skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is one of the things that are so brilliant about Perl. Tell a developer to create a programming language inspired by natural languages and you'll get verbose crap like COBOL which superficially looks "natural" but is very far from how languages work.

Perl, on the other hand, looks just like a programming language would if it was the only way we could talk to computers, day in, day out:

- Implicit "it" variable,

- Very brief syntax for common operations,

- More than one way to say things,

- Context determines the meaning of things, and so on.

It's not at all what one instinctively thinks of as "a programming language drawing from natural languages", but on closer inspection (and daily use) that's exactly what such a thing would look like!
EIGHT electrons?

Indistinguishable from magic, man.

[Cue future archeologists: "Remember when our grandparents could only get a few gigabytes on a quark? How primitive, how sooo last-femtocentury."]
Thanks, I'll bookmark this.

As a programmer with no design skills, I maintain a folder of screenshots from various SaaS apps that I find helpful whenever I need inspiration for layouts, information presentation, multi-step interaction breakdowns, widget use, progressive drilling down, etc..
Gig workers handed lifeline by $2T stimulus plan
What stops me from providing anyones photo?
the original newscientist article buries the lede near the end

all shapiro's blog does is move the lede to the beginning and add contexr
When you import a work into your bib, always check if it got the right data! Sometimes it categorizes something as the wrong type of file, or it wil even implement the data of a whole other article. This can make it impossible for you to find the data back when you actually need it.
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it's a cool idea. a) i'd use a handwritten font and semi-randomized angles to make it look more real.
b) PLEASE don't send me yet another thing i have to sterilize before bringing in my house. Countless (literally can't be counted) people are involved in the mailing, sorting and delivery of mail and all of them are potential Covid-19 carriers. Lacking an autoclave i can't really sterilize paper without getting it wet and that sucks for a birthday card. I'd read it with gloves on the porch, and then immediately trash it.... and most folks don't have disposable gloves.
> People who are not neoliberals often agree that efficiency and innovation are important (though perhaps not of as paramount importance as neoliberals tend to portray them), but often disagree with neoliberals as to the optimality of neoliberal policies at producing them outside of the kind of simplified conditions that dominate the first couple weeks of undergraduate economics classes.

People who are not neoliberals often agree that efficiency and innovation are important _up to the point where needs are met for all_. No leftist uses efficiency/innovation as a target (and if they do chase it for the sake of productivity they are by definition not left of capital).
Are you personally willing to die to get the DOW above 30K? If you're not it seems rude to ask others to.
Google Drive discovers Shortcuts
I also believe the referenced article does not correctly convey what the original New Scientist article does: the original epidemiologist does not buy in completely to the new inferences, by my reading.
> The biggest problem is when a glyph is reused for multiple things, as in that case the graphic has to pick one of them or stay generic.

Solution: https://github.com/mifki/df-twbt

This is included in various content packs, so setting this up manually is optional.

> The game doesn't actually use ascii output, it renders the text (windows terminals would probably be too slow)

Linux and OS X terminals are fast enough. The init.txt setting [PRINT_MODE:TEXT] switches the renderer to ncurses.
Not quite. You're claiming that this is all because of the lockdown, when it is quite clear that the biggest reason for the change is the changed estimate of R0.

In other words, if this new R0 estimate is correct we were completely mislead about how big a deal this virus is, and comparisons to it "just" being like a bad flu year are more or less correct.
Are they ?

If seen my share of old x64 binaries refusing to run on modern linux distro, spouting some sort of undecipherable glibc error message on startup (something along the lines of "version `GLIBC blah' not found)
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It really shows you how good Intel's IP is that they can even make competitive CPUs on a generation old process.
Scientists document seasonal migrations of fish across the deep-sea floor
+1 to init7. They've gone above and beyond when I needed them to change their routing policies to improve end to end latency to a specific destination. Good luck getting that from a major us carrier. And I wasn't even a customer.
I've been mentioning this possibility here and getting in arguments over it for more than a week now. People don't have much of an appetite, it seems. My guess is that all the folks who were absolutely certain of a low R0 value and a high IFR, with 2% of the US population dying as a result, are not going to show up to acknowledge that they were wrong.
NextDNS is great, set it up on all my devices a few back when there was a post on here about it. Uninstalled a few apps just from seeing the number of requests they were sending even when I didn't use those apps frequently.

Like its mentioned in this discussion, using the FB SDK will result in apps sending requests to FB. Found a banking app I use was doing this...
> We could refer to the Apollo lander as a spacecar[0]

This seems to be reaching for exoticism for the sake of exoticism, given that the standard term is the metaphorically identical "spaceship".

