skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in the late 90's I went to a goth convention in New Orleans, where my wife met a time traveller named "Butterfly". I saw her talking to a weird looking guy, and swung by to see if she needed help, but she had that "oh this is going to be a great story" look on her face and kind of shooed me away. Later, she told me he had claimed to be from the future. He made some predictions:

- there would be a war in Iraq, but it was not actually as big as the one that happened later

- after the Big War, there was a disease that forced everyone to live belowground

- he had a computer chip in his hand

- he had a son in the future named Gandalf

This all seemed pretty wacky, if harmless. My wife enjoyed relating it all in our Yahoo Groups email group. Then, in the next few years:

- the implanting of computer chips in pets became commonplace

- we started hearing about new viruses every few years

- we went to war in Iraq

- Lord of the Rings movies came out, which made it more likely someone would name their son "Gandalf"

So, I asked my wife, "what else did that guy say would happen?"

She said, "I don't remember it all now, but I put a really detailed list in my email to the Yahoo Group."

So, we look in the Yahoo Groups history, and...that month was missing from the history.

Oh, well. If he had said anything more significant than a global pandemic and WW3, I assume I would have remembered it.
The post was written for people who are interested in starting a company. If you're not in the financial state to be able to do so, then blogs about starting companies are probably not for you.
A timely reminder (was that really only 12 years ago?).

But (maybe a big but), recessions are not all created equal. Seems the unknowns are a lot different this time around.
> curious about what you mean by "truely free software"?

"Free to do whatever you want, other than perpetrate plagiarism of the source code by removing or replacing the author's identifying marks."

A good "is it truly free" litmus test is this question: is it attached to an ideology which is rooted in preventing the existence of some kinds of software in the world which bother the ideologists?

If so, it's probably not truly free software.
Well, yeah, I think we're aggressively agreeing with each other that life is quite a bit different for 5% of the population in megacities vs 95% of the population outside those cities.

Take for example the location of the 2020 democratic national convention, Milwaukee. I know for a fact there's literally nothing to do in the city other than drive to the burbs.

Generally fun follows the people who pay for it, and anywhere there's no geographic constraint or travel time constraint, people always do the burb thing, and the fun follows them. I visit family in that area, and there's just nothing to do in the city, all the action is in the burbs.

You can have a burb 20 minute drive from Milwaukee so all the fun moves to the burbs to follow the money. You can't have a burb 20 minute drive from downtown NYC, so without the people moving to the burbs there's no fun in the burbs.
It's not that your parent poster necessarily believes a basic social safety net is super partisan, but seems to be speaking from a point of reality. McConnell has been called the grim reaper and is proud of how many House bills he has stopped.
If that was the point of the bill, all measures would have well-defined time limits (e.g. 3 months, after which they need to be renewed). That's how Switzerland does it (even the constitution has time limit!)

Edit: I mean limiting the amount of time these bills remain valid, not just limiting the amount of paid leave.
any suggestions for exercises that drill this in? I'm going through the linked list book but it's still not completely transparent for me.
Is there room at the sink for a pump and a bar?
It's a greater deterrent for crimes.
...so when do classes make sense then?
The Federal government's duty to the people (according to the Constitution) is seeing to their safety from foreign threats. Testing for all is in line with that duty. Being a social safety net is the duty of your family, your church, and your friends. Maybe even your state government.

I know there are Socialist policies that are in place at the Federal level, but the intent of the framers was to guarantee freedoms for citizens. A social welfare state was not anywhere in the picture.

Bottom line, personal responsibility goes a long, long way in terms of dealing with job loss and economic downturns.
I would argue that a heavy practitioner of OOP, and one who does not see the extreme downsides of using that paradigm is actually the person who misunderstands Programming in general and what OOP is in that context.

Say if you practiced procedural programming in a very heavy way and typed functional programming in a major way along with OOP then you would have a better picture.

If you practiced OOP exclusively for the majority of your career I would argue your view point is flawed and biased. Over the years, as a programmer with a lot of heavy experience in all of the paradigms mentioned above, I have found that OOP is in fact not an apples and oranges comparison to other programming styles but is in fact a highly flawed paradigm.
If I understand him right he's pointing out freedom of assembly is just as significant a right for Americans as Danish citizens.

I would go a step further and argue it is much more significant to American culture than Danish, and I feel my opinion carries at least some weight given I am a Danish person living in California.
It is not Joe Rogan, but the person he is talking to - Michael Osterholm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Osterholm), that is of interest in that podcast.
MS is absolutely responsible for the OS it has sold to customers, I expect them to make updates with security fixes and allow me to opt out of those updates if I want.

