skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How have they been "wildly irresponsible"? Placing a label on the whole crisis is a rather symbolic act. Important was and is to spread the available knowledge, tests, and know-how.
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Most of the EU countries only test the very sick or dead. Americans tend tu spend too much time on arguing each other, it's too late to get it under control like that anyway.
Great question. I am really hoping that the non-GC world is taking off with Rust.
I think that entire list can (and should) be replaced by one simple criterion: "Is it subject to evolution by natural selection across successive generations? If so, then it's alive."

Fire, no. Prions, no. Viruses, yes.
"It is not possible to prove that a set is both smaller than the reals and larger than the rationals, because such a set would disprove the continuum hypothesis."

Sure, even without much of a mathematical background, people generally take it for granted. Which is why it's disappointing that a suggestion of overturning it isn't fulfilled.
Based on the current growth of cases, it looks like the situation in the US will be way worse than other western nations. Even when you adjust for population size.
The only time that a phishing attempt actually worked for our company (afaik) occurred when someone emailed an executive in our company (ugh) with a docusign looking email with content that he was EXPECTING. it redirected him to a fake Active Directory sign in link that he fell for. Immediately after entering his password his outlook spammed his entire contact list with the same phish except addressed to them specifically from his actual email, with a link that looked like a shared Office 365 document. It wasn't good.
Agreed. They surely share in the blame but then again, it's not as if China is our ally who we can count on to give accurate and timely information. They (and others) would love nothing more than to see the US crumble and burn. So I understand some of the WHO (and CDC) skepticism in the early days. Not that I'm defending their later actions (or lack thereof).
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I know the ability exists, but I'm pretty sure that it's not exactly easy to get it working. Last time I tried, it immediately failed because my distribution wasn't shipping .a files (IIRC) for my installed libraries. There's a lot of little things that don't quite work because nobody's using them so they're harder to use so nobody uses them...
Yes! Here's a repository where I show some comparisons with Go: https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-async-demo/

This area is still bleeding-edge experimental, but it's very promising.

I need to do a blog post on how async/await works in zig and event-based I/O. It's been a long time coming.
The US government is only partially to blame here.

Goldman Sachs apparently donated over 100k N95 masks to New York last week.

As a personal critic, I did see some of this coming in my own finances and did divest. I should have done more to be outspoken about this risk, but I am daily surprised by how unprepared we were and how few people are speaking out in ways that matter.

Kudos to Cuomo.

EDIT: I do think the article is correct in the analysis that this _should_ be months of impact. This is likely from just considering the health impact, and not the correlated factors that
1. the stock market was damn high (inflated by stock by-backs)
2. there is currently a mess being made in federal reserve intervention in the pre-crash quantative easing measures, and the current precedents with 'unlimited liquidity' promised.
3. a lot of people are going to lose their jobs
4. a lot of people will lose their healthcare
5. soon to be bailed out corporations (ie Boeing) have flat rejected equity stake in the company, saying that they will seek private funding before they take a bail-out of that kind

An interesting observation on (1), if companies had taken Trump tax breaks and invested in their businesses or kept that cash, they would likely have reduced their bail-out burden substantially. Boeing voluntarily committed to 2bn$ in dividends before the crash. They have not revoked that as of yet.
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Is this true? I thought the hot spots in the US locked down earlier (in terms of case counts/deaths) than other countries. But I haven't looked into it very much.
I routinely write in no less than 4 languages for work... comfortably in all of them. Each certainly have their own nuances but the skills translate and made learning the others easier. At worst I (have had to and do) sometimes look up syntax or end up using a design that's less than optimal for that languadge, but that still works.
If you think personalized advertising is harmful and shouldn't exist anywhere across society you're going to need to pursue that through legislation and not technology. Otherwise platforms people log into (ex: Facebook) will continue personalizing regardless of what browsers implement.
I don't even mention it if others don't turn on their video, but I have to admit I struggle much more to follow someone through audio alone. Ironically I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks, but there I can just press the button to "jump back 30s", which I do on most information dense episodes.

