skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply everything can be well tested, but where it can tests make sense even if they don't cover everything (vs. the attitude that testing is pointless unless you can cover all relevant code paths).

Also, I don't think there's as much value in unit tests than other more holistic types of testing, i.e. functional/integration tests.

TBH I read your linked article and still don't quite know what a test harness (in that context) is and in what way it's better and differs exactly in the concrete. Guess I'll have to read up on it elsewhere.
There’s Nothing Correct About Political Correctness
Now 30 some years later I finally see what all that weird and broken stuff in in SunView and XView was trying to do, and what a blatant but poorly executed copy it was. But now seeing how much better than Cedar/Mesa was than C, it's a wonder they even pulled that off. Sun's textedit seems a very far cry from Tioga, but they were so into it that the Sun keyboards had all the necessary keys for many years later. We could have had "buttonls" for all these years??
Fucking hell, these politicians are as much a virus as the virus itself. 100% that number was pulled straight from their hindquarters.
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This article is weird: the tone it sets is that them being blocked was a bad thing but then they say:

> Netflix would’ve never stood a chance of getting its current market penetration [in the UK],” says the BBC source. “All the big players would have had the market covered for streaming video-on-demand (SVOD)

That's exactly why they blocked it: to allow for multiple individual competitors to enter the market. So... the regulators did a good job after all: by blocking the huge merging of content from three of the biggest providers in the UK.
What doesn't make sense is to consider never leaving the house a realistic option. Nor does the phrase "automatic opt-in".

And I hope this:

> since on street analytics are already beneficial to everyone, consumers and providers, why should they be opt-in?

is a joke. It's pure authoritarianism.
I taught Scratch to kids. They love the visual element of the language. It's so hard to make basic mistakes - partly because you can't put an Int where the code expects a Bool.

The interface shows you all the components you can use, and what data they require.

I then move on to teaching Python, and watch kids get frustrated.

Languages like DRAKON should be the future of our profession - not typing 80 char lines into a terminal.
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Very little money? It uses 9,7% of UK's GDP. It's only a very little money if compared to US system.

In comparison, Polish healthcare expenditure is 6,5%. It's obviously worse than NHS, but it's miraculous that it works that well - with only 3 years expected lifespan below UK and 1 below US.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Chances are, if government would make a "secure communication app" it would suck (unlike private companies, government has no interest in making applications usable because they usually have no competition - if you have to use them, you have to use them). The projects are usually done by external contractors which will implement the unusable project that technically meets the requirements (implementing more is a waste of money). Add cryptography into an equation (cryptography is notoriously difficult to get right), and you have a recipe for disaster.
The best password is the one written in plaintext on the outside of your car.
This would be a fantastic time for Iran to drop it's bs sponsorship of Hezbollah, Assad, Shiite militias, Houthi rebels, work with the US, and save lives both there and in the rest of the world.
You think it is harder because you are not familiar with the depth of non-developer workflows. Developer hubris.
Prometheus doesn’t have a good built in story for horizontal scaling of storage and queries, or long term storage. That’s why there’s M3DB, Cortex, etc. which let you send metrics to a set of Prometheus servers which then write to a cluster that handles broad queries and tiered storage. So these are less a competitor to Prometheus and Grafana and more an augmentation of it since it supports both emitting metrics in Prometheus form and querying them with PromQL.

Datadog gets very expensive beyond a certain point; much bigger than most startups, but much smaller than Uber.

Cloudwatch is usually used as a source of metrics rather than a destination. It doesn’t have as rich a data model as Prometheus for custom metrics, and has a lot of quite limiting restrictions (like only 10 tags per metric).
That’s... interesting. Singing from a history book interspersed by pop “heeey-yeah”s
The EU has 27 (?) member states (plus others). All those governments have intelligence agencies. All of those want to know what MEPs are thinking etc. All of them have veto powers...
There's Matrix (https://matrix.org/).
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https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2018-284-why-automated-number-plat...
my problem with dreams is that someones time would be better spend learning a proper game engine like unreal or unity
Yeah, after seeing several pediatric specialists we switched our children's pajamas to untreated non-flame retardant organic cotton PJs and their mysterious nickel-sized skin rashes disappeared within a few days.
But that does not make a whole lot of sense though. What does it mean to have negative probability? Can you sample from negative probability?

Also on a more fundamental level. If you define probability coming from the idea of Dutch books (which is how I think about probabilities), then it is really easy to show that there should be no such thing as a negative probability.

I like the description in the article a lot better than the idea of 'magical' negative probabilities.
Signal app is also canonically distributed by Google Play/Apple Store, which are US entities under US law. When push comes to shove, an app update may get distributed to select individuals that will happily gather and send all their conversation histories and more.

