skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might we want to consider that medical insurance fraud is in fact a serious concern?

From prior work in the industry, durable medical equipment is one of the most targeted areas for scams.

Relatively high cost, amortized over an extended utilization time.

I'm not particularly surprised that insurance companies (and therefore manufacturers that are supplying them) include such features. It'd be borderline negligent from a financial perspective not to.
I laughed. So, basically everyone gets a taste for what it is like to use an ad blocker without actually installing one.
I disagree, because they return a value that nobody really wants and thus perform poorly: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/04/12/designing-a-better-str...
This was long overdue.

> It is an open secret among international diplomats and public health experts that WHO is “not fit for mission” (as one of them put it to me), riddled with politics and bureaucracy. Given its previous failures and the warning that was Sars, its leadership has no excuse for reacting so oddly, and so tardily, to the current crisis.

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/who-must-answer/
So they want them to promote USA's disinformation like the OPCW or the OAS does.
> but evidently the committee thinks there is more benefit in forcing prototypes

Why?

Consider the following code:

LetsReconsiderPriorities(n, A)
int n, A[n];
{
return A[n + 1];
}

main() {
static int A[1];
return LetsReconsiderPriorities(1, A);
}

Can anyone guess what clang/gcc complain about? They complain about K&R syntax, yet say nothing about the buffer overflow error. Thanks to modern arrays, the overflow can be said to clearly contradict the intentions of the program author. So why aren't compiler authors focusing on that? Rather than showing warnings that I'd say rightfully belong in lint? Note: Same is true with -Wall, [static n], and even [static 1]: compiler complains about language style and ignores real bugs.

I would estimate that roughly 15% of the issues / pull requests that get filed against C language projects are due to these linter errors that accumulated in compilers over the years, based on a quick glance at STB. https://github.com/nothings/stb/issues?q=warning (29 + 132.) / (156 + 794) It's a big obstacle to sharing C code with others. It'd be great if the C Language Committee could ask compiler authors to remove all these distracting warnings like "unused parameter" now that we have amazing tools like runtime sanitizers that deliver real results.

Also, have we considered addressing the prototype problem with the freedom to choose an ILP64 data model instead? How much do prototypes honestly matter in that case? DSO ABI compatibility might be an issue for Linux distros, but it doesn't concern all of us. Also not terribly concerned about 64-bit type promo since 16-bit is usually what fast DSP wants, and the language today doesn't make that easy.

Lastly consider that C was designed at a research laboratory. If there's one thing researchers love to do, it's what I like to call "yolo coding" which is perfectly valid use case of getting experimental / prototyping code written in a way where one needn't care too much about language formalities and best practices. It'd be great if the standards committee acknowledged that as being a legitimate use case (similar to how "high level assembler" is explicitly acknowledged), because future revisions of the language should ideally maintain as much of the original intentions as possible. See also: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html (Note: I think dmr goes too far here, but interesting bit of history to think about, now that everything that isn't char is implicitly noalias!)

In other words, let us choose. Please don't force us.
macOS is POSIX compliant.
See the whole point about history. All you're doing is crying about it :(

Here's a question: when a native Chinese speaker reads a Japanese text, do they want to see it in Chinese style or Japanese style? If the former, then just know that that's their preference and always use their preference -- easy fix. If the latter... you need to know the language of a text (or sub-text), and that requires either language tags or language recognition.

I expect it's the latter, to make it easier to recognize foreign text, which is not necessarily easy to read. After all, native Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speakers who don't speak the other languages can only glean so much meaning from Han/Kanji text in the others' languages. That's because while often ideographic characters are used for (common) meaning, sometimes they are used for the sounds of the words they identify but not their meanings.
> there are so few cases in California because of the measures that have been taken

This is probably true, but other countries haven't locked down hard and aren't seeing a big spread. Our options aren't binary. It's not as if the only choice is "Nuke everything" or "Surrender".

The US is not a very densely populated country, and density seems to have the biggest impact on the spread of this thing. We probably could do something like this:

- Dense city? Quarantine.
- Moderately dense? High risk individuals quarantine, everyone else social distances, but works.
- etc

Across the board, if your business is the sort that can WFH (such as software companies), then you do work from home. If not, then you're open, but with precautions. Restaurants are open, but pickup only, etc.

The point is, we've used a nuke, and it's not at all clear to me that that was the right decision.
The attached spreadsheet is basically I've been waiting to see. I figured from the title of this post that's what this would be. Everyone I talk to is asking, "Now what? Do we just keep doing this until there's a vaccine?" This post is "California's Roadmap" as in California the government, not California the public. They all seem like questions they should have been asking themselves at least a month ago.

Sure, keep the green columns internal, but broadcast the "Levels" and restrictions, incorporate your bullet points (like temp checks). That way people can prepare for moving to "Level 4" with a rough timeline. With a possible second wave and next fall/winter being inevitable I don't think anyone would be surprised about moving backward.

