skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you and I both recognize that they're only talking about the VPN's own websites, but I'd bet good money that a majority of less-technical readers (not HN readers) won't understand that distinction. It feels like the author knows that, and deliberately failed to point out the fact that the tracking in question doesn't affect a person's privacy while using the VPNs.

Case in point:

> Remember, these trackers are made so that they can track your online behavior, and follow you wherever you go on the internet. Having even 1 of them on your website really defeats any argument for ultimate privacy and anonymity.

Tell me that isn't trying to scare the reader into thinking the trackers can follow your activity while using the VPNs.
Clojure is essentially a Lisp.
And I cannot disagree enough with your comment.

>There are two kinds of physics, Math and Physics. Most of what you learn in uni physics is Math. But the Math is only one (outdated) description of the nature of physical law.

Lord knows what you mean by this. By "math physics" do you mean theoretical, and by "physics physics" the experimental part? Even then, this doesn't make any sense. Every physics course teaches theory and experiment. Particularly, what do you mean by "Math is only one outdated description of the nature of physical law"? I'm very curious, maybe I'm missing something.

>Leonard Susskind himself has said on multiple occasions that the equations of physics are at most highschool math however the solutions are sometimes phd+ level.

So? Again, I don't see what you're trying to imply with this. Seems a perfectly correct observation.

>To me Physics is the study of the relationship between state. Mostly this state is finite and the laws governing its evolution are simple and local. A computer is the best tool to discover the solutions to this evolving state.

This to my opinion is, for a lack of a better word, "hipsterism". Physics is the science that studies the universe at the most fundamental level/low level. That's it. "State"? "This state is finite"? What do you mean by "this state is finite"? I struggle to see what this is trying to describe (there are infinite degrees of freedom in many theories throughout physics).
Record 3.28M Americans applied for unemployment last week due to virus
I'm sure we all recognize the tragedy. That deserves to stand in a paragraph alone; it's tragic and my heart goes out to the medical professionals and patients who have to deal with it.

But it's not an isolated tragedy like a school shooting. If the proposed response to school shootings were indefinite social isolation, I would definitely want to know the percentage of kids that got shot and I would be intensely suspicious of a narrative that it's rude or dangerous to ask the question.
I wrote this reply earlier and deleted it. Part of me feels like it's too far afield, but it's also kind of not, so I'll include it. It's what's on the top of my mind right now:

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I'm a volunteer teacher at a Girls Who Code club. We use Python. I spent the last class before the universe collapsed into Cornoavirus hell introducing the kids to the concept of functions.

After introducing the concept, I asked the kids to modify a quiz program they'd written with a different teacher to use functions to ask a question and check the answer, instead of copying and pasting the code each time. This was a pretty challenging assignment—these kids hadn't encountered functions before—but one of the girls managed to get it and I was really proud of her.

Except her code wouldn't run because—I realized with horror—the quiz program she'd written with another teacher was actually python 2 code!

I am still, weeks later, so damn frustrated that this happened. I'm trying to get the kids to wrap their heads around functions; I don't want to start explaining the political BS around python 2 and 3.

It's primarily my fault, of course, and secondarily the python foundation's fault for handling this transition so badly. But every new project that's done in python 2—whether serious or a toy—is also contributing to the issue in a very small way.

So while this isn't a conversation I would have personally brought up in this thread, I think it's all just very unfortunate. Python is a nice language and it doesn't deserve this crap.
Who searched "google" on google.com ??
The NAT RFCs came after the routing RFC and refer to NAT as a router function not as an orthogonal function, boxes that do NAT are referred to as routers in the RFC. This is reflected in the real world where NAT is implemented as part of the routing chain not as a separate module. Remember NAT isn't a box creating 2 sockets and ferrying data between them it is just the translation of fields on top of normal routing functionality.
The 2009 swine flu epidemic originated in the states. Are you asking to shut down pig farms in the US as well?
The Pangolins are not to blame - it's the smugglers and illegal markets that are.
I hate it when pages do that.
It says that in the article as well, yet since it was already contraband simply banning sales will just make this a more exclusive luxury.
I think most of my town must use 4G at home because between 4pm and midnight my ping is too annoyingly high to play counterstrike
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Haven't noticed :/
Search is working fine in India.
What I meant is that I agree that one can build a simple
thermal cycler (I doubt it can be done for $25 but does not matter). I know how PCR works, what I do not understand is the claim of synthesizing reagents at home, especially template and primers.
why stop at "wild" animals? might as well go whole hog (pun intended) and go plant based to the extent possible.
It seems to be pulling a LOT with it. Even services like Microsoft Office 356
Tons of programmers are on that level - in fact, probably more developers at 'Engineering caliber' than any other Eng. discipline.

