skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Seems like that flattened curve is still going to be pretty tall.
For all the mentions of FORTRAN in the description of other languages, it's a real surprise that FORTRAN doesn't rate a mention of its own -- though there are corners of the world where it's still in use.

It's notable not only for being the Lingua Franca of scientific computing through at least the '80s, but also for breaking ground in programming language technology, starting right at the beginning -- the Fortran I compiler, for the IBM 704 in 1957, was the first to have an optimizer (and the technical papers on that compiler introduced terminology which has since become standard to the field -- e.g. "basic block").
It's really not that hard to imagine China having more cases...
Ideally the certification would be made visible by the app creator when the upload the app to Apple/Android App Store so people downloading it would be able see the designation.
Vo has 3000 inhabitants, it's not a city, that's why they could completely isolate it and test every single inhabitant. It gives a 'random' sample, unlike other testing regimens.

The population size isn't that big indeed, but it's still multiple times larger than the cruise ship.
india comes immediately to mind, in, uh ... 8-12 days probably?
How would you compensate less fat with more sugar? They taste totally different.
I've started using Calibre for these purposes, saving papers from arXiv to it, and can definitely recommend. It takes a bit of manual effort to add tags to the papers, but once you have a bit of a collection going they autocomplete. The only downside is lack of read/reading/unread status, but I've hacked around it by rating papers and books I'm currently reading one star. I'd love to have an easier method for importing the papers, but not enough to actually have tried to write the script yet.
Just watched Trump get questioned on this and he implied its because we have done the most testing of anyone and China was under reporting.
> I know 95% of people don't care about that link as much as they'd like to; but the 5% who use it are the people who accomplish literally all the infrastructure creation and planning.

I would contest the position that so few are able to make that link. Perhaps in the abstract they are not, but many people are able to conceptualize that link in concrete terms through their children. If people see a way that they can ensure a better life for their kids, they will often make the necessary choices to bring that about.
You would need to pass it across threads. At least that is all I can come up with.
Why single out part timers, students and teenagers? How does any of that matter when talking about Americans earning less than $1000/mo? "These Americans make less than that, but let's not count them"???
That is why many of us that experienced those environments ended up gravitating around Delphi, Android, iOS, Java and .NET tooling.

While not the same, it is the most mainstream stacks that are somehow close to those ones.
Hey thanks for the feedback! A few hundred files to be uploaded still, so there's a good chance more payment designs are on the way!
You can't support a point about private companies in the US in general with a point solely about powerful global corporations that are US companies.
That's the idea yes.

Since an example is worth a thousand words, here is a function for the http module, counting argument, checking the types and then using the values to create an http client (to make http requests to web servers): https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/modules/blob/refactoring/h...
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It's probably used for install tracking.

Apple doesn't provide a way to know how a user found your app, but Facebook does. This is why the app I work on uses the Facebook SDK.

Basically, we want to know how effective our Facebook ads are at getting actual installs.
I watched a few videos from China and they seemed to be taking it very seriously, nothing like how the US is handling it.
> I believe that the current terms leave the App Store open to GPL software

Please read the following:

https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/blob/master/COPYING.iOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827624

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...

> Also, Apple will only remove software if you notify them of copyright infringement; it's not their job to preemptively perform licensing enforcement.

Developers of GPL software have had different experiences with Apple than what you're asserting. There is a direct incentive for Apple to police licensing incompatibilities if they are profiting from illegal distribution of GPL software on their platform.
Dammit. I was hoping this wasn't the case. I got too excited posting prior to verifying.
I doubt China could have kept a lid on things if the virus has been spreading uncontrollably. Further, the majority of
documented cases from the peak have recovered. Which means the associated undocumented cases from then also recovered.

So, while they might have had more total cases, we likely have far more active cases.
Yes, that was the one I was using at the Smalltalk programming classes at the university.
That’s an interesting space. There should be a way to share just file hashes with a description and basic metadata for each of them, eg:

dea939...82f A scan of Newton’s personal notebook, page 13 (image from London Museum of History, 2013, 8000x6000 pixels)

That way people who like to build such collections would have ways to share and compare theirs, and see if they have anything missing from bigger datasets, etc. You could even imagine a wikimedia style commons to manage a repository of these hashes and associated metadata.
This sounds a lot like the "vitamin juice obviously isn't healthy" argument. Obviously overwriting bytes does not delete files! Stop doing that, use encryption instead!
If you think they'd sue, you can always send the details to a tech journalist specialized in such matters (someone with a proven track record of protecting their sources). Use an anonymous email service to be sure.

