skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there were some public digital clocks in my university that displayed "1900" afterward and so they turned them off and never fixed them or turned them again. that was the only effect of Y2K that I ever saw.

I could see why people would be worried that banking software written in COBOL in 1983 would break and had to spend significant sums of money making sure it didn't. Since it was an extremely predictable problem with a specific, known, non-negotiable deadline everyone who had money to lose if there were a problem had plenty of time and incentive to prevent it.
To be fair, I don't think this purports to say anything about magically making the encoded message legal in its content if it wasn't otherwise.
> No, they weren't. We didn't end up in a mini ice-age.

1. Only a small fraction of scientists predicted an ice age.

2. Those predictions were based on the assumption that we wouldn't do anything to seriously address the increasing release of particulates into the atmosphere. Particulates have a cooling effect.

The models predicting an ice age predicted that the particulate cooling effect would be enough to overcome the warming effect from greenhouse gas emissions.

3. We in fact took particulates seriously, leading to a massive decrease in particulate emissions, thereby invalidating the assumption that led those models to forecast that the cooling effect would overcome the warming effect from greenhouse gases.
> Because if we do react strongly, and it does largely contain the virus, that will also be "proof" (quote-unquote) that it wasn't anything we needed to be so proactive about in the first place.

Even if every other country has Y2K levels of success containing the Coronavirus, we can still point skeptics at the example of places like Italy to prove it was a real threat.
Don't misgender people.
1) certainly, there were real Y2K issues that had to get fixed
2) however, what IT workers in general don't realize, is how many of their systems are broken all the time, in ways that people just learn to live with or work around; this is not all of them, but it does include more than IT folks realize
3) I worked as an engineer in the semiconductor industry at the time, and "it's not Y2K compliant, and cannot be upgraded" was a way to get obsolete equipment replaced, in a way that bypassed normal budget controls. Engineers, salesmen, and managers all engaged in a sort of unspoken conspiracy to get the new equipment purchased. However, this doesn't mean it wasn't a good thing that it happened. Which makes one wonder whether a certain amount of brokenness in accounting and software controls is not necessary for the economy to function
4) countries like Japan, Russia, etc. spent a tiny fraction of the effort in Y2K preparation, and they sailed through. This was in part because of U.S. overhyping it, but also because we were using interconnected computer systems more than other countries were at that time.

So, it's a mix. It was real, it was well-handled, but there was also some hype, and even some hype that served a real (covert) good purpose.
There's a difference between a job and work. There's been many studies about chronic underemployment and lack of benefit by gig economy workers which are in effect working at rates drastically lower than what would be expected if it was actual full time employment as a job.
He was killed. The story left the news cycle before coronavirus happened. So many rich and powerful people were close with him... I don’t think the story is coming back unless unavoidable new evidence is released.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Late_Edgar_A...
eight years in the making? six million domain names? (how does one even address/disable/send requests to registrars for that many?)
Big operation on both ends. Yikes.
The problem is so many software patents just cover "do a thing on a computer," which becomes so broad nobody else can ever do that thing without infringing on the patent. Even if I have an objectively different, even better, way of doing it, software patents are used far too broadly because they tend to protect the act of doing a thing as opposed to specifically how to do the thing.

This is in contrast to something like a hardware patent, where if you patent a tool, and I build a better tool that does the same thing, the mere fact it does the same thing is not infringing unless I copy specific aspects of your patented physical design.

The reform is that an ideal implementation of software patents is largely the same as an ideal implementation of software copyright. I can't just copy what you did, but if I figure out a different way to do it, that's perfectly fine. That's why so many people say scrap software patents altogether and work on improving software copyright instead.
It's still the "de facto" compiler on most flavors of Linux and still tends to produce faster binaries in practice than Clang. That gap, however, continues to narrow.
I created this after trying to use Finicity's API for my personal project. This handles authorization, endpoints and parameters, paging, mapping responses to typed objects.

Note that Plaid has a similar but official Python API library. But so far as I know, it only handles the authorization and endpoints, not the paging and mapping responses to objects.

I'm a little confused why companies whose product is an API don't create robust client libraries as they can do so better and more cheaply than their customers (and only once). If anyone can shed light on why they don't, I would be interested to know.
I believe the correct approach is by looking at purpose, and more importantly primary purpose, rather than try to describe the chair itself.

Eg, a chair is any object whose primary purpose is to sit a single individual

If it's meant to seat multiple people, it's a bench, a sofa, etc, but not a chair

If it's meant to be extra comfortable, it might be a single-seat sofa, but this itself a chair

If it's a rock, but positioned such that it's primary purpose is to sit an individual, such as next to a table, then it's a chair.

