skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that they happen to have an actual portable variant of bitcode for watchOS, their clang implementation different enough from mainline clang to warrant its own column on cppreference compiler listing, and Objective-C and Swift related changes are on "just what you need to know" basis and the community should put the missing pieces.

Personally I don't care, as I am mostly a commercial software user nowadays.

Just making the point that LLVM victory over GCC, might not turn out as FOSS supporters expect.
Based on confirmed cases. There are likely far more cases that haven't been tested.
I don't think it's technically hard on their end - we totally have the science required to estimate how much their process captures.
That's super useful.

Related question: does anyone know of anything similar for SQLite? Best I've found is SQLite Browser, which just splits the output of EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN into a table.
This Week in Virology is a very accessible podcast hosted by real academic virologists: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

As you can imagine, their main topic over the past few weeks has been the new coronavirus. They're very sober and rational about the new virus, but they're pretty clear that it's an extremely serious issue.

One issue that they raised in this week's podcast was that work on a SARS vaccine ended years ago. After the virus disappeared, there was no more commercial interest in developing a vaccine against it. Governments should have stepped in and continued research into coronavirus vaccines, but this sort of research is underfunded. The podcast hosts obviously have an interest in saying this, but given the current situation, I don't think anyone can really claim they're wrong!
Has it occurred that the situation is in fact alarming?
> that’s for situations like if the entire conference has to be canceled

So how does a highly contagious virus with that’s already killed thousands not qualify for the above? I understand the mortality rate of the young and healthy is very low with this illness, but anyone who goes risks transmitting it to loved ones who aren’t in good health.
"Meanwhile, tech company workers are gathering en masse for Mr. Sanders"

But Warren has gotten more money. For some reason the NYT is putting its thumb on the scale:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000067823
Trees require arable land. Trees require water and nutrients. Trees that aren't turned into treated lumber (to prevent decomposing) or buried return the carbon to the system when they die. Most interventions to plant them, water them, fertilize them, or store them at the end will use additional carbon-based energy and negate the benefit. They typically take 10 or 20 years to grow to consume the promised amount of carbon.

Trees are great, but they will not solve the climate issue alone and the notion that they can needs to be put away so that we can plan realistically.
Where does the Raspberry Pi get the time from?
I would like to know how many of the 705 have recovered, how many are still ill, and how many were admitted to hospital.

If 42 were critical, that doesn't necessarily mean they were the only ones who needed hospital treatment.
You're overdoing these links. That's no doubt why you're getting downvoted and flagged.

It's fine on HN to post your own work (1) in places where it's relevant, as long as (2) you only do it occasionally and (3) are also participating in the community in the intended ways, submitting interesting articles and having curious conversation. But when users break these rules of thumb (and you've been breaking all three of them!) it crosses into spamming. The community is very aware of that and really doesn't like it, so it's not in your interest.

Doing this by hijacking top comments and threads about other people's projects is particularly not ok.
The same company that poisons poor residents downstream in Crosset, AK and subverts democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Brothers_Exposed
"LCUI is a simple GUI library, it is written in C, support XML and CSS, you can use C, XML and CSS to build simple desktop applications, at present it is mainly supported Windows, subsequent versions will improve support for Linux."

https://lcui.org/ (expired cert atm)
What scares me the most about this coronavirus are infected people testing negative multiple days in a row only to test positive later. There are two explanations:

1. The diagnostic accuracy of the current tests is too low or

2. Some people do not clear the virus, their symptoms simply resolve, but this leaves open the potential for a flare-up later in life.

Either scenario is bad, and we simply don't have enough information about the virus yet.

Given how little is currently known about the virus, I think drastic steps including quarantining US cities are warranted. So far, only China appears to have implemented a successful quarantine. Hell, the Diamond Princess was a disaster, showing how hard it is to contain the virus. I think as a society we need to accept drastic measures to stop the spread of the virus. This will slow the spread of the virus, buying us time to develop countermeasures like vaccines.
I believe advertisements should be declared illegal psychological experimentation and manipulation: abusive tools of gaslighting designed to shape our identities and perception away from healthy norms.
https://csferrie.com/books/

The Baby University series is pretty interesting.