If something goes wrong, they'll take the thread of legal action and probably win. Companies know that suing journalists often leads to more bad press than cooperating. They can even try to contact the company in question for you if the vulnerability is bad enough.

If the company doesn't respond or get their shit together, journalists will get a scoop and the company is forced to fix their shit. If the company does fix their shit, the journalist will still get a story out of it and you can rest easy that you've helped make the internet just a little bit safer for everyone.
Better hope someone doesn't trip over a cord in your ER room.
that will not invalidate it. it might have other (negative) implications, but it does not invalidate it.
There's not a lot of good reasons to use WebAssembly for most apps. You need code that is performance critical with light IO/DOM access, and can be written in the handful of languages that can be practically compiled to WASM, i.e. not just porting the runtime to WASM. Fact of the matter is that JS has evolved to be the best language for most front end development tasks. It's scriptable, somewhat performant due to JITs, quite good for single threaded async reactive programming and actually can be written in a nice pseudo-functional manner. And the libraries are quite good, even if NPM gets some hate.
that's because all of that goes without saying (since I assume that the typical hn reader already knows about 1. pivots being costly 2. the early adopter grind). those points aren't key features of their succuss either because every startup experiences those pains.
LICEcap is really nice for making itch.io covers. I'm a big fan of it!
India have implemented nation wide lockdown so maybe they'll be ok.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-52044058/coronavirus-first...
Or to imagine the draconian measures that limited the cases. I imagine there was a little of both.
add Latin America too. also Russia (not as densely populated though)
I had a typical case of ingesting a ton of logs into ES. I needed sharding to keep up with multi-threaded writes while something else is doing intensive search queries. I think sharding was very useful in processing a lot of data efficiently.
Very badly thought-out news article.
We direly need an open source phone as a matter of personal and social security.
The US is going to blow past Italy and Spain in a couple of days.
Even weirder, if a chicken has white earlobes, it probably lays white eggs. Not always, but mostly (apparently).
Questions the media is too busy to ask:
- What is the root cause of the cdc’s failed test? Follow the money.
- What is the industrial capacity for ventilators in weeks and months? Anyone doing the math?
- How many beds are there in the bay area? How many are occupied?
- Has every hospitalized patient been tested? Various media claims about hospital counts and county numbers do not match up (One Kaiser SJ hosp. says half of 242 beds are filled with c19, county reports only 158 hospitalizations today)
- How many outpatients were given a “yep, you probably have it, but we’re not testing and sending you home until you get worse” - are they suppressing the count, dont want to waste a test, or not even bothering?
Yeah, I'd say adapting your political agenda to what the people want, is vastly preferable to changing what the people want to fit your political agenda. Yet that's the reality of the US political system of today. Especially with the influence of media outlets like Fox and others.
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The problem with this (and GPs idea) is that you can copy a valid code from somewhere else; a "replay attack" of sorts. You have to somehow tie the signature to a verifiable but uncopyiable trait which is much, much harder than you'd expect.
Nobody claimed the OS was designed to be secure!
That's not exactly an FFI, that's an extension since you're coding against ArkScript's C++ API. An FFI is when you use only ArkScript to make calls against other languages that don't know about ArkScript's API.
Sure, here's some to start with.

1. Any situation where the testing isn't limited to just the most critically ill showing much lower infection percentages than this model would predict. A lot of these are tests of every person in a risky situation, whether they had symptoms or not:

E.g. the evacuation flights from Iran to China tested every passenger and showed a 3% infection rate. T The village of Vo testing their entire population twice soon after starting a Covid quarantine, with a 3% infection rate.

Others were testing large amounts of people with no particular reason they had Covid, but still with a skewed sample:

The Swedish sentinel testing of random people with any kind of flu symptoms (1.5% of people with flu symptoms testing as positive for Covid, vs. 30% testing positive for Influenza A/B). Iceland testing IIRC a volunteer 1.5% of their population whether they had symptoms or not, and having something like a 1% infection rate.

The thing all of these have in common is that they happened at a time in their relative epidemics where this model should have predicted the majority of the population was currently infected.

In fact, it's basically impossible to explain any testing results, since even when they're biased to cases where Covid is strongly suspected, the ratio of positives is so low. If we test the 1000 of people most suspected of having Covid right now, and get 10% positives, how can it possibly be the case that half the non-suspicious population are carriers at the time of that test?

2. If herd immunity kicks in 14 days after the first death as implied by this model, why haven't any of the epidemics died down by now? Italy is on what, day 30?

3. How does a super infectious but low mortality model explain the geographic clustering of deaths? Sure, the geographic clustering of known cases could be explained by testing bias. But deaths don't have that bias.