It can't even be justified by the restriction to "the 3000 most common words", since ship is #1208 in COCA.
Why don’t we get any information on if the shutdowns are working? Why is nyc still so bad?
I don't know but there's the ALTER (and maybe a COMEFROM) ?
Awesome work! Thanks for sharing it! Keep it up :)
> UNIX being "only for system stuff"

At first I thought he meant server-side, but OS/X is as Unix as Linux is or even Solaris was.
So, a user can create a new file and get access to previously stored content somehow?
Thanks so much for creating this! I’m going to buy one from every single one in my ZIP Code. Hopefully if enough people use this, it will help all of these super small businesses get through this.
The theory that the virus has been spreading for months just makes no sense at all. By all accounts, COVID has a pretty quick progression and serious cases need to be hospitalized after about one week of symptoms or about two weeks after contraction. How come that the virus has infected millions and millions of people in the last months but none of them got seriously sick. And now all of a sudden, 1000s are dying. Unfortunatly, it seems that even researchers from reputable institutions are now just pulling numbers from their asses to grab some headlines.
Sadly true. Guess it's war then?
Doctors and nurses treating Covid-19 report high rates of depression and anxiety
Should I Be a Manager?
What sucks is the last two aren't "Texan" and haven't been for a while. The original Dr Pepper company hasn't been owned by a Texas firm for decades and Dr Pepper Snapple sued their last iconic bottler, Dublin Dr Pepper, nearly out of existence, but definitely out of bottling cane sugar Dr Pepper, eight years ago. And two years back, the Hobson family cashed in and sold a majority of Whataburger to a private equity firm out of Illinois.

I wonder how much longer the Butt (yes, really) family will keep hold of H-E-B.
Their business is making 76k in MRR.

They state their profit margin is around 70-80%, and have 3 equity partners.

Lets assume they split the profits as their earnings, and each partner makes exactly a 1/3.

That would be about $20,000 a month (less taxes) or an annualized salary of approx $240,000. Which is very, very nice, but not worth spouting social change for.
Oh, I've done this. The 4DBs are for forward-origination, servicing and reverse origination, servicing.

We had a prime app, a fifth DB driving it. It had scripts to pull rates and a UI to adjust. Logs all changes.

These rates are pulled by the other systems (eg the AS400 pulled over FTP). Additional internal apps could query over SMB and HTTP.

The prime updated slowly and each of the services would poll it very frequently (4m) + on-demand when needed
Futures Basis Profit and Loss (PnL) Analysis: Bacwardation vs. Contango
Well the output looks like it came from the UAS driver which is by name, usb attached scsi. I imagine the drive itself is probably some sata drive and the usb chip just translates scsi to sata.
> it's more than likely a big hustle to do something shady

Of course it is. But it's also the case that doing the opposite of whatever idiots do isn't necessarily smart.

It's like the thing where people say don't use Google because "if you're not the customer you're the product" but then the same people are pushing Microsoft products that not only charge you money but then still do the same thing as Google or worse.

If you're not paying them then you can guess how they're making money, but just because you are paying them doesn't mean they're not doing the same thing. You still have to read the fine print.
> we check for sync or if PPPoE is up.

The problem with this kind of procedure is that it's only a reasonable way to locate the problem when there are problems at that very moment. You're getting stonewalled when - during the day - you're reporting that it frequently loses sync during the night.
Generally considered among who? Epidemiologists? Public health officials? Anonymous commenters on message boards?
I'm more interested in how you calculated those numbers. Could you share? Thank you for your concern about my empathy.
when did the spanish flu become the 1918 flu? was it in the past few days?
A renowned quack reviewing the work of one of his peers. Guaranteed enjoyment.
We should not pretend like we understand the "economic fallout", and that operating under the current "rules" is the only mode of existence. Economics and capitalism are social constructs after all. _Nobody_ understands economics well enough to make statements with any certainty. At least epidemiology is better understood.

Not to mention what happens when you take into account the positive effects a recession and drop in production has to: air quality, worker health, general mortality, and climate change?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00210-0
> pretty excellent 3D isometric front end for Dwarf Fortress. The name eludes me

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Utility:Stonesense

It's not a complete front end. It cannot control the game, just provide a visualisation of the world.
Must mention India in some sense too.

Given the scale of difficulty, the country has moved swiftly.

