skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The project makes a bunch of big vague claims, like:

> Someday, there will be no file extensions: every file will be a dit.

reading:
https://github.com/isaiahshiner/dit-cli/blob/master/docs/wha...
...seems to imply you want to solve the problem where:

"Name": "John Doe"

vs.

"Name": {
"FirstName": "John",
"LastName": "Doe"
}

represents the same data?

But for me it's completely unclear if or how Dit solves this though.

https://www.ditabase.io/faq.html says:

> Dit is not a format, it is a container. It's trying to be a bridge between other formats, and that means it relies on them heavily. You can't write data in dit format, only wrap data in a dit.

So it sounds like a schema language, an alternative to JSON-Schema, Avro etc?

But then it also bundles in a bunch of other things...

Apparently contradicting the above, the are 'assigners' and a sort of query language which seem to create and return records in this format which you "can't write data in":

// Assign an existing object
myName.givenName = name;

// Use the 'n' assigner inside a list
myName.middleNames = [n('Leopold'), n('Koser')];

// Assign the string directly
myName.familyName.value = 'Shiner';

dit query name.dit '@@print(myName)'
"Hi! My name is Isaiah Leopold Koser Shiner"

And then there are the validators and printers, as chunks of embedded python or javascript code.

But it's still hard to see how any of this solves the "John Doe" problem?

If dit is meant to be a bridge between silos of incompatible data maybe it would be useful to show some examples of that use case.
When property laws were introduced to the US, parties with an information advantage were able to exploit loopholes, trick ignorant people into signing agreements that they didn’t understand etc. Lots of people fell foul to the new system and I’m sure it was written initially to favor certain parties. But it’s better than no ownership framework. The thing to do now is understand it.
> In summary, the testing early doesn't change the decision tree, which is stay quarantined for 14 days, until symptoms present or not, so little point was seen to testing until then.

That makes a ton of sense. Thank you!
It would be no benefit to anyone that is not already deficient. [1]

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075634/
Climate.

There was a theory that the virus doesn’t fare well in hot climates and that seems to be playing out.

A good example of this is Vietnam. Nearly all their cases have been in Hanoi which has quite temperate weather in the winter versus Ho Chi Minh City which is tropical all year around.

It’s not the only factor, but it does appear to have an impact.
>the actual value of goods and services in the economy is shrinking

On this point, are you referring to goods that already exist but are in less demand (thus less value)? Or that fewer goods are being produced, thus the total value of goods (supposing we assign some arbitrary value per good) is less?
Parent edited his post without noting the edit. Prior to the edit it did not include any information except that republicans would be more largely effected.
In Arizona, Mayo Clinic, Sonora Quest Laboratories, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Flagstaff are rolling out their own tests. Official test kits from the CDC are in woefully short supply, under 200 right now, and only being used for people showing significant symptoms. According to a news article the new tests will use a technique similar to the CDC test known as reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, otherwise shortened to RT-PCR
Thinking of Making an Indie Game Startup?
Why do raindrops make bubbles?
I don't know you, so I have no idea. Your employer and colleagues could give you a better assessment. But I can say that an average grade taking the top classes at school is much better than average grades in the minimum-to-graduate classes.

Education doesn't stop with the degree. Good engineers never stop studying to expand their expertise.

I've been working for several decades with other engineers. It's not too hard to see who are the good ones and who aren't. The "aren't" are the ones who solve problems using trial and error, and when they get it to work they don't bother figuring out why it's working.

The "are" engineers will do whatever is required to find out what is actually wrong, work to understand it, and will do a targeted fix.

What kind of engineer you want to be is entirely up to you.

One thing you can do is take the youtube MIT CS courses. It's free. I've taken some of them to fill in gaps in my education.
Ship it worthy code reviews
I did not said that we are prepared for it. What I was saying that we need extreme measures to slow down the number of cases and not that we will have full success at doing it but we can save a lot of lives and this the only thing that really matters.
https://archive.is/wrcMG
I think the third example should be:

x |> h |> g |> f

Which is identical to the second, except for a more eloquent choice of the pipeline symbol?
The labs team at work wrote a bit [0] about why this is over-hyped (more context in the full post):

> Arbitrary code execution is bad! But exploiting this vulnerability requires local access at a minimum, compounded by the attacker needing to exploit a relevant device to gain a foothold on the system. This list of valid footholds is quite limited. For instance, an attacker would need to perform code execution in the ISH or other Platform Controller Hub (PCH) devices — exploiting PCIe devices (like GPUs or RAID controllers) wouldn’t suffice. Additionally, per the original blog post, other methods of exploitation require physical access. Either way, this is limited to incredibly motivated and well-resourced attackers (like a nation-state with a high-value target identified).

