skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel torn posting this, but it seems like the US president is truly trying to go against the country's interests at every turn. The only non malicious explanation I can come up with for the covid response is a gamble in the hopes that somehow the economy will tank less if the outbreak is marginalized.

So far: lack of testing, lack of screening at intl airports, lack of quarantine for the latest cruise ship, constantly decrying "it's no big deal". Also influencing the cdc, not letting the actual experts handle the situation, cutting their budget, and telling the head what they can and cannot say in press conferences.

The US is on track to be steamrolled by this disease.

Edit: there are currently only 164 recognized cases, but spread among 19 states, and 110 have unknown cause. Source: cdc, updated March 7.
> and our demographics have diverged from that population

Sounds to me like a core part of the problem is the disintegration of the nuclear family. Maybe we need to go back and start promoting good old fashion nuclear families as the core unit of society.
"At the other end is the Middle Eastern countries. Monarchs and despots have largely enriched themselves and their families at the expense of their country and their people."

An exclusive political and economic system is always stifling towards those excluded. I would turn this discussion a bit around, that having natural resources is irrelevant to the well being of the people if the political and economic institutions are not inclusive. And for inclusive states natural resources likely should contribute only a portion of GDP with healthy investments in other sectors as well.

All the diamonds and gold in the world is irrelevant to the wellbeing of the common people if they are repressed... And if they are not repressed, the relative value of such resources is diminished as other economic activity should be available as well, then.
> _t suffix is the notion used to denote a typedef for a given type /* This example is from do_journal.c in e2fsprogs / struct journal_transaction_s { ... blk64_t start, end; ... }; typedef struct journal_transaction_s journal_transaction_t;

This is undefined behavior in POSIX.
combine that with frequently incompetent medical coding, and your insurence ends up not covering stuff they would otherwise cover 100%. my wife is on 3-way phone calls between the billing dept and insurance every month fighting incorrect bills from 6 months ago that did not arrive until 3 months later. she is now basically a better medical coder than the provider. it's a fucking circus designed to make patients pay through attrition alone - it eats away at your morale and free time.
> I never understood why healthcare was tied to employment.

During World War 2, the US implemented a national wage freeze, with an exemption for insurance and pensions. Since companies still needed to compete for workers, this led to a significant growth in those benefits.
Source please, couldn't find this information anywhere saying this.
Good question. The times were published on Caltrain’s website, but I don’t recall where we got the distance data; it’s possible the initial implementation and data collection was done by collaborator, Vadim Ogievetsky. Wikipedia has track distances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caltrain_stations
Populist politicians claim that they represent "The People." The problem, as Umberto Eco pointed out, is that The People is a fiction. We have only The Public, which is a collection of individuals with diverse interests and beliefs. We aggregate The Public's will though democracy as it is impossible for a single individual or political group to speak for everyone. But populists claim that democratic institutions do not represent The People, because they are corrupt and controlled by The Elite. Only the populists truly speak for The People and anyone opposed to them is therefore automatically also an enemy of The People. Enemies are very useful to the populist. (Sanders has spent his career railing against the 1% on behalf of the 99% and Trump, of course, has literally called the press "the enemy of the people.") In short, it's a corrosive ideology that works by undermining faith in democracy and dividing the public into friend and foe.
https://archive.is/1xeaz
The author of that book doesn't really like C, and it shows. And valgrind is usually not the first tool you should be using to debug memory issues–try Address Sanitizer instead.
Trump’s Coronavirus Press Event Was Even Worse Than It Looked
To me, it seems odd that government would have a monopoly on anything in health care. Non-profits can play a very valuable role in exposing inefficiencies in large bureaucracies.
Are there any modern initiatives around mainframe?
What is IBM doing to promote it more to new generations?

Are there any startups doing anything related to the mainframe?

