skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in the case of the Japanese COVID figures, it’s not some single government agency, subject to pressure from above, that announces the infection totals. Hospitals and clinics throughout the country report infections they’ve identified to local government agencies, and those local government agencies put the data on their websites, from which the media get them. The Tokyo site is at [1] and the Tokushima Prefecture site is at [2], for example; NHK’s compilation site is at [3].

There are many people working throughout health care and government who would get very angry if they learned that the figures were being artificially suppressed, and there is an independent press that would be eager to report on it. And now that many prefectures are reporting zero cases and deaths on most days, if some people there had in fact been recently infected or had died, they or their families would notice the discrepancy and raise a stink, too.

I live in a Japan, and it is a relief that, at least for the moment, the infections have dropped so low. The nationwide figure on Monday was 50 new infections, the lowest in a year and a half. I doubt, though, if anyone who follows the news from Europe believes we’re necessarily out of the woods yet.

[1] https://stopcovid19.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en

[2] https://www.pref.tokushima.lg.jp/foreignlanguage

[3] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/special/coronavirus/
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Try /r/hnblogs. It was created specifically to promote contributors of hacker news.

I’ve never submitted anything but I’ve read and commented on quite a few articles I’ve read from that subreddit.
Not kidnappers. Officers from the oppressive regime. Unfortunately we have examples of regimes demanding access to personal devices - including forced installation of applications, rooting phones and installing backdoors.
What job do you like doing 15 hours a day? Genuinely curious...
To be clear, I use them as well. And every time I come to regret it unless it's on a site I absolutely do not touch once it's finished.

Templates make it harder to find and debug issues. They have extremely little tooling to give assurances about what they're compiling, whether the syntax is correct etc. This requires you to build massive, flaky test suites.

I'll take react and typescript any day over even one tenth of that.
In the sense that it’s not commonly carried, then yes.
Have a look at the reinkstone, that looks quite interesting. I have a remarkable and a sony. I haven't used the sony since buying the remarkable. Despite the larger size, it is a much worse device. The writing experience really doesn't compare.

An alternative if you want more functionality is to root your sony, there was some progress on hacking the sony for putting regular android packages on it. I can dig out some links if you can't find it.
Is it possible to compile the code at https://github.com/toitlang/toit to run on a desktop? Are there instructions on how to make such a build?
useless fun fact: "Nix" basically is German slang for "nothing". So I read "how to learn nothing" and asked myself. Indeed, how to do so? :D
I would assume that the entire cell would die without the membrane to hold everything together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis
Just picturing that makes me feel terrible
I did this in 2010 and I now run a profitable software company with 45 employees.

Do it. There is literally no downside. If things don’t work out, you can just go back to the company you left. They will take you back!
Is Dhall worth it? I see there are Go bindings for it, but I am not sure. Is it really worth it? What is the use-case for it where TOML would not suffice?
Note that const is already parametric in C++. Template arguments can carry constness in addition to the type itself. Also constness can be queried and added/removed programmatically at compile time.

I think the note about C++ was specifically about member functions qualification, where currently it isn't possible to parametrize over const this vs non-const this. The "Deducing This" [1] proposal will hopefully fix this [2] and other issues.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p084...
[2] pun fully intended.
We do not want anti-features preventing us from using our device as we see fit (e.g., updating on our own).
Processing patch mails with b4 and notmuch
Is there any reason to use 'go-cmp' over custom matchers[0] from 'go-mock'?

[0] - https://dev.to/techschoolguru/how-to-write-stronger-unit-tes...
what did who take from us?
Generalizing a bit, it seems that suburbanites hate other people’s cars, but are OK needing to drive everywhere, whereas urbanites hate having a car-dependent lifestyle.
You are linking to the page with the instructions on it.
One of the quoted experts opines that while some of the big established car manufacturers will survive, most “are running an uphill race with a parachute behind them while EV-first firms are sledding downhill.”

I think they have a point – existing manufacturers will have to spend a lot of time and energy divesting themselves of all the plants and workforce that will become useless, and/or converting and retooling facilities and retraining staff as they abandon the manufacturing of internal combustion engines and navigate the transition.

All of that necessarily involves looking backwards and takes mental energy away from future-forward product development. Companies that don't have to invest a significant part of their management resources in dealing with legacy have a potential advantage.
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Another Python-esq embedded language is Snek:

https://sneklang.org/
What common web development server runs on 5000 that wouldn’t automatically increment or throw an error indicating the port desired was occupied and a different one should be used? This seems like a trivial problem.
Maybe if you use buildUserFHS and --impure a lot. But NodeJS applications that try to download binaries at install time or python packages with conflicting package versions definitely take more than a minute or two. Just look at the history of Anki in Nixpkgs, or the derivations for JetBrains products or Cypress or any of the other packages that took consistent effort by multiple contributors to even get them working in the first place.