Personally, I'm not upset by this. It just doesn't seem very useful to the public.
You mean, less than 1/8th WAS online.
A lot of people criticize Wolfram, but I think the project he's pursuing is definitely worthwhile. Quantization has proven to be an incredibly powerful tool, and it's only the first step to turning our continuous physics into a discrete model.

Starting with cellular automata is flipping the table over and starting the game anew, starting with discrete models instead of continuous models, with the ultimate goal of producing a purely discrete theory for all of physics.

Discretizing everything has the potential to provide new mathematical tools and new insights that our continuous theories might obscure. There's a lot of hidden computation in the reals and complex numbers that a discrete theory would have to explicitly unpack, and some of these details might potentially shed light on some real puzzles.
>Are you being facetious with the fake news reference?

Not really. Broadcast news is ad-supported too--hence the decline in quality. You either have subscriptions--ad-supported, or taxpayer supported--as has been historically the case in the UK. So, yes, if ads don't work, either only the wealthier get access to higher quality news, people use libraries (good luck with that), or the government funds (which has its own source of issues).

Someone needs to pay for it.
I have no problem using their messaging, it allows me and my clients to exchange information and upload files too.

The tracking tools is just as it should be. I don't want a keylogger, so the fact that they simply count keystrokes and mouse clicks is good enough to not step too much into privacy zone.

Payments are held for a week in order to allow the paying customer to analyze screenshots, and if necessary to allow for complaints to be filed.

As for local currency withdrawal, I'd say they don't make a dime on that one at all. That's completely based on your local bank currency exchange rate, which is always skewed for them to make a buck too. Also they have plenty of different payment methods. And in the end it doesn't even matter.

Care to share any better online market for freelancers that you're happy with instead Upwork?
Isn't that legal if they are all in a union?
How many businesses are not going to recover at all after this is all over?
It’s preventing one to three million Americans from dying this year. How much is that worth to you.
Are there any examples of milder social distancing without extensive testing and contact tracing that has been effective? There are certainly a lot of examples of delayed or poorly enforced / adhered social distancing that has proved to be ineffective.
Framing the debate as "your grandma or your 401k" is precisely the gas lighting that prevents rational discussion on this topic
what you said is probably true. And it does not contradict “the cure should not be worse than the disease” statement
I rip on surface fleets as being floating reef fodder that would be sunk almost immediately against any modern power, either because of the sophistication of submarines, the rise of cheap drones winning the economic exchange, or death-from-above missles and ICBMs that are basically undefendable.

But against subs I'm surprised there aren't plans for a drone-net that surrounds a fleet or high value ship that can detect incoming underwater threats via some mesh networking.
I'd be on board defunding the fed gov as well!
Not all cities issued a shelter in place in California at the same time. Bay Area was early, and then the state issued one a week later. You think you’d see a hot spot somewhere in the state but doesn’t appear to be the case. Unclear to me that SIP is the main reason why we have few cases vs if we just required face masks and social distancing while keeping more businesses open.
> Believe in what?

The idea that using logistics technology to enable fast and efficient delivery of household goods is a nice thing to have in our world?

> For those people they would support all policies for the greater company good.

That's just a narrative you are constructing. Obviously it doesn't apply to the whistleblowers in question here or they wouldn't have spoken out in the first place.
> Depends a lot on the specifics. For example heartbleed was a misread that led to the buffer being sent on the socket. And I think it was more than 32 bits. 32 bits of garbage into a log file that needs privileges to read sounds a tad less scary, but like I say, not out of the question to be harmful.

If you can do it a lot of times, though, that changes matters.
Sweden has far fewer cases and death rate without a massive lockdown. If this disease is really so deadly, why isn’t their country being massively depopulated? Same for states in the US that haven’t implemented any lockdown measures.
A lot of businesses are affected during the outbreak. Some of my friends have lost their jobs. Recession will definitely takes place during and after the pandemic.
> Many third-party libraries for Windows do not support Unicode: they accept narrow string parameters and pass them to the ANSI API. Sometimes, even for file names. In the general case, it is impossible to work around this, as a string may not be representable completely in any ANSI code page (if it contains characters from a mix of Unicode blocks). What is normally done by Windows programmers for file names is getting an 8.3 path to the file (if it already exists) and feeding it into such a library. It is not possible if the library is supposed to create a non-existing file.

Yikes. That's a fascinating use of 8.3 paths. Sometimes when I look at really old Windows cruft I wonder when it will go away. 8.3 paths seemed like an easy thing to get rid of, but with 8.3 paths used to hack around encoding issues in 3rd party libraries... that's going to stick around...

