skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I blame him for picking Angry Moustache Bolton? As I said before, Bolton, the best man for the job in Trump's eyes, cut NSC/CDC funding, making the US blinder to threats.

Are you really that much of a Trump-defender? Now it's wholly CDC's fault, so Trump is still innocent?

I'd bother look up his many downplaying and ignorance of the issues, but is it worth it, if you're one of the brainwashed?

As this man said [1], during the 2016 primaries:

> I would, however, add a casual observation: at this point Trump has been the front-runner for long enough that it’s very hard to imagine his supporters suddenly losing faith, because it would be too embarrassing.

> Bear in mind that embarrassment, and the desire to avoid it, are enormously important sources of motivation. [...]. Nobody likes looking like a chump, and most people will go to great lengths to convince themselves that they weren’t.

> Now think about someone who has been supporting Trump since the summer. For the Trump bubble to burst, many people like that would have to slap their foreheads and say, “Wow, he’s not a serious person! What was I thinking?”

[1] https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/the-donald-and-...
Flu's evolve and there's feedback from the behavior of the humans they infect. So if they make you feel like crap you are less likely to spread the infection. So that results in a less aggressive infection out competing a similar but more aggressive infection, doubly so since the immune system will like cross react between the two.

However with COVID19 the infection seems quite adept at spreading before the symptoms show, so there's going to be less of a feedback loop. Might even be the opposite since a serious infection means visiting the doctors office, in many cases more than once, and finally escalating to the emergency room. COVID19 seems especially adept at infecting nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, and EMTs.
And it almost turned into a highly engineered dud producing no scientific results for all the effort that went into it. I'm glad that they didn't give up on it easily.
BTW about the "vs Zoom" part -

Zoom does have a personal room url and a configuration option to open meeting on entry
Pixar’s computer graphics pioneers have won the $1M Turing Award
Manage your daily schedule with Git
How Coronavirus Is Affecting Victims of Domestic Violence
After using this setup for quite a time, I discovered Syncthing, and now it's even better.
Guide to Support Measures for Startups Affected by Coronavirus (EU)
I'm taking this opportunity to post a video I made some time ago of my current work-in-progress, a new user interface to Maxima. It's more like a regular commandline compared to wxMaxima, which may or may not be what users want.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/df751bd5-5a26-44...
I've used Mathematica since about the year 2000, and I think Wolfram "missed the boat" of AI, big data, and machine learning.

They were in the unique position of having one of the best symbolic differentiation engines and one of the best numeric engines and a Lisp-like REPL that allows one to write terse, elegant code.

What they were always missing was efficient bulk data structures.

In recent versions they've added a handful of "special cases" where some types of data are stored as a plain data array like in C-derived languages, but this is hit-and-miss.

Similarly, they've dabbled with GPU acceleration and parallelism, but it's half-baked. It feels like a proof of concept, not something you'd ever actually use.

Julia and the like will slowly but surely eat their lunch.
Oh, sorry. I'll try to see it!
When I was in college, I did enjoy my 17in, 3kg (6.6 pounds) notebook a lot. Was considering buying additional kilo in batteries :-)

I was in lecture-halls all the time, so there usually was power, and having the extra screen real estate was nice.
When using linux, everything is "more seamless" than Zoom. This company hates linux users, everything is broken and requires root user to even start.
Gave me a good laugh, thank you
> Let’s face it, this administration is ill prepared for such an event. This will cost them dearly in November.

That still remains to be seen. Right now the states with the most cases (CA, WA, NY, see [0]) are firmly Democrat, with much fewer cases in Republican and swing states.

It's possible that the number of cases in those states won't rise to critical numbers, and thus have limited effect on his reelection odds.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
KHTML/Konqueror, Webkit, Safari and Chrome didn't really play an important role in IE6's destruction.

It was Firefox. Firefox 1's slogan was literally "take back the web".

It was only Firefox that took IE6 down.

(I'm a KDE contributor and I may even have a couple of patches on Konqueror)
The article at https://www.popsci.com/story/space/mars-mole-plan-c/ is far much better and reference by the futurism article
They should use WorkOS SSO ;)

https://docs.workos.com/sso/overview
The Emperor protects.

But it is simply amazing to see the amount of work being output by The Gaming Workshop in this Universe.

The amount of audio books and novels and depth of world building is simply mind boggling and here I thought Lord of the Rings/Wheel Of Time was huge.
Microsoft acquires NPM- Deal Analysis
The compiler speed pain is real, and excessive use of templates to do compile time metaprogramming can be intractable, but really it's not the 2000s any more (+) and we should stop pretending that C++ is just C with classes; exceptions, RTTI and STL do actually work now and are portable.