4. Observed high CFRs in limited populations where we know the infection rate was high. E.g. Diamond Princess at what 1.4%, and still another 2% in critical condition. How many top ranking Iranian leaders died in short order of Covid, and how does that fit in with a mortality rate of 0.01%? Or the cases where most of the patients of a health care facility or nursing home got infected?
Yep. Just a week ago Cuomo was shut down the idea of shelter in place when de Blasio (who had been dragging his feet as well) was suggesting it[1]. This was a day after the Bay Area health officers announced a shelter in place order. He only relented when things really spun out of control.

The fact that people like Cuomo are now being praised for the way they handled this suggests that we aren't going to learn the lessons we need to.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/bill-de-blasio-andre...
The mystical style mixed with computing subjects reminded me very much of aphyr's excellent "technical interview" series, which I very much recommend if you enjoyed the OP:

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
That works if the call stack is only ever shallow (specifically, the owner is always the caller).

But the moment you've called

hello_i_accept_pointers (&myvar)

you're now inside a callstack where the variable is a pointer, and there's no syntax to indicate that you're passing a pointer to the next callee.
Thank you very much for this write-up! This sounds like a lot of fun, maybe I'll spend some of my quarantine time looking into it. Any recommended resources for learning?
I try to avoid politics here. But our current state around testing, consistent policy, communication, coordinated efforts around supply shortages, etc. I'm embarrassed to be a US citizen right now.

We could be so much better at this with really very little effort. Lots of capable people just needing direction. I wish the president would appoint a credible corona-czar and give up the microphone.
Depends on the operation. For most operations there are backwards compatible options that generally result in a 2-step process.

Soundcloud (I don't work there) developed something in Ruby for online database migrations that copies the table and uses triggers to handle everything. Note that this only works for MySQL. For PostgreSQL or others, the best option is taking a backwards compatible approach.

https://github.com/soundcloud/lhm
I’ve long since given up trying to figure out why HN goes and goes against certain things. The vote system here is one of the clearest examples of “let’s build a bubble” that I can think of.

There is no way Zoom is just sending secret data to FB out of the evilness (because it’s not goodness!) of their hearts for fun. So someone is trading value somewhere.
Depends. Will it be available on iPhone?
76k mrr with some contractors, this guy is printing money and I'm very jealous.
Generics, contrary to common wisdom it was CLU that actually introduced checked exceptions not Java, alongside Mesa one of the first modular languages.
agreed. using this phrase is the equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and running away
Odd, overlays notification banner for me. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/EVHdD8W
Hello, OP here, I've actually spent considerable amount time to find a code execution. I know you'll want to learn details of FUN_004122c0 but here is the decompiled version of iptables part from ghidra:

undefined4 FUN_004045a0(int param_1,int param_2)

{
int iVar1;
int iVar2;
char pcVar3;
char cVar4;
code pcVar5;
undefined auStack544 [256];
undefined auStack288 [260];

FUN_00412530(auStack544,0,0x100);
FUN_00412530(auStack288,0,0x100);
if (param_1 == 0) {
FUN_004122c0(auStack288,0x100,"iptables > %s 2>&1","/var/IptablesInfo");
}
else {
iVar1 = FUN_00412210(0x100);
if (iVar1 == 0) {
return 0x40010009;
}
cVar4 = '\0';
while ((iVar2 = *param_2, iVar2 != 0 && (cVar4 != '\x10'))) {
if (cVar4 == '\0') {
FUN_004122c0(iVar1,0x100,0x412c84,iVar2);
}
else {
FUN_004122c0(iVar1,0x100,"%s %s",iVar1,iVar2);
}
cVar4 = cVar4 + '\x01';
param_2 = param_2 + 1;
}
FUN_004122c0(auStack288,0x100,"iptables %s > %s 2>&1",iVar1,"/var/IptablesInfo");
FUN_00412660(iVar1);
}
FUN_00412330(auStack288);
iVar1 = FUN_004123c0("/var/IptablesInfo",0x414f68);
if (iVar1 == 0) {
pcVar5 = FUN_004126e0;
pcVar3 = "Fail\r";
}
else {
while (iVar2 = FUN_00412470(auStack544,0x100,iVar1), iVar2 != 0) {
FUN_004126b0(0x412c84,auStack544);
FUN_004121a0(0xd);
}
FUN_00412520(DAT_0042b010);
FUN_004123a0(iVar1);
pcVar5 = FUN_00412500;
pcVar3 = "/var/IptablesInfo";
}
(*pcVar5)(pcVar3);
return 0;

}

Any ideas?
Quoting myself in this wider thread - 'people who get the normal flu also get permanent damage'

If there are assumptions about Covid-19 damages I want a link.

