skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Death panels" was the claim that a group of government bureaucrats would decide who lives and dies by denying treatment under something like Obamacare.

It was a rather baffling talking point, given that this already happens regularly with private insurers and Medicare approvals in the current system.
You're right but it could be people are getting over-reacting and thus causing more panic and more buying. It is more worry some economically speaking than medically.
Digging into the Linux Scheduler
Here's the data provided by Johns Hopkins University; they collect WHO and CSSE reports. That's what you see on the popular JHU coronavirus map (though the repository is often few hours behind the map).

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
From their perspective, it's a way of offloading the otherwise large amount of work needed to evaluate a given researcher. Universities have reputations to protect, and so have things like deans and provosts and IRBs. Whereas any random interested person could be the next Cambridge Analytica. So like so much regulation, it's unfortunate but made necessary by jerks.
The last time I wrote an ALU was ~4 years ago when I did NAND to Tetris and whilst that was fun I can't say that it was simple! (:
> knowingly purchasing another party’s stolen data without that party’s authorization can pose some legal risk. It is much more likely to raise questions about the purchaser’s motives and result in scrutiny from law enforcement and the legitimate data owner, particularly if a trade secret is involved.

So if you're buying password dumps only to protect your own users from account takeover then you're unlikely to face legal consequences? However, that's not ironclad and not explicitly protected by the law. No promises.

I know some large sites will use illicit passwords dumps to revoke re-used passwords for their own users. Though they'll be very obtuse and just tell users something like "your password has expired". Given the fuzzy legality of this practice, I can understand why.
> He thinks homosexuals are pedophile.

Do you have a primary source for that? This sounds like a cancel-culture rumor intended to attach negative ideas to a person in order to discredit them.
Most likely referring to someone as a "toxic loonytoon".
Full quote here:

http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....
Actually, yes I recall now this is exactly what happened to me! I applied and forgot about it, assuming it didn't matter to them when I responded. What a bummer
The article discusses the new synchronization extensions and indicates they were added in v8.1:

> it means that they also implement the v8.1 ISA which add new instructions such as atomic compare-and-set (CAS).

> you should pay very close attention to make sure your software stack is compiled against Arm v8.1 or higher (N1 is v8.2).

But my understanding is that the new atomics are in an extension, so just compiling to v8.1 may not get the new atomics.

Anyone know what the situation here is? What has to happen to get the compiler to use LSE atomics?
AutoML-Zero aims to automatically discover computer programs that can solve machine learning tasks, starting from empty or random programs and using only basic math operations.

If this system is not using human bias, who is it choosing what good program is? Surely, human labeling data involves humans adding their bias to the data?

It seems like AlphaGoZero was able to do just end-to-end ML because it was able to use a very clear and "objective" standard, whether a program wins or loses at the game of Go.

Would this approach only deal with similarly unambiguous problems?

Edit: also, AlphaGoZero was one of the most ML ever created (at least at the time of its creation). How much computing resources would this require for more fully general learning? Will there be a limit to such an approach?
Ima guess that most people that use a psssword manager generate a new, strong, unique password for each new service.
The core functionality is and must be built in. You can't do very much with it in that state, so Multi-Account Containers is an user interface to configure and access most of the user-facing functionality. Some of that can be enabled just by toggling a couple of about:config settings, though. And as far as I know, though, it doesn't have privileged access to container APIs, so you could replace it with other addons.

So whether it's more correct to be referring to the built-in functionality (including some of the UI elements), or the add-on, depends on exactly what you're talking about. And it's hard to distinguish.
Eventually darwinism will win out.

If the correct way is to censor certain opinions, then naturally organizations that tend to do that will outcompete organizations that don’t.

And if not, then not.
APL a Day
> The only downside is that someone has to take notes, which can be hard while walking, unless you can remember everything.

For some reason, walking meetings tend to work like a memory palace for me.

Though I walk down a pretty specific set of landmarks and write notes afterwards, which is usually ordered by the walk trail landmarks & a follow-up would usually not need a set of notes either.

There was a time when the smokers used to be the ones to do this as a matter of habit - these days it is much healthier to do walk-talks.
How many hours a week do you spend working?
One of the worst translations I've ever seen.
They have some cifar10 results in the paper, but only very small networks.
The issue isn't food shortages.

It's that you should have enough to not go out and expose others if you get sick.
MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
The choice is of what to do with one's time. If Twitter had been a reliable partner to developers, more people would make things for it.
What parts of that email are so objectionable?
The UK was in that situation before the virus.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/25/hospital-be...
You’re a hundred percent right and I’ve noted it before, but this is exactly what happens if you call it out (your post gets buried) because there’s a nice mix of people who are emotionally attached to AMD and see AMD as their best bud who's showing Intel what’s what and not a profit driven company that would squeeze them exactly as much as they could afford if they were in a better position...

and people who bought AMD stock, but none of Intel or anything much else, because they see the CPU market as a 0 sum game. AMD was a darling of first time investors on a certain platform and they don't diversify. It’s not that their constant wall of pro-AMD stock noise is going to affect the stock price, but it also becomes a bit of an emotional thing for them.

