skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because there's debate and different opinions, doesn't mean the truth is inconclusive.

Politicians have the same problem as you - where is the proof that Iran can't be trusted? There is no proof, there can't be proof. This leads to endless debate with many different opinions.

Just because there's a disagreement involving many sides, doesn't mean that none of the sides are correct. Sometimes, just one of those sides are correct. It is good then when that side pursues the truth, even against all doubt.
I use dar[0] to create incremental, compressed, encrypted backup archives, and then upload those to a GCS bucket. GCS is dirt cheap even for terabytes of data, so as added bonus this gives me a
history of all my files (eg, i still have backup archives from 2013). Both calls wrapped into a shell script that is regularly scheduled via a cronjob on my local server. Within my network i sync between laptop, pc and server via syncthing. Works well for me, even though it doesn't handle file renames gracefully.

[0] http://dar.linux.free.fr/
Those are great ideas. I'm definitely going to check them. Thanks a lot
What makes you point to that as the cause of education? I can see that being the outcome but I am skeptical that it is the cause of it (without evidence)
I disagree regarding the importance of this kind of "tricks". You are right in pointing to all the "boring" stuff that is considered state of the art in chip design being the main reason why these chips are impressive. Apple seems to have pulled all the right strings in that regard. But there is a point at which you can't execute the known optimizations any more perfect than you already do - when you're already using the best available lithography, implementing all the well-known architectural benefits like big/little, big caches, wide decoders etc., you eventually hit a brick wall and the only thing that will get you further are new and creative tricks like the ones discussed in the linked tweets. Each may just add a little, but together they add up to a noticeable improvement with regard to a competitor who also executed all the standard stuff well, but maybe did not think about these particular new optimizations, or might not even be able to implement them due to not being in control of the entire vertical ecosystem.

That "competitor" btw is not Intel - they already fail at the basics - but AMD.
I have used it to deal with the SQLite databases that some programs use, as well as for data queries in general where SQL is helpful (in addition to SQLite databases, the command-line tool can also load CSV and JSON, so it is very helpful for a lot of kind of data), and also I have used in the following programs I write:

- bystand (NNTP client) - Saves the article and configuration database; also for user customization (including the header displays)

- sqlnetnews (NNTP server) - Saves the article database, including list of newsgroups, and overview data

- Free Hero Mesh (a puzzle game engine) - Batch operations , user customization, user cache, and storing user data such as move lists (although solutions can be exported to another file); not used for the game rules (which uses a custom programming language)

- frezed (ZZT external editor) - Batch operations, queries, user customization, and more; almost half of this program is written in SQL

- TeXnicard (a similar purpose to Magic Set Editor and similar programs) - Store the card database, make queries and batch operations, PCRE callouts (mainly because, as far as I know, the PostScript interpreter may not be reentrant), custom random pack/deck definitions (defined as views), and can call SQL codes from PostScript codes

In all of these programs the user can also enter their own SQL codes (Fossil, below, also supports this), except sqlnetnews (which is server software, so the user input is not considered trusted in this case).

I also use Fossil, which also uses SQLite.

I would also like to have virtual table interfaces for some remote data (some sort of standardized protocol(s) with open source implementations), especially that which changes often, or that incremental updates will be useful; then SQLite can be used for that, too. For other data, SQLite databases that you can just download and query on your own computer, would be a good things to have, too.

So, SQLite is very good, for many more things than I had just listed, too.
A few other things which use SQLite are listed at: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Category:SQLite_base...
(The reason Google has an office here is because Urs Hölzle studied at ETH at knew people here.)
I agree that most crime is crime of opportunity. I'd categorise automated bots sniffing for open ipcams, or other devices as that too. I consider my privacy is as valuable as my possessions :)
I spent thousands of hours (probably nearly ten thousand) on Wikipedia in my youth. As someone who worked multiple jobs as a teenager to afford a computer and dial-up internet, and was self-taught at programming and other things, the internet, and later Wikipedia specifically, were amazing resources for me growing up in the 1990s-early 2000s.

I do recognize, however, that I'm the exception and not the rule in this regard.

The internet now is very different than the internet I grew up on, and it isn't the future I hoped for (where I imagined everyone would learn as I did, directly benefiting from having access to much of humanity's knowledge).

I lament what the internet has turned into - the overwhelming success of centralized platforms, surveillance capitalism, viral misinformation, etc. I worry about how much worse this all may get once deep-fakes become commonplace...