This also isn't heroics, but I knew, without a doubt, that people would read this headline and get angry because the government is supposed to be the hero. I'm not going to bother making the case for or against that, history can do it for me.

I'll add that it's absurd to compare them to law enforcement. They do not have any authority of using force here. They did not put hands on nor imprison the people running the botnet.
https://clojure.org/reference/multimethods
But you'll also have a real hard time convincing a court you have a free speech right to uppercasing and lowercasing letters in certain ways - the speech is in the words, not the presentation. That is, if there's a law banning encryption as a whole (and not simply certain messages, encrypted or encrypted), I think this still doesn't save you.

I think the courts have generally held that you can't simply throw speech onto some otherwise prohibited activity to gain First Amendment protections. For instance, see the case about the man who tweeted a GIF at Kurt Eichenwald with the intention of provoking a seizure - the fact that the GIF also contained words (... which were "you deserve a seizure for your posts") seems unlikely to say that the act of sending the GIF itself was protected speech.
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Except none of those things are unrelated. They are directly related. The only difference is that in most other developed countries they are available as part of daily life without an emergency. The US needs to add stuff like paid sick leave because it is not available normally, and without it you’re very likely to find people consciously or even sub consciously avoiding testing, or going in to work even if they are sick because they will face a severe financial impact other wise.
That may be true, but you specifically said....

Web apps:

- Fast with WebGL 2.0, and proper use of hardware accelerated CSS

- Limited access is actually a positive

- WebAssembly

None of that is going run well on the average low end Android phone.
Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?
He's not just making shit up--the curves are reasonable. However, where he's very, very wrong is thinking that the government is deliberately waiting from T1 to T2. We don't have enough data to actually figure where T1, T2 and T3 are, and counting it in terms of known cases ensures you blow past T2. Look how fast Italy went from first infections to T3.
The Tackleapp is a free daily task tracking platform
The difference is that, in China, if you don't comply the state security detains you and you get sentenced to re-education camp at best.

In other places there are no real consequences for you, even if people die. But there are legal and economic consequences if you shut down without top cover. That is why the government and legislative paralysis is so damaging -- with no safety net, people will prefer the unknown loss over the certain loss.
Who said the civic spirit is dead? Thank you MindGeek for your service!
> Generally speaking, strengthening social assistance during a period where social assistance is going to be strained seems like a good idea.

Not when your stated purpose is to dismantle said social assistance, which explains why this bill is going to die in the Senate.
Also, I would think scarcity, in this climate of supply chain interruption, would favor the spread out places.. where my supply chain is in my back yard, if I'm a farmer, whereas the city needs to funnel much into a greedy-little area.
And when you say "resources", again, you must not be talking about love, which is what most people truly want, when they earn their money. My earlier sentiment of wanting to live near friends, this makes the "love" resource much more plentiful.
Perhaps city folks just don't understand it.
When 5MB disk storage system is the size of a small car and costs $50k, you fight for bytes. Or if your data is stored on magnetic tapes and reading in a dataset can be costed by the kilobyte, takes minutes per megabyte, and requires a million dollar's worth of equipment and dedicated staff, you fight for every byte.

The phone I carry today is hundreds or thousands of times more powerful than the $5,000,000 mainframe I was working around Y2K and the apps on it - most delivered freely - make it far more capable than the raw processing power difference would indicate.
Yes, clearly what we need to deal with a crisis is a little personal responsibility, not a government that even pretends to be effective at addressing it.
Apple admits to using child labour to build iPhone x (2017)
Where is all this cash going? If stock is down, crypto is down. Where is all cash?
!!!

I think you might be using an unusual description of "the public"
I think Toilet Paper is the preferred currency now.
Interesting. I own a '92 NSX and it is a highway monster. I can and have done 13+ hours in a day in it and could easily have gone longer. I'm not the only one that feels this way, either; I constantly hear from other owners that it is their favorite highway car. I haven't done a trip in a new NSX, though, but it would be disappointing if it was less comfortable and usable than the original!
Orbital Index #55: all about Starship's iteration and Boeing's struggles
This bug isn't in the CPU, it's in the PCH.
Coronavirus Is Our Future – Alanna Shaikh – TEDxSMU
I am genuinely curious if you could share.
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Yeah, exactly. In the beginning exponential, later on not anymore. Without changing the equation. So, no, not exponential. Because, you know, very early on an exponential graph can approximated by something non-exponential. Would be utter BS, sure, so nobody does it.
At this point those measures won't help at all when it comes to travel. Temperature scanners and protective medical gear should instead be used to deal with the contagion inside cities, counties etc. Trying to limit international/interstate spread just doesn't matter as much, no?
> What parts of the bill do you consider too much "social assistance"?

