skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen all sorts of different database technologies being touted as the "next generation" database technology over 4 decades. Each has not superseded any of the others. What ends up happening is that a "new" database technology finds an application area for which it is the "best fit" and is then used accordingly. Some of theses application areas can be broad and some can be very specialised.

If you can build a usable system and can make a market for it, do so. If you think it has broad application and want it to be ubiquitous with a variety of players (including FOSS systems) providing implementations then release all the relevant implementation and research information.

But you first have to decide if you want to give the basic ideas away or whether you want to hold them close to your chest. Until you make that decision, a lot of the questions you have asked are not going to be so answerable. There are consequences for giving the information away and there are consequences for keeping it close to your chest (including patents, trade secrets, etc.)

The application fields where you think you technology may be benefited from would require you actually building full-blown demonstrations systems against which you can compare existing technologies. I have seen many different systems over the decades which were simply "flash in the pan" technologies and as such take your comments with a couple of tonnes of sea-salt.

If your technology is both viable and worth the price and convincing, you might make it a successful venture.
Unless the solution being proposed is to brutalise the homeless to make them move elsewhere, then it needs to be enacted at the level with control over freedom of movement of people. If SF creates policies to help the homeless, more will move there than already do so.
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Practice typing. There is no other way. You just have an issue with accuracy and need to fix it.

In the case you mentioned, if you note, it's a case of the right hand hitting 'h' before the left is done hitting the t. Just practice typing for a bit everyday and these kind of errors will go away.
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> 1Password on Mac seems to have a trick where it empties the clipboard after a certain amount of time, I’ve noticed that occasionally when a password I’d copied a little while ago isn’t still in the clipboard when I try to paste it. I haven’t been quite curious enough to look into it. Yet...

I think this is pretty standard. KeePass makes it immediately obvious as it has a bar on the bottom of the window that starts a 12-second decrement when you copy a password.
So sanctimonious. The most. More than any other.
So `read`'s `Ok(0)` result, is akin to `getchar`'s `None` result here. A different API causes a little more to consider, but generally makes sense.
From my friend's kids, apparently python is the most common to start coding.
> and did you know that IEEE-754 floating point can represent a "negative zero" that you can use for an error code in functions that return float or double?

I am begging, please never ever do this. NaN literally exists for this reason. NaN even allows you to encode additional error context and details into the value.
I hope I don't sound stupid but could you explain the joke?

Edit: a word
Winforms with C#?
This sounds great, but at the same time I don't think the government can pull this off. Politics is not about problem solving.

Even a test with 5% false positive and 5% false negative rate would be good enough to get R0 under 1, but it would directly affect personal lives, so it wouldn't be accepted.
One gets tired of having to respond over and over to people who read a Snopes headline (not even the entire article; as I said, it relies on a Twitter thread (!) to mark the claim "true", but at least Snopes does cite two contemporaneous news accounts that say otherwise) and mindlessly repeat it without actually looking into the claim.

And further, my sarcasm was based on reality. Are you denying that the connotation of claims like "Trump fired the Pandemic Response Team" and "Trump cut the CDC budget" are not akin to what I described in my first paragraph?
TL;DR: Author makes some straw-man arguments against the famous two-curves infographic and suggests that we need authoritarian containment measures:

> Flattening the curve is not an option for the United States, for the UK or Germany. Don’t tell your friends to flatten the curve. Let’s start containment.

We've reached the point in the Coronavirus news cycle where the contrarian opinions are competing for clicks. Flattening the curve and increased containment in highly infected areas are not mutually exclusive.

"Flatten the curve" may not be the 100% perfect solution, but it has been very effective at communicating the goals to the average person. The author tries to pick the popular two-curves infographic apart as if it was a scientifically accurate graph. It's not. It's a tool to quickly communicate an idea and encourage people to institute self-containment measures. For that purpose, it's working very well.
Which is the main medium that US president uses for communication with public.
it really pains me how much good content on the gawker network of sites/kinja legacy sites is still actively ruined by great hill partners
More like "95% simple and 5% possible".

VB6 can call win APIs and C++ code for when some arcane functionality is needed.
Why are you entering it manually? Use command such as:

pngff | ff-shrink 10 | ff-swizzle RGB1 | ff-life

Or, you can use another program with that function.
ATT is mostly saturated in urban areas particularly, making 'unlimited for all' a worse proposition.
No mention of Camostat plus E-64d that is already known to blockade TMPRSS2 and ACE2. E-64d needs full clinical trials while Camostat needs enhanced Phase IV trials since it's already Rx in Japan.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30229-4
she's smart, articulate, tough.. much better president than dementia biden
You could run native Linux with VMware, VirtualBox forever if you mean a Linux environment on your Windows made any difference.
It’s not clear how the author envisions containment working—we are well beyond the point where that seems possible.
I wouldn't use C as comparison. C's ubiquity and durability is not the norm for programming languages.