And most notably, primary purpose is subjective -- it might be understood as a chair, or as a doorstop, depending on your viewpoint, and what you use it for.
He has a history of suicide attempts so I'm not sure why the authorities continue to leave him unmonitored/poorly monitored. I certainly agree with others this might be attention seeking (a lot of suicide/attempts are) as he certainly courts the outside press a lot.
5 – a stack-based array language
Do they do that with all their patents?
Sorry, in my mind I was addressing mrb directly who surely knows the relevant data already. But you're right I should have included citations for other readers.

The most detailed analysis of Chinese(!) CFR numbers I am aware of, including discussions of all the issues that mrb likes to quote to sow confusion: Riou et al. [0]

Cumulative number of tests performed in South Korea: See the table at [1]; ideally plot the "Total Tested" column logarithmically to see sustained exponential growth clearly.

Confirmed cases in South Korea over time [2]. Plot South Korea alone to see the continuous decay (pretty much from day 1 to right now) of the exponential growth rate clearly.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.04.20031104v...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...

[2] https://studylib.net/coronavirus-growth
Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it!

Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.
Data types are not classes.
Well this seems like something that isn't worth worrying about.
I've never been confused by "drop-down" I was confused by this post, though.
With Memespeech, the encryption tech is wrapped into the transmission format, and the transmission format is Free Speech.

Even if this software were banned, a couple of points remain:
- It's unprovable that any block of Memespeech text has something encrypted in it unless you know the password
- It's easy for a developer to write their own Memespeech implementation based on the documented specification.

Not saying that anyone would violate a hypothetical (and probably unconstitutional) law, but it would be hard to enforce.
security concerns, might be unfounded, but something to consider
Just wait for Y2100. There are still lots of RTCs storing two digit years.
I used to be an oo programmer. Now I'm fully FP, and I'm never going back. When you say "not sold", I guess my question is, have you tried it?
I think it is working exactly as intended. The point of the USPTO is to provide a mechanism for carving up the universe of ideas into plots of land where ownership is clear and backed up by the force of the state. You can charge rent on it, you can develop it yourself, you can leave it idle, it’s yours. Software innovators are a bit like wholesome farmers who just want to labor in the fields, beat the elements and grow good crops to feed the people for a decent profit. That’s nice, but in a country without property law big mean farming operations with security staff will just come and park themselves where you were farming.

The problem I believe, is that software innovators are taught not to worry about patents. Perhaps this attitude helps the VC shops who are experts at it, and it gives them an information advantage. I don’t know who feeds the myth.

In a right-thinking world, we would look at this situation and say Airbnb just started farming on land that was unclearly owned. This is the natural consequence.
It’s also used for https://source.chromium.org. I now host my monorepo on Cloud Source Repositories because it has a super nice integration with the rest of their products.
All of your successes will occur in the dark of night and all of your failures will occur in the bright light of day.

Welcome to most enterprise IT shops.
Because it is a mostly speculative investment. Also because we deep down all know a flu like virus shouldn’t be tanking the global economy, but it is, and we simple don’t know how to measure irrational fear. It’s inertia at this point, we’ll snap out of it when we all suddenly realize ‘ah, ok, so Cruises? Remember those? I’d like to go on one of those again, weird how we thought those companies would go bankrupt, guess we all got a little weird there for a bit’.

There’s no rhyme or reason to this, Bitcoin is in flux just like everything else.
The actual usage of crypto is as an investment just like stock.

It doesn't matter what the ethos behind Bitcoin is, if the market uses it like an investment just like stocks, then that's what it is, and that's how it will behave.
Why is this 25 tweets when something like “lipid envelope” would suffice?
I missed the 1/9, 2/9 and the prescience of counting how many tweets your thread will take.
Tell that to a recruiter. It's their job to find jobs that are a good fit.
> what would happen if that Rust 2015 called `description` on that error if Rust 202X didn't require/allow defining the method `description`?

It's already not required to be defined. Since 1.27.0 there is a default implementation that contains a "description is deprecated" msg.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.42.0/src/std/error.rs.html#139
How is this so high on the news feed? This is old, and not relevant.
Why would you limit yourself to hearing only people who have large followings?
I came here to talk about Liskov, but since you beat me to it I'll mention SOLID principles of class design instead, which it really sounds like the OP isn't aware of or just isn't following and it feels like is the source of a lot of their class based woes.
If you count Steins;Gate (anime available on Netflix in the UK, in which Titor is important), there already is one.
Same here, but an external ultra wide monitor is always useful if you have to manage a bunch of VMs, I use that setup a lot to test an app I'm working on (https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp), which is impossible with the laptop screen size.
https://i.imgur.com/Cf60LtS.png
In some languages runtime polymorphism is not tied to types.
Covid-19 mutations and its evolution
Yes just like Waymo a 10 year bet is for advertising.
What the patent says it's about and what your lawyers say it's about are two different things
You're basicly just sending a readable message.