The titles go like Bayesian Probability for Babies, Neural Networks for Babies and Rocket Science for Babies.
When does raising an alarm stop being "alarmist"? 5,000 dead? 10,000?
Fed cuts rates by half a percentage point to combat coronavirus slowdown
Short version: The university promised a scholarship; the professor didn't pay it. Taking it up with the international student office led to the professor saying "You said bad things about me to people in the administration, get out of my lab" -> no professor, no lab, no university, no student visa, no country.
Exactly. Modern UX seems to split everything into two categories: things that happen automatically, and things that take ten times as many inputs as they did two decades ago. For example, it's nice that modern Windows automatically switches between wifi networks. It's not nice that instead of being a checkbox on a settings menu, turning off the superfluous Lock Screen requires creating registry keys.
Good point: they could store a whole byte, or a whole word, for each address, not just a bit, and still have lots of RAM left over.
Can confirm, I got lost: https://myspace.windows93.net/?id=244
What’s your contact info? Didn’t see any on your github.
From a purely macroeconomic sense you're probably right but if we zoom in there's huge amounts of pain that don't go away when the economy turns around. People get worse educations because they can't afford to go to college/university or get sick and can't get treatment and wind up with long term health problems. [0] It's a problem that shows up everywhere in trying to discuss and measure how well the economy is doing, the top level numbers keep going up but it doesn't translate to the kind of generational improvements in wages or standards of living we used to see.

[0] Admittedly this is more of a problem in places without a national health service like the US.
So you're saying that if you have HTML as a tool then you're irresistibly drawn to making a complex page with menus and ugliness? I don't think that's a problem in HTML. I think the problem is in your head.

> we need a format that stays the same size, same proportions

Please explain how this helps people read a paper on screens of different sizes and proportions. Like me on my phone.
Why does it matter if collaboration is rare if the work still gets done?

Google does allow some level of remote work. Apple does not, largely for security reasons.

Many law and accounting firms have embraced work-from-home policies despite their work involving significantly more collaboration than programming does.
Don't they test close contacts of cases? So even if not all of the cases are severe, the severe cases will discover a lot of the more mild cases by proxy.

But I guess the incubation period is so long that those more mild cases may resolve before they can be tested.
Chinese security firm says CIA hacked Chinese targets for the past 11 years
Mortality rate in China is overestimated because they tested primarily the most severe cases. From [1]:

"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively."

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

Also there were 3000 death in China, and new cases are declining. In France alone (20 times less people), it's common to have 10000 death annually from the flu. Of course, China enforced strict containment measures and we don't know the exact numbers, but overall the death toll seem rather small. Why should we expect much worse in the West? And finally, it's not sure, but some experts expect the virus to decline with warmer temperatures. So overall, I'd say there's room for optimism.
Yea, I feel like Amazon is so good at customer service that people just expect full refunds these days even for things totally beyond the control of the seller. The terms stated the tickets were non refundable. Don’t buy the ticket if you don’t like the policy.
But how big is that subset? If most motors run at constant power and speed, then that subset is small. But I suspect there are huge numbers that vary their load constantly, and don't come anywhere near 98% efficient.
This is pretty great! Being able to see the progress of the virus over time could be interesting. Could maybe reveal some patterns about human movement + interaction??
Optimizing a maze with graph theory and genetic algorithms
I had to go through a fair bit of this when writing my Android receipt printer driver. Parse a PDF print job, detect tables, basic formatting, align text to grid, reformat for 58 mm paper roll width… and that's when the fun begins, since every ESC/POS printer makers supports a different dialect or a different character encoding set, or maybe just one, or maybe there are certain quirks you have to account for…

I should probably write a blog post on this.

https://salsa.debian.org/andrewsh/escpos-android
Why not both?

Planting tree is nice, but theses solutions you give have limits, which will only make the cost higher. This is a technological solution, sure it has limits too, but its cost will only go down by being done more efficiently and at one point, we will need to do theses things too, thus the sooner we reach lower price, the better we will be.

As you said, it's 100x more expensive, thus no industrial client will consider this solution yet, but you can afford it. Be the first stone that allow them to become 50x more expensive, etc...

Being client to them show also that we are ready to put money where our mouth are. That push toward more investment in theses spheres because there's money in the game. Investing into planting trees at 1/100 the cost... well except exploiting even more cheap labor... there's no money to be made.
Trees can be one element of many to mitigate emissions, but too often trees are bandied about as a complete solution, and it's greenwashing that distracts from the true scope of the problem at hand.
That map, coool!
Simple systems also benefit from Amdahl's Law, but with humans instead of CPUs. This is an observation I've been trying to sell others on for years and having only modest luck. When I can show them, they get it, but you have to push and push to get people there if words fail.

