skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NHL (I don't follow the NBA) are paying close attention to it. They're not acting yet, but likely the pre-season games in China (like they've played for the last 2 out of 3 years) won't go ahead. They've got several plans in case it impacts the tail-end of the season or the playoffs (including playing in empty arenas).

The IIHF just cancelled a few international tournaments, and while not actually linked to the NHL, would have undoubtably had an impact on how the NHL is assessing its situation.
As someone headed to SF later this spring, is there a single case of coronavirus in the Valley at this exact moment? With all the companies announcing conferences and employee travel cancelled you'd think that Silicon Valley was the epicenter.
Rokenbok
Yeah, that article makes fair arguments, there are a lot of (often inaccurate) assumptions that go into comparing subscription services to the price of coffee.

I still think the comparison can be a useful way to measure one's own willingness to spend money because it can highlight how the cost of something seemingly mundane adds up. My armchair theory is that people don't always think about their cup of coffee (or anything that, in the moment, seems like a one-off expense) in terms of the annual cost, but they do think of subscription services in those terms (rightly so). And contextualizing e.g. coffee-spending in terms of annual cost can be a helpful way to determine for oneself whether a product is worth it.

And yes, it depends on how that individual values things, and it may not be the right comparison to make for you, but broadly, I think the exercise of thinking about how habitual costs add up is helpful. And again yes, this depends on the individual, maybe this is something you already do and have been doing for a long time so isn't helpful for you.

I agree the comparison isn't accurate and should be examined in context, but I don't think it should be avoided completely.
It is suspicious that they had so many with 0 correct answers out of 8. Here are the 4 easier ones of the questions:

> If the chance of getting a disease is 10%, how many people would be expected to get the disease? Out of 1000?

> If the chance of getting a disease is 20 out of 100, this would be the same as having a _____% chance of getting the disease.

> Imagine that we roll a fair, six‐sided die 1000 times. Out of 1000 rolls, how many times do you think the die would come up as an even number?

> In the BIG BUCKS LOTTERY, the chances of winning a $10.00 prize are 1%. What is your best guess about how many people would win a $10.00 prize if 1000 people each buy a single ticket from BIG BUCKS?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bdm.1751

I guess a lot of people never learn what % mean, and since basically all questions are related to % they would fail just from that. So I'm not sure if this is a good test of numeracy, feels like it relies too much on a few key items.

Edit: Also that test was designed so it gave a normal distribution for a typical population, in this study we see a lot of 0's and then no 1's and 2's. So it feels like the population tested wasn't representative, or some of the students asked just didn't bother with the math questions. Since students are forced to participate I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them just skipped trying at all on the math parts.
Sorry - that is in purpose ...

The definitive page for rsync snapshots has been, and always will be, here:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

... we actually don't want people to do rsync snapshots anymore because ZFS snapshots are much more efficient and use up less of their rsync.net account.

If you change one bit of a file, the rsync snapshot method will cost the entire size of that file, since it's a hard link and is either broken or not broken.

But if you just do a "dumb" sync to us and change one bit in the file, your ZFS snapshot will take up just one more bit.

So not only do you get a much simpler backup script - you can really just do a dumb sync to us and let us rotate your snapshots - but you get more efficient space usage for changed files.
Not a general tool but arxiv-vanity - which produces webpages of articles submitted to arxiv - works by parsing the source code that's submitted along with the PDF. You can probably use this data to train a model that converts between pdf, tex, and html.
I haven't seen one, but SQLite doesn't really support very complex indexes. If your database has gotten complex enough to warrant studying query plans and tuning queries, it might be time to consider switching to a more powerful RDBMS.
You've traveled to Hacker News, where lots of interesting information from the past and present lies!
Then you really need to read up handbook again. Removing things from base never meant what you think it meant.
Well they were at one point. I'm a bit of a dinosaur, so I was alive before either of these existed. I'm left wondering what people do now. Have an app for each theater perhaps?

Edit: I don't believe sonicxxg deserves any down-votes. After all, everyone doesn't know everything. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Yes, there is

https://www.ktvu.com/news/coronavirus-5-new-bay-area-cases-a...
Overpaying for an information service is pretty much the definition of 1990's dotcomishness.

Today, too.
I see you have the Altium format coming soon. How are you handling it, given that it's not an open format?
In addition to "safety of the people", there is a business reason for cancelling these massive events at a huge loss - they're avoiding a PR shitstorm that would explode if 8,000 people caught Coronavirus at their conference.

