skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I expect it will be newcomers to Fortran from languages like Python, Julia or Matlab who will really like LFortran once it matures. We are working very hard on it and are close to compiling real world projects, you can follow our progress on MVP here:

https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/issues/313

Current Fortran programmers might not always appreciate the interactive part, but I think they will also like LFortran as another independent compiler and for some of its features once it matures (such as C++ translation, fast compilation, good warnings, automatic wrappers to/from Python, etc.).
Productivity. Prove it with numbers if you can :)
Are there LTE “dumb smart frames”?
I believe all the ones you listed would fall above the median salary of about $50k.
Well, Blender managed to pull it off and "everyone" loved that change. They have 24 salaried employees, though.
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/MadeInAmericaTaxP...
Flu is an influenza virus not a coronavirus - it's literally in the name.

Additionally, varying levels of contagiousness and mechanisms of spread absolutely make actions more effective for some diseases and less effective or not effective at all for others. This is not a controversial statement despite your dramatic insistence on ignorance.
I'm assuming you're asking for some ideas, or about how to think of them. I could give you a list of a thousand ideas but it doesn't really matter unless you're passionate about them.

Instead I would focus on an issue that you've experienced, perhaps something that you find annoying and can build a solution for. It's highly likely that someone else has the same problem as you and is willing to pay for a solution to it. You get two benefits, one is that it's something that you've experienced so you're probably passionate about building a solution for it, and second it's a problem that exists instead of creating a solution in chase of a problem.

This article gets posted a lot, but I think it's worth a good read.

http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

This blog post helped me a lot as well. It helped me get better as seeing problems and thinking of solutions to them:

https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-for-becomi...
Influenza is not a coronavirus.
Well, other than the homebrew folks and those inclined to sail the high seas, very true. I don't get how this is suddenly an issue just because the device is portable - where is the outrage that developers can't distribute whatever they like on the Nintendo Switch outside of Nintendo's system (which also takes a 30% cut)?
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> The likely explanation is that, because the flu is significantly less transmissible than COVID

But why is it less transmissible? One obvious explanation is because we've lived with it all our lives, and most people already have some level of pre-existing immunity to most flu strains they're exposed to. Both due to natural infections, and vaccines.

> In other words, you can probably beat back the flu significantly by having enough of the population mask up, wash/sanitize their hands, etc.

If pre-existing immunity is why it's less transmissible, those measures will result in fewer flu infections, and thus lower levels of pre-existing immunity. Which in turn, may make the flu more transmissible, leaving us where we started. Worse, if pre-existing immunity is decreasing the severity of the infections we do get, the net effect may actually be more deaths due to fewer, but more deadly, infections.

Flu vaccines are notoriously ineffective, with a typical year being just 50% effective, and bad years being as little as 19%. They're probably the least effective widely used vaccines by a long shot (eg the MMR vaccine is about 97% effective). So we can't just assume we'd be able to make up the difference with increased vaccination. Flu vaccine coverage is already quite high anyway, 51.8% or so for the entire US population.

edit: fixed %

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1920estimates.ht...
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/measles/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....
Kraftwerk wasn't the first group/soloer doing electronic music.
This origin story of the Xenos GPU is pretty interesting:

> Information about the interface and the behavior of the Xbox 360’s GPU was obtained from publicly available sources, such as [...] the unofficial Freedreno driver (as the Adreno 200 GPU is heavily based on the Xenos)

> Contrary to a common misconception, the Xbox 360, however, is not just a “DirectX 9 box”. It essentially contains a tile-based (though not entirely — we’ll return to this later) mobile-like GPU, though with much more raw power than a comparable mobile GPU. If you compare the registers of the Xenos and the Qualcomm Adreno 200, you can see that most of them are the same, as they are almost the same GPUs — the Adreno 200 was called the AMD Z430 before having been acquired by Qualcomm, and was even referred to as the “mini-Xenos”!
I got a local login on a machine so busted that I couldn't mount /usr, meaning I couldn't read /usr/share/terminfo, meaning no screen editors would work. I knew just enough ed that I was able to fix /etc/fstab and bring the system up.

I wouldn't wanna use it every day, but it has its time and place.
You say that like doing so is a negative thing. How do you think executable code gets on a system in the first place?

Either an Admin builds from source, an Admin installs a binary from a source they deem trustworthy, or you YOLO, download something sketchy to an older system and watch what your Network Analyzer/reverse engineering stack spits out.

