skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a Fractal Design Node 304 for the last five years and it's been terrific. I put a Corsair PSU in it that only turns on its fan under load, so it runs silently just about all the time. I kept it under my TV for a while and it was completely inaudible while looking like it belonged there, and then after I moved it went into a corner of the bedroom (for wired access to the router) where it's been similarly unnoticeable.
>It's not the kind of library that Go wants as its standard library. It's a perfectly sensible sort of library. It just isn't what is desired in the standard library. "What is desirable in the standard library" is a very exclusive list.

This sounds like a reasonable argument if your language is, say, Julia, or something like Lua, where in the first case you probably don't write code that needs to do a lot of work at the OS/network/hardware level, i.e. systems programming, and in the second case, the language has a good built in FFI that lets you drop down into C or a similar language to do systems programming. Python, Clojure and Ruby fit more-or-less into the second case. C simply forces you to do all of the work yourself.

But Go's FFI (cgo) is a constant source of consternation, and while Go's authors admit it might not be suitable for "the largest" codebases, the hostility of Go to good FFI makes it more uncomfortable to use in practice. The official viewpoint is something to the effect of "most people shouldn't need cgo". The result has been a proliferation of libraries that attempt to do systems programming in Go, which includes in particular the "monotime" debacle highlighted by the author.

Remember: this blog post highlighted this weirdness in a real library used to solve a real problem. The idea that Go isn't meant to be used for that is belied by the fact that many, many people do try to use Go for that.

So yes, if Go had a more "difficult" file library, it would be less consistent with the "simplicity" idea used to advertise the language, but it might be more consistent with the way that Go is used in practice.
Could somebody, who's familiar with both worlds, please compare OCaml's Multicore, Algebraic effects, Reagents with Scala's Monix or ZIO?

I'm familiar with the latter, but would love to learn more about OCaml.
I've only ever used it on expensive hardware so maybe I'm biased.

I have to kill gnome-shell maybe once a week. That's a huge improvement over KDE.

Xfce to me is just too ugly to use. And it messes up my system with all these trash Xfce-only applications and mime associations (seriously what's exo-open and why is it still causing problems 2 years after I uninstalled xfce?).
Not surprising considering how much practice China has building out their country's infrastructure over the past few decades. The US back in the 1900s was also handling some of the largest and most advanced civil engineering projects of the time. But after all the obvious improvements are done and demand for infrastructure dried up the US forgot how to do civil engineering like that after a few decades. In 50 years we'll probably be admiring the civil engineering in Nigeria while complaining about the outdated infrastructure in China. Countries at different stages of development are good at different things.
The CX11 is 2.49 euro without tax, which is 2.75 USD right now.
Are there ad networks that don't?
Knowyourlead.com
I work on a team of engineers with a few side projects if interested. Craig@knowyourlead.com

Www.knowyourlead.com you can get a instant trial and play with it but Haven’t gone live yet (turned on payments, finalized marketing messaging), business is proven by high priced competitors with a lot of overhead and I was taking it the low over head automated route. Was going to clean up a few things and release in April.
That hired really threw me off.
Texas would like to have a word with you.
isn't it communications with non-citizens?

I imagine the government can twist that to mean that if a non-citizens could see it, then the government can access it legally.
Postponed.

https://gdconf.com/news/important-gdc-2020-update
It's also definitely less windy than you think it is.
Oh. But those are big chains, so I probably would expect the bathroom to be decent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
Are you concerned that, once there is a vaccine, antivax communities will continue being hit and/or spreading COVID-19?
Or is the concern that non-vaccinated individuals will end up in hospital and get something else on top of COVID-19, and that something else was avoidable via vaccination?
--I'm writing this comment because I want to see if I can reproduce that bug.--

Well, I give up. Whether or not I get the error appears to not only depend on the text I'm trying to change to, but also the text I'm changing from. It does look like HN is trying to parse the URL, and is unhappy with a URL that ends with the three characters <'".>. But the weird hysteresis... I can't guess.

(How on earth am I supposed to quote a string like <'".>?)
Yes we do. But given how other countries are reacting to COVID19 after so many deaths “it is just the flu”, I imagine this thing would have played out the same if the doctor were not arrested.
Nitpick: You can, but you shouldn't.
Honestly, you'd make something like $0.04 total.

If you're in the market for buying a home with a 30-yr mortgage, then you'd be able to sell your information for $0.08

It's only valuable at scale for these large companies.
Ebola is a perfect example of an extremely hard to spread infection that stands zero chance of ever propagating in the US.

