skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the exception of url naming (no rule, which is worse than any rule), error response (a bit ambiguous) and general verbosity, I find that the jsonapi.org spec can serve as a relatively sane default.

Although I would love for browsers to start natively supporting some sort of schema based, explicitly typed, binary format.
Actually, modules are still downloaded to a global location, they are not copied locally to your project by default.
In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software
I've noticed this with playlists on Youtube, an entire album I wanted to hear + some unrelated tune or advert for a pack of samples (for music production) stuck on the end.
It means they should start trying to hire competent people. What I’m seeing in this list is more like: Did this person study CS and actually remember everything, and did they happen to look through a bunch of normally irrelevant stuff for shits and giggles.
Great news. I wonder is the new ferret fertile? I know that can be an issue with manipulated species.
I've tried to like Sourcehut, but I just can't. While I know some people love the "pull requests by email" workflow, it adds so much more friction for me that I don't even want to see what else the site has to offer.
I'm leaving this here, no judgement, no further comment (ddevault is the CEO of sourcehut):

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ddevault
I always imagined it was related to Portuguese adventures to Formosa and perhaps beyond, to Japan. But I did have lunch at a Japanese-Brasilian's house this weekend...
Even if this was directed at the union vote, why is it gross?
Good question, increasingly we can judge for ourselves. Go to BOLD (COI barcoding) [0]. Search for "Apidae". That's just one family of bees, in this case the one that includes 27+ (IIRC, probably way off) subspecies of what we know as the honeybee. The important bit is the count in "BINS", e.g. hypothesis of speciation typically based on a single gene, COI.

That's only the specimens that have been sequenced and archived at BOLD. That doesn't include the various other bee families, notably Halictidae, Colletidae, Melittidae, and others roughly all the "sister groups" in the Apoidea [1].

An example of why is this important? The Africanized honeybee, known perhaps from bad horror movies, is characterized (identified) as a hybrid of two species. It can be more or less aggressive (to the point of killing you if you don't GTFO) depending on then nature of its DNA. Hybridization has blurred the limits of the species in many areas, including in the US. Sequencing specimens is the only way to confidently determine which of the species you have, A (friendly bee honey), AB (grumpy bee honey), or B (deadly bee honey) (gross simplification here, not Mendelian).

[0](http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BINSearch).
[1](here: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/?taxonKey=625GP)
Hopefully not 24/7/365. I think that's what OP was getting at. At the very least, weekend coverage should be passed around various co-workers.
Right, the verifier can't be used to impersonate the user, but can be used to verify password guesses offline.
I'm not sure I agree.

Stackoverflow pays $0/h and attracts great answers and OSS pays $0/h and attracts great developers.
I don't think the parent was talking about JIT power generation but rather using JIT (in other industries) as a comparison to to talk about the efficiency-reliability tradeoff. The analogy here is cost savings of avoiding
winterization make the power companies more competitive (more efficient) but less reliable.

You are, of course, right in the all specific details you've brought up vis-a-vis the winterizing and the nature of the power grid. I just think you missed the parent's point slightly.
Would think a feature would be rating from confirmed payments by other users but that can be gamed too.
> “When they legislate these things, they need to be appropriating enough money to make sure they work,” a source said. They estimated fixing the SB1310 bug would take roughly 2,000 additional programming hours.

40 hours a week times 52 weeks is 2080 hours. Subtract a few weeks for vacations and holidays, and you get a little less that 2000 hours. So, basically, this is a little more than one programmer-year of effort if the estimate is in the right ballpark.

It's gross that the decision not to fix this carries an apparent implicit economic calculation that one programmer-year is more valuable than the freedom that is being denied to an unknown number of people whom society deems less important. (Granted the actual situation is more complicated and the state is constrained by their contract with the vendor, which we can reasonably guess is going to charge as much as they can contractually get away with rather than the programmer's actual salary cost.)