I do wonder if we could adapt deepfake tech to improve compression. A keyframe plus tracking of facial features could provide a very low bandwidth simulacrum of video calls.
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I clicked on whatever affordance I had to click that allowed that album to be installed, and I enjoyed the music. I felt like a weirdo for not being annoyed and wondered what I had randomly configured that made the album's presence optional for me.

It seems like everyone else's experience was that the album took up precious space and was not removable.
Symbolic acts such as the labeling in question are how many laypersons interpret. and react to the severity of a crisis.
Uhm, yes, skin in the game?

Things generally don't improve because people get better. Things generally improve because bad people/groups/corporations/ideas fail.

Way more people should be fired / tried / impeached. Need I remind you that nobody went to jail over 2008? It does make the system more healthy. If you're responsible for the health of some country you better be scared, because the consequences are dire, and your decisions are of utmost importance. I want that person to be on constant lookout for problems, bordering on desperation.
Sure, but it will still be a while before you aren't just writing Python in Rust.
Yes, exactly. Once you're testing integration with hardware you're integration testing, not unit testing as it's not pure software dictating the outcome of the test.
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I have a citus cluster in production and then some manual scripts to turn it back into a single-tenant database for in-house reporting. Basically pgdump and restore. This has to happen overnight since we can't run reports while it is restoring.

I am excited to try this and see if it might be a better way to pull in what's needed.
When "we" talk? I suggest that in the future if you mean syntactically similar you say syntactically similar.

But then, of course, it wouldn't have much to do with Zig's "appeal as better C than C", which prompted this whole discussion.
Looks very cool! Did not see 32-bit RISC-V on the list though, so wondering about that. I would have liked to use Zig cc to build 32-bit RISC-V binaries fast, if that is possible. Doesn't matter if they are freestanding.
In addition to the other excellent reasons mentioned here, there's also the fact that some libraries deliberately choose to use runtime dynamic linkage (dlopen) to load optional/runtime-dependent functionality.
Then I would have gotten fired. That's a ridiculous policy. Do they fire people for making mistakes too?

As a security engineer in a previous life, I always open the links in phishing emails (in an isolated and secure VM). I would fail the tests at work every time, but luckily the person in charge of them knew what I was doing and didn't care.
Based on my experience this is very rarely the case unless you have an extremely disciplined SecOps team.
Aside from all the other issues people have raised, equality is not decidable for the “useful reals”. While they form a field, they do not form a computably-ordered field, which makes them quite a bit less useful than many other number systems.
Off-tpoic:

Funny to see that for us it takes a parasite – that gets to its final host by becoming a parasite of a larger parasite first – to find out about "An animal that doesn't breathe oxygen" because it doesn't have mitochondrial DNA, the thing all animals share with plants, funghi, and protists because their once common ancestor catched a parasite giving mitochondria to them.

As I read it this parasite, called Henneguya salminocola (and apparently some others), has found a cure to finally get rid of that parasite!
Can't use the local db while restoring, this should help with that (I hope).
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Also learn how to run a business. A weird suggestion on the surface but actually very powerful when understood.

In short by learning how a business operates, how cash flows and how expensive things are (people, buildings, software, hardware, accountants, lawyers, ...) you'll begin to understand why an MVP is a powerful tool. you'll also appreciate Agile development practices more too.

With an MVP you're writing the least amount of code possible, and skipping optimisations, whilst also providing some value to people who can tell you what direction to go in next. That's a business thing - the business needs something in the market ASAP and it needs feedback ASAP. Without this you'd write your stack for three years and then release to a world that moved on two years ago.

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the deficit was already insane before the crisis arrived. Now, we're gonna be reaching new levels.
This should be the top comment.

It makes a lot of sense. Margin should be a property of the enclosing container, not the items in it.
It's both. As a non-parent, you can have a vague, high-level idea about the demands of parenthood, but there's a lot of crucial and non-obvious details that aren't communicated to people without kids - mostly because it's either super boring or really tacit knowledge. So the parts of society that are run by parents tend to be kid-friendly; the parts run by childless are the opposite.

Examples of nonobvious consequences of parenthood include:

- Parents of pre-teens tend to be constantly late for everything. That's not because of lack of organization, but because the kid will randomly soil their clothes or do something else that needs to be taken care of immediately.

