skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would have been a lot more effective if they had done it sooner.

China startet radical measures after a rather low number of mystery lung issues. I really doubt that any other government would have taken decisive action much earlier. What would you expect, martial law whenever a doctor isn't quite sure about a diagnosis?

The initial silencing of the first public reports is very unfortunate and puts the government rightfully in a very bad light, but I'm not sure that it had any influence on the speed of countermeasure implementation at all. I see that more as a case of one part of a huge organisation not knowing what the other is doing, not as a government-wide attempt at ignoring the problem. The authoritarian version of a PR department still sending out denials while the rest of the company is already working on a fix (and too busy to rein in the PR department/thought police)
> Robustness Principle: Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.

That's a debunked principle that causes unintended harm.

Programs should be conservative in accepting just their documented range of inputs, and loudly rejecting and diagnosing anything else.

Any behavior that looks "liberal" should actually be so by a specified design, within exact limits, operation outside of which is ideally flagged and rejected.
> Read the page carefully

Emphasis mine.

"...satisfy the requirements for external penetration testing for audited PCI DSS and SOC2 Type II certifications."

"Final Report Delivered. Ready for Auditors."
You'd be surprised (I was), but that's not always the case.
The word “type“ has a fairly different meaning in functional programming compared to object oriented programming. At a very shallow level, they have some similarities. But the way they are used is vastly different between the two paradigms.
> You can create a type that can encompass all kinds of edge cases and information about them.

This is not unique to functional programming languages.

Haskell was definitely a trailblazer for this, but plenty of conventional languages support this now with relative ease.
I don’t consider it proprietary. As per the agreement I specifically ask for an open license so I will be able to release it in the future.

Right now it’s about 5 hours total, which isn’t a ton for actually training on, which is why I haven’t prioritized releasing it and haven’t even trained on it myself yet. I’ve been mostly using it for evaluation so far.

If someone approaches me and says “I have a compelling need for a bit of training data in the form of your prompts” I’ll probably prioritize a release higher.

As another perspective, a majority of the people at this point submitting their voice are already using Talon and just want the engine to be more robust.
Milk goes off mostly based on 'time from opening', if you're using milk at the estimated rate that the supermarket uses to set their best before date, then it's no surprise that it goes off at around the right time.

OTOH, if you buy a bottle of milk and let it sit unopened for 5 days, then start consuming it, you'll usually find that it lasts roughly 5 days past the best before date.
For Turing-completeness you need conditionals and looping. A machine that can loop but has no conditionals wouldn't be a very useful machine. So, yes, what I wrote wasn't exactly correct, but for all practical purposes was correct.
> Now, assuming the most generous interpretation of their 10% VAT proposal... which means a 10% VAT on things like rent, transportation, etc. CA has around 11.5mil households with apx $40k/household of spending, which yields $460bil @ 10% => $46bil in additional tax revenue.

The median income in California is $75k, not $40k. On top of that, this is an alternative to existing assistance programs, so you either get to recover the money spent on those or you get to remove the people who continue to receive them from the population receiving the UBI. I'm not saying the numbers for this bill necessarily balance, but you're using the wrong ones.

> They would have to more than double the tax revenue for a state with already very high taxes.

Nominal tax rate with a UBI has to be discounted by the full amount of the UBI, because you're not paying it if you're getting it back. It obviously doesn't hurt you to pay $10,000 more in taxes if you're then receiving a $12,000 UBI.

This confuses the heck out of people because it means that a UBI costs "nothing" -- but that's how it works. It's purely redistributive. It doesn't cost anything on net, it only moves money around. At the individual level, it costs people above the median something, but still not the amount of the tax, only the difference between the UBI and the amount of the tax. The rest they get back.
It's really just standard manual map based navigation. A dying art these days. I haven't seen many shrubbery related problems, we still have the best signage in the world (that I've seen) and it's perfectly possible to use sign based navigation without any GPS.
You however may need to ask directions for the last couple of miles in rural areas.
BS degrees in the UK are a little different than in the US, 3 years is standard because a lot of what would be first year coursework in the US is covered and credited by their GCSE/GCE exams(somewhat similar to to how you can test out of lots of first year credits in the US with AP tests).

In any case I've never seen anyone with a UK degree have any difficulty having it being equated to a US degree for hiring purposes, and that online CS degree from University of London specifically requires 30 hours of college credit from US students so it still comes to 4 years in the end.
> will make you a millionare in a few years if you play it right.

This is a pretty steep exaggeration.
I’ll second this recommendation. I wrote a summary of my thoughts on the program after I graduated in 2017:

http://writing.maxrosett.com/reflections-on-the-georgia-tech...
Bosses frequently slept with subordinates at WeWork
> We could have stopped it completely with total travel bans

There is no such thing in the modern world. The influenza pandemics in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries couldn't be stopped, just mitigated.