I was always fascinated by the tech around mainframe and am even thinking about moving into that space.
I can imagine that a barrier to entry is high... or?
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos [video]
There are some kits, like Actobotics. Generic structural parts are inherently heavier and less stiff than custom-designed ones, so they're not usually suitable for high speed projects like this one.
because there are literally declassified docs that show the point was the oil and not "democracy". this is like saying the american civil war was about states rights. it's called a pretext and if it weren't for declassified docs in this case (and secessionist writing in the other case) we'd never hear the end of it (but since all that documentation does exist, it can in fact be neglected)

Declassified Documents Reveal CIA Role In 1953 Iranian Coup : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217976304/declassified-docume...

For the last time, the American Civil War was not about states’ rights — Quartz
https://qz.com/378533/for-the-last-time-the-american-civil-w...
How do you even remember a thread from last year? I'm always surprised by your vast knowledge required for moderation. Possibly with a help of some internal search tools?
Probably no accident that MBS removed his two main political rivals two days ago:

https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/saudis-detain-mohammed-bi...

The country is in deep trouble. Reigns of terror fed by mineral wealth have a way of falling in the most bloody ways.
"Whats the point of testing if you are a healthy 20 year old caring with 85 year olds"

This sums up the silicon valley mindset for EVERYTHING. If you find it hard to understand what I am meaning the be worried.
This is actually pretty hard. I recommend reading C codebases, but it can be hard to know which ones are good. Code to C99 for now; keep an eye on C11 etc. Have a personal library of C implementations of things. Don't worry about being on Windows, although if you're doing Windows development C#/.NET is the lowest friction path.

I'm writing a book on C. I don't think it will ever be finished or see publication. I recommend writing a book yourself - it's a great way to learn, and maybe you're a better writer than me and will publish it.
With the images of rockets, it made me think of outer space. Doubt that's really there target audience, but still rather confusing.
I remember having a conversation with my dead 1-2 decades ago about switched ethernet. he was involved in network protocol development back in the 70s and was very familiar with AlohaNet and how ethernet borrowed from it. but had moved in a different direction in the decades since

When I mentioned switched ethernet, he looked at me blankly and said something along the lines of (take some of it as hyperbole). "that's not ethernet? the whole point of ethernet is dealing with collisions. it's not ethernet without a medium where colluions can happen. heck, if we could have given everyone a private link, networking would have been easy"
We need some states to just start defying the CDC and doing whatever testing they deem necessary. With media backlash and sympathetic juries, no court case will actually succeed if the feds try to charge them with anything, and this is a life-or-death matter. Italy is a first world nation doing testing, and even they are swamped—what will we be in a week?
Boeing CEO Expresses Regret over Criticisms of Leadership and Predecessor
Makefiles can be elegant and simple or monstrosities. CMake files have a constant complexity level. At least in my opinion :)
Watching what it can do, it feels like this is the perfect machine to run one of those marble mazes.
There is no clear source of truth for C. Depending on what you want to do there is quite different approaches. C for embedded systems tends to look quite different from C for systems programming. For instance MISRA is a C coding standard for embedded devices in Motor Vehicles (but many of its ideas are ideas from writing robust embedded systems), it says don't use things like dynamic memory. You'd never use that if you are writing software for linux/windows. So learning C "properly" would be about learning the different approaches people use in C to write robust code and what tradeoffs they are making. Understanding the C standard and the variations. Understanding bare metal programming. Understanding the effect of different underlying processors and hardware architectures. Understanding systems programming and how to consume APIs and how to create reusable binary modules. Understanding the compiler/build system the intermediate files / code generation / memory layout. Read a variety of books ( including K&R ) and study code ( Luas implementation is some very nicely written C )
How do I get intellisense in the VSC terminal? Best I can figure out is I have to make a file and run that.
I don’t understand how anybody can like gmail’s interface. It’s so convoluted and unintuitive.
Well, some companies don't make enough to pay you market value;

but, the company I worked for was not paying higher wages for the newer employees than myself and I got pretty regular, pleasant raises.
Not all jobs are programming.

