skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you have cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease or hypertension... Then the mortality rates can be up to 10% (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...)
The "removed a rib" thing was started by Gabriele D’Annunzio, father of Italian fascism. Most likely untrue, but a rumor also most likely to be spread by its subject.

Check out https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/behind-the-bastards/e/66732... for the details behind this truly unlikely person.
One would hope that the government has a stockpile of a lot of this sort of thing. The question will be whether they stockpiled enough.
We'll start by noting, for the oldest among our readers, that it has nothing to do with the "high memory" concept found on early personal computers. That, of course, was memory above the hardware-implemented hole at 640KB — memory that was, according to a famous quote often attributed to Bill Gates, surplus to the requirements of any reasonable user. The kernel's notion of high memory, instead, is a software construct, not directly driven by the hardware.

This is indeed a great write-up. Some old lessons I had forgotten:

Physical memory needs to be mapped by a kernel data structure. As typical DRAM configurations grew, this map itself necessarily became large enough to limit the 1GB dedicated to kernel on 32-bit systems. So a subset was directly mapped, and the rest -- the "high memory" -- was mapped by a secondary structure.

If I'm reading this right.
Those things are implementation-defined because anything else wouldn't make sense. If I'm making a C program for a microcontroller, I will need to know how that microcontroller works. It's probably an ARM core, which expects the first few bytes of flash memory to be a table which contains pointers to functions; it's my responsibility to put a pointer to my main function in that table.

This is completely unproblematic, and not really that different from having to make sure your code is compiled to a valid ELF file with the correct sections and section headers.

"Implementation defined" doesn't mean "nonstandard". A C program which overflows a signed integer is ill-formed, because signed overflow is undefined. A C program which relies on external linker scripts to set up the vector table and make the reset vector point to the main function is well-formed, it just necessarily depends on some implementation-defined behavior.
With the advent of AutoML tools, it doesn't even take that long anymore.
I don't think they own it. Whoever does own it currently has it set to redirect, but it may not always do so.
Meh... In most cases, talking about "passion" in this context is just a roundabout way of saying "we want people to work harder for less compensation." Expecting founders to have "passion" is fine, since they (presumably) own equity stakes that will make them wealthy if the company is successful. But unless you're giving your early hires a large stake in the company, I'd suggest dropping the "passion" verbiage and treat them like mercenaries - like every other employee. Your vision, your dream, your passion, etc. are yours... there's very little reason to expect other people to share that, given that they likely already have things that they are passionate about, visions they care about, etc.

Hire the guy (or gal), scale their compensation to match the amount of work they actually do and call it good. If you're worried about them leaving too soon if their side project takes off, you can always try some "golden handcuffs" in the form of some perk that disappears if they leave before X months. And who knows, maybe that would make them decline the offer. In which case, honestly, everybody probably wins in the end.
So has google for the most part: "it has restricted its employees from traveling to Iran and parts of Italy. In March that will expand to Japan and South Korea. The company had already prohibited travel to China, except for employees returning home." [0].

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/28/810494030/google-employee-tes...
Umm, are you trying to get someone to break Godwin's law? Because I think that might mean that you're the one breaking it...
I guess their rent's not going up in that case.
I agree w/ you on this.

Complicated earnout arrangements aren't something we're interested in.

We're interested in taking over businesses and using our skillset (marketing for me / software for my partner) to unlock value in the business
Another thing I really like about LSP is that formatting and linting are built-in concepts. Using something like https://github.com/iamcco/diagnostic-languageserver you can bridge existing command-line tools that only support stdio into your editor of choice.
But - and sorry for the morbid question - what about when you grow older, and may not be able to take care of that? Or when you pass away?
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you are really reaching here, Lower life expectancy doesn't mean "dead in a few months". Are you really saying poor ppl in Netherlands have a life expectancy of few months?

Also, lol at all your other irrelevant points, I grew up in one of the poorest parts of Africa. You clearly have no idea what poverty means. Funny how ppl who lived all their lives in a first world country think they know what poverty is.
Apple devices aren't free computer systems. Apple owns the devices, not the users. They gave up their freedom when they bought a computer that doesn't give them the keys to the system. They have little choice other than to accept whatever conditions the big corporations impose on them.

Thankfully, iOS does not represent all systems out there. Android systems allow installation of apps from any source and PCs traditionally have no limitations on which programs can be executed by the user. Better alternatives to these abusive "official" apps should be a selling point for these free systems. A perfect example of adversarial interoperability:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interopera...
What about you woke up 10 times before the alarm and forgot them until the last time?
Unless ... there is no observer at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
From elsewhere:

> It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

This doesn't mean asymptomatic people can't spread the disease, but that the likelyhood of spread from asymptomatic carriers is lower (which makes a lot of sense).