That said - the vast majority of developers are nowhere near that.

It's a really long tail.
Yeah, also the only other language that is as simple at it's core as Forth is Lisp. I suspect that lots of CS people have at some point written their own of either, or both, just for the experience.
> I don't see a point to being able to provide my own cable modem

Other cable providers (e.g. Comcast) charge you a monthly fee (~$5-15) to rent their modem. Buying a modem gets cost effective pretty quickly.
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No, it originated in Veracruz, Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
G-suite has been intermittent for me this morning.
Apple has also considered making dlclose() a no-op on non-macOS (and the presentation is 3 years old so it may have happened by now)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229723
For those playing at home, that's 3.28 million people who probably don't have access to health care now. Many probably didn't before due to the nature of their jobs, but it's going to be interesting to watch the cry for bailout of hospitals from the same politicians who are completely fine otherwise with people going without healthcare.
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Good luck telling the rich and powerful they shouldn't eat this what they believed is the most tonic and upscale meat of late.

Remember that girl who paid 6.5 million dollars to get into Stanford last year? Her dad's listed company sells billions of dollars of TCM every year that claims to cure thrombus because the ingredients used (earthworm, scorpion and leech) are adept at digging things. Yes TCMs don't need to go through any FDA-like process or trial to prove anything, coz it's national treasure.

Pangolin meat and scales are prized in TCM coz you know, it dig rocks.
For most of us in the US, that does not work when you need to upload a file. (or synchronous communication, like video chatting, etc)
Back up for me. I have Google fiber as well
Apt typo. If it's 356, they have 9 days where they can be down a year.
So does that mean that the sale of pangolins at the market in Wuhan was entirely illegal? If so this seems like a huge enforcement issue if endangered animals could be openly sold at a market.
> But I’m left to wonder: If I’m a bad guy who’s willing to forge someone’s signature and letterhead in a fraudulent application for a .gov domain, why wouldn’t I also be willing to fake a notarization?

It's probably not enough.

I think just by the nature of .gov domains, it's going to be very difficult to properly secure them. Even if registration is airtight, an attacker can still use other vectors:
- XSS vuln on a legit .gov page to inject their own content
- Open redirect vuln to redirect a legit .gov link to their page
- Break a .gov server. I'm sure at least one of them is running a WordPress site with a vulnerable plugin
- Break into or social engineer into the DNS server
The critical bit here is "for iOS devices". The legal definition of monopoly is interested in the broader market, not what the manufacturer of a device with comparatively tiny market share does.

iOS with a 13.4% global market share as of 2019 does not even come close to monopolist status. While I'd like to see iOS forced open as well, there is currently no legal method to do so.
Anyone have a link to the actual paper?
You can't "rule it out", because when the test says "you don't have it" you may well have it.

Some of the tests have a 20% to 40% false negative rate.
He might very well still be alive if the Chinese government hadn't lied about and covered up the existence of the virus.
I wish we could direct focus on those responsible, the smuggles and illegal (or legal) markets that enable this kinda of stuff - but without getting into heated "that's racist" arguments, because certain places traditionally value these animals so high.
You seem to either forget or not be aware in the first place that the purpose of libc and posix is to allow portability between different operating systems, so it makes complete sense that linux-specific capabilities are not exposed, it has nothing to do with disagreement about kernel design.
It was probably "The Art of Electronics". It's a fantastic book and absolutely worth buying.
U.S. needs to reduce fossil-fuel dependence but parties disagree on how to do it
yes synthesizing cannot be done at home, but companies can do custom synthsizing for relatively cheap, a couple hundred dollars for a short segment
Been able to log into Analytics web dashboard, but get "try again later" errors for all our properties. Been that way since about 8am PDT here in Seattle.
It IS a live virus in many cases:

"A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine

I have nothing against vaccines, but my understanding is that you CAN get sick from it.
Our current political process follows a simple loop:

1. Experts describe the likely outcome of a course of action.

2. Those experts are declared to be frauds, their views labeled a hoax or fake news.

3. We implement the policy the experts were trying to warn us about.

4. The experts' warnings come to pass.

5. We learn nothing, and repeat the whole cycle with the next issue.
Not much comparable. Just a random difference - Germany was quickly rebuilt because allies want it to be rebuilt, and not let impoverished and destroyed like after WWI. We know how that ended...

When talking about efficiency, I think China might have the upper hand now - they are much more effective in discipline, they don't mind suffering things that are unacceptable for us, and look where they are with COVID - ahead of every-fucking-body else. West looks pathetically weak and ineffective compared to them. Maybe in 2 months things will look differently, but I don't see much data for that now.
works fine in Toronto, Canada
I think so, but probably not reliably and/or for the long term.

