skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me put it this way: symptomatic cases as a percent of the population in China and South Korea are multiple orders of magnitude lower than what we saw on the cruise ship, and the growth of cases testing positive (or showing symptoms) is slowing (in absolute not just relative terms).
Rightfully so
Often, avoiding ‘ing’ reads better anyway. “More useful messages when unwrap() panics” would have been fine.
It’s been almost 2 years of WFH and my observations are:
1. Schedule: You need to have a proper schedule for tasks aligned for the day, working hours (9-5), break, etc. Do follow the schedule strictly.
2. Orientation: Working should be task oriented.
3. Reading: Keep atleast an hour a day for reading on topics related to your profession to keep yourself updated with the market.

Don’t:
1. Do not cater unnecessary calls from friends/families during the working hours.
2. Avoid distractions like movies, games, etc.
3. Don’t extend working hours until there is something urgent. It helps you manage your time.
I think you can use any version of Visual studio to write C programs. I recently did a video tutorial using Visual Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaDzgmZvY00 on the "C++ Modulus Operator" https://www.mycplus.com/tutorials/cplusplus-programming-tuto...
It can and that is part of the plan. If I am compromised, regardless of by whom, I want others to know.
Have you tried cadquery [1]? It can do what you want and I think it's superiour to OpenSCAD in every way. It uses OpenCascade under the hood.

[1] https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery
> More generally, in times where people would rather have useful things like food, tools, and gas than pieces of paper you'll be screwed if cash is all you have...

This may be happening in some limited fashion even in the current crisis. My country still has its own currency within EU, and is undergoing unprecedented levels of lockdown over the last few days. The currency is already tanking compared to Euro (lost 4% over a few days), as people stockpile stuff.

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=CZK
It is possible for someone to simultaneously be interested in starting up a company and also recognize / call out logical fallacies.
I didn't read The Selfish Gene, the book that coined the term "meme", but I heard that it mostly explores that analogy, for a much broader definition of meme.
In Icelandic the word for life is "líf", there is also another word "eilíf" which is concatenated from "ei" meaning "not" and "líf" meaning "life". This word means "eternal".

Therefore: The definition of life is "not eternal" (if you assume the law of excluded middle - actually the definition of "eternal" is "not life" :)
> Essentially, if you take Google up on software patents and copyright, there will be no protection left for software.

... and this is a bad thing?
As someone who's getting in to Rust, does anyone have suggestions on blogs or people on Twitter to follow that would be good for continuing to push the envelope of my knowledge of Rust? I've got a couple, but I'd love more.
Is she allowed visitors? Where is she being held?
> The poorest of the poor in this country is in magnitude better conditions than their companions in other countries.

This is objectively untrue by pretty much any measure.

For instance on plenty of health related metrics the US is significantly worse than most first world countries (such as infant mortality), and some regions are worse than even many third world countries (such as Texas).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

44th on this list

The idea that poor people are significantly better off in the USA is a flat out lie.
We have just had an announcement in the Netherlands with pretty much the same, except for one notable differnce.

The Dutch government keeps schools open. They say closing schools would also force many parents to stay at home and that many of them are much needed in health care, police etc..
I've been thinking about that bit regularly in the past couple of days. "I want some answers that Ja Rule might not have right now."
I'm pretty sure he meant that if you have a ready customer base in a bad economy, you're providing something of real value because people reduce spending on luxuries.
I'm truly struggling to understand how gold can be censored.

Also, left out of this discussion is the fact that gold is actually tangible, divorced from some weird semantic backflips. You can build useful things with it.
I agree. I think I'll be adding to my shorts here. I'd still be very interested in hearing a real experts opinion on what this QE move does to inflation.
Taxpayer Subsidies and Tax-Breaks for Ivy League Colleges
Fed to Inject $1.5T in Bid to Prevent ‘Unusual Disruptions’ in Markets
I wouldn't be surprised if there was significant amount of sell off occurring because people are looking to start stockpiling home supplies. I've known more than a few conspiracy minded people that collect crypto currencies due to a belief that it will be a safe haven in the event of a government collapse, and the current Corona virus panic is probably causing a lot of them to realize that all of the bitcoin in the world may not be enough to get you a single roll of toilet paper if that time ever came.
Are you actually taking issue with the fundamentals of my argument or just annoyed by my equating USD to a virtual currency?
Italy is geographically half the size of Texas and South Korea is 1/7 the size of Texas. It's considerably easier to do widespread testing when everyone practically lives next to everyone else.
The chemicals needed to do a test are in short supply. I would assume Italy and South Korea used a lot of the supply, meaning less for anyone else. Italy of course clearly needed all they used (and more), while Korea could be argued used to much. Note that latter is a no-win situation - nobody knows exactly how much testing is needed, either you test what is probably too much or you don't test enough.

