skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point. C is not C++, and it shouldn't get every feature under the sun.

But it's also not exactly -complete-. The standards committee makes changes every few years, including language additions.

I'm a fulltime C programmer, and I would _love_ to have both of the features I suggested - for the following reasons.

- defer: I could defer a free() statement after every malloc, guaranteeing that I won't miss one or forget about it. Lots of memory leaks and file-descriptor leaks could be easily avoided if C provided 'defer' as a language feature. GCC already offers something kind of similar with its __cleanup__ attribute, and a lot of programs rely on it. How much better would it be for the language to support it natively?

- constexpr: I am _so tired_ of writing really complex macros. Like say I want to populate a lookup table for a sine-wave (for fast use in a realtime system). Wouldn't it be nice if I could just populate my lookup table with a constexpr function? Then I wouldn't need really nasty macros, and I'd also be able to ensure that the calculations all happen at compile-time.
These arguments are often lost shen people believe in something blindly. Tomato grown in Spain and flown to England will end up costing our earth less than the smae tomato grown in England because of additional energy to keep it worm required.
I'm not disagreeing with you. However, at this point, some of the flu estimates are actually inferred/modeled by the CDC.

The flu is a well-enough study disease that they're able to, relatively accurately, model population statistics based on a sub-set of tested patients.
Reminds me of the protests against Justice Kavanaugh. Some (semi-professional) protest groups prepared generic protest posters, then filled in the nominee's name later.

https://abcstlouis.com/news/nation-world/four-examples-showi...
I got pegged to the wall by aws once on a hobby project. $1500 racked up in two months. Apparently I left a snapshot in some kind of instant restore state to the tune of $0.75/hr. I used the instance for 2 days, and then shut everything down. Or at least thought I did.

The account I did it on was tied to my "junk" email, so I didn't catch amazon banging on my door saying my payment info needed to be updated. Well until I did happen upon one of the emails. Nearly had a heart attack.

Talked to aws support and they full refunded me. Very very kind of them, but now I'm terrified to touch anything aws.
The HunterxHunter anime is (in my humble opinion) one of the finest stories ever told, right up there with Dostoevsky and Isaac Asimov.
My experience is it’s struggling students who seek out mentoring. That may be because their holding down a job while in school, have kids, or dug them selves a hole by spending to much time playing video games / at parties etc.

Around 70% of students who graduate high school are going to collage. That’s a huge swath of people who are dealing with a huge range of issues.
I honestly don't even understand what your angle is. I saw elsewhere that you're effectively a COVID-denier, so I suppose this is just more of the same.

As to its spread, wherever it was found it was treated as a highly contagious pathogen and extraordinary efforts were exerted. Toronto basically shut down when a cell appeared here. And it worked -- the spread was stopped.

If you seriously think that SARS just naturally petered out, you are both a lost cause and seriously ignorant.
Completely worthless story. No evidence whatsoever is given or referenced. It's equivalent to a facebook rumor.
Striking a balance between consuming and producing. Creative endeavors are lifelong skills that add ease and finesse to other domains of life. Get them thinking about how to make stuff.
I don't mean to be impolite and I am a BSD fan but you are just trolling here.

Lock free path lookups are not a hack. It is a pretty amazing feat IMO. And the fact that it is done for all filesystems transparently in the VFS layer ... You couldn't do that on the Windows NT kernel for example (a microkernel design), because every filesystem driver has to figure out its own path logic there. Linux isn't known for good design all the time but it is a good design.
I’m doing a Master’s with the University of London. I can recommend it though as with anything else you get out what you put in. I’ve found my course, Finance (Economic Policy[1]) interesting and reasonably rigorous.

[1] https://www.cefims.ac.uk/programmes/economic-policy/masters/
Merkle Trees: What They Are and the Problems They Solve
Yes. "test proven or clinically diagnosed corona infection". Clinically diagnosed means that they had symptoms that COULD be COVID-19. But unless they are tested it's not definitive evidence of anything, and further puts into question the treatment. Many of the symptoms are just like the common flu. I understand people jumping, and hoping that this is some cure. Likely if anything it helps treat the secondary illnesses caused by COVID-19, and perhaps helps improve recovery in that way.
There are many issues:

- young people have student loans.

- old people put all their retirement into their house - expecting it to increase in value.

- People will be crushed with medical debt (up to 20k) if they get coronavirus and have no insurance.

- The same people have no income because of quarantines.

- The rent is so high for almost every city if you aren't working you can't afford to live there.

If you do the math it seems like there will be a housing crisis when old people start to unload their expensive homes and realize quickly there are no buyers.

