skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you effectively interpreting it, or are you compiling it to something else? I'm really curious how you do this in a performant way.
"It's been noted that residents there were very receptive to social distancing measures due to their experience with SARS in 2003"

It's going to be interesting how society changes as a result of this, for those of us who live through it.
The problem with this is that a 14 day total economic halt will be devastating. Even assuming all office workers work remote basic social structure will be endangered. The hospitals need to stay open, people need to keep operating water and electricity utilities, food distribution needs to continue as many do not have 14 days of stock at home.

It is not about those dams politician that only care about reelection numbers, it also about keeping the wheel of society turning.

To say nothing of how much total hysteria that would cause.
> It would be nicer if certs could be issued with long lives but required a stapled revalidation with a short time span (daily? weekly?), which would be automatically issued at any time requested unless the certificate was revoked.

That's called OCSP Must-Staple: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling, https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/blob/d437d6fde95d..., https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deploym...
I believe that what it truly is. Both the VCs and open market investors have been expecting a depression. May be even wishing for one because the long bull run was just making everyone nervous. They were just missing a trigger. Likes of WeWork didn't do it, trade war somehow didn't do it. Surprisingly a virus did it.
Every medical expense, every food expense has the result of costing more of a percentage of your remaining funds. Many costs can’t be put off.
I agree and don't mean to imply Haskell has an out-of-the-box K/APL experience. More that with it's syntactic flexibility, one can imagine offering a k-like DSL/library in Haskell which would then give you access to its ecosystem, freely distributable apps, etc.
I don't understand why we should all self-isolate just because some people are immunocompromised... Surely x% of people staying home/not working is better than 100% of people staying home/not working?!
Kind of reminds me of "factor tables", AKA, "fuzzy query-by-example": https://github.com/RowColz/AI
Maybe people are confused because both their noses and butts smell?
They'll extend you a varying degree of trust based on your burgeoning Amazon social credit score (taking into account your actual credit score as well I'm sure)
This is why academic articles (should) contain pseudocode. I do prefer functional concepts illustrated using ML-family syntax over equivalent C-family code because C-style syntax seems to be verbose, full of boilerplate, and just overall not as well suited for expressing functional concepts. I personally find myself doing context-switching where I struggle to incorporate information I learned in a functional context into an imperative context and vice versa.

I'm a strong advocate of pseudocode. I've had a few situations where I explained something online in Python, people complained they didn't know Python and couldn't understand it, so I just sort of arbitrarily change the syntax a bit so its inconsistent, and people reacted much better to it. Throw in a curly bracket and semicolon, maybe an arrow or two, write a line in English sometimes, invent syntax on the fly and then use completely different syntax on the next line. You wound think that would harm comprehension, but actually I've found that it focuses people on what's important and gives them an idea of what to follow along with (the ideas, instead of the syntax which is different from one line to the other).

That said, ADTs and pattern matching I can see needing care to making the article understandable to people on the fringes of your target audience, but if you can't handle functions and recursion, then you're not a programmer with the sufficient expertise to make use of the article in the first place. The target is already functional programmers who know enough about functional programming that stating a problem in purely functional terms is a requirement for the refactoring technique. If you can't state things in terms of first order functions and recursion, then you can't perform the underappreciated tool for which the article is based on.

In conclusion, use pseudocode and imagine your audience is slightly sleep deprived from having a screaming baby at home.
> It would be nice to replace legacy molex connectors with a more modern standard

Any example of the modern one? I personally have no issues with the current one. I am not sure if those molex connectors should be called as legacy.
All brokers are now required to record and transfer cost basis information for most assets. It happens pretty seamlessly.

There are also tremendous advantages to having differently priced lots -- you can sell the expensive ones, and donate the cheap ones to charity to minimize taxes.
At what point to you revert from "their reputation is already so terrible they wouldn't sully it more" to "we should really just assume the worst 100% of the time"?
But officer! I thought this store had Amazon's "Just walk out" technology!
I think if you have something worth saying, having an audience I a reward. True that there are different types of content, say “tutorials” that are valuable and wouldn't have been produced otherwise, but the monetization platform are themselves an incentive to produce stuff that really no one ever would’ve wanted to read or watch. Look at the profits of YouTube. Yes 1% is very valuable but most of it pure rubbish, that’s not only is dumbing societies down and inciting violence, it’s also a horrible waste of resources, human an natural.

I don’t know what’s the answer. Maybe a separate “commercial” internet, sort of shopping internet, where you you accepting the rules and the reward is your attention, time and resources for free content.
We are about to go through a period where investors will question every investment a lot more. Investments that looked promising at the beginning of the year will look bad because the demand for the service or product will dry up and there won't be any possibility for an investment return. So investors will be looking to back out when and where ever possible. While the money that has been given will likely be spent any new money won't be given out as easily as before.