P.S. I also played video games - but overall I spent more time reading and learning/building things than playing games.
Of course not, but at least we have several very different corporations that have to fight and agree on the final result, instead of just one that can push whatever crap that suits its short-term interests better
Abstracts nowadays are way too large, bordering on a full blown introduction. I agree that's what they should be for, but they are not, in practice.
Does that mean Microsoft's engineers who have been working on emulating x86 to Arm for many years are simply incompetent because they didn't use this?
>No its not. If you ever work in big companies you will know that.

This is the logical fallacy "appeal to the majority". Just because most companies do something doesn't necessarily mean it's moral, required, logically correct, etc.

>Assuming you are a male, you might be unknowingly harrasing female employees just by having a boys will be boys attitude.

"Boys will be boys" is not the legal definition of sexual harassment, so no.

>So an employer has to give you training and explain you why its wrong.

They do that to cover their ass from "hostile work environment" legal suits. This is not baby sitting.

>Some people use throwaway accounts to harass other employees on social media, if your employer gave you the training you would have learnt that is wrong.

There's nothing a company can do in that instance, no one would even know if it is company related. If the harassment veers off into criminal territory, then police should be called.

>Exactly, now you get it, the company may get into legal trouble if they dont have an official policy or they make it super difficult to report complaints.

Apparently you still don't get it. Companies shouldn't babysit employees if they're committing such crimes. Employers shouldn't be babysitting employees when it comes to crimes such as sexual harassment, rape, etc. These should be directed to the police. QED.

>No its not simple as that, just telling the victim to go to authorities is just washing your hands

It's by definition not "washing their hands" because these crimes are not something the company should be babysitting employees over.

>a responsible company also makes sure that victims can file a complaint with the management.

No responsible company would make or direct a victim to "file an internal complaint" if they are victims of a crime. That is by definition irresponsible.

>Not all victims want to file a police complaint, that does not mean they the abuser should get away with harassment.

That's on them. If you're being victimized, reporting the crime should be the only legal recourse. Companies are not in the business of handling justice, period.

>The company should still investigate and fire the abuser and then file a complaint with the victim's permission.

The last thing we need are companies replacing the role that police, laws, the judicial system, etc. provide.

If an employee is being victimized, the employer should 100% work with authorities to ensure justice is met.

>These are some of the aspects which you will understand if you been through some training.

I understand companies not wanting workspaces to be unfriendly, but "unfriendly" isn't illegal. Period.
It had no real affect on R, you can see it in the data.

R shot up only during two events. Schools opening and Universities opening, and you can see this clearly on this graph someone else linked:

https://reproduction.live/world/GB

I can understand schools opening, but the devastating double peak when universities opened (Freshers week and then the 2nd/3rd years the week after) was totally avoidable.

There is minor peak at the end of August, but that is in my opinion actually holiday makers returning from infection ravaged Spain, as otherwise it would have been a month long peak.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/the-relationship-betw...

The trend seems to be reversing the previous decade though:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/why-are-highly-educat...
Papership exists for iOS. It's not perfect, but it is good enough. I principally use it to search through the tree structure of documents, and then open them with other apps.
Rust is not ready to be specified as is required for ISO and similar standards. A few large chunks of its functionality currently don’t have any good definition written down, but instead are defined by the rustc implementation: most significantly, the ownership and borrow checking system. Research towards formalising this model in a way that a specification could use is ongoing (e.g. https://people.mpi-sws.org/~jung/thesis.html, published a couple of months back), but until then any specification document would be unreasonably complicated and verbose, containing large chunks of the current compiler rather than describing an independently-useful model.

But more generally, I think you’re approaching this from the wrong angle, perceiving a problem that doesn’t exist—Rust is already not tied to a single corporate interest. But have patience, there are rustlings of independent implementations in a few places, and their fullness will come in a few years’ time.
A source of inspiration for good ideas might be had by looking at how early computers worked and handled this. My understanding, from stories my parents told (both of whom were active in early computing), is those from the 1950s and 1960s that used punched cards and paper tape. Common routines would be included as a deck of cards or spliced paper tape.
Yeah it's pretty old. Textmode interfaces began with the teletypewriter in the nineteenth century and UNICODE began around that time too. The programming interface for these machines wasn't standardized until the 1960's with ASCII, which was extended a decade later by ANSI X3.64-1979, and then again in the 90's by UTF-8. That's the trifecta of textmode definitions which, only as of these last few years, became basically universally supported. CGA is kind of just a uint16_t[20][80] array for personal computers. See also: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/ea0b5d9/tool/build...

You're absolutely right that the inconsistencies with textmode used to be about as awful as the inconsistencies we see with GUIs today. I'm certain things will get better if we consider that GUIs are a relatively recent invention by comparison. So it'll probably take another fifty years for widget authors to forge out a consensus that's as good and widely supported as the one we have now for terminals.
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Yeah, it "just works" but it does nothing.