Just take the US - you'd need to shut every air route, every land border and every shipping port for upwards of 18 months. Untenable.
I propose "Granshaw's law". Every time the value of unit tests is discussed the debate over static vs dynamic typing must be looming eerily in the background.

That said, as someone who has spent the majority of his career writing dynamically typed code I can definitely recall far more instances where statically typed code has run and worked first time vs times when I've written some code with unit tests and it worked first time.
In Haskell

map someFunction listOfValue

if you need an index:

map someOtherFunction (zip [0..] listOfValues)

Python uses 'enumerate' to similar effect. Not sure if C++ has an equivalent?
I think you're drawing a distinction where one does not exist. The government pays for these services with tax money (which you seem to be suggesting is "receiving someone's labor without their consent")
"Free" here is a bit abstract. In what way is an undergraduate mathematician free to use their own notation, as opposed to the notation of their lecturer, textbooks, and examination papers? You can think in your own terms, but mathematics has to be taught and communicated with some kind of consensus - and unless you're lucky enough to be the first in the field, that consensus has preceeded you.
Disclosure: I used to work for a competitor. Some of my coworkers were afraid of Atlassian and it rubbed off on me.

Later when I used their stuff and could be (more) objective, I was sort of confused by that previous experience. They're... okay. If that was intimidating maybe that said more about us than about them.

I am probably experiencing a little backlash when I react to their shenanigans because they are not 'all that'. At all.

Trac (no affiliation) is ugly but like your favorite hammer. It is probably the least painful project management suite I ever recall using. And I used it before they decoupled their parsing and rendering logic, so writing plugins that involved anchor tags was a warren of duplicated code.

My last musing-while-brushing-my-teeth was to wonder what would happen if someone drop-kicked the Trac CSS files and wrote a new one from scratch using modern conventions.
To be clear, I am not personally advocating the use of the black market to sell exploits. I'm saying that the black market may be more attractive in cases like this and that anger at the black market in this case is misguided. The failure is with PayPal and/or HackerOne in this case. When the black market is more efficient that is a failure of the legitimate marketplace and you should place your anger with the legitimate marketplace that failed.
I always enjoy seeing new attempts at visualizing and explaining function composition. Here’s something I played around with a few years ago that tried to visualize function composition: https://taliesin.ai/posts/function-trees/
It's because of the vm interpreter that calls into the scheduler within loop iterations. Nothing to do with threads.
No one is denying fraud has a cost or that there's benefit to mitigating it. Mitigation comes at a cost and so there is a cost/benefit analysis performed by stake holders to determine the scope of mitigation employed.

PCI identifies recommended mitigations and imposes penalties for failures, but it doesn't ensure or validate compliance. It simply shifts liability from one stakeholder to another.

No one is spinning this as nefarious, but rather information that should be taken into consideration.
Lightly edited: https://rentry.co/zq4r6
>It's been in early development for ages, but MicroG's degoogled Play Store may fit the bill.

>https://microg.org/

I think you meant https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ ? microg hasn't worked with play store for a while now.
I think it's more of a Northern European / Anglo thing. It's not that important in Med countries and Latin America. It's well regarded, sure, but it's not an obsession like in the USA.
In Erlang that's possible because the program runs in a VM. Erlang could do the same with 1:1 and m:1 threading.
My point was that while for small molecules, the mono-isotopic mass makes perfect sense as it's the major species, for larger proteins it isn't and indeed becomes a vanishingly small proportion.

Note for something around 10kda the difference between
the average and mono-isotopic mass will be around ~6 daltons - with the experimental accuracy around ~1 dalton!
I do read books. Nowhere near as many as my wife, who's read 16 books already so far this year, but I do read books.

I've finished three books so far this year. The 3rd and 4th books in The Expanse series, and Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (which includes the short story that the Arrival movie was based on). I'm about 4 chapters into Don Quixote also, which I decided I'd finally read this year.

And that's with the following distractions:

* Letting myself enjoy and complete a 25 hour visual novel video game (AI: The Somnium Files, for anyone curious)

* 15 hours of training to be an ESL tutor

* Preparing lesson plans and meeting with my ESL Learner on a weekly basis

* Taking a 6 week travel writing course at my local library

* Polishing up 4 different board game prototypes, writing rules, filming videos and entering them into two different game design competitions

* Coding two different video games I'm hoping to release sometime this year

* Writing a first draft of a short story for an annual short story anthology that my local writing group does every year

* Hosting a monthly playtest night for local game designers

* Having a wife and two dogs that demand time and attention every day

* Working at a company that has 1-2 network outages each week (at least the past month and a half) that requires me to sit for hours after work coordinating with network and server teams to fix the issue

* Getting mentally prepared and brushing up technical knowledge for the inevitable interview gauntlet I'll need to undergo to find a new job.

