skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m also just like you. So much so that what you just described speaks volumes to me. I’m going to read the book you just recommended. Thank you!
Firefox 74.0.1 released with fixes for critical security vulnerabilities
I think you can name any public issue where criticism is more warranted than it is for the current health crisis. The response of every country was pretty random. I don't see any failure to be honest. Some governments took different bets, but I don't see any specific problem.
I suggest having a repository where people can contribute to the algorithm (with a requirement being to back up any proposed modification with a scientific source).

Also interesting that you put the non-covid risk as well, really brings things into perspective. In my age bracket I have a 0.18% of dying in the next 12 months, but only 0.017% from covid.
Working to supply Remdesivir for COVID-19
> VS Code is a perfect example of how Electron can enable development of a performant, cross-platform IDE.

VS Code is unable to scroll text without dropping frames on my MBP 2013. Meanwhile even Xcode is (graphically) smooth as butter.
There is https://apibakery.com on the basic end of the scale
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1289-01 HAProxy out of bounds write vulnerability
It's all about intent, not about how you did something or what.

>you just join a meeting that someone posted openly on reddit, inviting others to troll?

If you joined the meeting with the full knowledge and intention of trolling yes, that falls under statute. What that other person did doesn't really matter in your prosecution, he might be prosecuted as an accessory to your crime, but his actions don't provide you enough defensive cover.

What you're stating is like a gun murderer saying "I only pulled a lever, which billions of people do every day".

If someone posted a deep URL to a hospital oxygen system inviting reddit to troll, and you go there with the knowledge and intention to troll, and press the off switch and kill a bunch of people, you're going to be prosecuted for their deaths. "I just clicked a button lol" isn't a good defense and will probably just make the judge and jury think even worse of you. Same with typing /../, you're trying to access hidden and potentially protected sensitive information. It's like trying the handles of the cars parked on the road.
Distributed System Complexity (Pt 1): Engineering Abstraction
Money transfer systems in developing countries are fascinating. Hawala[1] is one notable example – a remarkably fast, efficient and cost-effective system based on interpersonal relationships and trust.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
I don't understand your reasoning for why you think better basic education would increase demand for more informative news sources. Could you explain more?
Handmade Hero: Twitter and Visual Studio Rant
Agreed, my neurologist can't even confidently tell me blood work absolutely required for my condition will be covered, much less the price.

It took years to find that almost every facility nearby does the tests he orders for no copay at all. But Beth-Israel doesn't see a problem with charging literally over a hundred dollars after insurance for a blood draw.

I guess a very big and very evil problem for another time, but our health care system is a house of cards.
Three questions:

What is the cost of the leverage and how does that affect returns

What is the friction cost of all the trades needed?

Where is part 2?
Why are you sending the data (including medical conditions) to Facebook?

https://www.facebook.com/v6.0/plugins/like.php?action=like&a...
That's fine. They want people who appreciate Eclipse during these early stages, and young people who haven't used Eclipse before don't have preconceived notions.
Zoom concedes custom encryption is substandard as Citizen Lab pokes holes in it
As someone who has been cursing Apple’s abominably obnoxious attitude in this regard for the last few days, this would be music to my ears.

I think it’s never going to happen. It’s the complete antithesis of everything that Apple stands for as a company.
Pathway logic: modeling biological entities and processes
Young Adults, Burdened with Debt, Are Now Facing an Economic Crisis
> not sure what you’re so upset about

In mid-January or so, the R0 and early CFR values for this thing were publicly available. Authorities such as the WHO and the CDC, and their lackey journalists in the media (both left and right, Vice and Fox) were beating the It's Just The Flu, Bro drum for a full month and a half since then.

Meanwhile, anonymous tweeps with anime avatars were digging into the numbers and disseminating the real news. It's one of those situations where you don't even need expert opinion, just a cursory understanding of what the numbers mean and the ability to write a 30 line monte carlo simulation in python.

So yes, being angry that the experts and journalists were actively trying to get people killed while an army of people with 73 followers and Yu-Gi-Oh avatars were the real heroes is fully justified.

It's so cartoonishly comical that Hanlon's Razor doesn't really apply. Malice is quite evident in this case, and it would be nice to see every JTFB type held to account when this is all over.
Modern devs prefer that to be a feature their language (JS), not their IDE.
Quake Champions introduce Clan Arena game mode couple of days ago.

https://quake.bethesda.net/en/news/6Crf7hYCPNNC4hJa9DlUE4

video - https://youtu.be/kfcoMgETDaI?t=354
And then have to parse and translate that to a workable value in their program...precisely (part of) the problem the article is pointing out
Russian telco hijacks internet traffic for Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and others
Yes. Lots of studies linked in https://medium.com/better-humans/whats-the-evidence-on-face-....

