skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That says very little. It says that we have not been able to find anything in the genome that proves modern gene editing technology was used.

Well, so what? People aren't generally making that claim. It's a straw man.

Nothing in your article rules out the possibility of a lab creating the virus via conventional breeding, by passing the virus through human cells and/or by infecting cells simultaneously with human viruses. Nothing in your article rules out the possibility of a lab accident; indeed there have been several lab accidents in China that released dangerous viruses.

Look at this research:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18077725

It is 2008 research from the lab in Wuhan. They created a virus by combining SARS-CoV with HIV, targeting the human ACE2 molecule as receptor. These features match those of our current pandemic. (India reported the HIV link, and the use of ACE2 is widely known)

We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the possibility. Note also that China is actively trying to point people away from this line of inquiry. We should resist that effort.
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A lot of companies had data sharing deals with Facebook, I assume they get something out of it themselves.
They are both owned by Facebook, so yes
A plan to refuse treatment to everyone over retirement age has a lot of problems but one of them is that there are a fair number of really tough, armed, and knowledgeable old people out there. I doubt they’d just surrender without a fight.
The answer depends on how you define and measure a better economy. When you can do that the question answers itself.
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>What seems to make sense to me is, keep the lockdown in place long enough to get in front of it. Basically, enough testing so that new cases can be immediately identified and quarantined. That alone will have a big impact.

This does make sense. It is crazy those who think we're "over it" and need to get the "economy going again", despite our inability to even correctly measure the spread yet.

It smells again like the people who were thinking "it's a China problem", and then "it's a European problem", as if it'd never be a US problem. Now it is a US problem, and those same people are now saying "well the problem is practically over, let's stop the quarantines..." The time for chronically underestimating the impact is over.
> Pretty sure people have discovered that is not reliable on some drives too, that it may only destroy the logical to physical map, and not change the actual data cells.

This can be the case for something like an ATA Secure Erase command, which is why the Sanitize commands were introduced to ATA, SCSI and NVMe. Those do explicitly mandate that all user data be erased, including from all caches and any storage media that is not normally accessible to the host system (ie. old blocks that haven't been garbage collected yet).
How exactly is this different than how tor works?
I'll second Griffiths for E&M, Quantum, and Particle. I think everyone that has gone through a physics undergrad will swear by Griffiths. He is just such a delight.

But I'll suggest Marion and Thornton [0] for Classical. With Griffiths for E&M and Thornton for Classical you should be able to get a really good grasp on most of "physics". I'll also say that these series are upper division for undergrads. Given OP's background I think these would be fine starting points. If not, start with Halliday[1].

For grad level, the gold standard is Goldstein for Classical [2] and Jackson for Electrodynamics[3].

These types of books will give you a very strong base in physics and should enable you to branch out. Given your ML background you may be very interested in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

I'll also add an "out there" idea. Sign up for physics classes at your local community college if they offer labs. I say this as someone who went Physics -> CS and is doing HPC + ML. Labs really stress and force you to do analysis. Lower division labs won't ask too much, but if you go in with this intent I think you can get a lot out of it. I'm sure that if you did these lower div labs and talked to a professor at your local uni they would allow you to sit in on upper division labs (you would NEED to show that you are serious first, because these labs can be dangerous! Happy to help you learn doesn't mean happy to babysit and make sure you don't electrocute yourself or making sure you don't take a laser to the eye. TAing undergrad labs I saw enough people get electrocuted, including myself... more than once).

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Classical-Dynamics-Particles-System...

[1] https://www.smile.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Physics-10th-David...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-Goldstein-Poole...

[3] https://smile.amazon.com/Classical-Electrodynamics-Third-Dav...
I found a box of Amiga software in the garage a couple days ago - I may stumble upon an Amiga 500 hardware box as I get further in the garage.. is there a group that is collecting these and putting them out there or something? I don't want to throw them away if people would use them.
Oh, I completely agree. I do not switch because I want to, but because I have to.
Ask HN: Have things returned to normalcy in China?
China now has less than 4000 active cases as per
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Have people started going back to work? Are people socializing now? Has there been a change in consumption? What has changed since the outbreak?
Simplest solutions are usually best in cases like this. As such, paying out the sums directly to the people is definitely a viable solution.

However, I prefer a different solution because $1200 isn't enough to cover the rent for a lot of people, let alone all their necessary costs of living.

I would propose a freeze on all the obvious payments like rent, mortgages, all types of loans, utilities, and insurances. Then I'd give everyone $200 a person for food, and guarantee the businesses that are affected by the aforementioned freeze loans to cover the gap.