I'm sure there's things I'm leaving out. This is all since January 1st this year, btw.

I also write novels off and on, I just don't have any finished yet. Lots of first drafts from participating in Nanowrimo for 10 years. It's a lot harder for me to revise and finish them, though, especially with juggling all my other interests (game design and development usually takes priority). Planning to attend a writer's retreat in two weeks to try to get one in a state that I don't mind other people reading it and giving feedback.

Also despite all this, I waste a ton of time on the internet and really need to nip it in the bud if I want to keep juggling so many balls in the air. And I do still see most Marvel movies. Not DC movies though, except Shazam!
How do lava lamps help with internet encryption?
Ah yes, the "NES ROM" theory of public surveillance laws. Definitely well-considered.
I don't understand. In this situation an optional type is a reasonable solution to the problem: None => N/A, Some(0%) => 0%.
Funnily enough, I had to do an on-site interview with my current company via the Mac notes app (one of the interviewers was remote and we needed a screenshare).

Coding with auto-correct is... not sensible. Thankfully they were alright with pseudocode.
No specific advice, but if I had it to do over again, I'd spend a lot more time with my kids and family, and less on tech.
I still have nightmares using Doc as code editor. I new it would be bad, thought notepad would work as a good practice environment. But no Doc is like word tries to auto format/fix every line and tab. I couldn't deal with my code moving nor read it afterwords.
A warning seen on Twitter today says: don't enter a PhD program unless you are given full funding (or have a trust fund).

Honestly, even if you get full funding, you should consider the opportunity cost.

https://twitter.com/megankatenelson/status/12319359557010513...
Depends. Though some black-boxing is intended: thanks to enforced information hiding the compiler (and you) can make additional assumptions about what your code can not do.
Note that this article is on CCN, not CNN.
For me it’s Kinesis Advantage and 3M wrist braces. This way I can type and mouse all day, otherwise I get pain in couple hours. For laptop keyboard braces help, but in general I avoid truly prolonged typing on laptop.

The key is not to let pain develop, stop immediately and develop solution, otherwise you can get through the point of no return.
- If your code base utilizes dependency injection to make the code more "testable" with mocks, you are making the code 10x worse. There are other ways to make your code more modular without injecting new scope, logic and apis into an object.

what other ways?
It's simply the other side of the ledger. The process requires labor, paid for by the government via taxation (taking other people's money). It's precisely the same thing.
Here is the result:

>Is duckduckgo.com down right now?
>It's just you. duckduckgo.com is up.

Let's not post XXX is down messages here.
Actually, the real solution was to build fighter escort planes that could match the bomber's range, like the P-51 Mustang, or to have bases in France or Italy that the other shorter range fighters could escort the bomber fleets out of. Once this happened, the Luftwaffe was quickly decimated and bomber casualties dwindled.
I've been using a SlimBlade for about 10 years now and really like it. Spinning the ball for the mousewheel was brilliant and the giant, centered ball gives you a lot of freedom in how to position your hand on it. They are also have nice quality builds, I've only just had to buy a replace recently after many years.
The U.S. may soon get its first dedicated bank for digital assets
And yet many consumers conflate "Amazon Choice", "Amazon Prime" and "Sold by Amazon" and think they all mean roughly the same thing, some stamp of approval by Amazon. But Amazon has no incentive to disabuse them of that notion.
> If you want to thoroughly a regex, just test the regex by throwing a dozen strings at it. Don't bootstrap the program and construct valid input requests to test each of those strings (but do do that to test that everything can work together, which includes a subset of those strings).

Or even write the test cases separately, then import them into a unit test runner that can check them all very fast as well as an integration test runner that can check them all very slowly.
> I am not so worried about premature optimization ; I am more worried about never optimization. And at that; i'm really worried about my (mostly younger) colleagues simply not caring because they believe it's a waste of time.

