skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSA's slides disagree with you.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/pr...
Cut your losses. We should never had been in there other than to get OBL but Bush chickened out with AF and didn’t make them give him up when we knew where he went to after Tora Bora.
That was MUSCULAR, not PRISM. It was to exceed the access that even PRISM gave them.
If you are under 60 years old, the lethality of Covid19 is only 2-3x that of the regular flu. Why are people spreading these types of news and commenting on them like it's the end of days? We may yet see a severe pandemic in our time but I don't see anything indicating this would be it, especially not since lethality goes down with spread. The biggest concern so far people should have regarding this virus is what it's going to do to your portfolio seeing as the supply chain of half the companies in the world seems to be disrupted in the coming months.
remember that some people who voted in support of that war are on the ballots now.
I know next to nothing about unicode. If I took the bits and arranged them in reverse order would I be asked to leave the building? It didn't state the output should also be unicode.
This pandemic will likely play out over a months to years timescale, so it very well might alter patterns like this.
It's ~29000 deaths / 70M CT scans per year.

That's 414 micromorts, which is almost exactly as risky as skydiving once on average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

Source: US NCI 2007
We at Levels.fyi are also a two person team at the moment. We use free versions of most services (helps that we’re only 2 people) and essentially are only paying for AWS. We’ve always found that there are cheap high quality alternatives to a lot of well known tools. We pay less than $30 / month.
Big, huge embarrassment for USA. They should've kept it going at all cost.
What was there ever to win?
https://thepointsguy.com/2015/08/europe-business-class/ maybe parent is talking about European business as described here.
Coronavirus: China factory activity plunges to all-time low, worse than 2008
That's actually the one thing I don't like about Trader Joe's. They still put sugar in things I don't want sugar in. I imagine the long term trend is away from this, but maybe that's wishful thinking.
Sure, my tricks are mostly aimed for improving the average performance for uniform inputs between 0 and 2^32-1.

Edit: And yeah, you need a fast popcnt here.
Ahh, I remember a while back reading a blog where the author talked about `std::mem::drop` being their favorite standard library function because they used this effect. It is literately defined as:

pub fn drop<T>(_x: T) { }

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.drop.html
Saying that the death rate is 2% is extremely dishonest since it ignores one of the most important factors: age. For most people reading this you're off by an entire decimal.
To be fair, video quality is usually great in developed regions where ISP's do not intentionally slow down internet speed via bandwidth throttling.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

by Richard Brautigan

I like to think (and

the sooner the better!)

of a cybernetic meadow

where mammals and computers

live together in mutually

programming harmony

like pure water

touching clear sky.

I like to think

(right now, please!)

of a cybernetic forest

filled with pines and electronics

where deer stroll peacefully

past computers

as if they were flowers

with spinning blossoms.

I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace.
If it were that easy you could probably just find several cyber security startups and work backwards to find out which one he’s talking about.
A well-armed militia took on the most powerful military in the world and won?
The Feds Ban a Self-Driving Shuttle Fleet from Carrying People
> While the unwashed masses flock to non-textual media like TikTok, we Very Online cognoscenti know that Twitter is where all the history-making, universe-denting social media action really is. It is as close to a pure ideas-commons/digital public as we’ll ever get.

/cue dry-heaving

Twitter's good for simple pieces of news, witty quips, and putdowns. That's about it. You can't actually communicate complex, novel ideas in 280 characters, and you still can't in 2800. The only redeeming feature of Twitter that draws these commentators to it is that all journalists are addicted to it, so your one-liners might get you some fame. People have made careers out of that.
Lots of cities now have open data. Paris (France), for example, has both fixed datasets and real-time ones: https://opendata.paris.fr/
You can't save a people from themselves. I don't know how many times the US is going to have to learn this lesson.
It can be, but I'd argue in Twitter's case it's not. Twitter's problem isn't "too much" altruism, but rather generically poor management
Just solve it the Google way: https://xkcd.com/2266/
Risks of Loneliness Among Seniors Aren’t Being Adequately Addressed
Lower prices and less space per person means more people get to fly. And it's not like air travel is a high-profit industry. Regulating airlines to force them to raise prices and provide more space per customer is obviously evil by any sensible definition. I'm not even some sort of free-market zealot. Forcing an important product to become more exclusionary via regulation to improve the quality for non-marginal users is bad policy and also morally wrong. Raising airfare means that people on the margin are not going to be able to travel to see their dying relatives, visit family on holidays, travel for vacation, etc.
I keep seeing similar arguments. Does that mean China's response is based on FUD? If it is really just a flu, then why the drastic measures?
The quoted text was:

> So many people where I am will just "soldier on" because they have no choice.

That seems to fit exactly with the definition you posted.

> v. To continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty.