Turns out stopping droplets helps slow the spread of a virus that spreads via droplets. Shocker, I know.
We live in a world where some people have immense power. We, as in engineers and scientists are the enablers.
I've come across this tactic, I think there may be some psychological studies backing up the suggestion.

There is an opposite suggestion that may work too: telling others you're planning on _releasing_ an app at some date (setting a public deadline). This way you may feel pressure (to avoid the pain of 'losing face') to complete it on time.

Note, do not talk about "I'm working on this thing" (see comment above why that may backfire), but instead talk about an explicit deadline you think you can hit.

Needless to say, this is best when talking with people you expect to interact with in the future (so you feel responsible to finish), it may not help psychologically when talking to someone you'll never see.
People don't understand that one project can have more than one product.
Code is the ultimate form of data compression. 1080p is an inefficient way to display four lines of LaTeX on a screen for fifteen seconds. Javascript to decode LaTex only has to be downloaded once and sent to cache. Your talking head can be in the corner. The InfoQ aesthetic is small live video, big slides, and good audio.

To put it another way, hosting your own video is a mathematical problem. Other than good audio tools, you probably have everything you need to make something excellent. Get good audio tools. Please.
Yup. It is apparently well known among medical practitioners here.
Arguably, the plugin and resolver "resolve" domains under the top-level domain idk. However, the primary service provided is not DNS (which is not offered at all via the plugin), but HTTP redirection. DNS, on the other hand, serves a variety of applications, not just HTTP clients.
Awesome thanks for the book recommendation, just picked it up.

For me, this has been the defining struggle of my adult life. I've only just become truly aware of it though but when I think back to stuff like when I was a kid playing MMORPGs I would utterly struggle to make a character to level 10 before re-rolling for something more appealing.

Now it is almost a pathological issue I have where I just can't seem to choose something that interests me because honestly, everything is just as equally interesting. Painting, guitar, cooking, lifting, game development, ios development, etc. Its like paralysis by analysis to the nth degree. It's easy to say "just try some things and stick with what you enjoy" but eventually the going gets (slightly) tough and i just wimp out and quit. Except for lifting...for whatever reason I've been obsessed with that for almost a decade now.
I think you need to ask yourself why you feel like you can't complete something. When I hear you say this yourself, I feel like you may struggle with too many good ideas or a lack of discipline to see them through.

For me, my problem is I have too many ideas, and sometime the fun of a new idea outweighs finishing an existing idea. This is where I need to rely on my discipline to carry me through to completion.

Most of my projects don't ever go past 2-3 months, but the one that is now, well it's requiring my discipline so that I can finish it. That isn't to say I just work on that, I have days I do other things to give me a break as well.
Docker servers targeted by new Kinsing malware campaign
> “If you are no longer interested in a project you started, maybe you already got what you came for”.

I also realized this at some point but as a compromise I now take the time to write some text to document some conclusions.

This helps with two things:

It feels more finished, which is important for my mental hygiene.

And when I do come back to something at a later point I can re-assess quickly what the circumstances and the value was, which can be very practical, especially if it was just some small exploratory thing.
That's the way free market works. If masks were more expensive, it would make sense to invest and produce more of them. Instead governments and institutions all over the World are trying to keep prices low and the only result they get is shortage of masks (and similar equipment).
In college I took a course called Anatomy for Dance seeking to help my martial arts practice. The course covered muscular and skeletal anatomy as well as the basics of stretching and strength training. Other than myself everyone in the class was a dance major (and I think that all of them were specifically ballet majors but I'm not certain).

Two things that I recall:

Some of the girls already had arthritis.

Some of the girls expressed concern that if they developed the muscles that support dance (if I remember correctly it was specifically the hamstrings that were being discussed) it might result in a figure that was considered negative for a ballerina.
So the more important question is: did adding software improve things (enough to be worth the “cost”)?

With cars, there are certainly many things where it did improve things: satnav, reverse camera, traction control etc, but also some where it made a perfectly working system worse (ie the “fixed” something that wasn’t broken): touchscreen dashboards.
> Eclipse has been around forever, and is going nowhere.

That's true of everything, right up until the day it's gone. I heard the same thing about Borland. And Perl, Fortran, 1-2-3, Netware, Lycos, Blackberry, ... The history of computers is littered with brands which were once impossibly dominant, and now just a footnote.
Maybe Internet access do need to be made into a basic human right after all.

