skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've accidentally let my OVH subscription go unpaid, and they gave a 7 day window to pay my invoice or delete my data. That's seems pretty fair to me, and they seem to have wide enough margins to eat the cost and still offer some of the cheapest prices out there right now.
Surprised still using fortran 90. Thought everything now is 95 or 2003 and up.
dbg! also prints out both the value of the expression, and the expression itself, so dbg!(x+y) prints 'x+y=3'
So when you see hospitalization capacity reporting, do you think they're just lying, and that the hospitals were already full of these advanced cancer + pneumonia folks who now just happened to go and catch COVID too?
Flagged how? Are you using some "enhanced" DNS service they provide?
Can I just say that I appreciate this trend of the last few years where opensource projects and organizations start collecting real data on who their users are and how they interact with them?

I see it a lot in the Clojure community as well, as with various other communities (such as Emacs). Not only does it provide the people behind the projects better guidance, it also gives me a better idea how my own usage and opinions relate to the wider community.

Having said that, one thing I found remarkable from the results of this survey is the proficiency in ELISP. A sizable fraction of the respondents feel proficient enough to write their own packages, a trait which I have yet to find someone in real life for (and I know more than a dozen emacs users). I can’t help but think there must be quite some selection bias going on in the respondents of this survey. :)
I haven't used Emacs to program for a while now, but I always use it for org-mode. I don't think org-mode is the best for me in terms of keeping organized notes, I find that I like Joplin's[1] interface more for that. Although I've thought about emulating the interface of Joplin by using folders and treemacs[2].

Org-mode really shines for logging. I use it at work to keep a daily log organized by sprint. Org-mode really gets out of your way and makes logging easy. It is deep and has a ton of features, but the base feature set is really simple and easy to get started with.

[1]: https://joplinapp.org/
[2]: https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378155
Yes! How should we organize this? Maybe start with an IRC channel?
There are various reasons for why SpaceX is so popular, but I think most important is because of Elon starting from scratch against incredible odds of failing, combined with massive resistance from established companies and initially even the government (to the point of Elon crying during an interview), combined with Elon's novel and bold designs/goals and SpaceX's engineering feats. Add to that also their willingness to be open and share success and failure with the world, and I think it becomes easy to understand why they have so many passionate fans.
That link says deaths this year without a pandemic were expected to be 1.12% higher, if I'm reading it correctly.

according to the CDC, the US had 16.5% more deaths through the first ten months of 2020 than it had in the first ten months of 2019

edit: i downvoted AND refuted, fyi
It's pretty well-established fact that hospitals benefit financially by taking COVID-19 patients. For example, see this source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
Most of our deaths are preventable as we mostly die of excess - obesity related issues, smoking, drugs, etc.
If you are so inclined, you can load up an old version of flash/browser in a VM. Think of it as an extra-hard mode of granting approval for Flash to run.
Netflix is complex and they also have entire teams whose effect on the product or business is zero or negative. Almost all companies are inefficient in different ways.
I had another fun experience like that, but triggered by the guest reviews. I booked a place for my parents to stay which suddenly disappeared. All I was told by AirBNB is that the host cancelled and the user nor the place was no longer to be found on the site.

Turns out some other guest reported the host for having a hidden camera (which was really the standard Danish fire alarm). The AirBNB messaging made it out to be the host's fault.
Do you really think that the CFO should be accountable for pricing in market hype? I would much rather under-estimate and over-perform then over-estimate and fall short. The narrative between those two scenarios is drastically different.

Related. Look at Snowflake, it's trading well beyond any logic. Most retail doesn't realize that ~10% float is trading. Watch for Monday as lock-ups expire, the price action will be something.
Why?

the science is clear on masks. That shouldn't need discussion. Hospitals are at or near capacity in many places. Do your civic duty for the country and wear a mask.

Shutdowns and other things, sure discuss and debate
So ?

This is would be one more checklist that you need to regularly review, just like domain name registration and certificates, ...

Any of those expiring will cause outage also.

Outages happen. Will happen. This just one more way that they can happen. It happens you learn and move on.

Hell even the biggest providers with the beset admin teams on the planets have outages.

And Google doesn't need to explain anything just like your name register doesn't have to explain anything if you cc was declined/not current ...
You can't spread smoking deaths to innocents. At least not in the same way (second hand smoke is dangerous but not like a virus).
Ubuntu just couple a weeks ago pushed a kernel update to 20.04 LTS that 100% broke resuming from suspend on my 2020 Thinkpad (Intel graphics driver hang, no surprise there). I had to switch to edge kernel to get it back working.

Edit: yes, it's a model you can buy with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Every single review called out the fact that these are very expensive. Gruber even made light of it commenting about whether the button quality was worth the price. I suspect the price (rightly so) would give the reviewers extremely high expectations coming into this and they would be looking for the smallest flaws.

