skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sort of a revisionist history thing that's been picking up steam for a while.

I believe it really started gaining traction when the articles and such started going around about how it was called "Spanish Flu" because Spain was a neutral country in WWI and so wasn't suppressing reporting on the pandemic. Current research suggests it was just as bad everywhere and probably originated in America.

I don't terribly mind the change, I guess, since 1918 Flu helps ground it in time.

I think part of the change is also backlash to people calling our current pandemic the Chinese Flu
Even with GC it won't be a great target for pre-existing languages. Whatever WebAssembly's future GC semantics, I can guarantee you they won't be the same GC semantics as for Go, Java, Lua, Perl, Python, or Ruby because they all have different semantics--semantics which interleave with other design choices in those languages. Bridging those semantics will either require similar workarounds as currently required, or modifying the behavior of the language.

WebAssembly with a deep GC model will at best be a slightly better environment for writing JavaScript extensions and at worst a way to write really obtuse JavaScript code.
I just shopped at my local Trader Joe’s here in Utah and they had pretty much everything back in normal stock amounts. Costco though still was out of 5 or 6 staples
Such "hail corporate"... How about you look at it another way: the stock price is increasing because the app just got super popular the last few days, but users might not be aware of the privacy implications of the app, and curious experts started digging into it to see if it's a safe app.

It'd be like saying the people who were investigating Dieselgate were doing it because they wanted to destroy VW's stock price, instead of caring about the health of humans.
Maybe it's a remote administration port for your ISP. I have a router provided by Froniter, formerly Verizon FiOS, where port 4567 is always open and cannot be closed with a firewall rule from the router's web UI (grayed out). After some googling I found out that it's their maintenance port:
https://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=4567

For a while I had my own OpenWRT router in place of the ISP one, but I think they got wise to it and blocked the MAC. I changed it to match the ISP router's MAC address, but it only worked for about 3 minutes before being blocked again.
I miss their Hill Country Fare store brand and their meat department
My ISP has a cloud access "feature". If I go to 192.168.1.1 it redirects me to their "router.MYISP.net" site. What's the best way to go about disabling this? Should I just dump the rented router for my own?
totally agree!!!
It really doesn't make it clear how this works, and I can't find a consumer facing help article. Does this just email me a code or what?
Really interesting article. Here's a related article on simple leadership lessons from Extreme Ownership that I had written - https://medium.com/@brainstrained/4-nine-simple-leadership-l...
"Replacing steel with aluminum in construction: never really happened although unclear why this would be a good idea."
My house, built in 1976 in Washington, actually has aluminum framing as do the few houses next to it built at the same time. From what I heard there was a short period where aluminum was cheaper than wood for framing and caused the switch over. I'm not sure how localized this was. All the contractors I worked with find both the framing and how the house was framed unique but they are still able to work with it.
The problem is that it was being referred to as the Spanish Flu up until some people in the media took offense to Trump's coining of the phrase "Chinese Flu", so Spanish Flu needs to go if we're not wanting to look like hypocrites.
At the risk of pointing to the documentation,

graph-facebook-com/app/activities is an endpoint used by 3rd party developers working with Facebook SDKs to send app analytic data for insights.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/app-event...
http://www.facebook.com/analytics
https://business.facebook.com/events_manager/app/events

This is what a URL can look like.

graph-facebook-com/1106907002683888/activities?method=POST&event=MOBILE_APP_INSTALL&anon_id=1&advertiser_tracking_enabled=1&application_tracking_enabled=1&custom_events=[{%22_eventName%22:%22fb_mobile_purchase%22,}]

If you click the above you'll litter my analytics feed for my app 1106907002683888 with junk data.

Just in case, someone was looking for the specific call talked about because I couldn't find it linked in Vice's article.
Yeah, I read the lone white paper authored in France that WHO cited and never have I seen such random vectors thrown in to a point where the data samples becomes noise. WHO should have known better.
It's more like if Mona Lisa incorporated a background from another artist.
Are you implying that we can’t draw conclusions from limited data sets? Surely there must be some value in looking at the last event, even if it was 100 years ago...
yes it does. it means exactly that.
Can't they fingerprint the device? The fact that Zoom was launched on a specific device is still a lot more information than I would be comfortable giving up if I don't use Facebook at all.
Not sure about the first part, but nations are quite obviously fake constructions once you start prodding at the seams.

The most instructive places to look at in that direction are border areas in general, and the Middle East in particular.

Often times when you look at border areas you will see absurd divisions of people who would normally work together. The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland is a strong example.

