what I want to do. That could be merge (fast forward), rebase, ignore or either branch because the other one is just better. Of course often pull might do what you want, but when it doesn't people start to complain. So better avoiding surprises from the beginning.
That’s about right. I remember when they switched windows phone 7 from CE to NT with similar arrogance and everyone went pfft and walked away.
> Mistakes were made

You can be just as evasive in the active voice. Someone made a mistake. An error caused the deletion of your data.

Most uses of the passive have nothing to do with being evasive.
I've seen others suggest that 32GB is table-stakes in their rush to pooh-pooh the M1.

I, personally, am a developer who has gone from 16GB to 32GB just this past summer, and seen no noticeable performance gains—just a bit less worry about closing my dev work down in the evening when I want to spin up a more resource-intensive game.
Pluton is just playing catch-up with Apple's Secure Enclave.
> If someone doesn’t want to wear a mask that is their choice. Your choice is to avoid situations where you might be in contact with people who don’t wear masks.

Do you also believe this about laws prohibiting drunk driving, or regulating seatbelt wearing and the side of the road you're allowed to drive on? OSHA rules around workplace safety, hardhats, fall protection? I'll wait to see if the anti-mask crowd crusades against the infringement of their "right" to drive intoxicated. Otherwise, I'll continue to see it for what it is: Political virtue signaling and contrarianism sans empathy.

It should be (and is) perfectly possible to legally avoid wearing a mask in places with mask regulations. You may do this by avoiding public places.

> It’s not to force everyone into your beliefs.

Strange how selectively this idea is applied by some in this country.
the fact that you can now donate directly to Servo is fantastic.

before, a donation for Firefox or Servo was just a donation to the Mozilla Foundation, which probably went to Mozilla's unrelated monetization efforts rather than the thing you intended.

https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo
consider licensing the videos separately from the code in your videos. the creative commons family is a nice choice for artwork, but (stackoverflow has shown) perhaps not the best choice for code.

for code that simply showcases features of a programming language, such as the "args / kwargs" video, that's not copyrightable because it's not a novel application, but it may come into play for the more advanced topics.

really great project, by the way. i can see myself using and recommending this. your site brings to mind khan academy, which got me through three semesters of calculus.
How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (2012)
> Spain was forbidding people from leaving their homes except for essentials, and now they're worse off than the US in terms of hospitalizations and deaths.

That second wave has started months after Spain lifted all those restrictions.
> Can we call it education though or is it an anti-intellectual spirit or a disdain for elitism and the idea of experts? Or perhaps mistrust of authority and experts?

I'm sure poor education accounts for a lot of it, but it can't be the only factor - even here on HN (where I'd assume most posters are well educated) there are people claiming COVID is a non issue and/or claiming masks are dangerous.

Another example are countries other than the US, such as the UK. In the beginning there were plenty doubters (hardly surprising when you've got arguably the most powerful idiot in the world claiming it's a hoax), but I see/hear very little of that these days.

It could be a mistrust of authority, but a lot of people in the US seem quite happy to trust authority - as long as it's the "right" authority.

For example, in the USA, you have Trump telling the most outrageous lies on a near-hourly basis, and millions believe him. On a similar vein you have ludicrous conspiracy theories like qanon, and even just plain conspiracies (without the "theory"!) about the Clinton's eating babies! As I European, I might suppose that a lot of people in the US are batshit-insane, but there has to be a reason for all that lunacy.
It would certainly help if Apple would release specs, or even just liberally-licensed XNU driver sources, but Linux has certainly gotten drivers without manufacturer help before.
We need to make the Pumphandle Day a holiday, certainly better than Mardi Gras.
C++ templates have a poor reputation in the gamedev community. Years ago some companies went too far with it and got burned. EA has their own fork of the STL that's gotten increasingly crufty and behind in performance. AAA game engines also get big, so there's a lot of pressure on avoiding explosions of build time with more advanced template techniques.

Gamedev tends to use its own patterns, particularly arena allocation for long lived fixed size tables, or their own internal object / entity / component model . It's not really c with classes or c with templates, just kind of its own dialect.
_Solely_ responsible? No, of course not.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=russian+covid+disinformatio...