skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I was surprised and alarmed when I learned my games, made with unity, have so much file system access. I didn’t test it too much but for some reason I just assumed there were more restrictions
Getting Real by 37 Signals most def!
Japan is not anywhere close to the first to do this.

Many countries in SE Asia have pretty much banned any foreigner from entering. If you are a foreign resident, you go into quarantine for 2 weeks.
A lot of their books are 1 person checkout only

and they do have exemptions from DMCA somewhat
If it is small numbers, you can test for symptoms on arrival. The problem is leaving people in impossible situations abroad, overstaying their visa, not having the means to pay for accommodations (particularly if hotels close), etc.
How do you convince people in 2011 that preparing for a pandemic is not a "cause du jour"?

Nobody would have bought that a month ago. In 2011 you would have been laughed out of the room.
Seems normal since we are now the epicenter. I welcome it since this sort of decision might wake up our decision makers on where we really are.
What are they doing with all of the sales and income taxes I pay?
$75/mo here in Iowa for 30/30 fiber to the home.
Your federal government should use 10% of their yearly defense budget (700 billion) for epidemic/health preparedness. In a way it is part of national defense ...
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The US economy has come to a standstill, satellite imagery shows
Gov Jerry Brown still had to deal with dipshit Republicans until the jungle primaries got rid of most of them after 2012.

California seems to have a lot fewer budgetary issues now that we got rid of most of the Republicans.

Funny how getting rid of people who don't want government to work actually improves the functioning of government.
You can tell me in 2 weeks time if that's true when the number of actual cases is impossible for the government to deny any more.

As to the masks, in a clinical setting:

- clinicians will likely get much closer to someone

- patients are much more likely to have an infection

- masks are worn properly

- masks are disposed of properly

- the wearers have had extensive training and experience

They don't, as a salaryman might, pull down their mask to talk to you, or to sneeze so they don't have to use a new mask in the afternoon.

Edit: formatting, I always forget (sorry).
I would say Japan is a bit cleaner than SK. Also a lot of the cult-religions seemed to have played a big part in spreading the disease.
They are not. They are violating copyright law, and stealing from writers and publishers. Twitter is full of complaints by writers who discovered their illegally scanned books here, pointing out that this will make it harder for them to eat and pay rent during the isolation period.
Part of me wonders if ASP.NET will make a comeback. A lot of the historical reasons not to use it don't exist anymore (there's an officially-supported Linux port, for example), and a lot of the cool new JavaScript language features like async/await and arrow functions came from C#.

Besides, most JavaScript programmers are already dependent on Microsoft products like TypeScript, NPM, and Visual Studio Code. What's one more?
Australia is now requiring a 2 week hotel isolation
>You seem to be insinuating something unpleasant

The only insinuation is that I anticipate some people will squirm discussing this sensitive topic. But we are leaving a lot of science and philosophy on the table because of socially constructed boundaries. Are they appropriately positioned, or excessively constraining?
The virus is still quite rare in every country. Unchecked it has a growth factor of around 3 to 4 new infections per case but simply reducing the risk of infection by 80% is enough to eventually reduce the number of active infections as seen in South Korea and China.

The question is mostly what vectors of infections to allow vs eliminate. And in that context banning travel from high risk areas is useful but not that important after community spreading has started. However, this changes based on how widespread the disease is inside each country. Thus, the delayed ban.

PS: Japan is a very interesting case, with the number of new infections being fairly steady over the last 2 weeks.
While I'm sure it's a wonderful resource, those cover scans as the thumbnails are generally useless (wall full of blank colored tiles?), and many of the titles are so uninformative and badly organized you almost have to know what you want to search productively -- it's not like you're going to randomly stumble across something interesting in a sea of 1M titles.

Seems like it needs some volunteer contribution to do some curation / tagging / rating to get people to be able to use it successfully...
It’s pretty clearly not the last judicial duel in France as the most famous such duel, that of Jarnac and Châtaigneraie (and source of the term coup de Jarnac) was caught in 1547 almost 200 years after the events described here, of Carrouges and Le Gris. And Châtaigneraie had evidentially been the victor in several previous judicial battles.
C# is pretty decent. Has been since the get go.
We should be
Best is highly subjective and entirely dependent on what you want to build.

I find a lot of joy in working in C# and the .NET core. It's very pleasant to work in and might be worth a look.
Treasury is now the fed is now the treasury,How deep the bailout rabbit hole go?
It was a sop to stupid California Republicans. The jungle primaries got rid of those starting in 2012.