They don't have any choice but to go to work, so they go to work.

I honestly don't understand what you're getting at with your "commando" idea.
I don’t know, but if declining tracking consent serves a plain text view I’d love all websites to adopt it. Saves clicking reader mode which doesn’t always work. I’m on mobile though which wraps text nicely. What happens on desktop? Browser full width?
You are mixing up several different measurements.

First, parent was talking about the risk to an individual adult person; you yourself note that varies with other parameters including age. This isn't comparable to the 2% figure.

Second, the mortality figure is 2% of people who are infected, not of the total population. So it's substantially less than 6.5 million people, unless literally everyone in the country catches the bug.
And in order news the Vietnam War continues to rage.
Israel lost. U.S. had no business being there in the first place.
Might be a lawsuit, if there is a pattern. But the statue wont stop anyone from choosing who they allow on their premises nor change their rights.
Over 20,000 US servicemen and women killed and wounded. Countless Afghans killed and wounded. And $2 trillion in lost opportunities for the USA.
Still, the test specificity (or more generally, its predictive power) is likely to be quite low simply due to the sheer number of flu cases.

Otoh, this doesn’t really explain why there would be regulations against developing in-lab tests (as another of the sibling comments mentions).
Coffee? That's not so bad. I'd be worried about it raining vomit. Its already bad enough when fluids start flowing along the floor, hitting the coats and smaller bags stowed below seats.
HN has plenty of readers over 50. Age diversity, from high school students to people who post about their programming jobs in the 1960s, is one of the best things about HN.

I get that you feel strongly about coronavirus and are trying to be helpful, but these comments are starting to become repetitive, so if you'd pull back a bit, we'd be grateful. Repetition is the enemy of curiosity, which this site exists for.
Nothing and no. It served as a jobs program of sorts to a lot of places that have nothing else, so that's about all it has boiled down to in the past 20 years. The people who started it all will die peacefully, though I hope I am wrong.
Stupid Q:

Why doesn't the syslog protocol (RFC5424) deal with leap seconds (the seconds field goes to 00-59, not 00-60)? Are they using UTC (they would have to ignore LS and have crappier logs) or TAI (doesn't have LS)?

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/syslog/DDLgKsRPITFXYSB...

http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/unix-leap-seconds.htm...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424

https://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html

https://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
I took busses to go places ever year of the 90s and I've never heard of a driver actually call out any stops, back then you just had to already know exactly where you were going to get off at the right stop. I would stick to routes I was already familiar with. Not only that but you had no idea of the schedule (when the bus would come) you had to already have a physical copy of the bus schedule. Kept copies of the bus schedule for select routes at my house, but who knows if they've been updated or not since you grabbed it.

Took a bus in my home town recently and the upcoming stop was labeled with an LED board like on a train. I couldn't imagine something like that 20 years ago. I agree it makes travel 1000% better and I would have gone to less familiar places if it were available back then.
The Complete CloudFormation Guide
The concept of implementing high level control flow on top of a lower level control flow primitive via macro expansion is how most LISPs work. But instead of GOTO it's something more structured, like a match statement and recursion. It's also how compiler tend to lower for/while loops into IR before hitting the assembler. And it sucks to implement naively, since you need additional passes in your macro expansion/compiler to fold loop bodies and get decent vectorization without requiring a user to write it manually.

I don't really see the usefulness of GOSUB over normal function calls. Same with goto exposed to a user, it's not any more useful than typical control flow and is a giant footgun both in terms of logical errors made by a programmer and performance impact since arbitrary control flow tanks the ability of a compiler to reason about the program.

Still not sure what you need to do with the stack in assembly that can't be implemented in higher level constructs. There's good reason you can't mess with it too much even in low level languages, you can't always reason about stack frames in a given program or when integrating with programs compiled in other languages.
Random thought: we're now closer to 2038 than to Y2K.
You know, hungry people go hunting...
Well, sure. But I have ancestors who go back in the US before the American Revolution, but all I know about them is a name and a date or two. I'm curious about more.

You also don't really know what future people might find interesting. Archaeologists like to sift through ancient trash dumps :-)
Alternatively it is an inspiring story of a bunch of ragtag rebels who never gave up and never lost faith for decades and ultimately defeated the World’s most powerful military.
Andy Warhol foreshadowed our compulsive romance with technology
The prize would have been a massive reduction in opium production. Nowadays with most US OD deaths being on Chinese synthetics and lobbyist-supported Sackler shit, the landscape's evolved a tad.
It's probably for the best now, but it shouldn't have needed to come to this. In "Call Sign Chaos" by Jim Mattis, he talks about how the Bush and Obama administrations both repeatedly ignored the recommendations of military and intelligence officials. The Bush administration was too cavalier and thought they knew best, the Obama administration was too weak and wanted to score political points by not providing the force that was required. When I was in the Marines, they told us that we shouldn't need to be there, but politicians from the 80s/90s left things such a mess after trying to stop the Soviets, that now we had to go try and clean up the mess created 20 years prior.
the challenge with influenza vaccines is that the virus can shift character faster than a vaccine can be produced so its a crap shoot of sorts for a good match.