App stores changed none of that in terms of fundamental activity one needs to do. They just lull users into a false sense of security because "someone else did it". I've run into too many devs who salivated over the idea of embedding cryptominers in game clones to believe it isn't done on a semi-regular basis.
Influenza is not a coronavirus
Nice, and now that I think of it we did have an operating systems class. I know better than to trust 25-year-old memories.
Clearly being facetious there

By my own memory as a teenager growing up in the rave scene, electronic music was weird and unapproachable to pretty much everyone. Big Beat like The Crystal Method and Prodigy had made some waves, and of course there was Moby, but outside of my raver friends and a brief attempt to get eurodance (like Alice Deejay) on Top 40 radio by the local media conglomerates, "techno" was pretty niche.

I mean, in the early 2000s I saw Paul Oakenfold -- twice -- at small clubs, and it was easy to get into the front. I would write requests in big letters on my phone and see if I could get the DJ to play them. (Tiesto wasn't as approachable but that asshole would crank the speakers up well past their distortion point)
Norfolk's airport is ORF.
His arguments aside, I find calling anything to be "un-American" or "un-<insert country name>" to be annoying. Its a random nativist and unhelpfully pot-stirring sentiment to throw into an important debate. Who is Cowen or Bloomberg to be an important arbiter of what is or isn't American?
This is incredible, I wish there were more analogue centered devices for older people with both hearing and vision loss. The combination makes it virtually impossible to interact with any well designed software because it's all touch screen and way too complicated. But also makes it impossible to interact with the limited number of phones with analogue buttons because they are usually feature phones with even worse designed software than touchscreen phones and at that point the analogue buttons don't really help at all. So yeah this is truly incredible.
It appears to be using an 1/4" patch cord, not an XLR cable! XLR is the cable (and connector) with 3 pins as is used with microphones and carries a balanced signal - 1 leg is ground, then the other two are inverted signals to minimize noise.
Not to my knowledge. If anyone is interested in building one get in touch, it would be a fun thing to build. Right now we let people to mail videos [1]. Think a greeting card, but which plays your home movies.

[1] - https://sendheirloom.com
I remember it not being a huge deal to have a bunch of people at work come with flu-like symptoms. "It's just something going around." Work gave out flu shots every year but that isn't 100%. It wasn't even considered much of a faux pas to show up to work feeling a little ill. Now, showing up to work with flu-like symptoms could put you in the hot seat with HR. Having a bunch of people fall ill in the office now results in it being closed for the day for cleaning. It won't stay this way forever but it's going to be a while until most people go back to being lax on contagious diseases. Imagine companies forcing employees and schools forcing students to mask up during flu season.
I was in Florida two weeks ago--Orlando and Sarasota. I'm a Massachusetts resident. In Florida, I observed around 90+% mask usage in grocery stores. In a random ColdStone creamery, I saw maybe 70%, Five guys was probably 80% except while eating.

In Massachusetts, usage is certainly higher, but maybe in practicality, not enough to make a difference compared to other factors?
Google Flights does this for you. It can both show you actual prices per calendar month, and predicted price rise/fall. It even highlights the lowest price dates. And you can sign up for e-mailed price alerts.
You are correct, this word is hugely misleading.

I once ran an audit of a major VPN provider who claimed they did not store IPs or in fact any personal data on their users in their marketing material. In fact, their technical justification for this was merely swapping one unique key out for another. When asked to trace a persons connection and identity, a randomly selected engineer on their data science team did it within a few minutes. The fact that they had a data science team when they purported not to collect user data was baffling to me.
Their particular problem in this case is that they are researchers at a reputable university. They are not supposed to be caught doing this, ever. Poorly supervised students coupled to disinterested faculty advisors is the recipe for this sort of non-sense.
Absolutely agree that standard flu cases are surely being reported as covid.
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The biggest problem we have faced, unfortunately, is the proliferation of modern security features.

Chromebooks are awesome in many ways for the elderly, but the fact that you can't disable password entry at startup has been a dealbreaker for my aging father. He can't type easily and is beginning to struggle with passwords.

Paradoxically, this means that he's still running his Ubuntu laptop (he has been using UNIX systems since a DEC Alpha) but getting left behind on a lot of accessibility features and has minimal support from nursing-home staff.

Struggling with passwords has also meant that he is endlessly resetting passwords or creating new accounts, compounding confusion.

It is a tricky set of problems, with no easy answers.
There was also a high degree of arrogance on his part. That he thought his needs and priorities outweigh those of the much, much bigger community and/or that he doesn't need permission from anyone in charge of the codebase is just astounding.
In other words, Schulenberg doesn't want nano to slide on a slippery slope towards emacs.
That's a working-in-an-office habit, which I personally am trying to break. (as he goofs around on HN)
Remember when your schoolmates were your best friends at the time, then you changed schools and their friendship sublimated? I guess they weren't worthy of being your friends after all.
> I'll be the odd one out and say that I see nothing wrong with their study. There are much more skillful, much better resourced actors who can do what the UMN did much more discretely.