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...
Sure, but they don't contribute to Google. (/s)
As if news outlets don't regularly get things wrong or push biased views?

I don't see why Twitter should all of a sudden be saddled with the responsibility of getting everything right. The mainstream media shirked that responsibility a long time ago, and so did the government.

Voting is a core function of democracy, so its the governments job to publish a true, up-to-date, and accessible list of who the current 2020 candidates are. And voters responsibility to know and spread the word about that list.

Time has shown that outsourcing crucial functions of democracy to corporations with misaligned incentives does not work well.
I'm fairly extreme about ad blocking. If I'm aware of seeing an ad anywhere (street, web, cinema), I put the advertised product on a block list and will never buy it. This isn't quite as restrictive as it sounds because I have the facility to mentally tune out ads in public spaces almost completely.

If I were typical, advertising would collapse almost overnight.

The lesson I take from that is that we're just not the people advertisers are aiming at.
> No Lambda costs as it would be covered by the monthly free tier of 1M requests.

That's far from the full picture. AWS Lambdas are charged by units of computational resources that are expressed as multiples of 64MB of RAM used per 100ms, each rounded up to the next value and with a minimum charge of 128MB of RAM used. So you are only charged a fixed fee per request if all your requests are short-lived and barely use any computational resources. Long-lived processing tasks that require a bit of RAM are charged multiple times the value of a single request.
No, it won't.

If a function could return one error but in a new version, it can now return two types of error, the Go compiler will not notify you. And your code is now failing to handle an error case.
Next question. If the background illumination of a room were blinking at 40Hz (Eg florescent light bulbs on 40Hz AC power), would that interfere with my visual perception? If not why not?
They are definitely in local backups (note that I didn't say iCloud), but I believe they're in encrypted iCloud backups as well, as I've done recovered phones with GA tokens from an iCloud backup before.
The language was such a pleasure to use in university in the early 90’s. Those were the days where you paid for compilers. My prof was grumbling about the licensing fees for Miranda though.
Perhaps some more web features should become opt-in via nagbars (e.g. canvas and wasm)
This is shocking because, ... why? Because you didn't have appropriate computer network-wide off-site data back-ups to the contents of your binders?
Do you support the change?
Which means Reddit is almost certainly going to break all of them, eventually.
Firefox has openOrClosedShadowRoot available to extensions that allows them to bypass closed shadow dom.
Thanks a lot! For what I do, I'd need to add a key-B NVME drive (not SATA, because of the IOPS) to the "normal" NVME if I understand correctly.

Do you know any such drive having at least 512G and working in NVME (not SATA)? Or can I just plug a 2260 B+M keyed drive and hope it doesn't default to SATA?
> look after yourselves and work, but little else

Mmm, fun life. Enjoy!
Not sure how you're interpreting this thread. Most of Amazon's employees are here in the US. And Amazon discouraging US domestic travel (which obviously isn't as critical as those regions, yet) has nothing to do with what you quoted above.
"These are the nineteen papers that will be presented in London in June."

So many luminaries on that page: Guy Steele, Bjarne Stroustrup, Rich Hickey, Dan Ingalls..

"The Papers track of HOPL-IV will include published papers that will be complemented by oral presentations at the conference."

"The Program Committee encourages submissions that discuss and analyze the historical development of individual programming languages, programming language families, language features, design themes, and other strong influences on the direction of programming language design, implementation, and usage."
I occasionally go The Guardian's web site, and they displayed a nag say I should not be blocking their way of making money out of a non-subscriber. I thought "fair enough" and disabled my ad blocker. About 2 minutes later, which is what it took for their web site to load with the ad blocker off, I turned it back on again.

In the end solved my attack of the guilts by becoming a subscriber. However, I had no sympathy for them no getting money form ads. That was totally self inflicted. The ad blocker, the thing they were blaming, wasn't the problem. Without the ad blocker I would not be visiting their site at all.
For sure, something like a wearable airbag (if you couldn't tell someone was wearing it) would be an easier sell. In either case people would have to actually remember to put them on and keep them on. Of course, it's sad to think that not wanting to accept you're aging would prevent us from taking steps to live longer, but we humans are a stubborn bunch.
Yes, true. The stuff you get for the laundry load at home should be about 1:9 water. But it loses potency over a few days.
I'd love to see them use the Tesla CyberTruck. Of course Nike will want to provide props as well, since their fashion prediction was visually rather close.
how come it was so much faster ? smaller semantics allowing for more optimizations ? or some obscure reason ?
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What do you program in today?
Under "Why the name Miranda?":

> Because it is a proper name, not an acronym, only the first letter of Miranda is capitalised.