How’s a starbucks barista gonna work from home? Or a hairdresser? Or literally anyone that isn’t a knowledge worker?

We’re still primarily a service and manufacture economy aren’t we?

Hell even a lot of knowledge work can’t happen from home. I doubt microbiology research can be done from home. At some point you’re gonna need new data and experiments to analyze
"Even when a person tries to follow all the rules, they find a way to screw you."

The whole hospital seems designed to set a bunch of elaborate traps and all of these traps will cost you a lot of money. Whatever I hear there is almost no way to protect yourself besides being lucky.
so this does look like a recession - with the dow jones industrial average falling 3000 points over the last month and oil pricess falling steeply. does it?
> I never understood why healthcare was tied to employment.

Pre-WW2, many unions in the US had negotiated employer-paid health insurance as a (taxable) benefit. When the government capped wages as part of wartime price controls, these unions threatened to strike, which would have gutted industrial production. To avoid a strike, the government offered to temporarily make employer-provided health insurance a tax-free benefit.

Temporarily. And here we still are.
Most jobs aren't programming jobs
It's actually 50k of time off (not made clear other than in the contract at the bottom), which is not exactly the same thing.
>"The laws not fair! I wanted to be a dictator but it wouldn't let me"

At worst you can say he wanted to be dictator but the dictator wouldn't let him, but arguing that somehow Mosaddegh is the bad guy for resisting such an obvious power grab is ridiculous. Being constitutional doesn't excuse a coup.
I’m fairly ok with arguments for public only health care but that said, why would detaching health insurance from employment require the end of private health insurance completely?

Thats not true for any other of the insurances I have. My car, home, flood, and life insurance all aren’t related to my employer yet still exist.
How to silence your microwave once and for all (2018)
> majority vote

No they aren’t.
Here's an educational video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3HZwBDpiU
My personal site is still a bunch of files served up by a cache in front of Wordpress. It'll be cool again in a couple years, I guess.
Hmm. I think it could work well. Thinking if Qt signals/slots mechanism but using database. If you have separate tables for publish subscribe (one writer multiple readers) it would be quick.

And to be honest, the services are loosely coupled between each other that is a great benefit. It’s not a “spaghetti of services” because a good design will carefully consider them.

Plus it could give some good benefits for auditing trails too and consistency in data storage/archiving.
Link to the code/readme/documentation https://github.com/tatianamac/SelfDefined
Concrete sidewalks are pretty fragile. Unless they're freshly laid, most that I see have cracks and pits to some extent (probably mostly attributable to cooling/heating and water). Some people also seriously drop their feet down hard when they walk, and if they've got little bits of metal sticking out from the bottom of their shoes, I imagine that damage adds up and doubly so if it slams down an existing crack.
Is this important? By far the common case in C is using heap allocation as implemented by your libc or crt. It's pretty essential knowledge.
I can see normalizing WFH, but we need to get over this idea that WFH is the best option for everyone. That’s a very tech-centric view that ignores the fact that many people’s jobs really do benefit from, or even require, face to face interaction.

It’s also ignores the realities that many people don’t want to WFH. Many of the parents with young children at home are dreading the loss of their office space right now.

I also expect that the shift toward WFH will not be a positive thing for highly paid Silicon Valley engineers. Once people are working from home most of the time, it’s not much of a stretch to hire cheaper engineers from a few states over at literally half the cost of a SV engineer. From there, it’s only a few more levels of difficulty to unlock international talent at 1/4 of the price.
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, 16GB RAM Full Specs and Price
This is going to sound alarmist, but so would the idea of politicians putting themselves into quarantine just a few weeks ago.

