skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my last job we wrote a front-end that ran the COBOL and streamed the presentation information to the client over a websocket. It allowed them to use 30+mil LOC of existing apps.

The resulting webapps were made automatically responsive for the web and could be run anywhere - desktop, tablets, phones and apps could open tabs that invoked other apps for multitasking. We also added some custom commands to the COBOL so that they could invoke web based graphs, reporting, printing, pdf generation, etc. The client supported native typeahead, so the web apps behaved very much like desktop apps whereby pressing a number of shortcuts simultaneously resulted in them being played in order and overcoming any latency. This made the apps completely superior to normal web apps for their application (i.e. POS, ERP systems).

The utility that COBOL provided, coupled with a modern web based runtime written in React, was remarkable. Truly a hybrid of both the best parts. When I left, they were working on wrapping the React webapp into a React Native app.
cybernetics links:

What is cybernetics?
https://vimeo.com/41776276

DESIGN FOR A SELF-REGENERATING ORGANIZATION
https://www.pangaro.com/ashby+design-for-self-regenerating-c...

NOTES 358 ON THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE IN REGENERATING ORGANIZATIONS
http://www.pangaro.com/littlegreybook-dom.pdf

Towards a theoretical foundation for agile development
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7302798

Viable system model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model

Conversation, Education, Constructivism and Cybernetics
https://people.well.com/user/elin/edhom.htm

Cybernetics in the 3rd Millennium — Vol. 9 No. 2 — Apr. 2011
https://people.well.com/user/abs/Cyb/archive/c3m_0902.html

2017 Cybernetics Conference - Internet Society
https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cybercon

How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design
http://www.dubberly.com/articles/cybernetics-and-countercult...

A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 1: Calculators and Cybernetics
https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-par...
You're bikeshedding now. Could Elon Musk hold his own in a conversation with any aerospace engineer? Absolutely. Could he hold his own in a conversation with a process engineer? Absolutely. The guy is super smart, reads voraciously, and has self taught himself many different disciplines. Its not a superpower by the way, you can too. We live in the information age. Study any subject well enough and you can hold your own, too.
Surgical mask, paper towel mask or cloth mask? Japanese tests which is best
> You would want something like an airgapped computer with on or off line dead drops possibly hidden with stenography.

Well, "the best is the enemy of the good". That's the whole point of risk management. As a practical matter, I do the best that I can manage, or at least, be bothered with ongoingly. If I were as paranoid as you're advocating, I'd be cowering in a bunker. Also, for me there's the fact that I have little left to lose.
By these numbers, we have tested less than 1% of the population of the United Statues.

That is barely a drop in the bucket.
There's also Radicle: https://radicle.xyz/
This is futile. The cat is out of the bag. There is no technological counter to AI + ubiquitous sensor networks.

There are AI systems out there that can identify you by gait. Possibly already in your phone, ostensibly to help detect if the phone is carried by someone else. Straightforward to connect to the 24/7 video surveillance network that is built all around us: ring, self-driving cars/drones that double as corporate spies, video checkout, etc.

Furthermore, radars are coming to your phone in the near future: https://atap.google.com/soli. There is no way to hide from such radars picking up everything that moves: your gait, your breath, your heartbeat. Oh, and the gait, breath and heartbeat of anyone near you, whether they agreed to the 500 pages EULA surrendering their privacy or not.
Well it is in most of the world. Compare the US to Canada, similar patient outcomes at double the cost.
OP here, good point. I posted this as it agreed with the Bergamo data where all-cause mortality was 3x the base line number and only 1x of that was attributed to Covid-19. NYC is shaping up to be similar unfortunately.
Random selection. It's like jury duty, but longer!
One of the problems that creates is only certain types of people can afford to go into politics. Improving the pay for staffers might go a long way to reduce some of the revolving door cycles that many people find so distasteful
Both Apple and Google have the exact location for all users for all time. Both can tell you right now, who you have been in contact with and how many folks they in turn have been in contact with.

They aren't building anything new, in fact, this is much less than they already have.
Regardless of the technical issues with this, I think the "prank" issue Moxie brings up is much more serious. We've already seen the phenomenon of "Zoom bombing", I can imagine "tracer bombing" would be a much more serious issue. The only way I could see this working is that if when you enter a positive result you have to enter some sort of secret key from the testing authority, but that's totally not tenable given a lot (most?) testing these days is from private providers.
This is why I believe patent laws (and copyright laws, but that's another story) are completely broken. Innovation is being stilfled because the world is addicted to profit, and not just profit, but easy profit. Gone are the days when making a superior product was the only way to get ahead, no. Companies want exclusive monopolies over anything and everything they create. An engineer just has to draw squiggle on a whiteboard and that becomes the IP of the company they work for. The patent system needs a complete overhaul.
It would probably be best if someone was available to answer these kinds of questions for the interviewee when their time period starts. Though I think it could also be interesting to have this be part of the assessment -- how does the candidate trade off between scope / quality when they are given a fixed time period?
> Oh, I don't know; I think I can see what he means. The change would give additional point to the major theme of mortals taking on the burden of looking after themselves - of deciding their own course among the wonders, terrors, and banalities of the ever-unfolding future, instead of any longer relying on gods, demigods, and immortals to do so.