Only in areas where it’s common to have close contact with infected during their dying days while they are vomiting and hemorrhage blood can Ebola spread with an R0 approaching even 1.5.
I'm not sure what I've said that would contradict anything you've suggested. I agree with your question, obviously we should do everything reasonable to contain and curtail a lethal disease. The best way to do that is to address it in a sober, realistic manner and drive intervention and response on evidence - not the conjecture of journalists who demonstrate little to no understanding of the situation and disseminate unfounded paranoia.
I don't have any knowledge of how to brainwash smart people, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
I was super lucky to be able to go to HOPL 3 in 2007. Amazing conference. These papers are a little less exciting to me, but it sounds awesome all the same.
Thank you for the link to The Great Oxidation Event and for the name of it. Have an upvote for that perfectly chromulent information.
I'm guessing the wording was meant to suggest extension ready vs extension supporting. As in, the codebase is capable of adding full extension support, no rearchitecture needed.

No user-facing advantage yet, sadly.
I did make a typo, I should have used "incubation," not "gestation."

It is not infectious during incubation, by definition. Then there is a "prodrome" period of a few days during which you would be infectious.
Reward your audience. Reward yourself
It's not a free market or anywhere near and implying such is dishonest. Coops would be everywhere if it wouldn't be for rediculous city, county, state and federal regulations. Not to mention the miles and miles of dark fiber all over the country held up in ownership litigation, not to mention the federal government created this problem in the first place by heavily subsidizing bell and continuing to do so.

The telco industry has always been a regulated monopolistic market and that is primarily caused and was created by regulation..
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

The CDC has seemed relatively dysfunctional in these outbreaks to me before. During Ebola, there were only a few concurrent (maybe just 1) cases of Ebola in the country. At the same time as the CDC was having news conferences and the CDC experts were presumably in meetings, the handful of nurses doing the actual care for one of the only ebola patients in the country were left completely alone by the CDC:

"After days of asking, Pham said, the nurses were given hazmat suits. She said all the decisions to upgrade the protective gear and precautions were made by the nurses “on the fly.”

Sadly, one of the nurses caught Ebola.

http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/
Lots of conferences get cancelled or postponed they have postponed Baselworld and Watches & Wonders. Such a bummer looked forward attending
btilly really walked into that one[0], but they meant "exceptions to the rules of the language", not "un-/anti-structured stack and/or control-flow fuckery". Most famously the lack of generics, except for anything the standard library wanted to use generics for.

0: "special cases are allowed for me but not for thee" would have been better but, y'know, hindsight.
I'm more concerned with limiting executive surveillance than limiting the court that oversees certain executive surveillance.
Holy crap what a rabbit hole indeed!

"Thirdly, we deliberately introduced confusion over the systems architecture. This was not to protect any secrets we had, it was just another tactic in the controversial marketing tactic."

So it's not that he can't explain how it works, he deliberately introduced errors in the explanation, which allows him to conveniently claim that people poking holes in his crap don't actually understand the system, because he hasn't accurately described the system! Haha! Gotcha! Therefore the system is perfect!

"I had done it, I was the first in the world to prove, beyond any doubt, that the pyramids of the Giza Necropolis were, in fact, a scale representation of the three inner planets."

Wow. Just wow. That took a turn.

Extensive pattern matching is a marker for mental illness, and is no joke. That explains so much about the author.
To save others some time: USB chess boards tend to cost a few hundred bucks https://www.chesshouse.com/collections/electronic-chess?sort...
Yes, and they are supposed to self-quarantine on return for 14 days.

No such rule is present with S. Korea or Italy.

A random traveler from S. Korea/Italy is far "riskier" at this point.

(Bonus: It's actually really hard to fly directly from China to the US at this point. Your best bets (esp. in the north) are transit through S. Korea or Japan, both infected places)
Any half decent trip insurance would cover this. Many travel credit cards include basic trip cancellation insurance.
Those people were fired by the Trump administration in 2018.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
I didn't know this. If this is true then it's more powerful than Electron, which requires you exchange IPC messages from a separate process. The fact that you have to use the app store is a major disadvantage though.
Please see [1]. Around 28:45 the talk moves to effect types. At around 29:25 the proposed mechanism (with throw) is literally described as "checked exceptions".

AFAIK, this is all part of the roadmap.

[1] https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/effective-programming/
HN/arc markdown link parsing is super broken, doesn't terminate with > either, which causes all sorts of confusion.
Depends. Have to call and ask.

"Insurance companies designated the coronavirus as a foreseen event between January 21 and 24, which means policies sold after those dates aren't going to cover issues related to the outbreak, said Karen Johnson, a travel insurance program leader with USI Insurance Services."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-flight-cancel-trave...
Often the term "free market" is used when one means "competitive market" or perhaps an "open market" or a "market without market failure".