See https://phys.org/news/2019-11-free-internet-access-basic-hum... for another example why.
Question to the author (mathdev?): does this calculator take into account: 1) the effect of viral load/dose on outcome/severity 2) current data on rates of asymptomatic carriers?
Nice to hear from people still enthusiastic about C :)

Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered Cairo, for some reason I thought it was only for SVG, maybe from it's use in Firefox. I will try it out once I get out of XCB territory.
Someone should make a map of all the COVID-19 maps that bored devs have made.
Americans want an internet bill of rights to protect their online data
There does not seem to be enough reliable data for the higher age brackets. That should happen if you have no pre-existing conditions - then the adjustment decreases the probabilities.
Sorry, maybe my understanding of "rip-off" is wrong (not native English speaker), I always seen it as a synonym to "theft" but that might be wrong.

I think what they want to focus on is not the editor itself but rather everything around it and where it's run. In typical startups, you try to focus on your core product, so reusing the editor from another project makes sense, as they don't mind the details about the editor itself.
That's exactly the spirit of Free and Open Source.

VS Code is welcome to backport anything they like
Yes that makes sense to an extent. The problem is that people were insisting on using MongoDB for problems better suited to a relational DB when it was faishionable, and now that decision lives on 6 years later.

Or I see a lot of CV's where people collect web frameworks - which essentially do the same thing. Yet whenever I inherit Django code, it seems to be done by someone with only the most basic knowledge of how to get things done.
Induced? If that's the case, so much for being personally responsible these days.
>And when I adjust for co-morbidities (presumably adding them)

It asks if you have any pre-existing health conditions. If you state no for this, presumably it means no co-morbidities, so your risk of death is lower than the average.
Chinese Woman Tells Truth About Current Situation in China
See the modals that display after clicking the question marks for details.
4x4=10=vnti, vnso=100=40x4
Janani Ravi's Machine Learning course on PluralSight[1]

It's using scikit-learn, which I've been meaning to pick-up for awhile. Other than that, learning how to use the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana) for some network-traffic analysis stuff I've been meaning to implement.

I think we'll all come out of this period a lot smarter :)

[1] https://pluralsight.com
"fork is hostile" is a myth perpetuated by little Napoleons who want to to control how users use their software.
That's an interesting hypothesis concluding with, if we can't allow untrained minds unlimited access to internet media without them breaking, we'll have to either limit access to internet mass media or limit what that media broadcasts.

Obviously, this is an unprecedented break with current internet and media freedom policies.
Build something that you need (like, scratch an itch).
"We call that maneuver the 'Edge'."
This is exactly one of the tips the book provides. Good validation of the book I guess.
Sure, and our structural engineering tools and processes no doubt similarly rule out many highly artistic and potentially safe architectural designs. Notice how this argument only seems compelling to programmers when applied to programming.

If you want to go beyond the safe norms, you would have to pay the cost of validating the safety of your design. The analog in programming might be theorem proving that your elegant design was still safe.
I don't log or store anything, except for what is logged by Google Analytics.

> If they were to end up dying of COVID-19 because they are induced to take more risks, do you think you will have exposed yourself to any legal liability?

If that were the case, publishing any actuarial tables should lead to legal liability (and it definitely doesn't, at least where I am from).
A Foundation Code Heuristic – If Not Now, When?
Musical representation of amino acid sequence & structure of COVID-19
In some ways it's smart. They wait and see what the market wanted and then present the most polished version of that. They do this in game design and in console design.

Other benefits would include: easier to develop for due to familiarity, better battery efficiency (as opposed to gamegear), and lower manufacturing costs as well.

Likely the know that the experience matter more than the hardware. Which is something the original mac got right too, as it wasn't very powerful either.
Self plugging a quick page I wrote to do exactly this some time ago: http://adamhwang.github.io/wikitranslator/
OAN: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video]
I keep a log for each project and write down the problem I'm trying to solve followed by the idea I think solves it. If I hit a roadblock, I write that down as the new problem. Now I have to solve that before I can pop the stack and get back to the original problem.

On and on and on. I might be building a CI/CD pipeline for a simple web extension cuz I've realized that manual deploys of it are boring and it's keeping me from updating the project. Once that's done I return to the original problem and geez it's annoying to work in this vanilla js project structure. Let me just set up a transpiler and organize the project...

I call it extreme yak shaving, cuz you do things you could never justify in a workplace, but it's my personal time and it's what works to keep me going on side projects.

Better yet by forcing yourself to write down why you're blocked you can self reflect on trends. I learned that when the dev experience gets too rough on a project, I abandon it. So now I'm happy to pause project features to build out dev exp. Very different than how I behave at work, where I guess the paycheck motivates me thru the tough times.
Second this also. Also enjoyed Will To Power as a kind of well of "things well said, which make you think, " even if they're not strictly correct.

Bertrand Russell wrote a lot of very accessible Western philosophy overview or survey books which I found orienting:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-western-philosoph...

and

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_ber...

the former is online here:

http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western...

About this one he said :(paraphrasing from memory now), "A big book is a big evil. You may ask why then the author proposes to lay before you the present work..."

He's a hoot.
really cool project. But I still wanna find a way to sync with icloud. I need to pay for more space, so I can backup my iPhone, but now is most consisting of empty space, since isa pain to sync from linux.
I totally have the same issue. Now that I know this pattern about myself, I pause before doing anything because I know that the n-th state is me stopping the project. But I’m learning to push through and just engage in projects, because the paralysis is way worse for me than the doing and stopping.
That struggle is real. I've got a ridiculous amount of half-finished MVPs that I simply got bored of. It often makes me feel like an absolute failure, especially when I've told others about something I'm working on. When they ask "Hey, how is that project X you were working on 3 months ago going?" I'll have to think about it because it was probably 3 projects ago.

But I think you're spot on. From each of these projects I've gained something, and once I've hit that point the drive has gone away.

While I often feel like a failure with all of my "failed projects", in my day job people are often blown away by how I seem to know a lot about everything. The truth is it's because I end up trying most things in some fashion with one of these many projects.
Oh look, another submission of a tweet. Probably won't be able to read the tweet in the future when it gets deleted, no real context or other information in the tweet.

It would literally be more useful if you just screenshot it and posted that, as at least it would last longer, not to mention add detail.
Chloroquine COVID19 trial has been discontinued in Sweden due to severe side effect, most notably seizure and vision problems in patients.

Original article:
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/carl-40-fick-kramp-och-syn-...

I expect this will appear in international media soon, if it's true. Note that I don't speak Swedish and I used an online translating tool to read the article.
I resigned myself to writing ideas and keeping side projects small but sharing my ideas anyway. Every thing is harder than it looks.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3
I've been dividing my life into different parts - fitness, technology, wisdom, food and love.

Fitness, I cannot hit the gym anymore so at home I'm doing body weight training goals. Current goal is 1k squats a day(done), 1k burpees day(70/day right now, It's 1 week in so progress is very fast right now), and a bodyweight program my gym is offering.

For tech, I'm learning machine learning applied to a environmental program I'm trying to build which I'm passionate about.

Wisdom, this is subjective but I'm going back into old philosophy books. Just finished some work by Stoics and will read the plague by Albert Camus.

food, Every other day I'm trying to learn how to cook something new. I tried baking which is awesome, today I will try to make a chilli on a pot(never did that before).

Love, this is the hardest but also the easiest in theory. I'm trying to connect to the things that I love but because life got busy, I didn't connect to as much. This included just having conversations with friends, training my dog, loving how my body can do complex movements(squats/burpees), the beauty of technology, or just observing nature.
That's called double shot injection molding. The cheaper Nokia Lumia phones use it to great effect. A bunch of products also use clear plastic with the inside surface painted to get a similar depth effect (think Apple Magic Mouse).
> If by this you mean that you are wondering how often bugs in Haskell programs make it to production, the answer seems to be "at about the same rate as bugs in C or Java, as far as we can tell".

I think this is worded deceptively. Bug counts are about the same when measured as bugs per line of code. A line of code in Haskell can do quite a bit more than a line of code in C or Java. I think that's a meaningful difference.
Ways to make money while in quarantine..2020
This is a typical capitalist strategy for displacing blame and therefore responsibility: the supply side says they're just putting out what there's a demand for, and blames the demand for their own actions. The truth is, marketing creates demand, and people can't consume content if you don't create it.

Ultimately, I'm not looking to blame the supply side, either: certainly there's some blame for the demand side too. In fact, I don't believe blame is a productive thing to do in this situation or most situations. But I am trying to change it from the supply side, because when you try to create change from the demand side, you run into more issues with affecting free choice which makes this and many other problems more intractable.

I also think you're wrong about why the Enquirer et al exist: some people take these as just humor and get their information elsewhere, and others want to be informed, but due to bugs in the human brain, think that sources like the Enquirer are good sources of information. Neither of these are "people not wanting to be informed".
Why isn't there any ballets that just don't use pointe?

The kind of people who wouldn't notice if ballet dancers stopped doing pointe aren't the kind of people who fund ballet companies' new works of choreography.

They're probably quite happy seeing Swan Lake or The Nutcracker or Romeo and Juliet - iconic, traditional works. Nothing wrong with that, of course! But a ballet watcher will almost certainly recognise pointe well before they encounter a work less than 30 years old.
Cellular Automata with Vim Macros
because handling a promise using .then/.catch creates a new block? verbosity isn’t an issue as much as being too terse, especially with macros
This sounds like artillery shell production in WW1.
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I don't find the latest Intellij any faster. I currently have the latest of both installed.