skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a good idea.

Another interesting possible solution which can be used now but is a bit unproven is to use hydroxychloroquine + zpak + zinc or some variation on that on people with symptoms or who test positive as it seems to reduce viral spreading.

Bit controversial but the results in Marseille look quite good - the infection rate in those tested has roughly halved recently while France as a whole is going up. https://madeinmarseille.net/64805-covid-19-didier-raoult-res... https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/

And the anecdotal reports from the Zeleko guy are good even if people think he's a nut.

Also in the Rome area "every single person with Covid-19 that has early signs, like a cough or a fever for example, is now being treated with the anti-malaria drug." Which may provide data going forward https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/29/italy-finally-starts-m...

Anyway unproven but may be a way forward if the results prove good.
What you quoted is specifically about traffic collection. I don't know where to find a definitive source on this now, but Apple used to have a marketing page that said

> When you use Apple Maps, your route from A to B is fragmented into scrambled sections on Apple servers because nobody else should know your entire route. Not even us. In fact, we don’t even know who requests a route.

My recollection was that the device itself sends multiple requests in chunks to get the route, but I don't know if this is accurate or if it's just fragmented on the server prior to any data retention.

In any case, the point is that Apple very intentionally discards data that can be used to track you, and anonymizes what they do retain. While yes, it's very likely that Apple could figure out where you are if your device is set to use Apple services and they wanted this info, they've set up their services to make it as difficult as possible for them to figure this out.
It’s generous considering what’s normal in the US, but a lot of developed countries offer 12–24 months by law. A baby is lot of work, what can you achieve in 1–3 months leave?
Is that closer to a "Rails for Java" than Play is?
I still have to write code that builds against earlier versions. Code that primarily targets a backwards embedded compiler that only does C++98 but has had usable C99 support since forever.
Also, what stops you from using real plate numbers? It's not like they're hard to collect -- unless somebody passes a law against that.
Thank you for sharing! This is really cool tech.
Per sibling, even at best, this just isn't in the same league. And I'm doubtful about "best".

And even if it works, why should I need to enable special accessibility features to access a UI mode that isn't utter sh_t?
You're also more likely to die by drowning if you own a pool. This is a silly argument.
productboard.com

honestly the best tool i've ever used for this. and phenomenal software in general.
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That’s really the only hope I’m clinging to at this point, that over the next hundred-plus years the cultural changes might be worth all the damage.
> Not all code is supposed to match your preferences.

Yikes, sorry if I came off as trying to force my opinion on your project. I'm just trying to understand the rationale behind the choices you made, since I've (clearly) never seen anything like it. (If I was genuinely interested in trying to modify your project to my desires, I hope you can believe I'd be kind enough to dig through the project to see if I could figure this out myself, then send a patch with rationale for you to decide whether you wanted it or not, rather than yell at you on Hacker News to fix it.) But to your points:

> We talked glibc. I mentioned there are libraries which do not do _any_ optimization other than a byte by byte copy.

I haven't actually seen one for quite a while–most of the libcs that I'm familiar with (glibc, macOS's libc, musl, libroot, the various BSD libcs, Bionic) have some sort of vectorized code. I'm curious if the project can run on some obscure system that I'm not considering ;)

> Both the source and destination guarded by length and alignment requirement checks.

Perhaps we have a misunderstanding here: I'm saying it's undefined by the C standard, as the pointer cast is a strict aliasing violation regardless of the checks. It will generally compile correctly as char * can alias any type, so the compiler will probably be unable to find the undefined behavior, but it's technically illegal. (I would assume this is one of the many reasons most libcs implement their string routines in assembly.)
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XFL suspends operations and lays off employees, currently has no plans to return
There is more than one way to deal with this, unfortunately it's all quite messy. But it is possible.

One is to use Inkscape to layer the image as an OCG, the other is to treat the image as a "watermark" (which is really just another layer) with your image via PyPDF2 or similar.
I don’t think we’d stay locked down for so long. Even with the world on lockdown, the virus still spreads. Eventually I’d think we’d reach the 60–70% infected figure which is said to be enough for herd immunity. At that point and even without a vaccine it’s probably be safe to lift most or all restrictions while we’re looking for a vaccine. As I understand it the lockdowns are to avoid an unmanageable peak in hospital use, not to avoid most people getting the virus.

