skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I confess a lot of this is over my head. So, not a lot to contribute further here. However:

>I see your point as basically "what's the use of continuations? I already have `goto`".

If I were trying to convince skeptics about the merits of structured programing (i.e. no goto), I wouldn't start from Java and merrily introduce try/catch in that context. I start from a BASIC program, explain the semantics of e.g. a while loop, and replace some program's gotos with while loops, and then tackle increasingly "stubborn" gotos.

And yes, I hope you would be able to explain the benefits of continuations to a goto-fanatic, regardless of how much inferential distance there is.
Apologies if I missed it, but what are the advantages of this over bEncode?
Because the Chinese approach by now would requires forced quarantine of the majority of the world for months.
We call it serverless now :-) (I'm joking a bit but there are similarities.)
Now moot ...
> The Titanic was the first transatlantic ship to "fucking react" to an iceberg

That's both funny and totally not true.
> I'd be ashamed of my country.

We are.
I found that to be a refreshingly pragmatic opinion piece

"I don't know, its kind of cool that Mar-a-Lago members get better trading information in a variety of markets where there are no insider prohibitions, but check out all the other zany things the SEC now regulates like civil wars in the Congo"

I wish more people wrote like that instead of using their write access to Bloomberg/Forbes/Hackernoon/Medium to masquerade their thoughts as policy or necessary tweaks to society.
Edited, but the downvotes continue, and it's all moot ... I'll not bother to muddy the threads further. Thanks for the feedback.
NeXT was working on a Motorola 88110 (later revised to Motorola 601) RISC processors., but NeXT abandoned the hardware business in 1993 before they went to market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_RISC_Workstation?wprov=sf...
Balzac, you're breaking my heart. How dare you...

I love coffee. Thanks for sharing.
One reason I'm bullish on humans being a stepping-stone to electronic/software life forms, is that we are ill-equipped in every way to meaningfully travel the universe: from short life spans, to radiation vulnerability, to the complexity of converting electrical energy into bio-available energy, to psychological effects of long journeys in cramped quarters.

Software-life, on the other hand, can tailor its physical form(s) to particular environments, consume solar/nuclear energy directly, and even shut off its consciousness during long journeys.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of solar system colonization, interstellar generational ships, etc; and manual genetic manipulation (or repair) may be a necessary tool to accomplish that. But in terms of life forms being well-adapted to their ecological niche, humans becoming a space-faring species is a billion times more difficult than a mudskipper learning to breathe air.
netflix is the N and apple is an A in GAFAN
A better link might be to the security properties (it is linked from the current page). https://github.com/struct/isoalloc/blob/master/README.md#sec...

It sounds a little bit like ElectricFence, although that project was more focused on finding memory bugs rather than security.

It would be good to consider which of these features is lightweight enough that it might be pulled into the glibc allocator. glibc is already doing good work with various hardening features (https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1976213). However I don't think they PROT_NONE internal data structures yet.
I am sure it has crossed many people's minds, but what if I want to get it before the medical systems are taxed? Like get it before the peak. I am sure it's very bad thinking, but what are some solid points against such thinking?
As I suggested on another thread (and received some flak for it), it would be really interesting to see some math and/or a simulation to compare these two scenarios. In reality, closer to 30% than 100% of the world population will end up being infected by a disease like this (look at Spanish flu or Swine flu for reference [0]), and the total number of infected is probably different between the two curves.

Consider a hypothetical scenario: authorities encourage young and healthy people to go out and about their daily lives and get sick, and they institute a voluntary quarantine for people who would be considered highly at risk. Would more or fewer "at-risk" people become infected?

These are some other factors to consider:

- Could a short term quarantine for at-risk groups (shorter because the faster general infection rate would result in faster herd immunity) be more effective? Do quarantines and social distancing measures suffer from "quarantine fatigue"?

- What are the comparative mortality rates between people with medical care and those without it? (i.e. those in an overwhelmed system due to the fast spreading scenario)

- Does recovering from the illness result in strong immunity?

- What are the comparative costs of quarantines to society and economy at large?

- At what point is a vaccine or treatment likely to be widely available (if it is soon, then the slower spread is obviously crucial).

I suspect the answer is very nuanced. If I get some time, I will put together a simulation and try my hand at the math, but I am curious if anyone has already considered and compared these factors quantitatively.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
The one year DEFCON might really get cancelled
React 16 is 2.2 KB or 34.8 KB if you include react-dom, Vue 2.4 is 20.9 KB, and jquery 2.1 is 28.87 KB.

If you're using a bundler that can create chunks, your user is at best downloading this once in a blue moon.

The reply page I'm using now is 10% bigger total than these packages and has to be pulled every time apparently.