In terms of the actual unmap call, the payload is in the munmap call, which is a syscall, and if you do have to set up the registers for that call, Go does have its assembler support which should be able to do that for you. You should be able to write Go source code that would perform that call, although you're going to be poking into some corners of Go most programmers never have to get into. You can also get to fuse, which in my experience is great at producing uninterruptible sleeps even when you're not trying to do it on purpose....

However, in terms of reliability and the long term, you have the problem that you're not the only thread in the program the way a C program can count on that, and if any of those other threads wake up and their memory is missing, it'll probably result in the process dying. You can do a couple things to try to avoid that a little, like pinning yourself to an OS thread and running the program in one CPU mode, but especially on the latest version of Go where they've implemented true pre-emption, you can't keep the runtime from running by just hogging the execution thread anymore.

So I suspect that as long as you win the race to unmap everything before the runtime wakes up (which may also require you to call sysmap through the assembly code directly, rather than using the syscall libraries as I'm pretty sure those notify the scheduler of what you're doing), you may be able to briefly be a process with no RAM mapped, but in human terms it won't be long before the runtime wakes up to do something, anything, and crash the process as a result. There's no way to avoid that in Go. You won't be able to have a process just sitting there indefinitely with no mapped RAM that you can admire and treasure and hand off to your children as part of their inheritance.
They added "We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud infrastructure components" at the top, but everything is still green.

Are they unaware of which components have issues?
It has a 'We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud infrastructure components.' notice at the top though.

Gmail / GSuite / Youtube are not directly listed, though Firestore is and it's still green.
> It doesn't matter.

It does matter. The claim here is basically "for certain people (me), the flu shot has been worse than the flu". If that person never experienced an actual Influenza infection, then that claim was made in error.
Clearly we've been looking at different sets of models with different assumptions. I haven't done an objective survey, but I'd dispute "most" predict millions of causalities.

But if we're just talking about the US: The range from the CDC models last I checked is anywhere from 163,000 - 1.7 million for a country of ~330 million.

By comparison the opioid epidemic alone has already killed somewhere between 100,000 - 200,000+ over the last 5 years. And that was largely the result of a kinder, gentler, less dramatic economic shock known as the 2008 recession and decades of preceding industrial decline.

We've already compressed shocks that took months in 2008 to weeks, not the least of which is the record unemployment filings in the posted article. Hence the largest stimulus package in world history being passed in days.

"The economy" is not some vague abstract number on the evening news, and economic shocks do kill people, it's just less tangible than a virus. If this continues for more than a month or two I expect people returning to work out of desperation and then receiving death threats for doing so, and things will get uglier from there if the lockdowns continue.
I read somewhere that the percentage of conservatives who believe that Covid is a threat dropped from 70% in Feb to like 30% now. Not sure if that's true, but if it is, it would indicate their beliefs are vastly more dependent on his words, than his words on their beliefs.
I wonder why I don't hear this argument more from vegans. Eating animals spreads disease. Chronic wasting disease, avian flu, SARS, Influenza, mad cow, probably even the common cold.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/opinion/sunday/coronaviru...

> A second cultural factor behind the epidemic are traditional Chinese beliefs about the powers of certain foods, which have encouraged some hazardous habits. There is, in particular, the aspect of Chinese eating culture known as “jinbu,” (進補) meaning, roughly, to fill the void. Some of its practices are folklorish or esoteric, but even among Chinese people who don’t follow them, the concept is pervasive.
What makes pangolins more dangerous than pigs or ducks which have been a similar source of human diseases? Because I can't tell if pangolins are a greater threat or if they are just an easy target because the practice of eating them is not as widespread as eating other common disease carriers.
What's you cost and speed of the fiber?

Also, if you didn't need so much bandwidth, is it possible to just order a basic 100Mb/10mb connection for a nominal fee of, say, 30Euro?

The speeds in the US aren't actually that bad, but you're basically forced to pay for everything: paid cable TV, equipment rental fees, etc, and your $40 plan ends up creeping towards $100 / month after the fees and taxes, with increases every year.
I am glad to hear your wife seems to be improving. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Take care.
not sure why you get the downvotes. this is really good and extremely actionable
Can you keep the comments like this on Reddit and away from HN, please?

For the non-UK users reading this: almost all of the bullet pointed statements are either incorrect or exaggerated.
Fair question. My response wasn’t meant to be trollish or beg the question. You can read a summary of the New York Times’ reputation in its WP article. In summary, it is still well regarded for accuracy and thoroughness by its peers. Popular opinion is still high relative to its peers but has lowered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Reputation

The WP article also links to the paper of record article. Papers of record can be important even if they are disliked because of the sources they have access to, and the extent to which they influence stories by reporting on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record
> it took ages for a complete Perl 6 release to be available.