I think it's important to manage expectations about Nix and that includes being realistic about what's easy and simple what isn't.
> Just because the marginal cost of something is low/zero doesn't mean companies shouldn't charge for it.

It definitely should. That's why some of the money collected beyond the "marginal cost" is invested in R&D (capitalism 101). Of course entire industries (health, IT, concrete..) have been used to living off siphoning public money from corrupt officials as grants and partnerships for R&D so they don't have to worry about anything but maximizing profits for their shareholders. But where is that model taking us?

> Should an indie software developer using a freemium model be crucified because the binary they ship already contains the code for full functionality?

Sure. Why is freemium even a thing? Would you imagine a music CD where a paid unique key is required to decrypt the 5 last tracks? Or a restaurant toilet where the toilet is free but you need 2$ more for toilet paper?!

In principle, everything should be free for everyone because everything belongs to everyone. But even if you don't agree with this principle (why?), freemium is a fucked up model that only incentivizes producers fucking over users some way or another.

> Economic rents are a very specific phenomenon and it simply does not mean charging for something that is perceived as being low/no effort.

As an anarchist, i understand "rent" to be artificial value derived from "private property". Private property by definition is just a religious belief (materialized on a piece of paper, and guarded by the holy crusaders of the police), and does not involve efforts.

The efforts to conceive and build the product (whether it's a CPU or a house) were provided beforehand, and by a different group of people than those reaping the benefits of this "rent". That's precisely why "property is theft": it creates debt from the users of a resource, to people who did not work to produce it (if there was any work involved at all, which may not be the case eg. for land ownership).
I quit just before lockdown hit in the UK. Had planned to walk Lands end to John O'Groats and then get another job in a similar field, but obviously COVID put a stop to that.

I had saved up a lot, so I just gave myself a lot of time to think and re-assess what I wanted to do with my life. Ended up becoming a developer. So overall, very positive experience and I couldn't imagine going back to my old job now.
There is no simple solution is because Capitalism without regulation is tyranny. Regulations are good things, and if regulators need regulation that is far better than the tyranny that would arise without regulation, or enforcement of regulations. Similar to the cherry picking of enforcement, and regulation capture all too prevalent now.
PNS nerve cells regenerate axons: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846285/
> Sorry, what?

I fail to understand your question, but can reiterate. The available good debuggers are proprietary, including the one that only runs in the proprietary version of VSCode. Thus you can’t really use it in another IDE - Same shit as with the original Visual Studio.
OmniSharp is an effort to replace the proprietary debugger, but lacks features in comparison.

> ... what is "Visual Studio baggage"???

Patterns and actions relying on features in Visual Studio, either softly because every guide uses them (modifying project properties, changing the startup project, installing a package) and hardly because the implementation is literally inside of Visual Studio (almost hot reload).

> If anything, .NET had a Visual Studio lock-in back in those days, but not today ...

And it wasn’t great. Having had a .NET Framework job for a while I learned to like C# and hate Visual Studio. I’m glad most tutorials now use VSCode on Macs to get as far away as possible from VS and MS-isms.

I’m not glad they’re attempting to bring that terrible Visual Studio and Windows entanglement back. Hence I agree with the forker.

> Also are we talking about .NET or "programming languages" here? Or both?

They’re so closely related it doesn’t make that much sense to discuss them separately in this case. If you want to use C#, you need .NET. Technically this is about .NET, but probably with the main intention to save C#.
> I quit just last week. Saved up 10 years worth of salaries.

"Having 10 years worth of salaries" is almost on the opposite side of spectrum than "without anything planned".
State of the art for Database CI/CD multi-customer with complex config
We have this Supply Chain software based on a SQL DB that runs on client's premises (so 1 DB / client), and we struggle to efficiently and thoroughly test and deploy new versions across the several clients.

The challenge is that the DB schema is the same for every client but we have a huge set of parameters to manage the client-specific config (some technical parameters to source the ERP data but mainly business logic parameters used as input for stored procedures used in daily jobs). Parameters are either not related to client's data (stored in "technical" tables) or the are attributes of business data (stored as fields in the business data tables : must this Client Finish Goods be taken into account in the computation ? --> bit column in the Material Master Table).

Does anybody know valuable resource on the topic ? As for now my quest hasn't shown much results.

