skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Yes I do. It can't happen fast enough. Sorry, not sorry, if your business model depends on selling the personal data of unsuspecting users and this makes you go under. If you are up front that this data exchange occurs and the user accepts, then that's fine. Hiding it in lawyer speak in an comprehensible EULA/TOS does not count as being up front about anything.
Yes, this is what I hear from people on the ground in Japan. But, if this is the case, where are the overwhelmed hospitals? Where's the surge of respiratory-related deaths. This coronavirus has been in Japan much longer than most places, and the government efforts to suppress it have been minimal. So where is the impact we expect to see from this virus, like we have seen in Italy and Iran? It doesn't add up.
It's really not related to Tor, or how Tor works at all ...

However you could use it with Tor in just the same way - your Tor-networked device should be talking on only specific network ports and any other "chatter" should be considered a leak ... so you would configure the "slug" to only allow the Tor-generated traffic on the expected ports.

I do not use Tor and don't have specific ports/protocols information on it ...
Wonder if the physical hdd part itself is identical to the SATA models, and swapping over the control board from a (eg dead) SATA one of same capacity (& platters) would work?
Every single news outlet is showing _the same_ hospital, and the same empty trailer. Notice also what an eye trained for bullshit sees in the video: rows of ventilators that aren't even plugged in, "easy" patients with oxygen cannulas and face masks ("hard" ones would be intubated, sedated, lying prone, and they would be immobilized), empty beds here and there. All the while the narrative is "we're piling up the bodies over here". 13 deaths for a large hospital _do not_ require a mobile crematorium or a trailer refrigerator. At best, you're seeing selection bias. At worst, you're being deliberately lied to, to drive clicks
Well, if it's a security concern, perhaps the code author should check the response code rather than blindly assuming it worked.
Some good answers in this thread but I can flesh this out more.

The distinction and purpose is clearer when you think about aggregating data, such as the various Corona virus trackers are doing. This is a modern example but the scenario applies as far back as humans have been recording data. (And will apply as far forward as well, because physics)

Right now every hospital or testing center is recording the tests they give and their results. Plus they record how many inpatients, how many ICU beds, how many ventilators, etc.

Each hospital has a (at least one) database where that data is recorded.

Separately various news orgs and political offices are keeping track of all of the counts for their region, etc. So some number of times a day they call each of the hospitals to get their counts. (Ok, they don't actually call, but you get the idea). And they aggregate those counts.

Depending on the time that the organizations call the hospitals, a given hospital will give them a different count. The count As Of a particular time.

So different aggregation organizations may all have slightly different counts throughout the day.

You in following the progression of the cases will have picked some particular source that you choose to give you a trustworthy count.

So- the hospital, in keeping Records- is a System of Record.

The news orgs as Sources of Trustworthy information for consumers are Sources of Truth.

The two seem synonomous at first blush- and colloquially when people treat them interchangeably they really at referring to Source of Truth- but on reflection it should make sense that they serve quite different purposes and have quite different requirements. And once you the distinction you see it everywhere. Hope that helps.
Judge Declares Some Pacer Fees Illegal but Does Not Go Far Enough (2018)
Welcome, Zoom employee. The 'privileged' condescension tact will not win friends and influence people. Have you tried meet.jit.si? It's secure and free, no account or download needed. Cheers.
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For sure, you nailed it. I just can't help but get pissed and check out after about 5-6 tweets.

However, nice people have pointed out this lovely site, https://threadreaderapp.com, so I will be using it in the future :)
I wouldn’t say it’s common, but I’ve seen GCP outages more often than AWS and Azure outages.
Oh, BS. My wife is a medical practice management exec, I I do some IT consulting in the space. There is absolutely no end of telemedicine solutions and have been forever (I implemented an early one in the mid-90s). There is absolutely no end of new and innovative health care startups. Those 'founders' you talked to are the problem, not the solution: people who want to bitch about being required to do the right thing, pretend they're doing an 'Atlas Shrugged' by not putting in any effort, rather than innovate around doing the right thing.
Often I see tests that spend a lot of time mocking internal components of the application. Such tests are verifying the implementation details instead of the functionality. They often need to be thrown out if you do some refactoring, even if that refactoring didn’t change the behavior of the program at all. The kind of text described in this article should work just fine in that case, achieving the desired goal of showing whether your refactor caused any behavior changes.

In my experience, tests like this actually aren’t hard to maintain. The test can print out a diff between the expected and actual result when there is a failure, so you can check if the new behavior is expected and easily copy-paste to update the test if desired.
This story has been repeated a lot but (I am pretty sure) doesn't make sense.

It's true that the difference between good health care and totally overloaded hospitals could be a factor of two or more in the CFR.