There is a sect in the USA that considers the social assistance already in place as too much no matter what. That's the mindset of the opposition here.

This isn't even a political hot take from me. It's an often-stated purpose.
I'm down to help. You could skip a UI and go straight jupyter w csv file - get some nice visualizations out there quick. Google Forms.
Not really. Pick a project and start building. At least, that's my learning style. Reading things like the linked list book is great, but eventually, you probably have to put it to practice in order to really learn it (like most things).
A flash drive often contains a microprocessor/microcontroller which could be programmed to do more on its own
I still think this is true in a "traditional" bear market where companies are doing poorly. I don't think is applies when the entire market is panic selling to acquire supplies.
Gratitude for conveying this message, what an intriguing character, and an intriguing lack of logged data. May all have peace and stillness in heart and mind
Yes we did. This is a press-release (It's right in the URL). Unfortunately AGU has gone down hill recently in its attempt to engage a wider audience and now you are getting the click bait "Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago" instead of a more sober one about what the study is really about. The journal paper's title is "Subdaily‐Scale Chemical Variability in a Torreites Sanchezi Rudist Shell: Implications for Rudist Paleobiology and the Cretaceous Day‐Night Cycle". So maybe at title for the scientifically interested general public could be, "70 million year old Rudist shells improve length of day estimates during the late Cretaceous"
I guess the financial crisis was a whole decade ago now, but the consensus back then was that if we wanted to avert a full blown depression, we needed to move fast, and be bold.

None of those programs listed sound frivolous to me, given what’s probably coming financially. It’s better to get this on the table now, than have to keep coming back piecemeal over the next year.
This is a good question. I found a copy of Fujitsu COBOL 85 manual [1] (the next release was post y2k, in 2002) and was surprised to see that CURRENT-DATE, INTEGER-OF-DATE use 4-digit years.

However some functions from that time (eg ACCEPT, p. 544) do use 2-digit years. I think you have it exactly right, it was about facilitating string formatting/display: ACCEPT took input from the terminal screen. (I think it is, approximately, gets() + strptime(), though I don't see any talk of error handling). Programmers probably just stuffed the result into a record before writing to DASD (disk), optimizing for programmer time and program complexity over storage.

Perhaps 2-digit years for ACCEPT were an optimization for data entry workers?

A modern z/OS COBOL guide [2] has 4-digit years throughout as far as I can see.

Whilst I'm here, I'm also going to say: "VSAM", "PDS", TSO", "LRECL" and "ABEND" (just because I haven't heard those words for a quarter century and now I'm feeling nostalgic).

[1] http://testa.roberta.free.fr/My%20Books/Mainframe/Fujitsu%20...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6SG3_4.2.0/com...
Here are some questions I have:

1. How do I actually opt-out?

2. If I opt out, does this affect Global Entry or TSA Precheck?

3. Does opt-out have any bearing on renewal of Global Entry or TSA Precheck?
Yeah, for those in the West who are virulently anti-CCP, last month was the best time in decades to topple their power. There was real indications that the simmering discontent would exceed the Chinese censor's ability to control and widespread public anger could have been harnessed into real regime change.

All the West had to do was fuck up less than China and the CCP could have been gone for good. Now, the exact opposite has happened, any anti-CCP voices inside of China have completely lost their legitimacy as the West manifestly has handled the virus worse than China. At the end of this, Xi has basically cemented his status as dictator for life with unchecked power because he was the leader that saved China from the worst of the virus (even if it eventually spreads to China, everyone is much more prepared now and the death toll will be much lower).

Never mind that the best predictive factor of how well you handle COVID 19 was whether your country was traumatized by SARS. Never mind that democracies like Taiwan were arguably more effective. Nobody in China is going to want a "Western" style government for the next 100 years because of COVID 19.
YCW16-SendBird (SeriesB)-Storytelling approach for SaaS startup Metrics
I think we put up with it because personal development requires outside feedback. I couldn't imagine getting better at the pace I am without both having to justify and explain my decisions to others.

I don't understand your viewpoint at all.

