skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What depth of context are you expecting to have to use to avoid megamorphisation?

The literature tells us more than a couple of levels is likely not tractable. That’s not going to enough is it?

I'm not an expert in Python, but I am in dynamic analysis of other similar languages. Python lets you redefine methods, doesn't it? How do you accomodate the fact that while your routine is running someone could be redefining all your methods on another thread?

Nobody's yet managed what you're suggesting being able to do. Maybe you've got some new idea that nobody's even thought of before?
Lombardys health facilities are excellent, but there is only so much you can do when you're overwhelmed
Rob Hirschfeld on OpenStack Core: Your baby is ugly
May be it is just me, but there should have been a tldr summary or better title (Arash, co-founder of dropbox leaving) or first paragraph. I was reading it half scared wondering if someone died (due to the recent Corona related news).
You do realise it’s not eradicated in HK or Singapore ?

I’m not sure why people keep talking like this is all in the past for these countries ?
Society as a Broadband Network
Privacy is a solvable problem. I could say your reasoning is the short-sighted one, as you simply presume the next problem is insurmountable.

This is how we end up with schools in NYC kept open, flights continuing way too long, people mocked for wearing masks, and other stupid behaviors from agendas overriding caution.
Very very revealing! Thanks! i would assume that VoIP calling would suffer from the same "packet switching" issue that mobile telephones do:-((

With the current emergency caused by the corona virus there is a huge up tick in remote work. A whole sector of this suffers immensely from "Latency" issues. There is a huge market for the solution of that problem: Choral groups, various meditation practices involving a shared "soundscape", etc.

Perhaps a quick solution for the more professional groups with that issue is to require all members to have a "Land Line" and then do a conference call.
Keep in mind that all the actions we’ve taken won’t show up for 14 days or longer since the already infected take time to show up.
> idk man, people can dish out complicated, hard tested, reliable systems in a really short time

You must be living in some alternative universe. What I typically come across, even in fairly young companies, is tech debt ridden, buggy, endless cakes of layer upon layer of mostly cruft with a spiffy looking front thrown over the whole. Pretty icing on a crappy cake. As soon as you lift that top layer the illusion crumbles. I'd be happy to bet that most companies that run services out there would not survive a hostile audit of their code and systems.
Now that they've publicly claimed several times that they don't do that, I think it would really erode trust in the product if they changed the policy.
I want and expected it to listen to everything. Sure it can be used to harm me but it won't be a good business decision, on the other hand they can use the data improve the product and service for me.
The recorded conversations are accessible via Amazon. You can go and listen to them yourself, and delete them.
Those countries also have higher population densities and public transport usage than some of the western countries. How can you say the mask isn’t helping?
The Italian man who brought in coronavirus virus to Nigeria have been discharged
Isn’t this what the LAST_VALUE window function does? If so, that’s a standardized SQL syntax which is supported in both postgresql and recent versions of MySQL.

https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/postgresql-last_value-fun...
You can feel the new workflow if you have developer account or enroll to Apple beta.
Tried it on my 10.2" 2019 iPad.

The good:
This really makes more complex productivity possible on the iPad getting it closer to a desktop machine.

The bad:
I've already saw bugs which are new to 13.4 (didn't have them on 13.3.1).

It still requires developers to use newer API to support trackpad.
For example,
Firefox now has no right click support while Safari includes of course.
Thanks. Personally, I wanted to use it on different devices without having to install something every time. I also thought it would be easier for non techies.
Did Baseball Come to the US from Poland? (2019)
Losing wipers seems incredibly dangerous depending on the weather... no?
In Germany, does your health insurance cost >$600 per month for 1 person if your employer or government doesn't subsidize it (for example, if you are self-employed and earning more than minimum wage from it)?

Because that's the case in the US.
I agree, freaking out is pointless.

You treat these things as third-party listening devices - bugs, because that is exactly what they are, and adjust your conversation accordingly unless/until it is unplugged.

Look at it from a lawyer's perspective: imagine your privileged conversation with your client did leak. Your client sues you. If there was a surveillance speaker in the room it doesn't matter if it leaked because of it. You just demonstrated extreme lack of care by discussing privileged information in front of a networked microphone.
'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past 40 years
You can get a 20MHz Z80 that will overclock up to 33MHz or so. A Z8S180 runs at 33MHz and includes timers, uarts, dma, and an MMU. I don't know how much you could overclock one of them, but it's already pretty fast for an 8-bit chip.

Zilog also makes the ez80, which is like the Z180 but runs at 50MHz and has a 3 stage pipeline, and it has a 24-bit mode.

