skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you manage to integrate this directly into the compiler stack and have it work 100% of the time with no "ifs" or "buts" I don't think it'll work.

Maybe you could do like Rust with their "Epoch" system that lets you interoperate code using various standards in order to migrate progressively without breaking backward compatibility. I suspect that it would be a lot harder to make it work for C++ however, mainly due to its extreme reliance on #includes (especially for anything using templates) and more common use of macros.

I'm not saying it's impossible but I suspect that it would fragment the ecosystem quite a bit. Removing "old features" tends to have massive side effects in a language like C++ with metaprograming, overloading, multiple inheritance, unlimited macro usage and complex symbol resolution rules.

So I think "why not just use Rust/D/Zig/Nim/Crystal" is warranted feedback for these proposals (and you could probably add Go, C#, Java and a few others).
I'm not able to recreate the issue on my Macbook.
It's the same, 13-inch MBP, macOS 10.15.4

https://i.imgur.com/ApLtH3T.png
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It's a bit slow to start, intro ends around 5 minutes, but probably the best thing I've seen on COVID-19 so far.
To see this concept taken to its logical conclusion, check out Casey Muratori write C code with the editor configured to reformat on every keystroke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3JutszP9fg&t=11m37s

I'm not sure I'd ever go this far, but that might just be years of conditioning by editors that format code much more slowly than the fork of 4coder that he's using in the video.
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I don’t in my case because I’m not comfortable with the commercial information that gives Google.

One of the gestures I think Google could make in this fight is to allow people to opt into that data sharing on a strictly limited basis. I’d opt in if it was only going to be provided for the purposes of medical infection contact tracing while this pandemic is rife.
Key bits; almost ready; then Corona came:
"To date, the Company has successfully launched 74 satellites as part of its constellation, secured valuable global spectrum, begun development on a range of user terminals for a variety of customer markets, has half of its 44 ground stations completed or in development, and performed successful demonstrations of its system with broadband speeds in excess of 400 Mbps and latency of 32 ms."
I was just trying to get a response to how the Python transition mentioned was so (edit:) "catastrophic". I don't understand the need to bring fiction writers, fatal diseases or laden words like "mockery" or "abuse" to the debate.
When they say “produce 50000 tests” do they mean 50000 of these devices? How many are already deployed?
Well, that's your point, but I think everyone knows the tests are scarce.
As the saying goes, in times of emergency "we can either do this nicely, or else..."

Also: Trump and GM right now
I personally wouldn’t mind seeing the language go the “editions” route a la Rust.
> many Python projects have way more lines of code than equivalent C++ projects.

That is mathematically impossible. Even if the syntaxes were exactly the same (which they are not, python syntax is on average shorter), the low level nature of C++ requires your code to do operations that Python does need to do, such as memory management.

It's like stating the sky is red.
HN readers and contributors are intelligent and critical thinking people. They will not be swayed by big business controlled media in following whatever is deemed to be the most profitable position to take.

In general, HN avoids political news. But when the everybody's health is placed in jeopardy by entities who put profits before people, then it is in everybody's interest to share information that the plutocratic mainstream chose to suppress.
I haven't been around here that long, but i feel like hn may have started that way but at this point is more the modern version of /. [But not quite as "bad"]. Where we start is not where we end up.
An extension to replace Covid-19 tweets in your TL by random Wikipedia articles
In this case, the major version of the software was increased (ie. NetNewsWire 5.0).
> see how the recent Half-Life Alyx can trace its codebase back to Quake 1

Source?
74 out of 648 required for full service...

They're 10% complete... And they are launching on Soyuz, which isn't exactly cheap when they need to do another 16 launches...
Perhaps ironically, there's a good chance your cold is caused by a different coronavirus (there are several that are endemic in humans, and are one of the viruses that cause the "common cold")
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Is there a niche where they can survive? Iridium (IRDM) is still afloat, though with a lot more coverage and a solid niche.
Dyson developed and is producing ventilators to help treat Covid-19 patients
Wishes sometime turn into reality.

https://kennykerr.ca/2019/11/05/rust/

https://twitter.com/benwilliamson/status/1240113606374686721
Huh!?
Usually VPN to another more technically stable country should work.
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China isn't a person. If you want to narrow it down, let's talk about the CCP or Dear Leader
> If everyone is supposed to be isolating no matter what, what difference does it make if you have a covid test or not?