[0] https://capsule8.com/blog/ramming-down-hype-via-intel-csme/
FWIW, for non-Americans (like myself) ... you apparently cannot opt out of this photo/face initiative. TSA/airport full-body scanners are still opt-out for all.
Not really anything of an expert with Rust, but I'd say that the language tries to dispatch function calls statically whenever possible, though it certainly has the capacity to provide polymorphism when needed, through the use of trait objects [0].

From using it personally, I've found that I can usually get by with generics and the static dispatch that they provide, but having the option to use trait bounds can be a real boon when you need the flexibility to call on shared pieces of functionality between separate complicated systems.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/2018-edition/ch17-02-t...
Can you cite anything to back this up?
And the people that did all the coding? India! Y2K bug put using remote programmers in India on the map as something that works. And Y2K was perfect for this since the logic changes in 1000s of files was all the same. Very easy bug to fix, but just needed humans who can understand code to do it.
Buy a $60 bidet attachment, you savages!
This is worrying. I already get called a bot or a shill on the regular, and now you can be called a bot for having crooked teeth or "asymmetric ears"? Now I can look forward to internet sleuths scanning my profile picture for imperfections.
You sound well reasoned, but are not countering or answering his questions with anything of substance.
Also, the NBA (https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28887560/nba-suspends-se...) and NCAA Power 5 (https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/2889...) have suspended or cancelled play, and MLB is likely to follow shortly (https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28892315/sources-mlb-exp...).
> You will not be able to spend your USD offline. USD is based on a network of centralized banks. You cannot spend your fiat without a computer asking permission from these centralized systems.

Yes, I can, as long as I have it as physical currency, and regularly do. Admittedly, this relies on confidence of all participants that eventually systems (banking, etc.) which are as you describe will work or be replaced/retooled without he online dependency (and there is plenty of historical precedent of systems working with fiat without digital backup which could be reverted to in extreme need), but there is no real-time dependency on online systems for use of physical currency, and as long as systems are up and working it's easy for fiat users to adjust their risk profile regarding potential future system failures by moving funds into or out of physical currency.
Dropdown is a perfectly fine term to use. Developers should be able to infer what is actually meant by additional requirements.
It's the default username style.
Why is a software engineer’s work product any less important than a mechanical engineer’s or an electrical engineer’s?
I guess we should smash all the printing presses which are used to print books containing disinformation too. Should probably just burn all the books with disinformation already printed while we're at it. There are probably Russians spreading disinformation via the snail mail. Better let the government start reading everyone's mail too, lest they be spreading any disinformation through it.
The MLB also announced that they are suspending operations: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-coronavirus...
Edit:

I belive MLB already announced they're stopping.

Well I guess they haven't announced it.
This is useful but it would also be helpful to have a similar database of the opposite cases too.

Having a list of the times when a warrant was served and a phone unlocked with details of which OS+version, which jurisdiction and which unlock method would balance out the research.
Just to add another tool to this discussion, I have had great success using Eyeshot by DevDept as a programmable CAD platform for .NET. Its closed source and a bit pricey but it was simpler and quicker to integrate with my commercial CAD/CAM product than OpenSCAD or an OpenCASCADE derivative and their support over the years has been responsive. They also include a STEP/IGES import export routine in their higher end offering. http://www.devdept.com
This is a misrepresentation of the complexities of financial services, monetary, and fiscal policy.

Say what you will about the carelessness of risk-taking, shortterm thinking of the banks, but please don't misrepresent reality
I think software patents are okay but should have shorter lengths, like 3 years. They also shouldn't be transferrable. IBM could license it from Jane Inventor but not roll it up as a weapon. We also need to have trained people in the USTPO so that we can have patents researched and not just rubber stamped. I also think that patent enforcement should force a review of prior art.
Seems like they did but my suppliers have been back to work for over two weeks now.
Typical case of "It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It".
Whether a build is debug or release is independent of whether it contains debug symbols. Both `cargo build` and `cargo build --release` produce builds with debug symbols.
Nice to see GN there. I wish more people knew about it.

For me is as powerful as Bazel, but without the need for a JVM and all the insanity that comes with it in a desktop/dev environment.

The syntax is great, powerful (insane customization) and together with Ninja theres nothing like it.

Its in C++ and even being as powerful as Bazel, its a light, standalone library that can handle a huge amount of source code, dependencies, tools and configurations.
Law students wouldn't necessarily be filing for patent protection for their inventions? It wouldn't be relevant for them.
> I have cron jobs set up on pre-paid servers so that should something happen to me...

That's interesting, effectively a "dead man's switch" as a script. I think that would be extremely useful thing to do if you're going camping, mountain climbing, or visiting dangerous places etc.