But the difference between hospitals overloaded by a factor of ten and hospitals overloaded by a factor of twenty isn't.

If this disease has hospitalization, critical care, and death rates as high as it appears to (these rates are really hard to measure in the middle of a fast growing epidemic with inadequate testing and lots of variable lags, but we have e.g. Diamond Princess and South Korea to extrapolate from) and it is allowed to infect almost everyone, "bending the curve" until hospital capacity is not utterly overwhelmed would take years and years. And require lockdown after lockdown after lockdown to keep the case count down.

If it's worth huge sacrifices to reduce R, it has to be to reduce it to less than 1, shrink the epidemic to a manageable size, and then implement a massive testing and tracing operation which in combination with hygeine (masks!) and less costly social distancing (and eventually vaccines) hold R below 1 forever. Asian countries appear to have succeeded with this approach, so there is reason to think it isn't impossible. But without that follow up, or without reaching R<1, lockdowns can only delay the inevitable and will save a negligible number of lives.
Yes, Blame China for the Virus
Excerpt:

"Five years ago, in a post called “Making Excuses for Fees on Electronic Public Records,” I described my attempts to persuade the federal Judiciary to stop charging for access to their web-based system, PACER (“Public Access to Court Electronic Records”). Nearly every search, page view, and PDF download from the system incurs a fee ranging from 10 cents to $3 (or, in some cases, much more). I chronicled the many excuses that the courts have provided for charging what amounts to $150 million in fees every year for something that should—by all reasonable accounts—not cost much to provide."

Related Paper:

"The Price of Ignorance: The Constitutional Cost of Fees for Access to Electronic Public Court Records"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3026779

Excerpt:

"This paper examines the public’s interest in free electronic access to federal court records and considers the relative strength of legal and policy arguments to the contrary. Part I performs an accounting of the true costs of a free-access regime. Part II details the benefits of free electronic access to federal court records.

Part III argues that, in the tradition of Richmond Newspapers, free access to electronic court records is a constitutionally necessary element of the structure of our modern Judiciary."
A combination of factors, actually. To start with, I cut one of my fingers and had to have surgery for it, which made me lose a month in classes while I recuperated. Secondly, there were a couple of subjects that I found myself to be "too dumb for", like programming.

I for the love of God, cannot understand how to program, or at the same speed necessary to do it effectively. Also I have problems with concentration and studying. At the same time, it seems like programming is the future. Everything is one way or another related to this, and me being not very good at it completely destroys my self-confidence.

Lastly, I felt like I couldn't be around work w/ electricity. I would live a life of daily constant thought of "I made this mistake and bam, I could be dead".

There are many more factors, but those are the main ones. Thanks for asking.
If they did, what's that matter? Google started with a tag line of "Don't be evil". 9 out of 10 doctors used to say smoking was good for your health. Choosy moms choose JIF (not GIF).
I'm not sure I can buy into citationsy. From its website, there's too much contradictory marketing hype:

> We don’t have to promise to keep your data safe — because we don’t collect it in the first place... Citationsy lives in the cloud and is accessible from anywhere... Your data is saved in the cloud and backed up every 10 minutes

> Nothing to install, update, or patch... Use our iPhone and Android apps to cite books on the go with our barcode scanner and add the Chrome or Firefox extensions to cite websites in 2 clicks.

Perhaps I missed the use case where you retain your data, or there's a version you can self host?
I don't understand. If you have a good understanding of the code you're writing, you won't put yourself into a position where globals cause problems unless you're being very stupid, and if you do, normal use of the program will detect those problems, right? Certainly bug reproduction steps and a debugger will figure out what's going on.

You mentioned unit tests, and these are another thing I don't fully understand. Obviously testing your code is important, and automated tests are good. My beef with unit testing comes with the requirement that all methods and functions have multiple tests each for success and failure conditions, and that results in test code which outweighs tested code by several times. When you discover that the architecture you've been putting together isn't going to work, which is something that happens approximately 100% of the time if you're doing anything real, you now have (say) 5,000 lines of code that needs rework, and 50,000 lines of test code that need to be thrown away and rewritten.

That is A LOT of effort to shove onto yourself to avoid a few global variables, to me. That's so much effort that many projects will just not make the change and ship software that they know is insufficient, and then they'll graft on whatever functionality can't be attained natively with the given architectural decisions rather than redesign.

The ability to paralyze yourself with the weight of unit test code seems like an extremely high price to pay to avoid some global variables.
Australian news outlet uses a log plot. It certainly has a benefit, as you can clearly compare different countries. Is your growth rate more like Italy's, or more like Japan's? We, in Australia, certainly need to do better.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-26/coronavirus-covid19-g...
McKinsey Covid-19: Briefing Note
For the user?
The book 'how to write smart notes' is a great writeup un that topic.