We're also going to see a credit crunch where the lenders will make it hard for borrowers to borrow money and many lenders are going to go bankrupt because borrowers won't be able to pay back their loans.

Also, the VC's will also deal with a cash crunch too. Many of them have lost a lot of money and asset value. They just don't have the money they had at the beginning of the year.

It's going to suck for a while but we'll get through it the same way we have in the past.
Yeah, basically build a linear (whatever that means in a polar color space) gradient between two colors.

If you interpolate a bright red and bright cyan (complementary colors), the midpoint would be gray in most color spaces. You can try it in your link. But in polar color spaces (like HSLUV and most of the ones starting with H) if you just lerp each of the numbers you have to pick a direction for the hue, and your cyan—red has to pass through a saturated green, yellow or blue, magenta. That rainbow effect can be nice but doesn’t feel linear. It also creates discontinuities when you change a color stop enough.
I'm not OP, but it's a quick search. "Nineteen of those who died in King County were residents of Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, according to Public Health - Seattle & King County. Researchers say the virus may have been circulating undetected for weeks."[0]

[0] - https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/coronavirus-number-confirme...
Some are doing a good job eg Taiwan https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/taiwan-reins-spread-c...
If their policy indicates no refunds, how is that a legitimate dispute?
Hah, I was worried I was alone in thinking that (or at least, something very similar). When he went into concrete examples of defunctionalization, I saw that it was Haskell (or some ML-style functional language), and I rolled my eyes.

I thought, "Okay, great, you're working in a language where you already effectively have to think of it as, 'I'm not telling you how to do this, just defining the concepts.' Fine, but the language has already done most of the work that you ascribed to defunctionalzation. It's already very highly abstracted."

I would have hoped to see defunc appended to an environment that didn't already have the functional lattice to build off of.

And for my part, yes, I have worked with Haskell, enough to do some programs in Project Rosalind and build some codebreakers for classical ciphers, but I still find it hard to read and debug. It just isn't conducive to conceptually breaking down what the code is doing into bite-size pieces. That's probably because I, like most programmers, probably grew up with a procedural mindset and started from languages that enforce procedural thinking. But I suspect it goes beyond that, in being harder to reason about logic as "apply this function to this function to this function which operates on this".
Poor transient response.

Ringing on some PSUs.

Out of spec ripple on most PSUs.
There are number of tech companies directly competing in this space:

https://standard.ai/

https://grabango.com/

https://www.getzippin.com/

https://www.v7labs.com/retail

https://www.getzippin.com/

There are competitive options, if you’re in retail you do not have to give Amazon all your “retail data” or use their tech.
Windows again. "Let's use a backslash instead of a slash in paths" has to be up there with "NUL-terminated strings" in terms of tiny bad ideas from long ago that are still haunting us.

Of course it's not as though Google had a choice at the outset, I'm sure some non-trivial number of web sites magically didn't work (and maybe still don't work) if you insist that https://www.example.com\works\fine\on\my\pc doesn't do what the person writing it expects... I think we can blame some early Internet Explorer build for first having this work (I can't see Netscape allowing it) and then it becomes a choice whether to be a purist or sigh and move on once IE gets popular and real people do it.
Looks like parts of FMEA w/ some specific measurements to inform occurance & severity.
It's being modelled and shaping policies. It makes no sense to try to stop it, cease all activity. That's too late, difficult and costly. But it makes sense to delay and spread it over time. So measures need to be, imperfect.
Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?
You could also just buy some long put options or a long put spread. That doesn't seem to require being a pro and is a limited loss type of play.
National debt is merely a number's game. ECB can simply eat it. They are suffering from deflation after all and they could use some inflationary move. Debt accounting for the national governments is there to enforce financial discipline in normal times. Right now it is much more akin to war time. Evenly distributing the pain through bond and currency holders will be seen as just compared to the lives that can be saved through decisive actions.
Well and try to Google "Amazon walkout" and all you find will be this site. Smart move!

See also this

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-n...
> But where are the examples of all the "stuff" that would benefit by being linked into a single global PKI?

Estonia's national system and its e-services are a local example of a single central PKI. Provided services and systems seem to be far ahead of basically all other countries.

Identity theft, identification, authentication, signing etc. have been solved for nearly two decades now and I have to say the way the rest of the world does stuff looks stone-age to me.

For example I loathe how I've been asked to do identity verification by foreign companies "send us a picture of your ID", WTF. Sentences like "Use SMS 2FA to protect your account", "e-mail us the bill" and "come to our office to sign {x}" make me shudder, it's absolutely dogs*.
> just to avoid the need of a "host" environment / CPU?