We need to start thinking about postponement of the 2020 election, with COVID-19 cited as the reason. Expect the drumbeat of this tune to grow louder and louder in the coming months.
Incredible! Thought of doing this at the app level, but hadn't thought of italics etc. The concept of doing it with puppeteer is pretty neat.
is anybody surprised?

availability seems not the be the problem, you can order them since 3 weeks ago from alibaba:
https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...

or, if you prefer from italy:
https://www.screenitalia.it/test-coronavirus-covid-19/

the problem here seems to be of an organisational nature...
Not that I'm aware of it.
maybe if it wasn't all spent on jacked-up F-350 pickup trucks, overly expensive large houses, snowmobiles and toys...
Not a bad idea. I use Ansible to automated the updates. Only rarely does it fail for one reason or another.

I’m glad you are taking updates seriously. There are plenty of companies who do not. Like mine, who still has DNS on Ubuntu 12, has a fleet of Ubuntu 14 servers on top of that all running important production services (web, DHCP, MySQL etc), and none which have been updated in 3 years.
Exo Chunks
How can I convert exo chunks into mp4. Does anyone know how to remove the encryption off these files
I suppose the key there was that it was withdrawn after this was found out (and own brand supermarket stuff is often the cheapest variant if a product with all the corner cutting that implies)
A lot of the practical billing annoyances would go away if the individual practitioners had to get paid by the hospital instead of directly by the patient’s insurance, like subcontractors in any other industry. As a patient, you should be dealing financially with no more than 2 parties: your insurance provider and the hospital.
We've been building Levels.fyi as a static website for the past 3 years! To create a new page, we simply hit new file on our text editor and start to fill the page. We have a simple build system + templating with Gulp and Nunjucks, but its really all we need.

Scaling a static site is incredibly nice & cheap too :P
Update: https://twitter.com/tony_zy/status/1236441004133277702

https://twitter.com/onlyyoontv/status/1236653943616188417
Yes it happens in many countries. For example in UK someone mentioned they have Phenylketonuria and their NHS will not cover a medicine Kuvan that would improves their quality of life by allowing them to consume a reasonable amount of protein.
It's hard to beat this list of quality books:

http://iso-9899.info/wiki/Books#Learning_C

Read some and do the exercises. You'll learn to write portable code to a standard rather than stuff that "accidentally works." There's a lot of crap C code in the world, full of GNUisms, overzealous macros, header-only nonsense abusing translation units, and copypasta. Don't pick up bad habits from that stuff.
>"because the Chinese government can lean on them in ways democratic governments cannot lean on their own vendors." //

In comparison with USA this is where you lost me, aren't NSA's national security letters just as much a way for the government, or whoever has weight at the NSA, to access so-called front-doors? Depending how you define democratic the NSA can "lean on vendors in ways democratic governments cannot". And you intimate that access "from China" might equally be being done on behalf of USA's secret agencies.

That's fine if you trust USA, and it's leadership (covert and public).

To me, in the UK, when USA are saying "don't use Huawei" the reason that seems to be most likely is 1) financial, 2) because then we would potentially be subject to Huawei's backdoors instead of USA's backdoors. And as a citizen I'm pretty certain Five-Eyes/GCHQ have every tiny bit of meta-data about my tech use for the last year: so China can know who I call and when too, giving up that as well in exchange for reliable 5G seems like it's not really losing me much.

Seems in the UK we're more at risk from USA's financial meddling than from China's?
Everyone keeps pointing to the lack of availability of kits in the US without mentioning the reason. The reason is that the CDC created its own kits instead of using the WHO kits. Why did they do that? Because the WHO kits were inaccurate. Accurate diagnoses happened only ~60% of the time, basically a coin flip. In China the tests were becoming such a problem, now they basically just count anyone with symptoms. That's one of the reasons why numbers jumped drastically. Sometimes it takes up to 8 times to get a hit. Which when you think about it is completely ridiculous. That is with people with full blown symptoms.

