skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets around the adwall, but on my device I don't see any interactive charts!
In a world where you "call" functions with GOSUB, GOTO is an equivalent of a tail call.
The dissonance comes from three aspects:

1) people selfishly reason from their point of view: "there is a 2% chance I'll die". But it is more than 10% for those aged 70+.

2) people don't think systemic and forget second-order effect s. If the health system can't handle everyone being sick at the same time, it's not 2% but much more. Moreover, anyone requiring intensive care will be subject to triage, not just Corona cases.

3) people forget the health impact after healing (diminished lung functions due to fibrosis, etc)
Comcast is fiber to the CMTS then its coax the rest of the way (last mile). In my neighborhood they terminate about 4-6 customers per CMTS. BTW, Comcast offers me the lowest ping both Verizon and AT&T backhaul to a city 250mi away.
If the app is free, you are the product. Who knew?
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The VB6 runtime ships with Win10, in fact.
Why would you ever read a book on financial systems by someone who isn’t absurdly rich
https://i.imgur.com/LK3dDgN.jpg
That's on the condition that they can keep up with demand or even keep their existing infrastructure running.
If the electronics supply chain starts breaking down they can't just throw new hardware at an increasing workload.
On top of that there's the fact that existing hardware like hard drives has a best-before date based on the cumulated read/write operations they can handle.
I think there's going to be a big demand for engineers and developers that can squeeze out maximum performance out of existing pipes.
Data compression is going to be big too, as well as smarter hw drivers for hard drives.
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> I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"

I've seen someone nearly who was close to getting seriously burned by such a feature.

Uploading needs to be very clearly advertised and easy to avoid otherwise people will get burned.

I guess that's why Firefox removes that feature.
As I understand it, in HTTP 2 there would be one logical stream per request. So in reality, all requests will be blocked on one (or a minority of) particular request for which a packet was lost, which is clearly subopptimal.

This problem is known as head of line blocking.
Link to bioRxiv article: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987958v1
I'm sure they'll gladly take your money. I got a notification that I was approaching my limit just yesterday.
For a slightly different take, Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. I would read some of the more direct recommendations here and then read Taleb to remind you that not everything is predictable or easily explainable.
The semantics of VB6 are basically that of OLE Automation (or vice versa - it can be hard to tell sometimes). That doesn't make it impossible to port to other platforms, but it would require extra effort. And the result wouldn't have all the benefits VB had on Windows, where COM was pretty much OS-level native at the time.
You can track it at https://thevirustracker.com/ the fasest up to date tracker I have seen
Many many SMBs close
With recent linux kernels most of the cited quic advantages are also available for TCP, the exceptions are HoL blocking which is inherent in TCP (but how bad it is depends on loss recovery, which is improving) and connection migration which will come to TCP via MP-TCP.

Their article doesn't even mention against which kernel verison they're comparing

> In the future, TLS1.3 will support 0-RTT, but the TCP three-way handshake will still be required.

This is outright wrong. With TCP you have fast open, which provides 0-RTT send just like the TLS 0-RTT handshake.
The idea is not solely and originally Piracha’s.

https://www.techjuice.pk/pakistani-phd-alleges-that-his-rese...

Mohammad Mujeebur Rahman was an acquaintance of mine when he was a grad student and I was an undergrad at Caltech (in the MSA, although I have friends who are closer to him). The authors of this article should think twice about giving Piracha undiluted credit.
A better simple reactive system monitor on macOS for your MacBook pro
I recall that was exactly the purpose of some bioweapon scenarios.
> But the response to the mangled request goes to the victim not the attacker. You need someway to get it from the victim to the attacker (hence use of redirects in the original bug bounty).

That's the route they took, but it's unclear to me if it wouldn't work the other way as well (or if that's more likely to work with TE.CL setup than the CL.TE one in place.

If you can use the difference in what is specced to make the back-end think your request is smaller than it is, can you reverse that to make it think it's bigger than it is, so some of the next request leaks in? If that makes the next request invalid, is that gracefully handled by failing that one (victim) request, or does it cause the whole set of requests to fail? I don't know the answer to these questions, but it certainly seems like there's a lot to explore here.
Numerator Launches Shopping Behavior Index in Time for Covid-19 Impact
I hope they do same for Ms Office, Add parallel support for javascript/python in office products and gradually deprecate vb.
I've built something like this on macOS using a simple web server. As soon as a screenshot hits the desktop (and either Ctrl or Shift is held) the file is uploaded to the server and the public URL is copied to the clipboard.

