skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a child I read Master and Commander, and Aubrey's relative tolerance of homosexuality was the first time I'd heard of being gay perhaps not being a mortal sin.

As for the nautical bits, I find it's no different than Star Trek. Nobody actually watches Star Trek already knowing how warp drives work, and the technical details rarely ever matter.
Non native English speaker here, would you mind explaining that saying?
Physically harmful no. The mental harm from having a replacement reward system is if anything underdrawn.
Indeed. This is a point I frequently make to people who say things like "we're destroying the Earth" or "we're destroying nature".

We're not. The Earth, and nature, will be just fine. The question is whether or not the planet will remain conducive to human life.
They're probably talking about access to TVs and smartphones.
Tim Berners-Lee: Why the Web Isn’t Working for Women and Girls
Yeah someone should do a Joe Rogan style interview with PG.
Thank you, I hadn't realized you were appointed the comment police. For the record--I usually reserve comments with detailed technical jargon and buzzwords specifically for Reddit; I just don't follow any magic-internet-money sub-reddits.
or pink!
I'm sorry, I simply don't understand the thought process here...

Question 1) Is the spread inevitable, or can we achieve containment?

Question 2) If it can't be contained, and worldwide spread is inevitable, approximately how many new cases per day do you want to see for the next 6 months?

I would say the answer to #1 is that spread is absolutely inevitable. There are way too many vectors, and it is way too virulent. I'd go further and say that I believe tens if not hundreds of millions of people have already been infected and will never have serious illness, but such a claim is really besides the point.

I would say the answer to #2 is; just so many as you don't run out of ventilators. And absolutely start setting up rows of ventilators in dedicated facilities in major cities.

So to those saying we should have done more, sooner... I ask, to what end? Follow through on the hypothetical "done more sooner" scenario. Worldometer says the US has 1,518 active cases, of which 10 are serious. So 10 people in the country are in an ICU for COVID-19 right now?

"Test everyone!" To what end? You don't need to test people in order to know if they need an ICU. The ICUs are not full - and you don't need more testing to tell you that. The main benefit to more testing would be that people who are self-quarantining due to potential exposure could maybe stop self-quarantining earlier. That's a fairly marginal benefit.

This isn't a situation where the world is going to shut down until a vaccine is available and administered to a billion people. This is a situation where the vast majority of people have mild symptoms, then herd immunity, and then will very much need to get back to work in order to buy groceries and pay their mortgage.
A common definition of recession is a decline in GDP lasting for 2 consecutive quarters. It seems likely for this to cause a decline in GDP in Q1 and Q1 at a minimum, so a recession seems inevitable.

I do think there will be a point when going out becomes less of a concern and there will be a lot of pent up demand for travel. The recovery will likely be sharp (V-shaped).
US Treasury successfully completed today's 30Y auction. NY Fed was just worried that without $1.5T injection, the auction would have failed.

They're not as stupid as you might think.
Init Struct Pattern
I get it. Moving things to the cloud keeps the devices cheap and keeps them from becoming out of date. It also makes you identical to other large players and makes me think you don't have much of an advantage. Make the devices expensive. Put privacy first. It might just pay off with higher sales. Your alternative is racing to the bottom in a competition with Amazon, Ring, etc. You will lose.

Sure, you can push the video to the cloud, but encrypt it on the device. Let me control my data.
Read the comments. Sounds like the study rather is a case against smoking. That's also what researchers think is causing men to be more severely affected in China.
I don’t really like that procedural macros are a thing. Rust isn’t quite at the Go level of forcing style, but it’s closer to it than it is to C++ or C, and I think the ability to implement DSLs with procedural macros makes it harder to look at code and understand what it does.

I guess I’d rather have the feature for when it’s truly necessary than exclude it from the language entirely, and just hope that people use it with forethought.
I think it is a bit more nuanced than that.

My experience in large enterprises are that there are two kinds of "politics" that get played.

In one form, the leadership makes moves or take actions that benefit themselves but also help the company. Often that is called out as "leadership."

In the other form, the leadership makes moves or take actions that benefit themselves but hurts the company. That form is called "politics."

You can see examples all around of this. For example a CEO that buys another company, the result of which is hitting a milestone that triggers a big bonus for them but saddles the company with a bunch of debt and expense that drags down its productivity. That is bad. Versus the same example where the CEO buys another company and the combination results both in them getting a bonus as well as the combined company doing better than the sum of the individual companies. That is good.

So I agree with you that both parties are playing games, the differentiator for me is what is the ratio of benefit to the country vs benefit to the party/individual from the game being played? If that ration is 1:1 or greater I see it as a positive thing rather than a negative thing.
The structure does have an impact on its maintainability though. You said you don't care about well-formed the mortar is or how the drywall is hung, but would you care if it was made in a way that would make it much harder later on to run new wires inside the wall? I would care personnaly.