This covers people regardless of their cost of living so fewer people get wiped out by bad timing. Of course, it doesn't have the benefit of saving large companies from their irresponsible financial management policies, so it would never pass. [0]Nor does it guarantee all the obvious partisan garbage that was being pushed during the negotiations.

[0] “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.)https://thehill.com/homenews/house/488543-house-democrats-ey...
> My point is merely that the prospect of a glorious execution model that unifies the diverse world of languages is naive.

Well, the native machine does that…
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That's an interesting problem. Thanks for the feedback! - we're looking at ways to integrate gifts.
I just started reading Streaming Systems: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34431414-streaming-syste.... Seems really great so far.
making tor exits unblockable is the opposite of how the tor project operates.
OP here:

I found the above interesting for my own project but it got me wondering. What steps do you or people you know take today to handle digital inheritance?
I believe the last couple larger outages were a networking config push that was bad, wouldn’t be surprised to see the same thing again
I would wager some or most developers do not realize that when they add a login with Facebook button, they are also sending analytics data for _all_ users to Facebook. It is, imho, a very dark pattern.
Upgrading from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 on the $5 Windows 98 PC by MJD
> This transformation is valid for pure functions; therefore you can mark it constexpr before compiling to WASM.

It's also valid for non-pure functions at runtime.
Hi,
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this information. It will help, especially for the small shops and teams which are only now having to adopt these feature for the immediate future.
And even if they support it, it isn't always safe to do so. For example, I have a WD Passport sitting on my desk that was bricked when I issued an ATA secure erase command[1]. Don't assume that any SATA/SCSI commands are safe to issue to USB drives unless you have researched it.

[1] https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase
That’s bullshit. The federal government is able to produce a lot of useful technical regulation and guidance.

Hell the whole infosec policy framework used everywhere is built off of NIST 800-53.
There's still profile-guided optimization.
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Yes, the JVM tends to speed up over time as it applies these optimizations.
Don't sweat it. sgt101 is being terribly uncivil.
Have to disagree with your conclusion, counterpoint being Jeff Bezos who maintains a number (a majority?) of business lines that compete on price.
This also can change over time. For example, 15 years ago PHP shepherded you to include every file you were using explicitly, making it hard to reason about a given project if you weren’t the creator.

A big effort ensued to change that — class autoloading became the standard, and a large community arose around that standard.

Similarly, JavaScript shepherded you towards some bad practices that the community has now found ample remedies for.
I've worked at companies that do light manufacturing. Light manufacturing because we contract out components to houses that specialize in that. I feel like a lot of software people don't get that hardware at scale requires 10X the amount of resources each step from design to production to shipping and support.

hardware also fails in the field in unpredictable ways. Especially to anyone without long practical experience.
Examples on Android for 'an intercepting proxy' are No Root Firewall, and even better, the paid/donate version of Netguard, which allows you to permanently kill these errant calls. Additionally, you can disable Google Services Framework with it too, if you'd like to try running your Android without Google tethered and watching, while you enjoy sweet, well-designed FOSS apps and services.
"shepherding: An invisible property of a programming language and its ecosystem that drives people into solving problems in ways that are natural for the programming language itself rather than ways that are considered "better" in some sense"

Seems like most could lend a little more weight to: 'does this lang align with how do you want to think about/represent the problems you're solving'
I think PDEs are just weak in all undergrad curriculum. Most engineers I know could only do very basic PDEs. Physicists could do a little more because they learned it from Griffiths E&M. PDEs are typically more a grad school thing. The idea is to form a strong understanding first.
Headline sets very poor context. No idea if 650 is more or less than usual (probably massively far less) while this count is almost certainly a tiny fraction of incidents.

> The online reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate shared exclusively with NBC Asian America that since its inception March 18, it has received more than 650 direct reports of discrimination against primarily Asian Americans

What a bizarre thing to be exclusive about. Why set up a reporting site if you are not planning to use the info?
Quoting is a kind of escape in any language.

Even in programming languages you could use string literals to make the same pedantic arguments about the grammar.
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France stages first train evacuation of coronavirus patients
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That article is misdirection. It says that we have not been able to find anything in the genome that proves modern gene editing technology was used.

Well, so what? People aren't generally making that claim. The only thing disproven is a straw man.