It's basically just a folder watcher and a shell script.
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Gates was still a huge fan of BASIC in 1990s, and I think VB would probably not be what it became at its peak without him constantly pushing it to the front of Windows dev stack.
Does Sourcegraph makes sense for smaller companies/companies with relatively fairly small codebase? As I'm working with 'not that big' projects that are primarily Java/Javascript/Typescript based it seems to me that the level of insight, easiness of navigation etc. is much greater when I just load a project into IntelliJ IDEA.

(Edit) I may see some pros with working side-by-side with our core review tool (Gerrit). E.g. you are reviewing some patchset, you want to check a usage of a particular method or class so you can switch to Sourcegraph to explore the codebase in a more sophisticated way that a 'dummy' repo browser would allow. If you don't have the project opened at that time in IDEA then maybe it could be something useful. But then Sourcegraph would need to understand/index/whatever 'magic' review branches in Gerrit.
Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19
It's far easier to convert VB.NET to equivalent C#, especially with tools like Roslyn.

Nor is it going anywhere. It's simply joining the ranks of legacy-but-stable-and-supported tech like MFC and WinForms.
Interesting. How does that work? Does the pressure drop to let air out or something?
I've been having an interesting time working through Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd. It's ancient, but it really gets to the heart of what bonds and stocks actually are, and gives you an insight into how everything worked before it all got accelerated to the Nth degree. The historical perspective of the 1928 crash being recent memory is really interesting too.
Some of the books being mentioned here are by people who got absurdly rich.
Also in Myanmar which shares the same border as China, 0 cases have been confirmed so far.
I would say that The Big Short is more impactful if you already have some general understanding of the markets.
Wow how did you find that? Did you just Google around until you found the latest one? The latest map I knew was this one, which is slightly behind but has zooming capability: https://hgis.uw.edu/virus/

Seems yours has exactly the same info as the most up to date source I knew that lacked a map: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
> Wuhan Center for Disease Control is ~900 feet from the market

Could you source that please? My understanding was that the Wuhan Level-4 facility has several locations and they ranged from roughly 10-20km away from the market.

Asking for a source as ~900 feet is not my past understanding.
We need a corporate shill blocker
Arguable.

Needing ventilation (i.e developing ARF/ARDS) is not necessarily the cause of mortality rather suggestive of decompensated sepsis. From the limited literature available the causes of death are multi organ failure secondary to sepsis or heart failure.

Ventilating is essentially just a form of life support and not a treatment itself. Certainly not having the resources or equipment to ventilate someone in respiratory failure would cause mortality but the mere act of being able to ventilate someone does not mean you are going to prevent death, only if the goal is to buy time for other things / the immune system to start working.

The timing of ventilation / early ventilation is studied in other disease processes (probably most relevant is pneumonia) with mixed evidence, and we have therapeutics that work for pneumonia.
Petition to provide WFH to all those who can to prevent spread of Covid19
Sounds like a dream job to me, if only I had more of the relavent experience.

The outcome of this work could prove very significant -- I'm envisioning impressive code execution speed ups.
It's a security landmine. IFRAMES, mixed content, downloading / rendering behaviors are all sensitive and may contain private information known only to the browser/user and not the containing webpage.
You should read how influenca virus infections work. The virus doesn't spread via bacteria. It's the weakened/stressed human immune system (by the virus) which evventually suffers from bacteria which live in and around us all the time.
I think TYPE would also treat ^Z as a terminator of the file. I think it was common in DOS to have binary files with a textual header followed by ^Z, that would hide the binary part.
What you need to know about the coronavirus as explained by Dr Stephen of WHO
> Magical sentinels crammed into return values — like EOF returned by getchar() or -1 returned by ftell() or NULL returned by malloc() — are one of C's drawbacks.

They're part of the C standard library. The POSIX I/O APIs don't have these problems. The Linux I/O system calls are even better because they don't have errno.

Honestly, the C standard library just isn't that good. Freestanding C is a better language precisely because it omits the library and allows the programmer to come up with something better.
Depends on whether this is allowed by your GPO or not.
Ask HN: CV-19 Elderly Delivery Help
Here is the thing:
This should be an entrepreneurs environment right? let's do something together! let's start a non-profit start-up right now, Italy needs this, actually if it works in Italy I am pretty sure it could be useful worldwide.

Due to inactivity, i have about 20+ employees who could work on this.