After working in many fortune 500 companies (manufacturing), I've become so intensely jaded and cynical of any "safety" things most of these companies do. If you peel the layers, its a glorified CYA. For e.g., no company really gives a shit if you develop a carpel tunnel syndrome. They are covering their ass to make sure there is enough documentation that employees were properly trained in the event of a lawsuit. That Ergonomics training you did or any safety web-training was forced upon you - sure it improves safety but that's a side benefit.
Yes, 9 cases in Santa Clara county have been confirmed
>But Dror and his team, through theoretical models and calculations, figured out a way we might be able to see this phase transition. They proposed that the change would have created extremely long and extremely thin threads of energy called “cosmic strings” that still pervade the universe.

Why does this remind me of

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories

And

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

If there's one thing i've noticed about history and scientific discoveries, whenever we invent things that should exist to fill models we're usually not correct.
I distinctly remember using that feature on Windows 98
FWIW I'm wondering about LibrePlanet in a couple weeks. I likely won't go regardless at this point.
The World’s First Open-Source Nuclear Reactor Blueprint Is Coming Online
> Less so in the lifespans of particular programming languages.

You could probably trace a similar evolution across programming languages, just by systematizing the phrases/words used in each to accomplish the same thing.
For anyone previously unfamiliar, as I was: HIMSS = Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Daniel Pezely — Authorized to work for any employer in US or Canada

Location: Vancouver

Remote: Negotiable, experienced

Willing to relocate: Negotiable

Technologies: Rust, Python, Cython, JavaScript, Common Lisp, Erlang, C; AWS, GCP; Ubuntu, Debian Linux, FreeBSD, macOS

Résumé/CV: Linkedin.com/in/dpezely or Pezely.com/daniel

Email: first name at last name dot com

Currently specializing in Rust:

- Over 2.5 years as primary language, and began with 1.0-stable in mid-2015

- Rust mixed with Kotlin for native Android app, where Kotlin handles just UI via RecyclerView, ViewModel, etc. (otherwise, I'm relatively new to mobile dev; Rust lib originally deployed in web app, and the plan is to use the same Rust library with Swift for iOS)

Generalist from prior specializations in concurrency, exotic data storage, dev-ops, Natural Language Processing

Samples:

- GitHub.com/dpezely/anagram-phrases (using prime number factorization, in Rust)

- GitLab.com/dpezely/chat-server (mio as the only networking library, in Rust)

- GitHub.com/dpezely/Effective-serde-By-Writing-Less-Rust-Code
Completely agree with this statement. Wish it was implementable similar to a tableau or something for more universal appeal -- or alternatively it had enough easily default applications with the ability to go much more custom if you needed/wanted to.
Isn't that the opposite of concerning? It shows that the virus has been in Spain for some time now without noticeable impact.
They push hard to track in-store visit and purchase attribution

[1] https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6100636?hl=en
[2] https://martechtoday.com/deep-dive-online-in-store-attributi...
I think there are couple of assumptions that I want to point out.

Having more than sufficient supply of food translates to having reliable supply chain of food. With increased globalization, supply chains have become more specialized. This has allowed us to have access to a wide variety of goods and services at competitive prices. But it has come at the cost of supplier dependence. As we are currently experiencing in the Covid-19 outbreak, global supply chains are sensitive to disruptions from global events. Hence, this is a global issue.

Last year, minor variations in supply of Avocados had people talking in the Bay Area. On this very page, we are talking about effects of climate change on wine production. A population which is used to a reliable and consistent supply of goods is more susceptible to variation in the same. Hence, I think crop failures are very much a first world problem too.
There's no xdotool support

Have you looked at ydotool?

https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

Also, do you know about the "i3 Migration guide"?

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
Interest income, plus a cut of every transaction (even if not at Starbucks). Plus added spend at Starbucks - having a Starbucks card may entice more spend at Starbucks.
Trivial to use cash-on-hand to buy a small existing movie reviews site and rebrand it.
I had the same experience. It started great when you just want a simple line chart, but when you need more and more features, it will be like creating tons of abstractions and writing a whole charting library ...
From my experience, I completely agree with your statement. Sometimes I recall information by remembering the way I wrote something. Like there is a relation with the mental memory and the physical memory of writing notes.

> The fact that you cannot write everything down forces you to think about what you are hearing and find the important part to write down. Now that you have found the important part the writing helps you remember it.

Definitely! You are processing and analyzing the information "on the fly", possibly writing a shorter blurb that captures the essence of the information.
This site seems to stay up to date, and it says there are currently 8 in Santa Clara and 2 in San Mateo.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
While I commend Mozilla for embracing Matrix, I do think it would've been worthwhile to set up an IRC bridge (I don't use IRC personally) before deprecating their IRC server.
Meanwhile Miami Ultra Music Festival is still on:

> Amid growing concerns of the virus and large crowds, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said Monday the upcoming Ultra Music Festival and Calle Ocho Festival will go on as scheduled.

> More than 100,000 electronic music fans from more than 100 countries will descend on Miami in two weeks for the festival, March 20-22 at Bayfront Park.

Just look at this picture: https://weraveyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Ultra-Music...