Then you have to open a book, to see how to load data from a tape.

Windows 95(?) solved this issue by implementing autorun (insert cd, wait, window pops up, "install"/"play", click the one you want, and you're done).
Do you think there is a way to avoid to retransfer files that have been renamed/moved with this method?

This is the use case I mentioned: I often move files from one dir to another when working on audio- or video-production projects, and it can be dozains of gigabytes.
You need to live each day as if it may be one of many days to come or it may be your last.

Be ready for either possibility.
Looks interesting, a benchmark page would help in promoting it
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Correlation is not causation.

Because of the UK's testing policies around only testing symptomatic individuals, it's very difficult to answer questions like this effectively.

See here for example, where it suggests that restaurants are one of the highest risk activities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2923-3
I fully agree, love your country, have spent two years of my life there and come every time an opportunity pops up.

I speak fluently French, Italian, German and can manage plenty of Swiss German common expressions as well.

Yet, the rules, oh boy, not sure how you will take this, but from my point of view Swiss world of rules makes the northern Germany feel as flexible as a South American country.

When something must be done like A, it is A, not A- or A+, zero deviations.
IM was a work of art in its own right. Maybe a bit James Joyce, but if nothing else you could always mount it on your wall.

I spent a lot of time in the IAC book many moons ago, extracting the concepts and motivations left unspoken in Apple’s newer “long lists of buttons” documentation. “How” stuff makes vastly more sense once you understand the “Why” that underpins it all.
> That's on them.

Apparently you still don't get it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25236517

I'm definitely where I am now because of the internet and Wikipedia.

At the same time, I agree with you about how the internet and technology have changed and continue to change. I agree that too much knowledge is still vaulted away, that a few companies have established large monopoly positions in tech, that they are destroying the egalitarian dream of the early internet.
Controversial suggestion: maybe we need to get used to remembering and finding less rather than being on the endless search for The Tool That Does It All.

There's something intoxicating about breathing in the latest ZettleNoteMarkdown thing: I know this only too well, having played with many of them, but maybe there's a limit to what we could or should worry about remembering or finding?

I know it's unpalatable, and it makes me feel a bit sick to not be able to find Thing X that I know I've looked at once, but ultimately we're on a hiding to nothing. There will always be MORE and maybe we need to get used to it being ok to settle for less...
> If it's a bunch of decimal numbers, it could be financial data, and the sums expected to sum depending on how another column that indicates a type is set.

Ideally, this type of invariant would be in the DB, and not as documentation but enforced in code (i.e., by triggers, since it's to complex to be a simple referential integrity constraint.)

> Generally this is the kind of data and rules for reasoning about data that isn't stored in a database.

The ones that are invariants should be enforced in the DB, and the ones that aren't should generally be in in-db documentation. Sqlite in particular lacks the ability to attach the metadata usually used for that purpose, but does store code comments in the schema, which provides roughly-equivalent functionality.
It's "more stable" but is it "more reliable"? Not when it decides it's going to reboot in the middle of a long-running job even when I've told it not to. The inability to disable windows from updating itself is one of the most terrible decisions they ever made.
> It is solely so that people can include a shortcut to /Applications and style the dmg window background with a bitmap that alludes to dragging to install?

I believe so. The first app I checked, DaisyDisk, distributes as a zip file. Like you said, most often people distribute dmg and it's to give hints to drag it into /Applications. I really like the .app system, but always found the UX of download, unzip/open DMG, drag to /Applications as very awkward. I figure Apple stopped caring about that when they added the Mac App Store in 2011.
Uhhhh.... holy crap, sorry... but what is the author smoking? I started out with PC's in the early 80's. They were HARD to use (granted, as a pre-teen, I fell in love right away - but I was already a nerd). They were not intuitive. They didn't do very much. They generally sucked for most people, unless they were using a word processor (and even those were tough for some people)

Today, everyone can use one. They are very powerful, do a lot of things, and are comparatively simple to use - I mean, my MOM can use the damn things, which she never could have done in the 80's and 90's. And with very little support for me!
Thank you. The bubble chart in general looks bad on mobile and I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Maybe rotate it 180 degrees?
Indeed, and working at any of them will teach how it feels like working on a place where software development is a cost center, not the business that they care to sell.

Forget about doing Bonsais of quality following the latest trends of every software conference, what matters is the physical product that gets out of the assembly line.
10-20 year horizon: Battery Technology. Manufacturing improvements, improving density and cooling requirements, recycling economy, etc. There's a huge race first-mover race that Japan has made a government-backed consortium tackling on batteries.

Most visible effect would be smartphones and laptop charging times and charging cycles.