For the clear negative impact of borders though, the absurd creation of most Middle Eastern countries by British diplomats is one of the clearest examples. The arbitrary lines that were drawn through tribal lands and small fiefdoms, the people left without countries of their own (e.g. the kurds) or brought to power over vast swaths of other people (the Saudis)- it is all as absurd as can be, and has proven as poisonous as expected.
Perhaps it is to be PC, apparently the Spanish flu didn't originate from Spain (looks like it began in US). Spain was the first country to report on it.
Wow some good detective skills at work here , got a similar Huawei HG635 from my provider ... kept it because it supports LTE cutover.

Fortunately some kind person leaked the admin password so that I could configure it to my liking.
The article seems confused.

> And research showed that most people couldn't notice any difference in taste.

> The new biscuit tasted just like the old one,

The second statement does not follow from the first.
The number of new case per day in Italy has stabilized at 5000 to 6000 per day.

Date Cases New Cases
March 10 9172 1797
March 11 10149 977
March 12 12462 2313
March 13 15113 2651
March 14 17660 2547
March 15 21157 3497
March 16 24747 3590
March 17 27980 3233
March 18 31506 3526
March 19 35713 4207
March 20 41035 5322
March 21 47021 5986
March 22 53578 6557
March 23 59138 5560
March 24 63927 4789
March 25 69176 5249
March 26 74386 5210
only works on old versions

https://github.com/TroZ/DF2MC

https://github.com/Thutmose/dorfgen
And then consumers use external drives as a backup method...
Finally someone step up to stop the UA madness!!!

Now, all we'll need is a way to not send anything at all!!!
I've read the Imperial College Paper. Transmissibility is a major change [0]. The original paper says we are only just at the beginning of the time we will have to spend quarantined over the next 12-18 months, off and on. With the new transmissibility estimate, it would mean that we are a few weeks away from the peak and then done with this.

If you can show me I'm wrong, please do.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i...
> I suspect the noise, will make it infeasible for all but a few major destinations.

I think the issue will be more geopolitical than anything. Few national defense organizations will trust an ICBM heading toward "just next to (no seriously, it's fine)" one of their largest population centers, even if it is from someone they consider friendly.

Not insurmountable, but definitely an uphill battle.
Interesting how Blackrock has become the new Goldman Sachs of the 2020s, apparently they tend to have quite a big influence in Macron's France, too [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/business/france-blackrock...
Living in a Tipi (1979)
Italy and Spain are not developed countries?
If you stop working an can't live off your savings indefinitely you are middle class by definition.
need to throw the federal bureaucracy into the 'don't have to compete to survive bucket'
For me it was a few general trends that I focused on combating due to their clear correlation with poor sleep. They weren't new or groundbreaking, but the data really hammered home the point for me.

Basically the main things were:

- Avoiding alcohol at night entirely (and no more than 1 if it was a social event I felt like drinking at)
- Running for at least 3 miles at about 70-80% max heart rate (or shorter distances with higher intensity) guarantees a night of at least 2.5 hours of deep sleep and up to 3.5 according to the app. Otherwise I average around 1 hour of deep sleep on a normal day.
- I'm a type 1 diabetic so sleeping with my blood sugar at around 80 mg/dL means I get a full night of restful sleep. When I'm above 120 mg/dL I start losing quality sleep, and above 200 mg/dL I get no deep sleep and low amounts of quality sleep with a higher heart rate.

All these things before the app I had a gut feeling they were minor impacts on my sleep, but turns out they were incredibly impactful. Looking back at my time in college makes me wonder sometimes how much knowledge I didn't retain or learn due to poor sleep and health habits. Hindsight is 20/20 though.
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>Costco and H-E-B are possibly this generation's Nordstrom's story.

Can you elaborate on what this "Nordstrom's story" means? Didn't find anything on a quick search.
Thank you for writing that. I was about to write ... exactly the same. There is a very legitimate use case for passing the const reference to the shared pointer that the article doesn't consider at all, which you've explained very well.
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We went to HEB a couple of days ago. There was no toilet paper, but plenty of meat, milk, eggs, etc. A trip to Target a few days prior found a store deplete of all of the above.
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Yes, I just ordered a bunch of them. Got several emails.
B probably exists so they can split fiber between multiple end users or support things like phone service over the same link. Did you use the same VPI and VCI? PPPoE also sends an identifier (the "Host-Uniq" tag if I'm understanding it right) that probably has to match what your ISP is expecting or has assigned.
I think Piketty makes some good points.

But I still think any account of the woeful separation between the Democratic Party and the common people which ignores the rise of the pro-life movement has to be incomplete. Piketty thus misrepresents those who are concerned about the prevalence of destructive beliefs among the working class:

>“The problem” with the story of a bottom-up defection “is not just that it depends on the notion that the disadvantaged classes are by their very essence permanently racist...”