On the 6502 side, there's the 65C816S which is the fully-static CMOS version of the 65816, which is a 6502-compatible CPU with a 16 bit mode and 24-bit addressing. The Apple IIgs had one, but its clock speed was limited to 2.8MHz so as not to compete with the Macintosh. Today you could build a machine with a 14MHz 65C816S and fast SRAM, and have a pretty beastly 6502-compatible machine.
IMHO it's worth learning at least to internalize the concept of ownership. Ownership in some form exists in most languages, but Rust makes it very explicit. It guides you towards clearly organizing program's data into isolated tree-like structures, instead of a web of everything referencing everything else. Like Lisp, even if you don't use it, it may change how you think about code.

I see companies adopting Rust internally. Instead of hiring "Rust developers" they just add Rust to the stack and let their devs learn it. For example, Cloudflare writes most new code in Rust, but Rust is barely mentioned in the job postings.
Does this work well with IPv6?
One possible theory that's not mentioned in the article is that CS has probably become less approachable for those who don't enter college already somewhat versed in at least the basics. Something that is pretty much not true at all for any other STEM major.

I don't do a lot of programming myself, but I took an intro Algorithms in Python MOOC from a top school a while back. I think it's fair to say that, had I no appreciable programming/using a computer background, the class would probably have been impossibly difficult for me.
Our FD limit was misconfigured on our new blog. Whoops.
>However, they clearly CAN, and while they almost certainly don't on any massive scale, if they by their overlord or a security hack, did on a targeted basis listen, record and send conversations on, that would be very possible, and very harmful for whoever was targeted.

Besides the fact that they have better antennas, this is true for pretty much any device with a microphone and a processor with audio processing capability, no?

My laptop has a microphone and video. Surely Microsoft could just start recording with the with right windows update?

My Avaya VOIP phone has speaker phone, could do the same.
This would cause hyperinflation and a massive redistribution of wealth. Coastal people can't live on $2000. Airlines still go under.

Plan B: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbtJGn7ida2IYNgwCFk3Sjhs...
> they think because they’re all the way out [here [in the Hamptons]], they’re safe

As economist Mark Blyth warned[1], "The Hamptons are not a defensible position. The Hamptons are a very rich area on Long Island that lie along low-lying beaches. Very hard to defend a low-lying beach. Eventually people will come for you."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg
I found a way to bypass APIs rate limits.
Universal health care: will people finally get it?
The only good thing that can come out of this COVID-19 situation is that people will understand the importance of universal health care here in the US.

Scenario 1: I get laid off, I lose insurance for me and my family, I have to figure out how to find a new coverage, maybe COBRA, pay for it out of my pocket, and eventually try finding a new job. Ah, in case I get the virus and I’ll need to be hospitalized good luck paying the bill...

Scenario 2: I get laid off, I can focus on finding a new job without extra expenses. I get the virus, I go to the hospital and get treated, no bills.

This seems a no brainer to me. Am I missing something?

Disclaimer: European living in the US
It should be noted that the device is not intended to record conversations absent the trigger word, however there can be false positives:

> According to Amazon’s website, no audio is stored unless Echo detects the wake word or is activated by pressing a button. But sometimes Alexa appears to begin recording without any prompt at all, and the audio files start with a blaring television or unintelligible noise.
Like a plane crash, there's a moment where the error is realized. Someone says 'oh sh!t' on the flight recorder when they realize the error, and that there's no time left to correct. Yet enough time remains to wait.

That's what this month has felt like. The grave error, in my opinion, was refusing to take dramatic action early on. We couldn't tolerate any economic slowdown, so dice were rolled, and here we are. Add in the (criminal) failure of testing in the United States...

It's been a week and you see plenty of calls to 'think of the economy', and put an end to the shelter-in-place. One week. But like I keep saying, this isn't a binary choice. It's not clear that we could just 'chose the economy' at this point, because of the path that was chosen weeks ago – which is a narrower, far more dangerous path, to both the global health, and the economy. Short-term thinking at its worst.

But this is not a literal plane crash. The majority of us will live. It's about the kind of world we want on the other side of this. What we need now is global cooperation to share knowledge and resources. We need people to come to their senses so we can make smart decisions and make sure we don't throw out our constitutional rights in the process. We need as much urgency in bailing out the millions of people who are already losing their jobs, as there is for the airlines that spent the vast majority of profits on buying back their stock.

There's cognitive dissonance at play. "This can't really be the situation we're in?" Well, it is. This path was chosen. Now we need to buckle-up and learn rapidly from the mistakes we've made.
Did L Ron Hubbard write this?
You still assume you have animals that breed when you're looking. Lot's of them don't.

And it's still about the genetic distance. You can't mate everyone to everyone. You need to cluster by phenotype,genotype or location.
The bill was due far before 65 for my mom who eats very unhealthy. There is a lot of daily pain and suffering caused by obesity and an increase in preventable health issues that need to be treated.
Idk you could google it? But as anecdotal evidence I had to take it as a kid as a prophylactic against malaria. So did literally everyone I knew back then.
It's a very reasonable concern. I used to have a Google Assistant in my home office. I've muted the mic and just use it as a Bluetooth speaker.