Or you can not test, and treat everybody as infected. For hospitals and high risks people you should be doing that anyway.
New businesses are choosing cities with good public transportation: study
Very prescient and prophetic article
Or perhaps late 80s Soviet bloc crash.
Its complicated but people were guessing the right thing. In effect, if something isn't updated that should be, I am assumed compromised and things start to happen. This isn't specific to a will or mortality. I just don't want people to wait until I have been missing for weeks before someone lifts a finger. :-)
Time travel is like UFOs:

If there are aliens out there, why haven’t we met some by now?

If there are time travellers, why isn’t anybody making accurate predictions?

If rich people exist, why hasn’t one given me a million dollars?
It is for retail investors, but Treasuries are the real "King" when there's a liquidity crunch. Bonds are basically as liquid as it gets, and safer than than cash. That's why yields go down in situations like we see right now.

Not that I think that a liquidity crunch is happening right now anyways since liquidity is readily available if we judge by the Fed rates and how commited towards supporting the repo markets they seem to be. And even just the psychological effect of that strong Fed support make everyone feel safer about their liquidity levels, which makes a run for cash even less likely! Liquidity is probably the biggest self-fulfilling prophecy in Finance.
Well isn’t it obvious:

Senior Lead Blockchain Architect Managing Director - Growth Team.

Followed by another position on the resume where he did Blockchain since he was 12 as the tech lead of a one person team. ( so you know, 13 years professional experience).

In between those two there’s a nice Blockchain bootcamp.

Below it all is the obvious Masters in Fine Arts from an Ivy League school.

Edit:
I totally forgot to add something to the title: Senior Full Stack Lead Blockchain Architect Managing Director - Growth Team.

Totally forgot ‘full stack’, can’t ever forget that.
How to work from home effectively: Tips from the remote-first Grafana Labs team
Interesting! My girlfriend told me off recently after I washed my hands with a soap bar because we ran out of liquid hand wash. For me it's the reaction of water and soap all together that matters, this happens regardless of the state of the soap (foam, hard, liquid...).
One system I worked on showed the date as year 3900, because the function for getting current year would return 2 digit for year < 2000, and full 4 digit for >= 2000. So the code did 1900 + GetYear(). Replaced it with just calling GetFullYear() or something like that.
> It's hard to imagine he would incentivize Pelosi to pass an aid bill just so he can block it, what is the political upside for him if he does that?

If it looks like it doesn't have a chance of passing anyway, it provides an opportunity to publicly rebuke the other party. He pushed through AoC's Green New Deal with a smirk [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/aocs-green-new-deal-dies-in-...
https://readrust.net/ collects blog posts.
Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter.
Don't trust nice people in business
Really? Even in flyover country the people I know tend to understand that it was only not an issue because of hard work on the front-end.
I think that's broadly true but it should at least be pointed out that static dispatch tends to end up inflating binary size and compilation time. Rust also supports dynamic dispatch so you can make a context dependent choice.
> a stopped clock is right twice a day

Without another working clock, that's still not super useful, as you can't figure out when it's right.
Not when you run out of raw materials to make the tests. I could leave my job and create them, but that would take months to train me (and maybe years if I have to create my own equipment - it takes time to become a certified welder as just one task that doesn't scale quickly)
My OS is arch linux. It seems like the app does not use xdg-open (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open ). Setting the BROWSER environment variable also doesn't seem to work. I don't know any other way to set the default browser.
Well, not anymore, now that Supreme Courts decided that the federal government can do whatever it wants. Originally though, the authors of the constitution, and the convention, had a very clear idea and very clear limits on what federal government can do, in fact enumerating those things. Social safety net is not one the enumerated list of things government can do, and the constitution would never have passed in the first place if the convention members had thought it is.

What happened however was that the Supreme Court decided that the enumerated clauses are irrelevant, and that government can do whatever it wants, just saying magic words of "general welfare" and "interstate commerce". That's why there's no interest in passing amendments anymore: why bother when you can just get Supreme Court to stamp whatever you want?