But racism, while extant, is not the most significant ideological issue that separates the elites from the working class, nor can it reasonably explain their disagreements with Democrat policy -- current anti-racist policy is laughably weak, and elites are not consistently anti-racist. That award must certainly go to religion, not racism.

That an elite who bemoans the disconnection between the elites and the working class could write a book about ideology which largely ignores the predominant ideology among the working class in Western countries is painfully ironic. Ignore this correlation at your peril:

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FT_18...

One could argue, of course, that the pro-life movement has been cultivated and manipulated for the benefit of capital. But it would be better to actually write the argument. Such a key step should not be left as an exercise to the reader.
I cannot think why you would want to a shared pointer argument instead of a reference. A better interface would be:

void foo( const Widget& widget );

Called by

foo( *widget_ptr );

or

foo( widget );

No doubt there are special circumstance by normally foo would not care, should not care, whether the Widget is on the stack or heap, controlled by a dump or smart pointer.
Here are some mentioned things we don't often see:

Sun lamps on 200ft towers - definitely possible with modern lighting options, but horribly energy wasteful and likely to annoy people more than help them.

Thorium power generators - research is ongoing as you can see from the articles that often pop up on HN. The main barrier is still materials science.

Atomic "liners" (passenger vessels) - easily possible if not for general distrust and extreme regulation of nuclear power. For example, there are a number of nuclear powered ice breakers in service today.

Metal-walled houses - also possible, but so ridiculously expensive no one actually does it. Worth noting is a lot of commercial construction uses metal studs today.

Plastic modular houses - also possible (see mobile homes as an example), but the large majority of people don't want them because of the "cheap" factor. Also in many places the property costs a lot more than the house itself, so construction material savings is low priority.

Chemical hair remover for shaving - turns out this is harder than it seems. Chemicals that can break down hair have a rather annoying tendency to also be really harsh on skin.

Controlling weather - The amount of energy needed to do this is ridiculous, as are the environmental impacts of things the article suggests (covering the ocean in oil and lighting it on fire...)

Supersonic/rocket planes - The tech has been available for many decades, but the market demanded cheaper tickets rather than faster planes, so development went in that direction instead.
Different economies have different amount of money to loose. You can't compare apples to oranges.

In China, which has way more to loose from the real economy going down, nobody is running to sell their business now. A factory during a crisis, is still a factory.

Now look how many people have cashed out in USA already, despite US economy being much more virtual, and service based, and supposedly more resilient.

We are much more likely see whose economy is more resilient, and not whose immediate response was better.

Panic factor? Chinese are by far more freaked out now than most Americans. Even now, Americans trust their government more than Chinese to CPC.

Illiquid assets factor? No, you can sell a factory in China way faster than you can sell a typical dotcom in America.

It's really just Chinese still looking up to seek more fortunes more than American business people do, and America being way more vulnurable to panic buy/sells.

And it's only the last point above, where an immediate response matters: In a society more susceptible to mass panic among the business elites, you can reduce the impact by increasing their confidence by showing competent early response.
But public shaming is. Name names, find news outlets, post it online. This is unacceptable. There are repercussions for every action.
also important that this is a private company that does not face the same quarterly earnings pressure as a publicly traded company
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Their desktop version is not much better.

https://securityboulevard.com/2020/03/using-zoom-here-are-th...
One cool application that cropped up in the Rust ecosystem is to use WASM for procedural macros. That way not only can they be distributed as precompiled (arch-agnostic) blobs from crates.io, but you also get all the benefits of the sandbox environment to guarantee freedom from malicious side effects. The W in "WASM" doesn't have to limit possible applications to just the web browser.

https://github.com/dtolnay/watt
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But what if I sometimes want to retain shared ownership? I don't want to receive the shared_ptr by value because that drastically slows down my program for the cases where I end up not retaining ownership (compared to const-ref), but I can't just take the const ref Widget.
But it seems like he's revising the R0 estimate upwards, rather than downwards. From the same article:

"New data from the rest of Europe suggests that the outbreak is running faster than expected, said Ferguson. As a result, epidemiologists have revised their estimate of the reproduction number (R0) of the virus. This measure of how many other people a carrier usually infects is now believed to be just over three, he said, up from 2.5. “That adds more evidence to support the more intensive social distancing measures,” he said."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i...
Almost(not quite) as efficient as a 747 or business jet. On a per-passenger basis, it was vastly less efficient.

But that's the Concorde. That's not the upper bound on what physics allows.
> Hug A Chinese National Day

A rational person can't possibly believe that this is the cause of their troubles, even if there were such a thing.
> PPoE with my credentials which were somehow hardwired because no one ever told me my username/password

They make it very hard to use your own "Box B", but I've set this up twice now (most recently last week). Get the username and password from CenturyLink (the tech that installs the service has this, or call them). Then, google search "century link vlan 201 wan tag". The trick is you need a router that has this functionality, most basic consumer ones don't.