(+) offer not valid on microcontrollers or proprietary C++ compilers
The article lists keeping animals as pets as another factor. The paradox to me is that a significant part of what makes it possible to empathize with cattle is having animals in the house. I know some vegetarians refuse to eat animals for environmental reasons, but around me they are a minority.
Haha, that's a real use case!
You keep saying "it's a dead end", what is your point here?
Why is it "dead on arrival", why would it be bad to market for tables. Seriously your comment is an incoherent mess.
Uses globals. Not thread-safe in any way.
Not knocking Vue but what exactly is meant by modern? I work on the backend and hardly (if ever) see frameworks described in those terms.
Wouldn't this drastically increase database latency?
really? I have only used nix - not nixos - but when I'm using nix, i can tell you, that i don't see a huge datastore somewhere with views. The programs that i use that have been installed with nix just uses exclusively absolute paths.

So if bash wants to load up a library, it doesn't say "dearest operating system, please provide me with a convenient version of libdl.so.2". Instead, it says "dearest operating system, please provide me with a convenient version of /nix/store/blahblahblah-glibc-2.27/lib/libdl.so.2".

I do have a profile folder, symlinked as ~/.nix-profile where some programs I've specifically requested to install are symlinked, but that's not sufficient and all encompassing - every program there still refers to the hardcoded /nix/store locations. I guess they also launch programs from $PATH. But I've never seen or heard of a pseudo-FHS nix view of the store.
Lessons learned porting Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1
This is my personal opinion, it is summarized from experience.
It is probably arguable though.

ES needs to learn from a population, the size of which is non-trivial for hard problems.
To better evaluate population fitness, each individual performs multiple roll-outs and report the average scores as its fitness.
Therefore, when an ES algorithm and an RL algorithm are both guaranteed to learn, ES is probably not as sample efficient as (some) RL algorithms.

On the other hand, ES tends to be stable and robust, one needs less trials to determine if the algorithm/hyper-parameters/network work for an agent when compared with RL algorithms.
So if we count the samples needed for one to be confident that her/his method works reliably, ES is better.
If you get less bugs because of type checks and you are a serious JS/web dev with 5+ years experience, then your skills are plainly not good enough.

People who spent time with JS and webdev in general got to learn that JS is a minefield of a language, and they work with that in mind. Typing discipline is pretty much the first thing people learn when they try doing JS seriously.

How to say. There is no way just adding typing to JS will make JS less of a JS. You still have to be a very disciplined dev to work with a typescript for it retaining many other tricky parts from JS.

> Can you give a concrete example where typescript is a blocking issue for your development?

Typical example: the tsc transpiler plainly dies, and you know nothing how to debug it, you know nothing of its internals, and you loose the rest of the day doing fruitless email exchanges with typescript dev team, and trying to trace a breaking commit.

Second example: you got a prod breakage report in some hard to reproduce case. You fire a debugger in chrome through vscode, and then you find out that the debugger completely loses the execution flow in transpiler/tooling garbage, and broken source maps. Having a debugger pick code that went through webpack (be it cursed) is already a 50/50 lottery, and additional layer of tooling makes it even worse.
Developer here

There has been a good discussion about visualizing COVID-19 data using our interactive 3D web page on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fkjby9/view_the_la...

As one commenter said:

> FINALLY SOMETHING COOL. I'm so sick of the same boring dashboards that are created and re-created.

Also there's a lot more features in the pipeline including more granular stats such as cases per capita and deaths per GDP. And it's free and open source and hosted in GitHub.

Enjoy - and grieve...
The plagues were even more deadly. And very global. And, er, came from China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
We use Zoom and it's great for ad-hoc video calls or screen sharing and commenting.

But last week we were wondering what would be a good remote alternative to sitting around at our desks and asking a quick question to the room. You know what works really well? Teamspeak. I hadn't used teamspeak in ages, but the simple fact that you can set a global push-to-talk button makes it perfect. Ask a quick question to someone in the room, they answer, if it becomes an actual convo you switch to a zoom call to not bother anyone else.
Is it ? Root and admins have sbin in their path while normal users don’t, so sbin contains more system exe. they may happen to be also static because they are called early in the boot. At least that’s what I thought
I have no experience with POS solutions, especially not for catering and restaurant. So tak my opinion with a grain of salt.

General: As the site came up in German, I assume you at least think of targeting this market was well. Germany made invoice copies for customers mandatory this year, on top of the already somewhat crazy requirements regarding auditability and compliance for POS systems. Quite a barrier for new systems, but from what I heard out of the local start-up scene here, there are not that many certified solutions out there yet.

I would talk to a tax consultant to get an opinion from that angle. And I would aim for official tax certification, that will make life for your customers so much easier and would be a true selling point.

