skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah nothing is actually what it claims to be anymore. Still, I'd hardly say that makes the people you mention stop being Republicans, much less conservatives. If the party leadership traitorously turns against them, then it's the party that stops being Republican. Just like (ever since Bill Clinton) the Democratic leadership has deserted what the party used to be about, allowing millions of voters to be seduced to the other side (and back again, for that matter!) without even so much as a platform. All you need is a good disinformation campaign. Good times. Don't even get me started -- disillusioned Democrat here. I'm kind of "neither" at this point, but I'm old enough to remember a time when as a Democrat I could at least respect actual Republicans, i.e. actual conservatives, who "had ideas about stuff and shit," and had reached a certain conclusion. Trump is a fake Republican, and a temporary aberration that will soon go away or perhaps wreck the country permanently, making it all irrelevant!

EDIT: Actually no, I think I would dial back the "temporary aberration" bit as being too glibly optimistic. Because things seem to trend toward entropy, and bringing back a structure is a lot harder than letting a structure go to shit. i.e. what I said at the outset still remains true even after Trump, namely, "nothing is actually what it claims to be anymore."
I've got Firefox, Krita, LibreOffice, a bunch of games ... most of it directly out of the Fedora package repos.

There is certainly more and better optimized software for x86_64, but this makes it sound like there's nothing, which is false.
Creating clones would be interesting because we'd get to know more about the difference between a clone and a twin.
Uses Rails and Node.js! It's nice to see an example of a great project that uses Boring Software™ in 2020.
Comparing svat's reply and yours, seems like the community filter works quite well.
The thesis is that the existence of Webassembly, alone, means that all ad-supported sites will inevitably be rewritten entirely as WASM blobs in order to prevent the use of ad blockers. The typical doomsday scenario also includes the conversion of rest of the web to WASM, with support for HTML being entirely deprecated in all browsers, so that corporate interests can lock down, centralize and control the web entirely.

I'm claiming that thesis is incorrect because prior methods existed and still exist to encode websites as embedded binary applications, yet ad-driven sites still primarily use HTML, and the HTML driven web still exists.

How usable sites using java and flash were isn't relevant. Either all ad-driven sites seek to maximize their control over the end user by any available means at all cost, or they don't. As they evidently don't, the slippery slope of WASM leading to the end of the free web seems unlikely.
> It’s because no matter how smart you folks are as individuals, in the aggregate you are like toddlers.

Or maybe you are biased to go against change because it just annoys you.
That’s a lot of types, regardless of how you define them.

Is AAVE a separate “language” from “standard English”? How about Creole? Is that French, English, or a distinct language?

Is Pennsylvania Dutch/“Low German” German or English?

What about Yiddish? Modern Yiddish is an entirely different beast from historical Yiddish.

Who is going to be defining the type for Greek? What region and point in history will they be using for a reference?

Does GermanString contain Eszett? If so, is it a separate code point or interchangeable with “ss”? Is there logic that defines when “ss” should be represented as an Eszett and when it should be rendered as “ss”?

No, I think Unicode is the right approach. You get all the code points you might need and logic for processing them as glyphs. Leave everything else up to the application.
Trader Joe's is one of the few corporations I like and admire. Ave atque vale.
This is what I can't understand about hiring interviews, and I thank 1/2 of my interviews haven't involved such trickery. Sure - it's "easy" to say "Oh you've solved this great puzzle, you'd be perfect since you are smart on your feet", but you can be great at writing UI's, but struggle on the backend.

This culture needs to end. I don't spend my time at work solving puzzles, I spend time at work meeting with stakeholders, organizing meetings, discussing options and timelines. I spend my time coding and iterating, not wasting my time at puzzles.

I hate puzzles, because I like to do work that actually produces results (and isn't a measure of how smart one might be). Puzzles are a waste of time in my opinion, a much better proof of pudding would be a programming portfolio of things you've written (ie. Github).
I'd take that chance any day for a much more comfortable flight. Very rarely do you even have the chance to escape when something is wrong with your plane while it's in the air.
The concern is people have not been taking this seriously for the past two months. This has resulted in the US being on the back foot and only acting in a reactive manner. The CDC has fallen flat on its face and now state public health departments need to try to pick up the slack. I hope they do.

Other countries are already trying to slow down spread via cancellation of events and closures of schools. The same needs to happen here so that our hospital system has a chance to cope. The real danger is what happens when the 19% of people who get infected that require some level of hospital care can’t get it. The death rates will then rise considerably. Those are preventable deaths if we slow this down.

