skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially related, NPR aired an interview the other day with undocumented migrant workers (in the US) living very close together when traveling (sleeping sitting up together in a van) and having very limited access to water for bathing and hygiene when lodging at farms where they were working picking produce; it's likely this causes grave loss of life in the migrant community, and decimates produce farms economically this season.

Edit: This is not intended as a political comment, only an observation of a component of the pandemic macro.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/816644358/covid-19-threatens-...
I'm not saying they were referring to Columbus as the person who conquered Central America. I was amused by GP's insinuation that the Aztecs had somehow collapsed before Columbus.

> Maya, Toltec, and Aztec societies deforested Central America quite significantly before collapsing (and before Columbus).

On a second reading it seems that GP had most likely meant that they were deforesting before Columbus, not that they had collpased before Columbus, but it's still strange to refer to getting conquered as a "collapse".
Yeah if wfh was given a fair shake I think we'd see a lot more acceptance. But the end result of the current situation would not be so optimistic I think. I dont know if it's as good for wfh as people hope.
Because most people who don't advocate the POV are stopping at the zeroth order analysis, saying that you're a heartless killer if you want to consider any factors instead of just saving lives.
> Also, an economic depression reduces air pollution which would reduce deaths.

In the immediate term, sure. In the medium term an economic depression would weaken investment, research & development in new green technologies which would increase deaths as the effects of climate change worsen.
i think you’re overestimating the integrity of the average rank and file employee in san francisco.
I learned to love Photoshop and Illustrator after watching a lot of excellent training videos back in the day. I held it up against appallingly bad CAD software like a SolidWorks and Pro/Engineer. Adobe’s apps are utopia in comparison to the hot mess of parametric CAD.

Then I learned Blender and nothing comes close for speed and efficiency, except maybe Vim.
Moved 401k from stocks to bonds about two summers ago after doing some forecasting. Saw a high probability of a crash by this summer into the end of the year. Coronavirus was a catalyst that sped that up significantly.

Not entering the markets again until S&P hits and maintains its closing weekly/monthly values around $1800-$2100. If it breaks below, idk wtf to do.

Aside from that, just spending on essentials, cooking a lot, saving what I can to put into investments once markets calm down, and working on side projects that have the potential to generate side income.
> newlines terminate statements unless there is a semicolon, which does the same early

Since I'm writing a toy language with optional semicolons, I'm curious - how are you solving ambiguities in multi-line expressions? For example:

1
-1

Does your language not allow multi-line expressions, treating the above as two statements? Or, perhaps they must be explicitly an expression, like:

(1
-1)

I agree with you on another comment, that JavaScript's automatic semicolon insertion is complicated - so I'd like know if there's a sensible solution for languages without semicolons.
I find the language very beautiful. How come we don’t write like this anymore? Where does one learn to speak like that? We don’t see beautiful language on emails.
It has already been in JupyterLab for more than a year. You just need to attach a kernel console to your text file.
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Protection against volatility? Why not try USDC, DAI, etc?
Please show me where private run electric or gas utilities have unlimited usage for a flat fee.
This is true, but my approach was still not a great one. It turns out the data structure was only accessed in a very specific way, which I could have exploited to dramatically simplify the implementation. If I had researched the problem more before diving into my original idea, I could have achieved the same end goal with much less work.

Lessons upon lessons :)
Theres a reason even the language of scams - snake oil - has an origin in health panacea. Health and money have ways of getting people to believe things that they should be quite a bit more sceptical of.
I think it's plausible you would want to use Chapel for every program you write. I definitely want to use it for every program I write, but I'm also biased.

The main disincentive to doing so today is that Chapel is not nearly as broadly adopted or well-supported as the languages you probably do use in practice today. The Chapel team is trying to get it to that point, but it's a modest-sized team taking on large challenges (both technical and social, as this thread indicates). To date, we haven't made a significant effort to draw in a massive/mainstream audience because we know we're not ready for it yet, either in terms of the language's maturity or our ability to support a large group of users. But we hope and intend to get there.

That said, I think we're already achieving the aims in the slide you quote—far more than your easy answer suggests—though there's obviously room for differences of opinion (e.g., what does it really mean to be "as programmable as Python?"). If you're interested in pointers to supporting details, let me know.
I'd appreciate from the downvoters how I can improve.
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Hey, very amazing tool. It was one of the features I missed the most. Thanks a lot!
> Maybe the communication needs to focus on "no more food X in stores once average temperature in place Y goes above Z degrees"?

Lots of people suffering and dying due to famine is the normal state of affairs. China has suffered more than 100,000,000 deaths due to famine since the year 1800 [0]. That is a lot of deaths.