That is literally their job, indiscriminate reviewers aren't worth a damn. Gruber isn't a reviewer primarily, but other reviewers have said these sound great too.
I’m fairly certain the parent commenter was being facetious. It’s really hard to comprehend why powerful people are willing to impose such devastation on humankind; the parent is mocking their thought process, with a touch of rather dark humor.
Looking at the iOS platform security document ([0] page 68), apps use NSFileProtectionCompleteUntilFirstUserAuthentication by default, which keeps keys in memory after the first unlock, regardless of the Power + Volume Down lock. If an app opts into NSFileProtectionComplete, I believe the keys are purged from memory upon locking.

[0] https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
A hospital gets paid $13,000 extra (per patient) if a COVID-19 patient is admitted and an extra $39,000 (per patient) if the patient goes on a ventilator.

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-12-08-hrsa-distribute...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cdc-director-acknowl...
Can't wait to live in the Ready Player One future.
Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I love using Lynx on medium.com. It strips away all the non-content and leaves the good stuff. In fact, I can't browse medium pages using any other browser.
How to Stop Google Self-Preferencing? Europe May Not Be the Model
China has brought more renewable power online than almost everyone else combined.

(although they have also brought online a shittonne of coal power, too)
Another reason GC is nice: FP tends to rely on immutable linked data structures with pervasive sharing. That makes ownership complicated.
It needs to act as both a tank wall for cryogenic liquids that won't crack and as a backing for a heat shield that won't melt. Tough trade-off.

Melting point of aluminum is too low. Burning point of epoxy/carbon fiber is also probably quite low, but it's also famously hard to work with and get reliably good results that you can actually inspect. Titanium might work, but is also had to work with and tends to crack.
Well, then this approach stands against everything I thought HN represented. I have discussed things I very much don't want to happen before here and the "I don't even want to see your side, I just don't want this thing to happen" has never seemed to me like a good tactic - it just doesn't get anyone anywhere. I've been convinced many times to change my mind on HN(and I hope I have changed some minds too) but that's just not possible if the other side isn't engaging in the debate. And if not for the debate, what are we even here for?
That sounds highly reckless, tbh. It's easily the most important event in the US's history since WWII and you're ignoring the people who help get through it.
Seriously, why would you complain about this these days? In 2012, I was _impressed as hell_ when the SSD MacBook Air would fully boot OSX in 1 minute 30 seconds, being used to computers taking minutes to start and then spending even more minutes being unusable with the HDD thrashing like hell. These days my Linux desktop computer boots in around 10 seconds (much faster than either Windows or macOS on similar hardware, but at least on windows the boot time improvements have been incredible too). My desktop literally boots in less time than it takes for my DP monitor to power on from zero and start displaying frames.

This is the wrong year to complain about boot time.

I remember being on an airplane with no wifi and a brand new MacBook Air and spent most of the time idly turning it off and on, since I was really impressed :) . And today that > 1 minute boot time I would consider crap.
Another strong argument in favor of doing a direct listing to determine market price (and raising privately beforehand if possible).

Anytime one party does a transaction repeatedly as their job and one party does a transaction once (maybe twice) in their life, the transaction will be structured to favor the first group (along with a compelling narrative/PR of why this is not the case).

Airbnb lost out here. It's easy to discount since people are happy to have made money, but I'm not sure this was a stunning IPO considering that. If I was on the company side, I'd be pissed at the initial pricing and the money that was left on the table.

The counter narrative is that pricing is hard and the banks try to do the best they can (with a slight preference for under pricing to benefit themselves). This is probably closer to the truth, but there's a lot of evidence that they're just not good at it.

It'd be interesting to see some clause that if the banks mis-priced by some X% the partners would have to sell and give 50% back to the company. Though I suspect even this wouldn't help because market price is hard to predict even if you're incentivized to try your best.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-gurley-direct-lis...
hate to be that guy - but I don't think it's a great idea to MITM anything with a login page included.
Just to put this into scale a bit. They are talking about cutting the energy consumption of ~446 million people by 55%, and energy is directly correlated to economic output; using energy to add value and/or utility.

Let's be clear about what that means; that equation can only be affected by a few means and I can assure you with a high degree of confidence that it will not be done by impacting the ruling classes. We are talking about a combination of things like reducing productivity, reducing mobility, reducing living standards, reducing heating and cooling (comfort), reducing amenities, reducing material possessions, reducing social events, etc.

There is no other way that you can cut emissions by at least 55% after decades of already cutting emissions around 20% over the last 25 years. Let alone while also importing people from around the world from low impact to high impact societies.

