skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no knowledge in this field whatsoever, but is this more an indication that we shouldn't be using the S&P 500 and similar indices as an overall indicator of the performance of the economy, is there value in looking at these indices absent of Big Tech?
I'm willing to accept that argument for unwrap, makes sense if you're dealing with a situation where multiple errors can apply.

Outside of unwrap, which actually crashes out, is it not possible to access the stack trace? Forgive my ignorance, I've never worked in Rust nor any other on-the-metal languages before!
> might mark accounts that use microg as suspicious which could increase the risk of Google banning the account

So what?

As a Chinese the only way for me to connect to Google is through a proxy, and I'm a Firefox user with some privacy settings enabled.

Few months ago I started to notice that Google is keep logging me out of their services, and I had to go through the entire authentication process to log back into my accounts in order to check my emails and do some searches without having be spammed by that capthshitTM of theirs etc, then after few days I'm been logged out again.

Eventually, I got tired of this, and decided "Hey, at least duckduckgo.com won't try to give troubles as long as you use their service normally", so I quickly developed this new habit of not to use google.com. Now I only use YouTube, Gmail, Play Store and sometime the backup service (Google Drive or maybe Photo, I don't care) on my Android phone.

If Google wants to ban all microG users, I'd say that's Great! It was fun Google, thank you for the service.

Plus, can Google actually block a microG user ethically? Using microG isn't hacking or abusing Google service, and "suspicious" is not enough for an account to be blocked, at least permanently.
> A note about count(1) vs count(). One might think that count(1) would be faster because count() appears to consult the data for a whole row. However the opposite is true. The star symbol is meaningless here, unlike its use in SELECT . PostgreSQL parses The expression count() as a special case taking no arguments. (Historically the expression ought to have been defined as count().) On the other hand count(1) takes an argument and PostgreSQL has to check at every row to see that ts argument, 1, is indeed still not NULL.
You mean remove backwards compatibility and ruin the whole reason people use x86? Not to mention that when AMD64 (“long mode”) was introduced, a big amount of cruft was disabled in the new mode (but is still available in 16-bit (“real mode”) and 32-bit (“protected mode”) for compatibility).
Oooh, a wall of pictures, even better!

In all seriousness, Wow, this is really cool. Reading through the readmes was admittedly less interesting :) than firing up the editor, getting confused for about 2 minutes, then going "oh" once I got the relationship between metagons and jigs, and that the kernel was basically a placement system based on a rule engine combined with a solver. Coool.

This is admittedly very over my head :) (I may or may not have tried deleting most of the metagons to see if I could start with with simpler layouts, but then I just got handed lots of single-metagon renders instead.)

This makes me think of a bunch of a different categories of Android apps:

- "paint by number" thingies that let you passively "color" pictures by matching up numbered colors with a pixellated numbered grid based on a supplied image

- pattern generators that let you create your own wallpapers, quite a few based on tesselated designs ("geometric pattern" and "tangram generator" are good keyphrases; "wallpaper pattern" also seems to weed out lock-screen pattern generators)

- active wallpapers that display graphical effects of different kinds

- "geometric drawing" apps that generally use some kind of rule system as the basis of control

There are likely other general categories I'm not thinking of.

This system doesn't directly fit exactly into any of the boxes defined above, but the apparent widespread popularity(?) for the above kinds of apps may suggest the existence of a target demographic that might like being available to play with this kind of thing on a phone or tablet. The only consideration is the learning curve.

I cannot deny that I'm describing several months/subprojects-worth of work to port the renderer to run within Android, replace the AWT/Swing UI with something that would be intuitive on touchscreens of various sizes, figure out what crowd(s) to make the app appeal to (eg, solely technical focus, or general passive/"arty" demographic)... but if you ever wanted to showcase the project further, given that the architecture is already written in Java, an Android port almost seems like a shoo-in answer. (I'd actually forgotten it was written in Java when I went "ooh, I want to play with this on my phone.")

Hmm; I made a wall of text to say "port this to Android". I'm more trying to say, "if you have the motivation, porting to Android may have positive results". :)

Thanks for sharing. It's very cool to see the results of sticking to/studying/exploring the depths of the implications of a specific rule system for as long as you have.
The study you cited doesn't really support your point - it basically says the 260k deaths would have been preventable with basic universal healthcare in place:

> "In countries with UHC—defined in the study as [...]—the link between unemployment and excess cancer deaths disappeared, suggesting that greater access to health care played a key role in mitigating the problem."