At least the Department of Corrections has assigned people to do the calculations manually. That's better, but it sounds like they just don't have enough people on it to keep up.
I'm not sure that a simple sliding correlation really captures how treatments, protocols, and behaviors have changed over time. Leaving aside the winter holidays case peak (which is much more multi-modal than the others), I see two peaks:

* A peak of cases around Apr 11, followed by a peak of hospitalizations on Apr 22, with a peak of deaths also around Apr 22.

* A peak of cases around Jul 22, followed by a peak of hospitalizations around July 26, followed by a peak of deaths around August 4.

If I were going to do a more detailed analysis, I would want to try breaking out individual states/counties (subject to some reasonable population minimum), such that multiple distinct trends nationally don't interfere with each other in the data.
Commodities are going crazy:

https://www.cnn.com/business/markets/commodities/

Crude oil, natural gas, silver, corn, wheat, lumber, all up 2-3x since the bottom in April. In many cases (i.e. everything not oil-related), this is not just recovery from a dip: prices are significantly higher than 2017-2020 levels.

That said, I don't buy the conventional Wall Street narrative that this means the Fed'll raise rates and we'll get a stock market crash. Or rather, I believe that'll happen, but it'll be too late and the currency will have devalued 10x or more by then. The Fed has pledged to keep rates low through 2023, and to allow inflation to overshoot the 2% target to make up for the last decade of ~1.5% inflation rates, and that any rate movements will be "well telegraphed" for a long period of time beforehand. They still have tens of millions of people out of work. I doubt they'll act until it shows up in headline CPIs for a year or two.

Once inflation rates really get going, it's hard to tamp them down. The Fed has a pretty fun (and quite educational) game where you get to play the Fed chair:

https://www.sffed-education.org/chairthefed/default

Try playing one of the inflationary scenarios (they're random, but just keep playing till you get one with a tight labor market rather than a housing crash or recession). If you don't raise rates early and often, you quickly get into a situation where inflation is 7-8% and you have to hike rates to 15% or more to tamp it down. Why? Because inflationary expectations are subtracted from the nominal interest rate to get to the real interest rate. If inflation is high, you have to hike nominal rates even higher to get real rates to go up at all, and you have to hike real rates pretty high to make a meaningful dent in the money supply.
This may sound silly, but: The closest I've coming to building a "robot" was a simple little arduino kit. The kit was terrible, the parts defective, and you can imagine I was pretty sick of troubleshooting it after a time. These are things happening on my workbench with a small amount of automation code. I'd have been thrilled if it had just worked as designed.

Now, take three robots. One is wheeled, one flies by rotors, and another is rocket powered. Put them on a rocket, fly to another planet, and land them autonomously without wrecking anything. As a hobbyist I'd be beyond myself to just do ONE of those. On Earth. Let alone millions of miles away on a distant planet.

And to get video of it just days later, bounced across multiple orbiters? Mind blowing.
Modern stackful coroutines don't (or shouldn't) use context switching (at least not anything like ucontext_t, just use threads if you're going to spend the cycles to preserve the signal mask) or setjmp/longjmp. Those tricks are slow and hazardous, especially when code needs to cross language boundaries or remain exception safe.
> It an ironclad economic reality that Apple has $200 billion literally sitting in offshore tax heavens.

It’s not actual banknotes. It’s in investment vehicles.

Generally that means it’s invested in things like stocks commodities etc.

We can debate whether Apple is investing their money in productive vehicles or not.

But it’s not literally sitting anywhere.

> It has failed to effectively invest or spend it for the past decade.

Has it? You may be right.

You are certainly right that they have this much capital offshore.

To claim that it hasn’t been invested effectively isn’t something you can say without qualification.

> If you deny that this is unproductive, then you have left the realm of reasonable discourse and it's like debating Nasa's research with a flat-earther.

If you say so.

One reason businesses keep large amounts of securities on hand, is to mitigate risk.