It's an exception.
.Toyota? they have their own TLD?
Most of the contracts in MakerDAO are currently holding collateral worth 300% of the loan amount. You won't see any widespread failures until either that changes or the price drops at least 66%.
Probably not, but it might be possible to write simpler "shim" which would go between this frontend and jitsi backend.
At the time, the family was embarking on an ambitious new project: the Museum of the Bible, which opened in Washington DC in 2017... Items for the Green collection were bought by Hobby Lobby, then donated to the museum, bringing a substantial tax write-off.

These rich people, they really are all the same.
I'm assuming you don't know anything about the extremely surprising, deeply emotional and spiritual experience it was for everyone involved or you wouldn't be asking this and just watch it with fascination.
Satya Nadella is doing a terrific job leading Microsoft. Prior to his taking over, Microsoft was seen as a has-been. Today Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world once again (edit: AAPL is slightly ahead).

Nevertheless, this is a sad day. If anyone has the ability--and credibility--to provide guidance to Nadella it is Bill Gates. With Gates gone (and Ballmer too) it is Nadella's Microsoft. That's not bad necessarily, but having Gates around as a backup was a good thing.
Clearly, since they barely know the system they are talking about but could you elaborate instead of leaving it vague? Which systems?
Another weird thing is that sometimes you can read an EOF, then keep reading more real bytes. So EOF doesn't necessarily mean the permanent end.
Author is so well-versed in epidemiology that they don't even understand the difference between containment and mitigation.

If tech bros could stop with their "I've seen exponential growth, I know exponential growth" articles and let the voice of actual experts come through, that'd be lovely.
OTOH this will likely have 60-80% penetration so we should all get used to people coughing, and be kind while distancing.
Banged my head against the wall once after trying to figure out why Ctrl+D generates some character in bash but I can't send that character in a pipe to simulate termination.
They had me at 'systems'.
Came here to post basically the same thing. A lot of people are angry because containment hurts them economically, potentially severely, and they see that as worse than “getting a bad flu.” The “flatten the curve” narrative seems to have been effective in getting through to those folks why we need containment now.
> Now you press ^Z. Since the line discipline has been configured to intercept this character (^Z is a single byte, with ASCII code 26), you don't have to wait for the editor to complete its task and start reading from the TTY device. Instead, the line discipline subsystem instantly sends SIGTSTP to the foreground process group.

This helps me, thanks for pointing me back at this great write-up.
GH maybe missing the latest release of the parental supervision plug-in.
" I’m sorry to be blunt but there simply isn’t anything to brace for."

This is appallingly wrong.

If you're commenting here on HN and referring to legit medical sources, then you're also smart enough to see what has happened in Wuhan and Italy where hospitals are completely overwhelmed, where triaging is leaving many people without any care. Over 65? Comorbidities? Sorry, 'just die' or hopefully not, is the medical response because they are overwhelmed.

That under 30 are less likely to die is irrelevant when most of the population is >50 and the rate of spread, the severity of cases is such that health services are completely overwhelmed.

Hospitals around the world are facing 'Denial of Service' attacks and everything is crumbling.

The way to make this survivable is to control the spread of the disease so as to make care available and give enough time for rapid trials etc..

"The worst case scenario is that a very small number of people die before herd immunity slows the spread to nothing"

No! The 'worst-case scenario' is 10's of millions of infected, (possibly over 100 million in the US), 1000-to-1 infected to ventilator ratio, total and complete overwhelming of US medical services, several million dead, 10's of millions out of work and isolated for many weeks, unable to work, contribute, teach, provide medical services, run the 'toilet paper factory', etc..

Literally the worst disaster in US history - worse than WW2 or the Civil War (~2% death rate) in terms of domestic turbulence.

Now - add in how many people are going to die from 'regular things' because the healthcare system is null.
> leading to oracle’s price updates not going through with the gas price they chose

wait so the thing relies on oracles? I always thought that MakerDAO was a decentralized stablecoin. Does this mean that it is centralized then?