All the AMD posts here end up looking a lot more like Reddit than Hacker News
Thanks, that looks nice. But it looks like FlexBuffers is only implemented in C++ and Java.
The Perfection of Traditional Japanese Joinery in Animated Illustrations
I thought about that yesterday... It probably wont help you as an immunization. But it might help to reduce symptoms?
Scraping, while legal now, is still not free. A scrape does not give you the delta between two points in time without a completely new scrape. You cannot economically sustainably scrape the entirety of a large site like Twitter.

If I’m wrong I’d love to learn from someone smarter than me.

Even google doesn’t scrape the entire web every day.
The bit of good news which isn't entirely clear from a log-scale chart of total number of cases, is that today's number of new cases in Italy is down significantly.

New Cases: [1]

March 6 - 640
March 7 - 1145
March 8 - 2314
March 9 - 1797
March 10 - 977

Alternative Data Source: [2]

March 6 - 640
March 7 - 1145
March 8 - 1326
March 9 - 1598
March 10 - 529

In perhaps two more days we can say definitively that growth rate has peaked in Italy.

[1] - Direct from daily government reports - e.g. http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/news/p3_2_1_1_1.jsp?lingua=...

[2] - http://opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Twistes Called (Mountain of Death)
Oh. True. I didn't think about that.
That wasn’t completely confirmed and may result from drawing conclusions from biased data. Also it doesn’t matter unless you can reliably get infected with the weaker strain.
Loading 4K BASIC on an Altair 8800 with a Teletype
Straight from the horse's mouth: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26
If it's dumb but it works, it isn't dumb.
Just out of curiosity why do you want to rebuild this as a FreeNAS server?
What are the advantages of Twitch over something more business-y like Zoom?
Ask HN: Why are the titles 80 chars?
Come on man, even Twitter had 140.
Decoding the genes of the Covid-19 virus
Agreed. Most if not all of the production tables I have are using very simple architecture. Pagination + Data Exploration utilities like sort/filter/group/etc.

In no way am I preaching that these plugins should used. However, I am proud that they can be used. And if you end up being one of the users that only needs a few things to make your production tables great, then you win again by being able to treeshake out all of the other stuff you choose not to use.
Had to look up how many engineers they have, around 4000. That's a lot.
Thanks for detailed explanation and your time. I do understand that things I want to achieve are achievable. But I'm not happy with the complexity price I have to pay.

I believe that moving in the implementation between local and global state should be a snap. It's a matter of time when need to move local state to global will arise. And hooks have nothing to propose for that.

Good luck with your project.
What I wanted to say is that we as a group want people to be able to use the browser and nothing else to develop WebGPU if they want.

WASM by itself doesn't provide new APIs, it's still just a different way to expose the Web platform. So WASM being optional doesn't limit anybody in what they can do. Having WebGPU optional does limit what you can do on the web. We want WebGPU to be available in a wide sense (accessibility, dependencies, portability, everthing).
Italy went from 0 known cases a month ago to 10,000+ today (with some recovered at this point) in less than a month. We'll be there far sooner, especially given the massive failure at the federal level to do much of anything, and given that the infections in the US are not evenly distributed, but are going to hit certain places first in larger numbers.
I’m torn on this.

On one hand, esr has a point. There is a credible argument that cancel culture has gone too far, and that expressing disagreement itself is now becoming dangerous as those with whom you disagree will take the opportunity to play victim and attempt to defame you simply for disagreeing. Identity politics along these lines have lately become unproductive and distracting. I generally don’t participate in groups that permit that sort of thing. There’s a real problem afoot.

On the other hand, esr is a real jerk. Real jerks in f/oss are also a real problem. f/oss groups should ABSOLUTELY eject bullies: not for wrongthink, but for bullying. We must be kind.

I think the solution is to continue to repeat his warning message, but also to eject him and any other bullies like him. (Including those who bully with the extreme-PC victimization hammer.)

One can fight excessive-SJWing and remain kind and considerate to others whilst doing so.
That's certainly not how I'd sum it up. But I'll let people make up their own minds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
Details about new SMB wormable bug leak in Microsoft Patch Tuesday
The problem with the view-source argument is that source is often minified these days, so you need a decompiler of some sort to go from the bits on the wire to something human-readable no matter what. A pretty-printer can sometimes be simpler than an IR decompiler, but often not really.
Configuring SQL Server for High Availability
JavaScript has Maps which allow anything as a key, but they were added after JSON was thought up, and they don’t have an literal format.
I see, so vanilla JS will work across browsers, mobile and all?