But... the Jesus-Osiris myth!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_deity I thought that was the whole point?

Also, is that a theme of LotR? It's been a while since I read them but I thought the theme was pretty clearly just "stick it Sauron", no? Am I a philistine?

Thank you too, this has been a lot of fun.
I saw this web version[0] linked in the thread[1] about a markdown to mindmap conversion tool

[0] https://www.diagram.codes/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831015
Seeqc raises $5M to help make quantum computing commercially viable
The prime contractors are required to give out a certain amount of work to women/minority owned companies. There is a big number of these companies around DC. It’s one of the best ways to get into government contracting.
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Cybernetics is basically a quaint, archaic name for what we now call control theory. And control theory is basically everywhere these days. Though neural nets are probably way too lacking in robustness, explainability, etc. to be of real interest to control theory folks, or in control-related applications more generally. (Yes, I know they're being used for computer vision, but I don't think anyone is really satisfied with this state of things.)
Dormancy isn't really proper biology jargon, the correct term for what I referred to above is latency.

However, outside of the cell, neither of those terms mean anything.

A virus outside of a cell does nothing, period. It is essentially a USB flash drive with a computer virus in it. Saying a USB flash drive can "lie dormant in a drawer for days" is just silly.

> Heck, may find out that frozen good with contaminated packaging can put the viruses into dormant mode and when you take them out of the freezer, and temperature and humidity level kick it into life.

We won't though, because we thoroughly understand how these things function. There are things that function like that: bacteria.
It would be great if you could save them for extended periods of time so parents could pre-record stories for their kids
I understand that things are tough in NYC, but, sorry, this is a low-effort article with little value; all the recommendations in it are material that kids learn by around Grade 11 English. (Quite probably, today's teens are all over online resources like Grammarly, too).
Or a go-cart, scooter, rental car etc.
How does that work? Surely deliberately typing the wrong word takes more effort?
Future quantum computers may pose threat to today’s most-secure communications
Amateur radio operators turn to analog tech to communicate during pandemic
Yeah it's my favorite.
Even by the artificial timeline you provide, it's been 10 years since DNSSEC was rolled out in its current form in the root zone. That list of domains you've provided is almost the best you can do (you forgot Cloudflare).

Open source software support for DANE doesn't mean anything. Open source software supported the TLS Heartbeat Extension, too.
Don't these providers need to be registered somewhere? It should be easy to reach them and provide with either code generator software or even printed one-time codes for database addition.
403 error.
They will just get hired as 'consultants' at large companies after they are out of politics
Since it is happening on weekends, and pretty much everywhere a new person needs on-boarding. Does that mean your existing team needs to be also available over the weekend so it can answer any question the new candidate might have?
I think he means swap people out (because working for 48hr+ straight tends to lower job performance) and restock supplies like food/water
> Mainframes are not big Unix boxes.

Actually, these days, they can be:

> However, z/OS also supports 64-bit Java, C, C++, and UNIX (Single UNIX Specification) APIs and applications through UNIX System Services – The Open Group certifies z/OS as a compliant UNIX operating system – with UNIX/Linux-style hierarchical HFS and zFS file systems. As a result, z/OS hosts a broad range of commercial and open source software. z/OS can communicate directly via TCP/IP, including IPv6, and includes standard HTTP servers (one from Lotus, the other Apache-derived) along with other common services such as FTP, NFS, and CIFS/SMB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS#Major_characteristics
No. It takes more effort to clearly remember and apply all such distinctions.

These are the sorts of mistakes typically made by native speakers for whom they sound the same and inability to remember that they are spelled differently has zero bearing on spoken fluency. It's a different skill set and a different part of the brain.
Anyone remember the SNOBOL set of languages?
Not sure, of course, because testing is insufficient and the data is noisy. But it seems pretty clear that there are not a lot of dead bodies piling up. That would be all over social media even if it wasn't reported by local MSM. All of the reported deaths here had serious comorbidities. Are Thais really that much healthier on average? I wouldn't think so, but I'm not sure. Climate? If hot humid weather is the answer then we are safe because we are into hot season now and the weather is miserably hot and humid.
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
I was responding to the comment that "making a temporary commit in order to checkout to another branch to work on things" is a "a Git bug."

