skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh it mattered to the recruiters, right up until they realized he didn’t fit the template.
> There was a broad multinational support for removing the corrupt prosecutor and no reason not to.

So if there is broad multinational agreement that a US judge is bad can China have him/her removed? That isn't how this stuff is meant to work.

> There exists no evidence of any kick backs nor any reason to suppose that burisma gained anything other than hunter Bidens services ...

You've just listed evidence and said you want to ignore it. That isn't a strong argument.

> ... despite this already being investigated and America having the most formidable intelligence service on earth.

And that is evidence that there was a reasonable alternative narrative of why there might be a problem.

And as almost an aside, maybe the circumstances should be investigated again when Biden isn't the nominal 2nd in the chain of command controlling the intelligence services? When he is being accused of essentially corruption? The situation seems a bit problematic.

You can disagree, but to pretend that there is no reasonable alternative where Biden is doing things that suggest corruption is an impressive work of mental gymnastics. If you are saying there already was an investigation then there is clearly enough here to justify an investigation, because someone justified it.
I think that forcing companies to add a backdoor for police is a good idea.
It will create incentives for smaller decentralized alternatives to spawn up to replace those companies.
What I said above isn't entirely accurate. The virus that the researchers created wasn't actually a coronavirus. It was a pseudovirus based on HIV, built to express the functional spike proteins of interest. This was obviously much safer than creating a highly infective coronavirus, which I doubt anyone could have done back then anyway.
> Part of philosophy's job is finding a solid epistemological basis for the "hard sciences", and what claims such sciences can legitimately make about the world.

Can you name a single positive result in all of philosophy that there is any consensus for across the field? Sure, philosophy provides a fair number of attempts at a solid epistemological basis for the hard sciences, but there are so many of them, and despite philosophers not really agreeing on one, physicists can somehow do their jobs perfectly well. Meaning that the philosophy part really doesn’t matter, at least not frequently.

In fact, many philosophers implicitly admit this through how they do philosophy. Lots of philosophical arguments are just intuition pumps, with the only real work being to develop some logical theory that stitches together these intuitions. But there’s still the implicit assumption that those intuitions were correct to begin with, and if you’re making that assumption, why do you need the philosophy if you already have intuition?
I have looked at this one, it is useful if you do know about Linux internals already. It just introduces you to the development process (how to commit your code and etc.)
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>>"The real answer is simply that the number of tests is not equal to the number of cases."

I think you are right, but, assuming all the deaths are reported, the obvious implication is that the mortality rate is a lot lower than 3%

If fact, looking to Germany, I would say that it's around 0.2, 0.3 %

That would be the good news, the bad news is that it's extremely contagious, probably because nobody is immune to this thing.

Of course, I'm only a random guy in the Internet, so take it with a grain of salt.
How that problem can be solved by an IBM 5100, a computer that has never ran any flavor of unix is a mystery though.

I guess we'll find out when we have to send someone into the past to retrieve one so we can fix the bug.
I think trying to bribe the president of Ukraine with aid money for political favors is the presidential equivalent and indeed it seems so far that party loyalty has indeed done the deed.
Ehm, this just how windows work, you are having a hwnd (window handle) and message with optional parameters. There are hundreds of messages and WM_USER just defines start of custom defined messages. Typically you define your custome message as WM_USER + arbitrary number. And you also have PostMessage.
You should look into Bell's theorem. It is mathematical proof that (discounting superdeterminism) there is no way to explain QM observations with local hidden variables. You could have hidden variables, but only if they produce effects at infinite speed.

The big problem with infinite speeds is that, somewhat like superdeterminism, they mean that you can't do fully controlled experiments. If effects can propagate at infinite speeds, the whe universe has an impact on any experiment, including the state of your measuring apparatus and so on. That doesn't make them impossible, but it explains why they are disliked in theories.
This link to the notebook[0] with the generated graph of the current and projected data clarifies what he means by inflection point.

[0] https://github.com/vlavorini/covid-19/blob/master/COVID_19_p...
Almost certainly a lie. What would techcrunch write about, if the founders said something banal?

Revisionist, sexy origin stories are a proven way of getting free press. Somewhere, these guys are actually confessing how much free press their wild concoction earned them
Superdeterminism isn't supposed to be an alternative to QM, usually it's an alternative interpretation of QM which allows hidden variables from what i've gathered.
Underrated comment. The Blade Runner esthetic started with Moebius. Hard to imagine what the movie would look like had he never existed.
I've heard from game dev circles that some use Dear ImGui in the same spirit - as quick ad-hoc sort of GUI. A printf on steroids, if you will.
thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for
I don't follow. This is a well-known software pattern. Where does the politics come into it?
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What went wrong with Magic Leap?
Similar things have been said in the Weimar republic in the 20s about German democracy. Then things went south incredibly quickly.

