skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangent: is it ok to put sensitive stuff on slack?

I mean sure, they're legally prevented from snooping, but considering there'd be no way to find out if that confidence were breached, is it ok to have confidential discussions or upload sensitive documents or private keys?
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You will, the type could be Union[int, float].

Alternatively, you could also use the abstract base classes in the numbers module - https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html

numbers.Number may be a good choice.

Still, you are right, overloading like this may be okay as a thought exercise, but would raise some serious questions during a code review. :)
That seems reasonable to me. You could argue that the posting should be quicker, but it's never going to be instantaneous. Back-timing is at least somewhat transparent.
But that's precisely the point. If the hospitals get overwhelmed with the flu regularly, how can we expect to cope with the current virus which is way worse?
EU net neutrality regulation grants end users right to use their own equipment.

https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/
I read they're prized for curing male impotence, because you know... They have hard scales.
> Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls?

I've never encountered a paywall on the NYT links on HN and I'm not a subscriber. I'm guessing the complaints here are from people who only have access to browsers with no means of blocking (or ignoring) JavaScript.
Eh.... On the flip side, processing and storing some simple text forms should be able to handle 1000s of simultaneous users on one box.

So, probably like most software of this nature, the reason it's not scaling is simply because the people who made it probably weren't the greatest engineers on the block.
For most people. Covid-19 won’t be a problem. Just because something isn’t a problem for the majority doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem. Even a huge one.

And I can speak from vast experience: it feels great to help people, and can win you friends and in some cases referrals, but at the end of the year, it’s a crap shoot whether your boss will commend you or vilify you. Most are going to notice the things you didn’t get done, not the things you facilitated. When facilitators get laid off, office morale tanks, but they are still laid off.

The number of times I get interrupted for a question while I’m right in the cusp of unraveling some hidden truth about our code or a bug is nuts. It’s easy to get nerd sniped, especially if the other person is talking about breaking something they don’t understand.

(Personally, I think your most knowledgeable people should only be booked for like 25 hours a week and the rest of their time earmarked for consultation, but nobody above me in the org chart ever agrees)
Beyond any attempt to narrative, it is true we treat animals very badly.
Easily one of the most useful programs I've installed for work.

Best feature is the web browser add-on. Can open up a few dozen articles during a literature search and dump all of them into Zotero for reading later.
I think lich fits well :)
I saw this reply earlier! It was gone by the time I tried writing a response, but I don't feel like it's too far afield at all: it's a really nice response. (And thanks for doing that! It's always nice to see people volunteering for genuinely helpful things like this.)

It doesn't seem like it was your fault, and it's understandable that you're frustrated.

I don't, however, agree that anything written in Python 2 is contributing to that problem. Just because code exists doesn't mean it has to be used by other people, and this is a proof-of-concept obviously outside of the range of the class you were teaching.

It's the Python Foundation's fault, and it doesn't seem like anyone else's. Python 2 is nicer to write from some perspectives, and, for example, the idea of somebody who didn't like Perl 6's changes being told to write Perl 6 instead of Perl 5 or else they were being harmful doesn't really make sense either.
Netflix reduced the quality of videos in Europe to combat this.
Well, for starters you're reducing the number of attack vectors.

If the only animals we can eat are a small number of species from regulated farms, any crossover/issue is contained and traceable to those species and farms.

If you allow (including as a purchaser you create demand for it), in open market a wider range of species from a wider range of sources, you open up the number of attack vectors increasing risks to everybody on the planet.
LOL , you high, arent ya?
can a bf interpreter be written in sed?

https://github.com/izabera/bfsed
Sure supervisors can be made to poll. But a supervisor won’t be able to do anything to recover from this.
Perl incorporated regular expressions into a general purpose programming language in a way that seemed fairly unique at the time. Today they seem to be everywhere, often with the help of PCRE-Perl compatible regexps.
on the other hand, i'm surprised that PIA and Tunnelbear have so few trackers
Likewise, in St Louis on AT&T Gigabit fiber. There have been many outages with Spectrum cable though.
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This comparison is invalid and dangerous. You can't compare some absolute numbers against the unknown. Just look at fatalities rate in Italy. This virus can turn your lungs into dust within days under unknown conditions
Ahhh, Fravia... Good old times..
> But apparently some politicians want to down play the problem and their obfuscation is echoed in every corner of the web with great zeal and again drowning out reality.

Yes obviously they take the main blame.

but also others.

From Jan,

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/coronavirus-panic...