I’d say Apple faces some of the largest risks of any company in the world.

It is dependent on China for most of its manufacturing, and Taiwan for all of almost all of it’s silicon.

It’s not at all unreasonable for them to consider a future where one or both of these are the subject of political instability.

The government can certainly precipitate disaster for Apple in China or Taiwan, or fail to protect Apple’s interests.

What it cannot do is rebuild its supply chain or silicon vendor in such an event. For that Apple would need a large reserve in the order of 100’s of billions of dollars.

Do you deny that?
Data still shows the same. IFR is comparable to mild flu. 98% of people show no to mild symptoms. Virus is overhyped.
> We could be talking about "Breaking up Big Tech" for 50 years trying to break all of these up. It's kind of insane.

Big Tech is likely a misnomer. The reality is over the last 50 years we have only really had 10-20 companies that we truly consider innovative. Technology is a new modus-operandi for companies.

Its like this: The first shops just used spoken language only. When some shops started to use literacy as a way to write down a menu or track receipts, calling those businesses "Big Literacy" would help, but really the best help is to get every business to change their mental models and operate under the newest winning modus operandi. Similar story with businesses that normalized leveraging Math and/or Economic theory as a winning modus operandi.

What we need is every company in the S&P 500 to adopt the winning strategies (long term thinking, leadership principles, software as a product rather than a cost center, vertical integration, etc) from FAANG companies, until then we will be left with only the S&P 5 or at-best 50. Or, we need to create regulation to stop those strategies from being the winning strategy (hopefully without stagnation).
Trip report: Winter 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)
That's a good point! Will edit - young I guess as responsibility free and learning the craft. I guess early stage is a better term!
Whats the point of doing it with humans.
Robots are getting better every year. Humans not really.
Robots will most likely first build an settlement on mars before humans will arrive.
The problem is that we never evolved COBOL / VB.

Or we did, but then used the resulting easier-to-learn / easier-to-write languages exclusively for web dev, and further specialized them.

There's a mind-bogglingly huge chasm of simple business data processing software that has no performance requirements & no need to be written in an impenetrable language.

Any one of the employees there could probably tell you what should be done in each case, and it's an indictment of our profession that we haven't created a good language / system that lets them do so.

You can optimize along increase-developer-productivity or along increase-potential-developer-population. We chose the former.
The rover wheels on Curiosity had gaps so that the tire tracks left a pattern in morse code that spelled out JPL, so maybe something similar? They eliminated that on Perseverance with the wheel redesign.
> If you are seriously claiming that there is no risk to someone who is predisposed to schizophrenia taking LSD, I think you are spreading dangerous bullshit.

I'm saying we don't know, so yeah there's a risk but there's also a risk they are beneficial and we will never know.

> Certainly all of MAPS clinical studies screen such people out of LSD trials, because there is a risk.

It's not only because there is a risk, as I said there's only anecdotal evidence for that. I think the main reason MAPS clinical studies screen people with schizo tendencies and also bipolar is because those studies are to deal with certain PTSD and ASD symptoms and test subjects with "comorbidities" would ruin their experiments because of how low n is.
It would be nice. At least that would give some value to literally studying for their interviews.
Ebola has spread quite quickly, and there have been lockdowns to stop it.
> The line I've heard repeatedly is we're waiting for "total" herd immunity

It depends which line you are considering; if wearing masks yes.

If "reopening and returning to normal" that remark is most resembles a hyperbole.

In the United States, on April 16th 2020, the Coronavirus task force outlined a 3 phase plan dependent on 3 criteria based on 2 week averages

1) Hospital Vacancy,

2) New cases decreasing (from where they were), and

3) Percent positive testing rate under 10% (that suggests that the tests numbers are close to accurate and not in community spread)(5% is the standard that Europe uses as a liberal goal, 2.5% is the recommended)

For an answer on those 3 in the US (today)

1) Hospitals are just now where they were on April 16

2) New cases is about 3x where they were April 16

3) We've been under 10% since 1/21 (now at a 7 day average of 5%)

So the goal posts haven't gotten harder. They did get easier; restaurants shouldn't have been open for socially distanced dining based on the plan until 1/21.
Thanks!