- Parents are also constantly interrupted. Especially with the first kid, it seems everything is a life-threatening emergency, so the moment it even looks at you funny, you'll start calling your spouse at work to consult or coordinate a doctor's appointment. Some workplaces accommodate that (mostly those staffed by other parents), some don't. It becomes a question you start asking about on the interviews.

- Say your company offers to send you to a conference or a training seminar. You'd probably jump at the occasion (yay, free education and zero responsibility, all on paid company time!), but you might be wondering why your coworkers all refuse to go, and don't even show any excitement about it. It's probably not because they're lazy, or just dispassionate 9-5 workers. It's likely because they're parents, and you can't just go to a conference as a parent. It's a huge logistical challenge.

- Parents like big cars because of storage space. Going up and down the stairs with stuff gets tiring really fast, so you end up e.g. storing trolley and surplus diapers in the car. If you didn't want a car before, you'll start to want one now. This goes against the general trend of environmentally-conscious living.

- If you aren't addicted to coffee yet you will be after having a child. You'll also learn that polyphasic sleep is a real thing (if it wasn't, nobody would survive the first months of parenthood).

- You'll start talking about shit with other people. And I mean literal shit.

- You'll bankrupt yourself if you try to buy everything new for the kid; you'll likely and out of a sudden become super frugal and very aware of all local clothes/items exchange/giveaway groups.

- A babysitter isn't a luxury, it's mental healthcare in the city.

I could go on and on, but it's late and my kid will wake up in about 5 hours. I'll be drinking an extra coffee tomorrow.
Doesn't the network stack end with sending everything to userspace (user applications) in the end anyway? As long as it doesn't take multiple round trips...
Very interesting! Thanks for the link, and if you find out more about the research the group at you uni was doing, please post!
> so to the extent that's still a problem: no.

Clang can apparently build a vanilla Linux kernel now, no gotchas, actively used by Google for its Linux things (Android, chromeos).
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Never let a good crisis go to waste, I guess.
It's amusing how some people are reacting on a one-month or even two-month delay. I still see people saying that there's a new disease being covered up in Wuhan, or that we need to shut down travel from China, as if they were in a coma from mid-January all the way to late March. The actual situation changes faster than people's narratives of it.
Here are two twitter threads (sorry) with more pork-barrelling:

https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/status/1242116258834845710

https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/124223296654328217...
It wouldn't be anarchy. It would be government controlled and distributed based on whatever criteria. I'm sure there are other ways to distribute it too.

You don't need to only imagine either this current system existing or anarchy.
However the more languages you know and the more they're spread across different paradigms the shallower the learning curve will be for any language one wants to pick up.
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In our case we were educating and protecting our customers. It's usually bad policy to carry out punitive punishment on your customers. :)

In fact, the worst offenders were actually rewarded. They were the only ones who had two factor auth for their eBay accounts. Back then we didn't have soft tokens -- the only way to do 2 factor was to get a physical RSA token, which cost about $10 at the time. So only the "best" customers were worth the cost.
Type safety for a CSS class? What?
We share tons examples of work via video so maybe you get a bunch of white dudes (and yes the higher corporate meetings are), but on team scale it is very useful.
When we say documentation, it depends on what kind of documentation it is. IMHO Markdown is perfectly alright for API documentation. But are there better tools for that? I'm finding Sphinx is an overkill.
Wait, are bills always typeset like this? It's no wonder it's 1000 pages, there are only ~150 words per page. This would fit in 300 pages if it was book-set (and that doesn't seem like too much to ask everyone to read before voting.)

It's almost like this is designed to be frustrating to read, with narrow lines, split words and extra whitespace. Lovely.
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This is to be expected at this point. I do wonder what the exact differences between this draft and the other draft that everyone fussed about.
I, too, am strongly hoping this will radically evolve our society to leverage more technology. I really wish the US stimulus package would instead focus on investing in re-educating the population online for those that made their living in the service industry and the like. Furthermore, automating that work and doubling down on promoting a work from home culture. This is how we prepare for the next epidemic.