There needs to be clear and fact based communication from authorities every day about the current situation and what the public can do to play their part. People panic when information is hidden from them, they aren’t stupid they will see what’s going on. They need to know that all the correct things are being done.
My brother's wife is also an ESL teacher. She had multiple students who traveled home to Wuhan during the winter break. Shortly after school starting she came down with a cold, gave it to my brother, and he had a pretty bad cough for a month. He's just now getting over it.
It's very refreshing not to have some web 7.0 (or whatever we're up to now) site trying to "engage" me when all I want is to look at a source code repository.
The numbers don’t really add up though since the climate disaster is causing few orders of magnitude more deaths then the corona virus outbreak.

I find it great that companies and governments are taking actions to reduce harm (like I said, I love it), but these actions should have been taken long ago to prevent a far greater harm being caused by another disaster.
I think you’re conflating premium economy and business class. Business class on the majority of major airlines has displaced international first class, and in every major airline includes lay flat seating pods in a separate cabin for long haul flights. Delta One, United Polaris, etc are business class products, there is no first class on these airlines anymore.
Yes, you are right, they are not immediately fired; they "retire" immediately or leave the company in the next few months. In the past month we just "retired" a few directors and another one is "just leaving" in 3 months, until then his spending limit is revoked and he is just onboarding the replacement.
Twitter is only relevant because the media retweets and otherwise focuses on tweets. The media was into it pre Trump but now it’s unavoidable.
It depends a little bit on what the acceptable answer is. If it's "stream/generate a list of possible strings", then the length of that list is probably O(2^n), so the fact that my recursive descent thing is exponential doesn't actually matter that much asymptotically. If you memoized it, the memo structure caching the suffixes would become massive and you'd spend just almost as much time looping the results from it as you would just walking down the tree, so you might as well save yourself the memory and just walk down the tree. Like, the length of the cached answer is more or less the same as the runtime of just doing the recursion, so you're not actually saving much of anything by memoization, and you're wasting a whole lot of memory.

I guess you could instead return some kind of fancy "prefix DAG" containing all possible strings, and that would be faster. But then you're just making the caller walk that tree instead of you doing it yourself, so you're really just shuffling the runtime around, not really saving much.

However, if the answer is "count the solutions", then yeah, memoizing would speed it up MASSIVELY. That's a good little Project Euler style problem, actually (though not a terribly tricky one), because you could make the input large enough that naive recursive descent wouldn't work. I haven't quite thought through what going full-on DP and turning the recursion upside down would do, but I assume it would work just fine.

But given that the number of possible solutions is a massive O(2^n) (probably, anyway), that puts a floor on the runtime you can't algorithm your way out of. Might as well go with the cheap recursive descent. I think, anyway :)
Mysterious glowing object suddenly appears in Earth’s orbit -- The Sun is there!

(please forgive terrible old internet meme humour)

To contribute something, it isn't glowing very brightly, and probably is another temporary mini satellite. These appear somewhat often, and don't last long before being flung back out of our orbit.
There simply is not enough supplies for everyone to slowly stockpile goods. Supply chains are already being disrupted. In China beekeepers are not able to get their bees to crops. The bees are starving. This will negatively impact global honey and crop yields for years. In Italy panic buys are already leaving shelves empty. If the government tells everyone to slowly stock up what will really happen is panic buys and wide spread violence.
When is it time to start freaking out? I have a friend who may be starting to unhinge a little bit. Whereas I have some sort of stoic “this is completely out of my control and will happen or it won’t” response that is probably not that much more rational.
Same, for Amsterdam: https://maps.amsterdam.nl/bomen/?LANG=en
Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets over China
Half the links redirect to Facebook for some reason.
Related from a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21870138

A bit from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14831794
there is a basis for the recombinant selection of specificity to histocompatability type [in simple terms that can mean race]

I have a gut feeling it would be impossible to contain or manage the media if this virus or any other pathogen was killing only those of asian heritage so we would know if it actually was happening.

There is no indication any one particular ethnic group is hit harder at this time as there is no adequate comparison
between the asian and other than asian people
Given the impact airline travel has on global warming I hope it results in fewer companies using air travel in place of video conferencing.
Did not know that - valuable insight. I was also perplexed by the dichotomy outlined above. Thanks.
The general sentiment was that this years flu shot was a dud.

The flu shot is a guess at which viruses will be most prevalent this year. A recent study I saw (sorry, I don't have a link) suggested that a single flu shot has little impact on your likelihood of getting the flu this year. If you regularly get flu shots, however, after 4 years, your immunity is significantly increased (I presume because you have be immunised against enough different viruses).

No comment on your situation, exactly; I just thought it was an interesting and relevant factoid.
Trump's budget proposals always include big cuts to CDC's budget. After recent criticism of this, the administration said it is just a negotiation opening tactic.

i.e Basically, "Hey democrats, if you want more funds to fight pandemics to stop us all from dying, you gotta give us something else, like even bigger increases to the military budget and Space Force, or even more tax cuts to companies".