The tests, checks and balances a democracy throws at its opponents are only as powerful as the will of the public to defend it.
https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
No she hasn't. That is, she was not made immune to incarceration and confiscation of money - which is what the federal state did to her. She was only immune from prosecution about what she says in her testimony. However... she had already been prosecuted for her actions and did a lot of jail time.

Plus, you don't rat people out because you've been granted personal "immunity".
#3 was to show what can happen in one hospital. These patients are hard to transfer. Lombardy is about 9200 sq mi. (about 100 miles square). If you need a ventilator you may not be able to withstand a 50 mile ambulance ride. But I concede I cannot offer conclusive proof that Italy is out of ventilators.
Yes, that it true. However, functional evaluation isn't lazy. It's the computation that is lazy.

Consider the case where you have a very large arrays a, b and c (let's say is contains a few hundred million elements each). You then evaluate the following in APL:

a+b+c

What interpreters such as GNU APL does is to first evaluate b+c, resulting in a new array, and then add that result to a.

In my case, b+c returns a deferred computation. This is then added to a which returns yet another deferred computation.

The actual values are not computed until I read the results out of the deferred computation. This means that there does not need to be a synchronisation point between the two addition operations.

There is also the benefit that if not all results from a computation are needed, they might not even have to be computed in the first place.

However, the functions themselves are still evaluated, meaning that side effects are called when you'd expected them to.

Well, there is an exception. Consider the following:

{print ⍵ ◊ ⍵+1}¨foo

This also returns a deferred result, and this will indeed result in print being called at an unexpected time. You can force evaluation in this case, but I haven't decided what to do about this case yet.
You're missing special theory of relativity. Nature is local. When you add nonlocality, contradictions arise, you can try to just ignore them or patch them with ad hoc hypotheses, such things were tried before and turned out to be failures indicating that the premise is wrong.
It looks like it matters. If it prints "100" then it's representing the year 2000 internally as the year 100 when the year 1995 is represented internally as 1995. If it prints "19100" then it's representing 2000 internally as 100 when 1995 is represented as 95. That second scenario doesn't cause any problems -- 2000 is still 5 years later than 1995, etc.

(Or, if the log is expected to print 95 instead of 1995, then 100 is what we expect it to print for 2000, but the difference still matters -- 19100 in that case would show that something was seriously wrong.)
That’s an excellent comment. The only thing I have to add is that is’s not some newfangled concept that’s bad but we’ll only figure out why in a couple of years: APL has been around for over 60 years on various forms - it is about as old as Fortran and Lisp.

In fact, APL was designed for paper, as a well-defined notation for algorithms in math and CS papers (which are still either sloppy with algorithm semantics or spend a lot of space specifying their non standard notation to this day). But since it was well defined, it was actually executable, and when computers were good enough, an interpreter was developed at IBM. That’s why APL has so many weird symbols (it’s a paper notation for math, at heart). K is a practical simplified version/dialect that uses only ascii (as does J, which is essentially full APL with ascii)

One of the main complaints against APL is that they are write only. They take longer and more effort to read per character, granted, but per “semantic information”, for any reasonable definition, APl/J/K are way faster to read for someone proficient (and yes, I take proficiency for granted - the minute details in any language between Boolean short circuit, non local control transfer, integer/float conversions etc make proficiency essential)
>treated it after the fact as if it was hype or hysteria

I agree with everything you and the parent said, but there was also hype and hysteria on top of it all - especially among the communities of preppers, back to the landers, and eco-extremist types. I met entire communities of technophobes who declared I was just ignorant or 'a sheep' and refused to believe me when I tried to explain that the industry was working on the problem and had a solid shot at preventing major catastrophe.

Frightening predictions of power plants going offline for days, erratic traffic lights causing mayhem, food and water supplies being interrupted, even reactors melting down were not uncommon.

As always, there is money to be made by exploiting people's fear. This hysteria was considered an irrelevant side show by most educated people, the way I look at the chem trail people or the way I used to view the anti-vaxxers [1], but the unjustified hysteria was real.

[1] Before I learned their numbers were growing and could threaten herd immunity in some areas.
A tiny (134B) and fast utility to generate random IDs of fixed length
Worth noting that in a parliamentary system, the voters does not select the prime minister directly. Churchill was popular as a leader, but he was the head of a wartime coalition which ended towards the end of the war.
Hold a volume button, lock button, and your home button at the same time
When you have ADRS ICU treatement is pretty much the only thing keeping you alive. "Randomized trial" in this context means russian roulette - if you don't get a ventilator you'll die almost certainly.