Right now they don't trust the Chinese/Russian vaccines, only vaccines approved by the EU, and I also prefer them to wait a few more months in their apartments.

The problem is that once they accept a vaccine, they can't get another type, as only one type of vaccine is allowed per person because of the current vaccine shortage in the world.
The variants came along a good few years after MD hardware went on sale in the US - the first MiniDisc player went on sale in the US in September 1992, while NetMD wasn't introduced until 2001 and Hi-MD in 2004.

With the original iPod also introduced in 2001, and MD's high media cost and lack of pre-recorded releases having kept it firmly in its original niche, I think probably most MD adopters in the US didn't have compatibility problems for the simple reason that, by the time those problems became possible, we weren't really bothering with MiniDisc any more anyway.

That said, NetMD was just a different format on the same media, and a line of players capable of transferring audio from a computer digitally via USB. You can't use a NetMD-formatted disc in a non-NetMD player, but you can still reformat and use the disc in an older player, and a NetMD player will play back discs using the older format. The real compatibility barrier is Hi-MD, which uses a totally different media formulation in order to reach its ~1GB capacity; as far as I know, Hi-MD media, however formatted, can't be used in any non Hi-MD player.

(Even for latter-day MiniDisc aficionados such as myself, that's still not a huge barrier, because not much Hi-MD media was ever made, and you can expect to pay $60 or more for a single disc today. Hi-MD players are likewise rare and pricey, so I suspect most folks who get into the medium for hobby reasons end up sticking with NetMD.)
I'd say a lot of software is comparable in complexity to the large bridges that exist. Of course there are massive software projects that dwarf any bridge ever build. But a lot of software is only moderately complex.

I don't know about infrastructure in the US. I don't live there. I'm happy with the infrastructure in west Europe though. I wish that much care was put in to the software I use every day.
> In Chinese, one may of course indicate the gender of a third party, but this isn't mandatory, where in Romance languages, it is

Romance languages have gender as a grammatical category, and it exists on all nouns. Semantically, gender is arbitrary, except in the case of natural gender on animate nouns. The need to express the gender of a noun is a purely syntactic requirement, which Chinese does not have. It seems like a valid comparison, but it's not really.

> If evidentiary particles are mandatory grammar, and that is the claim

And that's probably not really true. Instead, there's a conflation of epistemic mode and tense (and maybe aspect because why not) the verb system, and that's all tangled up with the other affixes. It's not clear from the article, (or the paper I don't have time to wade through) if there's a default mode/tense that speakers use, and then only clarify when necessary.

I get your point, but I think the actual facts are probably much less stark or interesting than the article makes out.
> I wonder if they have the time/it's in their plan to send [Perseverance] over to record where [the heat shield] landed

I was thinking the same, but more for the fact that surely the impact has made a hole of some description that could be interesting to look into. Take advantage of the already expended energy to penetrate the surface layers.
Well, every refactoring can be seen as a series of correctness-preserving housekeeping operations.
Stack Overflow rep/profile is probably a decent start
We are probably refering to different scenarios. When purchasing data for analytics, data providers are usually sophisticated enough to know not to modify their data history. With new ones, data delivery format can be negotiated.

Data providers usually wait for a day or something worth of data to collect before validating and releasing it to customers.

For integrating some OLTP database updating in real time on the other hand, yes you will need CDC.