It is yet to be seen if it is even possible to organize a shutdown the solve this problem, at India's scale. But, even the naysayers have acknowledged that in this case Modi made good decisions.
I'm curious about the efficacy here; how many "bad" drives will this find?
Or put in another way = socialised losses
Half of those 72% may have had it three weeks ago and are a-ok now. Without testing for antibodies, all we can say is they do not _currently actively have an infection._
NYT draws the wrong conclusions. In each of these cases, the jury sided with the more popular and well known party. These were all jury cases where perceived career accomplishment is the common thread, as the law itself twists in any way necessary.
The problem is that the drug doesn't stay at an effective level in the body for 40 days (it also takes more than a month for the drug to take effect), and the consequences of allowing lupus to flair include accumulating permanent damage to, for example, heart, lungs, kidneys and joints. Additionally, there's no good information yet on how an immunocompromised patient in a flair will react to coronavirus infection, beyond the general notion from our rheumatologist that putting your malfunctioning immune system into a state of dysfunction and then getting the virus that puts your immune system into a state of dysfunction is probably really bad.

source: my partner has rheumatoid arthritis and takes hydroxychloroquine, and we've been concerned about exactly this sort of thing happening for a while now.
Oil Exchange for Physical (EFP) Instrument Analysis: Transaction Profile
Amazon Seller Can't Pursue Trade Libel Claims in TM Dispute
The reason for the funny message is that it’s not that it’s failing to find libc.so while doing dynamic linking; it’s the kernel failing to find the interpreter designated in the ELF image (ld-linux.so). Unfortunately the kernel responds with an ENOENT, which is indistinguishable to the caller from not finding the binary itself.
and the never ending stream of emacslisp evaluations around the globe
Would you know what protocol they use for search?

I see that things like the Plume blogging platform have a cross-instance search, but whenever I ctrl+f for search on any documentation page there's nothing. For example, it says the four protocols it uses are activitypub (link goes to the spec at W3; the whole spec never mentions the word search), webfinger (spec page, an RFC, also never mentions it), HTTP signatures (just for verification it seems), and nodeinfo ("not part of the federation itself, but that gives some metadata about each instance"). I've looked in more places but this was one of the more concrete examples of where there clearly is search but I can't find the code or protocol anywhere.

Edit: checked another; Peertube does not seem to search across instances.
> Wow such a team player! You must be a joy to work with.

Sarcasm, insult.

> Helping your team is an “obligation” but only if a certain math equation is a positive number..

Deliberate negative misrepresentation of a reasonable position (some things are more important than others).

> When my manager asks a question, I don’t treat it with hostility.

Boasting, posturing of superiority.

> It isn’t a “dumb” question, because for some reason that’s what he needed to know.

Claim that you know their life better than they do, and you are a better judge of what they are being asked than they are.

> I could bet that you have asked a few dumb questions in your day.

Irrelevant putdown/insult, which wouldn't change the current situation whether it was true or false.

> You are a team. It isn’t all about “your productivity,”

Dismissive putdown, with quotes implying their productivity isn't important, i.e. that they overvalue their own work and that you can value it better than they can.

> it’s about the team accomplishing the goal

Dismissive of the fact that for a team to accomplish a goal, people in the team must be able to do their work towards said goal.

> You probably aren’t a Nobel winning physicist sitting around dreaming up theories that change the earth, but it certainly seems like it

Irrelevant insult and putdown, implying their work is unimportant. Tag-on bit at the end insults their own judgement of the worth of their work and implicitly claims you are a better judge of its importance than they are.

> perhaps you should just be helpful and friendly and not such an entitled grump

Another insult, accusation of overblown status.

> Or perhaps get better at your job

Another insult.

> Perhaps your hatred of interruption is due to insecurity or anxiety about your abilities.

Another insult.

> Be helpful and compassionate

The jaw-dropping, tone-deaf, blind-to-what-you-are-saying sentence which causes me to post this comment.
Problem is you'll eventually reach a point where the problem is deep and requires them to escalate, and if you aren't checking the box of tested customer cpe they'll stop. Example of this is when I found a Comcast backbone link with an incorrect/inconsistent MTU setting. Had to go back channel in the end to someone on the ibone team, but I had no chance in hell of getting that fixed promptly via regular support.
It's a pretty common comparison, actually. I think the first "big" article on Go was one comparing Go to ALGOL-68.

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
Privatization and "efficiency" on all things of national interest do that. It is why deficit hawks are misleading their constituents with every sentence.
I’m surprised Zoom is happy for Facebook to know exactly who its customers are. This is information that could be used against the company at some point, for example if FB made a video conferencing play.
I agree with your doubts, and I can't make sense of 72% of tests in NY being negative.

However, the test you need to run is an antibody test, since negative tests don't tell you whether you've already had it.
I'm pretty sure my new CenturyLInk fiber router is similar. I tried to create a PPoE connection from my WRT1900 direclty to century link using the same credentials and I couldn't connect to my internet. However, now I am motivated to create a bridge and find out why.

For CenturyLink fiber I have two boxes:

Box A: the exterior fiber enters this box, the tech said it was a "translator"; and the port 4 ethernet on it goes to ...

Box B: the centurylink wireless router, which performs the PPoE with my credentials which were somehow hardwired because no one ever told me my username/password. I'm guesing TR-069? Then port 4 on this goes to ...