The best part about coding for me is getting a review with a lot of interesting comments about how it could be done differently. It jogs my brain down paths I would never have seen by myself.
In the US, nope. We don't even have short vacations or sick pay for a huge set of workers.
When a parent of mine died, I accessed their computer (not password protected). It was still powered on and logged into gmail, facebook, and various other sites. I simply changed the passwords and wrote them down (I also had access to the cell phone in cases where 2FA was used -- but that was rare in my parent's case). Now many years later, I still have access. The sites have no idea that user is deceased and I have no intention of notifying them. I don't actively use the accounts, but log into them when I'm feeling nostalgic.
Those are all directly related to the issue at hand. People are going to need to stay home, eat food there, and get medical assistance.
When incel clickbait like this gets published in Scientific American, you know it's time to pack it up.
Because in the US, you have to pay for health care, even if the point of that health is to protect other people from you.
"But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these" 1 Timothy 6:8

He goes on... 9-11
"9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. 11But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness."
> especially when "print more money" seems to be the fed's response to this

The simple answer is that the quoted text isn't even a concern in your average investors head. Also why gold isn't doing great, and why the US dollar is doing just fine.

People are escaping equities specifically, not the dollar.

edit: If i had to guess, people are probably looking to maximize cash on hand with the goal of "buying the dip" when it looks like the market is going to bottom out.
Fed will inject $1.5T in short-term lending markets over next two days
Just an hypothesis (which applies to the stock market as well): if you already thought things were overvalued, but were just waiting for the right moment to cash out, then whether this moment makes rational sense or not, you get out now because you were going to get out soon anyway.

Also, you may think everyone else is going to be "irrational" in this way, and wish to get out before they do. Sort of like buying toilet paper because you're worried about everybody else hoarding toilet paper.
Say you have an extra tampon and want a banana. I want a tampon but don't have a banana. What would you rather accept from me in exchange for a tampon, $cash or some BTC in your online crypto wallet? What do you believe has better chance of being exchangeable for a banana, from someone else?
Soli Radar-Based Perception and Interaction in Pixel 4
It was a visual novel (the game on the PS3 [EDIT: +Xbox 360]), then it was an anime, and very recently, there is now a game, Steins;Gate Elite (PS4/Xbox One/Switch) based on the anime.
One side is definitely doing that. The Democratic proposals seem to largely revolve around ensuring food/medical access. Meanwhile...

https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1238133144173281280

> A key sticking point in the talks appears to be GOP demands to include Hyde amendment language in the bill to prevent federal funds from being used for abortion.
That pretty much is the message of the podcast. Along with "it is scary but don't freak out".

Its a good podcast with good information but the guy is mostly on because Rogan has a huge audience.
14 days of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave

Those seem like pretty specific limits.

What other limits do you feel are missing from the bill?
Even if he did present code examples I doubt it would change your mind.

I think OOP people should be aware that there is significant backlash against OOP among smart people who are very familiar with the paradigm and they should take the time to understand why.

The division is real and given the invention of languages like GO and RUST that do not have classes I would think really hard about the topic.
Sounds like an ansible [1]. I thought this was from Orson Scott Card but apparently it pre-dates him, instead going back to Ursula Le Guin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
> Politicians should not take advantage of emergencies by tacking wish list items on to bills that address the emergency.

What exactly are the unrelated wish list items here? Everything I'm seeing here looks on point and directly relevant to this crisis.

Workers need rights to sick time right now, or the virus will spread even more quickly and this will be worse. People are going to be losing jobs or hours because of this, and if they don't have extra cash they're going to need food assistance. Medicaid is about to get hit hard, just like every health insurance program. The elderly and disabled people are vulnerable groups, and are going to need greater levels of assistance during the coming disruptions.
For me, select box is a control with predefined list of options that can be shown and hidden in window-blinds style. Combo box is the same, but new entry can be added by directly typing in the box. They look the same but have different behavior. Dropdown is any of those and thus defines only the visual aspect, not the behavior.
Bitcoin market is like the regular equities market...without the halting capabilities
Big classes or no, I've found the key is to have good tests around your public facing contract. IME most unit tests are poor and too fragile because they treat methods as the "unit", even helper methods (or mock out calls to their own internal helper methods, if they're the public-facing methods). So if you want to move stuff around, you find your tests aren't testing for the true behavior/side effects, but just that your previous method heirarchy is in-place.

But when your public facing methods are big blobs, they tend to have lots of params that cause fairly different thing to happen, and it gets much harder to have testing confidence around that than if you had a bigger set of smaller public-facing operations.
The best Purism laptops ship with a Core i7 7500U (Kabylake) dual core processor. I've been using at least quad core processors in laptops for literally over a decade, so that just doesn't cut it.

My statement wasn't against Purism's quality, principle, or anything other than the fact that their laptops and non-laptops (Purism server) are weak sauce compared to what you can get with System76.
It's in cash.
Providing food and healthcare is a "wish list item" during a pandemic?
You're reasoning from first principles in contradiction of statements of scientific fact that are being communicated to you, however imperfectly. Resolving the contradictions in your own understanding does not constitute a proof. The simplest explanation is that you do not yet correctly understand and that you need further information.
You might find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax