skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Amiga community is big, certainly much bigger than ZX Spectrum or Atari or Commodore 64 or pretty much any other retrocomputing community I'm aware of.

There is continuous development in both software and hardware. The Amiga demoscene is also very active (it never really slowed down) with productions that would be considered unreal in the past, and constantly upending each other.

Besides the golden age in the 90s, it's never been a better time to have classic Amigas as your hobby.
I’m a bit surprised they are letting people from China in at all. Wouldn’t a blanket ban like they are doing with the USA just be easier and more reliable to implement?
Even if BC lagged Washington by 2-3 days in Earth Time (so to speak), this likely translates into faster-than-Washington response with respect to where they were at on the virus incident growth curve.
Thing about disaster preparedness that needs to be mentioned over and over. When you do it right, everything looks very easy, like it wasn't a big problem. A good plan may look like you didn't do very much at all, whereas efforts when stuff goes bad because of bad plans can look like a lot of amazing impressive stuff getting done heroically.
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In most cities, if you own that regular apartment, you are a millionaire
Shutting things down six months ago would have had no beneficial effect. Closing national borders globally in January would have had an extremely beneficial effect, in that domestic economies could have proceeded normally while China eradicated the infection. At the current point, there's really nothing to balance. Every extra day you're open is an extra several days you'll need to remain closed, and an extra 1.2-1.4x lives lost. Closing later is strictly worse than closing now.
I would wager science attracts immoral people at more or less the same rate any other field. Look no futher than the reproducibility crisis.
NYTimes COVID-19 Dataset in Google BigQuery (unofficial)
Really cool hack and fun idea! Some ideas if your only goal is to get a speedometer. Firstly, ditch the pi and use something with much less power usage, such as an ESP32 or Arduino or STM32 whatever. The Pi uses a lot of power. Then use a GPS IC such as the Neo 6M[1], which is cheaper and less power usage than a USB GPS dongle.

The point of having a low-power SoC is that it can stay on while the car is powered off, taking a GPS sample every 10 minutes or so, so that when the car powers on it can very quickly get a lock. The Neo 6M also keeps a memory of the last location which helps it get a lock quickly.

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/ruchir1674/how-to-inter...
I'm going by what is known now, or else how would I ever be able to comment on anything?
Which is pretty much an emergent property of the first-past-the-post voting system.
I don't think there is a misunderstanding. In fact, your informative comment explains the crucial difference between what a legitimate, copyright-respecting library does and what the "Emergency Library" is doing. This is, in fact, why authors, who never complained about real libraries, are complaining about this.
It'll compile because although free(p) consumes p and p is undefined immediately afterwards, p then becomes defined again via the assignment and so the while loop always enters with a defined value for p.
Hey everyone, I used Github Actions + Google Cloud Build to load up NYTimes COVID-19 dataset to BigQuery; I hope someone finds this useful.

https://github.com/ceocoder/covid-19-data/blob/master/.githu...

https://github.com/ceocoder/covid-19-data/blob/master/cloudb...
> I have not suggested not to try, only to do things that actually work and are evidence based. Would you suggest wearing an amulet? They wear those in Asia too. They have a modern version in the shops in Japan, I forget its name but it's a little bag of something you wear round your neck that they claim prevents flu transmission.

Ironically, this is probably how we got into this mess in the first place, because some Chinese medicine cure prescribed eating wild bat meat.
Cuomo is what talking a big talk looks like. Leadership is SK, Taiwan, S'pore, and yes, even China. Solving problems is leadership. Posturing is something else, and it's what Cuomo's been doing.
My understanding is that new cases of the virus in the coastal cities of China are quite low, and that they have a heavy handed testing/monitoring system in place with personal accountability given to the party reps stationed in each residence complex.

Also, Japan-China will always have trade and geopolitical considerations, for better or for worse. Lots of Japanese companies have offices and manufacturing plants in China that they'd like to continue operating as well as they can.
Part of 3 Blue 1 Brown's excellent latest video simulates travel restrictions and suggests they're not very effective: https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs?t=777 . However, that was only for cutting travel between all communities by a factor of 4, rather than completely banning travel between two particular communities / countries.
A lot of bay area tech companies implemented work from home policies a week before that.
As someone who's been writing a lot of JavaScript, Go, and a handful of other languages for a while, I feel this. In Go, I can basically know what's going to happen when I write a function. This operation will read from the stack, these instructions will be run, and I can take a peek at the assembly if I'm not sure (though I've developed a pretty good feel for what Go will do without needing that). I can benchmark it and know that the performance I see on my machine will be the performance when I ship this bit of functionality into production, barring hardware differences.

In JavaScript, it's a black box. I know some constructs might deoptimize functions when run on Wednesdays because I read them on a blog published in 2018 that's _probably_ still accurate. In my benchmark running on Node 12.14.1 on Windows this seems to be true. But then who knows if it'll be the same thing in production, and it might 'silently' change later on.

JavaScript in V8 is incredibly fast these days, but I find it much easier to write optimal code in Go.
Interesting use of generative technologies
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Asparagus are pretty labor intense. Apparently last year NL markets forced the price down to half of what it costs to grow them while prices in the store stay the same.[1]

Say a kilo of asparagus costs 6 euro in the store and has about 16 spears.[2] Say field work in pays 12 euro, 32 spears or 2 kg. One employee harvests 30 kg per hour on average.[3]

2 kg worth of pay for the worker and 15 kg vanished into the market? 40 cents of the 6 euro goes to the field worker which is a lot!

I would love to pay 6.40 for my asparagus if they raise the pay to 24 euro.

I would also quit my job and go work there.

(In Spain the asparagus might be cheaper, have more spears in a kg, people earn 3 euro per hour and they might be less productive. It's hard to calculate from here)

[1] - https://www.1limburg.nl/prijs-asperges-dramatisch-laag-helft...

[2] - https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi99045/ah-asperges-wit

[3] - http://www.engelsmachines.nl/EN
They have children.
> It's important for the president to communicate the message that lockdowns are bad

Why? I think we can all figure out by ourselves that lockdowns aren't fun. The people losing their jobs don't need to be told that - they have better experience than anyone else.

Leadership means communicating difficult truths and convincing people to do the right thing even when it's unpleasant.
Now I understand your point, which is a reasonable one. The situation is that the economy in general is tanking, people are not going to bookstores, etc., so authors, who, as you point out, are not wealthy, have even less income now. In other words, it's a particularly cruel time for the "Emergency Library" to be taking money out of their pockets.
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If this happens Uber and Airbnb need to pay unemployment insurance for their non-employees.
it is notable that this work is done by an electrical engineer and a cardiologist, not epidemiologists. More than anything, the arm chair epidemiology is the our current second biggest danger. Epidemiology is hard. incredibly hard. It isn't viral marketing. It isn't electrical engineering. Data isn't pure or assumed to be correct. There data source was basically websites.
I see realtime data there, but not realtime turnstile data.
Call me tinfoil-hatted, but the ignorant populace is egged on by disaster capitalists, enabled by out-of-control campaign financing in the US. Catastrophe means profits, just look at the bailout package that just went through. Disaster preparedness needs to be overseen by actuaries, but we can't have that.
They’ve shut off zhejiang, which is the richest coastal province and the heavy weight of trade...not to mention it abuts shanghai. I’m guessing that travel between japan and China is effectively disabled along with the rest of the world, given that even if a Chinese wanted to visit japan, they are looking at a 2 week quarantine on the way back, perhaps also on the way there.
High end 3D mobile games. We regularly measured direct correlations between performance and revenue. Higher performance meant a larger install base of devices could run the app with better responsiveness and lower battery burn. Thus, higher retention and engagement. Thus higher monies.
I think its primarily the "limited" number produced, which created the market and brought resellers. There wasn't a huge secondary market when Jordan came out, they had to build a brand etc. Eventually there was more demand than the number of products and reselling became a bigger thing. Also I put limited in quotes because a lot of the bigger runs are huge world wide. The main profit that is left is extremely small runs or the smaller sizes (which themselves have smaller runs). But just like a Black Lotus MTG card is just a piece of paper with some ink on it, they aren't necessarily just shoes, they're "limited" shoes.
I’m fine with Uber drivers getting unemployment. Just make sure when this storm passes that we also retroactively collect unemployment back taxes. I don’t really care if it’s garnished from the workers or the companies, but somebody has to pay and they’ve got to pay going forward as well.
How does this compare to Apify?
Ah good point sorry about that.

You're right about 2 week quarantine when a traveler gets back to China. Also I believe inter-province travel is quite restricted right now adding to said difficulty of travel.
I disagree. A multi-party system exacerbates the problem I'm talking about (lack of long term thinking). If we get government that swings back and forth between multiple parties with vastly different visions for the country every cycle, that seems much worse than swings between two parties that are fairly aligned at their cores.
So if most authors don't make a whole lot anyway if copyright went away or was drastically limited but you received basic income and medical would you be better off or worse?
We need them - especially if we want to "restart" the economy or assess what's ahead of us.
The explanation behind the code is exactly the kind of thing that belongs in a comment. The why, not the what. So even if it wasn't a failure of programming, it was a failure of documentation.
just use the c libraries from rust?
Some countries have said they’ll re-evaluate around the middle of April. Generally in the sense of potentially easing very strict lockdowns of the ‘“don’t go outside your house except to the supermarket unless you’re essential personnel” variety. Nowhere else but the US is claiming that as an end date, as far as I know.
I believe qri.io is that.
They've been quarantining US arrivals for some time already.
It seems this person is not doing due diligence and some of this is factually incorrect. I’ve been seeing corrections but I don’t recommend trusting this.
Atlest they didn't close borders to their own citizens, that's what some countries have done, and I feel is a terrible thing to do, closing doors on one's own nationals.
I think there was an article the other day about people who supposedly predicted COVID-19 in books, etc. Pretty sure they included her and also pointed out all the other things she got way wrong. But that probably explains a lot of the clicks.
He is responding to the crisis in his state. He is:

1. Publicly acknowledging the factual state on the ground.
2. Explaining what his administration is doing to combat the crisis, including his asks from the Feds for his foreseeable needs.
3. Calling up retired healthcare workers to address a soon to be overtaxed medical situation.
4. Attempting to prevent panic as NY state and NYC are the U.S. epicenter of this emergency by calling in federal resources to address the apex of cases in his jurisdiction.

What counter examples can you cite as a better response to this issue?
I agree, anyone doing AirBnB full time isn't an employee, they're a landlord. They should receive relief commensurate to what (if any, not sure on the details) other landlords are receiving, not unemployment.
It’s just not what these machines are meant for clearly. The headline is catchy, but these are clearly not meant for processing huge volumes. That’s what a big lab is for. They can process huge amounts of samples in parallel.

These are for on the spot, emergency or very urgent, situations where particular patients care decisions will be determined by a rapid result.
The distinction is that each library needs to buy a copy - if not several copies - of the book. Patrons of libraries cause money to end up in the pockets of authors/publishers. If a library wants to make a book available to multiple patrons, it needs to buy multiple copies.

IA is suspending the check-out logic they'd previously been using on these scans, which breaks that connection. Now a thousand people stuck at home can read the same scans free online.

(My opinion here, without thinking very hard, is that what IA is doing is reasonable for out-of-print books or books not available in ebook form, especially textbooks and such, but probably less reasonable for recent books easy available as ebooks. It may still be fair use in both cases, though.)
What is an AirBNB host exactly? The person who owns or rents out the place? Serious question - if I list my extra bedroom on AirBNB, do I also get a bailout?

I fully support helping people in need, but are we just handing people checks?
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nah, the regulators will move in and save us from ourselves.
This. Javascript engines have to do stuff like https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics to assume many objects will have the same key names and types and create an optimized class layout, with some kind of expensive fallback if anyone ever randomly stores a key or value that violates the assumption. They can't even be sure you'll always be doing integer math (unless you resort to bit masking a la asm.js). Hinting (like __slots__ in Python) might have helped some.
Japanese people are also not taking this very seriously. People in Kyoto and Tokyo were out in large numbers last weekend, no social distancing measures visible.
Nope, because java is statically typed.
Didn't Google do that too a few years ago, and get away with it?
They're making a fair use claim through the duration of the national emergency. The blog post and the linked statement of support alludes to it a bit more clearly: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...
In order to effectively communicate difficult truths and convince people to do the right thing, you have to acknowledge their pain and present a plan for ending it. To just say "you have to lock down, too bad so sad" would be incredibly cruel and ineffective.
Just trying to understand: does your comment assume full power swinging between many parties? What about distributed power proportional to party representation?
> What counter examples can you cite as a better response to this issue?

The ones I cited in the comment you replied to. China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea.

Like, I honestly can't think how Cuomo could do worse without actively trying to. He is observing the situation and doing all the obvious things any right-thinking person would, if they were totally unable to make any predictions, had no expert advisers, and were limited to reacting to only a point in time snapshot of reality.

The only reason he doesn't look like the biggest disaster of governance in the history of the state is because both the guy above (Trump) and the guy below (De Blasio) are even more foolish. Anchoring effect at work, nothing more.

Results matter. And the results are that this state already has nearly twice as many cases per capita as Italy, which is a widely acknowledged catastrophe. And we're way behind them on implementing lockdown.
$40/month 1 Gig - SONIC in Bay area.
Keep.it.in.the.ground.
All of it!
I’ve always found demonizing one party to be a poor proxy for the real problems in politics.
That article was written during a booming stock market, too. CalPERS (the retirement fund in question) projects something like 7-8% stock returns to stay even nominally solvent.