> China’s response appears to be driven by political considerations more than epidemiological ones. The government has imposed a travel lockdown on more than 35 million people, which experts say is a quarantine of unprecedented size and scale, yet it may not even turn out to be very effective.

what about the nameless experts media has been quoting to float their conspiracy theories. Will these ppl take some of the blame for eroding people's trust in experts?
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You're taking the other extreme and doing what you accuse the other person of doing: a one sided take.

Backpedaling on globalization doesn't necessarily have to mean going back to no globalization. It just means now being away for the drawbacks and accounting for them. No every country doesn't need to produce their own medical equipment, but enough will that consider it important to do so and have the internal demand to support it and that will create supply-chain optionality for those that don't produce their own supplies.

Every country that doesn't manufacturer their own equipment and supplies will be far better off when they have several countries they can source from.
> Just the other day a crowd lined up down the block in front of a video game store to grab a copy of a newly released game which was available to download and cripple their net for the duration of the download.

Just to play devil's advocate there are plenty of people who rely on their local game store (I used to fall within one of these).

We still live in a world of data caps and or slow download speeds. I know a few people who live "In the sticks" who rely on satellite for their internet connection. Not only are these connections limited they are often slow. Downloading a game can seriously eat into their allowance.

Some people do not have the local storage to store many games on their device and may prefer having the main chunk of the game on physical media.

There are people who have no internet connection at home and rely on public connections at their schools, libraries, coffee shops, etc to get on line as they need too.

There are people who factor in owning the physical media into their purchase by having the option to sell that copy later down the road when they are no longer playing it (A $60 game may seem an easier purchase if they can sell that game for $20 later down the road).

There are people who do not have the latest gen gaming system who rely on used games to get their gaming. One of my family members still have a Wii for their kids to play on because the games for it are dirt cheap, it has plentiful titles for their age and the kids of an age where they not demanding the latest and greatest games.

There are people for which cash is still king to them. Who get paid in cash and shop in cash. For these people purchasing games online (even physical games) requires a trip to a bank or to a supermarket to top up their amazon gift card to be able to purchase online.

You have kids who have done yardwork, odd jobs and have saved up over the past few months to purchase the game. You have people who have been visiting their local store to pay in advance for a game using their layaway programs.

To these people and many more even though a title was available to download to you and I may the ability to download the game is still be outside the reach to them.

I'm not going to say that everyone in the queue you saw fall into any one of the things I have said. I'm sure there are people out there who could of purchased the game online who chose to visit a physical store. All I'm going to ask is that when you see such things that you take a step back and remember that not everyone is in such a fortunate position as you and I and do we want to live in a world where those less fortunate than us can not have access to such things. Just try and remember that someone in that queue has probably been saving their cash for the past 6 months to purchase their child that game.

TL;DR: Not everyone in that queue were monsters.
Also TC39's efforts in all of JavaScript just about ever since. ActionScript's ES4 efforts left a lot of scars and that "lost version" of JavaScript is quite influential in the very least for how much ES2015+ avoids ES4/ActionScript ideas/problems/concerns as much as it learns from them and eventually reincorporates some of them.
”The state is home to more than 6% of the world's confirmed cases so far”

World population: 7½ billion. 6% of that: 450 million. Population of New York State: 20 million.

⇒ overrepresentation factor: 22½.

Open question: how much of that is due to more testing being done in New York State, compared to, say, India or Pakistan (large, less wealthy countries that may skew the statistics)
Rightfully so. We won't have a cookieless world if the entire tracking industry basically just switches to LocalStorage when cookies finally die. Enough whack-a-mole.
I’ve seen multiple statements from people that Pascal was a better language than C, but I absolutely love the VHS/BETA-Max analogy (it contains a lot of context which usually take a good deal longer to write out in the pascal vs c discussions). My education and experience effectively skipped Pascal, other than mentions that it existed. So, do you have any off the cuff reading or materials that demonstrate where Pascal shines? I’d be interesting to see if any of Pascal’s qualities that made it ‘better than C’ were ripe for plucking out and putting in another language.
I would love to hear more.

I've heard of at least one other band that had this kind of success, and it does not surprise me in the least. Drummond knew how the industry worked as a musician, manager, and skeptic, and in that book outlined a formula that could work. It was a bit of a piss-take but there were nuggets of wisdom and truth.
Food production is essential work, so nobody is stopping it.

We are about to have millions unemployed. Any job vacancy will be trivial to fill.

I wouldn't be concerned about the food supply.
Human and chimp DNA is 96% the same according to [0]. I'm not a biologist so I have no idea if this logic is applicable to viruses.

