skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might mean 'volunteer' like people 'volunteer' for the army in the US. you get paid, and get the tools provided, etc., but you're not going to be forced out of your current life and conscripted in to COBOL work.

It's a bad word though, because it creates these confusions. However, they might be at a max of existing COBOL 'full timers'. Who would 'volunteer' to leave their current dev roles to jump in to the NJ COBOL life? Might mean moving to NJ as well...
The IRS, treasury, and others locally are looking for COBOL programmers. I can explain why they're struggling to find any just by looking at the pay scale: $30,113 - $86,021 (GS-5 through GS-12, and most won't get the top end of the GS-12 scale). The $30K GS-5 starting is almost as low as working for their call center which is farcical.

By contrast state, county, and even city government are paying $65K - $85K starting going all the way up to $100K at the top end. And these are jobs where you're doing modern development, not COBOL.

People will start learning COBOL as soon as it makes rational sense. As it stands a lot of organizations aren't looking for any COBOL developer, they're looking for CHEAP COBOL developers. It doesn't make sense to learn when you'd lose money for taking those jobs.
Is there evidence of Red Hat ever doing that kind of gotcha licensing?
Random fact of the day: you produce nitric oxide in your paranasal sinuses, and concentrations increase while humming.
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If you participate under a handle here and use your real name on your blog, it may effectively amount to the same thing.

People can have a variety of personal concerns, from a nutcase stalker ex to "I work for BigCo and want to spout off online without getting fired" to "I happen to have some bizarrely unique name, so using my real name anywhere amounts to doxxing myself."

Lots of people on HN use a throwaway email just for HN and don't want general HN readership to know much about their lives.

People use a wide variety of approaches to having an online life while looking out for their own specific privacy concerns. Please note that most people with privacy concerns will not chime in to this discussion to explain to you why they make the specific choices they make as that would tend to be counterproductive and undermine their goals of protecting their privacy.
good guess. if the rest of the organization bends over backwards to ensure that you never have to update your code to accommodate, say, more than 8 ASCII characters in a password, or hashed passwords, and the rest of the org puts their security at risk to make sure your codebase never has to change... yeah, it might be a bit laid back... :)
Or, it's just what it says. It's a way to implement test and trace, something that is absolutely needed to stop a pandemic like this from killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people.

Everything isn't a slippy slope. Everything isn't about your privacy. Everything isn't a grand conspiracy that only you can see and the sheeple are too dumb to understand.

Sometimes, extreme measures are needed.
And stinky breath makes social distancing easier.
Viruses and volatility – how uncertainty impacts on our health
Yeah but hospital ceos make >$5m
> Fifty years from now people will be making jokes about "that antiquated Python stack" and state agencies will be ringing alarm bells for the lack of experienced young Python programmers.

I wonder how many people realise Python is more than 30 years old already.
Yes. The enum behaves quite differently, depending on whether or not it has associated values.
Of course it will. These companies could already track you far more efficiently than this allows them to. This system makes tracking LESS efficient, not more. It serves no purpose other than what is stated.
Are you saying you want to murder people ? Do you like death sentence or life behind jail for the rest of your life ?
Bored at home made a broadband review site, if in UK leave a review of your isp?
lack of comments, bad variable naming, bad structure (little or no procedures or readability), and just sheer volume of it

This has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with people. For all the progress we've made with technology in the past 50 years, we've made little or no progress with any of the items in this list.

The second biggest problem building software has always been programmers too small for the task at hand.

The biggest problem has been managers who are even smaller.

So don't blame COBOL or any other technology. Fix the people and you can build anything excellent from almost any tech.
As nkrisc already pointed out, just because you put something in a contract it doesn't mean it's enforceable, or lawful.

See, if it's not lawful in the first place, you can't "breach" it.

IANAL, but I had enough law during my studies to know where this will lead. Maybe you can do these kind of shenanigans in the US of A, but I'm confident this kind of contract clauses are not possible in Europe.
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So mass graves have always been used there, nothing special to corona times. (Of course the number could raise, that's another story.)
External DVD writer (so, also CDs) drives are about $30 now for a decent brand, powered entirely over their USB cable so no power brick to mess with, and are about half an inch thick and barely bigger than the discs that go in them. One can easily live in a junk drawer, unnoticed until needed. I was surprised to discover how tiny and low-power they are now, and how cheap.
Really not sure this is the correct way to think about it, but if the silicon is now transparent and parts of it are emitting light, how is the focus limited / controlled ie. how does a receiver know from emitter it should be receiving from?
I’m part of the CoEpi project, one of the member projects of the TCN Coalition. I see that some of my teammates are searching through the OpenTrace code to see if anything there is worth taking, such as their device-specific bluetooth range calibrations. I don’t think there’s been any two-way communication between these teams.
Its not all sunshine and roses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQ1XIrXjls
You don't have to be perfect, just good enough to get R under 1. It's been working pretty well Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea when combined with moderate social distancing measures.
> Unfortunately they surely do, because a large set of developers writes C++ code full of C idioms.