As an EU citizen, I'm half puzzled and half horrified at how happy the EU institutions are to rely on foreign products: especially coming from a country that has a history of being trigger-happy and cutting people off in the name of a "trade war".
> Health Ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi rejected the Qom lawmaker’s claims, insisting the death toll from the virus remains at 12.

Who to trust?
I think it's more that one of the consequences of painful public procurement processes is that they incentivise public officials to avoid procurement as much as possible. This leads to larger/maximalist projects being specified and a proliferation of "framework agreements" under which small projects are undertaken, both of which seem to benefit the large incumbents disproportionately.
50 deaths mean nothing if you don't have the number of deaths due to more classic strains to compare it against.
No because Netflix account isn't written into law. It's a criminal act to watch TV without the license.

The definition of license is a permit to do something. It's a permit to watch TV, given to you by the government.
Another related tool is

https://searchfox.org/

https://github.com/bgrins/searchfox
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This is a excellent case of the total failure of the media.

Iran had obviously lost total control two days ago.

Yet the media is still going on about South Korean and Italy, it seems clueless.

We also need the immediate relaxation of sanctions around this on Iran. I 'think' WHO might be breaking some sanctions by currently helping Iran.
Some further context on the discrepancy between this figure and official figures:

> The Iranian government has denied trying to cover up the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak after reports suggested that the death toll from the disease was more than four times higher than official figures claim.

> On Monday, a lawmaker from Qom – a Shia holy city 120 km (75 miles) south of the capital Tehran which has seen a cluster of cases – accused Iran’s health minister of “lying” about the scale of the outbreak.

> According to the semi-official ILNA news agency, which is close to reformists, the lawmaker, Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, said there had been “50 deaths” from the coronavirus in Qom alone.

> “The rest of the media have not published this figure, but we prefer not to censor what concerns the coronavirus because people’s lives are in danger,” ILNA editor Fatemeh Madiani told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

> But the country’s deputy health minister rejected the report. In a news conference broadcast live on state television, Iraj Harirchi said that 12 people had died from the coronavirus and 66 had been infected.

> “I categorically deny this information,” said Iraj Harirchi.

> “This is not the time for political confrontations. The coronavirus is a national problem,” he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/24/coronavir...
Is it time to start treating this like a big deal yet? Their first case was three weeks ago and 50 deaf already? This virus is unprecedented and it is only responsible for individuals with means to start preparing. No reason to wait for the government to tell you to do so. Plus each person that does it early is one less for the potential store rush.
>US to drop its bs rhetoric

Leftists love to virtue signal with Iranophilia. Meanwhile, Iranians literally chant "death to America" every day in their streets and in their national parliament. I've never seen a crowd of thousands of Americans chanting death to any nation, including Iran.

No sympathy for these savages.
>The hierarchy breakdown in the article is misleading. Lucene indexes fields, not documents. Understanding this is key. More fields == more files. Segments are per field not per ES index. A lucene index is not the same as an Elasticsearch index.

Unless I'm mistaken, segments are not per field.
A lucene index might be broken into segments depending on your merge policy, but the segment file structure allows it to be an effectively separate lucene index that you can search on and contains data for all the index fields.

And I too find the fact that the term "index" is reused by ES to mean a collection of lucene indexes. Once someone wants to dive deeper it only creates ambiguity.
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Open source licenses: What, which, and why
Generally, the big benefit of not using Clojure is to reduce the probability of having Clojure programmers on the project.
What sort of development do you do on the PowerBook?
How many Romans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
The Mozilla developer working on web assembly wrote some good articles on types

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-type...
Iranian 'supreme leader' playbook:

1) Find out about disease outbreak before elections.

2) Tell your people that the reports are a Western conspiracy to lower turnout. (e.g. [0])

3) Get utterly shocked when people die. How could you have known!?

[0]
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1231530523740266496
Would filtering it first help with that?
It is nice of you to tell Apple engineers about it that way but they will probably change it any way.

When Apple sees an opportunity to market their own stuff they will push competition out of business (even if there is no business at all).

"Security issues" is just a convenient excuse for them to shut down promising projects I'm afraid.
Politics operates at a level beyond the common senses of public.

Sure that would be great but if USA offers aid, it could be viewed as an insult as if they are unable to handle things themselves and with that - pride comes into play (often does with country politics).
If Iran asks for help, they would probably have the USA low down on that asking list and again, pride also comes into play.

But let's put all that aside and ask the question: what could the USA do that Iran could not do currently in this situation?
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Check facts yourself.