I'd put it that pre-industrial conditions are probably a greater risk factor for famine than post-industrial global warming. Indeed, I suggest running out of fossil fuels is a higher risk factor than global warming. With enough cheap energy we could switch to something like hydroponics and air conditioning for all in the next 100 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
I was curious to see how people pronounce/spell less common names, esp. those that are not of English origin (such as my name). "Behnam" has an "h" in there, which most English speakers don't pronounce. Also, the second syllable should be pronounced like "numb", not "nam". I've been trying to figure out how to convey these using the English phonology. I came up with a bunch of ideas like "Behnum", "Beh-Nam", etc. but those seem awkward.
It doesn’t appear that’s the case

https://www.amazon.com/GenUltimate-Blood-Glucose-Strips-Mete...
In the Netherlands the compensation for that is about €85,- a day. Not very helpful if you lose your job.
Doesn’t the Netherlands export the majority of Europe’s fresh food? As long as the supply chain doesn’t break down, I don’t see how it would be possible for Spain and Germany to run out of food.

Especially since they’re all in the EU, even if the Netherlands wanted to close off their borders, there’s no way they really could.
Sorry, I don't believe in a magical skyman as a first principal.
It is to be hoped that people everywhere will physically attack, with stones, air rifles/pistols, catapults, laser pointers, slings and anything else that comes to hand if and when such drones intrude; I assume here that for temperature, heart-rate and similar checks, the drone would necessarily be within range of hand-thrown or air-powered weapons.
Enough is enough.
I've listened to a number of Reply All Podcast stories and I must say, most of it, is really good stuff: I highly recommend it. Many of them seem to be like investigative journalism, but they do it on internet/social media related stuff.
According to Wikipedia, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir#Approval_status
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Where (physically) do you expect 500.000 (a small town example) people garden their own food? They'd need to travel outside town, garden, then get back (and all this while also commuting to work on a daily basis).

Also, the amount of tools every single person would need to buy.

"Decentralisation" is a goof idea, but not feasible in the real world, IMHO. And this is a small town example, leave alone a huge capital like Madrid or Barcelona.
I think it's meant to be a joke, poking fun at the "AI" that many systems claim to use these days.
It works when people are afraid. We do have a Negativity Bias [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias] that gets amplified under stress.

You have to understand what you are trying push back on before telling someone who is scared - deal with it. It never works. Fears will just increase.

How else do you think we end up with 20 year wars, wall st bailouts, the TSA, the NSA, drone strikes, metal detectors at schools etc etc?

Dealing with people who are worried or panicking requires more imagination.
Like we always do, by paying more than the amount on the bill using a (contactless) card or phone.

People in need are a bigger problem, they do not carry a payment terminal...
I believe this case was for cases happening "outside of the law". If you kill someone while exercising an (unjust as may be) law, you are ok, while if you're not than you can still get punished.

This seems similar to the case if Erich Priebke[0] and Herbert Kappler[1], nazi officials who were responsible for the execution of 335 italian civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack where 33 germans had been killed.

The people who were killed were unrelated to the attack, and there was a standing order to kill 10 italian for each german so this was "correct" in some sense. But the extra 5 (or 15, there is some discrepancy) were unlawful, and the germans were condemned for them after the war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Priebke
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kappler
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Neither did Intel :P

Come to think of it, neither do beginning game-designers. They think that players will play their game as intended.

I like that you're standing still at the malice part as it is becoming seemingly more important every day.
Surrounding farmland, greenhouses if necessary. Can't scale now, but this is the result of fragile ag supply chains. Lessons for the future. Not just ag, manufacturing capacity and black swan preparedness in general.

Fragile systems break more easily. Make sturdy systems humans rely on, even if more costly and less efficient.
For much of the same reasons, the postal service and Amazon should be public utilities too.
> we should study Lithuania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania
Tangentially related:

Yet another reason why illegal aliens must be expelled from the country and not allowed to return unless through legal means.

Of course Republicans love illegal labor because it's cheap and Democrats love it because they don't believe in borders anymore.

Thus the American people and the American worker must wage a two front war against two selfish and entrenched political classes.
Mentioned, yes, but often not learned. In many situations the only thing that matters is the constant factor. If the number of data items is relatively small, the difference between N log N and and N squared may be completely dominated by the constant factor. In addition, there is the challenge of maintaining the code later and making sure it's correct.
Nobody forced the farmers to become reliant on migrant workers though.

It was just a simple decision for them: cheap labor that's available today or expensive labor... They mostly went with cheap, and now they don't have anyone available.

Tough luck I guess, but it always was just a question of time until this happened.
This is a very naive take on the world. You'll need at the very least half an acre to feed yourself sustainably, and that's if you're highly optimized.