The thought experiment is:
Banning text message that are clearly readable (with or without message hidden inside, every message could hide something, even not on purpose, so everyone is 'guilty' when chatting) means you're banning freespeech (all chat message).
This isn't so much about businesses that allow message exchange. Memespeech allows users to add their own encryption on top of whatever messages that a particular email provider, chat app or social network already allows. So even with laws like EARN IT, there would be no way for a company like Facebook to prevent people from bringing their own encryption.

There are more robust solutions like GPG, but Memespeech was designed to be easy for people who already have established trust with the party they're communicating with (and could exchange a decryption password off-channel).
I always viewed Clang as faster, and perceived GCC as catching up.
`description` is still a default method, so the default implementation provided by the Error trait would be called.
I wasn't expecting Spring to "solve the problem". I was expecting an ongoing economic disaster to make this year's retirement account contribution a "buy low", which I may someday benefit from if we all come through this.
Patent application, since abandoned, of his time machine: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060073976A1/en

> A method for employing sinusoidal oscillations of electrical bombardment on the surface of one Kerr type singularity in close proximity to a second Kerr type singularity in such a method to take advantage of the Lense-Thirring effect, to simulate the effect of two point masses on nearly radial orbits in a 2+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space resulting in creation of circular timelike geodesics conforming to the van Stockum under the Van Den Broeck modification of the Alcubierre geometry (Van Den Broeck 1999) permitting topology change from one spacelike boundary to the other in accordance with Geroch's theorem (Geroch 1967) which results in a method for the formation of G{umlaut over ( )}odel-type geodesically complete spacetime envelopes complete with closed timelike curves.
A mid-level dev on a local salary in India can afford to take taxis everywhere and have a live in cook/cleaner. I know mid-level developers in Ukraine who outright own their apartments (i.e. no mortgage). Mid-level developers in London are lucky if they can buy an hour from the city center.

So are people in SF, London and other locations are actually underpaid on the global market?

The answer is maybe, because those locations have other benefits too which are less tangible. Measuring quality of living is subjective, some of my Indian and Ukrainian friends will not consider moving to western europe or the US because their quality of life drops signficantly.
GCC has the same value that LLVM had when it was first released: healthy competition for the market leader. The need to compete with LLVM was the best thing that ever happened to the GCC project. A world with only LLVM could easily lead back to a stagnant monoculture.

Therefore, it's in everyone's selfish interest to promote and use both toolchains.
I am and have done both. I tend to prefer a functional style, but even then I'm going to be using classes (or a similar construct) for quite a lot of problems.
There are many well known problems with classic OOP:

http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Subtyping/
History in a Crisis – Lessons for Covid-19
I sometimes use my iPad Pro with Pencil for note taking and it works well. One advantage is that I can record and just write down key points; I can go to that point in the recording if I want what was literally said.

That said, I usually take typed notes (and maybe shoot a few photos with my phone). I can type faster and more legibly than I write and it's easier to turn these notes into a report/article/etc. (Of course, I can always record the whole thing too if I want.)

Bear looks interesting. I haven't looked at my options for a while.
I have no idea what this is about - would it really be such a stretch to add examples of the controls he is on about?
British Social Attitudes Study 2019 [pdf]
And then it will either die in the Senate or somehow pass unanimously with the exception of Rand Paul.
Warren Abstract Machine
A quick web search shows this to be a matter of some dispute. Some cases have been ruled in favor of the executive being able to pardon contempt while others have declared contempt to not be an offense as defined by the Constitution and therefore not pardonable.
Chelsea can think of himself however he wants. Other people are under no duty to ignore the laws of science to satisfy his personal predilections. Especially when he's almost certainly never going to read this anyway. If you personally want to do so knock yourself out but you don't have a right to impose your will on everybody else.
> IBM sued Amazon in October last year, alleging that the company was infringing on a number of its U.S. patents, including those relating to storing data in an interactive network (Patent No. 5,442,771), adjusting hypertext links with weighted user goals and activities (5,446,891) and ordering items using an electronic catalogue (5,319,542)

Hahahahahaha
National healthcare has been attempted for generations now: https://www.healthcare-now.org/legislation/national-timeline...