Unfortunately, even if you follow all directions and it still doesn't work troubleshooting is a nightmare, very little or no help from their customer support.
This is pretty neat. A week or so ago when "MathJax turns 3.0" was on the frontpage [0], I followed a link to this very thoughtful comment [1] from 2019 by svat about the landscape of math typesetting on the web. Since then I've been thinking a little bit about MathML and how compilers from other more input-friendly formats to MathML might encourage wider adoption. So I'm excited to see this library.

I've heard of AsciiMath before but hadn't ever had a chance to play with it, so I appreciated the live demo on the project website. One thing I noticed is that AsciiMath uses whitespace around operators to determine binding order.

For example (AsciiMath on left, TeX on right)

f(x) = x+1 / 2 ≡ f(x) = \frac{x + 1}{2}
f(x) = x + 1/2 ≡ f(x) = x + \frac{1}{2}

When there's equal spacing around neighboring operators, normal order of operations seems to apply.

This seems fairly intuitive, but might not scale to large, complex equations as well as TeX's bracket syntax does. Nonetheless, I think I like it for simple equations.

Question for the author: you mention on the page that Mathup supports an input language inspired by AsciiMath [2]. What are the differences? Does Mathup accept a subset of AsciiMath, or are there cases where the syntax diverges? And if the latter is the case, what motivated devaiting from AsciiMath's syntax?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22582343

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347737

[2]: There's a typo in this phrase on your page, BTW: "insipired" has an extra "i"
> how will I know if they will still be around long enough for me to use it?

Treat it like a donation. I know not all can afford to do this, but many of us can.
In my experience developers that integrate the FB SDK into their apps just copy-paste whatever code snippet Facebook tells them to do, which is always maximum data capture, without thinking of any of the implications. There's usually a way to limit data leakage while using the minimum FB functionality you want, such as only using FB for login without sending every damn app event to Facebook.
I attended a top-20 US University and many of my classmates and friends had multimillionaire parents & fell into the "oblivious" camp, (like telling me $50k income for an entire family was upper middle class)...

BUT their upbringing, the media they consume, and the reinforcement of beliefs through their social echo chamber makes it insanely hard to change their "obliviousness", to the point where it's not so innocent anymore - more like willful ignorance.
I think it was a good decision to cut out libc/MSVC on Linux and Windows, where they lead to dependencies that prevent you from freely building on one system and running on another. But for macOS this doesn’t make much sense; the facilities Go needs from libSystem are overwhelmingly backwards compatible and the macOS toolchain/ABI handles using weak linking to conditionally link to newer features very well. AFAICT using system calls directly on macOS is no better a way to accomplish those objectives than calling ntdll directly instead of Win32 APIs on Windows.
Another thing worth noting: HEB is privately (family, I believe) owned. The difference is night and day between their stores/employees and those of the competing grocer in my area that is owned by private equity.
"Video Conferencing app", not venture capital.
I was watching a documentary[1] about Sweden's shift away from social democracy in the 70's/80's time-frame that Piketty talks about.

From the way it sounds, the program of social democracy nearly destroyed the country. I would take Piketty's nostalgia for those times with a grain of salt.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcX6BUZlEw4
Singapore is tiny. It's an area 6 times the size of San Francisco with a border with passport control.
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Or shiner which made a reasonable beer when everyone else was trying to be bud. I thought they had gotten absorbed, but no they are apparently still independent.
Similar to how we have organizations which can certify whether produce is organic or not, we need organizations which can certify whether apps and websites are certified ad tracking free.
Seems directly tied to the unions’ loss of power.
from a high level overview, this seems to echo the design tension between perl and python ; "there is one way to do it" yes or no! The creativity of perl with its (almost) poetic sensibility (and many synonymous expression forms) versus a "just the facts" python science culture..

In the case of Modern C++, the heavy emphasis on performance plus syntax density, take away the fun parts (to me) and leave one with neither fun synonyms nor just-the-facts simplicity!

Isn't this sort of hair-splitting one reason Theology has a bad name amongst some intellectuals ?
Seeded with some jobs from this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665398
> Transmissibility is a major change [0]

I'm not sure you read your own link correctly.

"New data from the rest of Europe suggests that the outbreak is running faster than expected, said Ferguson. As a result, epidemiologists have revised their estimate of the reproduction number (R0) of the virus. This measure of how many other people a carrier usually infects is now believed to be just over three, he said, up from 2.5. “That adds more evidence to support the more intensive social distancing measures,” he said."