It'll probably be a couple months, but when it happens it's gonna be bad for homeowners. Probably better for society and young people though.
On Psychology and the Love of Learning
Earlier in this thread it's stipulated that the bottleneck is not the number of ventilators but the trained people to operate them. As such, training more operators is an obvious solution, and allowing the new operators to be substandard will mean we can get more operators faster.

This pretty much dissolves your only real objection, that we'd be keeping a ventilator occupied that would otherwise be in use. Nope. The solution to a deficit of ventilators is producing more - not letting people die without them.

Generally, you are trying to invent reasons and restrictions to make trying to train ventilator-operators seem like a bad idea rather than understanding or advancing how the idea might be viable. An example of this is how you acknowledge that training other medical adjacent professionals (e.g. vetrenarians) would likely work. Great, you agree the idea could work. If you expect that our capacity will be overwhelmed then presumably you think we should training additional operators. Instead of reaching that conclusion you imagine reasons to object to the idea though.

A SWE would likely be worse than a vet after a bootcamp. That's a good reason to have some entry requirements to the bootcamp and those requirements could be relaxed or strengthened depending on where we expect demand to be in 30 days relative to supply. A SWE through a 30-day bootcamp would likely be better than nothing.

The other main constraint you've imagined is that they would need to save more people than they kill to be worthwhile. No, they'd need to save more people than would die without them. If it would be better to just struggle to breathe than have an amateur operator, that would be an argument against them.

Your credentials, whatever they are, haven't equipped you to clearly communicate your reasons for opposing this idea. As I mentioned, it seems like you actually support some version of it.
Exactly. That would be very helpful for the next pandemic.
Now I'm staring at my kitchen table visualizing a 100^3 pile of 1TB hard drives.
What Assets Should the Federal Reserve Buy? (2001) [pdf]
They also have a service where you can ship them a USB hard drive.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/
Uhh, no. You can even look at other parts of it and see:

> Card thus labors long and hard in Ender’s Game to create a situation where we are not allowed to judge any of his defined-as-good characters’ morality by their actions. The same destructive act that would condemn a bad person, when performed by a good person, does not implicate the actor, and in fact may be read as a sign of that person’s virtue.

"The same destructive act"? Notice again how the author apparently thinks fighting in self defense is the same 'act' as fighting because you want to hurt somebody.

Maybe next up they can argue that target shooting is the same as shooting a person in the face, because either way you're shooting a gun!

> even when his actions seem to belie that characterization.

This isn't just the author asserting how the characters see Ender, it's also clear that the author thinks that "[Ender's] actions belie that characterization". But that's only true if you view fighting back against bullies as not good, if you view self defense as unkind.

Thus, the author's argument is clear: self defense is not acceptable. They won't come out and say it explicitly, because that would make it obvious how dumb the argument is, but that is nevertheless what they're asserting. Instead, they argue it while pretending not to.

Are you sure you're reading the same article? Their argument of "context doesn't matter, only the bare literal act" is quite clear.
Usually a year. Just checked my policy from pacific life, it has a 1 year cliff (hah) for suicide.
In other words, it's not "outside" that is risky right now, it's "others".
Did anybody else just screenshot that Snack Attack image and start coloring it on their computer? Pretty fun...
Zen and The Art...is like a boomer bible.
HQ Trivia is back less than two months after the app was shut down
But that also means it will spread faster and peak higher, which creates a larger burden on hospitals.
I don't mind it not lookat at symlinks; how about an option to enable it
>OK, so I'm not Saudi, and perhaps I'm way off base here. But I find it hard to imagine that Saudis -- or at least Saudis who'd be traveling in the US -- wouldn't assume that their government is tracking and monitoring them.

Yes, "they should expect they will have their human rights violated on US soil and it's on them to buy a burner" is off base.

Anyone legally in the United States (including tourists) gets constitutional protections.

You can expect whatever you want but illegal spying on US soil by an authoritarian regime is absolutely a news story.

Every embassy is a spy outpost, but they usually leave people who aren't at least semi-public figures alone.

Then again, maybe everyone is abusing SS7 and KSA is just who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
The same reason why it's very hard to find high school programs online. Academically, many degrees you can study online and be as successful as the non-online students, as far as passing tests goes. But bachelor studies unlike masters is not viewed as a professional degree. Like high school it's an important phase in one's development - in all aspects, not just socially. And in the US at least it's also a pretty important money maker for many schools. You cannot charge $30K/year for an online degree.
Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid
Highly recommend "Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience" by James E. Tomayko

Had a newer version at my local library and got me interested in computer hardware in Middle School years.
Sorry, but what would be the use case for running code on a satellite?
For example, Guérin, C., Reignier, J., Richard, J.C., Beuret, P., Gacouin, A., Boulain, T., Mercier, E., Badet, M., Mercat, A., Baudin, O. and Clavel, M., 2013. Prone positioning in severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(23), pp.2159-2168.
The whole point is that genocide is such a horrible act that while all of the adults are pushing for it, none of them are willing to actually make the call. Ender was manipulated into committing genocide so that the adults could all tell themselves that it was someone else who did it.

