skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers from China are totally innaccurate and underestimating the infection rate by at least an order of magnitude for a multitude of reasons. The WHO has been irresponsibly mirroring the Chinese numbers from the start and frankly cannot be trusted - the director of the WHO was accused by the NYT years ago of covering up 3 cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia.

China has been overwhelmed. They ran out of testing kits weeks ago. They have been turning people away from hospitals for months. Major infection areas have been under lockdown, where people are not allowed to leave their homes or drive, even for emergency trips to the hospital. Their official reported diagnosed cases are nowhere the true numbers. They've also punished doctors for reporting new cases. It's all a giant sham.

This pandemic is revealing just how incompetent global organizations and news media are.

Edit: I just read that the WHO also has some incentive to downplay the virus - $425 million in catastrophe bonds were issued that may default if the virus is officially labeled a pandemic...can't seem to find the actual default conditions but there's a clear conflict of interest here. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/pandemic-bon...
They are in the Western Hemisphere though, hence the pedantry (presumably).
Please respond to the actual contents of my post, and not a strawman version of it.

I’m saying what I said, nothing more.

> Software absolutely can and does lead to unintended outcomes, else there would be no bugs.

Edit: also see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429620

TFA explains how the system was added, it’s absurd and intellectually dishonest to interpret my post as saying what you wrote.
> We ended up rolling out own stuff and marking std:: verboten.

I think that’s still pretty common, especially in game development and/or when compiling with exceptions disabled. AFAIK std::vector is fine, and probably std::string, but for things like std::[unordered_]map, Abseil and Folly have equivalents that are slightly non-standard and much faster.
In the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act prevents exactly that (unless the reason for the warranty claim is caused specifically by the aftermarket part).

https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2011/01/ftc-validates-right-...
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1209 (it celebrated its 800th while I was there, so the date has stuck with me).

It's not in the Western Hemisphere though - it's about 0.1E.
I don't understand your logic. You're complaining that your customers don't like AGPL, so instead you're using the SSPL? The license that was rejected because it was seen as being an even more restrictive version of the AGPL? What does it matter anyway since your goal is to get people off the open source version and paying for the enterprise version?

> we want to stop the cloud providers from offering this as a service

Stop thinking about this. You can't stop cloud providers from offering it as a service and still call it open source. The only thing you can do is force them to also open source their cloud offering. If you want to call yourself open source, this is the sphere you need to operate in. You can't just try to cut them off because the company is too big. What you should be looking for is a license that makes it easier to convert them into paying customers. Maybe that's AGPL, maybe it's something else, I don't know. Or you can just stop calling yourself open source.

I personally think the SSPL sort of goes in the right direction as an "enhanced AGPL" license, but misses the mark in some key areas. Please participate in community licensing discussions if this is what you're interested in. It's possible to make a better license that will work, but it will only happen after lots of feedback from interested users. This isn't just about the big guys, if you don't participate in these discussions then don't be surprised when your company's needs aren't met.
You might be right, but as a San Franciscan, who had to stop by the office in Palo Alto today, the sun did feel a bit oppressive =)
I think it's more accurate to say D's GC is expected to exist if you want to use the full language. That's sensible, because the option to use GC makes some things practical that otherwise wouldn't be. You can disable or simply avoid the GC, and you can add @nogc attributes to your code if you want to be certain there won't be any GC allocations. BetterC certainly does guarantee there's no GC, but that's a limited (for now at least) subset of the full language.
I have a fireplace, a gas furnace, and an electric grid connection, but only one of these is definitely functional at the moment. If I were to stock up on supplies, I would have to know my situation in the event stuff goes kerblooie. Do I have water? Is it hot? Does it seem clean but actually is full of bacteria?

Often people recommend that you prepare for disasters by buying things that you will periodically use up, so they don't get really stale or spoiled. I really can't face eating the amount of spam that it would require to insure against a significant disaster, assuming there isn't one. Or peanut butter.

If I have water and the ability to cook, potatoes seem like pretty much the cheapest source of calories that won't quickly spoil as long as you keep them where it's dark and cool. I wonder why people don't recommend stocking up on them?
> therefore the First Amendment does not prohibit Youtube from restricting free speech.

If YouTube can restrict free speech, Google Groups can restrict free speech. And Facebook can restrict free speech. And WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Slack, HN etc. etc. etc.
Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but I think it's completely wrong. (Note: I don't work for Google, or know anyone on the MLIR team.)

Take a look at this recent talk by the people behind IREE[0] (who are not part of the MLIR team): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1os9FaPodPI59uj7JJI3aXnTzkut...

In a nutshell, they have made HUGE gains by taking advantage of the MLIR infrastructure for a use case not anticipated by the MLIR authors (i.e. making the TensorFlow-to-hardware path easier to develop).

