skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote is about BASIC. Visual Basic is a variant of BASIC.

The quote was also thrown around a lot in the late 90's as a "VB sucks, you should use a real programming language" comment in the usual language flame wars.
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For example, you're reading a technical article and the answer to a question is a complex diagram or a graph that could easily fit in one card but would take way too long to explain in pure text.

Also, another suggestion would be to enable some kind of formatting of the text in the cards, in case you're trying to remember steps to a recipe, algorithm or something else.

Really good job again, love the extension :)
My understanding is that's CSS reflows what makes DOM operations expensive (plus maybe re-building redundant/cached DOM structures such as document.links and informing event listeners), rather than trivial tree insertions. You could also batch multiple DOM updates by just constructing an off-screen DOM element hierarchy and then finally attach it to the live DOM, replacing anything below a given node in a single atomic operation. AFAICS, DOM diffing really only adds value if you have DOM updates from many sources/components to merge for very complex React-like apps. Happy to be corrected by actual performance figures/experts.
Bioinformatician here (well, former): I would never say something is impossible but the way these things are tested right now, it pretty much is impossible.

We need to amplify some molecules and run a process called PCR on them for which you need a full lab setup. It would take nothing short of a revolution in detection to achieve this.
I'm a ML engineer as well. There is almost nothing like it. I can go from having an idea to having the real world results in under an hour.

You're constantly having your biases thrown in your face in a way that many other professions do not.

These skills and others do genralize very well.
https://www.centralparknyc.org/blog/seneca-village
Nope, they aren't available. CC YouTube videos with captions or radio broadcasts + transcripts could prove helpful for multiple languages as well as being able to create a multilingual ASR.
Coronavirus Contrarianism: The British strategy // Maybe I will go outside
WearAFuckingMask
The system was using 2-digit year and the service interval was went negative. It indeed happened, I was working in the IT department at the time.

The system was probably designed in the 1970s.
Doesn't seem to be very helpful - In a multicenter cohort of 302 patients with MERS coronavirus, 92% of patients treated with BiPAP failed this modality and required intubation (Alraddadi 2019)
> I think that's where we'll eventually end up,

Until the first economic downturn, when the ruling party throws it all out the window, cuts taxes, and cuts interest rates. And the rich people will eat it up.
I'm not talking in general, I mean specifically for Minecraft
I think the reduced fertility was because the fields were being used to make hay, rather than being cut and the cuttings allowed to rot in place. The minerals in the hay were removed from the field, gradually depleting the soil.
Nice! A lot of the things included are helpful.

Title should mention that it's about macOS though.
> If we have the industrial / economic capacity to provide everyone with necessities of life (food, water, heat, shelter, ...), why not just provide that directly?!

Because my utility function isn't the same as yours, so outside of goods and services where there is strong reason to believe that the conditions do not exist for markets to work, it's better to provide people fungible currency and allow them to maximize their own utility function through purchasing decisions rather than have a centralized bureaucracy decide what they most need. Also because despite the aforementioned variability in utility functions, agency seems to pretty consistently be positively valued, so centrally imposed selection would be inefficient in utilitarian terms even if it perfectly reflected the recipients utility function before considering agency.
I've only quickly searched, and to be honest it's a bit thick with foreign terminology for me to quickly glean much from it, but seems like this might be the paper the top-level commenter referred to:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1128%2FJVI.02395-10

> I do find the point about no SARS [-CoV[-1]] vaccine compelling, however. Is that true?

Wikipedia says so, and just gives essentially the same advice as being given for SARS-CoV-2 (or any human-transmissible virus, I imagine).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
Few if any people with it know the exact time they become symptomatic and start viral shedding. Everyone should assume they might be sick when in public and could be shedding. With this standard everyone would wear a mask.
While I'm fully agree with the "this isn't a tech problem" comment, there are indirect ways that people can help.

I think the biggest problems many are going to face aren't related to the illness itself, but the effects of self-isolation and the outcomes, such as:

* Dealing with your loved ones getting sick or dying - online services to talk to others that are suffering or going through tough times would be good.

* Boredom - putting that "empty time" to good use by building your skills.

* Loneliness - providing a platform to utilise existing or new social networks to make people feel that they aren't alone.

* Volunteering - one of the biggest hit areas is going to be in elderly care, and to be honest it wouldn't be unsurprising to see care homes shut down and relatives being left to look after their relatives. Anything that can help people in these situations would be welcomed, whether it's supplies, stuff for people to do, etc.

* Aiding remote workers. For many, remote working is an alien concept, so if you've got experience in working from home in an optimal way create an in-depth guide to help others.