I wonder if China will strictly prohibit the hunting and eating of wild animals as a result from this outbreak and the considerable international pressure, or if it’ll keep going.
I would definitely use GitHub Pages rather than S3 unless I planned for the site and its assets to significantly expand down the line.
Yep, I use Google Analytics

server-side you can track using the measurement protocol

few years ago I did a prototype test with PHP, example here
https://pastebin.com/PQCRcJXq

with something like Slim PHP you can add a middleware and automatically track everything, but you can also customize on a needed basis

I use the same logic with different PL on different backends etc.

for a starter it is cheap to implement and put in place, and cover almost everything
No, since no one has ever put up the money to buy one and been turned down or sought access to an appropriate test range and been turned away. The common law is like that: it doesn't solve problems we don't have.
I never thought of a sprite chip this way but your message makes me think I should have. A sprite chip was a kind of coprocessor like an external floating point unit or a GPU.
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Here is a really nice live version of the eponymous song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYPge6ZKSQ

And this is the version most people know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLP6QluMlrg
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Everything Old is New Again
Another way to write this might be,

"This guy figured it would be fun to own fighter jets and so figured out a business he could be in that would allow him to do so with the government's blessing."

I don't know if that is what he did of course, just guessing. It is a strategy I've seen employed successfully before. My daughter used this strategy by getting a research project approved for school on "studying organizing goal directed group behavior in online groups" where it was required she join several different raiding guilds in World of Warcraft to evaluate their strategies for co-operative goal seeking behavior. I thought it was pretty creative.
Our department was already 100% remote for the past two years since corporate shut down our office... so yeah, things haven't felt too different, except our clients have pushed back some of their campaigns (not cancelled them though, at least not yet) because of the virus, so work is somewhat light.

Good thing, too, since it's been harder to focus with everything else going on.
Everyone's got to start somewhere.
> It doesn't have anything for the query part through, like C# does with LINQ - are you saying that COCOL does? What does this knowledge of database layout look like in COBOL?

COBOL has built-in support for accessing flat file databases with either sequential or indexed organisation. On many mainframe and minicomputer operating systems, the filesystem provides native support for record-oriented files (with fixed or variable width records) and indexed-key files, and COBOL directly integrates with that.

COBOL has syntax for defining nested record structures which was often used to define the data schema for these files. You could store the definitions in a "copybook" (conceptually equivalent to an include file in C/C++) and reuse it in many programs which would manipulate the same files.

COBOL itself doesn't directly support "querying", except for the strategies of (1) manually iterating through every record in a sequential file to find matching records or (2) looking up a key-indexed file by its key field.

There are commonly implemented extensions to COBOL to access relational databases (SQL), hierarchical databases (e.g. IMS), etc. However, those are not part of the core COBOL language, and comparable facilities are defined for many other languages, so COBOL isn't really unique on that point.
> The issue with adversarial examples is defending against a wide class of examples, not a few specific images.

So who says it has to be a few specific images? They could auto-generate a different selection to choose from for each purchaser and then print to order. Every individual article of clothing could be unique.
It doesn't set a legal precedent of much significance, because in the USA there are people who own tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships.

It doesn't make sense to be so alarmed by it. People who own heavy weapons overwhelmingly use them for lawful purposes. This is true of people who own guns, as well. We can't treat every potentially dangerous thing as if it is a clear, present danger: that is like treating all drivers as "potential drunk drivers". You can't write policy around that.
"Factoring" is sometimes used in the Forth world, since code being factored into small words is of such eminence.

And it offers good lessons about what's worth factoring and how. Forth words that are just static answers and aliases are OK! They're lightweight, and the type signatures are informal anyway. "Doing Forth" means writing it to exactly the spec and not generalizing, so there's a kind of match of expectations of the environment to its most devoted users.

On the other hand, in most modern environments the implied goal is to generalize and piling on function arguments to do so is the common weapon of choice, even when it's of questionable value.

Lately I've cottoned on to CUE as a configuration language and the beauty of it lies in how generalization is achieved while resorting to a minimum of explicit branches and checks, instead doing so through defining the data specification around pattern matching and relying on a solver to find logical incoherencies.