But sure, I'll grant you that it has issues. Heck, Git is distributed, so if you're off-network, committing a bunch of code, and your computer breaks, it doesn't matter if you're using stash or commit. It all depends upon your use case.

You're not OP, but if they, needing to switch to a different branch for a bit, "would much rather make a temporary commit to later rebase instead of using git stash" I'm curious why. I know I used to do it because I didn't understand how stash worked, and then I read up on it, noted what the commands are in my listing (since I don't need to use it daily), and refresh my memory from my notes when I need to use it.

But I also prefer to do smaller commits, more often, and find history to be important. Likely because I do a lot of brownfield development and maintenance. And if I need to switch to another branch to help a colleague, and my code is such that I can't commit it yet, I'll either git clone to a new directory (if they're a new employee or someone just learning a project, and I know I'm going to be helping them a lot) or leverage git stash.
A comprehensive list of banks lending for PPP
What should replace the fiat?
> The whole point of programming languages is

Next, can you tell me the point of art?
YMMV and also depending on what counts as a microservice but I currently write and maintain (as part of a very small team) several services that run on 200+ (physical, virtual and cloud) devices around the world and a monolith simply wouldn’t be able to do the job for boringly real technical reasons.

Another team writes and maintains a few more.

We also have some monoliths that provide customer facing UIs and aggregate data for our support teams and they are perfectly fine for that.

Right hammer for the right nail and all that.
you thinking something like nocodeapi.com
Familiar but without hands-on experience. Read some reference manuals on it and code samples.

I recognized right away that the span and break pattern-matching operators of Snobol must be the inspiration behind C library names like strspn and strpbrk.
Love it! It's so powerful. Just recently built and entire agency website there: http://optemization.com/home
There are a variety of tools that allow you to print almost instantaneously to a reMarkable Tablet.
Possibly. I vaguely recall this... But I'm not sure if there's been other rulings, or if ebooks or media-as-a-service has been in the courts after this.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/07/court...
Compared to Tkinter (or even straight Tk)?

If you want something naive that I think blows both out of the water: FreePascal/Lazarus.
Microsoft is giving parents 12 weeks’ paid parental leave
Classic BASIC implementation picked up on this idea. For instance some dialects had an INKEY$ variable which looks like a string, but magically reads console input.

GNU Bash has a magic variable RANDOM that produces random numbers. Assignments to it appear to be ignored.

In Algol, the name of the enclosing function acts as a variable to which you assign in order to produce the return value. For instance, see the assignment to B in the nested function here;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test
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Are you asking this in the context of schools being closed right now? I'll answer it that way, since that's the reality for most of us.

I spent 25 years teaching math and science from 5th grade through high school. I taught many cross-disciplinary classes as well, so I'm comfortable teaching writing and something about most subject areas. But my first priority with my kid (9yo) at this time is how he's feeling each day. When our kids grow up and look back on this time, the first thing they're going to remember is how they felt during this time. Did they feel safe? Loved? Listened to? Those things are going to be seared into their minds much more than whether they got stronger at math or reading or any other academic area.

So each day when my kid asks, "What are we doing for school today?" the first thing I say is, "How are you this morning? What have you been thinking about?" Some days we end up jumping right into learning activities. But some days we spend most of the time just talking, and answering his questions. And to be perfectly honest, some days we just cry together for a little while.

All that said, this is probably the only time in life where we'll be homeschooling. So rather than focusing on information and individual assignments that the school is providing, I'm focusing on critical thinking habits, and other ways of understanding that should set him up to enjoy school and do well. We're doing longer writing activities - watch an episode of your favorite show, then write a summary of what you watched. How did the story begin? What was the source of tension in the episode? How was the tension resolved? Were there any interesting subplots? That allowed us to develop a writing process, with a focus on revision and conversations about knowing your audience and defining a level of quality to aim for. With math, I got him a beam compass for Christmas, so we took that out and learned to use it. Then he measured diameters and circumferences, divided c by d, and discovered pi. Fun constructivist activities like that will do a lot more for his long term relationship with math than a bunch of drill activities will.
The design of a nuclear bomb is necessarily very different from the design of a nuclear reactor. You could have a reactor that blows itself up from internal pressure (like Chernobyl did) but one not with any sort of nuclear (or even conventional explosive of the same size or weight) force.
What is human lambdas? Like goluminal.com?
This seems like the makings of a movie. Along the lines of "Space Cowboys" or maybe another "Grumpy Old Men".
People don’t go into politics for the paycheck because only the wealthy and the incumbents have the ability to sustain a months-long campaign. That’s the real reason we have people in Washington who represent Wall Street instead of Main Street.
how old are you?
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In that case it's pretty brilliant. I was going to say that the maintenance cost of all those jets is probably pretty impressive
Thanks for a very insightful post
For an esoteric but practical offshoot, checkout the Cynefin Framework [0] by Dave Snowden(no relation to that other Snowden).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
The people who were predicting/doomsaying a tech industry recession was going to hit us were partly right. I guess we'll never know for sure.