That's an other problem, not technical but educational. A lot of (older) programmer came to C++ passing by C and continue to use C in C++.

That need time, education and guidelines to change that... a lot of time.

Changing mindset and programmer education is sometimes harder than changing the program itself.

> Now you just need to convince a large spectrum of companies to actually stop doing C idioms while writing C++ code.

That is already ongoing. However do not forget that C++ has a bagage of 25 years of code pre-C++11 to upgrade before arriving there.
Now that looks like an interesting recommendation! It looks like it can offer information I can’t find elsewhere, unlike most of Coursera’s other classes
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Shameless plug: a shell I develop has builtin directory history: https://elv.sh/learn/cookbook.html (search for "directories")
The problem with "on the spot practical training" is that not everyone gets the same training across cultures or economic groups. This gives some groups a permanent embedded advantage over others, which is the opposite of meritocracy. Ad hoc enforcement only makes this worse. The ad hoc legalese in a code of conduct can bring more consistency to both rules and enforcement, though regrettably many implementations fall short.
It isn't easy to get a security clearance and when you get one it becomes very lucrative and rather easy to lose if you are careless enough to divulge what you shouldn't. So don't expect any answers.
So nutritionally we should be looking at things needed to stimulate the NOS gene (NOS1, NOS2, NOS3):

NOS2 cofactors are; Heme, FAD, FMN, and BH4

Zinc - It helps make BH4 through the GCH1 and PTS enzymes from GTP.

Riboflavin - it is the precursor for FMN and FAD. Notably zinc is needed to turn riboflavin into FMD and FAD.

B6 (P5P) - Needed for Heme synthesis.

Beets - The nitrates are turned into NO in the gut.

Black Tea - Shown to increase NO. And shown to inhibit SARS: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1142193/

Vitamin C - Helps protect BH4

But it is for certain another reason to examine zinc in health outcomes from SARS infection. The metal binding site of NOS is zinc also so...
Monolith doesn't mean you couldn't have fault tolerance, e.g. if the monolith is distributed. Monolith is just a term that means "all encompassing", or that "you've thought of everything". In contrast, a microservice is basically "I can't think of everything so I break up my system into smaller, easier to understand pieces, and hope for the best".
Death rates will rise and things will get worse, but if we are lucky not dramatically so.

In contrast to literally every other large European country, we did a lot of testing (compare for example CDR for France against Germany, we did ten times more tests especially early on). If you run the numbers on tests vs. infections, assuming that death rates are more accurate, you have to conclude that Italy, Spain and France likely have a magnitude more cases than tests would suggest.

Initial infections were mostly young people at the carnival events. This helps with the death rate.

Furthermore, Germany is more decentralized than any other country in the EU, and has "decent" capabilities spread.

We had a good start. Call it luck. However, it'll get worse, especially since people are itching for it to be over.

Here in Germany, we have the "weekend reporting" lull, where cases go down. Each time, people in big cities somehow take this as "peak reached" and go out. All actions have a two-week lag, so we don't really know anything about what works and what doesn't. Yet.

We NEED to be vigilant now, and you need to urge everyone you know to keep distancing and quarantining. Do your part.
Yes, it's 27C and sunny outside, but we are not over the bump yet.

IF we keep going like this, we may be able to get over this crisis without ever having a health care catastrophe like France, Spain and Italy.
But if we let our guard down too early, then we can get in trouble.

Yes, we were lucky with initial cases and our testing capability. But if we get to infection rates like other countries (10x more than current numbers suggest, at least), then our hospital system will also collapse.

It's best to ignore daily infection numbers, especially here where few cases are sent to RKI over week-ends and holidays.
Let's celebrate when the death rate goes toward zero.
Being different has always cause issue but we should not fix by hiding it but we should fix it by other way be it changing perception or find sameness among the difference, etc.
You clearly live in a different Denmark than I do. Maybe you read too much Ekstra Bladet.

We are following the curve just as planned - not over and not under. There are no "overcapacity" and the lockdown isn't "massive" at all. Only a tiny percentage of shops are closed down and the rest isn't close to what a lot of other countries are doing.