* Small gym relief funds - many gyms or martial arts schools have shut down, and many practitioners rely on teaching as their sole form of income. Building a relief fund for those small businesses would help tremendously, on the basis that it can be "paid forward" in the future through private lessons, online instructionals, etc.
> Not every solution to a serious problem needs to be some surveillance state dystopian nightmare.

I agree. The internet doesn't need to be a surveillance state dystopian nightmare, but the free market brought us that.
There's no mention about how it is licensed?
Why is beside the point. I'm not making a judgment about morality or motivation. I said that one of the few concrete examples in the blog post was factually wrong. It shouldn't be used as an example for the point the author is trying to prove.

Also, for proving the point of the blog post, the example you showed instead would have been wrong in the same way as the original example from the blog post.

The point was about writing to the (theoretical) padding between fields. Your example would still have written to this padding (if it existed) in the same way. And if this padding did exist, it still wouldn't have been illegal, in either example.
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> I have limited understanding of C these days, but I consider that a good thing

I wouldn't.
As already stated, the idea is that you have an object that represents your DOM. When your code makes changes to the DOM, it actually affects the virtual DOM, this allows for lots of quick changes to the vDOM without much overhead, then at some point the vDom is synchronised with the actual DOM. This reduces the overhead between wasm->JS as you don't have to do it as often, it also can improve the performance as DOM changes can be slow.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586671.
> But the usual trend is for viruses to mutate in a less dangerous direction.

This trend is for viruses that are in danger of killing their hosts before spreading.

This coronavirus is so infectious that it's nowhere near that. Hence it can even mutate into more lethal form without risking its ability to spread.
> Oh, and there's a clean bathroom in every subway station.

So this will never work in the United States.

Snark aside, every time I ride a BART elevator with a pool of piss on the floor I wonder about this country. Somehow the idea of someone peeing without paying is so offensive that we would rather stand in piss than provide public facilities.
CureVacs vaccine can be produced in HUGE doses almost immediatly.

Their rabies vaccine CV7202 requires only two doses of 1 µg mRNA, and they hope to replicate that with the corona-virus. If corona needs approx. the same doses they claim to be able to produce billions of them soon.

https://www.curevac.com/de/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-devel...
Cool idea especially for people living in different country than their families.

Will it remain free?

What is the privacy policy? Will my data (video/audio) be kept on the servers? I couldn't find such info in the website.
OK, just to take the bait:
I think pets are a net negative to the world.
> No-one should be deciding for others what should be important.

And yet, Greta Thunberg.
I'm sorry to say this because you probably worked hard and did a good technical job. But as AI/DL experts we always need to think about ethical concerns related to our work, and I would not want to release code like this online for free.

I'm very well aware that with just a bit of technical knowledge this can be reproduced by others even without this repo. And of course all sorts of organizations and governments can do this in a second. But this shouldn't stop us from remembering that this kind of thing is not a toy, and I would not like to make life easier for somebody that doesn't know much about ML, but is very happy to be served an easy solution to whatever their morally dodgy problem is.
Nothing, as long as it functions more like a pregnancy test and not something that is sending personal data to a corporation/government somewhere.

However, that wasn't the primary idea in the OP, which was specifically about tracking and restricting people based on their test results.
The video and audio is all p2p. It never touches our servers.

Text chat is kept on the server but you can permanently delete all your messages any time from your profile settings.

As for remaining free, I plan to keep the current featureset free!
Parental Control and screen time limit- PikaPika App
Provides a safer and Secure atmosphere to the kids is called parental control.
It includes following things like:-
- Screen timing
- kids Mode
- Educational Games
- Educational Video
- Data Security
- Block Notification
-password Protected
- Choose Appropriate Apps
- Periodic Monitoring
- Block in-App purchases
- Remote with Parents Smartphone
What is parental control apps
Provides a safer and Secure atmosphere to the kids is called parental control.
It includes following things like:-
- Screen timing
- kids Mode
- Educational Games
- Educational Video
- Data Security
- Block Notification
-password Protected
- Choose Appropriate Apps
- Periodic Monitoring
- Block in-App purchases
- Remote with Parents Smartphone
Oh my God yes I'm glad to see someone understand. Especially if you have a generalists background. ML is incredibly powerful because deep neural networks, as we're discovering, are extremely powerful, extremely general function approximators. We're inching toward a new type of mathematics.

I've been reaching out to prominent people and I'm getting interest in some kind of collaboration with funding. People are onto the tech and it's myriad applications. There's a reason ML engineer was ranked #1 be demand growth (300%) on indeed last year!
Honestly, I think the Moon Landing was a bigger deal for humanity. But only because it was the deepest spike of scientific exploration that we ever had, and probably the single most dangerous thing humans have ever done. But you could shrug that off, it didn't affect you.