However, the much bigger concern should be your phone, which has a mic, is internet connected, and almost always listening. You need to also disable the Google Assistant, Sciri, etc. there too.

Oh, and that doesn't just go for your home. That's in the office, at a client, on the train, in an Uber... Everywhere you take your phone.
I believe that most of the current testing only shows active infections?
China has half the world’s manufacturing ability, a civil service selected strongly for cognitive ability, a much more diligent and capable people, and a large population. Not to mention experience in pandemics of this type. China will become zeroth world shortly. We will have to get used to them surpassing us.
It is pausing a lot of revenue, but it's also pausing the need for that revenue.

It's also not pausing all revenue. If I order something from Amazon, everyone gets revenue. And if Google decides not to furlough employees but get a 3-month lead in R&D, it's not pausing employee revenue.
Well, from a suspicious mindset that could be more or less sincere...
>People hit calculus, which is almost never needed in the job market, and they give up.

This.

I tried going back to school for a CS degree at 26 after 5 years of professional experience in the bay area as a developer. The CS classes are trivially easy, but I simply could not do the math. I paid for tutors. I lived on Khan Academy all day long. I tried three semesters in a row to pass calculus and just couldn't do it. The vast majority of people simply cannot pass the math classes required for an engineering degree.
Mozilla re-enables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because of Coronavirus (and Google)
Denuvo protected games are getting cracked on average after 74 days
Seems like everyone I talk to either had something like that or knows people who did. It could be a huge effect.
World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Has Entered the Fight Against Coronavirus
Which email provider do you use?
> The video will stutter unless I set both my monitors to the same refresh rate. As you can imagine, it's somewhat annoying to have to lower the refresh rate of my main monitor from 144Hz to 60Hz whenever I want to watch Netflix.

This is a Windows 10 bug. Even things like mouse movement in the 60Hz will make the 144Hz stutter. It's especially noticeable in games.
Yeah, as always in compiler design, bootstraping versus depending on widespread systems programming languages, is an engineering decision.

uLisp could also take advantage of cross compiling, the author just chose another path that allowed him the focus on other areas instead.
I guess that's the point. And I mean, Trump appears to have forfeited this role of his own accord, what with all his America First schtick.

Also, it seems that regarding covid the best insights come from China, Korea, Italy or France, not the US.
Anecdotal, but I minored in CS so I wouldn’t be counted, even though I took the core algorithm courses and have continued studying since graduating 5 years ago.

I don’t see how one would know what they needed to interview at a FAANG without taking data structures and algorithms courses.
They diverged a rather long time before they started breeding again. They also seem to have other reproductive rates and behavior. They are anatomically more distant from modern Humans, than any group of modern Humans from each other.

In every sense of the word species, it makes more sense to call Neanderthals a different species.
Where is the keyword 'Alexa' recognized? On the device or back in Amazon towers? If the latter then every sounds is transmitted back to grep for 'Alexa'. Of course we believe they don't store that other noise data.
The graph I think would be helpful would show how many positive tests per day out of a random sample of 1,000 (or whatever) people (non-symptomatic).
There are better alternatives to linked lists for this use case.

1. Clojure uses wide balanced trees as its general-purpose ordered collection.[0] These have probably already been adapted for Haskell, and they offer persistence and fast random access and some degree of cache-friendliness. In my opinion it makes better trade-offs as a general-purpose structure.

2. By passing an &[usize] in Rust, or a const size_t* in C (i.e. by making g accept a read-only pointer), you can be guaranteed that g doesn't modify the array.

[0]: https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector...
> My laptop has a microphone and video. Surely Microsoft could just start recording with the with right windows update?

It's a commonly mentioned issue, and a somewhat regular occurrence with various malware or "security solutions".

That's why a number of laptops have either visual indicators or shutters (though mostly for the cameras, sadly hot mics are rarely a consideration), and a rare few have physical disconnection switches (again mostly for cameras).
China ramped up their production and now that the coast is (mostly) clear there, we we're bound to see this.

I've ordered a bunch at about $0.50 and if I get the order, I'll be driving most of them over to one of the local hospitals in Seattle.
The 2020 MacBook Air: Nearly Perfect
Exactly! I too understand the theory of competitive advantage, but in light of this new information, current economic/business/free-market theory needs to be rebuilt from the ground up to take into account risks (global supply chain disruption, customer base vanishing, etc) seriously considered.
That was not uncommon. I went to school both in the United States and the USSR. Back there, almost always the student at the top of their class was a girl.

I remember that American female students struck me like a bunch of divas at first. That's when I realized these things are purely cultural.
Not in general they're not. Specific models are, like specific models of cars.