I've started a FB campaign where i say we will delivery groceries (consider Italy is shut down now, moving is dangerous because it could spread the virus) to anyone who can't move from home, we will do it for free. Consider over here is a real redzone, streets are empty and police stop people asking why they are moving (it is like a war zone), even parks and gardens are closed. There is a good % of elderly population that don't have any help being alone, they have to do groceries and they could get infected because of it, we are aiming at this guys...

Just to be clear, I am not making any money from this, actually, I am losing it.

Let's make it happen!

First: "make something people want" right?

So let's create an MVP and see if people like it and ask for our service

This is the AD:

https://fb.me/1Jk3DOmy2kOknrB

hope you can visualize it in English, if not, let me know i will translate directly on the forum.

Let's start making the MVP/AD a little better so:

Any Copywriter who would change the crappy script i've made? Any designer would change/add a picture i've pirated somewhere on the web? Second:

If people will start answering to our AD, we will go further. If that is not happening:

is our AD too crappy? is it really something people want? Hope to hear you many and loud!!!
Totally untrue. Sun had all sorts of legal contracts committees and procedures and testing suites to manage java forking into different environments. Sun sued Microsoft for $1 BILLION dollars for violating their Java license.

Sun and Google had negotiations about licensing Java, and they certainly did not end with shaking hands.

Old post, so just saying this guy is factual-free.
Analog-Cartpole: A hybrid analog/digital reinforcement learning experiment
Never seen a general purpose utility for this, but some apps clean up their own content. For example, 1password copies your 2FA codes automatically to the clipboard when you log in and then clears them out after a few seconds.
And if you can't afford Delphi, Lazarus is okay, not as well documented, but works well, and the price is right. ($0.00)
yes,I frequently make typo while typing word ending with -re,to -er. I know the spelling. Still I make those errors and then correct those errors immediately.
The cite doesn't mention it, but the NYT article reports the Washington State public health authorities shut down Dr. Chu, not the Feds.

"While acknowledging the ethical questions, Dr. Chu and others argued there should be more flexibility in an emergency during which so many lives could be lost. On Monday night, state regulators told them to stop testing altogether."
Saccades are just compensation for low peripheral resolution and shortcomings of rods and cones. I had in mind getting more resolved images than what number of photoreceptors allows.
It’s cooler if you roll your own.

Ask programmers, they’ll get you up to speed.
My dad worked for a company that manufactures electrostatic painting devices. They had high speed rotating atomizers in the 80s, possibly earlier. In the early 90s they started using air bearings, wherein the rotating parts are magnetically coupled with strong permanent magnets and separated by compressed air.
If the observation holds true, Python would be the second best at scaling.
It was still likely caused by consumption (preparation) of a wild animal like a pangolin or bat.
To keep it simple you have a device that increases pressure through a closed circuit to push air into the lungs, when its time to exhale it drops pressure (although is still positive pressure i.e PEEP) that is weaker than the natural recoil/elasticity of the chest wall combined with gravity in a supine patient and allows exhalation.
A byte could be 6,7,8, or 9 bits depending on platform.
Ah. Indeed, when that was announced the price results in 32 ETH being ~$250k.

Why is the same number of ETH an appropriate amount now?
Also: "For those in the know, like you, that's awesome—not alarming."

I feel like we have become unaccustomed to reading news that is awesome and not alarming.
Trump is part of the problem, for sure, but it seems to me that a world that is strongly divided into nation-states is just not able to effectively tackle pan-national threats.

Even at an individual level we're so used to thinking in terms of 'our country vs. the rest' that our ability to empathize with people from 'far-away' is impeded.
Surprised to see so few innovations for the sweaty back problem. Are the "trampoline" and plastic with holes really the only solutions in this space?
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Electrostatic painting has existed for well over 50 years, I doubt there's much difference in efficiency with this system: the parts and paint are at tens of kV of potential differential, the paint has pretty much nowhere else to go.

The main issue with such painting technology is the homogeneity and size of the droplets or powder clusters.
Purerl (erlang backend for purescript) is worth a mention in this context:

https://codesync.global/media/purescript-on-the-beam-typed-o...
Not looking forward to watching these “leaders” panic once the real existential threat really gets into the final stages. The climate emergency.