Evidence [0] (partly based on COVID-19, parly on MERS) also says that NIV has a significantly worse outcome than ventilation. People are already getting NIV in some hospitals because they ran out of tubed ventilators.

[0] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/clinica...
Free for the price of my email address?
Arguably, war is about the life and death of your state as a political entity. The lives and deaths of the people are the PR spin.
> If you could quickly and accurately test everyone in the country today we would know how to isolate and the whole thing would be over very soon.

i don't understand. let's say that tests are super accurate, a negative test result does not mean you won't spread virus in the future. You may have virus the next day or an hour later. tests are important for treatments but i don't think they are effective as a basis for isolation.
I'd rather have a sustainable Gilead, with a strong moral compass that prices things fairly, to invent the next antiviral.

But the middlemem and insurance companies add ZERO value - invent nothing, treat/cure no one. They're just a leech in the system, and they definitely shouldn't profit from a pandemic
I work in a huge, open plan, hot desked office, take crowded public transport (so close that everyone is touching at peak) and have kids that go to 2 different daycares.

My life, almost every day of it, is basically a massive "pox party". I am not considering formalising the arrangement at this time :/
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> we know asymptomatic people can be contagious for days

Although it is technically correct, this is the least contagious way. AFAIK most sick people were near sick persons for a considerable amount of time.

[0] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryo...
As a Scotsman I've never heard of no-true-Scotsman.
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I thought that actual fatality rate is always higher than measured in case of exponentially growing pandemics. Just imagine the case where it takes 20 days for people to die. Your calculations of fatality rate this early in the disease would be conservative.
> I remember 9/11

It's not the same stuff! Terrorism is backed by people actively wanting to harm other human beings, while the appearance of a new dangerous virus is a random process.
Q/KDB+ for something production ready now.

k9 (Shakti) for a simpler product that's in the active language design phase and with not as much integrations - yet.

ngn/k for an actively developed version that's free and targets k6-era (for now).
In emergencies it is pretty standard procedures to ration essential stuff in limited supplies. Food is regularly rationed during war times. It would not be ridiculous at all to limit the use of an OTC drug to hospitals during an emergency, if there is limited supply (don't know if that's the case with chloroquine).

BTW cloroquine+antivirals is pretty much the first line drug treatment in Italy, at least according to guidelines: http://www.simit.org/medias/1555-covid19-linee-guida-trattam...

I'm pretty sure that doctors dealing with a pandemic have read enough about the treatment options to know the guidelines. But hey, surely that can't know as much as a random guy on the internet.
Yes, is there any other way?
I particularly like Jim Meskinens stuff as an impressionist because you get the audio as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPKeUXjEvE
Zinc. Chloroquine provides zinc and ionosphere for absorbtion that likely stops replicase.
You are assuming that people are not capable of "parsing args and sending request to endpoints" in an efficient way, using a few lines in their main programming language. This assumption is probably very offensive to any competent developer. Your are right, however, that a junior developer who is still getting up to speed with the main language of the team will be tempted to use whatever language / script that he already knows or encounters in a stack overflow answer.
Pleasant surprise to see my post on the front page. I don't mention this in the original reddit post but the nodejs code comes from our 2016-2018 failed startup that at one point was invited to be on the TV show shark tank.
Interesting. If you have some pointers for something to read that discusses why special relativity requires locality, I'd love to read it. I have no real idea where to start searching.

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm aware that Bell's theorem says that QM must either break locality or realism, but I don't really understand why it can't break locality. While incredibly inconvenient, wouldn't that solve the problem? Again, I realise I'm naive, so I don't actually suppose my line of reasoning is correct ;-)
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> There's sooooo many lies being propagated by different governments

Just a question, if I may: how do you know that? Which international sources do you have that justify you releasing such a strong statement?
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You're right, it is generally a good idea to use messages for this. It is also better performance wise to keep all the dispatching in one place.

But I tried that at the very beginning and it was rather inconvenient since I had to drag defines to every place I want to send a message from. "WM_USER + 'R'" might have worked but it's worse than "WM_USER, 'R'" aesthetically. And there is an extra parameter anyway.

PostMessage is also better for writing things to the counters since it's asynchronous. But it doesn't work for reading. It's just more convenient to have one function do both but of course you can post messages too.

It's a silly tool anyway. Basically made of compromises.
You may not be able to open the files to be fixed in such ancient computer.
You see how far to the right the pendulum have gone in the public discourse, when somebody like Sanders is a "near communist" or even "revolutionary".
Normally I might try to enumerate examples, but I agree with bdibs that OWASP generally holds the canonical text for authentication of web apps.