Why would you need to avoid that?
Super easy. You have to share documents and designs. Almost all of those design sharing systems allow messaging. Or you know google docs and invite them to read shows you the email.

There's really no way for them to stop it. It's all just about if they want to deal with invoicing and other stuff themselves or go direct. Many don't want to bother. But every wall they throw up makes it more likely people will jump off after that initial aquisition.

But many of these jobs ARE just one shots. Tho I usually go back to the same folks who did good work and communicated well with later tasks.
> Flybe airline just defaulted

Although they tried to blame this on Coronavirus that's a small part of it most likely. They nearly folded a few months ago and the government promised them massive tax subsidies which it appears they never followed through on. Regardless my point is that Flybe collapsing his little to nothing to do with Coronavirus. It just accelerated things ever so slightly.
> trying to get rid of her without doing the proper legwork to establish that she failed in any measuable fashion.

i was fired before with one day notice. It came as total shock to me since i had very good preformance reviews before that. I researched this a lot and found out that employer can fire you for no reason whatsover. They don't have to establish anything.
Relatively small, but their margins are way better. Of course they haven't overtaken Luxottica, but they are growing quick and are still businesses in the billions.

I think online eyewear sales and awareness have been spiking over the last 5 years, and they have serious product market fit. You tell anyone about the existence of online eyewear and the price and they are sold. Luxottica is winning based on market ignorance at the moment IMO, it's only a matter of time.
Many joyous moments of genuine positive hackery. Notable for me were:

- At several points, unusual things were done "for some reason", following an intuition.

- The one character that does the trick was discovered by brute-forcing the browser's URL parsing logic.

- After finding that this little trick works, other related Google apps were explored (for "some reason") to see if the trick is generally applicable, which indeed it was.

- Deep diving into Chromium source to confirm why the trick works.

- How nicely the ends are tied up at the end, seeing the result of his work have an effect deep in a Closure library commonly used at Google.

---

Loved this part (my emphasis):

> I was always “afraid” to dig this deep, and would never have thought about looking into the source code of a browser, but after browsing around a bit, you realise that this code is also just code, and you can understand how it works. This is super and interesting and can be really helpful in many situations.
Same goes for GPGPU
I raise you an english doctor, who is "very concerned" about the madness of international travel still continuing without enforced quarantine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SZBuHFzYlw

But surely, as in all matters of the world, wishing and thinking problems away, will certainly solve them forever.
While they are similar my sense is that Sysadmin is an inward facing function supporting the organization whereas devops is outward facing technology dealing with the public on the internet. Each environment has its own challenges.
What if I walk in without a credit card?
1. Agree

2. Possibly, I don't think Macron is immune to over-reaction

3. The economic damage is the damage caused by the reaction, not by the virus itself

4. I am not talking about some rural generalist. These are infectious diseases specialists, who from what I can tell publish in the likes of the New England, I give them more credit on that topic than the average TV anchor or newspaper editor
> No large gatherings, etc. But there is no need to panic. And certainly no need to tell people to behave in a manner consistent with panicked people.

It's a prisoner's dilemma. It's in the interest of the country for the officials to say "don't panic" even if/when the reasonable response it to panic. In an individual interest is to panic before the government says, "panic".

The alternative is, obviously, that cases keep rising until a newspaper leaks on a Sunday night that your government will imminently start restraining you. Is it then time to panic?
> In which way would be Italy incentivizing births?

Its literately the first line in the link:

>> It’s been almost two years since Prime Minister Matteo Renzi introduced an €80-a-month ‘baby bonus' for low-and-medium income families.

>>> But now Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin wants to double that amount in a bid to stave off what she describes as a “catastrophic” decline in the country’s birth rate, as well as introduce higher payments for second and subsequent children.
People keep extrapolating that tens of millions will die, and I don't doubt that tens of millions surely would _if_ there were no lock-downs! (The subject of this article!)

The whole point of locking down Wuhan/Hubei and then northern Italy and now the whole country and other places and cancelling large public gatherings and events is that local, regional, and national authorities start seeing the numbers soaring and initiate extreme mitigation strategies.

We don't know how successful these strategies will be individually/collectively in the long run but if China is anything to go by it can severely retard the spread of the virus.

To show I'm not spouting out of my derriere compare the logarithmic infection and death rates of China[1] and Italy[2]

So you have to modify your formula: `7.8 billion * 0.6 * 0.03 * mitigation_factor = ?` We just don't know what the mitigation_factor is yet and because the spread is exponential any dent in the rate of spread brings the fatality number tumbling down[3].