Try to find somebody willing to pay you more than half of original MSRP for some random Compaq PC from 1990.
> People hit calculus, which is almost never needed in the job market, and they give up.

This is almost like saying, basketball players don't need to do pushups during the basketball match, so basketball training should skip push ups. The reason all engineers and scientists (computer or natural) should do calculus/differential equations/hard math courses is because these courses make students smarter.

They are a form of mental exercise that permanently increase your maximum brain capacity and your ability to do complex logical reasoning. It is possible you could replace these courses with some more job-relevant courses, but those courses would have to be just as brain wrinkling as these courses, if you wanted to maintain the current intellectual level of the industry.
I think shipping is where vendors push price markups. One price like Amazon for shipping would change the game.
No! I'm shocked. Shocked and chagrined. How unexpected!
Unless you want to non-English artists. Korean music for example used to be a nightmare on all streaming platforms when I last tried them.
Actually, I have found FallibleVec written by Mozilla [1] but I haven't found anything for other containers, yet.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mp4parse_fallible
The government is already doing that for me. My tax contributions go towards pension, healthcare, public services... I don't have to worry about taking a bank loan to go to the hospital or what I'm going to do when I retire.

I used to take things for granted, now news like "I have to pay $30k for Corona virus hospital treatment" make me appreciate being born in "socialist" Europe. To each their own.
You can’t reduce the basic reproduction number (R0) of a pathogen. You can reduce doubling time and similar metrics of the actual spread, but R0 is a fixed number. What you are referring to is the effective reproduction number, which is the rate of spread in a population at it’s current state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
Universal health care will people finally get it?
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plotly'
Still getting this error
The "behind Italy" number must refer to the number of days after Italy the area reached 100 confirmed cases. Because those numbers obviously don't reflect an extrapolation of the exponential function even 10 days into the future, even corrected for a reduction in the coefficient when numbers grow above 10.000.
Chinese food delivery firm Meituan abandons cloud business
The bill is crazy, but this person won’t have to pay a 10th if it if they call the billing department.

Being uninsured is actually something of a blessing in the United States in this situation. If you have health insurance (often with bad coverage and high deductibles), you’ve agreed to waive your ability to negotiate and to pay whatever bill they’ve sent you.

Not so for the uninsured.

The whole billing system in the United States is beyond fucked up.
> Yes that is one of the primary failures of Rust at the moment: to my knowledge it currently has no good way to safely manage allocation failures

So, sort of yes and sort of no.

The data structures that allocate in the standard library do not let you handle allocation failure. However, if you write your own, the global allocator lets you determine if failure happened, and then you can do whatever you want with it.
Why do I frequently see SoftBank in a lot of the bad news these last few months? Do they operate differently than most venture firms?
So you’re likely more educated. What’s your argument?

CS majors come out of the gate making 100K, can change companies whenever they want, are mission-critical assets wherever they go, and work in ivory towers.
Pretty sure that exists in Firefox
> pay hundreds of dollars to buy a special pan that doesn't preheat, so I could cook the steak through first

You don't need hundreds, just ~$100 for an inexpensive sous vide cooker with integrated thermometer & temp regulation [0]

You can put the meet in a zip lock bag and suck the air out with a straw and have it work just fine if you want to avoid the added expense of vacuum bags. When the meat hits the desired temp, remove, unwrap, sear the outside, and voila!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Anova-Culinary-Precision-Bluetooth-In...
This. I think the problem is that schools need to have separate tracks, and now days some of them do, that differentiate between the archetypes of people that work with software. A computer scientist is different from a computer programmer - sure, there are times when the different areas may overlap, but some people want to work in discovery and others want to work in application.

And to some degree, isn't the job of science to make life easier for the rest of us? I know some people scoff at people that don't have CS degrees, but it's important to be realistic about science's role in industry: thanks to the combined output of a lot of very talented computer scientists, computer programming is getting easier and more approachable with every passing year. It's not uncommon now for people with very little knowledge of computer science to build all kinds of complex applications. I see that as a victory for computer science, not a setback. And I think the people that want to apply science are just as important to the success of our industry as those who want to develop it.
What does it do? Business automation platform sounds very nonspecific.
Until we have a home assistant that can be operated without a connection to the internet without going to the cloud there is always going to be this risk. I don't see any of the big players actually designing a system like this other than Apple.
Here's a source that supports OP's claims: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373043
In the USA, acne and pregnancy are often disqualifying conditions. Services are often "out-of-network."

So it doesn't matter if you pay the pemiums or not - you get massive surprise bills.
You’d think mild cases wouldn’t have the same viral load as the severe cases. Even if you’re technology contagious it may be less for the mild cases.

Especially asymtomatic. You’d not be coughing or sneezing more than usual which must have some effect.

Just a thought. No one seems to have mentioned this idea.
Gabe Newell 'We're way closer to The Matrix than people realize'