By what metric are these "huge runtime libraries"?
Steve Wozniak may have Covid-19
Psychiatry is a lot of flailing around and trying different things, probably because we don't have a very good understanding of the exact nature of everyone's condition. Everything seems to help 10-20%. That group does not overlap, and effect sizes vary substantially between individuals.

I have had the experience of deep depression and starting a new medication that pulled me out of it, making me active and functional again. It may have been coincidence, but I doubt it. I then was able to get off that medication and enjoy my life again.
Is there a benefit to using Slack and e-mail if there's no distinction in the use case? Perhaps that's where I'm differing from others here.
Speaking of treating yourself as well as you might treat a friend... I found this paper on self-compassion to be very helpful when dealing with self-criticism, guilt and shame:

Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b357/87b9b21486d00458e85f8b....
I am not defending HN/YC here, but the user's noted irony is referring to TFN, located at the-tls.co.uk, not talking about HN/YC.
This site is about pursuing a political agenda.
At some point, you've got to decide whether the infrequent but actually-documented problem of people who are apparently of East Asian origin being singled out and in some cases even assaulted is more important to address than the possibility some people are so triggered by the idea of not being racist that they would avoid taking any pandemic prevention advice from somebody who also suggested not being racist.
>Take THAT, coronavirus! :P

It's really hard at this point not to feel like people deserve what's coming. The vast majority of regular Joes still don't care and think I'm crazy for simply telling them to be responsible and buy some non perishable goods.

Meanwhile Mecca is shut down, Italy instituted a Nationwide lockdown overnight, UK hospitals are running out of capacity, China shut down it's entire industry for two months, Independent reports Trump admin may be considering declaring a Nationwide state of emergency...I'm losing track of all the clear, obvious evidence of imminently approaching danger from literally all over the world.
> shows MsgPack is more space efficient

While I see the same numbers as you do, there's no way a format that includes plaintext keys alongside the values is going to be smaller than a format that only includes a packed field number+type and the corresponding values. There's something fishy going on here, and I can't seem to find a link to the source behind his benchmarks?
Sure, it's easy: don't serve sourcemaps.

This isn't specific to Svelte though. In fact your code is much more obfuscated with Svelte than with most comparable tools, since you're not serving the code you actually wrote, but rather the output of a compiler (while this is technically true if you're using TypeScript/a minifier/whatever, it's qualitatively different).
The article touches on why the draw is significant irrespective of paying it back (albeit the source of the commentary is from the same parent company):

> “Companies don’t tap their credit line unless they need to,” said David Ritter, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, who spoke generally about the issue without commenting directly on Robinhood. When companies do, it’s “perhaps not a good signal with regard to their cash burn, which could make creditors nervous.”
If you're going to quote the article, perhaps you should quote the rest:

“Companies don’t tap their credit line unless they need to,” said David Ritter, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, who spoke generally about the issue without commenting directly on Robinhood. When companies do, it’s “perhaps not a good signal with regard to their cash burn, which could make creditors nervous.”
Interesting that the advice here - masks not helpful - is almost totally and directly contradicted by the advice in all infectious disease transmission training, most other countries that have flattened the curve by dramatically increasing supply and distribution with mandated mask wearing, making them available at the post office etc.

The odd image of folks wearing masks saying masks don't help is not lost on most americans.

Here's a different doctors advice on masks:

The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth. Use disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask is just to prevent hand to mouth contact, it will not avoid the sneeze part of things.

Masks are a low cost, non-hospital, low side effect, low economic impact intervention. Even if only minimally effective there are very few downsides to mask usage for an individual.

I've come to think that the re-assurance that this virus is "fully contained" - see Kudlow, that masks don't help (see this and others) will come back as some pretty bad advice later on. We'll see I guess.
As an european, I was very surprised to see how Trump repeatedly spread misinformation either by ignorance or by design (i.e. to have good numbers on infections and to calm stock market) on Coronavirus press releases, even on the CDC, even with CDC leadership and scientific advisors present (advisors who then say the opposite Trump said).
I found that Wikipedia article, and I think it's fascinating how he can get away with so much falsehood, even deny saying things that he was recorded saying. Also, in the advent of Deep Fakes technology, that probably legitimizes to lie even more as he can later claim that any videos saying a falsehood are product of a deep fake...
I'm considering to upgrade my primary computer this summer and considering an AMD system. Following is my thought process:

- Maybe I should buy an Intel system again because of the performance counters and other nice things.

Another Intel attack surfaces

- Yep, I shall go AMD this time...
>Everything (at Amazon and Walmart, at least) is priced by computers that are constantly trying to determine the ideal price that maximize profits.