Box C: MY WRT1900AC, which then goes to other subnets for my cameras, lab, and office.

I figured Box B was redundant, but trying to remove it has been problematic.
I like the idea of a very small language and I think it may be very useful for science and technology, but Toki Pona does not fit the requirements. Eg: it lacks words to express numbers.

Lojban looks interesting for this purpose, but it's way too complicated.
Maybe Apple is proactively making iOS EARN IT Act compliant?
Just a note: if you're forwarding for something that can use socks5, ssh can do that (can be used to share an outgoing VPN from a server you can ssh into, for example - by pointing your browser to your local ssh socks5 proxy. Or for testing a rest/soap/graphql service that's not exposed to the internet).

https://man.openbsd.org/ssh#D
We share a lot of photos on Slack.
I would argue that in this context, you can't make conclusions about "the economy" in terms of objective good or bad. There are economies at varying topographies, scales, and market sectors. There are also philosophical differences in what a desirable economy looks like. For example, there's an increasing number of opinions that an economy heavily based on oil and gas energy, and military defense contractors, is not a desirable one.

Some others in a very small minority (possibly happening to be in power) may argue that parts of the economy that are not resilient to hardship are not desirable parts, and therefore should be culled when the opportunity presents itself. I would not be surprised if this was a factor in the decisions being made right now.
You don't! Its a best effort contribution to help improve their probability of surviving this crisis.

*Exceptions: Large Chain Restaurants
I can't tell if you're trolling...

Also I find it hard to believe that there are millions of Americans who barely make $1,000 a month.
I wonder if IBM is still trying to migrate COBOL to something
> The reference to a battery powered automatic insulin dispenser is painful. The technology to do this is trivial today but it's not really available due to onerous medical device regulations.

It is only 'trivial' in comparison with the challenges they would have trying to implement the same thing in 1950.

This is actually a hard problem. Although medical companies have solved it for the most part, and there are devices available. Still, regulations make sense, as our sensors, advanced as they are, can still provide erroneous readings. You can easily kill someone that way.

> 2 hours New York to San Francisco: we had planes for this in the 1970s but it was killed by regulatory hysteria.

That's oversimplifying. Yes, prohibiting supersonic flights over land had an effect of mostly allowing for intercontinental flights. Which makes the planes themselves less attractive and contributed to its demise. But by itself it wouldn't have killed it. There were multiple problems.

Some of the problems were:

1) Flights were _expensive_ . Supersonic flight is not that fuel-efficient, at least not as implemented by the Concorde. Takeoff (and sometimes climbing) was done on afterburners. It was capable of supercruise so fuel consumption was not much more than a 747 or the equivalent of a business jet (per passenger). It did not carry as many passengers though.

2) The aircraft itself was finicky and required a lot of training – for its 3 man crew. Yes, it still required a 'flight engineer'.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106504293992222300

3) Environmental concerns (see 1). There were some discussions about Ozone layer depletion given its high flight altitude. Not sure how real those concerns were, but they existed.

4) The famous crash, and possibly 9/11 (it was scheduled to reenter service that year). Also increased regulations, meaning more time sitting at airports. 3.5h + 3.5h is already close to a full work day, add airport delays due to TSA and the like, and you can't cross the atlantic, have a meeting, and come back in the same day anymore. If it is going to take more than half a day each way, it makes more sense to take a normal flight.

5) Most airlines wanted aircraft that were more fuel efficient and carried more passengers. The Concorde was going exactly on the wrong direction.

The regulations just added insult to injury. Not may companies operating them, not many planes in service, not many routes. Any issues would then have an outsized effect. But even more importantly, it prevented development of successors.

Sonic booms can be mitigated to a large extent today. There are potentially better designs that would carry more people at higher efficiencies, including flying wings. We don't need miracles, we just need to make it worth it to business and first class travelers(at least, at first). Automation improvements means that we could have a two person crew, just like any other aircraft. And so on. But who is going to absorb that R&D with the Concorde gravestone around?

We'll have to be happy with subsonic aircraft for the time being. Unless SpaceX delivers. A suborbital flight probably makes more sense than the Concorde.
The middle class is an illusion, but I have more in common with that VP than I do a billionaire.
1918 Flu is a more accurate name and you seem to not have had any trouble with the meaning, so what's the problem?
the book he recommends at the end of the article looks interesting. My only issue with it is the lack of a TOC.
I never heard this before. Can you explain how it protects insurance companies?
I've been following teachyourselfcs and I find it great. The resources mentioned are top notch. I just had a look at the functionalcs link and it seems to have 2/3 resources per subject compared to 1 per subject in teachyourselfcs. I feel this will make it more easy to not get stuck with paralysis by analysis.

I don't know if the other curriculum is superior or not though. Someone more experienced should pitch in regarding that.