If you are really interested in the effect of lockdown on public health my suggestion is to decouple your thinking from American politics and view it as a global problem. How did lockdown affect public health in {China, South Korea, Italy, Germany, etc.}? As a counter-example, how did Sweden fare?

> I really hope that statisticians are able to look past their own personal convictions and look at possible ways our assumptions may have been incorrect.

This is pretty vague, what do you mean?
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There was a brief period where it was tulips...
Maybe you should try to understand the things you respond to, rather than posting a kneejerk response, then?
As a wood worker I often build things that make my current set of tools work better. Router that I own Let me make a router table that fits in my workspace and has the features I need, now the router can be used in other ways. Want to cut circles, make a circle cutter for my router. Dovetails, jig to make that with my router. All of the tools are add on to a pretty basic tool, and they are set up for me.

To go back to the static website, I really like the Wiki format (Current favorite is http://pmwiki.org ). I picked it for three reasons 1) It's a very powerful wiki 2) I can convert the site into static pages. This lets me build in the wiki format, then publish out. 3) There is a cookbook (a tool another user wrote) to make PDF. You can select the pages in page order and produce a PDF. To that base I've added my custom items.

Pmwiki in it's own right is simple (a router), but allows for cookbooks (custom extensions) that others can add. One of the interesting things is the current lead developer doesn't really add features to the core, they also create cookbooks to add on. And the core is pretty soft, if you don't like the markup, you can change it.

A long way to go to say that I can see writing software like the OP article. But if you should look at a core tool and see if you can build around that. @Molf uses hinges as an example. You can do a lot around a stock hinge (paint, bevel the edges, add "hand crafted tool marks", a process that is easier to do than starting from ground zero.
Where is the will in the federal government? If we handed 20% of the War On Terror budget to NASA would it make Americans more safe? Or feel more safe? (an important distinction since the TSA is mostly dog and pony shows).

Standard Fed'Gov contract hustle -- provide a service for less than what they're currently playing and leach off that gob'mnt teat.
I'm a little miffed the section headings for chapter 2 on forks doesn't have king forks!
Yet, you didn't just agree to disagree. You threw a parting shot over the bow, then wanted to walk away.

Not very sporting, now is that?

You're saying you believe individual's rights trump company's rights. Well sure, I agree with that.

But that is an insanely broad statement, and yet you're claiming I see it differently, which really can be used to infer that I'm some sort of careless bastard.

Let's be clear. When you mentioned 'individuals', what you've meant this entire time is 'a person in a foreign country, working in software engineering".

That's it. That's the extent of your definition of 'individual'.

Any other 'individual' can go suck eggs, as far as you're concerned! You literally have thrown away all logic on living costs, not to mention you're heartlessly and carelessly disregarding all taxation!

What about all those taxes, federal, state, sales tax, gas tax, property tax, city taxes, which go to help the homeless? Those are a part of that salary too. Yet, you literally cannot understand, or refuse to get, the concept that salary pays, not just the engineer... but instead the entirety of cost to support that engineer.

People get so upset, that various governments don't help the poor, build infrastructure to help those in lower income brackets, try to make sure schools are funded, and so on.

California has crazy taxes, and a lot of that DOES go towards additional social programs. And therefore? That tax creates upward pressure on engineer salaries, which means?

Part of that wage is "high", due to that taxation. Yet you aim to use that AGAINST companies, and instead, force them to pay that SAME SALARY, without local taxation, to some guy in ... well, anywhere but the US, as you've said.

Like places with reduced human rights. Or horribly restrictive laws. Or a disregard for the rights of women, minorities, and more!

Yup, screw it all and nail a bucket to a post, just gimme gimme gimme that salary.

And say anything to make it a reality.
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Sizeless: Predicting the optimal size of serverless functions [pdf]
In the UK local lockdowns started before the national one. Also rising cases were plastered all over the media.

It's hard to pick these things apart.
> This is just straight up wrong. Many countries like China, Singapore and Australia have gotten sizable outbreaks (tens of thousands of people) under control and effectively eliminated the virus in their territories.

Do you actually believe Chinese numbers...? Unrealistic to compare Australia (which shut down border before it was coronavirus season, hence no community spread) and Singapore (5M people, similar situation with borders shut during non coronavirus season).
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I realise that, but perhaps wasn't clear in what I was trying to say.

In the UK many businesses manually enter in the amount into the POS device. The customer will then insert their card and enter their pin, the transaction will take place (as you say, ultimately down to the issuing bank), and the device will indicate whether the transaction was successfully or not (printing a receipt as well as an indication on the screen). Some places have tighter integration with tills etc, but to my knowledge it's down to the POS device (which is assumed secure) to communicate the status of the transaction to the till.

My suggestion is that given full control over the POS device (i.e. your card triggers buffer overflow in the POS and you get code execution), you could make it behave as if the transaction had been successfully processed (by showing the same message and issuing the same receipt) without actually debiting any accounts or making any actual transaction.
All of which are still massive companies, with Walmart pulling in half a trillion per year in revenue, double that of Apple or Amazon. Stock market value only tells part of the story (that of the richest getting richer).
Shades of the Breaking Bad finale. 150 meters - is that considered a far distance for an assassination of this magnitude?
What makes an artificial accent less proper?
They have already been tested on cancer patients, with some very promising results.

https://acir.org/weekly-digests/2020/august/rna-vaccine-for-...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110102550.h...

Some of the patients would probably already be dead if it wasn't for RNA vaccines.
Others have gone into the efficiency trade offs and I would add to that removing the local pollution effect of internal combustion engines is a great benefit. Even electric cars "powered by coal" move pollution away from population dense areas and allow large scale environmental harm reduction e.g. carbon capture. However, coal is a declining power source and a lot of the places with high numbers of electric cars already have significant carbon neutral or renewable electricity generation in place.

All you have described, the environmental impact, exploitation, pollution, etc... applies to current fossil fuel usage, if not more, so it's not a black and white choice, as you seem to present it. Fossil fuel had over a century of ever-increasing usage and global environmental damage without having to do anything significant to mitigate the effects. Whereas the relatively new high performance battery industry is already tackling this issue. Without the widespread need generated by electric cars it's questionable if that would happen. It is very rare, possibly unheard of, for such a significant technology to be launched with a perfectly formed lifecycle management in place. The market is created only once the need arises.
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Don't overweight the opinion of someone on their deathbed. I don't think optimizing your life around how you'll feel about it during your final five minutes is a good way to go. Dying is a very lonely experience (every living thing goes into death alone, etc.), so of course your thoughts will be overwhelmingly focused on family friends etc. during that time.
The big thing that's missing from me is Auto. It's insane just how invasive it is: basically your location + a full ODD dump being broadcast to Google. I'll never use it as is but would welcome a way to use screen mirroring in privacy.
In Rust there generally isn't a stack trace, because you generally can know where the error comes from. What you get for an error depends on what is giving you the error. Generally you get an enum with the general error type, and maybe a way to access the specific error.
So, one of the interesting things about Ireland is that part of the Island is still managed by the UK.

So in some sense, we actually have an appropriate control for your assertion that its down to population density.

In general, the data does not support your assertion around population density, as the Republic of Ireland has (post lockdown) a rate of 88.5 per 100k, whereas Northern Ireland has a rate of 2788 per 100k.

Source 1: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea
Northern ireland: https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/covid-19-statistics

So, in this particular case, it seems unlikely that population density is driving the differences.

I do agree that raw country comparisons can often mislead, but i stand by my original points.
I'm using MicroG for a year now and didn't have problems with push yet. Signal and WA are working fine, other Apps with push as well. No idea about Telegram, I'm not using that.
That coworker who just wants to code
I know all that. Besides, one pedantic point - antisense are not the same to typical mRNA, they have thiophosphate group instead of normal phosphate in their backbone, or some other tweak to make them bind mRNA permanently.
To put the nail in the coffin, take a look at a comparison between the two: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.INX:INDEXSP?sa=X&ved=2...

Historical performance of RSP has always lagged behind SPX
These Covid ones aren't the first that have been tested and shown safe in humans, but I believe they will be the first to be approved for release.
I never have seen a Bitrot resistant filesystem on Linux before NILFS.
Thanks for your feedback. Did you see the sub-heading at the top of the first page: “Polylith is a software architecture that applies functional thinking at the system scale. It helps us build simple, maintainable, testable, and scalable backend systems.“? If so, how would you suggest we reword it to be clearer?
There have been attempts to move the register renaming out of the processor and into the program through VLIW architectures such as the Itanium, but it failed because (1) they require “sufficiently smart compilers” that weren’t available in the day, and (2) putting it in the silicon allows new architecture revisions to benefit older programs (putting it in code means it can’t benefit from newer register renaming algorithms without a recompile).

Also, if it’s in the silicon and there’s a bug in the algorithm, a microcode update can fix it for everyone. If the bug was in the compiler, you’d need to recompile everything to fix it.
> I will count sub-registers (e.g., EAX for RAX) as distinct registers. My justification: they have different instruction encodings, and both Intel and AMD optimize/pessimize particular sub-register use patterns in their microcode.