I believe that is really the way forward for a lot of domains: Get away from defining the implementation as your starting point, define things instead in a system with provable qualities, and a lot of possibilities open up.
I'd recommend anyone who finds terms like that in an employment contract leverage it to try to negotiate for severance.
I am also more a devops/backend/systems developer and end up just using Bootstrap for everything. It looks decent enough and by now I already know how to do everything I need when I need.
I saw a couple of these in my spam folder a while back (sadly more than a month ago, so they're gone). They claimed they hacked me through my router and had compromising videos of me in a couple of fairly similar formats. I chalked it up to the fact that I have my email in a number of fairly public places.
Opinions are welcome on whether this kind of approach could help move forward from the microservice/monolith debate:

- Teams commit to individual repositories so that team membership, changeset review, and issue management are kept close to the relevant code, and checkout sizes are minimal

- Strong language support for inter-repository dependency management is introduced to enable effective rollback and rollforward of commits that affect other repositories

- The function call becomes the unit of deployment -- not a microservice, and not a monolith. This allows for low bandwidth deployments and for small amounts of highly-utilized code to migrate to the devices where they are needed for computation

- Function calls and return values are signed cryptographically so that inter-function calls have integrity, regardless whether within a single device or across the network

- Functions that perform I/O calls are tagged with the virtual storage and/or network interfaces that they require access to

- Kubernetes-like infrastructure manages the deployment, scaling, and resource allocation of functions to devices

This seems to me like it would provide the organizational benefits of microservices while reducing developer hand-wringing over where to define service boundaries. It just becomes a question of 'should this be a function?'.

Good tooling around binary-dependency-or-source-code retrieval could make it easy for developers to work on large applications built like this and inspect / debug / modify code as-needed without having to check out or download all the source code and binaries at once.
He's suggesting we pay them better to make up for depriving them of vehicles private citizens can use. It's not unreasonable to strip them of those vehicles to prevent insider trading. It's not unreasonable to compensate them for losing those vehicles.
HTML and CSS are more markup languages than actual languages. You can work at varying degrees of abstraction.

There are thousands of template sites being used today with JS plugins the developer probably wouldn’t know how to write. But the minimal interface layers are sufficient to get them to work.

Stuff like Select2 and bootstraps collection of plugins cover a broad range of interactivity most people need on the internet.
I think insider trading should be a private affair: if you work at a company and steal from the company by inside trading on some announcement, well then they should probably fire you (and maybe file a civil suit).

But there's certainly arguments to be made that insider trading is very good for the markets as it allows new information to get incorporated into the price very quickly.
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The reality is that many large terrorist attacks have been conducted with explosives, toxic gas and other methods.

Treating every gun as though it were a clear, present danger, is no more reasonable than treating every car that way. There are ~75 million gun owners in the USA; they are overwhelmingly harmless. Targeted policy is how you address something that is occasionally misused; and targeted policy seems to be the one thing that people keen on gun control do not want to think about.

I don't want people to die because Bubba finds it badass to own an AR-15 they will never use except maybe to kill themselves or a family member (statistically, these are the no1 and no2 most likely people an American is to kill with their gun).

It's true that most people who die from firearms are people ending their own lives; but the next largest group are criminals shooting one another, not "family members". The average American, not otherwise inclined to end their own life, is very unlikely to be shot with a gun.

The way you are defining "use" in your statement is just wrong. People who don't shoot other people still "use" their guns, just for sport or for hunting. It's like you're saying the only people who "use" guns are killers. What if we applied the same concept to another area? "I don't want people to die because Bubba finds it badass to own a Cessna they will never use except maybe to crash and kill themselves or a family member...". It seems absurd. There is a diminishing returns element to policy and you just can't write them in a such a way that it perfects safety.
Agreed, another one on this topic is here: https://medium.com/@dvassallo/only-intrinsic-motivation-last...
The idea that RIPT will be phone endpoint to phone endpoint for media is ridiculous which means latency will go up. I hope I misread the spec!

Because phones are usually double natted / double firewalled the vonages / ringcentral and friends will have the phones connect to their servers, and pass the media that way.

I currently finally got the media side to handoff pretty directly from our phone system to whatever media endpoint is suggested to handle the call termination for SIP - latency is improved, but the media bridges to local telco etc seem to be adding their own latency.

What is crazy is you used to be able to call three floors down (separate network but next door) and get no latency. Literally. The call was circuit switched through something in town or sometimes closer.

Now with RIPT that media is going to travel to the ringcentral west point server, then back, to go three floors, and YES, latency will be higher than 30 year old tech. Imagine that. Billions spent, and the quality is worse.

I hope this is wrong.
Let's shoot for a five year time frame for some major cultural changes and I'm in.

Let's start on fostering them today. If we jump on it, we could flatten the curve with less economic pain this very year.
You phone already stores lots of data every 10minutes, I am not sure if flash wear is a problem. Same with storage space.