Pricing:
Kind of tied into the above, obviously a solution that gets tax authorities of your clients backs has some inherent value to them. For the upper range, 219 USD doesn't sound to abusive, depending on service levels and support. I would just add a couple of tiers between hte free version and the Pro one. And maybe limit functionality for the free version instead of tables, by limiting tables lacals with less than 10 tables will never convert to paying customers. And you are incentivizing toying the set-up to work with 10 "tables", depending on what exactly is a table.

I don't agree that a table based solution is dead on arrival, een if restaurants are forced to close. Sure, a delivery, contactless, solution would be great by now. But things will get to normal one day. And then an affordable, certified POS solution like yours will certainly have value.

Marketing might be an issue, so. But maybe the corony crisis akes care of that when a lot of competitors relying on VC money to get customers, well, leave the market.
>> This is where Vue shines in adding interactivity to many typical apps without going fully SPA.

That is good to know. I wasn't aware. Most of the apps we are working on cannot be SPAs easily, so it matters if the JS framework supports operating without it.
Angela Merkel Nails Coronavirus Speech
Pandemic Footprint Index (PFI) v1.2
Not sure if this app supports it or not, but it would be very useful with a 5 second warning before being thrown into a video call. I could see all kinds of embarrassing moments happening otherwise.
But it took one very capable, talented and gifted person (“Cast Iron Charlie”) to make Ford become the largest manufacturer of B24 bombers during WW2.

Read on Willow Run Assembly plant and how it came about.

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/94614-how-fords-willow-...
> I mean sure, nlp, parse some papers and make some sort of search/q&a type of thing? Fine, whatever.

I think you severely underestimate the effort and expertise required for getting decent content-aware search, let alone a fully functional question-answering pipeline.

These are their own subfields of research in text mining.
The fact that you conflate these as if they were some trivial task on a new dataset shows your lack of understanding of the field.

Biomedical text mining [1] is wide a subfield with plenty of open datasets and competitions such as the bi-annual ACL BioNLP workshop [1].
Furthermore existing knowledge-base creation and information extraction pipelines such as protein-protein interaction extraction, NER, event extraction, drug-drug-interaction minin, etc. could be applied to this novel dataset and provide useful insights for researchers and staff.
Sorry, I'll try to add multiple authentications soon.
Jitsi shows a warning when using Firefox and recommends using Chrome or Chromium. Why? No, thanks.
It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Haskell (2019)
That page could literally just be a static web page or built using a static site builder like Jekyll/Hugo etc?
> There really is no reason at all to not support macOS apps when you've given the device a keyboard and a trackpad+cursor.

That would turn the keyboard and trackpad into a requirement rather than an option. If you want macOS you already have options. The iPad is great because it's tablet first with touch as primary input method.
Much of it was officially produced and supported. No question of gulags.
I would be curious which switches they use. I just did a trial of some mechanical switches since my old trusty buckling spring keyboard was getting on my SOs nerves, and I just though I would get cherry MX browns and be done with. But it turns out that there are loads of nice tactile silent switches that are a lot nicer to type on than the MX browns if you want tactility. The Matias silent clicky ones are my new favourite. They provide excellent tactility at a lesser sound level than MX browns (which are borderline non-tactile IMO). I ended up buying a Mathias keyboard with higher quality keycaps.

I was also _extremely_ impressed with the new "opto-mechanical" switches by razer (who's keyboards and switches I have disliked for a long time). Probably the smoothest switches I have ever tried. MX browns are known for not binding (getting stuck or extra stiff when you press the key off center) at all, but the new razer ones were in a completely different league. They only have linear and clicky switches, which is the reason I did not buy it. I can't wait for other makers to follow them, because if they manage to make a nice tactile version of it (preferably with a lower actuation point) I will buy one of those keyboards in an instant. Hopefully there will be versions for grownups as well without all the RGB nonsense.

I don't want to be a keyboard nerd, but I always get this nice tingling feeling whenever I leave Cherry MX-land.
"We have problems, let’s introduce some code style guidelines, linting, error reporting and most importantly tests!"
"Nah, let's just switch to Typescript, it will solve all those problems. At least partially."
Out of curiosity, how does that work? VPN? Remote desktop? Both?
hair in the butt area also has a big impact
"Dual track" is how most enterprise SaaS fund feature development, especially in the early days.
Do you want to get an Amazon eGift Card?
If you find this style of art interesting, I recommend this sci-fi movie animated in Czechoslovakia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet
I'd recommend using clangd together with the vscode-clangd extension instead of VSCode's "official" C/C++ extension.
Properly set up with a compile_commands.json and its pretty much better than any C/C++ IDE I've ever used.
How onboarding works within an all-remote setting
Check out PAX and Child's Play if you haven't heard of them :)

https://www.paxsite.com/

http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
Indeed. The LEAVE phaser, and its cousins the KEEP and UNDO phasers: https://docs.raku.org/language/phasers#index-entry-Phasers__...
As someone who has been using Vue for a long time and recently fell in love with Svelte, I really hope they wait for a bit and go with the Vue 3 version. It brings a lot of huge advantages to Vue that make it much much more maintainable.
I have tried Mathematica for small duration and in general was wowed by it.