I disagree strongly with that characterisation. Just no.
There are a lot of x86 software out there. Even games switched to x64 binary relatively recently. That alone means that you would want to emulate with performance of, let's say i5-2500, if you want a decent framerate, which would be quite chellanging given that modern CPUs are 80% faster at best.
The McMenu PDF linked on the article, rants about warming drawers right off the bat.

Indeed I fully agree with the article, currently I find McDonald to be a really, really shitty burger, only reason to still buy it sometimes is because they are good at "service" (ie: they stay open when other restaurants are closed, aren't too expensive, and the ingredients quality is reasonable).

The fries is well, a whole another subject.

I did tried making fries at home using commercial frozen fries, and pork fat, and the result was really, really, really good, but it also make a huge mess in the kitchen, so my wife refuses to ever do it again, but pork fat is obviously much superior than vegetable oil for frying in general (not just deep frying).

A restaurant that have good (but not great) fries suggested cotton oil, but that one is very hard to find, only places I found selling it were selling it to restaurants, thus it only came packaged in huge tubs with 100 USD worth of oil, and that is obviously ridiculous in a home setting.
Apple has lowered the prices on all of their major product lines: iPhone SE ($400), iPad ($329), Apple Watch ($279).

I can't see anything in the way of Apple creating a lower priced MacBook SE at around, say, $700. With that move, Apple could essentially own the technology stack (iPhone, iPad, Mac, accessories, etc...) of millions of consumers previously priced out of the Apple ecosystem, consequently driving services revenue.
Either that, the package legitimately has that many recursive dependencies, or the original commenter is hyperbolizing.
It's not hard to pick these things apart. Infections peaked before lockdown (in both lockdowns) in the UK thus lockdowns weren't necessary.

People decided to be vigilant by themselves — sure. That still means that lockdowns weren't necessary.
Well then that is not comparable to NIFs at all. In fact it is an extremely misleading example.
Depends on the model. The E-series 3-ers were very reliable; for the F-series and newer it is exactly as you wrote.

The leasing thing is for slightly different reason: it is being used by such a market segment, that always wants something new. They would not drive older car, even if it was reliable, it would be not cool enough. Unfortunately, since cca 2010 BMW also found it out, and since then their cars stopped being good -- they don't have to last -- and are just expensive.
Wonder what the trial exclusion criteria was...it’s not referenced in this article.
Yes, there are plenty of non-essential businesses like estate agents still open in my nearest town.
Any idea how one could anonymize their dicom images? I have a disk of a CT Scan of my skull laying around but my medical information seem to be strongly linked to it (opening it in an online viewer displays my name, id, etc.) If it wasn't for that fact, I'd love to be able to upload it somewhere and help science.
I just tried it but didn't like the experience. My reading speed is variable, I read slow when I want to internalize the idea v/s I skim through when I am probably reading a novel. At so many points I wanted to pause and re-read the para or think about what he said but listening to the audio didn't really allow for that. PG essays are usually of such kind.

I suspect I won't even enjoy audiobooks too for the same reason. I won't be able to accelerate or slow down at my will.

But I congratulate you for building it and I'm sure it'd be useful for others.
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English is not my first language, so when I speak, people don’t always understand me. Sometimes I have to repeat words more slowly, or replace words with synonyms. This happens because I do not pronounce the words in the way people around me expect to hear.

The explanation above is somewhat long, so I would like to shorten this. I have been saying “I have an accent” instead.

Is “accent” the right word to use in this case? If not, which word is?
>Many families have two working professional adults and can almost double these numbers

It happens, but only if you have a loose definition of "many". If a family makes $531k, they are in the top 1%

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...
Wire-wrapped prototype of the original IBM PC (5150) motherboard
It would be nice to see this work out, but it's quite ambitious.

From what I can see, the "government support" is actually a fairly general (and limited) one-time grant. The badge may give the impression that it's more.

It seems to have only two contributors: https://github.com/orgs/microg/people

They may be pretty awesome programmers, but they are working on something to compete with another project that is currently supported by...a larger number...of full-time, salaried developers.

These two developers have a rather scary number of issues to address: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues

Their status page seems to have some room to grow: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

I sincerely wish them luck, but they have their work cut out for them.
Live like a hobbit while never marrying and being in the top .5% of all tech salaries for a decade.

You might as well get the advice "marry rich" - it's probably more likely.