In my opinion, a bad economy is the best time to get an education. My extreme hope is getting closer to our cyborg future by furthering advancements in digital communication and human-computer interfacing.
I did speak to my manager about hiring from Europe. She said that in order for us to ensure legal compliance, we work through a particular company. Doing so covers our legal bases, but also means it's very expensive for us to hire elsewhere.
Can mozilla do something with forceful pocket integration? I know that mozilla straight off bought pocket, but every day I use the browser, I'm reminded of they decided to profit off their users, as well as the moments when "google.com" was not even a selectable choice for a search engine, for their political game.
They tried for 9 years and eventually (rightly or wrongly) gave up: http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
This kind of stuff is what I use mmt remarkable tablet for.

Absolutely love brainstorming on it.
that's the important thing, take what worked, learn from it, and don't make the same mistakes again.
The deficit, forget the deficit. That's just a number.

What matters is how money (and the deficit) is allocated as percentages across the economy. And my guess is that this package will further tilt the percentage towards those that shouldn't have a bigger slice. Think Boeing.
It's an indirect form of financial stimulus, though the vehicles they chose are quite odd.
Well, I'm disagreeing with you and I don't use Perl at all any more, I switched to VBA.

Who is saying we should "crater the economy" depends on your opinion of what will crater the economy, but all sorts of people are demanding things that someone thinks will crater the economy. That's what happens in a crisis, things seem crazy so people start talking about radical actions.

It's not difficult for some random person to say something that is going to have no personal or collective consequence. Gates may be insulated, but his comments have the potential to influence people who might in turn affect him.
That is not true in the UK. Walking away 'any time' can seriously impact your potential to get another job.
As it stands, bailouts will reward the most risky investors and speculators, while passive investors, retirees, and taxpayers will end up bailing out these risk takers. Thus, for the finance sector, the Fed provides elasticity: fungible rules around banking, investing, taxation, and bailouts when things go bad. For the rest of the economy, and individuals, we get discipline: massive losses, austerity and cuts to social programs and public infrastructure, moralizing our individual failures as people, and continual indebtedness.

Lemon socialism is a pejorative term for a form of government intervention in which government subsidies go to weak or failing firms (lemons; see Lemon law), with the effective result that the government (and thus the taxpayer) absorbs part or all of the recipient’s losses. The term derives from the conception that in socialism the government may nationalize a company’s profits while leaving the company to pay its own losses, while in lemon socialism the company is allowed to keep its profits but its losses are shifted to the taxpayer.

So the imbalance: Why does the Fed continually save the financial industry every 10 years, but not any other industry? Why does the Fed create and spend 1.5T dollars to purchase worthless and arcane financial instruments, but never spend on public goods like housing, student education, public infrastructure
The US has been far behind other Western countries in testing: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/17/us/coronaviru...

The per-capita chart is most notable. Other Western countries' responses haven't been stellar either, but the US's is particularly flawed.
To the degree that the WHO was wildly irresponsible - and I'm not I'm ready to apply the "wildly" part, it was publishing the terrifying 3.4% CFR when there was no basis for caluculating a denominator at that time.

Even though they've been called out on that by one of the world's foremost experts in the area of research reliability [0], and even though every subsequent study [1] [2] [3] [4] has shown the CFR to be far lower, the extreme measures based on this being a once-in-a-century coronavirus are not only still in place, but being expanded as if that number is still reality.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepareInsteadOfPanic/comments/fl08...

1: https://www.cebm.net/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates/

2: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0822-7

3: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1113

4: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792...
Suggestion of overturning it? It's a proof. That article would be headlined "disproving the independence of the continuum hypothesis" or some such; it would be huge news, not somebody's fun blog post.
Are you going to support your neighbor restaurant?
According to this article:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/buy-restaurant-gift-certificates/
We all would like to support our coffee shops and restaurants, and the best way is to buy digital gift cards. What do you think?
Rectal extraction. (i.e., pulled out of my butt because I too want to believe.)
"Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes."

That last part is all you need to know about how much pork is in there.
Exactly. I can't imagine Japan not being affected, my Japanese friends are posting drunken selfies from crowded Toyko bars, like nothing happened.