But if you're just talking about "natural causes" most accounts have a way for a designated person to take control upon death. Octogenarians, I expect, are not apt to be facile with cron jobs, strong passwords and MFA devices. At that point, power of attorney papers become the most important thing (POA's don't have to be family members).
Looks like it's The Muse by Anthony Burgess (1968). Sorry for the long URL but it's the best confirmation of this I could find. [1]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=mh9zrji5zfAC&pg=PA185&lpg=...
>> That ship has sailed.

AWS makes up a massive fraction of the whole internet. That ship has absolutely not sailed. If your company doesn't own the mainframe, it doesn't control the hardware.

> And no, Sun, the network is the computer will not come to pass during this cycle.

... we are arguing about this via web browser. O365, Google docs, Dropbox, iCloud and company are common ways to work with documents, SaaS has been a wild success in business, and major players (no pun intended) are pushing game streaming. The network isn't the only computer, but for a lot of people it's the main one.
> When this happens, utter chaos will reign.

Utter chaos? I don't think so.

> Hardware IDs will be forged

Seems like a victory for privacy. Who wants to be tracked via hardware IDs?

> digital content will be extracted

Any victory over DRM technology is a good thing. The only people shedding any tears will be those in the copyright industry.

> data from encrypted hard disks will be decrypted

People actually rely on proprietary hardware encryption? They should have learned the lesson when built-in SSD encryption turned out to be worthless.
I've done it with an oven.
Fine

To sit an individual at close to, or at, a right angle in regards to their legs

A small rock versus a big rock; Approximating a squat, or standing, is out of bounds

But a stool may consistute a chair when sitting a child

Regardless, I'm mainly talking about the approach to defining it, and that definition by purpose rather than structure is more likely to find a correct definition, not that my example definition is sufficient
Or have a working shower.
Replying in parallel because I cannot reply to the child post.

> infant mortality

The measures used in the US for determining infant mortality are much more stringent than in other countries [0]. This accounts for the ranking: we track mortality where others do not.

[0] https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/09/infant-mortality-dece...
talking about how it would be cool if we had a ship that could do that, and the implications of that. In no way is anyone with any serious education actually talking about HOW to possibly get a craft with the mass fraction and specific impulse to pull this off. we are several orders of magnitude off of this being possible when it comes to specific impulse, and the highest impulse engines we have have nowhere near enough thrust to weight.
Geoff Goldberg has been analyzing and writing about this a lot[0], he is worth following on Medium, ironically Twitter suspending him from Twitter [1].

[0] https://medium.com/@geoffgolberg
[1] https://medium.com/@geoffgolberg/your-twitter-account-has-be...
The government is considered the sole producer of currency. As such they are the hallmark of valid money. Anyone in the basement is creating a knock off.
Yeah I've read Wacom at least provides support for Linux so that's one option for them. I never bothered to look into it and bought a Huion tablet cause it was cheaper and offered more.

I basically am unable to use it for Linux period. i've tried literally every option and it just doesn't work.
That's a really great idea I will add icons for each color
Do you mean you didn't know the original passwords? Many services (like GitHub and I think Gmail) don't let you change your password without typing the old password first. This becomes a problem if you forget your Gmail password, even though you're still logged in.
That is not fair. Autonomous flight is just as hard as autonomous driving due to the need to handle mechanical failures. If something breaks in the air you can't just pull over and stop. Current autopilots are generally unable to cope with failures and rely upon a qualified human pilot being ready to take back control within a few seconds.
The Fed action today suggests that they do not think a credit crisis is unlikely. And while it is true that big corporations and players in money markets don't hold a lot of actual cash, it does seem to be the case that every asset class is getting punished, and that is actually kind of weird.
I'm perfectly fine having it tested on humans - this is apparently the worst virus we've encountered so far so why not skip the lengthy animal trials and just skip straight to humans?
COVID-19 Scenarios
Why would it be dying? If anything, most companies are using it more. I'd like to see a binary format for SVG to make them smaller but keep the scalability.
What's more, languages like Smalltalk which only have "virtual" dispatch achieve their performance by recognising that most dispatch is just to one type. And of the remaining cases, most of those are just to 2 types, etc. Pushing this further resulting in Strongtalk which lead to the Hotspot JVM [1].

[1] http://strongtalk.org/index.html
Wow, the author really calls out his competition! There are also parts 2 and 3 to this article that discusses using Rust and Postgres for their solution.
if let is usually good enough to check variants. Matches! should be useful to implement methods like is_some() or is_ok().