> This put the system in a $4 million deficit

So is this proof that MakerDAO does not work in practice?
I have seen a lot of this graffiti around Brooklyn. It’s seriously strange.
I agree the idea is not unique at a high level but this is an unsolved and difficult problem. We are building a solution block by block. The only event detection features Nest is offering is person detection, unfamiliar face detection, facial recognition.
Quarantined Italians singing together from their windows while on lockdown
This one is definitely getting added to my regular toolkit if shell utilities. It seems much easier than long pipelines of tee trickery or complicated temporary file descriptor based redirects or shared buffer craziness.
Why does Netflix publish articles on paywalled websites? Are they aware that users need to pay Medium to read their articles? I get this error:
"You’ve reached the end of your free member preview for this month. Become a member now for $5/month to read this story and get unlimited access to all of the best stories on Medium."
As interesting as this is I'm not sure that this attention is beneficial for the man who is clearly mentally ill. Should this be on HN?

Quote from his repo:

>This is not a part of a game. All of my family and friends' voices were compromised by a foreign or domestic agency to be used as a part of a tool to kill or control Human Consciousness and destroy earth. This data was captured for all humans on this planet and all communication must therefore be considered untrusted. When I hear any instructions or information from them, it cannot be trusted.
His analysis is off. It's an exponential relationship, so as the R0 value (roughly the exponent in the equation) goes down and the exponent approaches unity, the curve spreads out VERY fast. His graph where he shows a ~10 year period to infect the whole population and that he waves off as unachievable are, in fact, the way most viral epidemics work! New flu strain? Yeah, we'll all get it. Some time in the next decade or so. The curve is flat.

Because of its novelty, COVID-19 has an outrageously high R0 and so can spread across a population in mere weeks. But that R0 is treatable: that's what isolation mechanisms do.

The question is whether or not the "lightweight" quarantine we're seeing in most of the industrial world right now (closed schools, banned large gatherings, pervasive WFH) is enough to drop the R0 to a reasonable level. Maybe it's not, we just don't know. But it's not unreasonable to think that it could be, as the author seems to think.
I flagged this article. We should be listening to experts, not random dudes on the internet.
That's kinda what a C# .NET winforms project is. The WYSIWYG editor is pretty easy and the basics are pretty well documented for all the premade widgets that I feel like anyone who just needs to make a one off util program won't have much trouble.
What an interesting interpretation of the "flatten the curve" pitch! It almost succeeds in making me less disappointed in the whole flat curve thing. To think that all along, it's just a sales technique to get people to participate in a social exercise. And even it's working very well for that purpose! Hmm...

IMO, "flatten the curve" is wrong for the same reasons that TFA is wrong. They take numbers with no scientific basis, misapply them to the general population, extrapolate based on an exponential function, and as a result end up predicting the end of modern life as we know it.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and propose (and this is directed at TFA not OP), that if your model predicts the end of the world, feel free to stand on the corner with a sign, but perhaps refrain from writing a Medium post as if people should actually listen to you.
Literally everyone writes J or K from left to right also: it's not read that way any more than C is.
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did they use resume before return.. i had no idea. i loved how going from c64 basic to amiga basic, you didn't need line numbers anymore
Moding games
> The boss said I could just write in C# if I wanted to, but I saw no need to make more mental work for the rest of the team.

You're a real team player. That's both rare and invaluable on current days of resume-driven-development.
It's just a convention, it isn't enforced by the OS. The C runtime for example will check for character 26 if you're reading a file opened in text mode but not in binary mode. The underlying OS call to read a file makes no distinction between text and binary.
This seems like an "emperor's new clothes" press release. How is this "revolutionary" compared to regular electrostatic coating processes that are already as efficient?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_coating#Process_...
I'm glad you're working on this. I was given opiates as a child and not getting shot at, beaten, living outside in a northern winter, doing things that make me horribly ashamed today, could make me quit but Suboxone got me living a regular-ass life in about a year.

It's been 6 years since I last had any dope, I've achieved so many of the goals I thought I had abandoned. I still use the subs though, I've tried kicking and I just can't seem to function even coming off a near homeopathic dose.

For anyone still in it though it's amazing how fast stopping drugs can improve your life. Someone out there would be happy if you could even put a few days together, tried treatment again, or just called.
The SQLite command shell supports the format described there. I have also independently used the same format too. But now, they have a name for it, which can be useful.

One variant I have sometimes used is DLE to escape the next character if it is a control character that should be part of the data.
Just some thoughts

Even if you develop a perfect test, it's unlikely to help the people you're testing. People who are feeling sick (and those who aren't) should be staying home and minimizing contact with others, and going to a hospital if they are sick enough to require doing so. A positive or negative test data point doesn't change that.

The data could be useful epidemiologically, but only if you can convince others to use your data. That will likely be difficult to do.

Most importantly, you're very likely to get sick yourself handling 10s or 100s of samples without training and appropriate facilities.