Puting these patches under false pretense is deceptive behavior to other people, that is problematic regardless of whether the intent is malicious or just doing research.
no self-serve trial option? Looks like I have to speak to a salesperson to try this out.

It's a shame because my company could potentially use something like this.
I'm not saying developers have a legal claim against Google, but that Google still owes them something, in the moral sense.

Google could still deny appeals. They certainly would deny appeals. But having a real process with humans involved would be a healthy change compared to tripping an automated alarm and being locked out forever with no explanation. It's not about a human pressing the button, it's about a human actually being required to make a judgement and explain it, with reference to actual facts. The result of this process will be a yes/no decision attached to, I don't know, a paragraph or two of human-generated text referencing actual aspects of the app in question.

Lots of administrative law works like this. Yes, your appeal may be denied. In fact, the people you're appealing to may even be part of the same bureaucracy that is causing you harm in the first place. But creating an actual process whereby claims are adjudicated (even if it's all totally internal) has some value!
Flu is not a coronavirus but a completely different one. Different viruses behave differently. How hard is that to rationalize?
I'm kind of enjoying this family fight. I miss meeting my Italian friends. :)
At the elite level of endurance sports everyone is in excellent condition and has optimal genetics. What really makes a winner is the ability to suffer.
My model attacker is a limited user that has access to an advanced search function with filtering on number inequality and/or string patterns akin to LIKE. Such an attacker could send a search query such as "id = 4829 AND cost > 1000" and measure the time that query took (over multiple executions). From the time data the attacker could then determine if object 4829 has a cost value of over 1000, gaining 1 bit of data. Through a binary search they could obtain the full value in logarithmic time.

If the authorization check was fast enough (which it probably is for performance reasons anyway), this would be reduced to the attacker obtaining statistical information (roughly how many objects have cost over 1000). That might be acceptable, my problem is that a benign-looking performane problem could become a serious security problem.
Making sense in your head and fitting a narrative is not enough to make a claim correspond to reality.
The platform is nothing without developers so they certainly owe something to third party developers in general.

Let’s just assume for the sake of argument that this is a mistake and they didn’t do anything fraudulent. Why in that situation would Google want to deny the appeal? It should be very easily sorted.
+1 for Boris Brejcha
Statement from the Rust Foundation: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-04-29-membership...

It seems there are a few new silver members as well.
If they hired people to pretend to be manual approve/deny people then I think Google is acting in entirely bad faith and should be criticized for it.
Slack is great for quick messages. The error is to use one system for ephermal, immediate messages and not use another different one for longer message of less immediate nature. Email is great for the second. I have to have a folder of markdown files where I can draft messages to then post on slack, just because slacks own message editor can't be relied on not to post half my message.

Of course slack also can't handle markdown so my messages end up looking weird, but better weird than unreadable.

The upshot is that my messages end up impressing people because they are not just a garble of words, but have such features as headlines, paragraphs, lists and have been run through an actual spell checker.
It doesn’t, really - 15 or 10
years ago was pretty much the low point, by then everyone who wanted to jump ship did so.
Ok, I chuckled. But it's actually true. Time is finite and time not spent sitting on a commuter train or waiting for subways is time that used for other things. And I agree 3 hours a day is NUTS, but unfortunately pretty common in large metro areas.
How not to write cold emails to investors -- lessons from a serial founder whose companies have raised $150MM+.

TL;DR Don't chase. Be chased.

1. Don't write cold emails to investors. You automatically give the investor the upper hand by chasing them. It's counter intuitive, but it comes off as desperate. VCs write checks into companies that they have a fear of missing out, or that other VCs are backing, not those that end up in their inbox (e.g. Sacca & Pinterest: https://twitter.com/sacca/status/620344394189647872?lang=en)

2. Take the time that you would have spent emailing investors and build product. Get traction.

3. Get investors to email you.
Also with LFortran (https://lfortran.org) being interactive like Julia, our hope is that it will allow to prototype directly in Fortran.

(I am the original author of LFortran.)
>all life known in the universe will be wiped out.

Is that a problem for you?

And why would it not come to existence again somewhere eventually?

Its interesting to think about such stuff but it really should not have an impact on decisions we make today because it just not possible to affect a so distant future (thousands of years) in a meaning full way.

Just imagine humans 2000 years ago what could they have possibly done that would have had a positive environmental effect today. And that's just 2000 years ago.

If you apply this to mining the see floor. Do you seriously think that if we today decide that human should not do this that it wont be done in 2000 years?
I think is far more likely it just pushed a little back in time an insignificant little, maybe one human life maybe even two who knows but in 4021 no one cares if it started in the year 2021 or 2121 that's for sure.