Anyone know which libraries this is talking about?
So fun trivia. A nautical mile is one minute of latitude (1/60th of a degree). The meter was originally 1/10,000,000th of the equator to the north pole. So I'd argue the nautical mile was more logical than the statute mile, in this respect.

This is also why you can rough 1knot:2km; you're dividing those 10,000,000 old-world-meters by 5400 (90°*60').
I wonder why nobody pays for newspapers, yet podcasts and talk radio shows pull in millions of dollars annually.
Agree. The opposite(adult version ) is a very first world perspective. I grew up in the developing world and in my short stay there, I remember so many more traumatic events than covid SIP..which..honestly..feels like an extended holiday...what with Netflix and zoom and home deliveries.

I am also painfully..albeit with a giggle..aware that I am probably channeling Monty Python and their Four Yorkshiremen skit.

https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE ..
I'm surprised. I'd think online news would be one of the industries benefitting from this crisis. Is the revenue tied to lack of conversions on online ads?
A source for what you are saying is the linked SF article [1] which indicates that of ~3k evidently sick people with flu symptoms, 0.1-1% were confirmed to have COVID-19. Though note this is not random population sampling, on an interesting scale, so ignores asymptomatic question. Worldwide analysis of death rates [2], indicates #infected-so-far = 700-1600 x #dead so far. And data from Iceland [3], the only country with widespread sampling of asymptomatic population, is aligned with these numbers. Based on the analysis and support from Iceland, Covid-19 testing to see if patients actively have the disease are likely inaccurate and also a policy of only permitting testing of severe symptom patients is depressing reported numbers of once infected.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/Think-you-got-the...

[2] Analysis of #infected today from #dead today, using following assumptions:

1. death statistics are reliable, since cause of death tests can adequately collect fluid samples (a major source of inaccuracy in COVID-19 testing), source = talking to medical staff at Bay Area sites.

2. E[days between first infection and death] = 14 (lost the source at the moment),
Therefore, number of dead today D => number of infected 14 days ago = 100 D

3. rate of death increase consistently trends around 25%/day or 15% with full lockdown, source CDC situation reports worldwide excluding regions with restricted access to journalists

4. therefore, #infected today = #infected 14 days ago growing at 25% daily = 22X, or 7X if your region was locked down for last 2 weeks

5. so #infected=2200D or 700D

[3] Last week, CDC reported 2 deaths today for Iceland, and admittedly-non-random sampling by DeCode indicated upto 1% of population have/had virus, upto 3600. Iceland has done strict quarantining of confirmed and suspected cases, and extensive testing since February, so despite no lockdown, I would put them at the 700X end of the estimate. They report ~1000 confirmed cases, so they would actually estimate 3600-1000 infected so far. My estimate would have indicated 2200-700 X D (= today's deaths, 2) = 4400 to 1400 cases.
Actually the garden centers in a store like Meijers or a Walmart are closed as well. So people can buy food or prescription medicine or lawn furniture but not garden seed or fertilizer.
Oh, I see. If your cube is exactly 4x4x4, and you loop it in each dimension, then it's topologically equivalent to an order-6 hypercube with a node on each vertex.

In the general case, you need log2(N) connections in each direction to turn an NxN or NxNxN topology into a hypercube, so it's not as simple as "left/right". (For example, for N=8, you might connect each position to position xor 1, position xor 2, and position xor 4.)
Running `git log --reverse` on any overwhelming mature project will give you commits in reverse from "Initial commit" to "Updated README.md" to "Add utils".

Do `git show COMMIT_HASH` for the first ones and you'll see the genesis.

You're looking at the result of thousands of commits, each one having required countless hours of thinking and coding. This can be overwhelming.

Here[0] are some tips that help getting to know a codebase. Some may be irrelevant.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100
1. Your hypothetical isn't a possibility. The numbers do not reflect that possibility, not even close.

2. Even if it were a possibility, it's that vs. shutting down peoples lives for a very long time. "Is your life worth my liberty?" - that's something we fundamentally disagree on.
May I know how many replicas and CACHE_OWNERS do you have?
I personally think something should have been done, but it's an open question if we went too far or not far enough and am willing to listen to the argument that we went too far. It's unlikely what was done was the absolute perfect policy prescription given all the trade offs involved.

Personally I'm looking to Sweden's data, a country that instituted some social distancing measures (no crowds above 50) but not all (Restaurant dine in still open) for some clarity. Their numbers are worse than Denmark's right now but not absurdly so (2x deaths per capita).
Italy was one of the first countries to issue a travel ban on Chinese travelers.

South Korea never issued a travel ban.

In order for a travel ban to be effective, it has to be for all incoming travelers. Not just for a specific country.
So long, and thanks for all the packages
Not just different pronunciations. ê isn't about pronunciation but about indicating that "there used to be an 's' after this e". French written w/o circumflex accents doesn't change in pronunciation, not really, nor -mostly- in meaning, but it does look very annoying to French speakers as well as to native speakers of other Romance languages: the reason is that that reminder is in fact useful for translation.