California should have reestablished this later, though. Unfortunately, everybody forgets once the crisis is gone.
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Control measures are supposed to take place on an inconsistent, fragmented basis - American states have significant independent sovereignty.
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The new bailout is going to be untangled for years to come.
Just like in 2008 , by the time anyone wakes up to the level of self dealing and corruption found in it, we will be at least three years past what occurred. there is no 'fixing' or 'undoing' of corrupt self dealing. You cannot reverse time itself.
Studies haven't been done that support the claims that "masks work in non-clinical settings like a train or a street when used by a wearer who is not under supervision and is has not had training and is probably using their mask again for the nth time"

When that study comes out, let me know. The studies that have been done on surgical mask wearing show a very low and variable effect anyway. Would you like to see the one I saw on here from the other day that said wearing masks was more effective than handwashing?

No one's going to switch handwashing for a mask though, are they? ;-)
> I guarantee you, you will fall for a clever phish.

You can guarantee no such thing. Not getting caught by phishing just isn't that hard. It requires a little self-discipline, yes. So do most worthwhile things.

> It wouldn't be "some people are dumb" it would be "almost all people are dumb" even if being dumb was the issue.

That's still not an OS issue. No amount of clever programming will help if people are that determined to do something dumb.
I’ve been running it in a docker container plugged into the nginx reverse proxy and letsencrypt companion containers. The latter claims to automatically update certs though I haven’t had it running long enough to test it. Unless you’re set on using Caddy, it’s a pretty straightforward option.

Instructions here: https://hub.docker.com/r/jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-compan...
My opinion: not sure if he was guilty,but in the criminal case at least, the accuser (the state) failed to maintain integrity which casted doubt on the evidence they presented(the gloves thing for example) and if they were acting in good faith. There seems to be reasonable doubt of his guilt.

Social politics aside, it is better for a criminal to go unpunished than for an innocent person to be punished wrongfully. If only everyone accused of a crime was given similar luxury of presumption of innocence, the media circus made a joke out of the process. It shouldn't have been televised.

This is why it is important for police and prosecutors to have integrity and good reputation, else it will be difficult to catch or punish criminals.
Very interesting. I have heard that from some people as well. Any tips on how to get started in *nix/FreeBSD/Mac ecosystem? Last I tried was in mono. Any tips appreciated.
3/9 was the last day I commuted to work and last day I was on the subway. I remember I went into work late and left early to avoid crowds.

That was also the day my company changed our policy from "if you want to work from home, talk to your boss to see if that is appropriate" to "if you can work from home, you must work from home".

My boss and most of my co-workers were already working from home since the previous week (my boss had announced he was OK w anyone working from home), and I only went in on the 9th because I had agreed to meet w someone in the office.

Hard to believe that was 20 days ago...
> The US is actually surpassing us in testing at this point and some of our most populous provinces have multiple day backlogs in their testing.

The US testing numbers are largely due to NY and WA. Per capita the US is still behind most countries. States like MI that are turning into a hot spot are way behind on testing. Florida, our 3rd most populous state with 21 million residents, has tested only 40k people.

https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/12440163161276620...
So what happened to Louvel? From article it seems he was tortured to verify his testimony? Never confessed, I am guessing executed later?
No Taiwan?

They had the most proactive response in the world.
This post is extremely V8-centric. For example it uses terminology like “deopts” which means nothing in JavaScriptCore (we distinguish between exits, invalidations, jettisons, and recompiles). The post also assumes that there is only one JIT (JSC has multiple).

And that’s where you’ve lost me. Not sure how you expose anything about how the JIT is operating without introducing a compat shitshow since JIT means different things in different implementations.

If you really want to know that something gets compiled with the types you want, use a statically typed and ahead of time compiled language.

If you have to use a JIT but you find that it doesn’t do what you like then remember that it’s meant to be stochastic. The VM is just trying to win in the average. Which functions get compiled and with what type information can vary from run to run.

Probably the best thing that could happen is that developer tools tell you more about what the JIT is doing. But even that’s hard.

There are some specifics that I disagree with:

- I don’t think all JIT architects for JS claim that the perf is about competing with C for numerical code. I don’t explain it that way. I would say: JITs are about doing the best job you can do under the circumstances. They can make JS run 4x faster than an interpreter if things really go well. “Between Python and Java” is a good way to put it and that’s exactly what I would expect. So if that’s your experience then great! The JIT worked as expected.

- It’s usually foolish to want your code compiled sooner. Compilation delay is about establishing confidence in profiling. I’m pretty sure we’d JIT much sooner if it wasn’t for the fact that it would make the EV of our speculation go negative.

