skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue was not the presence of goto itself, but the fact that is was one of the main tools for flow control, while as you say it should be used sparingly.

It is like having an army of soldiers armed with a David Crockett[1] instead of a regular rifle. Things may get ugly fast.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_devic...
I do the same on Ubuntu: ctrl+shift+PrntScr to screenshot part of your screen to your clipboard.
Maybe Disney, more likely. Hollywood has essentially frozen production and from what I'm hearing they're really not setup for working remote in pre/post (especially the latter). Combine with delayed releases, cancellation of film festivals (which are marketplaces as much as exhibitions for content) and the new releases this year appear to be on a giant delay.

Disney is interesting because they have the deepest bench, so to speak in terms of catalog. They also have the kids stuff, and all the kids are at home. They also had their stock dip below $100 with the crash this week, had to shutdown their parks, and quite recently reorganized the entire direct to consumer business. I'd put some money on Disney coming out on top there.

Netflix relies on new content to reduce churn. If production is halted I don't know how that looks for them. However if you take out their capex on production, they suddenly become stupidly profitable. So who knows.
There's at least one study that disqualifies the market as the epicenter. I think the reason people want it to be the market is then it's obviously an accident or ignorance, not a malicious act.

> The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report.

[snip]

> Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December.

Ref: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market...
That old 2015 article is out of date, and the brand new Cochrane review presents evidence which downright contradicts a number of its findings. Notably, that old article claims AA has a 5% success rate, but the new Cochrane review sees a 41.8% success rate for people who got treatment which got them in the rooms of AA.
Food delivery, medical (esp respiratory support), funeral services. Probably not really long tho.

Better way to think is what is NOT going to change - food, shelter, utilities, telco, etc.

Will go down - luxuries, appliances, home improvement, cars, etc.
Project Open Air – open-source ventilators
fwiw I’ve never had working audio in slack video calls on mac
So they spent the resources to identify what needed to happen in case they couldn't come in to work, but didn't follow through. That is some amazing management.

This will also cause data leakage as people go into work, cause traffic, and get sick. And how closely those people work together.
You can screenshot DOM structures natively by including them in an SVG <foreignObject>, composing an SVG blob URL, rendering it in an <img> tag, and then drawing that to a <canvas>.

I started a project related to this years ago but never finished it. Now that same-origin canvas taint issues have been fixed in most browsers, maybe it's time for me to work on this again.

A related API that is not accessible to web content is Safari's console.screenshot() utility[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/webkit/status/1222236427326373888
There are obviously clipboard managers that watch the clipboard changes and save a history (I can't live without one)

Some apps do little UX tricks like a parcel tracker app that I have would prompt saving a new parcel if it detects a tracking number in the clipboard.

Same as the last one; one of my banking apps detect IBAN numbers in clipboard, offer to initiate a wire directly.
"Monetary History of the United States" by Milton Friedman.

It's tough sledding, but worth it. And by giving the history, one comes to understand how we got to where we are.

"Capitalism" by Reisman gives a solid theoretical foundation on topics like rent control, inflation, etc. I especially found illuminating its coverage of the 1970's oil crisis and how the root cause of it was price controls.

I'd avoid economics books written by journalists and politicians, as all I've run across are dominated by ignorance, bias, and agendas. Ones by economists often have agendas, too, but they aren't nearly as ignorant. Just imagine a technical book about electronics written by a journalist, and you'll know what I mean.
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I have personally seen apps that used the pasteboard to trigger debug ui / extra logging etc.

For example, if the clipboard contained “FPS” when started, an FPS counter would be shown in game.

Note: this was a long time ago, there are better methods now.
Early stories had all of the initial patients being staff at that centre, iirc. Although I thought recently they determined that the actual source was a pangolin?
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a char isn't a character, though. you can't add two characters together and get another character. it's a number.

getchar() gets a char. not a character.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting story.
He is not the only one.

I believe it was an Ask Me Anything with Bill Gates on Reddit.

Someone asked Gates about a third world war and he replied he was more sure and worried about a pandemic.

I have no doubt others in the field had the same thoughts.

The most troubling thing is that a lot of leaders dismissed this information.
That information is, at best, out of date. The new Cochrane study links to a number of studies which show a far higher rate of abstinence than 5% for subjects randomly assigned to undergo treatment which encourages them to be part of the AA fellowship. It reports a 41.8% success rate — actually abstinence from alcohol rate — 12 months after treatment.
One of the main purposes of cryptocurrency IMO is to replace the concept of debt. So I find the idea of using blockchain to implement debt to be ridiculous.
Why do you need debt if any group of people can create a cryptocurrency and raise money that way?