This is why we need to perfect much more expedient vaccine production technology other than the attenuated virus method
Yep I fully agree, you can't hold others to a standard you're not willing to hold yourself to. I specifically remember Microsoft begging for more time on a bug.

Also if I understood it correctly, it seems as though some devices may require a factory reset to apply the new firmware? If so, for a lot of devices this still isn't fixed.
So there will no longer be a war in afghanistan? So those thousands of people fleeing to Europe are no longer refugees?
Aluminum foil should solve that problem. The induction should still work and the polymeruzation should only end up on the pan and the aluminum foil.
Have the country run by a secular government, not a theocratic one.
Why would you season underneath the pan? The only part you need to season is the part that comes into contact with food?
Isn't that how America was founded?
Trader Joe’s is my favorite grocery store.

Its size is not too small as to feel claustrophobic, nor too big as to feel overwhelming.

But most important, they have a great selection of high quality and reasonably priced items.

I wish more companies would be like this.
Or maybe the type of people who want to think of themselves as connoisseurs just have to become a lot pickier if they want to maintain the same condescending dismissal of easily available products.

It’s perhaps more fun to find a “diamond in the rough” than an “already cut diamond in a jewel store”.
Yep, that's the first thing I thought. The system that seems to require 100 keystrokes to do a price match.
When you encounter someone saying "no one should ever", you can substitute "fewer than a half dozen groups of people should tackle this problem (in systems they want to use in production). It will take each such group a tremendous number of hours, involving a multi-year process of slowly finding edge cases and missing functionality."

If that's not true, then there's room to complain, but dates and times fit the bill. In some ways they're worse than other "harder" problems, because people are more likely to think those harder problems are too hard for them. And while the vast majority of companies don't need a proprietary database, it's more likely to be a competitive advantage than your own datetime library.

I think I could eventually write a good datetime library. But I certainly should not, unless I decide that's going to be one of my major efforts to help a language that doesn't already have one.
I really hope this gets traction this time. A very worthwhile article for the people here.
mysql is fine. but there again I prefer coke over pepsi and ford over gm
Luckily with the current admin regulation is a dirty word.
It took the Trump Administration to finally wake up and end this war. Kudos
This so very much. The way media is using twitter to do their work is giving me no confidence in the media being able to do their jobs
The NSA's slides disagree with you. Here is the slide explaining how the data flows. https://imgur.com/setOJIm

PRISM is simply a data integration system that gets data from the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which is the group that handles Internet communication wiretaps on specific individuals under investigation.
This feels a little dated as I suspect only the most clueless execs today would not recognize the value of well-run IT (whether it be back-office or product), but it serves as a pretty good explanation of the unspoken rules of a culture which white collar management and leadership might not be inclined to understand. Software engineers and IT folks are more akin to craftspeople and blue collar professionals in the sense that their competence directly translates to outcomes, and thus their reputation is based on more concrete observations versus middle managers where it can be pretty hard to attribute either success or failure directly to their actions.
They are also banning hospitals from doing their own tests. All hospitals have equipment to test for virus presence. In fact we learned about first case of local virus spread, because a hospital ignored CDC and tested the suspected patient anyway.
> given you are younger than 50 there is a less than 0.4% mortality rate

Please let's stop making assumptions about who is over/under 50 and implications about how un/important their lives are. This has come up too often already, and it's leading to flamewars.
Nothing in those slides substantiates your claim.
I'm sympathetic to your concern about the use of the word "literally". It's sort of a special, meta word.

But there's a subtle difference here in how they used it. They said "even if the UX is ... 'the software literally shoots knives'".

They're speaking in hyperbole, not metaphor. So "literal" is somewhat appropriate. They're not directly saying that their boss wouldn't care about a bad UI. They're exaggeratedly saying that their boss wouldn't care about literal injury.
> No, Google isn't part of PRISM.

The slides literally list Google as a data provider as part of the PRISM program.
The mortality estimates we have now are mostly based on numbers coming out of China, which are just not reliable.

We should have better estimates in a couple of months, once more numbers come out of countries outside of China.

Also, mortality rates are impacted not just by the disease itself but things such as how overwhelmed the health care system is, what measures are used to treat the disease, how many people actually get treated, population-specific or location-specific factors, etc.