For cars and work trucks: aside from cheaper cost, it'll also solve range anxiety and charging times.

For solar powered homes, you can opt to store cheaply in your home for night-use instead of sending excess back to the grid.

Lighter batteries on drones would have a multitude of uses from industrial to space exploration.

Longer time horizon: electric-powered flight and electric-powered freight. It will drop supply chain expenses on a macro perspective.
Um. The exports exceed the imports. They are net exporting renewable power to Victoria. The fact that Victoria exports back non-renewable power isn't in their control.

Tasmania is an exceptionally small state. Population 500K. Based on the renewable power sources available, they must rely on a network for stability. Otherwise, they would have to massively over-develop their power infrastructure. This itself would be unsustainable.

The issue is not that Tasmania needs to over-build. It's that Victoria needs more renewables. If TAS was a net importer, that would be a different story.
This is not necessarily because Switzerland is high-tech friendly. There is an absolutely massive pharma industry in the country. Lots of innovation comes from there.
Ahem...

- knowing right IRQs to have sound in a game

- editing autoexec.bat to get your cd drive to work

- hoping your game and your graphics card are compatible (as much as we can hate Microsoft, DirectX was a good thing they did)

- wanna chat with girls? First dialup modem, then knowing AT commands to disable "wait for dial tone", because somehow that didn't work in my country, installing an irc client, knowing the right server address and port to connect to, to be finaly able to send "asl?" to some random "_HornyGirl_" and getting back "13/f/cali"

...
Thank you so much for your work! I work at microsoft, so everyone around me uses PowerPoint. I give all my presentations with revealjs, which I take directly from my Zettlr notes with minimal conversion. My colleagues were impressed this week that I could throw together a presentation with nice slides in less than an hour of work, with such a readable markdown "version" of the contents.

Thank you for the gift of productivity!
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Tasmanian devils are rapidly dying out due to a contagious cancer, so they had to switch to hydro power.
The surprise is mutual :)
For political reasons, this isn't possible for the UK right now.

To be fair, they've made a mess of the whole pandemic, which is very disappointing given that public health was invented there.
I'm sure the best way to learn how to think for yourself is to read an essay telling you how to think for yourself
> as soon as I stop paying, all those memories are gone, lost in time like tears in rain. Sure it is really nice and convenient software and the user experience is fantastic but if I stop paying, it's all lost.

Yes, this is why I made Open Source and open formats an absolute requirement when I started looking at journaling software. The content is irreplaceable.

After trying several things, I found that Joplin does everything that I need for journaling and note-taking. I made a point of donating to the project the equivalent of what I would have paid for a commercial offering.
While I do not write on Twitter or Reddit, I will sometimes read when linked, although in both cases I have set up redirects (to Nitter and Old Reddit). I do not use Facebook at all.

(Some other people might find it useful to do this, too.)
Nice to see some Stoic Memento Mori here. I'm actually currently going through Seneca's Dialogues and Essays.
Secondary schools and student accommodation seemed to be higher risk.

20%+ of secondary school kids absent (isolating, ill, or being kept away), but they still stubbornly insist on keeping them open.
Languages and paradigms are now almost entirely in a separate camp of comparison from AWS vs Azure. How did we get here? We kicked the sh*t out of commercial languages so we wouldn't be indentured servants to a small number of companies.

People tend to use binary logic to gloss over the details that determine our future.

K8s is opensource org backed, docker is opensource startup backed. sshing in and installing Apache is an open setup that can't be sabotaged but not open standard. Signing in to Linux and starting your own python or C++ server code is open standard and can't be completely hijacked even by a BDFL controlling the main implementation direction.
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That’s why you need to force reinvestment with corporate taxation, and subsidizing innovation with de-risking, either via direct state investment or via reduction of labor cost (UBI, unemployment benefits to compensate for looser contracts.)

I think this is the gist of Mazzucato’s views
We have some answers to those questions here: https://reproduction.live/about

tl;dr is that we use a single datasource (not managed by us but by many dedicated others) and use case counts to estimate number of currently infectious and from that we estimate R. The running time of our R estimation calculations for all regions is around 1.5 hours on a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet.

Sometimes strange looking results on our site picked up by guests can be fed back to the maintainers of the datasource resulting in a correction of the data.

On our website, R value estimation is done by my father, a retired computer science professor with a long history of mathematical modelling experience. This is hacker news right? :)
US, Germany used second Swiss firm too for spying on govts
Unless Hyperloop is supposed to magically get rid of the need for land acquisition or wide enough turns for comfortable high-speed passenger travel, not significantly.

All indications are that CAHSR is mostly horribly managed rather than anything inherent about the technology itself.