> writing code is having it solve real business problems

Sure, but writing good code is about solving future problem the business is going to have too. A problem has more than a single dimension.

If your code will never evolve, if it's a definitive solution to their problems, the structure doesn't matter that's true, but sadly, that's almost never the case.
>aside from addictive potential

And this is already very harmful in itself, hooking the user (read, mostly young teenagers) into an addiction for life. It's the last thing on your mind when you go to sleep, and the first when you wake up. As soon as you put one out, the itch begins to rise until you have another. That's enslaving, it's a bad thing in itself. Not to mention the thousands of dollars per year you will sink on that.
Look up the phrase "lipstick on a pig".
Is this a reference to something? Not sure what you mean here.
I meant random accounts. Friends are definitely not bots, no?
Why? Japan didn’t massively shift their way of life. They just had a market bubble.
Process Got “Killed” and other OOM Killer stories.
Most big companies that I know with equity-based compensation typically forbid any hedging of their stock, especially through puts. But assuming hypothetically this is not an issue, you could sell short your company's stock to reduce exposure to your RSUs vested in the future.
An important note for many: this article is a satire, meant as a joke making fun of all the other similar posts
Yes, I am still learning Rust
I agree, but to be fair, that's how a lot of us feel about coffee.
You should be shorting Uber for when they get shutdown because they can't control their contractors that get coronavirus.
An avoidable problem can become real if you don't take the actions required to avoid it.
Coding Functions of “Noncoding” RNAs
Also take a look at:

https://chooch.ai/
I worked at a regional bank. Like many banks, we offered mortgages, so starting in 1970, the 30 year mortgages had a maturity date in 2000, and our bank had begun the process of adapting its systems from 2-digit to 4-digit dates.

Basically all of our software was written in COBOL, and most COBOL data is processed using what we'd consider today to be string-like formats. And to save space (a valuable commodity when DASD (aka hard drives) cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and stored a few megabytes of data) two-digit dates were everywhere.

I started in 1991. The analysis had been done years before, and we knew where most of the 2-digit problems were, so it was just a matter of slowly and steadily evolving the system to use 4-digit dates where possible, or to shift the epoch forward where that made sense.

Every few months we'd deploy a new version of some sub-system which had changed, migrate all the data over a weekend, and cross off another box in the huge poster showing all the tasks to be done.

External interfaces were the worst. Interbank transfers, ATM network connections, ATM hardware itself, etc, etc. We mostly tried to switch internal stuff first but leave the APIs as 2-digit until the external party was ready to cut over. Similarly between our internal systems: get both ready internally, migrate all the data, and then finally flick the switch on both systems to switch the interfaces to 4-digit.

Practically, it meant that we our development group (maybe 30 people?) was effectively half that size for 5 or 6 years in the early 90's as the other half of the group did nothing but Y2K preparation.

All of these upgrades had to be timed around external partners, quarterly reporting (which took up a whole weekend, and sometimes meant we couldn't open the branches until late on the Monday after end-of-quarter), operating system updates, etc, etc. The operations team had a pretty solid schedule booked out years in advance.

We actually had two mainframes, in two data centers: one IBM 3090 and the other the equivalent Armdahl model. We'd use the hot spare on a weekend to test things.

It was a very different world back then: no Internet, for a start. Professional communication was done by magazines and usergroup meetings. Everything moved a lot slower.

I left that job before Y2K but according to the people I knew there, it went pretty well.
Improving Clojure Development Startup Time
This was basically a done deal this morning once the conferences canceled all of their ongoing tournaments, and schools like Duke stopped all sports.
Who said the civic spirit is dead
Slack posted fourth quarter earnings: loss of 4 cents per share
I have just made my first open source contribution to rust-analyzer
Not to be blasé, but its clear you're not a wage worker. Many people will be out of a job and be unable to pay rent. I have several friends who are ALREADY in the process of being laid off as businesses around Seattle practically shutter. We need a rent/mortgage holiday for both people and businesses in order to keep things afloat.
I can see advantages to both, I am sure plenty of users want plug-and-play and would be annoyed by the idea of having to work through manually training. Maybe there can be an "advanced" or "developer" mode... Even just having a feed of events that I could go into and add tags or other info to might work.
Very good post. This ticks all the boxes on the fundamentals when spinning up a security program.