Totally appreciate your drive, but your time might be better spent contacting your representatives and making it clear we expect better from them.
What they mean to say is: when I was working with a language that enforced pure functions, I had to actually consider purity. It's rare to see a way to enforce purity in procedural languages, whereas most fp langs support it.
I think CP/M copied that convention from an even older OS but I can't remember which one.
It’s a so called “dot brand” tld. Google, Apple and many others have them as well.
How could the Federal government suspend evictions? Foreclosures, sure, but tenancy laws are typically state or local.
The plane may be almost empty, but your wallet is full...
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I was thinking the same thing, until I read this:

> 'stty -icanon' still interprets control characters such as Ctrl-C whereas 'stty raw' disables even this and is the real raw mode.

From the very detailed link posted by
rgoulter above.

Still, in raw mode, Ctrl+D will send EOT, and thus end your shell. While Ctrl+C wont.
I don't take photographs and put in computer available to the public, although sometimes other people have done so and given to me the picture, I have stripped the metadata (using exiftool, which can also read or alter metadata too).

Note, you could also enter false metadata.

Of course there may still be data that is part of the picture itself; for some purposes, you can crop it. If it is JPEG, I think that losslessly cropping by a multiple of 8 would be possible, although I don't know what program will do this.
Fun fact, ctrl-v in bash sets "verbatim insert" mode for the next character, so you can type a ^D "character" by doing "ctrl-v ctrl-d".
It already is, ...sorta.
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Not a clone and definitely not 100% compatible, though.
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/diffvb
Guess we won't get any more fordite
Recommended for desktop.

Direct link to the online example:
https://neomjs.github.io/pages/node_modules/neo.mjs/dist/pro...

Feedback appreciated!
He also mentioned 1700 engineers working on it. Honestly I don't know why the website was mentioned at all but since it was it seems wrong to make it appear like Google, with thousands of its engineers, are working to build a site (for everyone) when, in reality, a company with 235 employees that happens to be a subsidiary of Alphabet is building it for the Bay Area.
I agree storage should not be as expensive. I think many companies use that as a leverage to make users pay a subscription fee (due to lack of services that’d compel users to subscribe.)
We are finalizing our privacy policy and will add ASAP. We are not using users data for trading models for other users currently but we do use their feedback on the alerts to improve the models for their own events.
>Pi-Hole...

That's a good suggestion. I set up a Pi-Hole just to try it out and it works pretty good right out of the box.

You probably have a feature in your cable modem to block sites.

As far as "News" goes, I have AP, Reuters, and HN bookmarked and I scan them in the morning with my cup of coffee and when taking a break. None of those have much hyperbole screaming at you.

I'll offer that you make it a point to spend your web time exploring and learning.

I guess what I'm offering is you can block sites with a Pi-Hole but you may need to think about how you use the internet and focus on more positive ways to use it with the time you'll have hunkering down.

I've been working from home for over 25 years now. Most of them on web apps. I almost never go to CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, etc. I spend my own time on the web learning and exploring things I'm curious about. Last week I learned how to change the sump pump in the crawl space below my house :D
Clear the cookies, and use it
Yeah right, they had willfully concocted the virus and diligently sprayed it all around on their streets.

It is very convenient blaming your adversaries/competitors for your own f..ups. We could've easily shut the borders at first sign and be protected and safe. Have somebody to blame for that hole?
Umm, I don't know how badly you're getting treated, but I haven't been so .. thanks for that "advice"?
At least the version of the Oberon OS described in the book used the built-in Oberon support for function pointers for dynamic dispatch; were you looking at an earlier or a later version than the one in the book?
We're talking about a number on the order of 2^17. Doubling every 6 days that's 100 days. Doubling every 3 days that's still 51 days.

You cannot have 100,000 cases with even a 1% hospitalization rate without at least... on the order of 250 hospitalizations.
Those are just conventions, and they aren't consistent from one OS to another at all. ASCII tried to standardize it but failed.
It's weird that apps can straight read from the clipboard at all. I would think the OS just hands the app a pointer to the data and maybe some meta data for type.
Look up my other comment. Research right now says 3 days.
>It is also ironic, that most of the people exposing this movement, are esentially white WEIRD , a tiny sliver of the world population to whom also belong most of the dominant class.

That may be true, but we need to start somewhere. Actually we need to start lots of places, but a movement coming from amongst the most priveliged is a really good sign if you think about it. At least as long as they don't overimpose their view on the less fortunate.
Last big blunder?
This is the react example - https://meetrix.io/blog/webrtc/integrate-jitsi-meet-to-react...

These are the React features supported, including chat/conference,etc https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/tree/master/react/featur...
Inslee expands coronavirus K-12 school closure across Washington State
Hang on, someone's changed the title I submitted this with, removing the most important point.

ie: PayPal is misusing the EU rules, for spamming purposes.

@dang Please change the title back.