This is probably the worst event since WW2, IMHO, yes. It is going to be as bad as the 1918 flu. Its effects will be more far-reaching. Unlike WW2, this will affect every single corner of the globe.

This will change society forever.
There's a big difference in producing silly products, and creating silly jobs to keep people busy.

I mean that with UBI you can fix the idiocy of creating real fake jobs to keep people busy, but you won't fix people wanting to buy silly things.
ICU ventilators are surprisingly complicated machines, we've just brought some HAMILTON-C6 machines at work if you want an idea of the top of the line. Ventilating sick COVID patients, or indeed anyone with ARDS, is one of the most challenging things we do in intensive care. Even with high end commercial ventilators, the mortality rate for intubated COVID patients is >70%.

I would consider the following a bare-minimum feature set for a COVID patient ventilator, any less and it would do more harm than good:

- cycle between an inspiratory and expiratory phase

- during the inspiratory phase, deliver an adjustable volume of gas (in the region of 6 ml per kg of patient's body weight) using as little pressure as possible, with an adjustable upper limit of pressure (in the region of 30 cmH2O)

- during the expiratory phase provide an adjustable pressure against exhalation (in the region of 0-30 cmH2O)

- allow blending of air and oxygen to deliver an adjustable inspired oxygen fraction

- allow the timing of the inspiratory and expiratory phases to be independently varied, thereby allowing the respiratory rate and the ratio of inspiration to expiration time to be controlled. Permit respiratory rates in the range of 8-60 breaths per minute

- measure and display the pressures and volumes within the respiratory system

- allow adjustable alarm-limits for pressures and volumes, and provide clear audible and visual alarms if these values are exceeded

For added patient safety and benefit, the following would be helpful

- measure inspired and expired oxygen and carbon dioxide content, and display both on a continuous waveform graph

- allow the patient to initiate the inspiratory phase by sensing patient inspiratory effort and providing pressure support for inhalation; ie sense when the patient inhales and deliver 10-15 cmH2O pressure for 0.5 seconds to augment inhalation
Sounds similar to n-Queens, check out

http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/nqueens.py

http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/nqueens2.py

http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/nqueens3.py

for inspiration
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Please do a cursory search. There have been thousands of papers about the virus and they are almost all severely dire.

This information has been floating around for months. Many of the predictions in the papers are coming true. Like the absurdly high R0 value.

It is increasingly obvious that China was not forthcoming with their numbers. Look at all these countries pissing away literal trillions of dollars shutting down. This is a real fucking plague.
You may be living in a US bubble. Tesla in many countries is still expensive, not that popular, and electric cars infrastructure is just bad.
I have something similar I use in Visual Studio - it's a module file full of useful functions, that saves me rewriting the same code over and over again for each new app.

For example, I have GetFile() and SaveFile() functions which I use ALL the time, also as I'm on windows, I've wrapped up a bunch of Registry code into nice 'SaveRegValue' and 'GetRegValue' functions.

All in all there's about 50 or so functions in the module. Personally, I thought every coder did this?

Edit: I'm not dissing the OP, just surprised that there's value in sharing these things.
I'd like to see a source that they do not protect from incoming droplets. This seems to be completely false.
Many CVE entries are created simply because the underlying software was written in C.
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Even if volunteers take the vaccine, this will not significantly change the timeline. Do you really want to cut short the observation time to e.g. 1 month, then greenlight the vaccine and administer it to millions or billions of people, only to find out that after 6 months it causes an aneurysm or whatever in 10% of them?
Huh, so did I. In Pascal.

It is still the most intricate software I’ve ever written in my 25 years of software dev, and I wrote it in high school.

I remember struggling with running out of RAM on the 4 megabyte school PCs.
I don't know how you cope. Less than 8, even just in one night, and my work is already affected.
We need people who do not have the disease to act as guinea pigs for vaccines and other therapies, not just people who already have it.

Also, we need to test drugs and therapies that have excessive, even deadly consequences. Again, dilemma.

This is a huge ethical dilemma.

Up to a generation ago, drug companies would run trials in Africa, away from aggressive regulation.

During the Manhattan project, the US Army would run squads of soldiers right through the aftermath of test nuclear explosions, literally to see 'the effect of radiation'.

Many specialist jobs entailed levels of riks unthinkable today. Remember, this is in an era where cars didn't have seat-belts.

In 2020, things have changed, but it's possible totalitarian regimes will find 'volunteers'.