I'm simultaneously worried about both, because I've had to deal with poor architecture and unnecessarily convoluted & difficult-to-work-with code that was only justified by completely misguided optimization attempts (with no experimentation or profiling to back any of it up; and indeed, performance in practice was terrible!). At the same time, there's a constant stream of "oh no this convoluted mess has a bug in it" and "oh no we need a new feature, it can't take long?" tickets but never a ticket that says "profile and optimize the program because it's ridiculously slow, oh and refactor and undo the convoluted mess."
Aw. Well, it was worth a shot, that kind of mild homonym abuse is kind of direction that these sorts of titles usually tend to take. Fortunately the real story is more interesting.
Never saw that during my time at Google. That's not really how their system works. We engineers doing the interviews do not have that kind of power.
I'm really skeptical of the public hype on Corona virus. Seemed well timed. Somehow reminded me of the vape moral panic of 2019.
Incremental Search in Vim
I'm amazed that people seem to ignore that EVERYBODY has parents and grandparents. I fear not for myself but my parents or grandparents catching it.
It's really not hard to get crappy insurance. What's hard is getting that crappy insurance to pay out when there's a problem.
It's easy to point fingers from the sidelines. I'm curious how this would've progressed if the virus had originated in the US instead and how much better it would've been handled.
Here's my submission to the "thing that solved my RSI but which is purely subjective and may or may not work for you" category:

I used to try to type with my arms/elbows floating -- not resting on anything. This seems to be fairly standard advice. For example, you can see it here: http://ergonomictrends.com/proper-ergonomic-typing-posture-a... I've had various doctors recommend the same thing.

But when I try that, the muscles in my shoulders/back get incredibly inflamed, and tension/pain tends to spread throughout my body, eventually to my hands/wrists.

Eventually I gave up on that, and now my elbows are splayed out and rest on the chair's arm pads. My hands rest on wrist pads, and my keyboard is split about 18" (using a Kinesis Freestyle 2). Basically, my hands/arms are nearly always at rest, and no energy is required to keep them suspended in the air. I also try to avoid "reaching" for the upper rows with my fingers, instead I move my entire arm forward to some extent to hit those keys (which is more a 'push' than a 'lift', because my arm pads have a bit of give in them).

I've had no problems since adopting this setup.
> If 2% of the people I know died this year, that would be the worst disaster in my country in my lifetime.

Given most people don't live to be 100, I would guess the world death rate is well over 1%.

I'm not disagreeing with you, just something to think about when considering mortality rates.
Claims unequivocally that the virus originated in the wet market. However, Chinese scientists are saying it possibly did originate from a Wuhan lab:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC0gww2yznI
The problem with loops is that they are too powerful. They can do almost anything.

The functions map and filter are nice and restricted. If you want more power, you use eg a fold. And if you need even more power, you write a new recursive function.

So a quick look at the code will tell you what to expect.
Exhibit A for the dangers of outsourcing software development: Boeing's offshoring of the 737 MAX software.
Hi, this is Drew from Netflix.. Just curious, are you running single socket rome in numa or non-numa mode? I've seen better performance in NPS=4 mode myself. We seem to see about a 7% increase when moving from NPS=1 to NPS=2 and another 7% going to NPS=4.
We used the mmap implementation (20 lines of code) which is also reflected in our attributions :)

https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/ATTRIBUTIONS....

Perhaps I'm missing something. Were you referring to some other code I'm not aware of?
1955 and 1963 were also exceptionally harsh winters, but not being close to a major event they continue to remain unimportant.

ie, the 1946/47 winter is just observership bias, spanish flu's closeness to WW1, is on the other hand, part of the factor in how it spread (likely from the US to the trenches, then to everywhere else as convalescing wounded returned home from hospitals filled with the infected)
This is frightening. I just started the process of moving all ~60 of my domains from Amazon Registrar + Google Cloud DNS to Cloudflare, and will definitely wait until somebody from Cloudflare chimes in here to clarify what's going on.
Only if you are speaking of Scalia?
Well-timed in regard to what?
> But what you do not realize is that only a tiny minority of privileged people can actually afford to live in Paris. It's a bit like if the right of vote was restricted to people with high income.

This not even a bit like that. The right to vote is restricted to the people who live there, whether they are rich or poor. Also, it’s far from a minority: with 2M+ inhabitants, that’s the largest city in France: 2x Marseille, 4x Lyon, it has the same population as the four next most populated cities (Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, and Nice) combined. If e.g. the 11th arrondissement would be a city it‘d be in the top 10 in France by population.
Checking at - https://plans.thegrid.io/lifetime/, this caught my attention

>>You are among the top 10% of our members, hand picked for this once-in-a-lifetime offer

Over to Micheal..

"When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you directly asking for help, you help"

The office..
Do you have an alternative where this isn't true? Honestly the complaints I see about Signal here (servers and being distributed through iOS/Google store) seem extremely low priority and at the point where no true Scotsman exists. Is Signal just not supposed to have servers?
Nulls leak exactly as badly as optionals, except it's additionally impossible to tell where nulls have leaked to.
Preparing for Apocalypse
Mars is seismically active, on a level between that of the moon and Earth