If we had widely available, quick, accurate testing then maybe we wouldn't need everyone to be isolating no matter what. Perhaps we still would need to for a few weeks, but not for months which would be a significant improvement.
I wonder how many "performance improvement plan", salary reduction, or layoff discussions are happening over chat, email, and video this week. I imagine this week's unemployment numbers will eclipse last week's record setting number.

I've had to lay people off in the past, but face-to-face. Which is, at best, a terrible experience for both parties. Can't imagine having to do it remotely.
You would have thought that Iridium would have been a cautionary tale. The first company went bk in 1999, losing $6 billion, and it could only make money when the buyer bought it for $35 million and didn't have to pay for the capital assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications
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Lying by omission is a well-used technique.

What this does is... sort of... lying by superfluous detail. Every bit is true, but the lay reader might well end up with the wrong impression. (Unless that the right impression — if reserving masks for health care workers is the optimal strategy. I have no idea how likely that may be.)
So, the author wants something between FORTRAN's Ratfor and F. I can see it as a supplement to the C++ standard but not being the actual standard. It would make people distrust C++ greatly if implemented as the standard.
> they are launching on Soyuz, which isn't exactly cheap

Exactly. Musk started making rockets when Russia wouldn't sell them on reasonable terms. The closer OneWeb got to finishing their constellation, the higher the bids would've been.
Sick of paywall content.
Sick of alarming news about corona.

Go pay a subscription to know how corona maybe perhaps can affect you.
Jitsi has this feature in beta too. It works pretty well, although it currently uses way too much CPU, and doesn't work quite as well as it does in MS Teams.
Sometimes i feel like its a bit polarized. On one side you have people being cynical about everything but then you get the opposite people who are supportive of everything and upset at the slightest cyncism. The tech industry is full of silly ideas. If someone says they made an app for taking pictures of unpopped popcorn kernels, i think its fair to ask "why would anyone want this?"
This article started[0] as result of related discussion on r/engineering[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open-Source_Venti...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/fq22qu/can_som...
Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic
Because C++ is not a single implementation language, rather driven by a standard with multiple implementations.

Such a solution is only possible if driven by the standard, otherwise it will never be fully available, just like the static analysis tooling varies by vendor.
Why not blame Facebook for being the most data hungry and privacy disrespecting for-profit entity ever known to man? (Google is tied for that spot, Microsoft close third)

It‘s a little bit like blaming the person making the deal with the devil. Of course on some level they deserve blame for engaging with evil but evil presenting itself in a slick interface should also get its fair share.
...unless light field stuff gets ready for the big time in which case lenses become obsolete
The onset of symptoms starts between 2 and 14 days after infection with 3 to 6 days being the average depending on the cohort. [1] Outliers exist, such as one patient that did not show symptoms for 27 days. It is unknown when a person becomes infectious, but so far data suggests that its days before symptoms appear for most patients and as many as two thirds may be completely asymptomatic.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba...
Have a script that builds the app and compares with the released binary.
You can have the build script inject the latest commit id as version number. (You dont commit the injected commit id, as that would create a new commit)

The build scrip clones the repo into a temp folder. Checks out specific commit/branch. Then runs make release (or equivalent )
It worked for location access on iOS, and that was just adding a flashing blue icon. Many apps stopped using the location all the time, and now there's a popup every few days telling you how often the app requested your location in the background.
It would be such a low hanging fruit to put a concise rationale there. That’s not spoon feeding, but giving a minimal amount of opinionated context so a visitor isn’t completely lost when unfamiliar with the technology.
IMHO react native makes the latter less complex (for those with JS experience only)
Ferrari have a historical place in the sport, and have oversized power. They are also a racing company that builds luxury sports road cars to fund their racing ambitions (every other car company is a road car company that uses F1 as marketing).

Yet, they have been shooting themselves in the foot for the last few years, even though on paper their cars were faster than Mercedes'.

It's not just about money, though money is the biggest factor. It's about having a good organization, good decision making, and good DRIVERS.
I am currently living in Korea and near a motor way. You can estimate the health of the economy by the sound emanating from the motor way.
It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.
> There are also people who think that ternary operators and switch statements are too clever.

This can be solved at a language level by making if-else and switch (aka match) expressions. I don't understand why more languages don't do this. It doesn't seem like it would too hard to implement, and C# 8 has shown that it can integrate well an existing C-like language.
I’m curious, how do you make the distinction that restrictions/patterns/context are not just as much perveived properties of the interface to the device you are programming?