Nothing in the article rules out the possibility of a lab creating the virus via conventional breeding, by passing the virus through human cells and/or by infecting cells simultaneously with human viruses. Nothing in the article rules out the possibility of a lab accident; indeed there have been several lab accidents in China that released dangerous viruses.

Look at this research:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18077725

It is 2008 research from the lab in Wuhan. They created a virus by combining SARS-CoV with HIV, targeting the human ACE2 molecule as receptor. These features match those of our current pandemic. (India reported the HIV link, and the use of ACE2 is widely known)

We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the possibility. Note also that China is actively trying to point people away from this line of inquiry. We should resist that effort.

It's worth remembering that the very term "conspiracy theory" was first used to deflect attention from an actual conspiracy. It was a very successful psy-op, and it lives on to this day.
I bet that will last.
> 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).

Plenty of leftists, agree with neoliberals that utilitarian efficiency ought to be a key goal of an economic system. Leftists, unlike neoliberals, are unlikely to believe that the capitalist markets optimize for utilitarian efficiency, because, even aside from the general failures of the rational choice model due to imperfect information, etc. (which neoliberals often also discount), capitalist markets effectively weight individual utility differently based on the individual’s wealth.
The animated gifs make me need to write a decision journal to handle this article.
I have an XO-4 (the unobtanium model) and I love using it for distraction-free tinkering. A mac emulator looks especially nice in the display's black-and-white mode when I have the chance to use it in sunlight.
> Plenty of talented teachers have tried it, and moved on to something more effective.

Including, you know, Richard Feynman.
is there anything like this but for blog posts and online links? please don't say pinboard
Wow, so I guess people are buying new PCs and essentially scrapping them for parts? That's....... actually kind of funny
I agree with all the points brought up in this article except for this curveball:

> Turing complete configuration languages shepherd you into writing complex logic with them

Everything discussed in this post is a consequence of language design or best practices. I don't think shoving complex logic into yaml files would be considered either. This is more a possibility as a result of Turing completeness, I don't think the language design has anything to do with it. All the other "shepherding" examples are clearly intentional choices by the language designers.
I found in my undergrad I used both. Sometimes one would explain a specific topic better. Sometimes I just needed to hear the topic explained from a different voice. With the number of old editions and online copies floating around, I don't think it is bad to recommend both.
A friend noticed this while attempting to cancel a booking earlier today. The specific section reads:

Guests who cancel Bookings confirmed, updated or rescheduled prior to March 25, 2020, for Events scheduled to occur on or following April 30, 2020, will not be entitled to cancel and will not be eligible to receive a refund due to COVID-19.

This is very frustrating as their poly up to today (3/26) was to allow a FULL refund in case of a state of emergency.
A eureka moment is realizing that customers interests are actually aligned with businesses being profitable. If the business provides the customer with something they want - and they usually do, if the customer is willing to pay them money at all - then it is in their best interest for the business to continue operating, which means it is in their interest for the business to have a profitable business model. This is part of why you see a bias toward big companies winning sales, even at a higher price point: there is less risk that they will go out of business and leave you in a lurch. It isn't actually in the customers interest for a business to barely or not at all be able to make ends meet, which is what your proposed business model has often led to.
Interesting project. By chance have you heard of fennel[0]? It is a compile to Lua language with s-expression syntax. Also I believe you can export LuaJIT's bytecode with string.dump and it would be portable across platforms. Not trying to diminish your work, however. This could be useful for having a "real" Lisp embedded in-game. I don't think I've seen a scripting language with immutability either.

Would it be possible to write a REPL using ArkScript or use the compiler from within the language?

Also, I'm really curious how you got so many people to work on the language. How did you accomplish this?

[0] https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
China reports deeply disturbing coronavirus development
> Not sure what they are using to fingerprint anyways

>> The Zoom app notifies Facebook when the user opens the app, details on the user's device such as the model, the time zone and city they are connecting from, which phone carrier they are using, __and a unique advertiser identifier__ created by the user's device which companies can use to target a user with advertisements
You can disable it under: More Options -> Manage Future Activity:
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/future_activi...
The BetterBibTeX plugin for zotero automatically keeps the BibTeX file in sync with the database.
The author points out that Newton's method needs a good initial guess. This is especially true if you have a function that is not well approximated by a quadratic polynomial. If, for example, you want your optimization to converge to a nearby minima (and no explode off towards infinity) a very simple fix is to implement a maximum step size that limits how far the next x value is from the current one.

This technique is used when optimizing atomic structures, where the energy changes rapidly as a function of distance between the atoms. Newton's method (or more typically, one of its approximations, like L-BFGS) without a maximum step size would just blast all the atoms apart, but with a maximum step size, it works extremely well.