The original CDC batch became tainted but were more accurate...unfortunately the CDC version was also giving false positives and didn't meet QC. To make matters worse CDC rules required very stringent guidelines for approval from third parties and states. Most of that has been lifted (I think this is what Trump was referring to when he said he was lifting something from the Obama admin, though I don't think it started with him. But who knows because Trump is often full of bluster.)

Here are a few articles about it.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-testing-kits-flawed....

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51491763

https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-...

I wish people would stop pointing to South Korea and China as the paradigm of how this should be treated. It's entirely possible that the "drive thru" model with relatively inaccurate kits could make things worse. There isn't much point in producing millions of tests if they are no more accurate than a coin flip and can take up to 8 times to properly diagnose someone. Not to say the US hasn't bungled this and wasted some precious time.

The one thing, I'm pretty confused about at this point is how this has spread so quickly in Italy.
For me it's the opposite: it feels like someone pushing me out of a tree swing or a chair that has no backrest (I'm sleeping on my side).
It's harder to use honey that's crystallized, because it doesn't flow out the spout of the bear shapped bottle. It's not hard to warm it up yourself, but it's an extra step you need to do.
Congrats, you just reinvented the monolithic database with a bunch of functions on top. Everything old is new again.
I think part of it may be intentional. No matter what, and the end, you will get accurate numbers for death, and there's not much that can be done for viral infections, other than cancelling large events and other means of transmission. Some can't be avoided though (elections are happening in the US).

Could the CDC intentionally be avoiding increasing testing to avoid panic? If the numbers are to be believed, no matter what we'll see a sizable number of infected this year and risk losing many of the elderly.
That's paying for content, but isn't really what we're talking about.

Hacker News is a better example. It's generated entirely server-side. Why not pay YCombinator a few cents for every page load?
I'm currently building a realtime Marey diagram chart for Sydney buses to visualise congestion and bus bunching, feel free to reach out if you'd like me to let you know when I've shipped a demo!
Even to be a sms replacement. But I wholeheartedly agree, AOL and AIM failing to become Facebook is an all time failure.
I'm wondering if this will have an impact on the San Francisco housing crisis. If it turns out WFH works out really well for tech companies, could we see a reduction in demand for housing in SF?

I could certainly see tech employees deciding to move to a cheaper city where they can WFH and spend less of their income on rent.
NewStack on OpenEBS and Kubernetes for Data
TypeScript ate coffeescript. That said it did inspire a lot of new features in both TypeScript and the ES standard.
This is mindless hysteria. And I suspect you know it. On the other hand, maybe you do, in fact, believe it. Let's make a good faith attempt to test how truly we believe in our predictions. I predict that the Gates Foundation permitting home testing in Seattle will not result in Seattle's public transit system only permitting COVID-19 tested individuals by the end of 2020. In order to back that, I will put up $1000 at even odds. Reply here to take me up on it.

What's your prediction and will you back it like I did?
Supports especially disaggregated data patterns. Who is using OpenEBS for LocalPV behind NoSql or Elastic or otherwise?
It's not easy. The obvious answer is read and write lots of code. Experiment. Make sure you actually know how a computer works. Learning some assembly even if you don't ever use it can help with that (free ebook "Programming from the Ground up" can be done in a weekend) Read existing code bases, different styles, like linux or some GNOME stuff.
I wondered how Mexico nationalized it's oil industry and found out what happened was they nationalized in 1938. Before the oil companies and wall street could really move against them WWII started and the issue became moot.
If I have it, I know to self-quarantine. That's useful to me because I don't want to infect people. Listen, normally, questions like this are useful but this one is obvious.
This requires an existing buy-in from the team. How do you establish that buy-in in the first place? I know trying to be a good citizen isn't enough, because the worst offenders simply aren't interested in the revision history.
Show HN: Adventureth decentralized zkSNARK puzzles with Ether-backed rewards
Harry Percival's upcoming Python book might interest you, although I think it's focused more on patterns for structuring the application than patterns for the small details: https://www.cosmicpython.com/