There used to be a pandemic specialist on the National Security Council, that position has been cut. Not to mention other positions.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

Can you address these facts from Trump's perspective instead of just taking cheap shots at the media?
> We're better than this at HN. There are stats on the mortality rates, and given you are younger than 50 there is a less than 0.4% mortality rate.

Generally speaking, people younger than 50 probably know someone older than 50 and might even be in daily contact with them. You know, parents, grandparents, uncles and all that. I'm not afraid of dying from the coronavirus, I'm afraid of being an infection vector for someone else higher at risk.

> more people going to the ICU without case doesn't help

In a sane healthcare system, this would actually help. Because ideally, we'd have cheap, easily accessible tests for the coronavirus and people could get tested in a safe environment without fear of spreading or catching it.

But alas, it seems we're more comfortable with turning away potential coronavirus patients and letting them spread it on their own. Especially because people don't have the option to self-quarantine.
> These seats produce the same cabin density at today's premium economy, while trying to offer a business-class-lite experience.

This would be vastly superior to business class and even to most airlines' versions of first class. Not sitting next to someone (and barely even having to see them) is worth a fortune to me.
64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks
Because the guardian uses diogwhistles when under threat of defamation. Instead of outright lying/name-calling Paul a right wing extremist - which opens up the guardian to fact checks and defamation lawsuits, they just imply it, with what to a bystander seems like irrelevant phrasing, but the very-online left knows exactly what the guardian means. If you want a dogwhistle --> reality translation, you should follow the top comments on this, on Twitter
Actually someone I know who knows Minsky says that Minsky wasn't really sharp towards his later years [that said, he still mentored students, and the Nectome cofounder was one of his last students]..
The Littlest Type
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/faw6l5/ghostca...
I'm on board with your first suggestion - it all gets a lot simpler (and fairer) if you just tax the realized gains.

For the rest though, it may be worth pointing out that the first $100,000 in qualified stock options _per year_ are not taxed. If you're in a situation where the taxes on $(your annual options) - $100,000 are significant in comparison to your rent, I'd wager you're doing pretty well.
>the death rate will surge from 0.5-4% (no exact figure at the moment) to 10-20% like earlier in Wuhan

Those percentages come from different samples altogether and cannot be compared. 10-20% is heavily biased toward people who were admitted before there were even reliable tests for the virus or a recognition that it's novel and serious. Now you're comparing that to 0.5-4% which includes a bunch (though by no means close to all) of mild cases who got picked up by the tests but may not have required a hospital visit at all. What's the point of mentioning two numbers that aren't just unreliable and biased, but unreliable and biased in different ways?
>If this event is half as bad as all the literature out of China is suggesting, panic is the least of our worries

No. The risk of dying from this disease is negligible for most American adults. The real issue with the corona virus is economic disruption and overburdening of the healthcare system. All of which is significantly exarbarated by panic.
Very interesting observation!

"Comments on a number of StackOverflow questions have pointed out that a fault address of deadd00d indicates a deliberate VM abort."

That ending up in the ciphertext multiple times seems to point to some memory corruption issue. It's also a good argument for using magic numbers that stand out.
Home was not where the heart was for the Enlightenment’s intellectuals
Cats STM 0.7.0
FWIW our family got hit with the same thing. The cough was... different than anything we’ve experienced in recent memory. I assumed it was the flu (we stayed home and didn’t get tested, but it was pretty brutal.)
> Soldier on

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

Commando would better fit the description of "Sabotaging the team, product and costumers"
Agreed.

And there should be a good guide for junior devs on how to do that "justify it" step well in startups. Sounds like something that could piggyback off of https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
This is a great example of how misinformation spreads.

All of the speculation comes from a single non peer reviewed paper, which had literally one data point. That paper was posted to a preprint server where scientists could comment on it. And the first comment was somebody doing a quick followup study with 100x more data, which found no significant difference.

Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1
Restricted travel, working from home for two weeks after travel.
Ask HN: SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL?
My application is storing ~12GB of federal election data for personal research purposes. I simply want to be able to search for queries without having to wait several hours for the result (in contrast with my previous solution, which was searching the data line-by-line with python).
You just made the author's point about respect...
Show HN: Visualizing the transmission between you and base stations
> Induction stoves with enough power are slightly less reactive than gas, and can only use cookware that is magnetic, but MUCH more energy efficient (you only heat the cookware, not the air around it) and much easier to clean than gas stoves.