I happen to believe this virus is a very serious global threat and I assure you that I am not one given to alarmism. But I also have never seen governments respond to the onset of an epidemic like this before and I'm nearly fifty and my mother says she can't remember anything like this in her lifetime. So yes, tens of millions absolutely could die but I'm willing to bet that between lock-downs and modern medicine tens of millions won't and I pray to, you know, $deity I am not wrong.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg [Exponential growth and epidemics]
I think this in and underdeveloped topic; as I see it this infection even if it is comparable to the flu in mortality require often more intense medical intervention.
Easy solution: Use longer lasting tires like 50k tires rather than 30k tires and FIX THE ROADS so there is less wear. Roads in Los Angeles for example are absolutely horrible.

And we have emission laws here that aren't enforced. Tons of illegal exhausts and mods and NOTHING is done. Cops ignore it. I've seen so many smoking cars as well.
Yep, just like I assume countries that enrich plutonium to weapons grade levels and stick it on the pointy end of an ICBM are threatening others with nuclear weapons, even if they're never launched.
The load testing you need to do for trading is considerably higher than any chat forum to go live .

Your customers are paying for speed and performance .

In a industry where users spend millions to be closer to the exchange if you are not provisioning for some multiple of your peak load you are going to get slaughtered in the market
Undertaker: people are dying to get in :-) No matter how bad things get, you'll have a job.
can someone explain why a drug used to treat arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease and not a "oh I'm old and I've worn down all of my cartilage" disease.
> There's often social pressure to shut up, sign whatever they put in front of you

For me it wasn't social pressure. Its 'at will' laws, employer can fire you for no reason whatsoever( unless its discrimination sort of deal), so ppl get what they can in form of severance.
> yolk

Yoke
If the ECB forbears they can in turn forbear with their own customers. That is the only sane thing to do. This is not the banks' doing and they don't need to be disciplined at this particular moment.
If you pay for services or goods you should expect to be rendered those services or gifts in a reasonable time and manner. There are consumer protection laws that state exactly this.
Mobile Safari is about 20-35% of all mobile web traffic. Desktop Safari is about 5-15% of all desktop web traffic. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Well, you'd put $10M of the $1 billion into Sequoia and then ask "what do you know about"...
Propaganda and fake news work. Otherwise Fox News wouldn't be a thing.
Seems to depend on the state in the US whether that is possible or not... And in the rest of the developed world this obviously just isn't possible at all.
You already dissipate quite a lot in CPU VRMs. For everything 3.3V on mobo, a linear reg on board will still be more efficient than one in the PSU.
This sounds authoritarian as fuck, you have to sign a document to say why you're outside.

Some countries are following the chinese example of "authoritarian democracy", particularly European countries with big commercial ties to China.

Then you have the reverse side of things: USA, where not even tests are being done in obviously suspect cases. But people can still go to work, buy things, live their life.

There's pros and cons to both approaches, but compared to how H1N1 was handled I definitely see a turn to authoritarianism, at least in Italy.
Wow, never thought I'd see Silverlight pop back into the mix.

edit: I actually have no problem with it since it's opensource.

Really cool project, great job!
Atari E.T. video game from the Alamogordo landfill dig on sale for $1.1M
Pandora box is already open, the only way back is to remove WebAssembly from the browsers.

https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly

https://platform.uno/showcases/

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html
> At least part of how they treated her is illegal.

Its not illegal, every severance comes with that clause. Show me a single case where this was deemed illegal.
They have a cash option apparently. I know some US places have a law against places that don't take cash.
On the other side of the table, interviewing bootcamp grads... Only granted interviews for about 10-15% of the ones presented. Of those, most only did what was assigned, which really wasn't enough to be close to productive in terms of ramp up, and indicated that they wouldn't put the effort needed to being productive employees.

In the end, I'm really supportive of those who come into software outside college. I never went to college and some of the best developers I've worked with never went. What we do share in common is a LOT of effort beyond the minimum in terms of self driven learning and projects on the side. Open-source gives a huge amount of potentially highly visible work to demonstrate.

Yes, some may turn their noses up at someone who didn't go through a college program. Regardless of the path you take, you have to do more than just show up, and some really just don't have the natural ability to do certain kinds of work.

My advice to people is grab a book or two, and try to make something useful to you. Do it on github/gitlab if you can. It may be a crappy, one-off implementation, but you'll probably learn more than a bootcamp, and in the end you get something you and others might find useful.
It sucks for the people who are losing money over this, but the policy is pretty clear, so it's harsh but fair. I think before we are done with the coronavirus, there will be a lot more economic losses spread around.