Stop spreading FUD and try to appreciate we have a system that is working great in this crisis.
It was 10 years ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy.

I believe I didn't want to scare readers away. But more importantly, functional programming is more than just removing the assignment statement. If you take a language and just remove the assignment statement, the language you get isn't functional, it's just crippled.

Functional programming involves other techniques to compensate. Higher order functions are critical, and often used to hide recursion under the rug (see map & reduce). I have a more complete guide to functional programming there: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/from-imperative-to-functio...
> This has nothing to do with technology

Oh, it has everything to do with technology. Wouldn't want to waste that perfectly serviceable punch-card by punching a * in column 7.
I doubt that mainframes where turned on and off every day even later with super mini's we left them powered up
While AES(0||id) is subject to a padding oracle, it's not immediately obvious why this would be a useful capability to an attacker, since you can't tweak your input based on the oracle's output (unlike e.g. AES-CBC).
Small note on this.
You should probably check some on numerical integration methods and solving ode’s.

Specifically try the midpoint method or Runge-Kutta 4. (Rk4) which is easily implemented from the wiki-page.
This comment is not going to discuss the linked article. It will not explain why nor will it address to the subject of the article. I am not qualified to comment on the linked web page and have not even read it. Instead I will write a never ending scroll of words with cartoon data for some reason.
Yes, they certainly can. Apple allows any apps notifications to be switched off at the OS level - it isn't optional. My users love the notifications though, and they commonly customise to get _more_ notifications. The reason it is 4 months is because iOS only allows 64 notifications to be scheduled in advance for any app, and if they want users can configure to schedule that many in a 4 month period.
> Q: Why this isn't reported directly to ReactOS devs?
A: Because I don't value this project as worth for any kind of official reports. Twenty years of unworkable alpha. Pff. This is my report. Part 1. You either fix your ridiculous bugs or GTFO. This is how I work.

How pleasant.

> Second one is about "we never used anything from MS blah blah blah" is an obvious lie for saving face and it is working only with partially brain dead audience

This claim is made all the time but it does baffle me that despite all the work they put into showing how badly ReactOS sucks, they couldn’t put a modicum of effort into the code theft allegation. I guess I must be braindead for not assuming it’s stolen code.

All in all I think ReactOS is interesting enough that it is a bit unwarranted how pessimistic people get. Most of us have long realized it will probably never be a viable desktop OS and that is not really a big deal because it’s still fun to mess with and read about.
Sometimes, you just need to put down your thoughts with out the fear of someone looking at what you are writing, or with out your editor bugging you about all the typos you are making or with your eyes closed and give control to your fingers to put down what thoughts run in your head.

Can do away with the internet too, if a data url can be crafted with this html and bookmarked.

Happy unstucking!
There would have been more substantial stockpiles of all essentials and safety equipment if price 'gouging' wasn't illegal.

When you restrict prices to below a arbitrary level of any good, you get shortages during those periods when the price should be above that level.
I used to have an IBM flowcharting template I inherited. I mostly used it to draw shapes and didn't appreciate what it meant to have a standard you could make tools like that for.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma...
If there is social stigma then social stigma it is that need to be fixed, rather than hiding the fact itself.
Apple, Google to harness phones for Covid-19 infection tracking
For the 99%, Haskell's purpose is to teach you what to hate about your working language, not to be a working language.

https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/what-goes-wrong-2.html
> “Don’t try to take them out yourself if you see them,” he said. “If you get into them, run away, then call us!“
Good observations. Yup railing against facebook prevents us from thinking up ways of connecting and growing connection.

Key point is they are seeking connection.

So connect.

When you are at work/school/have stuff going on in life, you have a lot more to talk about than if there is nothing going on.

If no one is writing anything, beyond simple games seeking connection, its probably because there is nothing interesting going on at home.

So spark something.

If there is no activity on both sides of a connection, the connection decays. It takes things happening on both sides to keep the connection healthy and alive.

You write if no one else is. Write and tell them what you have been upto/make a plan to work together everyday on something etc. Write and tell them what writing of theirs you miss.
Connection will automatically re-energize.
This sounds like university HPC today
“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”

Which is to say that these are organizations that have been sitting on this problem for thirty or more years, doing nothing about it, and suddenly they cannot handle the load due to THEIR greed, apathy, and incompetence. But programmers are meant to queue up and work for free in order to fix it because it is now a "crisis" of their intentional making.