Do you have a source on this available? I ask due to some second hand retail experience with Wal-Mart specifically, that their pricing contracts lean heavily on pre-determined price points (under $20, etc).
> the escape velocity from Mars requires a massive rocket equivalent to the one we use to leave Earth and therefore more fuel leaving less payload for delivering other resources or supplies

Wait, what? Isn't escape velocity from Mars lower than that from Venus? The surface gravity is far lower on Mars.

I also note that you list "no surrounding breathable atmosphere" as a negative for a rotating space station, but the surrounding atmosphere on Venus isn't exactly breathable either...
And every step is the first since the last one.
buffer_len could be larger than the message, copying some incorrect things into memory.

Similar to HeartBleed, where there wasn't validation on the heartbeat message, and the server would echo back buffer_len instead of just what was sent.
The data disagrees. Narrowing streets, adding vertical elements to the edges of streets, and removing lanes works. Congestion pricing helps too!
Why not “used all credit that was available to them”? Without “all” it would be confusing what was even being pointed out.
First test in Go and taming test tables
The distance would be mitigated with a 1g thrust drive. It would reduce the transit time between Earth and Mars to three days, with the ship accelerating to midpoint and decelerating from there.

We just need a craft that can thrust that strength for three days straight.
No serizalization is safe

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybu...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
- ...
Germany refuses to extradite Pole under European arrest warrant
Svelte can do server-rendered and static page generation with the near-zero overhead of string concatenation, and with it you gain the component model. Part of the magic of compilers is that you can get most of the best of both worlds. Sapper provides both of these use cases.
LEO is more like 'camping in the back yard'.

All I ever learned from that is that I hate camping... and would much rather have a house / hotel room.

Extending that analogy further, maybe we can figure out how to build a "mother in law apartment" in our "back yard" first.
Does anyone of the time series by country? The United States just reaches 800 tested infections. I think we had 88 on March 1.

Would like to see how fast the recent numbers are growing.
How Long Could the World Run on Geothermal Power?
ADDED: The Houston Rodeo with a couple million attendees is also going ahead.

My anecdotal impression is that tech and tech adjacent events are canceling in significantly great numbers than non-tech. Part of the difference is probably that so many tech companies are telling employees not to attend large events, or even events at all, that even if a tech conference organizer wanted to go ahead, they'd lose half their attendees.
They're almost the same. To see how similar they are, compare their implementation in nlohmann's JSON library for C++. They are both processed by the same class template, only some constants are different.
NeXT was out of the hardware market about a month before P5 shipped, and they were already in the process of trying to move to PPC. The CPU was just about the least interesting chip in NeXT hardware though.
At first I thought "oh great, this looks very nice but why does it exist when Next.js, Gatsby, etc. are already a thing?"

Then I saw Tom Preston-Werner's involvement and my interest level raised considerably. I'm still not sure if there's a market for this per se, but the bone-fides of the dev team is certainly a good sign.
I don't think there has been an outbreak that could be this deadly in the age of prolific social media use. Or maybe it's been too long since the swine flu for people to remember, or the swine flu wasn't as deadly. People saw it as a thing that comes and goes. Just news that will tide over, and people can remain optimistic as they always have that life can go on exactly as it always has. This has only ever happened in movies. It can't happen to them.

Actual virus outbreaks are incompatible with this mindset. The markets vastly underestimated the impact it would have. People can exercise their liberty and individualism and right to an opinion to go off and unknowingly infect other people. A week ago I stated I was concerned over the virus and that I was taking shelter to a coworker and got back "there's no need to panic, the media makes it out to be worse than it is" and "this is no worse than the flu." By now there isn't a soul that's not working from home, including them.

It's like speed limits only being imposed on residential neighborhoods after someone's kid gets run over and killed. For these kinds of things some people will only learn when it's too late to take action and the consequences become apparent. They would have to learn to switch off their optimism when it's appropriate next time, if there's a next time.

Or maybe they won't learn, and the actions of a majority we don't control will have irreversible consequences for us as a species. In that case I can't see how it wouldn't be fated. It's a matter of getting everyone on Earth who is well-meaning or not to cooperate in just the right manner when some of them simply won't. Antibiotic resistance is a thing because we trust the general public to take them properly, and they don't.

When the next outbreak is even more deadly or contagious, who knows what will become of us.
I really like ASN.1.

The big difference is that messagepack is schemaless.
I love the idea of svelte and want to try it on my next project.

The compiler paradigm is really powerful. What if you could extend Svelte to give it knowledge of your db schema and it would figure out an optimized way to load data by generating all that code if needed. Probably something like this exists already somewhere and was forgotten about, but one can dream.
Yep! But I don't think a ban is needed to remove cars. Just make it undesirable to have one. Remove incentives to drive. For example, removing parking (free parking especially) is a great way to remove cars.
This is why I'm curious about the details.