It's also backbreaking work, and you won't be able to do much else except subsistence farming.

In short, it's not practical for the vast majority of the population. The closest we can probably get to this model is instead CSA memberships, supporting farms right outside the dense urban areas which can leverage economies of scale to feed several hundred people.

I mean, sure, grow your spring onions, your herbs, and a tomato plant. It's nice. It keeps you connected to where food comes from. It's a yummy addition to your plate.

It won't feed you in an emergency, though.
So if I put something on Wikipedia it is true? Interesting. The company denies on March 27, I'll trust that source.
They do say they will cooperate with countries willing to use the drug, that's the positive thing I get from it.
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> Then this development means the beginning of the end of the pandemic.

The end of the pandemic, even with this, is still going to be a lot more complicated. Zooming out a bit:

The third scenario is that the world plays a protracted game of whack-a-mole with the virus, stamping out outbreaks here and there until a vaccine can be produced. This is the best option, but also the longest and most complicated.

It depends, for a start, on making a vaccine. If this were a flu pandemic, that would be easier. The world is experienced at making flu vaccines and does so every year. But there are no existing vaccines for coronaviruses—until now, these viruses seemed to cause diseases that were mild or rare—so researchers must start from scratch. The first steps have been impressively quick. Last Monday, a possible vaccine created by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health went into early clinical testing. That marks a 63-day gap between scientists sequencing the virus’s genes for the first time and doctors injecting a vaccine candidate into a person’s arm. “It’s overwhelmingly the world record,” Fauci said.

But it’s also the fastest step among many subsequent slow ones.

From https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-.... That's the optimistic case per Ed Yong.

You acknowledge you're looking at an optimistic scenario. I hope everything breaks as smoothly as you imagine.

Looking at the record of the US Federal response thus far, if anything like this level of optimism was warranted, we almost assuredly wouldn't be in the mess we are at the moment.
It seems that Facebook JS SDK also sends user behavior back to Facebook even when user doesn't click on the "Sign in with Facebook" button: https://simplelogin.io/blog/do-not-use-facebook-sdk/

On the Web, it's recommended to use a generic OAuth library instead of integrating Facebook JS SDK. On mobile, this is almost impossible though as Facebook doesn't implement the OAuth PKCE flow.
Undocumented migrants have for all effect become the modern day equivalent of slavery without the associated compasion.

Many happy to lambast such people and yet, be first to complain if their avocados go up in price or out of stock.

Hopefully, some level of amnisty and clean slate is driven here as currently without that, will only shoot themselves in the foot on many levels.

After all, many live day by day, kinda hard to carry on if that is removed from them and more so, kinda hard to isolate if they have no other choice.

That is sadly one area that politics needs to agree upon and deal with, otherwise the impact will be wide upon many fronts.
A drop in supply in food all at once could raise the price causing considerable issues.
It doesn't seem like they took "minimal" very far. It still has dual NICs, IPMI, and a bunch of expansion ports that most buyers won't need. It's hard for an OEM to make a minimal server because they have to market to the union of all feature requirements, whereas every customer only has a few.
I wonder... Has anyone here tried using gcc with the -fanalizer option? Did it find any bugs that you did not know about?
Reply All is one of my top 3 pods. I can't remember when I was underwhelmed.

Others:
Heavyweight. Stuff You Should Know. Radiolab. Criminal.
I'm curious: why can't you do tokenization in linear time? And why not use incremental tokenization for an editor?
I'm guessing they have little contact with other groups, so they're probably fine until the virus gets in there, and then it goes very bad very quickly.

Disclaimer: I don't have any relevant expertise, and comment on forums because I'm bored in virus lockdown...
Very clean UI. Love it. Keep it up.
A second coronavirus shockwave is hitting Chinese factories now
you can also use https://greasyfork.org/de/scripts/394032-github-deployments-... which adds a button for repository_dispatch event directly in your repository, no need to visit a 3party page.
This seems like a very verbose retread.

What I was saying is if you are currently using a named function:

function foo(bar) {
// …
}

you don’t lose the name by making it an arrow function:

const foo = bar => {
// …
};

and yes, you can name your callbacks and event handlers like this before passing them to functions. Introducing variables to name values (any values, not just functions) doesn’t really complicate code. Many times, it can be a readability improvement.
Rural internet is expensive because no PRIVATE company wants to put up a tower or run fiber for a couple dozen people.

A satellite covers a much wider area. We'll see how it plays out, but as a person living out here, I'm excited.
This is false, at least in Spain.