Also, for there to be a free market, there needs to be some sort of market which probably requires a sense of property rights. Whether property rights are in the "natural" state of things is an argument for the philosophers I suppose.
Not only that but T-Mobile has already vowed to fight these "cost of doing business" fines. [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-vows-to-fight-fcc-fine...
Three (edit:Two) full seasons of Salute Your Shorts makes this very much worth it.
Nitpick: the moment you do, it stops being a one-time pad.
Parent is right. I've been in and around the SF Bay Area for about a decade and SFO is _only_ ever, unambiguously, the airport.
The most expedient way to request changes like this is to shoot off an email to hn@ycombinator.com.
At present, going for a walk isn't an especially healthy way to act either.
I always wonder in situations like this, will there be like one person who flies in and shows up on the day of the event and is like, “what the...”
> sometimes I wonder if a fragile ego isn't one of the greatest barriers to cyber security..

If you include the fragile egos of sysadmins and executives who refuse to fix their systems, then yes, absolutely.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than one.
California identifies second local coronavirus case
The sound of a Coronavirus patient's cough
Actually, he was one of the main motivators for me to do something which I just finished today: to explain what Maxwell's equations mean in simple terms. I read his paper a few months ago explaining why Maxwell's equations were so hard to grasp, and I was awe struck at how great of a writer and communicator he was: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4317784_Why_is_Maxw...

Rest in piece Mr. Dyson - you're a legend and you'll always be remembered.
PHI is the same as PII: it can be used to identify a patient. It does not apply here.
Aside from the incident in the linked story, fictional characters (like The Count from Sesame Street) have the blue checkmark. So it doesn't seem to me that it's there to verify "who is the owner of this account".
>Well there is a whole damn Wikipedia article about the subject

Wikipedia is not science.

>And yeah, the summers are ridiculously hot and are actually hotter than many other years, decades ago, and keep getting hotter

Repeating it won't make it so.

>Bull

Look at the data for yourself.

>Please go argue with the thousands of people whose work the distilled news articles and Wikipedia articles are based on.

Why? What possible benefit would that have? I am not going to stop a multi-billion dollar industry by telling wikipedians to care about reality.
It could very well be like the flu and require vaccines for new strains every year. It has a similar single strand rna structure prone to mutations.
Making assumptions about the stack frame size of third-party code is incredibly broken. You have no way to make any guarantees about it and primitives like alloca mean you can't even be sure the stack size will be the same across multiple calls.
They were the legitimate owner of the fake candidates website and identity. I don’t see the problem in the verification process.

It would be broken if I could create an account for a real politician and it would be verified.
No, laws are what allow a market to remain free. Otherwise, you have monopolistic behavior, cartels, price fixing, etc.
Got a feeling Vegas hotels are going to be real cheap pretty soon
I always thought that my alarm clock probably made some very soft sound shortly before the alarm. But maybe not.

These days I seem to be waking up before my alarm, but several hours, not moments before.
Reddit has shut down the_Donald
Orthodox churches do not feel obligated to provide lodging. Sure, some parishes will let the homeless bed down at night, but this is a small minority, and in general Orthodox parish priests would prefer you take advantage of homeless shelters instead of expecting lodging from a parish church.

Orthodox monasteries larger than a skete are obliged to provide hospitality, but the prevailing interpretation is that this hospitality is limited to three days, and then it is the abbot's call to let you stay further or ask you to leave.
Reddit CEO says TikTok is ‘spyware’
We have Roche, Stanford can make kits from stock, etc. The new community case in El Camino hospital was tested locally and quickly.

That’s 7.0 miles from where I am, so of course I’m concerned.
How on earth is this the top rated comment? You can't make up your own statistical measure for mortality rates for a novel virus unless you're an epidemiologist. Of course there is under-reporting of mild cases...there's a shortage of test kits!
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I think the answer to this is that it is their site and their honour to bestow.
That was one of my takeaways from reading Applied Cryptography. It has come in handy when evaluating crypto-based software. “Rolled their own crypto... avoid.”
Texas is damn huge. If you drive from Los Angeles to Houston, halfway to Houston is in Texas.
If an all-null message results in a simple/repeating ciphertext, it means that there exists at least one message whose ciphertext leaks information, and that in turns means that there are probably more messages like it, and it's also probable that all messages leak info in varying degrees.
We know the percentage of people who are in critical condition and it's very low.
I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't, and I know that it does - but I was just curious about how you built the reactive UI and the async features.

I did some async stuff in VBA recently (with events) and it was a bit of a mess, which I'd like to clean up if possible. VBA has classes but not anonymous classes, and not anonymous functions either, so you can't easily do callbacks. And the error handling mechanism is not great.
It's like I'm living in a simulation or the movie Idiocracy and I desperately want out.
The point is simply standard economic law analysis - the idea is to make (punishment * probability of being caught) > expected gain from the crime. The theory is that if you remove the incentive for the behavior you wish to discourage, people will cut out.

There are many criticisms of the approach, but those are mostly about crimes committed by individuals, not corporations. When you're talking about HugeCo abusing customers, I think seriously punitive fines can work. But you need to make them painful enough that at least the board, and preferably the shareholders, want to ask questions about how exactly they know this won't happen again.

