skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave has "brave sync" - it's exactly the same as chrome sync except instead of an account you generate a sync code and enter it in your devices and they stay in sync, this includes passwords. I took a quick look at Lockwise and it appears that's sorta the jist of it, you can keep passwords syncs across devices easily?
Solar Breakthrough: Ultrathin Solar Cells Using 2D Perovskites Get a Boost
Most of the cool business uses/potentials of Blockchain do not require decentralization and are definitely made more complex by it.
> I don't have to be a biologist to apply basic logic.

Biology doesn't really work like that. The number of rules is vastly smaller than the number of exceptions to them.
Question: does class_exists still return TRUE when given the QCN to an enum?

Because it's not possible to instantiate an enum, if one appears in the constructor of a class it'll break auto-wiring. I've written my own IoC containers and one fundamental assumption in them is that when class_exists returns true, it is what it says on the tin. Using a specialized factory would still be possible. I wonder if other containers would break on seeing enums as well, but I hope they fixed this because it's not mentioned in the breaking changes. The documentation for class_exists doesn't mention enum.
Is it that hard to remember a bash for loop?

for i in $(seq 1 10)
do echo $i
done

Then you can just replace new lines with ; if writing a one liner.

for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $i; done

I guess it isn't as simple as python

for i in range(10): print(i)

but it's pretty close aside from the variable binding.
Agreed, I'd consider myself a very passionate walker but 10-15km a day in hilly terrain is pushing it for me. 30km....maybe on flat terrain.
> Thankfulness as an end is not necessarily valuable or positive.

Yes it is; it makes me feel good.
> Fan Bingbing is a good case. Jack Ma is another case. In all these cases, the person in question is not in danger in the sense of being tortured in a prison. It's taking in for questioning with a gag order (and depending on the severity of the case, a house arrest) until it's over

Being put under house arrest and prevented from having contact with the outside world by the government, without being charged with a crime is a pretty big abuse power. Imagine if Trump just put one of his critics under house arrest and prevented contact with the outside for several months. This would be an outrageous thing to do, and there'd probably have been riots outside the White House.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and I believe that you earnestly feel this is an okay thing for the CCP to do. But that's not swaying my skepticism and distrust of the Chinese government. The fact that it's successfully normalized this level of authoritarianism among mainland Chinese to such an extent that they earnestly see it as normal is precisely why most Westerners are so distrustful of the Chinese government.
Apropos: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ap...
The difference is that the TV manufacturer has to clue who owns a specific tvid. The whole point of personable identifiable information is that you can use it to find the identity of someone. There is no registry somewhere that keeps track of this.
Spacemacs has saved me.
> You're saying performance speedup is irrelevant

I am not saying that; you are oversimplifying into a straw man. great-grand-parent comment is where I literally put a non-zero number to how relevant language perf improvement was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295950 and later on "Both can be relevant"; which all contradict your characterisation.

The only person who said above "it's not relevant" is you, and you also said "external services are irrelevant" - You're projecting the "it's irrelevant" statement onto me here.

But the design considerations of how and when to use external services very definitely are relevant to service latency, contrary to what you say, for reasons given multiple times above. Your current odd comments are not fact-based or interesting, so I don't think that you have anything more to add to this discussion at all.
Say what you want about PHP, but here we are decades later. I'm still using it, it still works, and it's still getting updated and improved.
Pure maths is a pretty small niche. The vast majority of while collar work, university students, etc..., definitely type and use computers constantly.
like the sibling comment said, web apps are written in Symfony/Laravel, but the framework abstractions with web apps might not paint you a clear picture of how the core language has improved. it will give you a good idea what it's like to build applications.

my favorite part of modern PHP is how nice writing libraries is. so it might not be what you're looking for, but I remember being pretty impressed with the code quality of the Amp PHP library recently. the v3 branch is 8.x only and (I believe) is targeting the Fibers feature just introduced in 8.1

https://github.com/amphp/amp/tree/v3

one of the best things to come with PHP are the community standardizations around things like interfaces for HTTP requests, logging, DI containers, and even code style standards. it makes for a very consistent experience when developing (at least when you're in the "new world"), since most newer libraries are all written in a similar style using common interfaces
> I come to realize that Emacs‘ tinkering-to-doing ratio is too high.

You are in full control of how much tinkering you do, though. Strange to blame a tool for this.
There is a view of history where the thousands of years of Chinese rule-by-bureaucracy is uninterrupted.

My grandfather grew up there and was fond of saying "you have to remember the Chinese did not pray to God. The average Chinese person is not important enough for that. They prayed to the third under-secretary to God's chamberlain. What they really worship is bureaucracy". I don't know China well enough to comment on this myself, but I always found it a fascinating take on the situation.
> This number of mutations isn't enough to completely change the mechanics of the virus.

Maybe. Maybe not. The majority of the mutations in the B.1.1.529 genome are expressed as changes in the spike proteins but others are not and remain to be better understood. It is too early to tell what effects those remaining mutations will have on the lethality of this variant. If those mutations result in more efficient intracellular replication or other changes in intracellular viral life-cycle efficiency, then the morbidity and mortality may be greater, independent of immunologic escape.
I agree with you here. I am like a terminal nomad, I have of course my own computer but there are so many other computers I log in to over the course of my career. They usually have bash and I have learned to just like that. I don't want to maintain one habit for my pet computer, and another when I am a nomad.
It's true it's "not writing Java", that's true for every language besides Java! But the second part is definitely not true. First, you can very much use JVM Clojure without touching Java, I've done so many times. Secondly, you can use ClojureScript which cannot even do interop with Java since it "compiles" to JavaScript and doesn't run on the JVM. Thirdly, you can use Babashka to run Clojure code with GraalVM and SCI instead.

Many options exists to not having to touch Java when you use Clojure, but I guess it's hard to kill old memes?
The only reference to a forecast in that article is a "chair of the department of medical ethics", not an epidemiologist, on a television program, not a tweet that they can comment.
Only governments (used to?) have the financial muscle to bankroll literal moonshots. From that standpoint it didn't matter so much if all the genius engineers are employed by the government or by a subcontractor.
Are there any features that you would like to be added?
Got it. Sounds interesting.
Just one remark about it, europe seems to be banning practices related selling the order flow. As you said it sounds a bit weird. Lets say non transparent.
So maybe you don't always get a good deal.

PS:
Crypto isn't always better in this regard since, there are some frontrunners and so on. The difference is that it is completely transparent.
Wordpress has taken great strides to comply with the latest PHP standards so I'd say that's not quite fair to include it here.
I have heard this story many times. The police don't give a hoot about your app that says someone stole your bike. So as you said, the GPS is of questionable value in itself.

In the cases I know of, people had to go vigilante and go out themselves with a bolt cutter. One of them even saw his bike listed for sale a few hours after it was stolen, and went out and stole it back. Of course not everyone has the constitution or inclination to go crime fighting.
Looks like Dualit toasters fit that bill somewhat. But a set of replacement elements cost several times more than a cheap toaster.
Stability is important but less and less people seem to want to run 4 year old software.
Define your JSON schema as Python dataclasses
I’m ok with VR being slow. There is no need to rush it. There are some amazing VR experiences. Half Life Alyx while standing, despite it being a disaster overall VirtaMate can have some really interesting erotic setups, beat saber is the only music game I’ve ever really got into, and… IDK, some things are just not possible outside of VR like SuperHot VR being a totally different everything than it’s normal version.

I would like there to be more quality content but sooner, but I think it’s largely in a grey area between hardware not being good enough yet and software being expensive to develop.

I used to poopoo it, but I’ve come around that VR is in the cards, just slowly.
How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?
Just memorising the order of the keys from left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and reciting it, was enough for me never to have to look down. I have no idea why or how; I assume it's something to do with dreaming.
Because this is a western centric forum, and with anything western centric- it is being chiseled into our DNA to despise outsiders(can be anyone that isn't brbding over to our will). And these westerners(the ones in the know) realistically cant survive a quality of life provided without extortion of the weaker groups.
There are several effective anti-virals in the approval pipeline. Vaccines plus the antivirals combined will hopefully crater severe cases and this will become just another cold virus.
Honestly I'm more fed up with people who can't seem to be able to sit quietly in their homes for two weeks.
There are some companies that do build long lasting appliances. For example, one can buy a Speed Queen washing machine for home, and they're supposed to be comparable with their commercial laundromat offerings. They're also 2-4x the price of a similar washing machine.

The big problem is that on the consumer side, it's pretty much impossible to evaluate durability of goods. Is the $80 toaster much more durable and better built than the $40 one, or is it just a "premium" offering that has the same internals but with a fancier appearance.
Shouldn't it work on top of the open source drivers?
I’m sceptical that’s a large proportion of PHP projects, and thus comes under my caveat of _some_ projects.
The primary author seems to have a lot of incorrect positions though:

"Ioannidis estimated that deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 could potentially be as low as 10,000—or they could approach levels not seen since the flu pandemic of 1918"

"writing to President Trump of his concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the efficacy of lockdowns"

And just like with the Y2K bug one of the issues with takes like this is that it ignores all of the work that people did to prevent it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. If there were no vaccines, lockdowns or similar health measures maybe the predictions would have been accurate.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ioannidis-aff...
Rosaly.com (shameless plug) , the team of developer is 32 years old average, though we all come from different background and all used python/go/java/rust in some of our previous jobs or on our own opensource projects, we just want to get shit done.

* it has its quirks but we know them and each newer version fix more of them.
* its damn fast (more than python or ruby)
* its type system is better than python (trait/interface , union type <3 , and now intersection type ! )
* symfony/laravel have evolved over the last 10 years, most of the things you knew 10 years ago are still true now

and as a result it tends to attract people with the same mentality, my experience with recruiting php developer is that you have a much clearer clivage of "wordpress website maintainer" and "people who want to get shit done"

you will not find for example "genius developer, that write code faster than you think, who writes all his project in rust but is now thinking to switch to haskell and will leave your company as soon as it find a company that use it"
Hopefully not worse. The current assumption seems to be that it could be different enough to avoid existing immunity gained against previous strains.
"limited downsides"

https://news.yahoo.com/remote-learning-led-to-catastrophic-l...

https://www.wfp.org/stories/hunger-pandemic-food-security-re...

https://gazette.com/business/nearly-40-of-u-s-small-business...
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-imp...
Probably would just have an admin flag and do it manually a little at a time. Other signals might be @naval/list/crypto or someone followed by Paradigm team.
But I think it's quite good for scripting. You can call any system command as easily as in bash while being able to use variables for not just strings. I'd never use it as interactive shell, of course :]

Also... the script will then run only on my machine as most Linux systems don't have powershell and most Windows don't have the Unix commands I still use all the time.
Hey, if only the native speakers could weigh in on this! Do you want to explain again why that isn't possible?
I think they're aware, but replying to when the parent asked "anyone know the symbol for Euler's constant" when they really neeeded the symbol for Euler's number.
> CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch

Historically, CentOS has been very slow to release security patches, compared to upstream (RHEL).
And for anything non-critical (but still often high) Debian stable tends to receive fixes a lot later than unstable, and sometimes never due to need to backport.
Monero has always been my go-to example of this. It truly does achieve something that other coins do not, but it doesn't see meteoric rise like things like Shib or whatever.
If you want a relatively high paying job, I recommend working at a FANG. Depending on the team you’re on, you’ll get to work on some hard problems at massive scale. It’s a great opportunity to learn. Note: this is not true on every team.

The trade off is that these jobs often come with immense stress and a lack of work life balance.

I took the FANG route and even bounced around big tech companies to get bigger pay increases. Financially it worked out extremely well, but emotionally I had to figure out how to deal with constant stress, anxiety, and at some level my job became a significant part of my identity.
Not exactly the same, but maybe you'll find it interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlPCxI8eOnY&list=PLsplwj_Ee0...

Group of people get dropped in a field in Amsterdam and need to reach Monaco in 5 days to win a 5k prize, the catch is there have no money on them so they have to rely on the kindness of strangers.
I don’t know about others, or it’s intentional, but I’m really getting tired of hearing about bad news coming from China.

I felt the same when Trump was running America. Now he is gone, my life is a bit nicer. China though, it doesn’t stop.
My brain is apparently poisoned, I thought for sure this was about financial hedging, or maybe brexit as a hedge against the rest of Europe, or some other political-economy hot-take garbage.

Anyways, glad it's about plants. Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Thanks I have not heard of either of these!
This is still a handful of cases (10 total, the only comparison curb I've seen is on three cases in Botswana; there could be one on six other cases in South Africa). We’ll know more soon, and hopefully, local health authorities will contain anything worrisome, but this is not yet like Delta with thousands of cases emerging overnight in some countries.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/r1gb05/radeon_6600xt_c... this show some numbers on ROCm performances.
Not really. As far as vaccines go they look to be very safe and effective.
Although they do seem to be shifting to more commercial flights now that launch costs are lower and the results are more predictable.

And I'm not sure if you consider launching starlink to be "commercial", if you considered it to be an internal customer of the launch service then it seems like it should count.
> Polling as an example may be an effective way to lower latency,

I had to learn this lesson the hard way recently.

An embedded system where I had to get data from a couple SPI controller’s RAM. Made a bit complicated ISR and listener system that woke up threads to do a deferred-interrupt… by the time it was all said and done with a fair bit of code, I wasn’t happy with it.

I figured out that usually data would be available every 2ms and just wrote the read routine just to sleep every 2ms and attempt another read, I have it “hitting” 90% of the time and my avg latency is almost nothing. .7ms or so.
Remember the spike needs to bind to the ACE receptor which is what vaccines target, so if it escapes vaccines, it probably isn’t going to be as easily infectious. Maybe.
Julian Assange…
Doing laundry, dishes etc involves real work and takes time.

Getting up from my chair and pressing a switch when I feel it is getting too dark is not really a chore. And it is probably good for my back.