This is an argument for private profits, subsidies the loses. How about no? How about we eat into these organization's balance sheets in order to fix the massive financial and technical debt they let build up, because frankly they deserve it and it is the only way they'll learn. Any other solution will just excuse them to do this again.

Why should programmers bare the cost of their mistakes while they seemingly get a free ride/keep the "good year" windfall? It is immoral for programmers to profit, but not for these organizations that created these problems out of their greed? Nope.
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It's often critical, just in a completely different field. The best explanation is simply the names - Common Business-Orientated Language vs Formula Translation.

So the Fortran equivalent of the current situation was NASA being desperate for Fortran programmers to patch Voyager a few years ago (which may have been overblown - my understanding is that they had the programmers, someone just took the "what's the problem?" and ran with it). Orbital models, weather models, stuff that's deep science put into code. COBOL is stuff where business logic is put into code.

They're both titans in their fields to this day - just different fields. At a very, very high level it’s essentially matlab vs excel.
He’s providing a scenario to the parent question “why does it need to be anonymous.” It’s very plausible.
I created lots of exercises. They are all on GitHub (see *_02_exercises.ipynb files on https://github.com/webartifex/intro-to-python). My "offline" students take between 4 to 8 hours per exercise set.
For 99% of programmers, Haskell can't be used in production.
Earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546679 (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6868303 (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637278 (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10209249 (2015)
Linux on Laptops: Asus Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS
Because hornet is much bigger then bees

Is it possible to build a cover outside of the hive with holes that only bees can pass through?
I think they were speaking hypothetically?
thank goodness. I remember it was common that the login screen on a terminal would be configured for # as backspace while backspace would actually DO a backspace but be entered into the buffer.

I suspect it was a remnant of hardcopy terminals
The East India Company probably also had a big Navy
I tried this out this week for a workshop. It seems to not run smoothly on Firefox and some students have company laptops where they cannot change the browser easily.

Also, I heavily use Zoom's breakout rooms functionality.
Ahh, GitHub pages is another viable option. Especially if you’re already keeping the source in a GitHub repo.
To clarify, let's say you are asked for a feature. The normal workflow is to determine when it will finish and crunch for the deadline. Once the deadline arrives, you are going to finish and release at the same time and hope that you have done enough testing during development. At this point get ready for embarrassment because you will inevitably make a few mistakes and cut some corners.

What I am suggesting is, you take a bunch of requests, but manage two roadmaps. One is the feature roadmap with reasonable dates, the other one is the release roadmap which lags one week for each feature. So once you release that awesome backtesting feature, you've been testing it internally since a week and finding bugs as you go. Do not release when done with a feature.
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Unfortunately my elderly parents (UK) are in a position where they can't get shopping delivered, there are no delivery slots at any of the supermarkets. I'm looking at sending food over in a taxi but it's really expensive!

While it's likely he will catch it from her, it's by no means a guarantee.
Debug.Trace won't solve the space leaks lurking around every corner of your program, and won't shave the hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes of RAM the compiler needs for compiling a non trivial program with dependencies.
Intermittent Fasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjcHf1C5zEo
Thanks :)

You may share my materials with anyone you know who wants to start Python.

Also, I am very open to pull requests with additional exercises and content.
As a freelancer who does this 2 out of 3 jobs, I can tell you is definitely fun if you like challenge as in debug for 3 hours to only realize the old coder in 80's never initialized a structure and a newer tool was used to create the modern platform. And when you come on-board for maintenance/upgrade you are not told this from nobody. So misery or challenge, depends on your point of view, but the other side of the coin is..well, the coin itself, it's huge :). You get paid handsomely.
Yes. I'm afraid to post my website because the mods might ban my account because they know me and don't like me.

I run a popular website, but I remind people Apple is Evil.
Get Xbox One
I am curious. As a thought experiment, how else can having the contacts of your friend and family be use to remind you of your bills, without contacting them to remind you?

Personally I can see no other way to read it.
Computer History Museum also has a series of oral histories https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos
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Can you explain it more? Or is there something I can read up on? It seems like quite a breakthrough.
I have wondered, it seemed like there was a community of dev professionals who had managed to make things work for them, they could have forked the project easily? The ideas were nice, nobody needs the sort of toxic behavior being exhibited by the ELM core devs.

Perhaps its a case of wanting something for nothing...this is a long post and a lot of mental energy better put into a fork, and getting like minded folk involved. New users also quickly discover that the language is unsuitable for use, there would be many interested in such a thing.
Coincidence?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939908/

Malaria severity and human nitric oxide synthase type 2 (NOS2) promoter haplotypes
Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice
that was a mass, tightly packed congregation