And he never feels okay about it. He reaches a sense of peace with the overwhelming guilt, but only by giving his life entirely to that purpose.
It's possible. That's something that would have to be weighed against how bad we expect shortages to be and how much we expect amateur ventilator-operators to help.

Given that we likely have more spare doctor cycles now than we will in the future, we should utilize them now. We can also do things like hire doctors from countries not as badly stressed to come teach the classes.
What studies are those? Please list all peer-reviewed double-blind controlled studies on the efficacy of chloroquine+zinc sulfate+azithromycin on Covid-19.

I think you missed out that Zelenko's protocol is partially a result of the ideas presented in a paper "Chloroquine Is a Zinc Ionophore:"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/

In other words, one of Zelenko's ideas was

1)zinc stops the virus and

2) chloroquine allows zinc to much more easily enter the cell.

Previous studies AFAIK used chloroquine alone, not zinc sulfate + chloroquine+azithromycin.

You can read Zelenko's study years from now _if_ he submits for publication, _after_ the peer review process is completed and the drafts _checked_ for errors and the paper goes to a publisher and is _published_ on the Internet or is mailed to your local university which may or may not have the publication.
yes => The History of the Strongtalk Project

http://strongtalk.org/history.html
South Korea has tested more citizens than anywhere else on Earth. That's for a population of 50 million.

Are you sure they are "fuzzing" their numbers or a matter of confirmation bias here?
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. It's a biographical novel about Michelangelo. It made a profound statement to me when I was young that "an artist must leave a body of work" - it's not enough to just do one thing one time, but devote your life to being continuously creative and never be satisfied. I've tried to do that in everything I've done, whether as a programmer, musician, writer, or lately, artist.
Hi Pete. Thanks for mentioning Holotropic breathwork. I've never tried it but I want to dig deeper into the breathwork world since I have found success with the WHM. It sounds like you have been doing this for quite some time so I would imagine you have given WH Breathing a fair shake. It took me a solid 20 times or so before I got the effect I now get but it seems I am able to recreate it in most others on their first go lately.

I will check into Holotropic!
Better than the past ~6mo. I invest a % of my pay no matter the price.

No real answer to this though. You can get ETFs that go against major indices, you can get ones that track it, or many other types.
I feel you should be giving credit to Moebius for L’Incal as well! IMHO the prequels Jodo did with other artists suffered greatly for the lack of Gir’s delicately crystalline transcendence in both art and script, no matter how beautifully they were drawn.
Daniel J. Bernstein dissects and disputes epidemiology paper modeling
Crime and Punishment. So many others over here have already recommended Dostoevsky, but he deserves even more praise. Taught me the meaning of "sin" in the modern world. Taught me to find love in suffering.
I would expect ground stations that important to be on military bases, not random locations that a private company is scouting. No?
I've laid out a basic structure for my stance already so let me turn the question back to you: Do you feel that traditional market forces, with hoarding, panic buying, and price gouging at the same time health care providers run out of PPE, ventilators and other equipment... Do you feel the market forces are working in a way that best serves resolving this crisis and helping those in medical peril?
Are there other reasons why C19 patients would need ventilators? Or is ARDS the main reason?

Is that mortality rate consistent across different underlying causes?
Why would they create a pricing structure like that instead of ultimate total size?
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
by Dan Millman

It's _based_ on a true story (but added to it), but the concepts of living in the moment and philosophy for how to treat loss and our reaction to it has made both the movie and book one of my favorites.
I'm sorry, I still haven't seen your empirical research and relevant credentials.

So, to be clear, you can blindly assert that sending incompetent pseudo-medics to perform invasive procedures will be beneficial, and assert that claim with absolute certainty and zero evidence.

But when I explain that, no, medicine is more complicated than you think, and back that up with concrete examples of how that is factually accurate, it's purely imagined. What a quaint little world you must live in.
No one can tell you the right answer to this question and anyone who claims they can is just guessing. The market is supposed to reflect the expected future values of the companies, so in theory all the news you know and some you probably don’t is reflected in the price. Whether it has overshot or undershot that news is unknown.
Pareto Principle... If some young person is at a loss for a science fair project, I humble suggest to attempt to replicate this experiment: Grow some peas. Count the number of peas in a pod. Verify that 20% of the pods contain 80% of the peas.

