skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post was anti-any-Federal-social-programs-at-all, and clearly we have tons of those, even if they're less comprehensive and less generous than in pretty much all other advanced-economy states. So at some point we decided those were a good idea. We may decide other ones are good ideas, too, eventually.

Point is I reject the idea that personal responsibility and deciding the right way to handle something is to have the government do it are necessarily opposed. I think the premise is somewhere in "not even wrong" territory.
OnShape uses Parasolid (best-in-class geometry kernel used by a LOT of different commercial CAD products) under the hood so if you are trying to make a manufacturing quality part it will stand you in good stead.

OpenCASCADE (FreeCAD's kernel) is pretty good too.
It seems like you don't fundamentally get the point...

The intent of the patent systems != what the patent system achieves

What I described to you, that you disagreed with was the intent of the patent system. If you want to debate what the patent system achieves, it's a much more complicated question.
I think OP meant Pelosi trying to stick funding for abortions into the bill, thereby putting the access to testing funding at risk.
Improvements are not needed to compete - think mattress stores. Having a better product can be an aid in market entrance, but it is not needed.
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Since almost nobody is using Bitcoin to pay for things it’s just a giant speculative thing. It’s not a safe haven.
Orange man is bad, but a stopped clock is right twice a day, and falling over themselves to deny whenever that happens has led the media to say all manner of braindead things.
It was also a big problem for Medical records as well right? I recall hearing that there was a lot of work around making sure that immunization records and things like that were accurately converted.
It'll be very interesting to see how individuals who value "pure" capitalism where market dynamics handle everything reckon with the realities of disaster and epidemic response.
This may have changed since the days of my youth
They're just going to cause more panic, honestly.
Hey, I am really happy we're starting to take this seriously.

Cancelling everything and drastically reducing travel should slow down the spread significantly. We still desperately need wide-spread testing here. It seems crazy that this many weeks into it we still can't do that.
The ChangeLog file is in the source code distribution. But the point releases mainly have a large number of bug fixes, there are no new features.
Your argument is that we should not pass anything to help those affected by the virus and help prevent the spread but that we should also end medicare, medicaid, snap and social security because that's not what the framers intended?

The role of government is fluid, roles and responsibilities change with facts on the ground.

Condemning the poor to death is not the way to go.
The property is “disableNonCriticalTelemetry“ [0] that seems curiously named to me.

What kind of telemetry is critical? How do I disable that?

[0] https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/config/site_config#disabl...
You would think, but these people do consistently vote against their own best interests. You can lead a horse to water...
Your thoughts on this reminds me of: https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html#Class...

It's a basic philosophical difference in what a unit test should be doing. It goes back over a decade.
I hope this whole madness will come to an end so that GPU prices will start deflating.
At the very least GCC is keeping llvm permissively licensed.

llvm is partly a product of Apple's dislike of copyleft licenses. Without gcc there is no reason for llvm's large proprietary contributors to stick to the "more permissive license" and simply close it down and distribute it as "value added" binaries.
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The Biden plan to combat Coronavirus
He didn't say per capita.

The statement was accurate. It may not be a useful metric, but it was an accurate one.
Hah yes, this is a MUCH better answer. Thank you. :-)
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I agree on a lot of what you say but my main point here is that it seems like European countries, even with affordable/free healthcare, better funded governement orgs and a lot less ground to cover have empirically worst results. So isn't it just a lot of... Luck? More than competence or lack thereof?
If you are fighting for bytes then storing dates as "DD-MM-YY" strings is very inefficient, as you are wasting a factor 4X on storage compared to just storing the days since 1900 as a 2-byte integer. I understand that storage used to be expensive, but I don't understand where the two-digit year comes into play as I can't envision an efficient storage mechanism that is limited to exactly the years 1900-1999.
Erm, capital growth is one way of making money with an asset. It depends on the asset but there are other ways, e.g. dividends.
scratch everything i said. the tool can import any RSS feed. so you're 100% right, it can already do HN posts/comments/etc from specific people
It's not just one group that's doing it, though. This sort of testing (as addressed in other comments) can be done through university and hospital labs throughout the country, along with state and local health agencies and various private testing firms (mostly consolidated at this point).

Instead of going it alone, the focus could've (perhaps should've) been on early collaboration with those partners on establishing consistent testing procedures (whether they used precisely the same measures, validation that they were getting the same results) and a process to distribute the workload.

This wasn't done, that's the reason the scaling failed.
We'll just send an email out EOB that restates the MVP they signed off on 18 months ago was reached per spec & additional project budgeting would have to go through normal triage management before committal.
From your link:

> The orbital period (the length of a sidereal year) is also invariant, because according to Kepler's third law, it is determined by the semi-major axis.