That's a load off, I'll focus on vanilla then.
To do better science, admit that you’re not objective
What medical authorities are saying (in the EU) is that while widespread contagion is inevitable, we don't want everybody to get infected at the same time, because that would overwhelm medical resources and prevent serious cases from getting treated properly. Therefore it seems that the idea is not so much to stop the virus but to just slow it down.
He's a real winner. I won't go as far as to claim he thinks all homosexuals are pedophiles because I personally can't remember the link for when I read him say that, but here's a quote that edges that line:

And that brings us to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. In particular, the widespread tagging of Epstein as a pedophile.

No, Jeffrey Epstein is not a pedophile. This is important. If conservatives keep misidentifying him as one, I fear some unfortunate consequences.

Pedophiles desire pre-pubertal children. This is not Epstein’s kink; he quite obviously likes his girls to be as young as possible but fully nubile. The correct term for this is “ephebophile”, and being clear about the distinction matters. I’ll explain why.

The Left has a long history of triggering conservatives into self-discrediting moral panics (“Rock and roll is the devil’s music”). It also has a strong internal contingent that would like to normalize pedophilia. I mean the real thing, not Epstein’s creepy ephebophilia.

Homosexual pedophiles have been biding their time in order to get adult-on-adult homosexuality fully normalized as battlespace prep, but you see a few trial balloons go up occasionally in places like Salon. The last round of this was interrupted by the need to take down Milo Yiannopolous, but the internal logic of left-wing sexual liberationism always demands new ways to freak out the normals, and the pedophiles are more than willing to be next up in satisfying that perpetual demand.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8415
Ah, so he's going for a nice walk rather than doing his meetings while walking from one task to another, Aaron Sorkin style. That makes more sense.
In one of the futures, our shader translation infrastructure will support GLSL input and produce WGSL output :)
This is generally true of whole shares too – that the brokerage technically owns the shares. And why brokerages will set up proxy voting for shareholder activities.
If anyone is interested in donating, here's the GoFundMe page setup to help the family of the engineer from Connecticut mentioned in the story:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/xpcwgy-conquering-covid19
If the shelter moves, as in the video I linked, it works quite well.
I’m trying to get a point across for favoritism of AMD beyond objective measures.

This entire post is about Intel security flaw where we just had one discovered for AMD yesterday! But people are not as vile about AMD but become hostile when it comes to Intel. Why? There are some toxic people defending both sides with passion. I’m baffled. If this isn’t “Fanboys”, what is?

Regarding comparisons, I’m yet to see a conclusive source that points at AMD > Intel for server workloads - benchmarking these things is complex. Power, efficiency, workload types, etc matter. So it’s not as simple as saying “Hey, AMD won”.

I’m disappointed at the hostility for pointing out fanboyism on HN. It’s present whether one denies it or not.

Edit: Holyshit. I won’t be responding anymore. This has become an unproductive discussion simply for pointing out the bias in supporting the “underdog”. I have no way to prove this but I stand by my observations and what my eyes see - given Apples and Apples comparison for metric X or security flaw X, people have a deep bias for supporting the “underdog”. I saw this first hand back in 2006 when Intel was the “underdog”. This is a fact and no amount of massaging on HN or the Internet forums will change that. I’m again disappointed in the HN community’s response.
No one is wheelchair-bound.

Some people are wheelchair-enabled to enable mobility.

https://www.newmobility.com/2015/09/dont-say-wheelchair-boun...
Most of the time it won't show me the articles unless I sign up for an account, which I'm not willing to do (it's part of my defense posture).
only nutters were attracted to this work in the 80s and 90s. My point stands. We're kicking out the people that thought differently enough to make the world we now live in. Honestly I refuse to blame someone for believing propaganda when it was so strongly pressed upon them. Remember, gay content only recently became acceptable to advertisers and corporate america. Anyone with the old anti-gay viewpoints will be purged by them and their cronies to make more money. This is wrong. Only actual misdeeds should be punished. It's ok to have wrong ideas. We all have them.

I'm queer, but have a LOT of empathy for the previous generation and the crap they had to put up with. Can you just imagine trying to say you were a LGTBQ ally in the 1970s when these people were in their formative years??? It was a different time. They are a product of that time. Be thankful.
So little time, so many people wasting it taking money from VCs
I’m a little skeptical of that sick leave data source, since it claims that Australia offers 6 months or more “paid leave for personal health needs through employers and the social security system,” while Australian unions are campaigning for government support for 3.3 million casual workers with no sick leave: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/unions-call-for-quarantined-casu...
Daniel Kane (Mathematician)
Lombardy wasn't counted in yet. Wait for tomorrow update.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fgh9v4/italy_r... and https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fgh9v4/italy_r....
If you want to understand ESR, you should read this that he wrote back in 1995: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html
The OSI removed the messages from their archive after he got banned.