TL;DR. the JIT can’t unfuck up JavaScript.
It's important for the president to communicate the message that lockdowns are bad and they're trying to get people out of their homes as soon as possible. I don't think anyone believes the president is actually going to pack churches on Easter if there's still a large outbreak at the time, but that'll be 4 weeks after the national stay at home initiative started, so it's pretty in line with the durations other countries have set.
Eight inch disks aren't any more floppy than 5¼" disks.

Source: The three eight inch disks on my desk right now.
Hey, thank you for listening to security researchers and fixing a problem when you became aware. I know this is not so much a problem, but rather a business decision, but the product would be much more useable if it was possible to connect without the app without having to use some tricks. There have been many conferences that took much longer than expected to start because not everyone had Zoom
So iirc LAH doesn't have (or has very few of?) conduits that the town itself owns. The part that'll likely happen first is a "dig once" installation of the Utility tunnels that are publicly owned. Gary Kremen (of match.com fame, who's on the water district as well) has been fighting hard for this, and I'd encourage you to reach out to him.

There's an utility undergrounding effort over near the Foothill college fire station area that'll hopefully be the pilot project for this.

What I wasn't aware of until recently was how spotty the broadband coverage is in the town. There are areas with 100mbps, and others with barely any coverage at all from what I've heard. The situation really isn't pretty.

I think the $1k-$3k cost is if you have an existing backbone(?) endpoint near your residence. If you happen to not be close to an existing one, the costs will be much higher. I think the group has some ideas for some short term workarounds.
Crypto to the rescue! I predict, Deepfakes won't cause as much issues as people think.
I don't really understand this either. As someone who's in Seattle, it seemed like BC lagged 2-3 days behind every action taken in Washington (e.g. closing schools).

I keep seeing Canadians say their response was magnitudes better but I don't see why.
It depends on a lot of factors. I’m a typescript Dev and I’m really enjoying working in Kotlin. I certainly enjoy how expressive it is compared to Go, and I picked it up in a couple of days in an existing codebase, so it’s much easier than Rust. I think you can’t undersell how good the JetBrains IDE makes the programming experience with code completion, auto-imports, corrections, or how great it is that Kotlin interfaces with Java seamlessly.
To learn for what goal? For education, for enterprise, for speed?

To which my shortlist is Haskell, C#, and Rust.
Got some good stats and good website nice
This article has a number of issues. JS with JIT is waaay faster than Python. Not “between python and java” as purported. Second, generalizing jits as “un-ergonomic” seems silly given that what’s being specifically looked at is benchmarking. But what makes this claim ridiculous is that nothing is easy to benchmark. Even native code is hard to profile and this is literally my day job. If the JIT makes your code that much faster, this strikes me as a pretty suspect complaint
I think you posted twice ?
And yet, tens of millions will suck down propaganda from one cable news TV channel and integrate it unquestioned into their worldview. (All while claiming they don't).
yeah he did but looks like different things
Well if you consider all the entropy in the universe, our particular microstate is an indescribably rare coincidence...

It's a matter of probability. Each if the following, individually, you'll agree, is rather probably correct:

1. Genes control brain structure
2. Brain structure controls predisposition toward cognitive macrostates (we classify them as pathologies)
3. Macrostates like BPD, ADHD, and Autism are proxies for specific behavioral tendencies
4. Genes are heritable

Why this has taken so long to discern is the noise from 30-70% environmental influence. Point being there's far more than correlation here, there's a direct known mechanism.
> clinicians will likely get much closer to someone

> patients are much more likely to have an infection

Most of the spread is from people that are asymptomatic.

You don't know who has the virus or not.

So if the argument here is that doctors and nurses are at higher risk, and need more protection, then my counter argument is that you don't know what the risk is simply because people can be asymptomatic.

Secondly, masks a very effective at preventing already sick people from spreading the disease. Given the vast majority cases are asymptomatic and the infected don't even know they are sick, if everyone had masks it would dramatically reduce spread from the asymptomatic.

Even an improperly worn mask is better than no mask.

It's not about achieving 100% perfect protection, it's about some protection.

Even if somebody pulled down their mask to sneeze, if everyone else had masks on then it won't be as big of a deal.
Canada has a massive backlog of testing, similar to the US. The current number of cases doesn't reflect reality.[1]

[1]https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/03/27/ontario-has-m...
International travel is already effectively disabled around the world, this ban is just preventing a few stragglers from going.
The idea is to bank the surplus during the fat years. But no politician was ever re-elected for having a budget surplus.
You're not wrong, but a near miss can seem a lot like "crying wolf" to an ignorant populace.
In my whole life, I've never heard of a significant author who complained about one of their books being in a library, or about library patrons as 'thieves'.