Also for assertions, but then again there is a crate that provides assert_matches!, which is more useful for this than matches! itself.
Yeah... "let's do Fitbit integration!" seems to win out over "let's make sure we can upgrade core systems to make sure they don't break in March".
I see: you’re concerned with a future where the concept of an internet ceases to exist? I’m afraid money will be the least of our problems then.
He did/does.
Whoa! I have an idea: Why not ban the manufacture of cars and save even more lives?
Best of luck Mohammad Rafiee! This is really neat. Is there a reason you guys are pricing so low?
It should be mostly invariant, but tugs and changes from other bodies in the system (Jupiter and Saturn particularly) can change the energy of the orbit. It's one of things that makes n-Body solutions to orbital mechanics nearly impossible to make. I doubt it's change too significantly for something as massive as earth though, but the collision with the mars sized body that created the moon early on in Earth's history definitely would have been able to change the orbital energy.
Most MFA have backup codes that you can download during first setup. This is typical for the MFA using QR codes. For things like banks where they email/text you your temporary code, many already have processes in place for when someone passes away (ie typically someone needs to contact the bank with proof that xyz passed away).
> I studied philosophy because of what it seemed to be. It seemed to promise a direct route to the most general truths.

I pursued this illusion for some time as well. Then the first 50-some pages of Sartre's Being and Nothingness started a turn toward my present view that 20th-century academic philosophy is on the whole little more than a sophistical hustle.
The Earn IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
They cannot stop all of it, so things will definitely leak out. However, they can stop a giant majority of it, so while we still get the leaks, the magnitude of the prevented leaks is probably still significant enough that the censorship can be considered as "working".
I mean I'm a returning student and have always been good with online classes so it's honestly an actual perk for me.

The hardest part is instructors who feel like unlocking everything to let people work at their own pace is somehow egregious...I think it's so stupid that a teacher cant somehow manage grading the same stuff for everybody at the same time but just ignores the other students who are ahead until they get to that point.

The best online teachers I've ever had were the ones that unlocked it all from the start and helped you with the few questions you had along the way.
http://nomad.uk.net/articles/developers-who-hate-on-oop-don'...
What can a retail investor really do ? Is this even a free market. Cannot even do passive investing safely enough.
The President still hasn't declared a national state of emergency, and this looks increasingly out of touch from reality. It needs to happen yesterday. This would free up FEMA funds to help Seattle and subsequent outbreak sites. He recently called the governor a "snake" so one hopes this is not being done for personal reasons.

edit: this article summarizes it better than I was able to https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/covid-19-emergency-d...
I was enlisted in the USAF and was assigned as part of a two-person group to deal with Y2K issue for all unclassified systems on the base. We were outside the normal AF procedures because the base didn't have wartime mission. The two people assigned to the group were myself (E-3 or E-4 at the time) and a very junior (but smart) lieutenant.

We basically inventoried every unclassified computer system on the base. If it was commercial, off-the-shelf software that could be replaced we recommended they replace it. If it could not be replaced with newer version (because it ran software that could not or would not be replaced) we replicated and tested it by changing the computer hw clock. In all cases we recommended shutting down the computer so it wasn't on during the changeover.

Most home-grown systems were replaced with commercial software.

One interesting case was a really old system, I think it had something to do with air traffic control. It was written by a guy who was still employed there and he was still working on it. I got to interview him a bunch of times and found the whole situation fascinating and a little depressing. Yes, he was storing a 2-digit year. He didn't know what would happen when it flipped. He didn't feel like there was a way to run it somewhere else and see what would happen (it's very difficult to remember but I think it was running on a mainframe in the comm squadron building).

The people in charge decided to replace it with commercial software. Maybe the guy was forced to retire?

Overall the base didn't have any issues but only because they formed the "y2k program management group" far enough ahead of time that we were able to inventory and replace most everything before anything could happen.
In the brotli data format (rfc7932) we left the concept of a container away altogether.

In gzip there is a container format that allows specifying things that are mostly meaningless (like having a reserved value for 'Amiga').

In JPEG XL there are two stream forms, one with and one without the container. Both work for normal use.
So invent your own currency (use Ethereum or intercoin.org) and pay w that.

Slicing Pie is a good book for this

But not everyone will agree to work for it, for others you will need cold hard cash. And stock investors are all around, I am talking to them, they want to take $ out of the stock market and put it in SOMETHING.
Setting a Header with an API Key to Get/Convert a Current Exchange Rate in cURL
how do you program anything to have a "fire if human is dead" logic? By definition it will accidentally fire sometimes when the human isn't actually dead and then, ugh, so embarrassing having to tell everyone you are still alive.
Would it help contain the spread? This started with just a small number of people, and so even a small reintroduction would reset the clock two weeks later.

There are a lot of advantages to spreading it out, by reducing the peak strain on our health care resources and possibly letting a vaccine or drug come about. But a vaccine is likely months off at best, and we can't shut down everything until then. So a two-week quarantine might reduce the death toll, but I'm not sure it will dramatically reduce the number of people infected.
"Even in flyover country", ouch, you realize the comments earlier about Walmart's Y2K efforts were all driven out of Arkansas, right?