In my opinion, MLIR is going to be much more successful long-term than LLVM is today, and by long-term, I mean "in the next few years." The number of teams consolidating already around MLIR is astounding, and having a multi-dialect SSA-based IR is a freaking game changer for compiler writers.

[0] https://github.com/google/iree
A variant of the OTP, the stream cipher, is already a core component of most cryptography protocols.
Just looked it up for the brand of mattress I have, according to https://casper.com/faqs/the-mattress/are-there-chemical-fire... they do not use any
I wonder why this wouldn't work. If 90% of retail traders lose money, then why doesn't Etrade and Robinhood bet against its worst performing customers? Is there some law against this?
Does that mean your power button is facing the wall?
Sure, but most of the worlds population will still get irrationally upset at you for broaching social and cultural norms, like depicting Muhammad or denigrating the king.
Yeah, came here to say this (was in the Army). My experience is the same. When it started to happen you could actually smell it (smells like ammonia ... like cat urine, almost).
The rules I have previously posted contain the answer to your first question.
I'll admit I bought a few extra groceries on my last trip to the store.
Yes.

They're private companies offering a service under their own terms which the consumer can take or leave, of course they can do that. The salient point however is that the First Amendment was never intended to apply to private enterprise.
I purchased 4200 cans of an assortment of low sodium soup and vegetables, at a discounted lot rate (just under 90¢/ea). They range from 220 to 300 cal per can (so about 3-4 cans per day per person).

If this all blows over, since these expire in about 20 months, I’ll just donate them to a dog shelter in the nearby ghetto. The dogs love that stuff.
I would be shocked if you found it easier to convince candidates to relocate to Detroit than to San Diego.
I just don't see why this would even have wheels.
Are you working on an autobiographical script?
Hi Andrew! Looking into similar requirements I came across Feather and fst. They both basically let you efficiently slice into compressed on-disk DataFrames. Feather already supports Python, but fst is just for C++ and R at the moment.

https://blog.rstudio.com/2016/03/29/feather/

http://www.fstpackage.org/
https://github.com/fstpackage/fstlib
No, but there are several "thread unroller" sites to make reading these things easier.
We were duped by a corporate accelerator on this. We negotiated the valuation of the company, and then when the docs came through, they portrayed that valuation as being inclusive of the money to be invested.

At the time, I investigated this and learned that most valuations are done on pre-money terms. It was just one of several scuzzy things that said corporate VC would do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nI9ok7iQg
broadcom BT chip has limited number of patch slots, and apparently even in the newest shipping iphones they are all fully taken with bugfixes. Since BT and Wifi live on the same chip I wonder if those slots are shared.
Nature and pubmed for starters. Search 2019 ncov. Most of the papers were originally being collected and circulated on 4chan - honestly, as vile as a place as it is, the threads have been 1-2 months ahead of media. More recently reddit.com/r/coronavirus has popped up which is sharing papers and there's a more official subreddit who's name escapes me.

This is an event which illuminates the folly of relying excessively on media and government. I think it's easy to forget that these organizations are managed and staffed by people just like you and me - worse in many cases, as the average person is not exactly sharing research papers with their grandma, so to speak.

Here's one of the conservative estimates for R0 straight out of China. There's another which estimates 6-8 but I'll leave that to you to look for.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
Trying to pressure the OSI into accepting a license is not the way to go. There are valid reasons that they rejected it. This isn't exactly some cabal of lawyers trying to make you miserable, the SSPL was also independently banned by Debian and Fedora for not meeting their own guidelines on open source licenses. The review process for all of these organizations was lengthy and public and still available if you want to find it.
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A lot of these seem pretty useful in certain circumstances. A lot of the "[whatever] to USB header" ones could be used for the boot drive so you can use all of your drive bays for data. I've seen servers with internal USB and SD ports for exactly that purpose, but if you don't have one, these could be useful.
To be fair in this exchange, the initiating comment was very much a 'pro-PC' statement. The comment got flagged away but it was some strong wording along the lines of "being okay with any politically-incorrect stuff is 'disgusting'". IIRC disagreements and discussions are allowed/encouraged on HN.
Relativistic Velocity Transformation
That's like cutting of the nose to spite the face.
I fail to see why such an infrastructure would've been unnecessary if Moore's law had not ended.

Architecture has become crazy heterogeneous by now. It was heterogeneous enough to warrant such a thing 10 years ago. Better late than never.
Google Chrome Update: 'Millions of users are at risk'
I don't believe "violent subcultures" is quite the right way to put it. Violence is a deep part of US history, which its mainstream culture vaunts & clings to. In some ways, I believe US culture has a kind of love affair with violence, and can't quite bear the thought of just letting it go. Peaceability is always and everywhere hard to achieve to various degrees of course, but in the US there is a strand, broader than in most of modernity, which doesn't find it desirable at all.
I work in a niche field. Not so niche that there isn't a lot of money in it, but niche enough that we need to explain to all of our new hires what we do as a company.