Also if you want our species to become multi planetary then the only logical thing to do is to use all resources available achieve this as soon as possible. If we used up the resources or have way more humans and no spear resources no one is going to achieve it anymore.
How did the government interfere?
- Be really really good at your job

- You don't need to be told what to do all the time.

- You have proven that you can WFH and deliver great results

- You have proven that you have integrity and are available when needed for important discussions, meetings etc.

If you have most of these, you have "leverage". Otherwise it may be tough if your manager doesn't want you to WFH post-pandemic.
Exfiltrating a bunch of data and then poking around to see how sexy it is and then releasing it seems like a strange way to show that the company you took it from isn't trustworthy with data...
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R-factor.

If 90%* wear masks and the R-factor of the "flu" is is low enough it "disappears". But if the R-factor for covid is high enough it still spreads even if 90%* wear masks (10% don't).

It's mindboggling how simple simple thinking can evade people.

*numbers made up for illustration purposes only
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Can anyone speak to what power this gives them in the rust foundation, other than just good will and the dependence on funding?
It had to happen, the only way to make a programming language successful is to have it backed by most big tech companies.
> I trust them to pay my paycheck, I trust them to respect the contract I signed when hired. I trust them to give me my tax information in a timely manner. Now, those are some examples that are backed by law or contracts, but if you don't trust any company in any way, then you could be missing out on some of the benefits of said company.

You don't need trust for any of those. Those are mutually beneficial; the companies benefit in actually having workers and not having the IRS crawling all over them.

True trust occurs when you believe another party will not harm you in situations where it would benefit them to harm you, or would at the very least have no negative repercussions for them.

Telling a friend a deep secret and then asking them not to tell anyone is trust. Telling them a secret and then making them sign an NDA with financial penalties is a sure sign of a lack of trust.
The option to install applications that are censored by the the Default App Store for whatever reason.

Plus, this case probably has pretty far reaching implications on the future of computing. If Apple is allowed to lock down their phones & tables, can they do so with Mac OSX? If Apple can do so with OSX, can Microsoft do the same and lock down Windows to prevent apps from being installed outside of their App Store?

If Microsoft can lock down Windows like iOS/OSX, can Dell lock down their servers to prevent other operating systems from being installed?
Starting with the next version; when you compile, you will see a facebook ad.
Wonder if anyone involved was on the tenure track. If so I assume they can kiss tenure goodbye.
You seem to be implying that Florida had no restrictions, but this just isn't the case. Even when I went a couple of months ago, masking indoors was the norm and most places still had capacity restrictions.

Queues at popular sites were socially distanced outdoors as well.
Not to be confused with Uber's Zanzibar: https://github.com/uber/zanzibar
I think this technique can applied only on batteries already made to be recycled in this way, but is a good pint for the future industries “By reusing the structures of batteries we can avoid a lot of the labour that is common in recycling and potentially save energy at the same time. We believe that the method could help companies that are developing industrial recycling,” Kallio says.
This is what i used to edit configurations in plan9 console if you don't have graphics support(over serial console) or to fix issues before starting rio. It is surprisingly pretty decent experience.
Similar tool with awesome interface & bridges would be dbdiagram.io [0]. Not affiliated, just a happy user.

Imports from MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, works with Rails, Django etc.

[0]:https://dbdiagram.io/
> We can always build higher, construction techniques are only getting better. I don't see why 60 floor buildings can't be a norm in most supply constrained cities.

Because there is no way we can make infrastructure follow in the short term. Public transports are already saturated here, we could remove cars, but there is still a limit in how many people can be on the ground in streets, parcs, shops...
Hit me up at tommy@releasehub.com and I'll hook you up.
"why wouldn't you want your ads personalized?" - that came out of a xoogler's mouth.
I assume this is happening already; I would expect nation states to have already inserting a number of exploits so they are prepared in case of war, to exploit the enemy's servers.
I want to go back 2-3 days a week. And I would stay home from Nov to Feb as I usually get sick around that time. The usual culprit is coworkers get sick and decided to come to the office. A week later I come down with the cold. Every single year.
> If UMN’s ethics board has approved this experiment in cooperation with Linus/Greg, there would not be anything to be outraged about.

I do not think that would help. This was done on public mailing list and deceptive behavior was also against third parties (other reviewers). I do not think Linus/Greg can give consent to that.
Very much agree that the UFO thing is a red herring. But perhaps Occam's Razor actually points to an even simpler explanation, that of it being a reoccurring mythological trope that was repackaged as an historical event.

That said, I would love if it actually were the case that a mysterious woman from, say, the Dutch East Indies — to make up a random, semi-plausible example — really did wash ashore in a Japanese fishing village. Sounds like a sequel to "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" (awesome book by the way).