China has been engaging in harvesting the organs of political prisoners, at scale [1]. If they're willing to put people in prison for their ethnicity, and then 'have them die' so that a rich person can get a kidney through back channels ... then absolutely they can do medical trials on these people, it may not even need to be publicized.

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/china-credibly-accused...
Just on a quick scan we've got Graham, Buffett, Soros, Taleb... those are before I need to go and look up personal net worth for some of the other names. I'd bet on Burton Malkiel having done alright for himself, too.
> If you think logic is so powerful, why don't you use it to cure alcoholism instead if spending it in HN comments? :)

Where did I make the claim that logic could be used to cure alcoholism?

> The use of surrender is to admit you don't know how things work. At least not to the point to actually cure yourself of addiction.

Which doesn't make a Zagnut bar an agent that has power, does it?
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Great idea. I created a similar template for my personal projects which use `Go + Docker + Google Cloud run` stack - https://github.com/ashishb/golang-template-repo
It's probably MIT if his PHP project is anything to go by. Open an issue on github letting him know he forgot to include it I guess?
I think it's less about believing code should inspire an emotional response (although what is "elegance" if not an aesthetic judgement) as being uncomfortable around code that doesn't inspire that response in yourself.

For instance, Python developers' preference for significant whitespace, or the visceral disgust with which some regard javascript or OOP, go well beyond mere technical considerations.
"Ranges from" does not necessarily enumerate the only possible choices: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/148428/using-thr...
Way to escalate the situation. Let's see how well quarantine measures work and how the next 4 weeks pan out with the economy in hibernation.

It will cost us dearly but I wouldn't say it's going to lead to rioting and WW3. If anything, this is a global problem for which we need global solutions and not fucking nationalism merely 100 years after it already screwed our societies.

Let's hope that China will enforce prohibition of wild animal trade/use as much as possible. It's not in the CCPs interest to let that kind of instability rain down on it.
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> I don't need or want some external authority to tell me if I'm allowed to leave my house.

In a world full of Covid19 mutations, some even more lethal than the current one you actually might need external authority to tell you if you can leave the house because you yourself will lack technology to asses the risks involved and your decision making even if you have the information might be very dangerous to other peoples freedoms.

You still might not want that because people's wants are not necessarily reasonable.
In our experience, on a significantly smaller scale, Clickhouse is vastly easier to operate compared to Druid, with all of its various components that all have various knobs and dials to configure and have to be orchestrated.
I expect many fast food to just follow Chik fil-a's example of going drive through only. I was wondering when a state would take that option themselves.

Still like comments about original restrictions of larger gatherings, many grocery stores and big box stores can have more people in them than a restaurant and touching more items too
Proper response: delete account and don't visit medium again.

Even better: sites such as hn should never allow links to sites employing dark patterns.
Unfortunate in that we couldn't then recommend it as a Skype replacement. The boss in this case was middle management, not senior.

It left us with no other options which had already gone through our internal compliance team, and their stance is fairly firmly "we've already got a tool which does X, another one increases the attack surface".
Is anyone actually shipping with memory tagging yet?
I think the advisors rational is that we're mostly going to get it anyway so let the young get it and keep the old folk at home.

I think it's unwise for a few reasons, not least that if we delay we may have better treatments. Stuff like chloroquine and keltra seems to work but there haven't really been the proper studies - that sort of stuff shouldn't take that long. And there may be a vaccine. (China rushing vaccine stuff https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/china-coronavirus-va...)
Google screening program for Covid-19 testing requires a Google account
I have read multiple articles about the new composition API, but it's still not clear to me if the old API stays in parallel to the new one or if it will be discontinued.
I think a lot of people would opt in to this testing just to get a chance of paid free day.
There absolutely is an acceptable way out of this. China, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, at least, are going to be just fine. They are focused on suppressing and controlling the virus. Once they get few enough imports from travel (presumably by restricting travel from countries where the virus is uncontrolled) and eliminate local transmission, they can resume life-as-usual, apart from being on high alert for imported cases.

There is no other acceptable solution. Countries hoping to avoid the short-term economic cost of suppressing the virus will find themselves paying a greater economic cost over the long-term along with a massive cost in lives.

The question is now: which countries will adopt the correct approach before it's too late?
Docker is just a dev tool to build images and a runtime to run containers as an alternative to VMs. You still need a tool to manage a cluster of machines. In Nomad (alternative to kubernetes) docker is just one of many ways to run an application, you don't need to use docker to benefit from using Nomad because Nomad is managing clusters for you, not containers.
can we have 2018 in the title?

also wondering what the author thinks of the progress made since as far as optional typing in python 3.