This technique does require some domain knowledge. That is, what step size is "big", which is not always easy to know.
The Mini vMac download page (https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/dnld_std.html) includes binaries for Macintosh, Windows, Linux, and other platforms.

As recently noted in the build documentation, compiling it yourself is not recommended for most people. (First, the result will be much less efficient than the official binary unless you tweak things for your particular compiler. Second, there is the chance of running into compiler bugs and bugs in Mini vMac that show up only on some compilers - the official binaries are much better tested.)
I have mixed feelings about the current response. Epidemiological reports like this:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

Suggest the current interventions will halve deaths (to “only” 20 million), but (more importantly?) push them until after the next set of elections in the US.
(See report 12, page 12)

Earlier reports suggested weaker restrictions would build more immunity faster and further spread out demand for hospital beds. Presumably, that would further reduce the death toll, and also reduce the scope and duration of the economic impact. However, it would overwhelm some hospitals between now and election day.
Page seems to have been deleted. Archives I checked don't have it. Any idea what it said?
Another provider doing exactly the same, wonderful thing: https://neocities.org/

EDIT: Since I like Neocities so much, I just made a small demo GitLab repo to show you how you can deploy your repo to Neocities using GitLab CI:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/neocities-gitlab-ci-demo
I understand stalking involves more than taking notes and selling them though. The other person has to feel threatened or such. Now maybe you can/make the case that you feel threatened by Facebook, and maybe you can sue them individually (good luck), but I doubt you can make the case most people feel this way.
I'm curious about what prevents the manufacturers from running badblocks and eliminating some of the downstream pain. Obviously some users care and will spend the effort to check their drives, and some unlucky users will have a data loss and a bad experience.

Is not running badblocks before shipping a way to exploit users who won't RMA or won't realize their drive is busted? Or are drives getting damaged in transit? Or something else?
> This article has an unfortunate omission by ignoring drives' S.M.A.R.T. reporting system

TFA states:

I have taken to using a 'burnin' script to wrap smartctl tests before and after in order to have relatively high confidence that the drive will not fail soon.

...

The script I used can be found on Github here

Agree this could be discussed in a bit more detail, but it is actually there.
Looks like 2020 is still not the "year of Linux on the desktop"

(from a desktop Linux user years 1996-2004)
Define production. But probably not by a reasonable definition.
I have had a few clients ask to defer work. Normally the only way out is to draft a new SOW (and pay some penalty) or cancel and pay a penalty. I have made an exception and issued 90 day holds on our agreements at the end of witch they can either resume or pay termination costs.

I have a few clients who are now paying MORE (new contract) due to the change in the nature and scope of work. I have been doing a bit of "soft consuming" with folks adapting to working from home. Some non technical teams just don't have the know how or experience to work remote. The nature of remote work has shifted as well. Basics have become problematic as many are in transition.
Some feedback:

1. Mind the difference between concurrency and parallelism. This is around safe parallel access. Concurrent access can happen on one thread without any synchronization.

2. It’s oftentimes an anti pattern to model thread safety around primitive data structures as opposed to higher level concerns. It forces all data that has to be consistent across thread boundaries to be in this one map. When circumstances change, you might want to have some of that data in different data structures and still provide consistent access to them. This change will be hard when you rely on data structure level thread safety.
So please explain why you're giving Trump (or why you would give ANYONE) a pass on the pathological lies, the sexism and misogyny, the xenophobia, the racism, the nepotism and greed, the systematic dismantling of the Constitution, the mental instability and childish behavior, and the sheer incompetence, and you don't totally disqualify him or at least rate him at #998 instead of #2?

Do you imagine that Biden has any of those character flaws at anywhere near Trump's magnitide? Or does Biden have some other super-horrible character flaw that outweighs all of Trump's (like using tabs instead of spaces)? Or do you not believe that any of those character flaws are disqualifying? Then what would be disqualifying, if not all that? Or do you deny that Trump has any of those character flaws? Or do you actually embrace and celebrate those character flaws, like so many other Trump supporters do?
It makes some sense to restrict cancellation of bookings made, confirmed, or altered during the same emergency. There's a difference between an emergency that the customer could not have reasonably expected when making arrangements and one that they should have known existed and factored into their planning.
Valid point. Getting something you can scan for installed SDKs is pretty darn hard in many cases, so I doubt most people would want to set up and maintain something to do that for a few apps...