Until demonstrated how it might be otherwise, I contend that to be lunacy. Without a dog in the fight, or frankly much interest, I looked at the thread to make my own conclusions. I found nothing from ESR that I consider offensive, and I have much less tolerance for ass-clown behavior than I used to (coincidentally about the time I started working on becoming less of an ass-clown myself).

So I walk away thinking, yup, some special dandruff flake got their panties in a bunch over something silly. Because the message that might have changed my mind on that, well, it's not visible anymore.
Not discussing the healthcare system because it's "politically charged" is only good for those who advocate for status quo.

In addition, artist are indeed a small fraction of the population, but this offending sentence is also a very small fraction of the writeup..
The "toxic loonytoon" part, referencing a prominent candidate to the OSI board? I mean, surely we can all have our own opinions about any candidate, but the optics aren't that good.
If I were faced with switching to this mode quickly, and not futzing with a lot of technology, I'd think about rigging up a web cam to look down on a pad of paper.
What I did to merge cells but keep the headers the same was to just suppress rendering via

if (isFakeColumn(cell.column.id)) {
return <React.Fragment key={cell.column.id}></React.Fragment>;
}

And then render it with another column:

{cell.column.id === "title" ? (
<>
{cell.render("Cell")}
<br />
{row.cells[2].render("Cell")}
<br />
{row.cells[3].render("Cell")}
{" · "}
{row.cells[4].render("Cell")}
</>
) : (
cell.render("Cell")
)}

There's probably a way to get at the lot via a string, but by index was quick and easy enough.

One thing I do have to complain about is the lack of native TypeScript support - there used to be types in the repo, but they got removed. And `prepareRow(row)` is a bit ugly, but nothing major and it's only a one-time call.
> Guidelines on how infection risk can be minimised are very consistent.

You are talking about different scales, here. One thing is "here is what the experts are saying to minimize the chance of contagion on the Ubahn", another is "the experts are saying that is okay to fly to China, so yeah, why should I not be on a plane to Shanghai for a plant inspection that could be postponed without any larger impact to my business?"

And scale matters. The "experts recommendations based on the best picture painted for them" led to thousands flying to China, most of which could surely be avoided or postponed, while I can bet that anyone "paranoid" enough to think "I better check with my boss if this trip is a life-and-death matter before boarding on the plane" is probably still around without getting infected and (even better) without spreading anything further.

> everything experts told us to do prevent it would be the only consolation there is.

My bad. I forgot I was talking to a German. Your line of thinking is so close to "I was just following orders", it is a good example of the things I despise about living in Berlin.

> stop spreading stories about mass extinction

If this is what you are taking from everything that I said, then I am sorry for you. You are the turkey.
insane political rant part probably.

>> * The "Persona Non Grata" clause is best understood as an attempt to paralyze resistance to such political ratfucking by subverting th freedom-centered principles of OSI. It is very unlikely to be the last such attempt.

> Make no mistake; we are under attack. If we do not recognize the
nature of the attack and reject it, we risk watching the best features
of the open-source subculture be smothered by identity politics and
vulgar Marxism.

I mean, if you are this much out of touch with reality, maybe it's time to quit Facebook, Twitter etc.
Well actually I was thinking about Medicare for All specifically, eg: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412552-maj...
Whoops. This should be 66-70 dB. I accidentally used power log rather than voltage log.
What does this statement even mean?

30% slower for what? What workload? What environment?

I can’t even ask what your source on it being “worse than 30%“ because that statement doesn’t mean anything... people keep attaching percentages to these vulnerabilities that really mean nothing for any general use case, to the point you can’t even compare them to each other!

I imagine your answer is going to be “well these mitigations are going to be more slower than the last ones”

Do these vulnerabilities and the last live on the same hot paths?

Are you privy to some information we’re all lacking here that lets you just throw out a statement like this?
Last week, I tried teaching half of the university class in person, and the other half watched online. I sat at the desk in the classroom and streamed with Microsoft Teams

1) a video of me (using the selfie-camera on the iPhone) and

2) the screen content of my iPad, where I used the Pencil to write on PowerPoint slides.

What was my experience? I missed a live feedback, both during lecturing, and while answering questions. I sort of talked into the void. Luckily there were still students in the same room, so I got a visual response here. However I think the feedback could be improved very much if each of the remote students would also stream their video (all at once, without audio). I hope this allows to have a more 'class-roomy' experience, also among the students themselves. Is there anyone with a similar setup and experience?
I’m twitching away...
I wish the article noted that $30k was in which year roughly, and value in today's currency. Interesting research!