Which makes sense, because the semi-major axis depends on the energy of the orbit, and there's not really much that would be altering that in the short timeframe of a Milankovitch cycle.
That money comes from increasing the monetary supply, thereby applying an effective tax upon all holders of the US dollar. Time to hoard real gold, not IOUs you can wipe your ass with.
Is there any particular reason for why you can't work from home?
Your future and your children's future. No kidding!
So the world is… duck typed? :)
I'd put fair odds on the entire package falling under the Commerce Clause, given that it could be argued to be fundamentally all about keeping the economy running something like normally through large disease outbreaks.
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FT article: http://archive.md/ESune
This is a great post. "A mini program with its own internal state and API" is a great description of what goes wrong with overdesigned classes. Encapsulating state into classes originally made sense with early OOP languages, compared to all of it being global which is even worse, but nowadays we've got better ways of managing complexity.

Any time something threatens to be a mutable class-level variable, I refactor that out of the design before proceeding. Most often this refactoring is to separate the data into a struct-like class and the behavioral methods into a static class, with what would have been that mutable class-level variable instead passed in to each behavioral function that needs it.
Because in a deflationary debt crisis that is what you are going to need to pay your creditors. No substitutes will be accepted.
Going to a place with no hospitals during a global pandemic? Bold strategy.
>I'm not arguing for pure functional systems (which I can see going very poorly with relational databases).

Why? The very best "OO" interactions I have with a database are via Linq which is a monad [1]. What it actually does is simply build the plan for what to do in the database and actually do the query at the last possible opportunity. Exactly how it would work in a purely functional setting.

[1 ]https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/wiki/Thinking-Functio...
Regret the distraction. Not sure how it's strategic for the FT to embarrass people who support them like this.
> This is another misconception.

Care to elaborate on what my misconception was? I never said that bitcoin is not an interesting concept on its own. Just that is ain't got what most people think or need when they talk about gold or money. Especially not in time of economic distress.

Can you use bitcoin without the internet? Can you use bitcoin without someone else mining and being allowed to connect to these entities?
Also, the German netflix show 'Dark' does time travel in a much more satisfying way than the vast majority. Watch it in German with subtitles, the dub is weird.
People still talk about Bitcoin as though it's a real market and not completely manipulated by a handful of key players? Ok then.
It's not GPS logging per se, it's GPS activity tracking. You have to start a run/bike ride for it to start recording GPS, and then stop it when you're done. Then it syncs over Bluetooth to the app and I have that automatically sync to Strava.

It's not on unless you want it to be, and it drives down the battery life from roughly a week to single digit hours.
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Something I accidentally started doing was reading the news on a delay. I had some email subscriptions from publications that I fell behind on, and then when I started working through the ones from a few weeks earlier, would notice that there were a lot of articles that were clearly not relevant or useless at all - like weeks of speculation and prediction on an upcoming election.

Which you can sorta apply in real time too - look for facts, not prediction - so it's shaped how I look at real-time headlines and such too.
Except most muggles I know are saying that Y2K was a complete fraud because nothing went wrong, and it was all a scam.

I'm seriously thinking of hibernating through the 30 days covering Y2038.
Can someone tell me, with a straight face, how this won't cause inflation at one of the worst points to have such?
Seems like an odd metonym -- how would this usage have evolved? Maybe an English thing?
Yeah. I seem to remember some MUMPS people talking about stuff they were having to do. I programmed Perl at the time, and MUMPS made no sense to me (it looked like line noise), but they loved it.
> You can't prove you have bitcoin if you don't have internet access for example. You can't have bitcoin if miners don't run their nodes.

Nothing you said addressed this.
My prior UPS maintenance guy had some war stories from that time. He said prior to the event, it was the busiest he's ever been. He was either replacing affected hardware or performing software updates to solve the issue on Liebert UPSs.

He spent New Years in a DC of a big financial firm in NYC. Apparently the firm was so worried about a failure they shelled out big bucks to have UPS maintenance staff onsite during the cut-over "just in case".
I have an issue with the third party CAM software we bought where it’s stuffing up the G-code in a way the OEM software doesn’t.

I create writing in Inkscape and save as DXF, then open in DraftSight, scale correctly, an other detail (outline, holes, etc).

Inkscape creates a DXF file with a whole lot of splines. The OEM CAM software is ok with this. The new third party app is creating overly complex G-code that causes our laser cutter to pause briefly at some of the end / beginning of the splines, which results in huge heat input and the stainless steel parts look terrible with small discolouration at the pauses.

I’m trying to find alternative methods of creating text, but I don’t know the space very well.