Let's also realize that while the EU and people in the USA are pushing for these kinds of things, the Chinese and Indians and other countries are pumping out emissions at rates that are way beyond the worst the west has ever produced.

For some more perspective; the EU and US emissions are roughly the same as their share of the world's GDP. By contrast, China produces twice as many emissions as the USA, but only 75% of the GDP; India has half the emissions of the USA, but only produces 10% of the GDP.
Might as well bootstrap to ripping up handfuls of $100s in a cold shower on full blast
It is better to make sure that the reactor won't corrode through just from the molten salts prior to testing it with radioactive molten salt. This is currently not clear.
For the bourgeoisie, feeling like luxury is the same as true luxury. And there are a lot more bourgeoisie than people who know the difference. So Apple mass-produces them some products like the AirPods Max.
Thanks, I will take a look at this - it was much less developed last time I came across it but those screenshots look pretty compelling.
You missed an impressive and crucial detail: they had a whole binder full of credit cards!
And not just the lives of people who get COVID in the future, but also the lives of people who contract other illnesses. Every COVID bed is a bed that can't be used to treat someone who would have otherwise gotten sick or injured, and that person will have to go somewhere. Early on in Washington when the Army was setting up temporary field hospitals, it wasn't to handle COVID patients, it was to handle the normal patients who would have otherwise gone to the regular hospital.

What's messed up about this whole "crisis" is it's being framed as an individual choice to wear a mask. People make it sound like wearing a mask protects you somehow. And that's simply not true. I think in all this "individual freedom" sabre rattling someone is forgetting that you do not have the freedom to harm someone else. And your choice to not wear a mask is a choice to harm the people around you.

So really choosing not to wear a mask is more like choosing to drive drunk, and you won't ever know how many people you kill.
Hi! This course is about the "middle end," FWIW. We do not do parsing or codegen in 6120, and there is no goal (as there is in many undergrad-level compilers courses) of making a complete, end-to-end compiler for a C-like language.
Project Pending, free DNS and email hosting for useless domain names
I appreciate your feelings on this, but I somewhat agree with parent that humor is a good idea. The majority of Americans, and nearly all the "journalism" to which they are subjected, still believe that they should fear brown people overseas enough to preemptively murder them. That is counter to logic and reality, but logic is not the way to make this argument. Few people (well, few Americans anyway) are capable of controlling their fears through logic. Lots of people don't like to be the butt of jokes, though. If the rest of us are always laughing at them, their insecurity might open their eyes to the emptiness of their fear.

The "journalism", however, won't change until it's no longer cost-effective. We have to change ourselves first.
PC/Laptop and Microsoft are thriving. You can't even buy a modern GPU from AMD or Nvidia and Ryzen cpus are sold out everywhere - and there is a massive new console launch with X86 on new Xbox and PS5.

Windows has supported ARM for a while and they have a nice arm device right now.

New mobile Ryzen chips are extremely fast and efficient. X86 isn't going anywhere.

If Apple is successful putting algorithms into silicon for micro efficiencies Intel/AMD/Microsoft aren't going to sit idly by.
Really? I thought it was funny.
I'll give a shout out to Ries and Trout's 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/d...

It's a quick read, well-written, and the points it makes are as true now as ever, especially I think in terms of true "marketing" - that is, identifying the subsegment among the total addressable market for your particular product that you have the best shot of converting into paid customers, and some approaches for doing so.
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I'd never thought of this but it strikes me as a really interesting idea. It's really important to retain a well funded, OSS, citizen-oriented browser since the web is a crucial technology now. A foundation funded by the EU (without a political link) would be a great idea -- hopefully lots of other institutions would also provide funding but you'd need a big hitter as well.
There have been plenty of laws enacted to make smoking more difficult or outright banned. It used to be very common for people to smoke in bars!
To be fair, a tobacco-related death is almost always the result of the victim's own decisions and the government sees to it that everyone knows the risks before making the choice to smoke. More importantly, cancer is not so easily transmitted from person to person.
Android is not sleeping in a PC sense, all processes still run.
Awesome! thanks, much appreciated as I am trying to get some good traction.
I hate to say this, but I spend several hours daily on my side project too. My wife hated me for a while, now she seems to accept it. I can best describe it as an obsession. You have something u need to do, u cant rest or enjoy something else until it is done. When I shower I think of my project and when I take a walk, I think of my project too. Complete obsession to solve the problems; one problem after another problem.
I'm not sure what post you're responding to said, but I do believe federal Medicare reimbursement is higher for covid-19 care than for similar care that doesn't involve covid-19. It seems there is an additional 20% payment from Medicare when covid-19 is involved (though it seems this must also be much smaller than the "extra $13,000" or "extra $39,000" claims I've seen. I think it may be an extra 20% of those base numbers, not sure). [1]

The step many irresponsible people take to suggesting that doctors, hospitals, or insurers are fraudulently marking deaths as covid-19 deaths is whacked, though, in my opinion. The penalties for Medicare fraud are large, including criminal punishment (individuals can go to prison), and I highly doubt anyone is doing it. (Maybe, like voter fraud, there are isolated instances by bad actors, but to believe there is widespread misreporting of covid-19 deaths that substantially affects the overall numbers is crazy.)