Thank you so much for your help
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> Intel can brick your computer remotely

From a technical standpoint they can, but it would be illegal. If war with China breaks out it could certaily happen that the US bricks their computers and they brick our communications, and both side work hard to mitigate that by reducing dependence on each other. But at least in peace time we can for all intents and purposes claim to own the CPU, even if we don't have full control.
It would appear commplex was a part of seeplex, some visualization tool for old Sun workstations in the early 90ies: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=11617...
What is DeFi in simple words
DeFi is a relatively new concept in the cryptocurrency space. They are provided in crypto and built on crypto protocols and smart contracts.
> There is literally no downside

If you have suffient savings.. Which is definitely not the case for most people
The issue isn’t that there’s nothing left to discuss, the issue is that there’s two „opposing“ sides that will downvote the comments they disagree with, causing a chilling effect where only inflammatory comments will end up being posted. It’s exactly the reason why Facebook et al. don’t have a dislike button.
Perhaps it was for a startup that had a substantial exit? You could save up 10 years of salary in just a few. But the demands for those few years could be really steep.
I was very much burnt out from work and had some other Life Stuff happen so I sort of had to do it. I have some savings so I'm taking it slow to get back into looking for work etc.

I would say it's not going great, but my hand was forced a bit.
Would also love to know, sometimes I feel like to really change paths, I can't do the whole interview and switch thing while employed, but I'm scared of "falling off the train" if that makes sense. Also I do take other's experiences with a grain of salt, but in general appreciate seeing things from others' points of view.
But maybe someday someone wanting to translate Franz Kafka's works into the native American language Ndee (spoken by Apaches) will show up!
I quit my investment banking job in 2017 and set up my own SaaS. Very tough for the first two years, making little to no money (but I had a good amount of savings). Four years since quitting, I'm better off (many times over), both financially and in terms of how much time I have to do the things I want to.

Not for the faint hearted, but I definitely recommend it.
> This report describe pgagroal in relationship to 3 other PostgreSQL connection pool implementations, which we will call "a", "b" and "c".

Why? Just why! Please put up names rather than saving faces for other poolers!
Ugh, those dumb "withholding the cure" conspiratorial tropes. Have you looked at infamous asset striping companies and corporate raiders? Or even the short-termism of most companies? They don't think beyond optimizing next quarter share price and this is the default the business model of a publicly traded company which bucks the trend is noted when describing a company and not the other way around. That is a 0-bit compression case.

There is thus absolutely no shortage of people who are willing to burn perfectly profitable companies for big enough short term gain. In this case they would wind up eating an entire submarket. I think orders of magnitude more qualifies as a temptation.

The situation is also inherently a prisoner's dilemma - pharmaceutical companies know that they are not special and that anything they let sit quietly buried may be discovered by another company who may benefit from the short term cash.

This is before getting into how immensely valueable the "ashes" are for any company who goes the cure route successfully. They have a reputational premium and have a collective team whose appraised value has risen. Given the choice between your average team of X years of experience and a disease curing team with X years of experience guess which one would appraise higher in share prices by a considerable margin?
I tend to have 2-3 months of new hobbies picking between jobs. It is easy to unnotice burning out but harder to pick oneself up after it happens. A start of a burnout has always been the main reason for me to move away/forward from a job.

I find vacationing between jobs more rewarding than during a job. My mind is clear and I have increasingly more willingness to try and do new stuff. It's easier for me to pick up new hobbies where there is no unpleasantness that I have to go back to soon.

I have a comfort of working in a field where landing a job is easy enough not to worry that quitting will result in homelessness.
What was your previous trade?
> The python plugins for visual studio code didn't make much use of the type hints, last time that I checked.

When was that? The Python Vscode extension with Pylance is pretty much perfect, Intellisense works as well as it does in, say, Java.
Reverse engineering and modifying Android apps with JADX and Frida
1. Have savings

2. Have your resume always up to date

3. Have a network of people who can hook you up

4. Take a deep breath, commit to leaving but do it on YOUR schedule - quitting on the spot is emotional, not rational - avoid doing that if you can.

Back in the day I learned something that my employer was doing that I knew I could not abide by. I did #4 but I had #1, #2 and #3. Within a month I had a job offer and so I THEN quit and took the new jobs. In the exit interview I told them exactly why I was leaving; and not surprisingly they didn't care. Decision validated!
Yes, but publication of hopeful articles should be near the end, not the start.
I compiled the VM to WASM and ran the bytecode in it.
Well, given that seeds inside the fruit sense their environment and start germinating only in specific conditions, even this would be debatable. Hopefully, if the cells of the fruit body itself are not sentient (if they do not react to their environment in some meaningful way), then eating the fruiting body is probably ok, provided you euthanize the seeds or let them live on.
Literally no downside?

I can think of a few: there’s a good chance it doesn’t work out and you find yourself running an unprofitable business working harder to make much less than your old software engineering job.
Nobody wants shit on their hardware. Imagine DRM on after market CPUs. It's already a disaster at the daughter board level.