> I think the endgame from such a punishment regime is companies will reorganize their corporate structure to section everything off from such liabilities.

Of course they will. Any time a corporate entity can construct legal structures to capture more, shed externalities or shift risk, it will. Why wouldn't it? "We have a legal obligation to maximize profit..."

But that's not the "endgame of such a regime", that's normal business.
I think the word is Cronyism
GhostCat: New High-Risk Vulnerability Affects Servers Running Apache Tomcat
English translations of Chinese history should translate names symbolically
It'd be nice if these fines were distributed amongst the affected customers, but of course it won't.

Edit: grammar
Which people sell for money.
I used to dream I was waking up, dream I was doing stuff more or less normally, and then things would get really weird and I would semi-lucidly conclude I must be still dreaming, and force my eyes open to wake up again. On occasion it happened repeatedly. And in retrospect, it was obvious that when I was dreaming, my ability to tell I was dreaming was impaired. But then I worried, what if I think I'm dreaming and I'm not?
Python's scope & mutability rules are idiosyncratic, but that's a distraction from what's going on here.

Let's go back to steveklabnik's ancestor comment:

"That's not an identical translation, the identical Rust would be:"

fn main() {
let mut x = 1;
x = "foo";
}

He was saying the identical Rust would not be:

fn main() {
let x = 1;
let x = "foo";
}

These are being compared to the following Python:

x = 1
x = "foo"

So consider these slightly enhanced versions of the fundamental question posed above.

Python:

def mystery_py():
x = 1
capture = lambda: x
x = 2
return x * capture()

Rust:

fn mystery_a() -> i32 {
let x = 1;
let ptr = &x as *const i32;
let capture = || unsafe{ *ptr };
let x = 2;
return x * capture();
}

fn mystery_b() -> i32 {
let mut x = 1;
let ptr = &x as *const i32;
let capture = || unsafe{ *ptr };
x = 2;
return x * capture();
}

If you compare return values, you will find that mystery_py() returns the same as mystery_b().

So! I think you must agree that steveklabnik was right -- the rust code that is equivalent to the python code is the "let mut" variant. (Because surely you would not argue code that returns a different value is equivalent?!)

So now the question is, why?

Rather than answer, I will trollishly pose 2.5 more questions:

What would an implementation of mystery_a and mystery_b look like in scheme?

Would it be possible to author mystery_b in scheme if your "!" key was broken? (How about in some other purely functional language?)
It's good the company where I work, which employs about 70 people, allows us all to remote. We have a large space that we rent in a WeWork office in San Francisco but we can also work from home if we want. We have remote employees in other states and over the last year have built a very strong remote culture.
All of our meetings have people who are remote, in fact often more people are remote than not these days. I imagine our company's work from home policy will help avoid downtime and really make a difference compared to companies that are just going to have to shut down when faced with the reality of this horrible virus.
I learned a bit of Miranda and Oberon for a programming languages course back in school, prior to knowing what Haskell was (or even functional programming proper). Can anyone speak to its capability for a fun hobby project (web dev, or a CLI)? I liked the language.
Correct! We designed LSIF to be a complement to LSP. LSIF is basically a way to persist language server state, so that LSP queries (e.g. what are the definitions for this symbol?) can be answered without needing an active LSP server running.

Among other things, LSIF enables rich IDE navigations on remote codebases, where’s its much more scalable to perform those queries using indexed data vs. spinning up language servers. Here’s the blog post where we first announced the work we were doing, that led to the creation of LSIF: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/12/04/rich-navigati....
I think "poseur" is less-suitable, since it implies the person is motivated by the glamour of the role. Not many people--crank or otherwise--go into cryptography for the fame.
If yor rot13 your OTP the second time around, it's probably fine. In the same way that turning your underwear inside out is probably fine. As long as nobody sniffs...
I have a broad distrust of any information produced by the Chinese government. So I am suspicious of their claim that the outbreak is contained, yes - but I'm equally suspicious of their claims about infection rates, their claims about what actions the government is taking, and the implicit assumption that the actions they claim to be taking are necessary or warranted.

What I distrust a lot more is uncorroborated reports of divergent numbers, because there are just so many ways they could be wrong. For example, I saw one source claiming ironclad proof infection rates are 3x higher than reported - because a document they posted showed the number of positive coronavirus tests run in a day, and it was higher than the number of new cases reported that day. (And I'm extending the very generous assumption that the document was real, but how would anyone know if it wasn't?)
Simply that a company should not be able to make money by "selling data without the proper safeguards in place" -- they sold the data illegally, so should not be able to make money by doing so. So I'd say they should be fined however much they made by doing so.

Companies will keep doing illegal things if they can make money doing so.