[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/8/chimps-humans...
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> Putting lots of species in close proximity

Live ones at that.
And the stock market loves it? I’m so confused.
I see an opportunity for a tech startup here: compile a series of Twitter posts into a coherent and easy to read essay.
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They aren't choosing to have crap infrastructure, their infrastructure is intentionally defunded as part of a political campaign to engender distrust in government functions and increase privatization. Government is incompetent because if it is, its easy to justify selling off the country to the incredibly wealthy so they can get wealthier.
Yep. It was Lariam I was thinking of.
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It would be like if a global pandemic was traced back to the U.S. 300 yards from Fort Detrick. Any rational person would take notice of this but instead it's labeled a conspiracy theory.
_96% of the same DNA_

Humans and chimpanzees also share 96% of the same DNA – that's not as similar as it sounds.
State and local governments are doing a good job in many locales. Assuming more Governors don't follow the jackwagon leading Mississippi and override local efforts, the situation should improve despite the lack of leadership and execution at the federal level.
It’s not DNA, it’s an RNA virus. More changes happen with them.
> But all of this is a dumb tangent, and we should just appreciate how funny it is to ask that this nonsensical pointless quasi-OS-breaking code be done in python 3 instead.

I'll admit that I did not expect it to start a thread.
China seems to be looking to change the narrative and the history on where this started.
Zotero was also the first reference manger to use CSL, the Citation Style Language [1], now adopted by many other apps including Mendeley and Citationsy.

[1] https://citationstyles.org
I was thinking something similar. Maybe with some randomization to it, so different profiles across (social) media wouldn't link together through Clearview et al. but still all look like you to humans.
> how Turkish ISPs have complete access to your router

You think it is going to blow people's socks off that a router provided and controlled by an ISP is accessible by that same ISP? Huh?

The Huawei SSH key is a little strange, but depressingly common for network equipment, even big names like Cisco[0].

[0] https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurit...
Regarding simulating mechanics, and combining physics + CS:

1) Have a read through Witkin & Baraff's Physically Based Modelling SIGGRAPH 2001 course notes. Short, sweet, and packed with real-world expertise/tricks.

2) Look up stuff by Chris Hecker from the '90s and early aughts.

3) Ian Millington's _Game Physics Engine Development_ is very good.
Ask HN: Free Interesting Data Sets?
For example, USA has downloadable files of all baby names from 1879 until last year:

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html

Are there any other free interesting data sets like this out there?
Wouldn't have made it through my doctorate without Zotero. The plugins and MS Word integration made paper writing (almost) enjoyable! Instead of wasting hours on formatting my bibliography/citations, Zotero did the same work in about 2 minutes. Kudos to the folks who maintain this incredible resource, and a big personal thank you!
Houseparty, Discord, Zoom, and Marco Polo downloads explode amid pandemic
A lot of things in TCM do that, like tiger/bull cock or antler, even garlic chives, beef, sheep or kidney.
...use the hammer that didn't arbitrarily break compatibility, then? (Note that the original analogy pointed out that they couldn't be mixed, anyway: "or even take advantage of the nails you've hit!")

This is like complaining that the well is poisoned when you're the one who put arsenic in it.

This also isn't even an open source project, so it's not like you can mix and match anyway.
Yes, yes, extremely yes.

Luckily the calculation is far less shitty than that. Contrary to what folks claim, the reducing in fatalities from automobile accidents and from dramatically lowered pollution outweighs suicides and other economic reasons for people to die. This lockdown is a dramatic net positive for human lives and significantly reduces the risk of death from many sources.
It has less market share than perl or delphi (make your own judgement). It was really hyped(rightfully so, a practical lisp for production use? fun! sign me in) then declined fast.

Like most(ly dead) languages, it still has its followers, in the case of clojure, mostly a cultish group (my impression from r/clojure and other forums).
Are you sure those numbers aren't reversed? I'm in a red state and while most people I know were in denial a month ago most now at least have moderate concern. It's pretty hard to deny that COVID-19 is a threat when our hospitals are full and the empty shelves in our grocery stores are a signal that people are panicking.
No, it's different. Delegated to the states implies that someone else had the power and gave it to the states. That is not true. The states always had the power, and have had it since they formed, and it was not removed upon admission to the United States.

It's like saying France was delegated the power to enforce a national quarantine. That is simply not the case.
My company, for one.

The letter I received was a form letter which leads me to believe others were impacted, too:

We periodically review our partnerships and titles made available through our online learning platform, to ensure appropriate diversification, topic coverage, and audience fit. The learning platform customer base is rapidly evolving and growing, which means the learning resources we offer our customers must as well.

I'm writing today to let you know that while we have greatly appreciated your ongoing partnership with O’Reilly we have made the decision to not renew the contract for the distribution of XXXX content in the O’Reilly learning platform effective XXXX.
Yes, I really love using Crisp as well. It helps so much when the site is down or when someone finds a bug.
They appear to be a group with a mission financing themselves with VPN services, as opposed to most other VPN providers, who're just there to make a buck, and wouldn't give two shits to the circumstances as to why a VPN would even be necessary.