This dress rehearsal hasn’t gone well.
This isn't true. I tried to submit something yesterday but got auto-redirected to a previous submission of the same url, from seven months ago.
Are you aware that users need to pay Netflix to watch their videos? They believe in pay-for-content. If it is right for their videos, why should it be wrong for their articles?
I’ve literally heard this virus be called “foreign”, like it identifies with a nationality etc.
This was quite obvious for a short while after Apple introduced cross-device pasteboards (handoff/continuity) - if your mac had recently copied something into its pasteboard, and you opened the facebook app on your iphone, the system would show a "Pasting from mac..." modal progress bar for a second even with no user interaction.
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The difference is that in HTTP/1.1 browsers tended to use up to six TCP connections per origin. On a site that loaded many resources (a.jpg, b.png, c.js, an API call, &c.) from one origin, they were multiplexed across six TCP connections, and so if a packet on one connection was lost, the other five would be unaffected and could continue at full speed.

In HTTP/2, all those requests are multiplexed across only one TCP connection per origin (each request becomes an HTTP/2 stream); so now when a packet is lost, all requests in progress are affected, rather than as few as ⅙ of them.

If you only ever make one request at a time, this difference does not affect you, because only one connection would be used under HTTP/1.1 as well.

But this case can make HTTP/2 significantly worse than HTTP/1.1 on low-quality mobile networks.
That's not a Taylor cone they have.

They have something in between true electropaint, and rotary atomizer.

What is the exact advantage over plain electropainting is unclear to me
As someone who has followed apple for some time, their messaging has always been overly positive. I agree that it could be plain and blunt but this company is frequently torn to shreds by the internet for even a slight misstep. So I am not surprised that apple adopts an overly cautious tone.
Amount of people tested, age of people infected and time

So far the people infected skews fairly young

And the pandemic took hold around Tuesday and it takes about a week for hospitalization to be required in the severe cases
Nice project!
How do you plan to make money?
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Canadian research team isolates novel coronavirus behind Covid-19
Doing .NET and Java nowadays, started using Borland products with Turbo Basic, jumped into Turbo Pascal 3.0, all the way up to Delphi 1.0 and C++ Builder, before caving in to the MFC world back then.

Accepting new members into the club? :)
Most of the content was already available online no? People from around the world could see the sessions after the fact. The only valuable component was the face to face interactions which can only be partially replicated online.
In the end, integers, floating point numbers, "text\n", emojis etc. are just sequences of bytes. You choose to acknowledge it and take advantage of it, or you don't.
Stop shilling crypto scams here. When HN will start banning all this crypto scam junk?
Not everyone is interested in the people stories and "deeply spiritual" parts.

Personally I'm not a fan of waxing, talking heads "documentaries" that tell us very little about what was actually done.
My intuition is that this is a supply chain / inventory management closure, not a virus risk closure. They have 509 stores in 25 countries (incl China). I don't believe that they would close over 90% of those stores simultaneously due simply to generalized viral transmission risk.

I find it guileful that they announced the closure in the middle of the night at the end of the week, a day after having announced the opening of their four remaining China stores to great fanfare from the equity market.
You might read up on the Bullwhip Effect. these demand fluctuations can have very disruptive effects on supply chains and availability of things, even if nothing else happens. So I highly disagree with the "no loos" statement. Not you personally, but as group behavior these stock ups caused probably more mid term supply issues on everyday stuff than the Corona virus so far.
All of this is covered in the "Boxes" section in the article
Right, but this isn't just some random guy jumping ship. He's been winding down his role in the company for over a decade and there's a really obvious reason to step down: The stock market crash makes this an important time for Microsoft to have leadership that can actually support the company and Bill Gates' other job is incredibly active in the response to coronavirus. It's very likely that the reason he's stepping down has nothing to do with burying the news at all, it's to do with the fact he actually has limited time and this is a very important time to focus his efforts.
This also afflicts the xmodem protocol.
The entire Incerto book series by Taleb (which includes Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan) are awesome and they are talking about big catastrophic events like the current one. This pandemic is a classic Black Swan event: it's a surprise, it has a major impact and lots of experts will try to say that it was easily foreseeable in hindsight.
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The Army Bombed a Hawaiian Lava Flow. It Didn’t Work
I can't read this past the paywall - are they planning to pay their non-salary staff?

E: Nevermind, per the Verge, they are.
> The "show me what changed" view is nearly useless; tons of updates about tiny clutter changes, but no good way to give me a deduplicated list of all the docs that changed. Virtually any wiki's RecentChanges view is better.

We use Quip (https://quip.com/), it's very equal to Notion.so, and suffers from the same issue. But Quip has a small API, and every hour i just grab my stared documents, flatten them to plain text and `diff` them. Changes are sent to email by a cron job. https://github.com/torvald/quipdiff
How many people in the world really qualify for this role though, and want to work for Facebook, and in London?

But yes it would be great for Erlang/Elixir.
Young, Confident and Flying, Virus Be Damned