For example, look at this nonsense I had to reverse engineer:

https://russell.ballestrini.net/how-to-reset-hp-ilo-lights-o...
Its tɔɪt versus twŏt. Definetly not the same.
Your bikeshedding is way over the line. It is just as much the french word for roof or a slangy spelling of tight. Don't make it their problem that you have an (weird) association.
You can pith the animal prior to boiling it and probably decrease the amount of total noxious stimuli it experiences, no real reason not to
IIRC the "jungle" preset was just the Amen break:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKMtv8tU0U
> I've long wanted a shuffle feature in a local music player (for Linux) that will shuffle albums

PlexAmp[1], the music player for Plex[2], has a "Random Album Radio" mode which does exactly what it says on the tin. It'll play a random selection of albums, with the songs from each album being played in album order.

Apparently the Linux version requires "AppImage support", but from what I can see the major distros do.

Only downside is it's not purely local. I have a NAS which also runs Plex, so for me it works out fine.

[1]: https://plexamp.com/

[2]: https://www.plex.tv/
You should really provide more context if you're going to dump links to try to "gotcha" someone. This isn't Twitter or reddit, come on now.
It's really nice to have an extended break where your return to work date is mutable. As long as you have some savings, surely you have recruiters messaging you enough on linkedin to find something quickly when you want to.
Is there a surplus/used market where one can buy a talos II for a better price?
Just the one if you're using CRA. None if you're embedding react as is.

The answer depends on how you're using react, and what advantages you want to get from it. "How many tools" is not a real question to ask. If you're concerned about ease of development and learning curves, then that gives you an actual goal to optimize for, and it won't coincide with the amount of tools (react is harder to use embedded than with tooling, hence why the latter is more popular).
Don't use MacOS or any BSD, so you are quite possibly right.
I quit Google after five years and moved to NYC right before the pandemic started.

Working on my startup now. Pays infinitely less but makes me a lot happier. I love getting put in situations I would've never dreamed I would be in.

My biggest lesson so far was that I should've left Google earlier. I didn't need nearly as much saved as I had expected. The only thing I could wish for is more friends who did the same. I do miss having coworkers.
I would have much more of a problem with this if Intel was still the only game in town. I get the feeling Intel is effectively ceding parts of the CPU market to ARM and focusing on their high-margin products.
I was laid off five years ago, and I never found another job. Ended up spending a month doing the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and doing more stuff like swing dancing.

Later on I met someone at a swing dance that I worked on a "side project" for a long time that became our current startup, which has been more meaningful to me than any job I've worked previously. (We're doing health and biotech and save people from horrible infections, but I'm a UX/full stack engineer).

I think that having had a tech job with tons of savings (and living in a cheap city in the South) really helped. Also, for many years I thought that a job was like air, and if you quit or lose your job you start suffocating, but the opposite has been true.
> But a car is sold. So if you want to cut of a piece of the car, what's going to stop you?

Government regulations. In Germany (and probably also in the rest of the EU, since that stuff has been harmonized over the last decade), the tank volume is recorded in field #12 of the car's registration/title document... which means any form of DIY modification without changing the title will yield you a criminal charge for operating a car that is not roadworthy.
I always hear have your resume up to date, how hard can it be to update your resume ? It can’t possibly take more than an hour or two?
Money isn't the same thing as a plan. If anything, it's the exact opposite: You have the freedom to do many things, so there's more uncertainty than someone with less money.
No problem! We all know some limited amount about the huge computing environment, and accumulate solutions as we hit problems.
Did you stay the five years to see the initial grant / refreshers vest?
WristMac – 1988 Legendary first Apple Watch
It's more something you'd do at boot, if you had to select between an OS built for one or another.

The POWER ISA was used in PowerPC which was used for the successors of a few 68k machines (most famously the Macintosh) and in that case the OS was built for big-endian. So having big-endian support was key there.
The idea that the French have any claim to ownership of the literally prehistoric concept of the social contract is pretty laughable.
The problem is not the inflexibility of frameworks - it is that, once the frameworks adapt to the change, a lot of guides, stackoverflow posts etc. will break and people will blame the framework for the issues.
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AFAIK some of the authors of Toit were involved in the optionally-typed Dart 1, but the statically-typed Dart 2 was designed by other people.
If you're using LINQ on a list, it will not use Expressions, but a plain Func. So nothing will get parsed either way.

The difference, as @sbelskie already mentioned, is that Where has an optimization for List, while First only uses the naive enumerator.
No need to pretend not to know that it's possible for a researcher to do their honest best and arrive at a subscription service palliative, and at the same time for the c-suite to think "nice".
It’s a signal that the infrastructure is ready should MS ever attempt something like the hot reloading removal again. Of course it probably doesn’t have the resources to implement own features yet, but it may develop them. This is hopefully a threat to Microsoft to involve the damn community.