Well, that's one way to test the virus transmission/warm weather theory.
What about Greenplum or CitusDB?
How can I reduce the page load time below 1 second?
What about running a GUI from a local or remote ssh session?

Eg previously I would execute DISPLAY=:0 mplayer foo.avi to play remotely or ssh -X root@foo xcalc to display xcalc on my local monitor but execute on rhost
Explore the impact of 120B opioid pills from the DEA's ARCOS database
What's behind the growth of the Utah tech sector?
Could easily be service discovery too, like Zookeeper
I think "do the right thing" and "make it look like you're doing the right thing" will always go hand in hand. I'll take it.
A lot depends on the instructor. The good ones go slow enough that you can both follow along and take notes.
What worked best for me is to pay attention when professor is explaining and quickly write down in my words the explained concept- like moving it from my RAM to SSD.
This way I build about 80% understanding of the concept.
Further redoing the notes by referencing material/problem solving took me closer to full understanding.
There have been several confirmed cases, and more are expected as testing ramps up: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-case-coun...

Not too many yet, but the writing is on the wall.
It’s the responsible thing to do. We are nowhere near taking control of this virus.
They are a much simpler use-case. They just need to present video. Web browsers need to composite the video within arbitrary documents which may e.g. have elements that overlap the video (opaque or transparent) or may arbitrarily transform the video (CSS applies to videos just like any other element).
The album of Capella Romana is on Spotify for whoever's interested: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iB2tDdXCTaV2PMlcgNYdA?si=X_k...

This will be my background music for weeks now :D
I think they thought web traffic was more foundational or sticky. There was this idea of first mover advantage, whoever captured the most traffic could easily sustain it or have it help other services. But maybe it just benefited quarterly results / corporate forces.
That’s exactly why we have built InventHub please do give me your feedback :)
And keep in mind that they aren't testing everyone who presents with symptoms, typically only the most severe symptoms. So those 9 cases are likely representative of many more people who haven't been tested.
I disagree with your analogy.

Conferences, by their very nature, and ones with large well-known companies sponsoring them strongly implies international guests, and that translates to higher risks.
Does this lead to a more fragmented application space? If each compostor required its own screen grabbing tool, and each DE has its own compostor?
Unreadit comes to mind and probably is what inspired this service. Very cool.

I didn't see anyone else mention it, so I figure I should.
Doesn't quite answer your question, but this was AOL's reasoning at the time [0]:

> In a statement, Bob Pittman, president and chief operating officer of America Online, said: "MovieFone will add an exciting new area of local e-commerce to AOL and our other brands. By putting AOL's resources behind MovieFone, we will substantially enhance its already impressive performance and revenue potential," he added. MovieFone, which is expected to be re-branded after the deal as AOL MovieFone, is one of the nation's largest movie-listing and ticketing services with deal with 17,000 screens in 42 cities nationwide. Dulles, Va.-based America Online also nabs the online version MovieFone.com, seen as a complement to Digital City, AOL's local-listing service.

I read that "dotcom days" sentence to be more in reference to dotcom day valuations than anything else.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150402181940/http://money.cnn....
Many people (myself included) consider vi to be a powerful editor. I've not heard many who would call it simple though.
List of YouTube channels for UX design
I'll note that video encoding GUI screens tend to be overwhelming as well. It's simply a complex problem with a whole lot of parameters you might want to tweak.

The alternative is to hide all of the complexity and hope that the defaults are good enough for your users. Which works ok for stuff like Mom encoding her cell phone video but falls down pretty quick when someone needs to do something slightly out of the box, like add in a second audio track.
Shameless plug but we have an API at https://dev.last10k.com that returns data from SEC Filings including 10K/Q annual & quarterly reports.
I don't know why you're using Paper as an example. In 2020, you can use Google Docs which has spell check, text color, the entire collection of fonts at fonts.google.com available for instant selection, and so on. But I can also collaborate instantly.

That is real, apparent progress.
funny thing, just learnt about clickhouse today. for experienced people that use columnar stores and pandas for analytics, which tool do you usually prefer for BI stuff ? do ya'll load data into clickhouse then analyse it using pandas. or all analysis is done via the clickhouse sql dialect. As i'm sure things like pivot tables and rolling windows are a PITA in SQL
What Is Conversion Rate?
Flowdash has really improved our workflows at my job! We use to have a very tedious human in the loop process which is now much faster and more transparent for the entire team. The main benefit has been turning excel spreadsheets into a more defined work flow with a better user interface.
Trump attacks all sorts of things. If people do things it's not always a result of him.
Serious difference between an international conference and your local shops.
It's prevented me from keeping one at all. Years ago, my mother broke into my then 12-year-old sister's diary for no better reason than to find out what was going on when she wasn't home, which was often. I later wrote some really shitty teen-angst poetry and buried it under a stack of books and papers in a corner of my bedroom closet, and she found that. Decades later, I still feel like I can't write something emotionally honest because it will be exposed and used against me somehow.
Except it sucks for reading?
Seattle Comic Con will go ahead as scheduled
Or it could put to test Bill Burr's population control theory /s
Evaluating SMRs and Large Reactors in Africa
> There are also forest protection projects

Same constraint as planting tree... at one point there's no more forest to protect (or the cost of protecting one just increase). It will just get more expensive.