Are you perhaps perceiving perception as just visual perception? (See what I did there? :)
That’s not how the contagiousness works. Most reports have average of 5 days from infection to symptoms, but many people are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. At least one study says viral shedding is close to peak the day before symptoms and the time course of shedding goes down over time. Saying you are probably not contagious just 5 days after infection is misinformation, especially since incubation can range from 2 to 14 days.
The political and human consequences of ignoring the FDA if something goes wrong are far, far greater.
The php example made me chuckle.
I wonder what happens with the satellites. Are they just expected to decay?
That's not how things are typically done (in fact, I'd be very surprised if it actually took place as described by your neighbor).

One of the ways to "rule out" COVID is to confirm it's something else. Someone with the symptoms you describe would, at the very least, get an EKG and some blood work to confirm it wasn't a heart attack.
I chanced on Julia's post, which happened to alert me to PaperWM. I had considered i3, StumpWM etc from time to time, but in the end always opted to stay with Gnome to avoid too much messing about.

I've only spent a day with PaperWM, but I'm impressed so far. You've done a great job with it.
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Reading the paper that this is responding to is helpful if you want to get a better understanding of the proposal and the motivation behind it: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p213...
Except Iridium recently launched an entire new generation of satellites to replace their old one, and it is expected to be profitable. Likewise, lots of people expect SpaceX to make a killing on Starlink.

There were good reasons to be skeptical of OneWeb, but "consumer satellite communication companies have gone bankrupt before" is not one of them.
Would SpaceX find value in their spectrum holdings?
Not only Iridium, but Globalstar and Orbcomm also went through bankruptcy before becoming successful businesses.
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I think the most likely candidate is Amazon's Project Kuiper who do not yet have the spectrum they need. OneWeb's spectrum will be very valuable to Amazon.
I thought this was going to be about NASCAR's winged COT phase, which truly WAS awful.

Interesting, quasi-related note: the read spoiler (not wing) in today's cars is so high at some tracks that they have to make the top few inches out of clear plexiglass so that the drivers can still see behind them with the rear view mirror.
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Only works if you scroll while hovering over the "content" part of the website in the center.
Danish researchers develop embarassingly simple Covid19 test
> Visual Studio Code manages to attract enough developer attention to get people to work on compatible language servers

Not to nitpick an otherwise good argument, but the whole point behind LSP and language servers are that they are completely editor-agnostic.

A language server which enables great functionality in VSCode should be able to provide the same for other editors too.
Your parent specifically talked about giving it a name in thte stack frame. And assigning an anonymous function to a constant/object and using it through that assignment will cause the stack trace to show a name.
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Ahh. Okay. My memory was off then. Sounds like mod_perl co-existed with NSAPI.
Surely its easier to tell us all what the advancements were than downvote me?

I am genuinely curious. [after all propagandists have prevented me from imagining, let alone knowing.]
This looks like a great project @sumeetk! Thanks for sharing it.

If you were to ask for extra help, what aspects of the platform (marketing to users, raising awareness of the platform to food vendors, additional developers / code reviewers, product managers, ...) would you be looking for at the moment?
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The main problem I see regarding masks is, besides price, distribution. Now that Chinese manufacturers are running again, they are producing 24/7. Sure prices are way higher than before. But the masks are there.

Problem is, Chinese suppliers sell FOB, meaning export cleared delivered to a (air)port terminal in China. Customers in Germany want to buy DDP (import cleared and delivered a specified location in Germany). There you have a structural problem. One that would be easy to overcome, if it wasn't product liability. The importer of record takes product liability in case the manufacturer is outside the EU. Good luck getting that insured (I tried). Ultimately, it will get sorted out.

The easiest way to get supplies going would be if the government did these two things:

- grant interest free loans for these products to allow importers to pay suppliers upfront (that's how this business works) for government orders

- take the product liability risk for products wutyh the proper (paper) certification

That would allow a lot of people to get this stuff. Rigjtt now it is a pain the ass.
I love the complete lack of bullshit in this article. Everything I read about this crisis seems to be full of hedging, massaging, unquestioned vagaries and coddling of sources. Here, it just straight to the point with a knowledgeable source.
Yes. Or things like oxygen.

There are so much more things than ventilators that are much easier to scale.
"I spoke with Daimler over the weekend. They would also like to help. But it’s unfortunately not so simple..."

It would be interesting to hear more precisely why. We've heard more than a few well-respected industrialists essentially saying "Scaling up ventilator production ? How hard could it be?"

Edit. Of course I am not suggesting that car assembly lines are suitable to build ventilator parts. That's clearly not what Daimler suggested either. The question is 'what are the actual bottlenecks to ventilator production?', and nobody seems to really be willing or able to say.
Those dates are in flux recently. As is the pattern in discoveries of our very ancient history... the story gets more complicated as we go.