I kinda disagree on the cleaning bit. the induction stoves I'm familiar with have a glass top, which is great for cleaning off bits of food gunk, but terrible for doing stuff like seasoning a cast iron pan. on a gas burner, you just put a thin coat of oil all over the pan and put it on medium-high for 15 minutes or so. if you try this on a glass top, you end up "seasoning" the glass itself with a layer of polymerized fat. it's really difficult to get this off.
I'm not in the service industry and I've seen it in enough places to have noticed it. I couldn't tell you the name of any other POS system (though the aloha bouncy screensaver is particularly notable)
It's all new material. It'll be the basis of the next course coming in July. Or you can join the in person course from March in SF https://www.usfca.edu/data-institute/certificates/deep-learn...
Trains have bunks and ladders and move around a whole lot more violently than planes.
0.4% is number of deaths / number of cases. Problem is that not all cases have recovered and there will be more deaths among them.

But yes, main takeaways, don't panic, slow down spread as much as possible (aka wash your hands)
My understanding of the bill is that the tax would apply to the strike price value. $100,000 in strike price is quite a lot more than what your typical startup employee has, and that first $100,000 per year isn't even taxed. For this to apply to you, you'd have to be receiving a ton of options.
John Snow Labs Spark-NLP 2.4.1: Bug fixes and the first Spanish models and pi
Correct, I've been told by medical professionals that there are hundred(s) of strains but the flu shot only covers the handful of strains they expect to be prevalent for that flu season. I have been wondering how they come up with that prediction though...
Provided you can index the data properly, all three should work to speed up your queries.

Sqlite has the advantage of not needing to install a server, which makes it easier to bring it up as your datastore.
Managed by Q Buyback by Founder Said to Stall
Both the primary authors are Polish, and they won the competition, so I don't really have any informed view to add...

Maybe best to mention Turkish in the book!
How do you know you aren't a clone?
I was curious as a child to know how on earth that these programs did what they did. You ran them and they did something useful, and a human made them. I was just amazed at how they could do different things on the same machine. The same machine could run a game, a calculator, or something else without you having to change it. They all ran. How is this possible. I spent some time opening them with EDIT on DOS and I gleaned a few strings and words.

I even created a text file and changed its extension to .COM and .EXE and tried to run it. I'm not sure what I expected but I expected it to do something and it didn't, it wasn't a valid application , so I wanted to learn how to make a valid one.

I was a child and started learning BASIC. Mainly going through the help, instruction by instruction. Typing in snippets from the help and running them, then changing things, seeing what broke and trying to figure out failure patterns and find causality. It may not have been the best strategy but I was less than 9 in 96 and we didn't have Internet. I was able to ask my older brother questions though.

It was just fascinating. The first program I was really proud of was a geography one. I used to look up countries in dictionaries.

I got the idea that I could write a program that gave you all information. So I entered all the countries painstakingly. The data was of course part of the program.

The program takes the country name, in capital letters or it didn't work, and it returns the details(population, surface area, capital).

It was not much and I recall trying to find "users" in my family members. "Say you're curious about Bolivia and want to know more... What do you do?"

Answer: I look it up in the dictionary.

Me: or you run this program and you type the country name in capital letters and it gives you all the information you need.

I was hooked. Seeing those games and tools do what they did, I wanted to learn to build things that were so useful.
One single concept is needed to the general public to try and understand why all the fuss from governments worldwide: the Basic Reproduction Number must be lowered to < 1 to contain the disease and the Covid-19 Number is estimated at about 2.5 right now, which poses a risk because no vaccine still exists and health services may collapse under the strain of increasing people requesting intensive care. More about the Number here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
Although he doesn't mention libGen and SciHub by name, he does include: most books and scientific papers can be downloaded conveniently and for free. So that isn't one that he missed (assuming he didn't just add it).
The morbidity and mortality weekly report from a month or so back said that in intentional lab infections the influenza vaccine was only 45% effective in preventing infection this year.
http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html Is the rule I learned to understand C declarations and while the rule there is described as simple I think the examples even without argument types are actually fairly complex.

It also seems telling that no recent language has followed C’s example for declaration style, which is more implicit than explicit.
Airlines regularly accommodate disabled people. All you need to do is ask, either at booking time or at the airport. Also I'm not sure why you assume the bottom would sell out. I would always choose the top, because then I wouldn't have anyone climbing a ladder next to me, and I'd be farther from people in the aisle.
Definitely. Imagine how long it took for news of the virus to bubble up the Chinese bureaucracy and how many people traveled during that time period.
the rate of homelessness is actually falling slowly in the US, although the absolute number is slowly growing with the overall population. the visibility of homeless people has grown a lot in certain places though, which I think is the real complaint if we're being honest.