Feb 2020, max 12, min -8, avg +3 https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/latvia/riga/historic?mon...

Feb 2019, max 12, min -10, avg +1. Yeah, was a crappy winter too but nothing like this year. We could had snow with kids ocassionaly.

Feb 2018 max +2, min -21, avg -7...
I guess Iran is like the South Korea problem spread across the entire country. The vast majority of cases in South Korea are in a religious sect. For Iran mosques are places where so many are in close proximity.
nice write up and lots of nice details, but is this not just fractals ?

Nature itself is very much represented through fractals, at least in some part of my amateur understanding, which would suggest a lot of really interesting research in to this area.
What is Ruby on Rails in this analogy?(the thing that replaced JEE monstrosity)
I know Signal is secure and all — and I use it myself — but I can’t help but think how can we trusted that the central servers aren’t wiretapped? It would be the ultimate proof of security if one could transparently verify that the middle man is running the actual code it claims to be running.
Yes, does cover that in the link and from my perspective - ruddy good response time upon that and well handled.

I can think of many comparable situations in other countries (some EU ones as well) in which the person finding the issue would of very easily been locked up.
They already demand what they think they can get. Taxing CEOs at 50% doesn't magically double what their labour is worth.
It's a wheel that they do not have any control over, from source, hosting and distribution.
Like a literal tar fire? Or a tar format archive fire? Or is that a California expression I'm not familiar with?

Also this makes me have a sick curiosity if one could have transpiled a whole Genera world to C with cfront or something then loaded it back in with Symbolics C and have it work?
It does, but in an average flu season, how many escape unscathed? Now factor in that the transmission rates may be significantly higher for this virus (R0 below 2 versus anywhere from 1.4-6.6).
Think of it as tax evasion; same thing in other countries - if you don't pay your tax, then as a last resort - you go to prison.

If you don't want to pay the license fee, it's entirely your choice to not use the service for which it is mandatory.
I googled it. I did not know vi before that, and now I use vim as my main editor for code.
Subsidies for those who don't pollute seems like such a backwards solution compared to taxing those who do pollute. If you want people to stop dumping trash in your backyard do you think it's saner to punish those who do or to reward everyone else in your neighborhood who gets rid of their trash in other ways?

The atmosphere and its ability to contain a limited amount of carbon is a public good, and we should stop giving away the right to dump stuff in it for free.
I would think there is a lot less to learn with vi than with Visual Studio.
For what it's worth, the emphasis on algorithmic puzzles is a prominent feature of education for software engineers in Eastern Europe. And, well, there's a lot of good software engineers coming from Eastern Europe. Correlation is not necessarily causation, but it's something to ponder.
any source or official document on this ?
Yes, my humidifier actually has filters you can buy, but it's a bit cost prohibitive (around $20/filter and with the hardness of the water they only last about 3 weeks).
Sounds like you want to brute Force s boltzmann brain. Primary problem is: how could you tell? It is not like it would have intelligent behavior to observe. At a macro scale I doubt we do either.
The reason you use React Native is because you are platform independent...

That's a reason to use it, but it's not the only reason.

For example, where I live it's much easier to recruit JS developers with React and React Native experience than it is to recruit native mobile developers (it's not a cost thing; there just aren't many native mobile devs looking for work). Consequently it's better to build with React Native even if you're only targeting one platform because the long term support for the app would be basically impossible if you can't recruit someone capable of doing it.
When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, then we will have a decade without Summer
Not until it kills more than H1N1 apparently.
Interesting that in EU such project just illegal from start
The turnouts were very low this time because they allowed only conservative candidates to run, they have enough ways to rig their elections they'll do #2 just for fun tho.
Ursula von der Leyen knows about the dangers of leaving incriminating information on cell phones.
To be fair, over 75s are one of the richest groups in the UK collectively. The government's argument then was not about hurting the BBC but about better targeting limited taxpayers money towards those who actually needed it, in the context of significant cuts being made to public expenditure more generally.

You could argue that not increasing the licence fee to offset the loss of income was about hurting the BBC I suppose though the government side of that argument would have been about not increasing the burden on the less well off who are forced to pay the fee if they want to watch TV.
I went to the local library and borrowed high-school level textbooks. Just start from the level where you absolutely understand everything, however low you need to go. Solve all the exercises. You will blaze through the easy stuff, but the exercises will make it clear to you when you need to begin paying attention.
That is exactly what I feel.

More and more I find Amazon to be closer and closer to a Chinese Bazar of cheap quality items (kind of an AliExpress or dx but with a different perceived quality).