In case you prefer the thought experiment version, consider that you have 100 peas. 80% of 100 is 80 (I like easy math). That means that 20% of the pods contain 80 peas. It means that 80% of the pods contain the other 20 peas. If we have 10 pods total, it means that 2 of the pods have 40 peas each and the other 8 have 2.5 peas each on average. I ain't never seen no pea pods with 40 peas in them, so it must be more pods. I think the most peas I can imagine in a pod are 10, so let's say that 8 pods have 10 peas each and 32 pods share the remaining 20 peas. Since you can't have less than 1 pea, that means that you have at least 12 pods empty even if the other 20 pods only have 1 pea each. If you have a more reasonable distribution, you will find that more than 40% of the pods will be completely empty.

I've grown peas a lot. I've never, ever seen a distribution of peas like that in pods. What strange peas was Pareto growing? Is it just that we have better strains of peas now, or was Pareto just making stuff up? (small voice: just like practically every application of the Pareto principle I've ever seen...) ;-)
Loved that book! The car salesman gave plausible description of sales techniques. I don't know how effective they are, but Chuck goes to great lengths to absorb little "professional" hacks in the real world to give life to his characters.
Does “all parts” include “...And Another Thing”?
"I assume he thinks it’s BS because there is no way someone driving away to a forest to take a walk is a higher risk of spread than someone walking within 1km from their home. So banning walks in nature can’t have much effect in itself."

Californian here. The problem with driving to a forest to take a walk is that everyone is doing it, and thus the forests get pretty crowded, so they've clamped down on that too.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...
Another thing someone pointed out is that we feed grains to cattle. If livestock started declining for reasons like these, there would be excess grain for humans.
Speaking of security and schemas, I just learned about a vulnerability having to do with Postgres's public schema (CVE-2018-1058). It's possible only if you have untrusted users who can create objects, like tables and functions --- which is rare. As an example, someone could make a function in the public schema called "lower" which does something different than the function by the same name in pg_catalog (which lowercases strings). When other users call

select lower(col) from table

they would be calling public.lower instead of pg_catalog.lower. This is just one example. They could do this for any commonly used function in pg_catalog.

The solution is one of:

drop schema public;
revoke create on schema public from public;
alter role all set search_path = "$user";

That last one you could do in postgresql.conf instead.

--- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-schemas.html#DDL...
All projects make trade-offs on values, and I'm happy to see what values the author would like to identify their project with. Unless the project is already done and in maintenance mode, yes, it's aspirational.
This seems complicated and would still fail if something happens to the host hardware itself right? What about projects like wal-e/wal-g that continuously archive to cloud storage?

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e

https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g
Ugh, USAA's 2-factor solution is such a pain in the butt. You can get a login token from their mobile app, but it's not very easy to find.

I really wish they would just support U2F or FIDO.
Amazing, check out "The star rover" by Jack London, you may like it
I like to think it's a mammoth-bone yurt. Kind of silly, but it actually fits all the data (that I know about.)
“ Let’s say you were a woman born in a thriving market town in Roman Britain in the year 360. If you survived to age 60, that market town would no longer exist, along with every other urban settlement of any significant size. You lived in a small village instead of a genuine town. You had grown up using money, but now you bartered—grain for metalwork, beer for pottery, hides for fodder. You no longer saw the once-ubiquitous Roman army or the battalions of officials who administered the Roman state. Increasing numbers of migrants from the North Sea coast of continental Europe—pagans who didn’t speak a word of Latin or the local British language, certainly not wage-earning servants of the Roman state—were already in the process of transforming lowland Britain into England. That 60-year-old woman had been born into a place as fundamentally Roman as anywhere in the Empire. She died in a place that was barely recognizable.” very striking.

Should we all speak communist chinese? I am afraid you all might, just like us forced to now. Good luck. You need it.
They probably don't like that very much either.
> Of course they can be capped, you just turn off the services.

That's not a he's cap, since turning off services isn't instant and costs continue to accrue. But, yes, there are ways to mitigate the risk of uncapped costs and they are subject to automation.
Also foundation series.
HP&TMOR is kind of terrible on many levels but it may have saved my life; I was mindlessly reading it in the depths of a long, gloomy Seattle winter when something it said about the way the Dementors work made me look up from my tablet and go find a garden shop, from which I got a two foot square sun lamp that kept the suicidal urges at bay for most of the rest of my winters in that grey, gloomy town.
A collection of pwn challenges from various CTFs
Do you mind sharing how you did the benchmarking? console.time, inspector?