Farms are working normally except that they increased prices a bit. But that's normal due to the situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_(gardening)

In Britain and Germany, allotment gardening was promoted as a social measure and by all accounts it was successful.
As you allude to, that's an argument based on the basic biology and statistics, not based on Theranos. You could have made that argument pre-Theranos. That Theranos tried, failed, and the covered it up is not much new evidence. Lots of companies try and fail on hard problems all the time.

Given that the above test is some random marketing PDF and I haven't heard anyone respectable talk about this mechanism, I don't have much faith in it, so that is consistent with your analysis.
> " If we would rather vote based on 'abortion preventing our souls from partying with Jesus in heaven' instead of 'municipal broadband for all residents as a public utility', then we're going to continue to complain about this for another 50 years and beyond."

I really think this is not a useful simplification of the various policy positions of the major voting blocs in the US. I think there is a lot of nuance and if we start to reduce the arguments we risk making a caricature of some of the positions out there.
I wish I could get back the 3-4 min wasted on reading this
How the war on disease made our world
What stands out is how apologetic you are for pointing out that a language might be worse (gasp!) than another language. When did this "all languages are roughly equal, and if you say anything else you're a zealot" ideology get so widely entrenched in our industry?
How the Netherlands Feeds the World
It's certainly been a while since I last optimized for the original Pentium architecture. Still faintly remember U & V pipes, unexplained causes for stalls, etc.

As even nowadays, it would likely depend on the particular algorithm and data set. I'd be surprised if you can't do better than 4 cycles per char for sufficiently long strings. Most likely for short strings, REP SCASB wins due to setup costs. (Actually that article's skipto method would have of course used REP CMPSB, but that's just splitting hairs.)

Remember that even original Pentium could execute up to two instructions per clock. Unless you messed up with those damn U & V pipes. :-)

The hypothetical faster-than-rep solution would need to process data in 32-bit chunks, faux vector style.
Tools can be shared.

It's also amazing how little land is needed to grow enough food to live on. One person can be fed from around 9 square meters. In dense cities people may not have that much land, but in many areas, people do have that much land in their yards.
It's sad, but here in CA, most people don't have yards and there's nowhere to grow food. It's especially dumb because there's miles and miles of undeveloped land everywhere (at least in the east bay suberbs), not being used for anything in particular except maybe some farms with cows on it: I'm sure they're taking advantage of huge tax wholes because they're sitting on land that would cost 10s of millions of dollars in property taxes were it taxed at the same rate that people need to pay.

Also, there's no community compost which means people need to buy all of it at stores like home depot, making it expensive because they have to bag it and warehouse it, etc. The nearest compost I have to my house where I can get compost is nearly 35 miles away.
>The latest paradigm “Microservices” became popular in the mid 2010s.

Microservices isn't for re-usability. It's main benefit is better encapsulation, which should let you do independent resource management/deployments/failures.

>If we look at reusability, we notice that this is the tightest form of coupling possible: If the reused part is not available, the reusing part cannot complete its work by definition.

What? This is a weird nothing-burger of a sentence. Why can't multiple components re-use some resource without gracefully handling any failures? Why does re-usability mean "cascading failures by design"?

>An important property of reuse is that the reusing part ... does not work without the reused asset ... The reused functionality is an integral part of the solution that (re-)uses it.

Oh, I see: because the author has defined it this way. Then the article goes on to try to argue a semantic difference between "usability" and "re-usability", in that usable components can be re-used independently, but in a way that can gracefully fail! So the whole thing is just begging the question.

There's no argument here as to why I can't write a distributed component with an eye to it being re-used in the future. There is no criticism of re-use in distributed systems. The only criticism is of tight coupling, which is totally valid, and then saying that re-use demands tight coupling, which is not substantiated.
At least in the UK, the countryside has basically turned into a vacation and retirement area for wealthy Londoners. It's pretty much impossible for people to afford to live where the labour is needed on any sort of pay that would make farming actually viable, which restricts it to workers from lower cost-of-living countries that cram into cramped accommodation for the length of the season and then return home. Not sure about countries like Spain and Germany.
> Microsoft also said Friday it is still divesting its stake in the startup, and will stop making minority investments in companies that sell facial-recognition technology.

> The company based in Redmond, Washington, said that the audit underscored the challenges of being a minority investor in a company selling sensitive technology because it may not have enough oversight or control over how the technology is used.

Well done, Microsoft. A principled stand and one worth applauding.
I will say this once only -

If migrants are allowed in Europe unchecked as response to the Coronavirus crisis you can wave goodbye to liberal democracy forever.
on the same note: it would be nice if you could add buttons to a readme.md which trigger the actions, maybe via https://www.actionspanel.app/, but also the buttons then are in the repo?