I'm guessing Han unification is at least annoying like losing circumflex accents would be.
This goes both ways, though. If you act early-- and way over-react-- and it works, you get to claim to be the savior of the country, even though the reaction was disproportionate.

There's no way to disprove it.
You seem to believe that 'stocks' are some abstract entity and are relevant only to the lives of people without grandmas to hang.

We don't live in a vacuum. Economic activity is not some cute thing people do in their free time. Recession also costs lives, including those of some grandmas.
Well, they don't need to be rechargable...
Do you want to see all Han texts in your preferred style, or do you want to see them in the style corresponding to the language they were written in?
> “hang your Grandma for my stocks”

But people feed their children using the value of their stocks.

Do you think it's possible that a seriously damaged economy will lead to more suffering and deaths than are being prevented by the lockdown?
Outstanding article, very informative, but the tense and tone is slightly amusing to me:

> Actual underwater combat occurs silently with very little reaction time to fend off an impending attack.

Does it occur? Do we have any examples of "actual underwater combat" occurring? I don't believe we have any real life examples of nations withs submarine capabilities in combat. War games probably don't count...
I would say the way the founder structured the company and self-delt so highly in his own favor - selling the "We" trademark to the company from himself for several milion dollars, buying buildings himself and then leasing them by the company from himself, etc - was certainly fraudulent.
That isn't a debunking of the NYT's story. It is a debunking of an interpretation of the story that many made due to either news illiteracy or malicious intent. That line got shared all over the place out of context. In context it was not the focus of the piece and was instead buried in the details as a disclaimer regarding the larger issue of who profits from this drug. Snopes isn't disputing anything actually reported by the NYT.
> This is probably true, but other countries haven't locked down hard and aren't seeing a big spread.

Which countries might that be? If you're referring to South Korea, they're ahead of the game enough on testing for this to be workable (unlike us). If you're referring to anyone else, they're simply not at that point yet in the curve, but will arrive there.
I submit that you don't know what gaslighting is. Further, I submit that you're attempting to coopt the language of marginalized groups to buttress a weak and selfish viewpoint.

I shall not buy what you are selling.
The economic toll of shelter in place vs enforced social distancing + mask wearing while keeping most businesses open is huge though. I’m not convinced quarantine is/was necessary for most of the country, including California.
Bitbucket was certainly more generous than GitHub at the time. I used them too. Their problem was the pricing structure. The break between "free" and "all your money, please" felt pretty harsh. They always appeared to be pushing very industrial companion tooling (eg Jira) which might have suited enterprise customers but wasn't very helpful to a freelancer. That's pretty common in SaaS. Enterprise is easier than volume.

By contrast GitLab's tiers are... Cheap. And it's perfectly feasible to do professional, modern CI flows on their free tier.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next.
Webflow vs. Squarespace
KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly language
As I mentioned I had been a subscriber for 30 years.

And no, I am not missing your point. There was a clear change in direction a few years ago - as I mentioned, I sensed it, but was not aware of the ownership change at the time.

You either did not notice or you just started reading them - good for you. Enjoy.
Sweden. Also look how different states/counties are affected in US
In no realistic permutation. Thanks for asking!
It does, because the statement “the cure should not be worse than the disease” insinuates we’re overreacting.
Django is fantastic, unfortunately its template language is not so great. Using Vue like this has allowed us to be far more productive than using either in isolation.

Another tip would be to give django-admin a try when building dashboard projects (you can customize the look and feel quite a bit, ours are usually unrecognizable).
Big disagree with this concept. If the article is accurate, it prevents Regina Daniels or any other beneficiaries from accumulating significant wealth in the the property, because resale (or presumably home equity loan) values are capped. So what does she get out of it? More stability for her family and a capped mortgage payment every month, yes, but no real chance to actually accumulate wealth. It's basically blocking the way in which the poor can join the middle class (yes I think index funds are a better investment than real estate, but I think owning your own home is perfectly fine for a lower income family).

A better idea would be to deregulate housing and let developers build condos there, and she could buy one (or I'd be totally fine with government assistance in her buying one!) Way more efficient use of the land, and she could accumulate real wealth that way
Various European countries. Sweden comes to mind.
You knew it was folly...Some people want rationalize rather than observe.

Our government's situation looks an awful lot like ignorance and error, not malice.
maybe the advertisers are hurting and pulling their money? idk probably not but just a guess
Thanks. This is helpful information.
It's tied to lack of ad spending. This is global across the entire advertising industry. Companies are spending less because of the pending recession and in particular they're spending a lot less on advertising, because people are not buying much right now (they often aren't even going anywhere for days at a time).