Hell, I'm pretty sure, the guys at AirVPN are aware that working for their goals actually reduces their potential customer base, but the mission is more important, it just needs to be financed, and it appears to be going well.

Profit-oriented VPNs would probably (secretly) support legislation inhibiting digital freedoms to make more money.

Also, you can probably guess who's more likely comply with authorities in legal issues...

Find yourself a good VPN provider, worth staying loyal to, and save yourself from future headaches. When I first signed up on AirVPN, they were charging 54€ per annum, now, last I checked half a year ago, they have three-year plans for 45€. I wish them continued success!
I don't have a horse in this race either, but bacterial diseases are far more manageable than viral diseases from a public health perspective. The fact that you can get the former doesn't balance the latter, if pandemic risk is a policy consideration you want to have.
Having the 1Password secret key purged from browser storage is indeed unacceptable. It’s essentially half of the vault secret (the other half being the master password). If they can no longer keep the secret key in browser storage, vaults are going to be less secure.

I hope Apple backs away from its plans.
I've used Mendeley Desktop for some time, which I believe is very similar in functionality (but proprietary, yes Elsevier!): https://www.mendeley.com/download-desktop-new/

Furthermore I think http://www.docear.org/ deserves to be mentioned as another free open-source solution with some interesting mind-mapping functionality: http://www.docear.org/software/screenshots/
I think it kind of is when it comes to spreading diseases, that's why us humans eating great apes has had disastrous consequences for our health as a species in the past (the same goes for us eating pig brains)
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A novel on gamification of politics. Very interesting.

Sidenote: makes me think that the populist game precedes computing by a long run, but the introduction of computing democratized access to consciousness manipulation. Peer to peer influence got atomized and scaled.
Tell us your coronavirus story and someone will send you a giftcard
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It could also help curtail the sales of specific animals in wet markets that are higher risk. Although as usual, this is looking back rather than looking forward.
Are you talking about something like threadreader?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243000487365861376.html
The solution to this situation, as I understand it (on Linux), is TASK_KILLABLE, which effectively supercedes uninterruptible sleep as a concept: https://lwn.net/Articles/288056/

But TASK_KILLABLE is not used in most places it should be. Patching your (least) favorite driver to use TASK_KILLABLE could be a good entry point to contributing to the kernel.

This older, tangential HN discussion and the comments on LWN have a bit more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18056946
A more charitable reading of the comment would be an annoyance of anecdotes without underlying prevalence data to contextualize the info.

It would be all too easy for the media to pick a healthy senior with a mild case and tout “it sucks but it’s not so bad” or find cases of healthy 18yo dying in horrific conditions to fit their overall narrative.
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the one riff is vaguely similar, but the Taurus song includes a simple descending riff that sounds like something from a guitar intro book. All music has similarities to something. Even Bach and Mozart borrowed ideas from other composers and later ones did to same to them. You can't just take a snippet and go aha! No different than the Oracle attempt at Google over Java.
Yes, quantitative easing is okay. But that is a lot different than the direct money being given to individuals and businesses by Congress. Especially the direct payments to individuals means printing money.

What the fed is doing is printing money now that will be destroyed later, or held in reserve. Either way, it is backed by actual financial instruments (whatever equity or bonds or notes they're buying).
Is the ad revenue the same with and without tracking? I have no experience of this, but economically, it seems unlikely that less personalized ads would pay as much as more personalized ads due to likely lower click-through rate?
Show HN: Covidify – coronavirus dataset and visualization generator
Covidify downloads the latest covid-19 data for confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.

- Creates a time series dataset

- Creates a daily stats dataset

- Generate visualizations

- Filter by country

- List all countries affected

- Shows number of people currently infected

- Generates an excel report including all of the above

https://github.com/AaronWard/covidify
Daisy-chaining routers is can severely degrade some services (gaming, p2p) due to NAT. Assuming the ISP-provided one supports PCP or UPnP-IGD you need a client on your own router that relays port forwarding configuration to the upstream router. This is possible but may need non-trival setup.
It may not be a concisely expressive language, but I like that the small number of word units means it would be easier to use as an intermediary language than Esperanto.

Another practical step could be to identify a specific minimal set of language units required for any given popular nonconstructed language. Is this already a thing?
It's a temporary ban. They need a permanent wet market ban but they won't because the CCP loves this stuff too!
Fuck the CCP and their disregard for human health!
BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, could be compiled with or without threads until release 21 (from 2018).