Maybe I need a different CAD or vector graphics app that can create letters with fewer objects?

AutoCAD has an explodetext command, but it creates completely useless outlines that look a mess. DraftSight’s same commsnd results in text outlines that are comprised of hundreds of small straight lines, also useless.

Any ideas?
The point here is not where did the money come from, it’s why is it needed? And the answer is because there isn’t enough liquidity to cover the institutional sell off. Which means that they HAD to do this to prevent a run on the bank. That’s more alarming than the virus I think. Hospitals run on money. No money, no doctors.

This article is much less PR: https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/!/new-york-fed-to-cond...
PythonOCC [1] wraps the OpenCASCADE kernel and is easily installed through conda:

conda install -c dlr-sc pythonocc-core=7.4.0

[1] https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core
Cash was not king during periods of hyperinflation in Germany (30s), Venezuela (ongoing), and many more. It is roughly as common as a stock market crash.
I use the word "dropdown" because it's the word that the non-technical people I work with use. They're not thinking in terms of HTML elements. If they ask me for a "dropdown" and I ask them if they "mean a <select> or a <datalist>?" they're going to think I'm just a pompous asshole.

I click it and it drops down. Ergo "dropdown." For better or worse, that's what it's called now.
Do you have plans to migrate to python 3 or it will stay as obsolate application?
There's two steps here, getting material from people who may be infected and analyzing it to check. The US is bottlenecked by the latter, we haven't mobilized our labs.

Frankly if they wanted to get more tests out faster they should be getting university labs mobilized. Conferences are already on hiatus for presenting research, get the researchers who aren't focused on medicine but capable of preparing lab results working on it.
Yes but the media tries to paint it as an overblown reaction. Thanks to the hard work and long hours of all the IT folks and programmers, it was reduced to no real fire fights.
At least some water heaters can be set a fair bit higher than 122F/50C (good for dishwashers), but then you'd really want to use a temperature mixing valve for anything you might touch directly.
By unambiguously taking this side of a highly partisan political issue, I fear TBL has lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of many of the people he needs to fix the actual problems that have befallen the web.
So what? Whataboutism proves nothing and is a distraction from the main issue (that the Trump administration bungled its response).
HN has a disproportionate amount of people trying to snipe "survivorship bias!" whenever someone does start a company, is successful, and wants to share what worked for them (much like what pg is doing in this post).

Why are these people here, I will never know.
But are the statements "reality minimizes action" and "reality solves differential equations" actually, literally equivalent to each other? It strikes me that this is not in fact the case. There are solutions to systems describing skyscraper sway that have the building stand at a terrifying lean angle; what is supposed to be selecting the particular solutions that we observe? A purely random walk through the solution space seems unsatisfying as an answer.
That makes a lot more sense, but if it is just input then why not do the conversion of the string "71" to the efficient byte representation of 1971 when it is moved into the storage. If the computer can do a mapping of "71" -> 1971 then why can't it also do a mapping of "10-10-71" -> 26214 (days since 1900-01-01).
How does it prove that it's unlawful? As far as I know, the law does say that if you refuse judicial order, you will be imprisoned. If you really really really don't want to comply with a judicial order - there's no exception in the law that says "well, if you really don't want to - then it's ok, you can violate any judicial order, but only if you feel really strongly about it". The law is not about anyone's feelings. However you feel about what Manning thinks or does, it does not change the law, and by law it's certainly lawful to hold Manning until the compliance with the judicial order is achieved. That's the only way these orders can work - otherwise anybody who gets unfavorable order will just refuse them and say "no matter what you do, I will never comply so you can as well give up now".
> At the time I worried all of life might be a similarly pointless jumping through hoops, but fortunately in college I discovered there was a thin stream of people in the world who were interested in ideas and making new stuff, and I’ve tried to stay in that stream ever since

This really stood out to me - what an excellent articulation of the intrinsic reason why founders want to be founders.
I mean, kudos to CCF, but take this for what it's worth (from another tier 1 University Hospital):

Most university hospitals' in house test results are / are going to be available in similar time frame, but they do not have the media budget of the Cleveland Clinic. Vox article links to a CCF press release fluff piece.
Dup and Swap are all about the two top values though.

Otherwise I strongly agree, I like to use bindings for anything non-obvious.

In my own designs [0] I tend to add named arguments [1] as well, which helps a lot.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/gfoo

[1] https://github.com/codr7/gfoo#methods
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This is a tricky situation indeed, and I suspect that many governments face the same conundrum right now with the pandemic. If you take the right measures early on and everything goes well many people in the opposition will say that you just did it for the media circus in order to get attention, wasting people's time and tax money. If you don't take action and things get out of hand then you're blamed for not taking action earlier. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

In the end you end up in this perverse situation where you have to wait long enough for the public to understand what's at stake but not long enough that you won't be able to keep things under control. Quite the tightrope trick.
New account, seemingly randomly generated username, only ever posts in defense of botting.