Debt is an outdated concept and a dirty hack on the financial system, it allows one person to lend money to another person to run their business without owning any part of the business. In today's reality, there are two scenarios:

- The business succeeds and the borrower can afford to repay their debt. The lender only gets back their principal plus interest even if the business no matter how successful the business was. If the lender had invested in the business instead, would have gotten more out of it.

- The business fails and the borrower declares bankruptcy. The lender may lose all their principal; they may have gotten some interest payments if the business was running for some time but it typically doesn't come anywhere close to offsetting the loss of principal. Liquidating remaining assets likely won't cover it either. If the lender had invested in the business instead - In the event of business failure, they may still have been able to get similar returns because they could get a share of the value of remaining assets from liquidation. The only thing they would miss out on is preferential treatment in the event of liquidation... Which is the financial equivalent of travelling first class on the Titanic.

So debt as a concept doesn't make sense from the lender's perspective. As a lender, if you win, your upside is limited. If you lose, your downside is not limited (not any more than it would have been if you had owned the shares outright and could benefit from asset liquidation in case the business had to shut down).
Not only that, but forcing the business to constantly make debt repayments only makes it more likely that they will fail. The lender is setting themselves up for failure from the beginning.

That's why only banks loan nowadays. It doesn't make sense. It just allows the Fed to keep giving free money to their cronies.
while true, it is super early in this disease. I'd think outcomes would improve over time as there is more experience, and more medication testing happening right now
Ventilator availability is limiting our ability to get care to the most people we can.
Apple Closes All Its Stores Outside China over Coronavirus
I consider this article so much in the spirit on those kind years : http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html
Kanban vs Scrum: The Two Frameworks of Agile Principles
I agree, I've had nothing but trouble with it.

Just the other day, I don't know if serious or not, I read the Phoenix framework's author say I solve 100% of my dialyzer issues by not using dialyzer on Slack.
China, India and the US aren't individuals, but countries.

Isn't the global warming personal equivalent "if the wealthy all keep taking lavish intercontinental vacations every other month, why do I need to switch from my car to the bus to get to work, even if it takes twice the time"? I find that a good question, and the usual answer "they're doing that to promote awareness" doesn't satisfy me, really.
AWS will make bank on the infrastructure for so much remote work.
> Quickly and easily design and make a GUI program with n real training

If you're starting from scratch, VB.NET is not really any harder to use for this purpose than VB6.
See, this is why you should not believe Wikipedia.

The DOS syscall interface has no concept of an EOF character. ^Z being considered EOF was a feature of the COPY command, later replicated by the runtimes of various languages targetting DOS.

http://jdebp.info/FGA/dos-character-26-is-not-special.html
Not sure if it is a parody.
> https://www.projectopenair.org/

From https://app.jogl.io/project/121#about

>> Current Status of the project

>> The main bottleneck currently (2020-03-13) is organization / management.

>> […] This is an organization of experts and hobbyists from around the globe.
What if people aren’t ventilated early enough? Would that increase mortality?
Wiring and Cabling: How to Lace Cable Harnesses (1962)
It's fair to say that a LOT of people saw it coming. Just in recent history we've dealt with Ebola, MERS, SARS so that they are viruses looking to become best buddies with us is not new, and it doesn't require a visionary to notice.
Maybe their cars updates are only allowed to go to .toyota domain names? That’d make it easier to not have your domain name expire on some URL your car is hitting and it gets taken over by squatters or something. At least that’s what I’d do.
For one thing, there was no VB6 language spec, and the docs were rather informal when it comes to syntax definition (which is very non-trivial - all the "special" functions etc).
Sure, I've spent months being the funny doomsayer guy at work and everyone hah, it's like a flu. no problems. But the difference between me and this guy is he's an expert who saw it coming.
Go check your security permissions for your microphone. This happened a lot at my work. People probably told Slack ‘no’ the first time, long ago, that it wanted mic permissions.
> I'm suggesting that since the back-end server may see the requests as a single request with the second request as part of teh payload of your crafted request, the question then becomes one of "In what ways can I get this site to show one of my params". That's similar to a CSRF, but simpler in that that you don't care that it's unescaped, you just care that it's in the source in some way, since it's what should be displayed back to you for your request.

But the response to the mangled request goes to the victim not the attacker. You need someway to get it from the victim to the attacker (hence use of redirects in the original bug bounty).

> My example above uses GET, so any ampersand (which is probably likely to exist in many queries) will throw it off.

The point i was trying to make is that various specs suggest that semicolons should be treated as an alternative to amparsands, and they are much more common in headers (especially in user-agent). However i imagine much server software doesnt follow that reccomendation so maybe its a moot thing to worry about.
The brain does all the time spatial superresolution by temporal integration! Look up "saccade".