My opinion is that it was going to be a slow fall, with less people trying to become "unicorns" and less people trying to fund them.
I guess court order could be used to get daily tracking keys from you regardless of covid-19 status, so it could be used for tracking for other cases.

While it does not directly encode position, with sufficient large network of bluetooth trackers on key places (like mass transit stations) one can be tracked sufficiently well by that.
I work in County IT in a medium large county in my state, about 110K residents. We just finished a migration from COBOL on HP3000 to SQL+ColdFusion and some ASPX. COBOL is infinitely faster at computation on PARisc than SQL is on Intel; our HP3000 is a 120MHz with 500mb of ram and our Intel stuff is VM on ESXi. Running a tax roll on COBOL for 45K parcels takes a fifth of the time on the HP despite the massive hardware differences!
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> It's pretty easy to cheat the system with a long only portfolio, if you're truly controlling the system: cause a deflation

Causing a deflation is very hard, unless possibly if you control the fed.

And that's for the government as a whole. I'd be very surprised if an individual senator can't affect that meaningfully.

Compare that to the current system where a senator hears about huge news that will move individual stock prices next week, and can easily make huge profits.
Go through your list once a week. Identify the things you must do that week or something important will blow up. Then add one, and no more than one, additional goal for the week.

We tend to overestimate how much we can get done in a week but underestimate what we can do in dozens of weeks. We overestimate what we can accomplish in a year but underestimate what we can accomplish in 10 years.
Great feedback. We were leaning equity over debt because many articles claim investors dont like seeing debt on the books. Had you considered a contingency plan if you couldn't pay yourself back or had to reduce debt? For example: call it a bad loan and each founder would write it off.
535 members of congress, each making $10M/year adds up to about $15/year per American.
I really liked the beta but the pricing is just unfeasible for me specially when there's GraphViz.
Yes, Chinese interneters set the date to mid November when the number of cases exceeded 200, and somebody first put an official notice
> You'd basically be making it a rule that their reward for their work is getting discreet favors from special interests.

So you’re saying today’s state of affairs is unavoidable and there’s absolutely nothing we can do. How defeatist!
Wow thanks for the response really appreciate it. I’m actually dabbling in trading atm, very familiar with bid ask spread and would def consider myself a practitioner, and not an economist/only thinking of things from a theoretical point of view.

I have a trading bot that trades crypto at the moment.

Anywho, what I was trying to convey in my initial post is that regulations make it tough for the little guy; especially on the stock market side.

My knowledge on options is definitely lacking, plan on learning more about that eventually, but when I referenced “insurance” I was def alluding to options / inversely correlated positions.

Any who what I mean by large capital requirements is to safely trade equities and crypto you typically want to trade based on a position sizing algorithm. Which reduces your position size based on the risk you’re exposed to.

In crypto the capital requirements are very low in the sense that you can buy a fraction of a share for as little as a few cents or even less in some places.

In stocks fractional shares are now becoming more and more accessible to people. But the problem there is you can’t actively trade a single stock unless you register as a active trader with the IRS. Also in most places fractional shares are $1. I would like to see this be even lower to truly allow anyone to run sophisticated strategies without needing a lot of capital.

$50 might not be a lot to me or you but it’s def a lot to others. Just wish system was designed in a way where you could trade sophisticated strategies with as little as $5 or heck 50 cents.
Sorry if this is an obtuse question, but which part of your reply is the "no" in "yes and no"?
There are options other than an impossible-to-enforce vow of poverty.
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The juggalos are evolving. They have superior technology. We thought we'd finally cracked the code, but it was too late: the enemy was already within the gates. Our hopes were doused in a shower of Faygo, and the machine lay sizzling its last breath in the putrid foam.
>I always assumed (without any evidence) there is secret firmware or settings for these systems that will only be used in time of war and not used during training.

I believe the military takes training realism incredibly seriously, and wouldn't dream of "testing in production" with a weapons system.
I'm sure we'll be told how "it really made a difference" regardless of if it did, and how "we'll need it for the next one."
You agree with me that it's mostly about insider trading, not about skin in the game.

Deflation is not that hard, just dampen social security. Or stop half of military contracts and half of infrastructure spend. Or just go to the federal budget and do anything to reduce it by > 30%. You'll have a deflation (a recession) in a month, even before those changes actually go into effect.
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House prices and land prices are quite separate things.

NIMBY policies increase house value, but decrease land value.