All of these factors could vary widely from place to place and cause different mortality rates, even if the virus infecting everyone is the same.
Presumably they have obtained more resources and have updated the rules to reflect that.
The slides literally list Google as a data provider as part of the PRISM program.
That was the issue the whole time. There were no defined conditions of victory.

On the ground, victory or defeat weren’t on the table. When we were there, we just wanted to come home in one piece.
Are you seriously trying to compare illegal immigration with colonialism?
Leap-Year Babies Fight a Lonely, Quadrennial Fight for Recognition
There are steps that can be taken now at the community and country level that will drastically lessen the impact of the virus. That is to heavily promote social distancing.

Social distancing will flatten the epidemic curve, which means that hospitals will be less likely to be overwhelmed. It will cause economic pain so it will be anything but easy. Mitigating that economic pain would be an absolutely good use of government stimulus.

So let’s say there is no political will to be proactive with social distancing. Then we enter reactive mode - schools And offices close when a cluster is detected. Perhaps a larger scale quarantine must be enacted by the government (aka martial law). The economic pain is worse, and the end result is more deaths and an overwhelmed hospital system. Plus Wuhan style images of hospitals in major Anerican cities flooding the media.
No they don’t. N95 are solid looking and sometimes have a plastic square housing on the front [0] and surgical masks are paper and pleated [1]

[0] https://images.app.goo.gl/RZAgMSssThGJQrnf6

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/fRW2dmSxUo1Lm1Dh8
Huge profits for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_industrial_complex
Well-armed militias have a storied history against powerful militaries. Not just US history, either.
Military-industrial dollars from the US taxpayers?
If you paint with that broad brush, the users whose data PRISM consumes are also part of the PRISM program. That's a fairly useless definition. What people are interested when talking about PRISM is whom the NSA integrates with.
[1] Estimate that the case to fatality ratio is between 5-8%. The transmission rate is between 2 and 3. Both of these numbers are similar to the earlier SARS outbreak in the early 2000s.

That's 2-3 times higher than most estimates that I've seen.
regime change doesn't work
I'm not sure, I last coded C++ about 8 years ago and that was all C++03, yet I had no trouble to follow along.

I mean, even if you never saw a "constexpr" before, isn't it pretty clear from the example and the name, well, "constexpr" want's going on? Same for the other newish C++ features.

I thought it was a nice little primer.
Prosemirror seems to be one of the most pluggable block editors out there. For the vue.js community, tiptap is built on prosemirror. Slate (which this is built on) is good too.
This was never a priority.

In fact, they increased production and got a host of veterans hooked on the junk.
Everything I read so far about it is saying that the virus is nothing special for anyone under 10 year old.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Also you can read about SARS which is similar.

Seems like what kills most people is the immune system overreacting.
The'anti-Walmart', where Walmart is the world leader of mediocrity.
While poking around for information about other places I ran across a great little documentary on Afghanistan by a guy named David Adams, who was one of the last people to see the Buddhas before they were destroyed. It’s a firsthand look into the history and culture of the country from a relatively apolitical, exploration based perspective, although it’s now somewhat old. Some people might find the whole Indiana Jones thing and the “quest” hook to the series a bit camp, but I quite enjoyed it. Encourage people give it a watch if they want to learn a bit more about the history of the place.

https://youtu.be/VXXmcGirPMA
It's probably strategically important, particularly with regards to China's Belt and Road Initiative, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
It would probably look like someone publishing the realtime location and browsing histories of powerful public figures.

But good luck with that; there's a reason why that sort of information isn't sold on a per-person basis.
I like how the US Department of Defense became the US Department of War right about the time it changed its name from the Department of War to the Department of Defense.
I haven't been able to figure out if this is a Google issue or King County Metro issue yet, but google maps transit directions are completely broken today. Every suggestion is "take Lyft" or wait until 4 am tomorrow.
That rule is usually called the publication contract, and it usually literally says how big the work needs to be, even if you can say it better in fewer words/pages/chapters/etc.
Given "naturalist" is sometimes a moniker for a nudist, it's hard not to wonder about precisely what these people are helping each other learn.

Edit: Doh! I was indeed thinking of "naturist". (Also, glad I don't care about the downvotes; intended mild joke, clearly whiffed on that too.)
many people have beloved family members who are older than 60. even if you are young, the symptomatic infection can be very severe and disabling for a week or two. it's also extremely contagious.

> especially not since lethality goes down with spread

there is no guarantee of this
My city (third largest in Spain) already has APIs for querying static and real-time data: http://gobiernoabierto.valencia.es/en/info-api/
“The train appears to be over a mile away from where I’m standing. Why would you think it would hit me?”
Something that came up in lots of Congressional hearings on the war, no one in the U.S. military knew what the goal was in Afghanistan. For 19 years.
That could be seen as an advantage