SOC2 Type2 is really where you want to be, but it takes time. Navigating compliance for startups is pretty challenging and I see so many not having a clue how to navigate sales without certs but it's super doable, and getting these things finished get you pretty far along towards Soc2 type1, and shows a lot of goodwill to share these practices even _before_ you have any certs
The healthcare industry can't afford to exist if they don't get paid by someone (whether that is the insurers or Medicare/Medicaid). We've seen mass closures of rural hospitals and medical practices as more rural Americans have lost insurance or gotten insurance that has large penalties for using said insurance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kxPz4Z_g8

Insurers themselves are a mixed bag, many have gone broke as IIRC the gov't managed pool of money they were supposed to pull out of/put money into to ensure no insurer went under from too many unhealthy, newly insured people has been starved of funding under our current administration.
Man, I've just remember that I had to fix this kind of bug in 2010 and I am sure I just bumped the number to 20. I guess somebody had to be fixing it lately, I just hope they didn't just replace 2 with 3.
I worked hard on y2k issues in 1998-1999. It was a real thing for my company at the time. It was a crisis averted. In the 80’s and 90’s I worked on many systems where the equivalent of “max date” or “end of time” was expressed as 12/31/99. The way that these systems expressed, stored, entered, and validated dates all had to be reworked in a series of major overhauls.
But how much will his exit package be?
Link doesn’t seem to lead to the story itself. Try:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/patrick-obrian-nikolai-to...

I don’t mind that O’Brian was so... creative about his biography, nor that Maturin was such a Mary Sue. The books are treasures. Currently on my third or fourth readthrough of the series, on the fourth volume.
A Vacancy Has Been Detected
It's like the Ozone layer and acid rain.

Climate sceptics often use these as an excuse. "Yes but there was sooo much hubbub about those and it proved to be nothing".

Well, yes it is nothing now because it was decisively and effectively handled. The ozone layer is still recovering but on a steady path there, and acid rain is reduced to the point of not really being an issue anymore (at least in the western world!).

Stuff really would have gone wrong with Y2K. Maybe not armageddon but yes. There was a problem.
Streak (YC S11) is hiring experienced support specialists
This makes me wonder if life expectancy in terms of years would be proportionally shorter if our days were say 48hrs instead of 24. Would slowing the earth's rotation have the side effect of extending our lifespan?
Another possible scenario: You spend years cracking a new invention. A company you are currently working for files a patent, and then fires you. You are no longer allowed to use the knowledge that is in your head.

I think this scenario is more realistic.
How to balance ISO certification with agile software engineering?
Hi all -- I work at a startup that develops enterprise software. Over the years, many processes have materialized, making our process to bring value into the product cumbersome and stifling.

Any time I suggest lightening the process, management falls back on the claim that we have to stay ISO certified so we have to do XYZ!

The bratty kid inside me wants to pound on the floor and 'just get it done', but I would love to see if the folks here have worked in ISO certified software shops to understand if there's a way to balance the quality management benefits of ISO with fast paced software development cycles. Looking forward to reading people's thoughts...
GP is referring to the fact that the recent widespread vaping illness was caused by illicit cannabis cartridges (in particular, one or more cutting agents used). I doubt there is anything like a certified list of safe products, but the recent scare is unrelated to products sold through legal distribution chains.
Some of us like this in our leaders. I guess I subconsciously want to hear the truth, and assume less subterfuge if people are not using political speech. Kindness and political speech have me second guessing, which is more uncomfortable than taking criticism and moving on.
Israel shutters schools, universities as coronavirus patients top
What kind of coding do you do where a 1K class is considered large?
Maybe keeping the market from doing something much worse than "meh" was the point, and this was a success?
If you mean the OPEC thing: this really is a wild guess, I'm not convinced in the least. And insane volatility of Bitcoin is old news, anybody who said otherwise obviously never looked at the trading charts in his whole life. In fact, it's volatility is the main real reason it's interesting to the majority of BTC users: they only need it to speculate. Nobody really buys anything for BTC.

And other cryptocurrencies are still very much tied to BTC, so when BTCUSD falls dramatically, they do as well.
Massive disaster can be a huge distance from human extinction. A 1% die off is a massive disaster but even a 99% megadeath is 75 million people short of killing us all. I haven't seen any likely AGW scenarios that get us close to that. Maybe someone could point me that way.
Devastating news. It’s sad enough that the NBA season was stopped, but the NCAA tourney is often the high-water mark and finale for most of its players’ careers. But it’s a wise decision nonetheless; I’m surprised it was decided before a player or coach was diagnosed with covid19
> Or it doesn't pass, because of all the stuffing, and dems get yet another example of republicans moving slowly on the issue and blocking much-needed reform.

Yep, and that's exactly why we've elected 8 Republican administrations (not counting Ford because he wasn't elected), and 5 Democratic administrations since 1968. Oh, wait....
What about an economic pause for 2 months? All rent/mortgage payments are paused, you only have to deal with the most critical costs (food, utilities) for a short period of time and then the economy resumes as best it can after the threat is gone? Of course, its not like it'll go away after just 2 months.
The RPN calculator example makes me really happy.