For us, it is absolutely 100% necessary to hire domain experts to prioritize bugs and features. It's not a question of incompetent or dense developers, it's a question of things that are not obvious to someone who doesn't have tons of experience in the field.

It's a problem that I imagine developers working on Chrome, Call of Duty, iTunes, or Outlook don't have. You can hire recent college grads and expect them to understand what the software does, have reasonably good instincts how to prioritize bugs and put together the right user experience even if the description in the feature request is sparse on details.

By the way, I heartily recommend working for such a company. My company works very, very hard to retain people. Someone who's spent ten years getting used to the weird stuff our customers expect is far more valuable than someone with half the pay who needs someone to hold their hand through every single issue. Everyone has their own office, management is extremely permissive about the shit that doesn't matter, there's never deadlines or crunch time, everyone chooses their own work/life balance. (We're hourly, and the expectation is that you work more than forty hours a week and need manager approval if you want to work more than 60 for more than three pay periods in a row) If we want more vacation, we can bank hours and spend it on supplemental vacation. Everything's great.
My favourite cursed adapter is the Etherkiller, a mains plug connected to an ethernet cable: https://i.imgur.com/oQBaNQL.jpg
It could be based on connecting to the same in-flight WiFi.
I used to have a case that had stuff reversed this way. The cables came out at the front, and a cover could close over them to make it not look ratty. I think it was made by Lian Li.
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Every new standard incorporates language & library changes. A perfect example of this is r-value references. That was a new language feature in C++11 & was adopted by all the standard library containers & algorithms.

Not sure which part of std::string you're referring to but the compiler generally doesn't contain any knowledge of the library itself. It does goes the other way though where the standard library has to know how to implement certain functionality on a given compiler (some type traits functionality IIRC isn't possible to implement without compiler builtins that expose the AST to you). I think Rust has taken a more sustainable approach with their macro system which can modify the AST instead of relying on builtins but even in Rust I suspect they use builtins in certain places of their standard library.

Today's STL implementations are going to be better performing and more robust than anything you'd write yourself so generally a good idea to stick to it as a rule of thumb for the majority of code.
Wrong application becoming popular sometimes results in new phrases.
Not sure about high performance mice, but Amazon does have some USB-C mice. I picked up for my daughter to play Stardew Valley on her mac. Was looking to avoid the daisy chain of adapters rather than a high sampling rate.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BMLJBJ8/
I knew the first case of community spread Coronavirus would originate in the bay area. Facts be facts, open and unchecked immigration (a lot of it illegal) lends itself vulnerable to these situations. I will eat my words, if more details come out and I am wrong about the origin, but the person must have had contact somehow with somebody infected.
I'm almost thinking hard startups shouldn't exist. If a startup is considered hard, what is making it hard. Probably ecosystem / infrastructure. Maybe a good approach would be to ask the founder why timeline is so long or will cost so much. Once they answer those questions, ask them to build an "easier" startup that will be able to sustain itself and can (eventually) partner with the "hard" startup, which will only be launched once it becomes easy.

And I'm not saying do something different. I'm saying the "easier" startup would be built as a means to enabling the hard startup.
I agree with this. It's true that there may be less liquidity in the market outside of web tech stuff, but it's not all jobs. There are plenty of companies looking for people with either a) specialist skills which aren't web or b) good engineer skills generally (agnostic as to specific tech)

Not all companies are playing buzzword bingo.
You seem to think it's obvious that you last longer if you ration yourself rather than eat until the food is gone and then burn fat. That sounds reasonable, but I can't exactly think of a logical argument why. Why do you think it should be true?
It would be pretty selfish because you'd become a potential source for other people to get infected
"Counting everyone in the country" is one aspect of the census effort. Looking at where they live, what they do for a living, and if they live alone or with others are other aspects. In the US, when someone moves from one state to another, they're not required to notify the US government in any way. Most states have rules about getting your vehicles licensed within a certain time frame after settling in a state, or rules about when you must acquire a driver license and/or state ID. The rules are wildly different across all fifty states, and it's not feasible to "just track" everyone since the national government has no explicit authority to. The census, however, is explicitly assigned to the federal government in the constitution.
CDC confirms first possible community transmission of coronavirus in US
I didn't fill out the last census forms in protest of the longform census that year(in Canada) that asked for what I considered to be unnecessary information I didn't wish to divulge. Nobody that lived in the house filled one out. Nothing came of it. Census people showed up at the door every day for a while, but would leave after a bunch of knocking with no answer. I do normally fill them out though. For reference Canada has similar census laws to America.
> NASA scientists have previously conducted computer simulations suggesting Earth is usually host to one or more mini moons, asteroids that temporarily circle Earth before breaking free and escaping back into interplanetary space.