If the market doesn't (pretty much fully) recover within the next six months, the entire CA pension system is going to be catastrophically insolvent.
TBH silicon valley broadband is way worse than the service I had in rural PA
Do you mind giving a tldw on what effective measures look like?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome
The blog post has a bit more information about what's going on: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...

These are scans that the Internet Archive already had that they had been making available through libraries on a check-out basis, which apparently is fine under fair use. Their claim now is, because of the national emergency, it's fair use to make these scans directly available to everyone.
The specific quote from the book:

"In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely."

I think it's complete bullshit, but also no surprise why it is so popular.
> No sane person builds in the 100-year floodplain!

Doesn’t that describe most of Florida and the Gulf Coast? In practice many, many people are willing to build on 50-year floodplains, and not in ways that leave a perfectly good house afterwards either. No houses on stilts or anything similar.
Using sudo in the exec() isn't really a problem, since any RCE an attacker would get will have the same privileges as the pihole service...they could just use sudo in their RCE if the user is in sudousers (assuming they could even use sudo on their bash session when establishing the reverse shell). In the case of the PoC here, sudo doesn't even come into play, they are stacking commands with && which would require another sudo call to elevate (which they don't do in the example).
ASP.NET Core has been running fine on Linux and Mac OS X for years now. I have been building backends in it for those same years using Linux mostly. The ecosystem is nice and stable (been run high traffic APIs in production for years which never have any issues) and code written years ago simply works without issues after updating libs/runtime to the latest version (Even from 2.1 to 3.1 we had barely any work). Unlike RoR or JS projects I maintain which break quite a lot on update.
Honest question - why?

Every other western country protects workers without some accounting detail. Why not us?
We need #masks4all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDwXwZXsDI

An actual data scientist looks at research he was able to dig up.
I had to look that up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm

Interesting.
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Authors Protest Internet Archive Pirating Their Books
It's not a "negative", it's a disadvantage. "Negative" has a specific meaning that should not be used in this context.

Safe Rust is also in the same boat: it has a lot of false positives that are rejected by the borrow checker even though they would be okay, and yet it's being used just fine. Think of doubly linked lists which are pretty much impossible to implement in safe Rust unless you replace pointers with integer IDs which basically disables borrow checking. Non-lexical lifetimes are an example of downright changing the definition of the language in order to remove some of these false positives.
They literally are in the article.
If anything, it's remarkable that US wasn't already banned together with Schengen countries last week.
The National Emergency Library Is a Gift to Readers Everywhere
Every national government I'm aware of has officially set a hard end date for their lockdown measures, even if they're unofficially pretty sure things will be extended. Even Italy and Spain.
The goal was never to "stop" Coronavirus. Just slow it down enough that it doesn't crush the medical system.
What do we mean by "software reuse"? I propose this definition: Software reuse happens whenever a given piece of code is called from more than one other code-location.

That means whenever a function has more than one caller we have reuse. Or when a web-service request is created from more than one code-location, we have reuse.

Is there an official definition for what "software reuse" means?
Both are too extreme.

Employees are huge liabilities for employers and contractors have zero safety net.
That is good insight regards US numbers. I hope an estimate can be made of US numbers from the number of US arrivals in other countries who turned out positive.
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> Probably the best thing that could happen is that developer tools tell you more about what the JIT is doing. But even that’s hard.

Why? You have the exact same problem when writing SQL code but there you have lots of powerful introspection tools to make it easier to control performance. You can also use indices and hints to nudge the RDBMS into executing queries in the most optimal way. PyPy for example has a lot of support for introspection.
Last commit to bliss seems to be April (and then a few automatic package update commits)

I would seriously consider dropping this dependency. React's performance is fairly acceptable.
It is not 'apparently legal'. Ars' writers did an investigation, including talking to some independent attorneys, and the summary is that what they're doing is on shaky ground and likely to be ruled illegal. They are simply banking on authors not suing.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/internet-archive...
This would be interesting to have in my old MG Midget. The center radio console is essentially wasted space, with a 4”x7” speaker grill that could be replaced with a nice monitor. Not sure if I need navigation in it but I’d love to instrument the heck out of the old car.
MIT E-Vent – MIT Emergency Ventilator
It’s a good point. Sebastopol CA is full of cute metal statues up and down the front yards of homes and entrances to businesses. A local artist makes them. It’s cute. You’d think we could do that with infrastructure too.
I recently started a new job and whenever I can I try to document the code I contribute with the "whys" instead of documenting self-explanatory parts. I've extended this to parts of the code that I now maintain but did not initially write as this helps me mentally map out the rationale.
Even without this, the archive.org has lots of interesting books to read, games to play[1], etc; but with all the quarantining and such, I suspect people will just use it far more often.

[1] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
This has to be one of the worst faith comments I've ever read on the internet.