When the shit hits the fan, there's an 80% chance that your most senior members will find the problem. They may find it quicker in the simple system, even, and others might get there first. But that last 20% is a very long tail, and even longer in a complex system.

In a complex system, many of your members cannot participate in the triage process, because they don't know enough to know what's relevant. They slow down the people trying to work the problem trying to learn new things (good) or offering low-probability scenarios (bad).

There is no 'All Hands on Deck' scenario for the complex system. To be responsive, you have to kick some or even a bunch of people out of the room, and once they leave they can't really participate.

The first phase of a triage is getting a tight repro case. Many avenues are blocked until that happens. And some people have a knack for repro cases but aren't so great at debugging. With more people you get a higher quality repro, which cuts a lot of time off the rest of the process.

Part of debugging is the cost of the verification versus the likelihood. Simple Systems afford the opportunity for people to test out unlikely but plausible scenarios that are in the long tail, without distracting from the more 'boring' checks already being done.

And when bugs are identified prior to deployment, a simple system means you can hand the repro case to the responsible party and expect/demand that they get their fix on the first try.
Agreed.

In cases like this, I wish we had legislation that required trademark holders to defend all alleged violations unilaterally or something, because selectively going after certain cases creates a terrible power imbalance.

If the university feels so strongly about protecting their trademark with regard to apparel, they should have to file cases against everyone who violates it, nor just certain individuals or organizations.
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Italy has been running a lot of tests. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/

I think that includes many tests on people who were simply exposed to it somehow, in order to try and stop the spread.
used to work on pdf extraction during my bachelor thesis analyzing german law texts. The most fun part here was that the text came shipped in two columns. Sometimes the extraction worked in correct order, sometimes the two lines from two columnes where recognized as one line. I implemented at the end some kind like this algorithm: see here, from chapter 4.4. https://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/hassan/pdf2html/final.pd...
Sensible Schema Evolution
Its, hopefully, not mentioned in the news because the CCP is fudging the numbers. There's no way of knowing the exact situation on the ground in wuhan but it's nowhere near the reported cases.
I would say that the singular focus on next financial report is the damaging part. You should expect to hold stock for years before selling it.

If you want to do charity with your money, that is almost certainly best done entirely separately from your investments (e.g maximize profits on lifesaving drugs and spend the extra income on givewell).
We don't have any idea what the hospitalization rates are. We only know what the hospitalization rates are for people who have a confirmed diagnosis, which skews towards people with severe symptoms.

>Also, the cruise ship cases aren’t all resolved outcomes yet.

No they aren't, but the vast majority have been symptomatic longer than the average time till hospitalization and the number in critical condition hasn't increased in days. It's very unlikely they'll get to anywhere near 20%. And this is in a more geriatric population.
If you hate that card when you're young, you'll really hate getting when you're old. I actually remove experience and skills from my resume these days, to increase my chances of getting hired.
1 in 10 Iranian MPs have tested positive for coronavirus, deputy speaker said
Building personal finance app to keep track of multiple bank accounts and investments, categorising spends, etc.

Parsing statement PDFs from every bank is pretty hellish.
Has anyone here ever refrained from being too honest in your journaling, out of fear someone read it some day?
Open Graph Protocol is dead?
Hey buddy, I'm sorry to hear about this now all-too-familiar sequence of events. There seems to be a very shallow horizon of planning for each individual case. This is probably a very human response to cases regularly spinning out of control in various ways, but still. If we could get an idea of a decision tree beyond the next blood test or biopsy it might help with planning.

>I don't know if there was anything else I could have done

This is a terrible feeling, I know it well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine#Germany
“Germany
Throughout the 19th century and until 1960, Eiswein harvests were a rare occurrence in Germany. Only six 19th century vintages with Eiswein harvests have been documented, including 1858, the first Eiswein at Schloss Johannisberg.[2] There seems to have been little effort to systematically produce these wines during this period, and their production was probably the rare result of freak weather conditions.”
The source code of the Open Graph Protocol website had been archived by Facebook. I don't see any announcement about it. Is it still useful to implement it on the website?
My school had these, but only 1cm and 10cm lengths. They're were also 10×10cm squares, and a 10×10×10cm (1L) box.

We called that version "hundreds, tens and units".

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Base-Ten-Dienes-Blocks-Group/dp/B00...
Examples: forest protection programs in low-wage countries, investing in renewable energy on high-carbon-intensity grids, distributing enhanced ovens to reduce wood consumption...