I'm not against having federal social safety net, but I'd prefer it to be passed the way founders intended, and how things used to be done before the Progressive era in Supreme Court: by expanding the enumerated list of things government can do, through constitutional amendment. What I don't like is having it passed through the Supreme Court backdoor, by interpreting the constitution literally opposite to what it was intended and commonly understood to mean when it was written.
What is the point of putting motion sense in a device that spends its entire life either in your hand or within arm's reach? They stuck a kinect in a phone but won't give us a damn headphone jack?
>discord.gg/rust-lang

Why not plug the rust channel on Matrix?
> If you want to store only the year, why not store the years since 1900? That way in a single byte you can go all the way up until 2155.

You're making an assumption in that statement that there's a byte and it's eight bits in length. This was not always true. Punch cards didn't really work that way, and fair number of CPU's didn't either.

Early machines used various decimal systems and 6-bit characters were widespread also. This explains a bit of why the C language and descendants often have native support for Octal literals and Unix permissions are built around three bit groupings.

On a personal note, even in the very early 90's, I also remember using a CDC machine (a descendant of Seymour Cray's 6600) that supported 60-bit words with 6-bit characters. Pressure to move to 64 bit words with 8-bit bytes resulted in dual mode design that could be booted either way.
You're not considering that a big part of the reason for that might be due to the regulations!
> You can't refuse to readmit a US citizen (as in a person that can prove that they're readily a US citizen)

Note the: as in a person that can prove that they're readily a US citizen. If you don't have a passport, you probably can't readily prove you are a citizen.
The Samson Switchblade flying car
A virus is not able to reproduce itself on its own. Because of that I don't consider virus as a life form. I'm biologist, in case it matters.
Wouldn't the situation where you could just refuse any judicial order and then be set free erode the credibility of the entire judicial system in the eyes of the public? The point of contempt charge is to give teeth to judicial orders, otherwise it's just some ramblings of some random person sitting behind a desk in some fancy building, and there's no reason why anybody should listen to them. The credibility of the system, in part, rests in its ability to enforce judicial decisions.
No provisions for non-US citizens to opt out. Can't say I'm surprised.
Assets are rather useful though, depending on what they are.

If it's living space, that's rental value right there. If it's production hardware, depends on what you produce, from which sources and how easy it is to reconfigure.
Farming assets can become extremely valuable.
If the asset is a stockpile of a good, again, some goods can become very valuable.

Owned land, depends, unless it's somehow prepared it's likely not useful.

Assets such as office space, hardware and supplies, not so valuable.
I was not commenting on that, simply informing the poster about the issue.
Your employment situation is uncertain, you give away most of your income, you have minimal savings _and_ you speculate in the stock market?

You, sir, are made of sterner stuff than I.
let's put this way Apple's redesign Mac laptop launch in 2021 is not using intel chips but their own chip
Cost+ is a cancer that needs to die.
I thought the reason behind that was because they wanted to make uniform charging ports so companies like GM didn't make proprietary ports you couldn't charge teslas with and vice versa.
Holding Bitcoin is not a semantic backflip. Do you hold the dollars in your bank account?

Also: gold can easily be confiscated and it has been before - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102.

How much gold do you think you can travel with? Think the TSA would allow even $100k of gold to be carried on your person?

Given golds limited supply, why has the price been relatively stable in dollars (which are unlimited)? Because the gold market can easily be manipulated because central banks and Govs hold most of the supply and they can, and do, suppress with targeted market supply flooding.
C/C++ programs will normally have function names in backtraces, just not line numbers.

$ cat test.c
int g() {
int *p = 0;
*p = 5;
}

int f() {
g();
}

int main() {
f();
}
$ cc test.c
$ ./a.out
[1] 3377 segmentation fault (core dumped) ./a.out
$ gdb -q a.out core
Reading symbols from a.out...
(No debugging symbols found in a.out)
[New LWP 3377]
Core was generated by `./a.out'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x0000557379b7613d in g ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000557379b7613d in g ()
#1 0x0000557379b76158 in f ()
#2 0x0000557379b7616d in main ()
somehow, I'm skeptical that the US's main mid term problem is going to be too many old people.
Are you being sarcastic?

...

You should be.
If IBM is patent trolling now it means they're on death watch... this is a top indicator of a failing company.
> Novel coronaviruses and high-lethality flu strains aren't going to stop appearing, and if anything are going to become increasingly common

You aren't wrong. South Korea has prior experience in this arena and they've done really well by learning from their prior contagions.

I think there is a lot the Fed could do to enable state CDCs to handle outbreaks in the future. Part of all of this is the logistical half: materials for testing (which I understand is one of the major slowdowns this time around), distribution of knowledge, etc.

There's a lot of ground to cover even at a municipal level. The Fed has the ability to collect information and act as a hub of best practices. I think that will be critical for saving lives this time around and next.