The fallacy that, IMO, we are falling into is (ironically) caused by scientific reductionism... the simplest explanation is probably the correct one. This doesn't work as well for the evidence types paleoanthropology has to work with.
Elon Musk has indicated that he would be happy to launch OneWeb satellites. Obviously it's tough to give your competitor money, but at this stage the viability of SpaceX is not in doubt so OneWeb should go for the cheaper launches.

Perhaps one goal of this bankruptcy reorganization is to break their Soyuz contract.
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you mentioned zero incentive.

no incentive to fix =/= incentive to not fix
Still managed by the parent company, and not sold off.
Time to make some Spanish ham!
Hey is it working for you? After pasting netflix/youtube video link when I click on 'Create' nothing happens.
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They eventually re-enter the atmosphere and burn up, especially if they’re low orbit.
Home made masks are not as good as professional masks, but they have some efficiency (> 70%).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
If I'm following this mess correctly, that list of certified providers didn't actually exist when Spain placed the order which would make it rather hard for them to make use of it.
Are there any antibody tests yet? Is this an antibody test? Seems like a prerequisite if you want to get previously infected people back to work. Guessing there are a lot of people that had it, and didn't know. Senator Klobuchar seems like a good example. Her husband is hospitalized and she hasn't shown any symptoms.
Chinese experts (or at least one in an article I read due to it being on HN) say that the major mistake so far in the West is not wearing masks. Not that there currently are enough for everyone, but still...
This.

Per Hyrum's law, someone will rely on any given behavior. So, if you choose backwards compatibility, it becomes harder for the committee to evolve the language over time.

The path of breaking changes can be made less painful, and does not, necessarily, invalidate all the code that is already written.

With that being said, the problem right now is not the decision of keeping backwards compatibility or not, but the fact that the standard should be explicit about it, so people know what to expect.
Now you've made me want to dress up as an Airplane Detector for Halloween!
C# compiles to native code via MSIL.

C++ compiles to native code via LLVM bitcode.
Precisely what I was looking for in the article as well. Outside of logistic planning snafus, parts situation, and post production operator issues, it was silent as to why we can not scale up cranking out these machines.
Next line is "We can’t build cars either." It would be interesting to hear industrialists explain how car assembly lines make them able to produce any particular hi-tech equipment.

Or are you saying "why not just equip the buildings next door and quadruple everything"?
Reading the comments just above I was just thinking of commenting the same thing for Vancouver, which is why I don't see the big issue with a sighting. In Vancouver when I lived there, they were almost a daily thing even in very urban areas far from a larger forest, and frequently ate pets too. Skunks too. Skunks everywhere and quite brazen for all their fat, waddly slowness.
FYI: it's literally in the linked article from this HN post, maybe start reading that, not just the headline and then commenting...
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Even satellites built in 1967 were digital.

https://destevez.net/2020/03/decoding-les-5/
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Someone on reddit makes daily summaries for r/france and reports a lot of ~stupid issues blocking help.

- health laws forbidding veterinarians to help (animal standard != human standard)

- companies not allowed to help because some administrative formality

Many systems are not ready to switch gears fast in times of crisis.
I am fascinated by the notion of factories just changing what they make. In my imagination a factory is a highly specialized machine for making one thing alone...
Hey everyone, I wanted to do something to help during this crazy stressful time, so I built this simple little breathing web app.

There's science behind how it works... it runs at a rate of six breaths per minute, which was found in scientific studies to be the sweet spot to trigger a "relaxation response" in the brain and body.

Deep breathing has many positive benefits for mental and physical health, and has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce heart rate, relax muscles, decrease stress and anxiety, and increase energy levels.

One of the biggest benefits is reducing stress. Being stressed keeps your immune system from working at full capacity, which can make you more susceptible to numerous conditions.

I've had a simple version of this running on my computer for a couple of years now and use it pretty much every day. It's also useful as a meditation aid, to bring your focus back to the present moment, and to get yourself into the flow state.

Hope you find it useful too :)

P.S. Would love to hear any thoughts or suggestions. Next up I'm thinking dark mode, maybe personal stats etc. Also, this is a responsive web app so it can be added to your home screen to function as a native app.
That "stack grows upwards" conditional is a giveaway of ancient code. The only architecture I know still using that regularly is PA-RISC, and it's very rare for people to care about it today.
He gives an analogy in the next sentence that explains exactly why "We can't build cars either". Production lines are not general purpose.

There are also extremely high standards to be met for medical devices.
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