Carbon offsetting is cheap currently, but won't always stay so, getting more expensive as we exhaust the low-hanging fruits.
On my I3 window manager I start emacs in a hidden floating window that I can bring to front with a one handed hotkey (Super-< is very convenient in my keyboard layout).

Then I use org-modes org-capture to either capture into journal.org multiple times daily or notes.org when having interesting ideas.

I use org-rifle to search through the journal and notes.

The files are synced between devices via owncloud.
Noob question but what's the incentive behind people trying to solve puzzles on this site?? Other than glory and fame of course :p
> 2. You can't have multiple mutable references at the same time.

If I understood the issue correctly, only one of the references would be a mutable one, so the way Rust could have caught the bug would instead be the related rule: "you can't have an immutable reference and a mutable reference at the same time".
Everything is contextual but the repo is 825 without modules. 825 lines by 2020's standards isn't the same as 825 in 2010. If we're getting into that level of purism, then you're not a real a developer unless you're writing uncompiled binary straight into the kernel ;)
Sadly, most people would rather ignore things until they have to deal with them. If more people were proactive rather than reactive, the world would be a better place.
It is technically correct to call it a pandemic since it has spread worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

Now, the amount of worry based on the connotations associate with the word "pandemic" might be called overblown due to relative amount of risk of death, hospitalizations, and/or overwhelmed heath services. But the term is being used accurately and appropriately.
The N1 core was designed by Arm Austin. It includes "The traps for EL1 and EL0 cache controls, PSTATE SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe) bit that supports software mitigation for Spectre Variant 4, and the speculation barriers (CSDB, SSBB, PSSBB) instructions..."
Icdiff: Side-by-side highlighted command line diffs
The article is about how he changed the game.
What kind of information is this best suited for? What is best to use nots for, and what belongs in a comment?
Floyd-Warshall Algorithm for all-pair shortest path explained in 9 minutes
If I understand correctly, why do you think it's proper for the organizers and attendees of SXSW who would lose money if the event was cancelled, then be compensated for such losses by other individuals who DO NOT consent to bear such responsibility?
Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
“Cosmic String” Gravitational Waves Could Solve Antimatter Mystery
Not everything needs to look good on every screen size. I don't expect to be able to read academic papers on my smartwatch, and a simple alarm clock app looks kind of silly when it's fullscreen across a desktop monitor. Likewise, when layout makes the difference between reader understanding or confusion, it's hard to trust automatic reflowing on unknown screen sizes.

PDF is simply better than HTML when it comes to preserving layout as the author intended.
Of course there is a legal, i.e. fiduciary duty. It just isn't what most people thing it is.

To the OP, it was Welch (and others) who popularized the idea of this meaning maximizing "shareholder value", but fiduciary duty existed before then and it is the cultural context that has shifted. It lay terms, many people incorrectly think this means that you have a duty to take actions that will raise the share price. But it's much more nuanced than that.

You can absolutely be successfully sued if it can be shown that you did not act in what you reasonably believed to be the best interests of the corporation, but that is a very different thing. Basically your fiduciary duty is to act in good faith, in the interests of the company (& thereby shareholders).

It is a pretty high bar to demonstrate failure, and most normal things that shareholders might gripe about will fall well short of this, and under "business judgement". There are other checks and balances here, bear in mind that if the board is unhappy enough about the approach they can replace the CEO, etc.
Stop Touching Your Face
>short flight flyers dominate the markets

There are different planes for different lengths, I think.
Ah, that's interesting. We don't use chacha20. This was AES-GCM
>Aren’t the hospitalization rates something like ~20% according to the main study that came out of China?

Yes, but the reason why the Diamond Princess is interesting is that we know exactly how many of them got infected. We don't know that about any other population.
Yes and no.

- Apps which use toolkits like GTK and QT will “just work” since they did the porting grunt work.

- X11 apps can run unmodified using XWayland but this just runs an X.org server and directs the output.

But the literal answer is “no”. Wayland and X11 are incompatible and apps will need to port.
Definitely. Though less and less as time goes on. Journalling, as with any art form, is part of a process of pealing off layers of yourself until only your truth remains.

Each time you journal you'll reveal a little bit more, and when you accept the words you write about yourself, you won't mind as much if others don't accept them.
It's amazing how much effort it takes to do something with the wrong tools.

Sunk Cost Fallacy tends to fight any broad-stroke improvements. Until a competitor starts eating your lunch.