IA has deals with countless libraries, and since the libraries are closed, and the online schools are open, I very much doubt that IA will keep up with the temporary loss of the libraries or the needs of schools.

"Public support for this emergency measure has come from over 100 individuals, libraries and universities across the world"
Nothing at all obsolete about fax machines.

A relative of mine tried to sign up for unemployment online yesterday. Her state requires additional documentation. The only method offered by the state was by fax.

I had to sign up for an e-fax account to help her send her paperwork in. Hopefully it worked!
Even if a mask doesn't protect a person sneezing into your face from transmitting the virus to you, that hardly means that it is 100% ineffective otherwise... and hospitals wouldn't be clamoring for them if they were ineffective (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-would-...).

With just a bit of common sense you can reason that masks absolutely do help prevent the spread of the virus:

1. A strong mask culture in dense areas means that even sick people will be incentivized to wear masks, which is known to be effective in limiting transmission. Studies on airplanes have shown that a sick person wearing a mask can stop the transmission on a plane. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23968983/)

2. The mask prevents you from touching your mouth with your hands, and reminds you to not touch your face.

3. Many people in Japan wear masks to prevent stuff from their own mouths going into other peoples' faces, and not for the commonly assumed selfish reasons for wearing one that Americans keep focusing on.

4. The effectiveness of masks is not binary. Recommendations against using masks probably come because

a) people are probably doing other things that are already higher risk than not wearing a mask and

b) there is a shortage of masks.

Some more tidbits cited from the study:
Less efficient face masks (e.g., surgical or medical) also decrease exposure to aerosols of droplet nuclei to a lesser (8–12 fold) degree than N95 masks (36), and they provide protection against larger droplets. We did not determine the type of mask worn by the passengers; presumably, individually acquired masks represented a mixture of N95 and other less efficient masks.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23968983/)
To add fuel to the fire, you could have mentioned the initial response from the executive branch: "It's basically like the flu."

Over two weeks ago I was correcting people who are otherwise intelligent but "executive branch supporters" to use a potential euphemism, to get their elder parents outside of the city.

One of these friends has someone close to them in the ICU on a respirator as I write this. Are they any less supporters of the executive branch? I think you already know the (depressing) answer.
Please search Google salaries on papers regarding executive compensation. The pay they are receiving is usually economically sound and integral for the whole system working.

It's very hard defend the argument "CEO pay represents a huge surplus".

How much value does that CEO being by his skills/decisions? Why would he be hired with the salary he receives (that he does not get to decide) if he didn't create more value than what he costs? It's just like any other employee, except a more competitive space and where decisions have larger profit effects.
Java is still the largest and most in use server side language at 39%. It is followed by C# at 32%.

After that, you have Go at 9%, Kotlin (also a JVM Lang) at 6.6% and Scala (also a JVM Lang) at 4%.

Finally, you get Elixir and Clojure both at 1.5%

Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

So yes, I think learning Java and the JVM ecosystem is a good investment, considering Java dominates, and if you tally up JVM langs you get something like 51% of professional developers using a JVM based language for work.
Australia's Covid-19 telehealth program
I think that by “between python and java” they meant “faster than python and slower than java”. I think Java still beats JS unless you get lucky.

You’re totally right that benchmarking and profiling is hard even for native code. I think this post fetishizes whether or not a piece of code got JITed a little too much. Maybe the author had a bad time with microbenchmarks. There’s this anti pattern in the JS world to extract a small code sample into a loop and see how fast it goes - something that C perf hackers usually know not to do. That tactic proves especially misleading in a JIT since JITs salivate at the sight of loops.
The post is likely V8-centric because it's discussing server-side JavaScript. As far as I know, pretty much everyone uses V8 for server-side JS because that's what Node is based on. And compatibility seems to be much less of an issue there as well, at least if all the "dropped support for Node version X" changelogs I read are any indication.

Not to say server-side JavaScript is necessarily a good idea. But if people are determined to make it work, I could see these sorts of changes happening that wouldn't make sense in a web browser.
I’m trying to get classics in different languages from different cultures as well - if you have something in mind do let me know. We can tip the scales a bit by making the western books a minority.
Assuming one agrees to the terms of this debt, and who is "ourselves", and is willing to wait on congress to resolve any discrepancies.
That's Japan's current policy for American travelers - they're upgrading it to a ban.