What breaks them free? Is it a big pachinko game?
> Maybe they can get a job fixing legacy C++ applications.

There's big money in that - those legacy applications are vital to the functioning of big corporations. Specialising in large in-house C++ applications obviously doesn't help develop a career in trendy webdev (and nor should it), but it absolutely gives you some good options.
So there's mini PCI-E and there's mini PCI-E(SATA). The SATA one is just directly connected to a SATA controller, when you look for storage devices for the mini PCI-E format that's all you find thanks to it's prolific use in laptops.

The other mini PCI-E is just a 1x PCI-E channel... or a USB connection, when you look for items to connect to mini PCI-E you find Wifi and 3g/4g cards and something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BJ45JXD. Now one day in my searches I did find some Intel Flash drives that were used for ReadyBoost duties on some Windows laptops, but they lack a flash controller and you need a special Linux kernel module to even use it which breaks my want to boot from the mini PCI-E device.

Since the industry went the m.2 route the mini PCI-E slot is dead and dying. You can even get m.2 adapters for Wifi(https://www.newegg.com/fenvi-fv-ax200h-m-2/p/0XM-00JK-00063) or FPGA(https://numato.com/product/aller-artix-7-m-2-fpga-module) because it's more universal than a standard PCI-E slot now.

This ramble is to nominate mini PCI-E as a cursed connector.
Probably the hardest startups today tacle climate related problems. They face hard problems and the problem of not yet marketed demands.
I used to work on an in-house framework. The trick is to write like "used proprietary JS framework xyz.js, a framework similar to react.js". The scanners will still pick it up.
One might think pedialyte was the best formulated option, but it tastes terrible in my opinion.
This is not true of Interactive Brokers, right?
Ah, thanks that makes sense.
I misread this as Cursed Adopters, and thought it was going to be about users who, when they use a technology, seem to encounter more trouble than the average user--a kind of inverse of early adopters.
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Every society has different mores and customs, traditions shift over time, and a lot of hand-wringing over PC ends up as tiresome as those who would militantly push PC, cluttering up discussions that have little to nothing to do with these cultural squabbles.
EDIT: Please don't be opaque about this stuff. Post an exact link to the ToC (or whatever) I violated if you truly want to be held accountable. I'm not even on a I-want-to-an-a-hole crusade here[0], but HN has a serious lack of accountability and transparency about this. I contend that it's full of shills, but I have yet to prove that, which I acknowledge.

Anyway, I flagged it. I'd delete my post if I could. Wait, I actually still could.

That still doesn't account for the downvotes I just received on random comments unrelated to this topic. If I deleted it would that delete causally-related-downvotes?

[0] As you can hopefully tell from from my comment history.

EDIT#2: Can I "report" you... and if so, how? I'm not going to, but could I, theoretically? That's a good test for accountability.
Building your own ad network sounds hard, especially the part where you convince people to buy ads there instead of Google (or on top of, but it's less about the CPC than the general overhead, I assume).

Affiliate links might be a good idea in general, adding a partner tag to all links to Amazon for example. I'm sure Amazon doesn't mind, and it doesn't matter to the user, their prices are the same, though clearly stating it is a good idea. For the large retailers that get a lot of traffic and aren't too picky in signups, that could work, but hinges on you getting a lot of traffic that ends up in clicks to shopping related sites.

Unfortunately, I don't think there an ad network to do this. Everyone that I've seen that lets you link to a large variety of retailers without needing to sign up with each one is shady at best (and targets shady sites that wouldn't get affiliate status), so they won't work with the privacy-first approach.
Or TOR where NoScript is (should be?) the norm. Then they get less data to work with too.

Win-win!
> I wasn't going to talk about that because I think it'd be frowned upon on HN...

You weren’t going to exercise your first amendment rights because the community frowns upon your second amendment rights...

It’s absolutely absurd that people feel afraid to talk about guns because a bunch of leftists hate everything our country stands for.

Good on you for talking about guns anyway.
Are the effect of the coronavirus on the stock market could be opportunity for investing?
The SP500 went down 8% this past 5 days. I'm wondering if that will go lower those next days.

I have a bit amount of money on the side, I didn't know where to invest. Would now be a good opportunity to lump sum all the money, or would you Dollar Cost Average?

Anyone else with the same dilemma, and would have more arguments? Or maybe an other perspective on that?
I still think the STL containers are the sane default to reach for & switch to more obscure ones when the problem domain and performance requirements say to use a different one.