No idea about deconvolution, but I doubt computers can do better job identifying things from blurry images than brains.
I don't think that example you've posted is right (the grab input one, not the game on Github).

Firstly, RESUME was to continue execution after an error (eg ON ERROR RESUME NEXT). I think RETURN is what you might have meant?

Secondly, you cannot RESUME/RETURN from a GOTO. I think you meant GOSUB; which was a crude approximation of subroutines. BASIC did also have GOTO as well though.
IEEE 754 has infinities as well, no need to constrain yourself to DBL_MAX :)
Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson

The Long and Short of It - John Kay

A great place to look is the second hand study books for professional qualifications like the CFA, Chartered Banker and so on
It’s been established for a long time in the treatment field that AA (or pretty much anything else) works a lot better than no treatment.

Brandsma 1980 is the only study I can think of off of the top of my head comparing AA (and a few other therapies) to no treatment; AA (and everything else) did significantly better than getting no help.

What this new Cochrane study demonstrates is that AA is more effective at giving alcoholics long-term abstinence than traditional psychotherapy treatments.
Unexpectedly emotional. Movie about how people feel when meeting the new technology, not about the computers.
I've been looking over the designs being put forward in the various places now, and I cannot understand why people aren't just planning to copy the Manley ventilator.

This was the standard ventilator in Europe for decades. It is simple to design, does not even require electricity (mechanical solution driven by air from central compressed air system) so all parts can be sourced locally, and the design has a clinically proven track record.

Here is a video with schematic showing how it works:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CrUfblki6Zs
San Francisco locks down all hospitals until April 30
Ask HN: Second order effects of Coronavirus
What do you think the down stream impacts could be?

E.g. Economic recession, central
banks run out of ideas to stimulate economy, virus mutates and becomes worse/better, greater or worse global communication, healthcare fails in some regions, supply chain fails, regulatory intervention on food pricing, mass working from home....
> There's at least one study that disqualifies the market as the epicenter.

Yeah, that's basically what I'm asking. There's a seemingly-obvious candidate that's just right there, that I remember hearing of a month or so ago, that's not even offered as a possibility now.
Thanks! Link doesn't resolve for me. I'm outside US...
All this innovations, adjustments and frames with joints add extra weight. Going ultralight might be far more beneficial.
While the US's Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the most well known, Canada's Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve is way more amusing and fascination especially after they had a massive theft.

It was a fluid situation but they caught the sticky fingered thieves and delivered sweet sweet justice.

Ref: https://business.time.com/2012/12/24/why-does-canada-have-a-...
You can't draw this conclusion from the linked study due to how the sample was constructed.

"In this retrospective, multicentre cohort study, we included all adult inpatients (≥18 years old) with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 from Jinyintan Hospital and Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital (Wuhan, China) who had been
discharged or had died by Jan 31, 2020."

There might be a bunch of patients who needed ventilation and went on to survive, but had not been discharged before the cut-off date.
Thing is, it was never about language capability. VB6 with COM was still faster in terms of development cycles for people used to the woes back then. Though I'd argue that the few differences there were between VBScript/VBA and VB6 made it much more capable from a development perspective back then... Most of my VB6 bubble moved to VB.Net during the transition, the widespread move to C# with those folks came years later when it became somewhat inevitable. After all, for the typical type of application, language is honestly mostly irrelevant as long as it does not get in your way.

All this feels a little like history repeating itself. We even naively made up a petition back then to keep VB6 around, somewhat glad that led nowhere in retrospect. A few decades ago I loved that the VB ecosystem was approachable and combined beginners and professional users. I somewhat think we have enough other good tools that fit this description these days, some of which incidentally even come with a good programming language.
Document security – how to find who's leaked a confidential document?
"Bags? Where we going we don't need [dropping nonexistent glasses] bags."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/08/the-art-and-scie...
> I’m stunned by the absolute absence of global dialogue for what is a global event. In Europe right now, you would never believe that there was a European Union.

This is my key takeaway. A lot of the damage is in the end self-inflicted. People seem not to be able to act cohesively at an inter-national scale, not even within a country group that is supposedly designed for that.

Whether it's pandemics, global warming or nuclear weapons this lack of cooperation shows up again and again.
Just to be clear.

I have no opinion on whether this is blown out of proportion.

I can just see that my own country is choosing the most extreme measures (packaged in nationalistic rhetorics) where as our neighbours are not.

The idea that the population should be sampled so the exact extent of the spread can be measured (and so can the effect of the various policies) is not mine. Here is a Danish doctor calling for the same:

https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/overlaege-regeringens-corona...