As for the content of this page, there's a line within that now applies to itself:

Introductory articles – somewhat dated but nevertheless rather informative:

k4, what it lists as the most recent version, is about 20 years old now, and it talks about it like it's new. Still informative, though!

EDIT: Giving it another look, it looks like the links have been updated over time (for example, the reference to oK), though the main content of the post is about ten years old
and the initial list of links is over ten:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110927003800/http://www.math.b...
A C# programmer examines Rust – Part 1
> I've been writing about this for years but it's insane to me that Twitter is not stopping this.

If it doesn't impact shareholders' profits, it goes to the bottom of the to-do list.
New Coronavirus Dashboard: Faster Updates
So soft. Teams should just play. Anyone that isn't sick can play. It's a 5v5 game. Next thing you know tennis matches will be canceled.
What's wrong with Steins;Gate Elite?
On the contrary, nicotine in and of itself is quite harmful. It’s debatable if it causes cancer, but it definitely contributes to lung and heart disease, among other things. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
What's more insidious: if we had acted drastically to prevent pandemic, no one would have felt any sting, and it might reduce the motivation to take drastic action the next time.

I listened to Richard Mueller's "Physics for Future Presidents" podcast course, and he presents an interesting conundrum: say you're the mayor of a small town, and a seismologist approaches you with a report of a 15% chance of a devastating earthquake next Tuesday, recommending a citywide evacuation. Being a responsible mayor, you do so, despite the cost and displeasure of your constituents. On Tuesday, no earthquake occurs, and the town repopulates. This happens ten more times over several years, and still no earthquakes (after all, each occurrence is only a 15% chance). Sure enough, another Tuesday, another 15% prediction, and citizens are getting frustrated. As the mayor: do you order another evacuation, especially if it's costing you significant resources and political capital? How can you tell the difference between getting lucky on the numbers, and a bad seismologist? Even if the data is accurate, how do you not succumb to the temptation to play the odds?

If there's any silver lining to our failure to prevent the pandemic, it's that maybe we'll take the problem more seriously on the next pandemic, perhaps one with a much higher fatality rate.
It does vary but I was in Dallas for an event a few years back. I identified a restaurant about a quarter mile from the hotel/venue. Turned out I literally could not walk there. I've had the same thing happen to me in a couple other places.
The infection is continuously compounding. This video is hand wavy, but it shows the relationship:

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
If you want mass testing, you need to create circumstances that allow people to go and get tested. If a positive test would result in a quarantine without a financial "safety net", then people won't agree to be tested or will ignore test results and the goal of the bill will fail.

Actually doing the tests and "here's what will happen if you get tested positive, and it's not horrible and won't bankrupt you" are two sides of the same coin. I mean, the end goal is not tests as such but to restrict spread of the disease. If "tests are available" but if the vulnerable parts of the population (e.g. the dude putting stuff on the shelf of your local store or the girl at the counter) don't have that safety net, then the testing was useless because they'll still go to work and infect you and others. So this safety net is a key part of the bill.
The descriptivists don't even win, they just accept reality. Language is not constructed by individual humans or small groups, but socially over entire societies. Fighting this makes prescriptivists look like grumpy armchair academics and still doesn't stop me from saying "le weekend".
>Case in point? Media reports that bill forcing employers to provide sick leave failed to pass because of evil Republicans. What you won't see on the news is the nuance that such a bill can't be passed without possibly bankrupting small businesses.

The bill literally includes the funding to pay for sick leave. That's why it's a FUNDING bill - I think you're confused about who is being mislead by propaganda.

Meanwhile, the GOP is trying to insert language about abortion into the bill because...?
My Indian coworker says he's never seen a worse public transit system than SF.

I have no conflicting data to offer.
The real disaster is that every American worker doesn't already have these benefits.
Doing the Lord’s work
Most everyone would be amazed at much networked equipment is in a WalMart supercenter. By the time I left, there were four routers, four big core switches, a couple dozen 'edge' switches, and scores of access points. And that's just the networking gear. As of 2009, my team's network discovery system had identified tens of millions of separate IP addressable nodes on the global network.

At that scale, everything had to be almost perfectly automated.

And, to be clear, this was not a static, boring network. Stores, home offices, distribution centers, you name it, were being added, moved, expanded, deallocated 24 hours a day, all over the world.

And the device configs were far from cookie cutter. An eye-wateringly complex heuristic was required to dynamically create router, switch and access point config that would allow a given store to function.

And, one quarter in the early 2000s, we (Network Engineering) achieved six sigma (99.9999%) global uptime.

Things did start going downhill around 2004 or so, a few years after Kevin Turner became CIO.