And unfortunately, the brilliant minds that worked on Perl 6 spent so much time rewriting the compiler tool chain and basically treating just that part as a research project, that it was incredibly difficult to actually contribute and push the project forward. Couple that with a spec that never seemed finished and a community that tore itself apart because of assholes, and it was a perfect storm to remove Perl from prominence.
That's a straw-man argument that no reasonable would disagree with.
This is interesting. I suspect you may never have had “the flu.” Many people think or have felt like they’ve had the flu, but people rarely get tested. Also, and I could be wrong, but if you’re immune response to the vaccine is so strong wouldn’t your immune response to the actual virus be much worse? What component of the vaccines you have had do you believe caused your adverse reactions?
Coolstores and refrigerated containers make ok morgues - first world countries don’t have troubles keeping sanitation standards.
It seems to me that the things people like about the haskell style syntax are

1. Don't have to name the parameter

2. less nesting.

You can get the best of all worlds with lambdacase style constructs. You don't need to write out the name of the function a bunch of times.

function = \case
SpecialCase ->
...
handle_odd_special_case;
Default ->
...
main_business_logic;
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Extensive — super extensive — testing, contact tracing, and strong quarantining of suspected and confirmed positives. From the get-go.
“LLVM-Libc” C Standard Library
In the early 80's my Computer Organization class the entire semester was dedicated to building a simulated 4 bit computer, with I/O channels (disk, screen, keyboard, printer) and a stripped down basic interpreter, and stripped down language compiler (it was a made up language).

We had to simulate everything, and the final project was to take the professor's Basic program and execute it correctly, and compile his other program and then execute that correctly.

That class was the absolute best thing I ever did, I learned so much in that class. It was the only class that I went to every day and took seriously, I got the only A in the class.

I had started programing back in the mid-70's by the time I got to college in 82 I had a bunch of side jobs writing code. I didn't focus too much on my college career, I was working my side programming gigs, and I was tutoring other students. That class got my attention and I loved it.
doesnt sound like what the OP was proposing

also, sk only tested people with significant ailments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

> By March 2009, it held $1.75 trillion of bank debt, mortgage-backed securities, and Treasury notes; this amount reached a peak of $2.1 trillion in June 2010.

That feels like a lot of liquidity to me.

Liquidity expansion through loans and purchase of credit and equity instruments simply isn't very inflationary. It can only cause real price inflation if the money starts chasing a shortage of real goods and services - which are currently being dramatically underproduced. If it does start causing inflation, the Fed can and will simply raise interest rates from their current near-zero level. Or fiscal policy can be used.

Venezuela is under sanctions which are intended to exacerbate the situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...
If America was willing to learn lessons based on data from Europe, we'd all have universal health care by now.
"Five nines of reliability? Pshaw! We have nine FIVES!"
>The observer effect in physics can be trivially expressed and evaluated as a mutating getter in any programming language.

>It cannot be expressed in any Mathematical grammar.

What on earth are you trying to say...? There is a whole mathematical treatment of quantum mechanics, measurement effect included (several treatments). More to the point, any algorithm can be formalised in e.g. a Turing machine, or any other equivalent universal model of computation. So there's literally nothing in "computer science" that you cannot express in mathematics.

This reeks of Dunning-Kruger: you don't even know enough about what you're talking about to realise how badly little sense you're making. I strongly suggest you familiarise yourself with a topic before opining about it. I'll be hard-pressed to believe you ever opened a physics textbook in your life after high school. Why then do you feel the need to talk blindly about it? I never opened a book about aeronautics in my life, therefore I would never presume to lecture anybody about plane-building... That would just be arrogance.
I learned it last year as a fun excercise, and found it pretty interesting that there are so many things you can express with so few words.

However, in the end you'll end up wanting to express much more and the language is just not able to do that, you'll end up lost in the compounds, and things become unclear pretty quickly.
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Can someone write a program to tell me how much money I’d need to give you?
Google Classroom getting 504s on the west coast
The CDC has all your answers about flu shots:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/misconceptions.htm
Not only east coast, it looks global.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692885
G Suite Status is all green with no warnings. https://www.google.com/appsstatus
I see what you mean. A little bit of "reasonable ignorance" but full understanding on the author's side that people don't read full sentences (or long titles).

nonetheless, the research is still valuable. not very surprising that those antivirus companies with vpns have such huge numbers of trackers
another question i have is are positive tests being sent to icu even if the symptoms are not bad?