A guid is 16 bytes per key * 6 keys per hour 24 hours per day 365 days makes less than a megabyte. Even accounting for additional data stored where guid is the key it feels not a big concern.

I imagine data stored like:
Key: guid
Contacts made: <timestamp, guid>[]
When Stack Overflow started, I tried to contribute but never succeeded, there was some kind of chicken-egg issue that prevented any answer to get through, I don't really remember what it was, just gave up since I wasn't interested in karmas enough to jump through those hoops.

So it became a read-only resource for me, fair enough. Now most of the useful information I find is decorated with comments from some moderator or contributor talking shit about the question or the answer. Somehow I feel the unfriendliness directed towards me, as if I should feel ashamed to want the wrong answer to the wrong question. Then I read the first sentence of this article:

We all want Stack Overflow to be a welcoming and friendly place.

I do, actually. But not sure about all.
I like the idea of an annotated life :)
You’re solving the wrong problem

Getting what you just proposed (or any of the many other obvious ways to prevent insider trading) through a senate full of insider traders is the problem

Solve that one
Please keep the graphic in this quality.

It gives an easy-going/fun vibe to the game.
"If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make this app work."

How annoying.

Does anyone have a link to a plain text version of this article, or at least something that doesn't require javascript to read?
"Now what ?" - Now we practice common sense social distancing and wait for the virus to take its course. No need to overreact and go full China style authoritarian lockdown. And yes, America is exceptional even if it annoys you.
That ship may have sailed, unfortunately.
Seems like the restaurant industry should be super grateful. Without these delivery networks, most restaurants would have totally shutdown and have no hope of surviving.
What does food that regulated by the FDA have to do with this?
Why not just insist on a firewall between themselves and investment decisions?

Lots of ways that could be implemented.

A wealthier congressman could employ a firm to manage their money.

On common way to protect against insider trading is to make irrevocable trades fat in advance.

For example, irrevocably say you buy $500 of an index fund every month.
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Let's build another.
The argument that we need political solutions originally came from a time when technology people weren't paying attention to politics at all, and of course then you get this:

https://xkcd.com/538/

But it feels like it has gone the other way now, to the point that people dismiss potentially helpful technical solutions because "what really matters is politics" even though in reality you need both.

If the government bans privacy technologies then it's hard to use them, but if nobody develops or uses them to begin with then you don't have them either.

And for some people the government in question isn't ours, it's a foreign authoritarian government where "policy solutions" are just not going to happen and the only option available is technology. It's a lot easier to develop that technology in less authoritarian countries, which means we have a responsibility to do it, because if they have to do it the cost of a mistake is a lot higher.
> send a patch with rationale for you to decide whether you wanted it or not

I would really appreciate that. And I do understand your intention is good.

The problem I see with geeky forums is there are just too many people trying to force their ideas on you at every step and expect you to implement those. So it's kind of a standard reply from my side.
Ah, well... I've thought about this, and if i should waste your, or others time by making even more 'noise', or saying nothing at all. There are a few sides to this, one would be that it is a free product, even open source and one is free to either deliver patches or fork it, otherwise there should be no feeling of entitlement at all.

BUT... i've read the whole thread, and the other too, and the only 'signal' between all the 'noise' of annoyed users is more or less: take it or leave it (because we say so)

This is arrogant. And politeness and politically correct speech under all circumstances leads to nothing but mediocrity, while the groupthinking celebrates the emperors new clothes, over and over again. I think sometimes it is necessary to bang the fist hard on the table, to recalibrate the signal processing. If this is too stressful for all the special snowflakes to bear, they maybe should stay in their safe spaces and don't babble about niche minorities. Or maybe smoke less weed?
I have configured SIP to avoid some of the client / server model. You can do that on a local network you can control, and if you can get your firewall to play or can expose a SIP endpoint to the public internet directly you can cut a fair bit of latency out.

My question - will RIPT REDUCE latency in the ordinary case vs well configured SIP?

I've driven latency reduction by doing the onsite SIP PBX to a set of analog phone lines - in some setups that BEATS the round trips.

SIP would work much better if every phone was on a publicly routed unfiltered network. But that simply isn't the case. Others posting are claiming the phones under RIPT will be able to talk directly too each other - but how?

The stack adds latency - audio encoding, bufferbloats, etc - whatever is happening results in worse audio latency than 30 year old tech which makes little sense.
Thank you, I'll take a look into TCN and the protocol.

Do you know whether TCN have worked with and/or compared notes with OpenTrace[1]?

[1] - https://github.com/OpenTrace-Community