This post is quite good aswell:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettel...
And what agency will police that policy?
That was done entirely on purpose, to make validation simpler. It does make things harder for compilers that want to support irreducible control flow, but the workaround is a single "relooper" algorithm that doesn't really fundamentally change how those compilers work.

It is possible that in the future this will be relaxed (without giving up on the benefits for validation) via something like this: https://github.com/WebAssembly/funclets
A WSJ article re Africa's frightening unpreparedness for Covid-19
A simple, quick answer that I'm sure you heard is that global variables pollutes namespaces. The qualities of design choices are rarely apparent outside the real world.

A big problem with global is that it's often abused as a work around. Restricting access is an abstraction. The user isn't expected to alter this value, why should they be allowed to? What's more critical is the fact that the programmer might not realize what they wanted to be simply accessible is in fact static as well. So you now have a variable that's not only accessible, but state dependent. Now anyone using this variable has to be mindful of this.

Unless there is C code being called as well, in C++ you should rarely use global. It's much more manageable to have a game class object, where inside it, what used to be global could now just a private member that's global to that class.

You're team put in all that effort to remove global because it takes even more effort to get rid of all the trivial errors tied to the choice to begin with.

It all comes down to writing reusable code, objects that manage themselves. People shouldn't have to be cautious when reusing code. This doesnt only apply to other programmers but yourself 6 months down the line.
Do they then share the reference count, or can you get in trouble by going out of scope in the wrong order?
> 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.

Nothing is ruling out the possibility that little green men conspired with lizard people to create corvid-19 in a warehouse near Wuhan in order to setup China for the fall by publishing a paper 12 years before hand, in conjunction with the Illuminati, so that they can build landing strips for gay Martians. Now listen here Stuart, do you know what the queers are doing to the soil?

Sorry for the rant and the dead milkmen reference but seriously, you can suppose anything but want I want is verification. Where is your verification that it happened? Where is your proof? Oh, you have no proof? Fuck off then. Go along.
Apple doesn't have >90% market share for iOS app stores? Who is their competition? You can't run an Android app on iOS. There are no iOS apps on Amazon or Google Play. That makes it a separate market.
Thank you!

Everyone is hoarding flour and activated yeast around me. I'm SOL.
> You don't know which functions will touch the variable and when.

How do you not know? You have the source code. You can run it through a debugger. "grep" can find where that variable is used. Of course you know...
25 in the last 10 years. Must be nice. I buy that many each year. I often buy new drives that can't detect their own errors that ZFS finds. Because a faulty device by definition can't test itself.

SMART doesn't work anymore if it ever did. Manufacturer firmware blobs have a huge incentive to report a successful test no matter what. Also as someone else mentioned, there are plenty of used drives being resold as new in the market.

This industry has skated for way too long in my opinion. They benefit from a big reluctance on the part of people & companies to return faulty drives to protect sensitive company data.

I have seriously considered starting an ecommerce shop that sells only hard drives. But also does backblaze like tracking / reporting of individual drives, has a good return policy and degausses returned drives.

Speaking as a consumer I have zero interest in the current system, I want a system that lets me take the TCO of a drive/drive class into account before I make a purchasing decision.
Wow. 3-4 hours is little sleep indeed and I can definitely understand how that can be very detrimental to your health. Hope you are better now.

For me it isn't sleep per se, but rather my sleep schedule. Simply put, because during the last 3 years of my life I had classes during the evening, I not only tend to sleep later on, but it never seems like I have a regular schedule. One day I might go to sleep at 3 AM, the other day at 6 AM, etc..

Thanks for the advice, you are right when it comes down to everything else. I am facing the chicken and egg problem in regard to this, though, since it's a constant cycle of feeling like I'm not worth anything -> why even do exercise -> when I do exercise, I am going to fuck up again -> same cycle all over again. It's a self-destructive mindset.
I have an incurable medical condition. I've lived with a lot of restrictions for a long time.

I feel my life is a great deal fuller than it used to be. It's vastly better to not be miserably sick and in pain all the time. I have more energy for other things. I have a better quality of life.

That's why I am saying we need to emphasize what activities are possible. I'm not trying to keep people imprisoned in their own homes. I'm trying to tell you this doesn't have to be pure misery with no income, etc.

I'm sorry you are having a hard time adapting. It's been a hard road for me for a long time.

I just think this emphasis on "a return to normal" is misguided. I think we don't have to choose between having germ control and having a life.