The Russians trolls clearly know they can do more damage to the USA these coming weeks that normally would take years. They clearly will be here in some capacity.

This fear of damages to the body over death is clearly being used as a tool by multiple parties. I want them accountable. Don't care if it's the WHO or Russian Tolls or crazies. If they are right they will have links.

(And I addressed the above to downvoters not you sorry, people with comment history I trust)
Aside from a couple on the far west side of the metroplex, HEB hasn't really moved into the DFW area yet (Central Market notwithstanding)
US testing started out slow but it's now up to 100,000 tests per day (and more than half a million total), which I think is the most of any country (though probably not per capita)

https://covidtracking.com/us-daily/

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing-source-data (hasn't been updated in a week)
This law is a tech-support nightmare.

You can call your ISP with any arbitrary piece of non-branded random AliExpress $#@$ of a network eq. and they must walk you through configuring it? That does not make much sense to me.
Not per-population it isn't, not even close in fact - far bellow Italy,Spain and even considerably bellow Germany and France.

Per-population mortality rate is also closely tracking Germany rather than Italy on Spain, beats UK by being less than half of theirs.
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Except for DNS? And anything else that doesn't use the proxy.

You can apparently set the firefox flag "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns"

Never tried it myself!

Now, perhaps firefox does not need to do a lookup; it sends the hostname to the remote end.

But best be safe?
> They cannot create cycles,

I don't think this is true. Couldn't you accidentally make two objects "own" each other?
The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong's newspaper of record) reports that China excluded 43,000 confirmed-but-asymptomatic cases from its official statistics, and kept the true number classified:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076323/thir...

This would mean that the true number of confirmed cases in China is more than 50% higher than the official number.
> Isn't Italy in a pretty bad shape to restart the virus spread right now?

It won't be able to hold a long-standing quarantine. Probably a couple of months tops. That's not even mentioning the economy. As I said, endured isolation will have very bad side effects.
Here's a study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742721/

> We found that the amount of sugar is higher in the low fat (that is, reduced calorie, light, low fat) and non-fat than ‘regular' versions of tested items
Texas Monthly writes great longform articles, thorough and informative and without the heartstring manipulating hype usually seen in magazines.
It didn't gain traction because iOS killed it. Also "some people" includes everyone who doesn't want to make an iOS app.
Looks promising, though it doesn't seem to have caught the FB connection in Zoom[1] (though given that Zoom has the Internet Access permission I suppose it can really send data anywhere?) They do offer an on-device version, which is available via F-droid[2].

1: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/us.zoom.vid...

2: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.oF2pks.classyshark3xodus...
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> You're willing to sacrifice a million people to keep your house of cards economy going instead of fixing the root cause.

There's this bizarre idea that the only people who are harmed by a bad economy are "those evil one percenters". Being out of work hurts lots of people. What do you believe is the root cause? Also, many of those will still die even with measures taken.

If one person could die, or everyone could lose his job, which would you pick? Ten people? Where's your bright line? At some point, that one person doesn't get to tell everyone he expects the nation to stay home to save him. Nor do the ten people. Why is that different for more people, and how many must it be? I'm not saying they should just go to work and harm themselves, but they are responsible for keeping themselves home and safe. Not the government.

> you want to shrink the state, thus collective resources

Yes. Why is this bad?

> calling every citizen of the US welfare queens?

I didn't call every citizen one, I said we're turning into a nation of them. There's a joke that is depressingly accurate that I've seen in several places over the past few days:

"What does it take to turn a Trump supporter into a socialist?"

"$1200."

Everyone wants to take someone else's money.

> fundamentalist

No, I just don't believe it's the government's job to keep us safe from a virus. I get pretty sick of people running around asking bureaucrats to "do something". Americans need to take responsibility for themselves; weigh their options and make their best decisions.

> people like you want to keep the welfare state to this non-functioning minimum.

Who are "people like me"? You seem to be lumping me in with some "other", but I'm not sure which. To be more accurate, I wish to abolish the welfare state entirely; I'd hardly call three trillion dollars a year a "minimum" of any sort.
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Germany has a pretty low death count, especially for being the most populous EU country.
Not being an original Macintosh guy I'm having a hard time getting the minivmac to boot directly into System7. I follow the steps but can't figure out what "Copy the donor system folder into our new boot volume, using the familiar drag-and-drop." means. Any clues?
We're number 1! We're number 1!
That's because this is styling. Not design.
tl;dr

`git config --global diff.algorithm histogram`
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Why would you need to overwrite blocks of a sparse file? Which blocks would you be overwriting?
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India and Malaysia both banned over flights because of noise. It wasn't just Boeing.