It took me a second to realize that most language names of this era were in fact all-caps acronyms
This is just one of the many things wrong with the Java Date API:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1969651/130659
It feels especially religious to me as a Hindu. A lot of Hinduism talks about a so called "sense of existence" - a vitalising, fundamental "thing" that permeates inanimate and animate beings. The quote reminded me a bit of that.
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What a legend. I met him briefly at the "Festival of inappropriate technology" in the UK some years back. When I asked if project Orion (nuclear powered rockets) should have gone ahead he said (paraphrasing from memory): All big engineering projects killed people, but it probably wasn't worth the extra radiation in the atmosphere.
> China has demonstrated that disruptive steps have flattened the epidemic curve.

Sure, China's demonstrated that "one person from your apartment complex can leave to buy supplies every two days"-tier restrictions can have positive effect. But, again, that only works if a high percentage of people follow it, and there's a lot of people in the states who'd very much not.

> Do you imagine that there is a society in which this stupid Sophie’s Choice hypothetical actually plays out as you suggest?

Sure - one where the young don't die to the disease despite catching it.

Flattening the curve can be useful, but only in moderately severe situations - small outbreaks can be handled without flattening (this probably won't be the case here), in a 'moderate' outbreak flattening brings the peak within hospital capacity, and in a severe outbreak the 'flattened' curve is still far above the capacity of the medical system to handle. And an unconstrained spread of COVID-19 would be 'severe' by this criteria.
How so? Checkmark means "this account is owned by who you think owns it" to disambiguate celebrities from parodies and identity theives/trolls.

The fact some people crave being famous enough to merit a checkmark is not a problem with checkmarks. People chase status of all kinds.
Admitting to not being an expert in American politics; but the FISA court was obviously going to be a disaster when it was established. It has been discovered that in recent times it was used to investigate an incoming presidential candidate (!) and set up years of harassment that seem to have eventually sorta died down to a general background murmuring based on it not being a major component of his impeachment.

The worst-case path forward is for Trump to organise for Bernie Sanders, or whoever the next Democratic candidate is, to be secretly investigated via the FISA court for potential Russia links. Any move towards limiting (or ideally disbanding) the FISA court really should transcend politics. The worst case of the FISA court is horrific, and the expected case (which is really where we are now) is bad.
> Languages should not be assuming that paths are byte strings.

Lots of people who know what they're talking about disagree:

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/utf8.html
I am a serial idea writer and I have to agree with the author.

Ideas are inherently valuable, maybe not financially, but they're valuable to have and valuable to society to share.

It makes me angry that people actually believe ideas are inherently worthless. Or that without any code or implementation they're worthless. It's a meme that needs to die. It's like having your cake and eating it too. Here's a free idea for you to think about and contribute to but it's not enough, you want the outcome without any effort too. So you say my idea is worthless.

Ideas are the precursors of RFCs and ISOs and any thing that humanity has ever accomplished. And ideas are meant to be shared.

People that think ideas are worthless are shutting down conversations about good ideas because of this obsession with the idea that execution is all that matters. And so many ideas die on the grape vine because of this poor attitude.
You’re forgetting just how many organizations all do this, it’s adding up to a significant chunk of global GDP. It’s got real long term consequences.

Basically, even if individual bacteria are unnoticed enough of them can kill you.
There was (and still is) YouCompleteMe for Vim, which is the idea of a code-completion server with editor plugins, so it's definitely a thing people had thought of.

Microsoft really took the ball and ran with it, and I'm very grateful for that.
The animation compression system really stood out to me as well. It seems back when hardware was the limitation, people had to be literal geniuses to develop games. Now with so much middleware and so many pre-cooked engines available, people are left less with the challenge of accomplishing the technicals and more on creating an enveloping story and challenging gameplay mechanics.
Cutting yourself off from civil society so you can totally dedicate yourself to enriching the VC class doesn't seem positive to me. In fact it seems like this is how we keep getting so much software (and hardware!) that solves no actual human need of any kind.
> And that then depends on the price per area of storage that you pay.

It also depends on your cash flow / economic considerations - you may not wish to have 1 M$ in merchandise sitting in storage, waiting for it to be sold in about 10 years.
Don't worry, we won't be fooled again.
> But at a higher level, what strikes me is that spreadsheets don't get checked if they tell you what you want to hear.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2016-01-07

Further: https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=spreadsheet
That sounds more like a legal argument than an engineering one. I mean, who cares what the mechanisms are and what the precise rules and enforcement mechanisms are? The point is there are complicated features that are OK in some contexts but not others, that this varies between problems and between languages, and that some parties make different decisions on how to make use of them even when implementing software for people who take contrasting positions.