I believe they will gain a lot of customers among people who just want cheap stuff (or don't care if it is original as long as the brand is clearly visible and is cheaper) but definitely they will lose customers that use Amazon for convenience (more or less the same price, better refund policies, availability of products...)

It's a pity. Hopefully others will fill that space.

In Spain, El Corte Inglés with its new on-line platform is getting closer and closer.
Let's take a short tryptic peptide.
LQGIVSWGSGCAQK
Formula is C62 N18 O19 S1 H100

Let's look at C - C12 is around 98.93 natural abundance, the N 99.6, O 99.76, H 99.98
If we forget the others for simplicity of calculation and only look at C. Then the probability of getting a peptide with all C12 is 0.9893^62 ~ 0.51 ie only half of the sample will be monoisotopic mass - double the length of the peptide and it's down to a quarter - full length protein you are looking at vanishingly small amounts.

The original problem was to calculate masses of things upto 1000aa - something of 1000aa
would have a frequency of monoisotopic species of 2.04058E-21 - ie a handful of molecules out of 6x10^23 of a mole.

The value of monoisotopic values decreases as the size and complexity of the molecule goes up.
And how often where the silenced by US law and weren't even allowed to mention such a thing? We will never know.
Android apps are still secretly sharing your data with Facebook
Zero-knowledge proofs can prove that binary code conforms to a specification (e.g. source code) without revealing the process used to turn specification into binary code.

In the analogy, the specification is the information provided to government officials and binary code is planned governmental actions.

If both are known and the specification process for governmental action is proven it doesn't matter what biases the officials exhibit in the decision process - then the governmental action is proven-good according to the specs (e.g. system of laws) and the information provided (in which it would be relatively easy for citizens to have a say, e.g. "you MAY NOT ignore facts X, Y and Z").
As in every circumstance, nobody.
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> what could the USA do that Iran could not do currently in this situation?

Promise not to punish anyone for breaking sanctions if they sell medical supplies to Iran.

Edit: Seems like the US will only consider that if they can use it to attack the Iranian government: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/politics/us-iran-sanct... ("opened access to medicine for cancer and organ transplant patients", I guess other medicine is still subject to sanctions)
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/eu-parlament-verwehrt-abgeordne...
> This virus is unprecedented

I think you need to read up on your history.
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> However, in that framework, in many cases you're still often left with uniform priors, which then reduce to frequentist statistics.

Several commenters have made this claim, which seems to be true only for maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates. Frequentist methods do not construct a distribution over parameters.
Yeah.

I'm just in the beginning phases of learning pen testing. I want to move from DevOps to DevSecOps to PT.

I'm keen to see what labs exist out there already and how I can build my own complex labs (consisting of complete virtual networks) that I can hack against. A real wargame.
If you have particularly useful historical information to hand then it would probably better to share it rather than hint at its existence.
Depending on your water supply, this design may fill up very quickly with mineral deposits and stop wicking.
It's not because they're not joined up. It's a deliberate policy to write to every household in the entire country which doesn't have a licence (for whatever reason - this includes empty houses, for example) like this. There's no point in responding to them because they won't stop writing to you.

It must waste a huge amount of money.
Does that mean you're repeating The Guardian's talking points?

Or is it possible that a person might hold views that overlap with those perceived also to be put forward by media organisations?

The BBC's success risks suffocating commercial media. Put too many restrictions on the BBC and the risk is of suffocating the BBC. It seems reasonable to me that the government should attempt to find a balance. And, being a government staffed by humans, they make the wrong call sometimes.
You are a bit funny. Just as you can hire a hacker, I could buy a zero-day exploit, or someone could hire mercenary and take down googles servers. It would not prove or disprove anything.

In the end, if you have your email leaked while I do not then that is what matters. Results. I have had zero leaked accounts. Most people have stuff that been leaked, and since you refused to answer, I assume you are listed in Have I Been Pwned?. You trusted someone to be secure and they were not. That was your choice, and it was the wrong one.
super lovely but without a search option is pure pain
Don't confuse the article having an ideology for it being wrong. State-operated streaming services have had success in other countries without monopolistic problems.

Take, for example, Denmark where, in addition to hosting a streaming service, multiple state TV-channels have gone online-only. On top of this, public libraries themselves have their own free streaming services.
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Some ideas:

Hire people (on good money) with the personality type that likes to find problems. If the team is all composed of "Mr Right-Now" and no "Mr Right" personality types then it will move very fast and have lots of issues. A diverse team helps.

TDD tries to insist tests are developed first, partly to ensure they're not skipped.

Reinforce the message: "Measure twice, cut once".

Good leadership and top-down support to make changes are important. If they won't care enough to stump up the money and follow through to check it's happening, don't expect much change.