For free CAS I would recommend to give Axiom or FriCAS(more actively developed) a run.

http://fricas.sourceforge.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system...
There is commercial soil available that mimics the conditions of martian soil fairly well.

Gravity can be emulated by hanging the device from a spring (which you can optionally adjust to always take X newtons of force via a computer controller).

Atmosphere and weathering can be simulated in a vacuum chamber. All those things can be put into a vacuum chamber to simulate low pressure.

This is how NASA is developing their drone for the upcoming missions that will fly on mars and other celestial bodies.
More medical personel would be great. Another option would be to train contact tracers, much easier to train than medical personel. That is one of the reasons for Singapore's success, I belive. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51866102
CS: GO just broke an all time record [0] for the concurrent players recently.

Gaming industry is doing well.

[0] https://invisioncommunity.co.uk/csgo-breaks-a-record-with-ov...
100% that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/uks-sewage-sys...
Wow it's really beautiful, looks like a real rack.

I wonder, the wires seems to be very hard to bend. When I built custom PC, there's custom build soft power supply / SATA wires for sale. Maybe there should be similar things for USB or other wires that could be easier to tuck in the case.
It would be better to not have video running by default. People can drop in to talk over audio and request to switch over audio if necessary.

I honestly prefer the push to talk approach for audio too. It is always better to have explicit user consent at every audio and/or video session. Accidents happen.
There really is no silver bullet. If you really want to cover most cases, you have to

- Be generalist to cover all general concepts as you outlined

- Be a "programmer". That is knowledgeable in specific frameworks and languages

- Be data structure and algorithms guy. Most technical interviews involve them even if they are not needed in job.
Hmm. Zoom is useful, I love it. This time, I wanna solve a problem that my clients want to see if I can call or not right now.
Can someone give a quick code example for the follwing?

The framework allows UI elements
to be defined in a declarative way

How can you use Vue so that what you do is more declarative then when using a template engine like handlebars?
> Don't look too deeply into the code samples for specifics though, they are a pastiche

Your article here seems to avoid falling into this particular trap, but I consider this a problematic view for authors to hold. In software writing, code listings have equivalent weight as figures and tables, and are often what readers will look at first to get an overview of the article. If they don't adequately demonstrate the argument of the text or don't appear to be plausible, the entire article will fall flat.
I'm not here to defend selling bushmeat or the trade of wildlife for "medicine", but wet markets are simply markets where farmers can set up stalls and sell directly to consumers, including livestock and meat. Yes, it doesn't have the same sanitation code as supermarkets, but these wet markets are actually just what regular markets looked like 100 years ago. There's nothing nefarious going on there that breeds pandemic, except for the ones where they trade bushmeat, but these are exceptions; and the problem is the bushmeat, not the wet market.

This author is painting a picture of wet market like it's some kind of seedy underground butcher shop, but the reality is that this is how places like New York or London were selling groceries and food just a hundred years ago. It's just a regular market before the age of super markets.
Engineer seems too pretentious. Programmer seems....low trade?

If so, why not just use developer?
What exactly are you using Svelte for? It seems to literally be one HTML page...
You're missing cmd+L (copy last command to cursor) and cmd+shift+L (last result).

Although, as others have said, many prefer the style of editing and re-running, rather than leaving the history above.
Needless to say that this is subjective, but I think Single Page Applications and components-based UI in webdev is fairly modern as opposed to imperative, jQuery-esque Front-end development.
That feels like JSP to me, and I don't have fond memories of JSP.
Yes, but this just became the big dog.

Like how there were other hominids before us, but now it's just us.
From what I've read, soft masks like surgical ones are OK for a few hours, then they gradually get wet by sucking moisture and saliva from our breath and stop being effective.
Not as dramatic difference as the title suggests... Pulling numbers from the article.

3694 Control (Wuhan area)

A: 1188 (32.16%)

B: 920 (24.90%)

AB: 336 (9.10%)

O: 1250 (33.84%)

COVID-19 1888 patients

A: 715 (37.87%)

B: 494 (26.17%)

AB: 193 (10.22%)

O: 486 (25.74%)

The difference may be related to triaging criteria. E.g. different ethnic groups overrepresented in given hospital.
What’s new in HTML6
Looks ambitious, and happily there's some recent GitHub activity, but I already have Vim and Notepad++. What does Xi have that those two don't?
Heiliga sheissa! Good catch. Flushing paper towels seems precisely the kind of advice an enemy would airdrop as propaganda, onto an unusually naive audience. That must've been a typo, no?. Millions of people with backed up, clogged sewage systems during a time of crisis would be a huge disadvantage.