I mean... so what? Either Go is good because it lacks exceptions or it's bad for the same reason. And it's either a good decision that it uses a similar mechanism internally or it's a bad one. Both of those are arguments worth having, but they are different arguments and there is no technical reason to demand they be resolved in the same direction.
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The hundreds or thousands of lives that could have been saved if evacuations began after the first tower was hit are hardly ever mentioned. No job is worth dying for, but apparently employers think their jobs are. I wonder what the death toll would have been if more people had common sense and started evacuating immediately.
CRPGs are no competition, there's no comparison, really. When you do anything outside the box CRPGs just break, while a good game master will run with it and that's how the best stories happen. We found a boss we didn't wanted to fight. Our spellcasters decided sending a construct with 2 bags of holding to put one into another near the boss will destroy it. It worked, but it also created portal to another dimension, and when we tried to recover the hostages 2 player characters got thrown into that dimension. The rest of the party had to pay a powerful mage to recover them with our best magical weapon. Half a session (several hours) was spent arguing over who owns the magical weapon and if it's good idea to give it away :) They almost fought in game :) Meanwhile my character stranded in another dimension decided to become a priest (I was a barbarian before).

These kind of stuff never happens in CRPGs - it couldn't because there's infinite number of possible open-ended solutions to any problem. If AI can improvise them I'd argue it's as good as a Turing Test.

BTW complicated rules aren't that big of a problem - there is a compromise between CRPGs and TTRPGs - and it's computer-assisted TTRPGs played over internet. The most important advantage is that you can play with people from other continent, so it's much easier to find players. But the computer-assisted part is also making the rules much less of a problem. You set up your character (all the items, feats, skills, abilities) before the game, and when DM wants he asks you to roll the attack, you click and the system rolls the dices for everybody to see, adds the needed modifiers, calculates the damage (including critical hit if needed etc. ) and shows how much hitpoints you lost.

It's faster than doing all this stuff physically and beyond the initial setup and occasional level-up it makes complicated rules more bearable.
No, you can't get any Hetzner VM for $3/month.
I think it goes the other way. People who write good content often like to use their real name because it builds their personal brand, and don't want to harm it with shitposts. Fewer people put the effort in anonymously for no benefit. The voting audience isn't craving names.
Anectada: Facebook ads have been able to figure out the kind of clothing my girlfriend likes and comes up with very relevant clothing ads now. These ads do get clicked on, once in a while, and result in actual sales.

I think the reason the advertisements have become so good at targeting her is because she likes looking up clothing on Pinterest.
Right, we've been doing this for coming on 60 years now, and we have a much better idea of what isn't intelligence than what is. But that's still useful.
What leads you to believe it's an apples-to-oranges comparison? From OP's example the AWS monthly bill would be close to 10% of the total hardware cost to serve the same volume of requests.
The question wasn't about a PI in a data center was it? It was about how does this compare to a raspberry pi.

I'd even question whether or not the application needs to be in an "AWS-grade datacenter" since it does 1 query every 10 seconds but sure...

I'd be more than willing to bet hertzner's cheapest VPS (~$3.25?) would do over a million[1] requests per month pretty easily and they're inside a data center which is a pretty apples to apples comparison.

My point is that the cost per request is high, regardless of data center or not. That's a lot of money for such a low volume of requests.

[1] Which is still only a request like every 2 seconds.
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You don't need win condition. Tetris has no win condition yet it's easily trainable. You want some kind of feedback, and human players can just have a 2 buttons in the interface - "Good DM" and "Bad DM".
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My point is simply that without a directive from the government, it would be illegal for the conference organizers to physically detain you, even if it's to isolate or quarantine you. Even if they did have a directive, it would probably still have to be a sworn officer doing the detaining (there may be case law on this to the contrary). Hospitals obviously have such a directive, but I'm not sure that even a hospital security guard who isn't a sworn officer would have the power to detain you under the hospital's directive. In any event, it's not at all clear to me that HIMSS has a directive from a government agency, let alone that the detaining would be done by sworn officers and not some hired help with "guard cards".
Unfortunately, this is missing the semantic metadata about the fact that it's a tree. It might be fine in some cases, but in general you would want to add some Aria attributes. But i'm not sure whether you could generate the entire thing server-side.
That is the point: China does not do home isolation. Wuhan had no choice but to try that in the beginning and it did not work. Things only started to improve when Wuhan were able to collect patients into quarantine sites.