I do have a couple of X10 switches but I mostly use them where I once was too cheap to put an extra cable. One died this year after only 20 years of service. Luckily I had a spare.

I also have a couple of electronic thermostats. I really hate having to replace batteries every few years. Now I set the day and night temperatures to a about the same. But I like that if I feel cold, I can manually turn up the heat and not having to remember to turn it back down. This should also be possible to implement mechanically.

I also have a drawer with some Zigbee smart home stuff and a CC2540 debugger to program a USB dongle to allow me turn off all the lamps in my living room. Which I will do whenever I feel like it. Because I have 5 lamps and if I turn them off 3 times a week for 20 years and I save 3 seconds per lamp minus 3 seconds to use some Zigbee switch, I will save 10 hours in total. If I have to find a phone or remote first, it will be a lot less. And I will probably spend a lot more than 10 hours before it all works.
And I am not sure that it will work for 20 years, or that I can easily replace broken devices in 20 years.
Not really comparable to Delta.

Given that so much of the world is vaccinated.
Further article (ex NewScientist):

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298723-red-light-thera...

Further submission (ex NewAtlas):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341199
Hijack’d Review – Bank big WITHOUT a list OR paid traffic?
"Everyone laughing at PHP hasn't tried it for years, I'd bet."

God I wish that was true...

It's not that the language is necessarrily bad. It's the sludge of legacy code I've had to deal with and teams treating it as the hammer for every problem that they think they must treat as a nail.

Efficency be damned.
How did the data get into the card? And how do you know it isn't stored elsewhere? It wouldn't be the first time a government failed to admit exactly what information it was keeping about its citizens, and how it was using it against their interests:

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bulk-personal-datasets-how-mi5-gch...
> They still struggle with various social pathologies - alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, religious extremism.

The domestic violence / religious extremism is a result of the Western nations favoring radical Islam interpretations as a base for the regimes they bought their oil from. A kingdom/dictatorship where the ruling class has their assets (i.e. their oil money) in Western nations is more stable for oil supply than a democracy.
Let this be a reminder to the folks that love to hate on Microsoft (.NET Foundation screw-up from a few weeks ago.)

Open source projects are no more immune to asshole behavior than anything else.

This shouldn’t stop you from choosing Rust or .NET.
Michael Hartmann?
"authentically British porn"

That's a concept I have not pondered before.
Fuchsia has an http client component [0][1] which is part of the platform and, given Fuchsia's component architecture, it's accessed through a message-passing protocol [2] which is programming language agnostic.

[0]: https://cs.opensource.google/fuchsia/fuchsia/+/main:sdk/fidl...
[1]: https://cs.opensource.google/fuchsia/fuchsia/+/main:src/conn...
[2]: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/reference/fidl/language/lang...
Sad but true.

My Skybell decided to forget that it belongs to my house this week. It does that a couple times per year; IDK why.

And my GE Z-Wave light switch failed after two years. It doesn't work via Z-wave, but also doesn't work as a mechanical switch either. Online, people say that the failure rate for these is really high after a couple years. So I replaced it with a dumb switch.

And for some reason SmartThings is a hell of a lot less good than it was a couple years ago.
Is this the new way of asking - "What were you smoking when you wrote this!?"
Isn't MS Office a web app now?
In many places they were torn down following mechanization as they’re inconvenient when tractoring about.

I know that some places are starting to incentivise planting them again, because bare fields let wind race and as soon as it rains a bit hard half the field ends on the road blocking it.
To frame this in a different way, how would woodland areas (or what the article is calling hedgerows) work before the Enclosure Movement? Would there have been more diversity? A different approach to agriculture?

I find this article a bit odd in it's approach (although supportive of more hedgerow area) and in inquiry of where the concept of hedgerows came from.
Thank you sir. It is always better to read the source. Though in this case, the most of the discussion is about how party protect its members against scandals and law. Poor woman.
Please dont (over)analyze the situation. Humans are not machines. Each are unique. Treat them as such. This has made me perceived as being very extroverted and social when in fact I am quite introverted (I came to Germany to study). And this perspective works with all cultures. Engineers, exaggerating, have a black and white mindset and are overly rational and want to always have the right argument (and win).Hang out more with people with different interests and background. Life is not about your own interests and topics (or winning arguments) - adopt this perspective. You will soon find others consider you extremely social. Do not try to be a hacker with people.

Look if your are feeling "social skills" matters (I study CS and I know a lot of humans who are in the same boat as you), it helps to change your view of humans as not being a game, a machine, or something you can analyze and be better after learning the rules.
I recall watching a TV series just like that 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(game_show)#UK_version. Was very entertaining. I do think it has potential in the modern vlog world as well.
Could 2020 have been some peculiar outlier because of Covid and supply issues?