Seems like we need a "Signs you're arguing with a fake hnews account" article.
If that were true, she could easily take the 5th.

(Also, her objection is that it is not an "open court")
The idea that the "media" is far left leaning is factually incorrect. The most popular news network in America is highly supportive of Trump:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/highest-viewership-network-his...
I see nothing scummy about it. It's a low cost (several billion dollars per year, compared to $3 trillion in tax revenues) way to nationally, permanently reduce the impact of this and all future outbreaks.

If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing right instead of just throwing something out there that will only help in this specific situation.
I am stoked.
It's not IT/software, it's in every field, it's called shitwork, that you don't get credit for, but catch hell if it isn't.

e.g. "what do we pay all these janitors for when this place looks spotless?"
no, CadQuery is a wrapper on top of PythonOCC
In my case, it was a lot easier to work out, since you needed to accommodate note-sliding. But there’s a lot the difference in strings as well.

I suspect an experienced guitarist would probably opt for 56, though for the exact same reason: it fits your hand shape. Sometimes what’s easy changes with experience. :)
Try looking for y2k articles here https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/decade/1990
I wore a fitbit for a year or so, which was enough to tell me that I walk "many" steps a day - remarkably consistent amounts for weekdays, and then much more over the weekend.

But nothing beats a decent watch. I have no problem pulling my phone out of my pocket if I want to interact with it, and it seems like most people who have notifications pushed to their wrists still do that. It's announce-only.

I've got a 20 year old rolex I wear most days, and a couple of other mechanical watches, including an old Soviet piece made the year I was born. Each of my watches is used for a specific thing, which keeps them in regular rotation. (For example I have a sauna-watch, a photography watch, a swimming watch, a posh-event watch, etc. My only digital watch is a Casio F-91W which is used in the sauna.)

Sure mechanical watches aren't perfect, and if you have one with a date you need to reset it if is one of a rotation, but they're classy, they're fashionable, and they're so much more practical than most smart-watches (largely due to the charging issues).
It worked out well in the movie so I feel good for this virus.
The administration confirmed a couple days ago it is still intending to push forward with their budget request to cut CDC funding by 15%. They don't care about poor people.
Unless I've misunderstood the context, you can just open the "exceptions" debugging pane and check a few checkboxes. Then when the exception gets thrown the whole thing stops in a debugger and you can do all the usual things including look at the stack trace, indirect local variables at the throw point, etc.
No disagreement from me! Just trying to clarify what I believe the parent would have interpreted as "too much 'social assistance'" in case it wasn't obvious for some reason
> I'd go nuts if someone told me I had to use more classes, or a certain language, or tabs over spaces, or whatever.

It really depends on the industry your work with, code base size and number of contributors.
> This is scientific consensus, there's nothing to debate about it.

This is where you're wrong.

> proven beyond any reasonable doubt.

You're not the arbiter of what's reasonable doubt. It's not unreasonable to say that we used to have an ice age, now we don't, world was already warming, humans had little impact. You can stamp your feet all you wish, but nobody's buying it, except for a small vocal minority. Newsflash: you're not smarter than everyone else, we're perfectly capable of reaching our own conclusions.

> if you go ahead and actually produce valid criticism on the current climate models and their predictions

You should spend some of your own time researching both sides of the argument, like some of us had, and draw your own conclusions. Here's some basic facts: 1) Earth has been hotter in the past. 2) CO2 levels were much higher in the past. 3) There is evidence that CO2 lags temperature increase, thus isn't causative. 4) Solar output is highly correlated with temperature fluctuations.

We can get down into debating the temperature data itself, the revisions, for or against. To me, it comes down to some basic scrutiny. How accurate were the instruments used 100 years ago to record temperature? How often were the instruments calibrated? How much of the Earth's surface did we record the temperature for? How much mass of the Earth's temperature was recorded? For example, how much stratification in temperature is there in the ocean, and which depths were measured?

> If you want to raise an objection

You used non-specific and exaggerating terms to describe recent temperature changes. You have no factual basis for asserting that the temperature change is 'massive' nor that the speed of change is 'unprecedented.' First, a massive change would be more than a couple percent. Second, even without human induced warming, the models predict warming. What's the delta? As for 'unprecendented,' there's simply not enough data here. This all also implies that you trust the data, which many of us don't. At best, the data is a loose approximation, not a concrete set of facts.

> There is drinking from a glass and drowning in a pool.

Feel free to backup this claim.
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