I don't think any of us are experts in the supply chain logistics of South Korean face masks. I'd rather read about it from someone who is than guessing.
Going to be worse than 30% slower by a lot.
Why would they have needed to draw down their credit line and then pay it back over a two week period? I don't have an answer to this question.
This is just silly. Of course it’s known if we can transport humans to mars. The answer is yes. The only question is how much it will cost. All you have to do is surround the craft with mass. It doesn’t even have to be attached to the craft. The cost of giving the mass enough energy to get out of orbit and over to mars is the only question.
Sure, but anything less won't make much of a dent. That's my point: to observably flatten the curve, you need to go almost all the way there of killing it altogether. The "flat curve" region of R_0 is just very, very small.
RAMming Down Hype via Intel CSME
Your positions are safe in segregated accounts. Of course, that's what everyone thought about MFGlobal too.

Personally, I'd get my funds off the meme brokerage and on to a real trading platform.
> I hope they aren't insolvent

This smells like an unexpected collateral call. Their maxing out the line is material for estimating operational continuity. But given the market's volatility, I wouldn't read it as a solvency problem per se.

> Does anyone know what happens to any open positions in the event that they do become non-operational?

The SIPC [1] insures deposits up to $500,000.

[1] https://www.sipc.org
JSON also misses dictionaries/"objects" with non-string keys. Msgpack discourages you from using them because languages like JS don't support it, but allows it.
As a small investor (investing around few thousand USD), how do I know which app to trust?
There is Robinhood and Stash for ETFs and Stocks and then there are robot-wealth mangers like WealthFront etc.

Should I always stick to big firms like Vanguard or Fidelity?
Thing I don't like about firms like Vanguard and Fidelity is that you cannot buy fraction of a unit which Robinhood/Stash allow you to do.

Any advice?
> the entire idea of measuring a language’s defect rate via GitHub commits just doesn’t make any sense. How the heck do you go from “these people have more DFCs” to “this language is more buggy”?

If Github is used by ordinary programmers (what are the reasons to assume otherwise?) i.e., if the sample is unbiased then what is the issue with going from "these [random] people" to "this language"?
> “Companies don’t tap their credit line unless they need to,” said David Ritter, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, who spoke generally about the issue without commenting directly on Robinhood. When companies do, it’s “perhaps not a good signal with regard to their cash burn, which could make creditors nervous.”

It's yet another sign that this company is teetering on the edge of collapse. That isn't irrational panic. They were completely offline for an entire day during the biggest market rally in over a decade, and have had smaller outages during other recent volatile trading days.

This company deserves to crash and burn. Anyone who still keeps a balance there is insane. People have lost millions and are going to continue to lose because Robinhood is run by amateur clowns.
Maybe I'm naive or overly optimistic, but I suspect that COVID-19 presents a big enough scare to motivate legislators and voters to fix these problems in the near future.
the git hook is only the integeration part. the core of the system is the rules engine and the logic around that.
Google is making it easier to develop quantum machine-learning apps
Cool. Are named routes typesafe? In other words, if I change the name of a route, does it cause some sort compile time error?
It is relatively efficient, schemaless, and cross-language and -platform. It supports floats and binary values as well.
Drugs very rarely (especially small molecules) have an impact on only one target.

Take SSRIs (selective serotonin uptake inhibitors) used for depression. If you dig up the data, they also hit (at a lower level) acetylcholine, dopamine, histamine, and other receptors. Those off target effects are often responsible for side effects.

So chloroquine could very easily be doing something different for Coronavirus than what it does for malaria.
There are some points in the article: https://www.flattenthecurve.com/#DO_NOT_BE_CARELESS

> Don’t be that person. It might not be about you but it is everyone’s problem. Don’t be careless in the hopes you get sick when you can “avoid the rush.” There is zero benefit to individuals or the population to getting sick early in the pandemic. You would be putting the lives of others at risk. It is not just that people are dying, but how they are dying. To say nothing of the physical trauma, emotionally speaking this is the opposite of a “good death”. People are dying alone, quarantined from those they love.

> Early reports are that people who recover develop antibodies that provide immunity if they are infected with the same strain again. However, this is great news for vaccine development, so flatten the curve and wait it out.

> This can get very serious; one person described the pain as feeling like her lungs were being put through a pasta maker. 10% of cases require ICU care and mechanical ventilation. Even if autopsy reports from China have been misrepresented or overstated, there is a possibility of long term or permanent lung damage if you do get sick and recover. There are lot of gaps in the information about lung damage, mostly because everyone qualified to let the public know exactly what is going on is already very busy saving lives and putting their own at risk.