In Danish. Headline: The Government's Corona-strategy misses focus on the engine of the epidemic
Low-cost portable ventilator (2010)
That is a common misconception.

http://jdebp.info/FGA/dos-character-26-is-not-special.html
I wouldn't say that COM died with .NET - .NET had COM support baked deeply into the platform, to the point of language hacks where to this day, you can "new" a specially defined interface in C# (originally it was a way to reference the associated default coclass for a COM interface, if any). It's very easy to use and create COM libraries, and WinForms fully supports ActiveX controls.

Even as late as 2010, COM support in .NET was still being developed - C# 4 got named indexers for this reason alone, and its "dynamic" supported IDispatch out of the box - its main scenario being Office automation.
I know nothing about this field, however when I looked up "invasive mechanical ventilation" Wikipedia told me: "Mechanical ventilation is termed "invasive" if it involves any instrument inside the trachea through the mouth, such as an endotracheal tube or the skin, such as a tracheostomy tube. Face or nasal masks are used for non-invasive ventilation in appropriately selected conscious patients. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_ventilation]

The device is pictured here https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES5Skn-X0AAkn3j?format=jpg, according to another comment, and it has a "Face or nasal mask" and is therefore non-invasive. The gloomy death rate cited in the Lancet article not be relevant to this machine and it might be a genuine lifesaver in the care of COVID-19 patients.
I liked Trading and Exchanges by Larry Harris
Not a doctor but with I've been reading yes! xx% have their lungs drowning in water, and need to be intubated. Death rates differ based on care received, Wuhan was overrun with sick people and a lot died. Percentage wise, a lot less died in other parts of China.
You don't need any of that. VB6 had C FFI (Lib/Alias), structs, and function pointers (AddressOf). So you could just implement a function in straight C, compile it into a DLL, and invoke it from VB.
> I'm really hoping we see some early hardware encoding/decoding implementations for AV1 given the number of companies who are in support of it.

Hardware decoding is fine. Hardware encoding is fine if you want to live-capture something. But if you want to optimize for quality/byte then hardware encoders usually fall short and I assume they would do even more so with something as complex as AV1.

I'm more curious why encoders are all-CPU and not offloading some parts of the search to GPGPU code.
A car has brakes. An engine breaks down.

Apart from that I agree. We forgot the ‘enlightened’ self interest part of capitalism. My wealth means nothing if the planet has to die for me to get it.
What steps have you actually taken? Are you certain that there is no mention of coronavirus in any of your descriptors?
Try out LightShot. Started using it years ago and never looked back. Completely free as well
It’s not bash, it’s the tty device driver. Applications can switch between the ‘cooked’ mode (which recognises it as EOF) and ‘raw’ mode (which passes it through) by performing some ioctl I don’t really want to look up right now.
I miss the old way that organizing notifications by repos, so that I can work on the repos in higher priority.
Here's a link to the patent (description + images): https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190336713A1/en?assigne...
I don't know what Denmark is but I am worried.

Three weeks ago our PM was busy playing petty political games with the opposition, today she is shutting down our borders preventing all foreigners entering the country.
Ah yes, why worry about forgetting to renew a $10 domain name when you can forget to renew a $100,000+ top level domain!
He warned us. We didn't listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI
In the Netherlands anyone can get drugs tested for free and anonymously. I believe this is a very important point of contact for health officials.
We tried out slack calls as a potential SfB replacement. They worked well unless we had a participant on a low-bandwidth connection, in which case it fell apart for everyone. Or possibly high-latency, we never did track down the precise trigger. Unfortunately the person most likely to be on the slow connection was the boss.
Lack of leadership. That happens when the most powerful man in the world is an idiot that doesn't believe in multilateral cooperation.
I think about a gazillion people identified exactly this type of situation as a problem, and we’ve had plenty of other outbreaks. It is completely unsurprising. The UK has done a lot of modelling and prepping for such an event, as I’m sure have other governments, but that doesn’t give you magic powers when it happens.
SARS-CoV-2 Point of Entry into Cells Captured by Cryo-EM
”What if instead of a char, getchar() returned an Option<char>?”

Getchar doesn’t return a char; it returns an int (https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/getchar).

⇒ if C didn’t do automatic conversions from int to char, we would have that (in a minimalistic sense)

That wouldn’t work for ftell and malloc (and, in general, most of the calls that set errno), though.
Parentheses for array indexing dates all the way back to the original Dartmouth BASIC, and from there to the very first FORTRAN. It's one of the oldest pieces of PL syntax still around in its original meaning.
Option<u8>, given that in C ‘characters’ means bytes, not code points.
Unfortunately does not cover all aspects of travelling. Might need required safety equipment etc. But for people hiking I agree :-)