I think we can have both. I feel I do.
Asking permission for eye tracking in a Magic Leap app is like asking permission to read screen touches in a mobile app...It's not an enhancement to the experience, it's fundamental to the platform - they need to do eye tracking to render AFAIK...
Or you could look at it another way. Perhaps there are many, many that would be successful if only you can get past the first obstacles. The success may be less due to it being a good idea and more to do with overcoming the obstacles. I often wonder how things would be viable businesses if you were good at grinding.
Great job for posting this. It usually takes McKinsey some time to cover an issue. They did this fast.
There is no "the guy", there are only people who understand statistics. If this coronavirus has a similar disease burden as the flu, more than a million people will die, even if we assume that everyone that needs care gets adequate care. Should the healthcare system become overwhelmed, people that need care won't get it, and even more people will die. Should this coronavirus have a higher disease burden than the flu, which the data shows is very possible, even more people will die.

I have never watched CNN in my life.
Most users of Zoom aren't choosing it–it is being chosen for them. Both of my children's schools (preschool and elementary) started using Zoom this week, so it is either use Zoom or they do not get to participate.
Repeating the quote: "experts warn that the COVID-19 shouldn't be .. compared to a bad case of the flu". Contrasting the victim counts literally implies the comparison this article warns against.
An Open Letter to Tisch Dean Allyson Green: Please Stop
Covid19 Daily Data Update
There's also Guardian Firewall, which is built (or atleast started by) a well known iOS jailbreaker

https://9to5mac.com/2019/08/05/guardian-firewall-vpn-ios-app...
"Bad executions of an idea" is very different than "a bad idea"
thank you for continuing PBS! we enjoy your programming and dedication to quality!
Being in a public area in a private business doesn't afford you that privacy. The trepassing charge would be possible if a security guard asked the person to leave.
We at NVIDIA are heavily invested in developing streamz. We’ve made streamz compatible with RAPIDS cuDF, which means streaming jobs in Python can be GPU-accelerated now.

Folks interested in GPU-streaming data using 100% native Python (no Spark setup needed is a big win) can look up the Anaconda package called custreamz, which is part of NVIDIA RAPIDS open-source GPU Data Science libraries.

Streaming feature-parity-wise, we’ve made Kafka integration robust, and added checkpointing to streamz which is a must-have feature for production streaming pipelines.

I’d be happy to answer any questions you guys may have, and would love to have more people use streamz and contribute if possible.

As for scaling for big data streaming, streamz works well with Dask, so GPU-accelerated streaming in distributed mode is on! :)
H-E-B is great for me as a texan, can't live without it. Also very active in public donations etc.
> When you discover that the architecture you've been putting together isn't going to work

One of the underappreciated benefits of unit tests is it quickly teaches you how to write good code. It turns out testable code is also code that tends to be well architected and doesn't need to be rewritten. Basically writing tests leads you to being a better programmer
https://eklitzke.org/uninterruptible-sleep

> If the process is in uninterruptible sleep then the process can’t be interrupted, which will cause the strace process itself to hang forever. Remarkably, it appears that the ptrace(2) system call is itself uninterruptible, which means that if this happens you may not be able to kill the strace process!

Everything about this is broken and makes no sense. The Night Watch is as relevant as ever. (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf)
Australian coronavirus diagnoses have stopped accelerating
This was great, thanks. You should check out TheDiplomat, WSJ and NYTimes about how China is winning the PR war in Italy, and changing its perception from the source of the crisis to its savior. Checking is taking advantage of the fact that Europe lacks solidarity and is not helping its own neighbors. So China has stepped it and is helping out countries like Italy, Serbia, Greece and Spain.
Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review
An ounce of prevention...
Using Notion for GTD and Roam for Zettelkasten
The author wrote in the article:

> Const correctness is a beautiful concept and quite unique to C++ (some other languages tried, but nothing). It serves as a contract between those who define the interface and those who use it.

To which I disagree. Rust also has the concept of const correctness because it is heavily inspired by C++. Moreover, Rust's constness behaves far better than C++. To be specific:

* In Rust, variables are immutable (const) by default, declared by "let". To make a variable mutable, you need to write "let mut", which takes more effort. By contrast, C/C++ variables are mutable by default, but made immutable by adding "const". So in Rust, the safer behavior takes less code.

* The Rust compiler checks for mutable variables that don't need to be mutable (e.g. never reassigned, never calling any mutable method), and gives you warning messages to nudge you to remove the unnecessary "mut". I don't recall C/C++ compilers offering this help.
This brings back so many good memories.

I remember when AIM was a hyper-popular thing with my generation (Millennial) in the early 2000s. The communities around buddy icons all passed around a pirated copy of Jasc Animation Shop to create buddy icons. So many great things were made with that piece of software. It just worked and was so easy to use that 10-year-olds could pick it up and go.