> energy transition projects

This one is interesting, again, will just get more expensive with time, but that one I never seen any project that allow to buy carbon credit for theses kinds of projects.

> AFAIK, the most promising CCS technology consist of burning biomass in power plants, and then using geological confinement of the sequestered carbon.

Where can I offset my CO2 emission that way?

I don't care about investing in a solution that has no future. If what I pay for it means that it will just make the next ton more expensive, when it's already hard to make people pay for it already, I'm not for that solution.

Sure that one is 100x more expensive, but the cost can only go down with scale, and if it doesn't, well it will just push other technological solution to be developed because it's a proof there's money in sustainable solutions.
The issue with conferences is not where they are held, but that people come from afar to visit them.
In addition to breaking it up into discrete packages, the devs are also OK with improving things even if it includes breaking changes.
One of the open source python project helped us in understanding the format for schematic from there onwards we explored the layout files. Hopefully we will have something functional soon. In long term I see partnering up with Altium, will be a better way to go about it because its not sustainable for us to keep on reverse engineering every new update in their design formats.
William James Sidis
"movies near me" in Google, or look at rottentomatoes.com for good rated movies
That's a strange rule! It's the definite article in "the owner of that trademark" that confuses me. The same word could be a registered trademark in each of about 45 classes, with a different owner for each mark.

Perhaps the next logical step for this comedian is to find a class in which Hugo Boss is not registered and register his own trademark in that class. Then he can give himself permission to use his own name. Or something. I actually have no idea how the rule in the the linked document would be applied in practice. Perhaps in practice they don't care about trademarks if the name is an ordinary name, like "John Smith", for example. Which is almost certainly also a trademark ... I've just checked (https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmtext): JOHN SMITH matches a bunch of different trademarks, and if you include JOHN SMITH'S then there are even more of them.
How to Learn Programming
Shouldn't actuaries take this possibility into account?
Are COVID-19 posts being censored?
All of the coronavirus post are quickly moving off of the front page. Is this just down votes, or is there a site policy in play?
The point is apps can’t grab other apps input/output. If you run the app in an otherwise secure manner (eg execute in a perfect security chroot/container).

A malicious application on your host can still do anything at the executing privilege level (read .ssh, inject malware into .bashrc) but can’t sniff your gksudo password
There is, in fact, a tool for Matrix which acts like weechat.

It's called weechat.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/weechat-matrix
Yes but..

There was a time when McDonald's was being a major jerk about trademark lawsuits. Then THE MCDONALD of the the clan MCDONALD had a talk with them about being reasonable. Haven't been as many stupid lawsuits since then . . .
I only use Windows at work, so I don't know that many apps. Today I tried out gitg, a GTK git client that has a Windows build. Damn, it feels great.It ues the Adwaita theme with a client side header bar, which looks great, saves space over all and is only marginally thicker than any other Windows title bar (it even shows the dragging cursor when dragging, why the absolute does Windows not do this).

Touchpad scrolling isn't smooth, which is a little bit sad, but generally I'm surprised by how well it works. From what I can tell scaling works perfectly and the file picker, which is not the native one, which is great, because it's less awful, seems to work well with the file system.

Over all it's one of the Windows apps I hate the least - by staying as far from the platform as possible, UI wise.

It feels a bit weird that this is coming from someone who likes to complain about GNOME.
The way I see it, Wayland itself is better in some ways but not great. For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders - hence, case-by-case handling of exceptions to the security model. Read: dirty hacks built in from the start. I think clipboard handling also falls under this category.

Edit: to me, it seems like wayland isn't fundamentally better. It's just a "new and improved" version of the same system architecture paradigm X is built with. I'd be more interested in something that follows the 'everything is a file' paradigm that made Unix so great to begin with.
NOAA Science Report 2019
It was a phone number you could call to get movie showtimes. It was an automated call system. But I guess it integrated a bunch of data sources together well and had a decent phone-based user interface?

This was a time where the internet wasn't quite prevalent enough to support the idea, but phones were. The idea of calling a phone number for up-to-date movie listings was kind of revolutionary at the time. There was a tech component but it wasn't a dot com and the whole thing is kind of laughable when viewed from today. It was popular enough to have a Seinfeld episode reference it.
Isn't this what PowerShell does? Makes the pipes pass .NET objects around instead of plain text?