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...
Free? Office365 isn't exactly free. Its arguably the new/better (subjective, I guess, both kinda suck) version of Skype for Business.

Slack is actually free to use (last I checked), if you don't care about the chat history.
> Do you have a z series in your garage to hack around with?

You just need a Linux PC with the IBM Z Development & Test Environment.

(Of course, ZD&T, even the “Personal Edition”, doesn’t exactly have hobbyist-friendly pricing.[0])

You can do cheaper (i.e., free) with Hercules, but only with older OS’s.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment/...
How is seven months of a quarantine that people didn’t take seriously equivalent to an entire generation being raised without social interaction?

Obviously wrong clickbait headlines, ad tech, and for-profit news are on my top-5 list of things that are ruining society.
Well, I guess then they have the luxury to do that. I work in a critical position at a major bank and I already have to give 100% at my job. I have side projects as well though which is how my whole weekend gets used up. I guess that is not the norm...
*delayable.
Companies should not be allowed to buy other companies unless it is absolutely essential. This is a flaw in capitalism that creates duopolies and hurts consumers.
We then get companies that are too big to fail, can afford creative accounting and plethora of other not so nice things, like lobbying government to change legislation in favour of them.
We also need a rule that once company goes over a certain threshold it should be split.
I don't think we have ever experienced something like this before that's why there is no regulation and we can see from our experience that companies do not behave nice, so we need a law that forces them to behave.
Back in the day... COBOL programmers were often 'analysts' as well - meeting with the end users and/or management to design and then implement the required system.

Funny to me how so many in this thread rag on COBOL, yet when other languages come up it is always 'well this language is good for abc but I wouldn't really do xyz in that one'. COBOL is extremely good at what it was designed for - data processing, and lots of it.
These headphones are meant to be used in noisy environments where the benefit of studio quality headphones is minimal, and where a cord is annoying.

This luxury product looks cool. Paying a lot extra for that is not new. The price premium over competing products is just not that much for many Apple customers.

In case the noise cancellation when on a plane turns out to be head and shoulders above Bose and Sony...that extra 200 USD now does not seem so bad.
That's a good reasoning.

Now imagine how much money and influence China has and how it can affect our corrupted politicians.
I honestly have never figured out European education systems. Sorry!

But this is Cornell, which I assume is like other research-oriented US universities. You have a 4 (or maybe 5) year undergraduate, leading to a Bachelors and then apply to graduate programs. The graduate schools may have specific Masters tracks, but not really any general Masters program. Instead, you spend the first year or two taking graduate classes until you either satisfy the assorted requirements or pass an oral qualification (They still have those, right?), after which you focus entirely on research, publications, and your dissertation defense. If you leave school before defending, you get the Masters as a sort of consolation prize---most US PhDs in my experience don't have Masters.
Those are very niche games with very low system requirements. It's a bit like saying the M1 handles emulating Solitaire and Minesweeper just fine.
Ask HN: Why the recent surge in ToS updates?
Is it because of the monopoly probes?
git push = automated build and test (eg. Typescript codebases), deploy, SSL cert setup, CDN asset hosting

It's effortless.

Like how it looks locally? Git commit, git push. Done.
I presume customers are manufacturers of potential reactor parts that want to see that they can handle the salt, temperatures etc.

edit: from the datasheet[1]:

The portable loop are sutable rapid prototype validation, long term testing of mean time between failure, salt compatibility testing, and many types of experiments that require flowing molten salts.

Components such as gaskets, flanges, filters, valves, pumps, pressure sensors, flow meters, and heat exchangers, etc. can be tested inside the furnace with flowing molten salt.

[1]: https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/products.php
This is so neat! Curious how you monetize this? From what I can quickly glean all of the content is free.
And "companies" could be replaced by "people" and "labor" could be replaced by "stuff"...

The case of COBOL is of interest as there was a wave of articles this year suggesting there was some sort of anomaly on the market: tons of COBOL programs and not a soul alive to maintain them.
They'd be taking a pretty big risk by doing that. Not only is venting a patient extremely dangerous (50% chance you're never coming off that vent), you can lose your license, face prison time and get fined as least as much as you defrauded Medicare.
The century-long quest for worldwide wireless power
How Many Planets Could We Destroy? (2011)