It's been vigorously opposed by the usual suspects, but it's not at all a new proposal.
Right now, or last I checked, GCC supports more architectures. So while I realize that the Intel/ARM monoculture (or duoculture?) plus occasional emergence of things like risc-v will continue to absorb the world's new devices, there will probably be niche uses of GCC to target obscure hardware for a long time.
I'm sure the Noma guys are humble. Noma is notorious for using free labour and underpaying and overworking everyone else. Their restaurant literally couldn't exist in most countries as they'd violate a ton of labour laws...

> restaurants are poor business ventures

They're actually great ventures, there's just a lot of restaurateurs who don't know how to make money.

Anyhow, Noma is influential in the foodie world, but their influence on popular culture and eating habits outside Scandinavia is way overstated.
Some of those features are available with Cloud Source Repositories now too.
Such as??? Please point to the evidence, I am genuinely interested.
Related:

http://wambook.sourceforge.net/

http://wambook.sourceforge.net/wambook.pdf
Show HN: CLI Using Chaos Engine on K8s to Validate Autonomous Monitoring Tool
My favorite article from a "traveller,"

https://www.ft.com/content/760546b6-c903-11e6-9043-7e34c07b4...

(submitted link as post as well, since it's really that interesting)
It is sometimes useful to remember that lines are drawn by the human mind, they are not an inherent property of the universe.
Competition and less permissive license (the license kind of ensures gcc can not be 'closed' and therefore ensure that llvm's license stays 'more permissive').
porque no los dos?

I find some problems are solved better in an OO way such as interacting with a relational database.

Others like data processing, are better done in a functional pattern.

I look for the right tool for the job rather than some idealistic purity
Yeah, I am actually an Arabian oil prince with 60% stakes in Twitter shares.
Hi everyone - I've been playing with a new Chaos Engine from Maya Data called Litmus to create incidents in a Kubernetes cluster for an Autonomous monitoring solution to detect.

The purpose of this repository is to build a realistic app environment running multiple services on a Kubernetes cluster. And then run a series of chaos experiments to see if an Autonomous Monitoring solution (without any pre-configuration) can automatically detect any incidents caused by the chaos experiments.

For those of you wondering what Autonomous monitoring is - the key difference with current monitoring tools, is instead of you having to tell the monitoring tool what to look for through setting up and maintaining a long list of alert rules, the monitoring tool figures out what to alert on using Machine Learning. You just send your logs/metrics/traces to it and it figures out when an incident is occurring and its root cause without you having to tell it (configure) anything! This approach is becoming more important as environments become more distributed and complex and dynamic making it harder to know what to alert on.

You can get it up and running in just 2 commands to spin up the cluster and run all the Chaos experiments end to end. It provides a good example of running Chaos Experiments in Kubernetes, and also demonstrates where state of the art machine learning has got to in the monitoring space today!
ET to FT – you are not alone on your little blue marble (2016)
What about stools? I don't consider a stool to be a chair, I consider them two subtypes of seating. If someone told me to grab a chair and gestured to a stool I'd find it very slightly odd.
Clang has faster compilation, but (depending on the actual case) optimized binary built by gcc run faster; as mentioned above, both gaps are narrowing.
As an example: "Zero guaranteed financial or operational support for people who should self-quarantine. People are therefore ignoring quarantine because they need to eat. " This exactly lays out how people are behaving. That's not politics.
There’s a bit of leeway here, since that’s the word used in a different sense. But I would say that if you ask someone to “define what a chair is” that the word is being used in one sense only, compared to what happens when you ask someone to “define what ‘chair’ means” which is about the word.

That is, when we refer to a word like “chair” we use quotes, but without the quotes, we can say that an accounting department chair is not a chair.

Alternatively, we could analyze “accounting department chair” as a use of metonymy.
As of May 2019, Phoronix showed them being roughly equal, with the winner depending on the application. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc9-cla...

We should expect them to both continue to improve. It's not a sure thing that Clang will end up the clear winner.
US admits 'failing' on testing, says Fauci
Strong agree.

Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end.
The longest time incarcerated for contempt in the United States was fourteen years. If there is a maximum of 18 months, apparently it's an easily disregarded guideline rather than a hard rule.
So is this free testing but pay the ICU ?
Although I use OSM regularly, I always keep up-to-date paper maps. Paper maps don't require any external services to work, after all. No electricity, internet, satellites, or third-party servers. In an emergency situation (or if you're just rambling about in the boondocks) you shouldn't count on any of those things being available.
>That ship has sailed.

Not in the least.

"Cloud" is merely the modern spin on "terminal in the office, mainframe at the HQ". We moved from terminals to local mini/microcomputers back then, and we will move from "cloud" to edge computing again. Notably, serverless and "installable web apps" are already a growing thing.

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