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Most of data engineering is just incrementally adding new data to existing corpus and then running a big batch job to dedup, sort or partition. This last step surely is computationally expensive, but at least it is conceptually simple and can be solved by throwing hardware at it. The first part of incremental updates is what imo causes more troubles.
I disagree. The leaders in those parties are a lot more similar to each other than they are to their base. For the most part they have the share the same neoliberal beliefs. Even though democrats like to pretend they don't, their actions say otherwise.
Tipping is necessary because waiters get paid $2.xx/hour for dumb reasons. In some restaurants waiters handle the takeout stuff but not always, and tips may be shared with all, some, or none. So it’s very complicated. My recommendation (especially in the pandemic) to tipping is to tip generously. Generous is relative, so if someone is struggling to make ends meet and they’re having their one takeout meal a month, they might not tip as much as someone not struggling and who is getting their third takeout order this week. But in either case they should tip generously
Of all the features, I am extremely happy about this one: reference tags in CI configuration https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#reference-tag...

I've had some pains when creating base job definitions that I had to modify later (one of them is that after_script doesn't fail the job if it fails, for example) and I think I can solve almost all of them with this new feature.

Gitlab is one of the few programs I use where I'm actually looking forward to updates: things rarely break in updates and I have actual, useful improvements every month.
Well, there goes the rest of my afternoon.

Edit: no video I can find; I'd just find satisfying to watch it hit the ground, in real time.
Well, if we're defining "auction" to mean anything with competing options -- rather than its typical usage, which is price-only competition of something rather commodity-ish -- then sure.

My process had elements of an auction - using competing options to determine "a market price" for various terms. BTW - the VCs also had that, in that they could have put that same capital to work in other companies vs mine.

But that's not a pure auction. i.e. there's still room for qualitative choice and optimization on both sides. This should be most obvious to you in the non-monetary terms and how difficult it would be to translate into $ terms (for instance - how many seats on the board? How much lower/higher of price makes sense for more/fewer board seats? Well, for starters, it would depend on which VC is asking and what stage the biz is in). Clearly these aren't pure auctions.

Because (back to my original point) this is possibly a 10+ year partnership you're getting into (longer than many marriages).

A good process is more equivalent to (1) speed dating, which leads to (2) a handful of non-exclusive longer dates, (3) a period of exclusivity (no-shop) and 'meeting the family' (diligence), and then possibly, finally, (4) marriage.
I appreciate your effort, I also have a hacker spirit / hands on mentality for my own hobby projects. But in this case I simply cannot "sell" it to my team. We really need something already production ready with community support behind it.
Pretty cool, although it's so hard to really get a sense of sound of wind with a microphone. I guess the takeaway is that Mars is super quiet.
> If you pair a retail energy provider like Griddy with an advanced suite of home efficiency technology, like programmable or price-responsive thermostats, you can have a building that automatically tailors its energy usage to the market environment

One major piece of this puzzle that is, IMO, missing, is the lack of any reasonable, standardized way for a hypothetical smart home to communicate with the grid. With a smart meter, a properly ZigBee certified (why? probably some silly reason involving “security”) end user device can get current usage data from a smart meter. (And this data is blatantly wrong in any nontrivial circumstance.)

But and end-user device has no way to negotiate pricing or load reduction with the grid short of going through some intermediary on the Internet. If I want to program my house to reduce consumption when prices are high, I can’t.

An an example, a car should be able to tell the grid that it wants to buy x kWh at a maximum power of y kW between now and 5 AM, and the grid should be able to tell the car when to buy it. I don’t mean Tesla negotiating this on behalf of itself or its customers - I mean the car or the house talking to the meter or the utility. No unnecessary or unavoidable intermediaries please.

It doesn’t help that PG&E does not accurately know the topology of its own grid. Oops.
Nah, if you go into a borderline city, odds are almost 1 that you'll signage in Portuguese at the Spanish side of the border. Brazilian speak Portuguese, there's no details to add.

Those 2% (that feels way too high, I don't trust this number) are insulated immigrants (probably speaking German, Japanese, or Italian) or native communities speaking their own language. Those are very small and fringe communities, most first generation immigrants and natives speak Portuguese too (but as a second language).