[edit for missing words]
That article says 50,000 accounts were "linked to Russia". Do you know who linked them to Russia and by what criteria? They weren't actually controlled by the Russian government because the article cites that figure at only 3,000.

The hysteria over Russia as an excuse to ignore the concerns of Americans who support populist positions is pretty transparent at this point.
> The ACLU said that its recent Freedom of Information Act request to better understand the system has been ignored. Now it’s suing to ask a judge to turn over the documents.

I'm not certain, but it seems like the government ignoring FOIA requests has been an ongoing problem for years. I'm reading FOIA.gov right now, and don't see anything yet, but are there any explicit deadlines for a reply or automatic penalties for dropping requests on the floor instead of replying? Are there good reasons why some requests should be ignored, as opposed to, say, citing an exemption?
What is the justification for considering one to be fake and the other real?
In case of a deflationary economy (unlikely imo), wouldn't Treasuries' yields adjust and still be as widely accepted and safe as they are now? Huge amounts of cash are an extremely risky way to hold liquidity in general, and much more so in a deeply depressed economy. There is simply no way to insure that much money against a potential bank bankruptcy or for banks to hold it without parking it anywhere.
It's only a win-win from the political perspective of the house majority. From the perspective of the public good, legislation needs to pass. The people will not really benefit from another political missile being added to one side's arsenal, they need working legislation.
I'd love to see a patent as you describe that has not been found invalid in a PTAB or Art. III court proceeding
Not sure why this is so taboo, I know there are molecular biologists on this site. Anyway, Zinc is the only thing that will slow the RNA transcoding process of the virus in your lungs, but getting enough zinc into cells is hard. You can use a prescription drug Chloroquine to improve the transport, but it has nasty side effects. Vitamin D3 isn't a vitamin at all. It is a precursor to the hormone 25 hydroxy. That is used by several hundred functions in your body, including your adaptive immune system, in conjunction with L-Glutamine to produce white blood cells and much more than I could cover on HN. The virus binds quite easily to ACE2, so you have to slow that down enough that your adaptive immune system can keep up. Smokers and obese people and eldery have the most ACE2 from lung inflammation.

Some things to watch or look at

CoV Map: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

CoV Rates: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Mutations: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

MedCram: https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDCRAMvideos/videos

The mutations are probably the most interesting. I would be curious what company is going to cover all of them in a vaccine.
To be fair to IBM, what your director may have been saying is that their use was primarily defensive, which it is and was for IBM. It’s not wrong for them to patent as much as they are able to, it serves an important disclosure function. When I worked at the USPTO, we used several patent databases. The US, of course, Japan, Europe, and IBM. IBM had their own database because of how significant their IP was. So while it’s unfortunate that they’ve taken the offensive in this case, historically IBM has been an important and relatively benign player in the IP landscape.
First Question: Yes. But the mission and responsibility was not eliminated. To claim that is irresponsible at best.

Second Question: Obviously not.

Third Question: The Snopes piece is devious in that it suggests, as a result of the restructuring, the Trump administration single-handedly gave up the mission and responsibity of responding to infectious disease crises, pandemics and bio-weapon attacks. The reality is that there are layers upon layers of civilian and military procedure and doctrine supporting this mission and responibility.
Gotta soothe those Animal Spirits.
JPEG XL does better for small images if we talk about small as 32x32 pixels. It's header overhead is far less than anything else.

JPEG XL's current encoder is focused on qualities 0.5 BPP and upwards. Current internet image usage averages at 2 to 3 BPP based on Chrome stats from June 2019. See https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of... Figure 1.

When you go to 0.1 BPP, every codec will look unacceptable, but the current encoder of JPEG XL looks worse than video codecs.

We will likely be able to extend the scale of handling bad quality down to 0.1 to 0.25 BPP, but it definitely has not been a priority since we don't anticipate that users actually would use it for photographs.

(When an image has a low noise level or less features, then we naturally can compress it down to 0.00x BPP with JPEG XL, too. The 0.5 BPP rule of thumb is for normal vacation photographs and selfies :-)
Feed a Cold, Don't Starve It (2016)
Encryption doesn't matter if we eventually get to the point that Apple can be forced to run a key-logger on a user's iPhone (warrant or not). People are lazy and won't use an extra app to "encrypt" something before copy/pasting it into FB and then the other uses has to copy/paste back to the Memespeech app; all just to send :D. Additionally, let's say encryption is banned and this is the "workaround". They just ban this app in the AppStore. No way users are building github repos and side-loading.