Alex Stamos, former head of security at Facebook, described the security issues they got as a pyramid where the vast majority of issues were basic fraud, friend/family trust, fake login pages / fake emails, reused credentials, and email takeover. You won’t be able to help with most of these unless you can help your users change their behavior.

For the other stuff, use the best SDLC techniques, never commit secure strings to version control (assume your source repo is misconfigured), use 12 Factor principles, read OWASP docs, search for relevant HackerOne disclosed reports (or blog articles, CTF write ups). There is no amount of coding that can replace red team user testing / a security audit.
That can be done in Rust by having two different types implement the same interface
> Then you'll know because I volunteered for it.

Clinical trials are already fast-tracked during epidemics; if you're really interested you may even be selected for one. But going out and randomly buying medicine because it seems like it might work (even though it might not, but you're cured without it, which means you're going to go out and tell everyone else to go buy it too) might not necessarily be the best way to deal with this.

> But maybe you don't know that.

I am aware of chloroquine's use in malaria treatment.
> Is it "fair" to profiteer because you're the only provider of something people need?

Generally No it shouldn't be socialised. If it isn't a monopoly of efficiency another company should be able to provide a product/service at a lower price. All you are doing it indirectly passing on the cost to the tax payer by subsidising it.

Obviously there are some exceptions to this depending on things like politics of a region (where a resource/service can be monopolised) e.g. rural areas. That is where a cooperative run by the local community might be better.
Hey! You did a great job!
I also think it's too cheap.
As you are dealing with security, people need to be sure it will work so maybe higher price would be better.
Do you have competitors? I would advise you to be around the same price.
I currently live in a major city but have plans to move to a lower cost rural area. If I did that while I was working at Gitlab they would slash my salary and reap my cost saving, do you think I would be generating less value for them in exchange?
> It's already shone a bright light on the fragility of global supply lines, cheap travel and open borders.

Are you serious? Those are the things that have given us so much prosperity in the last decades, and indeed no government has dared interrupt the flow until it has become unavoidable due to major national heath danger.
I would argue no they are not. I am thinking of their implementation in python specifically, so my understanding is likely skewed.

My notion of composition with classes would be:

class Dog(object):
def __init__():
self.wagger = Wagger(); #composing the Wagger class

in python mixins look like this:

class Dog(object, WaggerMixin):
...etc...
And you could retort "because of systemic unfairness in the US" since being able to do something about your ideas requires free time, money, etc. which many people just don't have rather than any intrinsic holy goodness in "founders".
BTW, some examples of AoC 19 answers in k:

ngn's; targets ngn/k (dude's a machine): https://bitbucket.org/ngn/k/src/master/aoc19/a.k

Mine; progressively porting from k7 to k9. Not as many answers and probably worse coding than ngn's, but perhaps more approachable for newcomers.
https://github.com/chrispsn/aoc2019

llelf's; targets k7. Pretty slick.
https://github.com/llelf/advent2019/blob/master/sol.k
Great job, you are addressing a huge problem!
What about B2B?
And the set of operators has been designed to work with each other and cover the basic concrete needs (i.e what the CPU actually needs to do rather than how you would describe it in words)

,// is a complete implementation of “flatten”.

|/0(0|+)\ is a complete implementation of an efficient the maximum-subarray-sum

In both cases, each character does one very well defined thing implemented in tight C (sometimes SIMD) code, and K interpreter just orchestrates how they interact.

(Parentheses here group as a pair, but everything else is an independent operation per character)
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That sounds far superior to the 'growth mindset' teaching that my children got at school, which mostly consisted of saying "I've got a growth mindset" or "he succeeded because he had a growth mindset" loads of times, without much context or any real explanation of what that meant.
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There is really no reason any developer should try to roll their own auth these days. OWASP has identified and enumerated all of the relevant info. It seems like negligence when a teacher/professor talks about building a web app without referencing the project.
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That seems like a dishonest comparison. While it's true public television has some divulgation programmes, they are usually pushed to the secondary channels and they aren't watched by many people. If public television consisted only of those programmes, its budget would be much, much lower, and I would be happy to pay for it.

The truth is that public TV nowadays contains lots of series and movies (in many cases, American), cooking programmes, tabloid celebrity stuff, etc that they think they must do to stay competitive with private TV. And that's rubbish.
Firefighting used to be a private service since Roman times until recently. Some old buildings in my city still bear a plaque saying "Fire insured" signaling that in case of fire, they should be saved. If not, the firefighters would just control the spreading to other (insured) buildings.