skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1250170016504430595

@MarkLevineNYC
BREAKING: NYC publishes, for first time, data on fatalities that includes "probable" cases (those without a confirmed test result).

It has pushed the death toll in NYC up by 57%.

Was 6,589 before this adjustment. Now stands at 10,367. This is a painful but necessary accounting.
What you are describing is an analog computer or circuit. These definitely exist, I had to build a circuit to model the physics of a bouncing ball in a Circuits class in college. However, I don't know how often analog computers are used in professional/practical applications these days. Here is some more info: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/not-your-father...
> Modern games have issues with even 6c/6t CPUs

Any idea why?
Search for a Covid-19 vaccine heats up in China, US
Not exactly the masterpieces that the article promised
Yeah, it's really easy. You can setup multiple realms and then have completely separate realm admin roles for each. Each realm admin will have their own admin console and login URL
Oh, so I just dump imaginary email addresses their stupid input field, until something takes.

They TRY to ask the mail domain if your user id represents a valid email inbox, but if your email provider doesn't support their request, NYT may bounce as unverifiable.

Just shit in their retarded database with wild guesses, until it spams someone random and unknown with an account sign-up message. Then read their uninformative garbage, laugh at how useless they are as a news outlet, wash, rinse, repeat, haphazardly providing email addresses that don't belong to you as you go.
He missed that Notes on the Synthesis of Form inspired the software design perspectives of coupling and cohesion
As a layman bystander walking by: What makes Stephen Wolfram controversial?
Imagine what a mind-fuck it must have been to be on the Manhattan project! They probably wondered if they would be responsible for the end of humanity...and I guess the jury is still out on that one.
I think the benefit is not needing to grok, debug or re-invent every neckbeard's special shell script. Just declare your desired state and move on to other things.
Static Site Generators to Watch in 2020
How should I represent Unicode in memory?! UTF8? 16? 32bit integers? I keep hearing pros and cons of all the previous three. Is there a consensus? In cases where you don’t need a full blown Unicode lib.
In related news I have noticed that most things I search on Google don't show any ads at all. I went hunting for it and found that common household items are showing ads, but other things don't. And most certainly there is no obnoxiousness like an entire page of ads before the content.
The USP of h3 isn't peak performance, it's 95th percentile latencies.
I don't understand what you are saying. If deaths from covid continued at the current rate without increasing, then there would be about 2 million by the end of the year, about 1/4th of your number for tobacco.

But if people didn't take drastic action, do you think it would not double at least twice more? That's only two weeks of 10% growth per day. And where would it stop?
Instagram Rival VSCO Cuts a Third of Staff as Its Business Changes 'Overnight'
The article is outdated, it's from 2012. Not only they fixed the problems but in Windows 10 1803 they also added an option to globally and permanently set both OEM and ANSI(!) codepages to 65001.

It can be enabled by checking "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" checkbox in region settings.
Ok, but who actually uses that?
Are you looking for mbstowcs() or mbtowc() ?
what gets really messy is the training data. Renaissance paintings are (hopefully?) all public domain, but what would be the case if I used living artists' work, or the collection of disney cartoons?
So, in case you aren't being facetious,

1. different species foster different microbiomes, you're better off looking at studies of actual human dietary impact on gut bacteria: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478664

2. gut bacteria isn't necessarily bad (but having no gut bacteria is bad)
The US cannot record data it doesn't have. Covid is only the cause of death if the deceased had Covid; and we cannot know that unless we can test them. In aggragate, we can sidestep this issue by looking at excess death, but that is non-trivial (particuarly because the behavioural changes mean that we would expect other causes of death to differ in unknown ways). At the end of this, I would expect to get fairly accurate estimates for how many died to Covid, but while we are in the middle of it, the numbers are very murky.
You are missing my point: this has always been their editorial stance. It may have always been a reason not to read them if you're not into it, but it's not a new reason.
I'm curious how you manage upgrades. I am in the process of rolling Keycloak out to production now and the only thing I don't quite grok is how to do zero-downtime upgrades. It seems like the upgrade may make backwards-incompatible changes the DB schema. Do you replicate the entire database for the upgraded environment?
I know it's the CPU but the board I linked is a very rare standard ATX board, almost all boards are proprietary.

I presume you could build an insane fast fileserver with a real lot of M.2 disks and multiple 100GbE ports?
Thank you for this, that was a really excellent read. Nothing better than old computer architecture and some early ML!
Neither works as well as bother together. There are lots of places I go without my phone. There are lots of places I wouldn't report going, but the phone data would say otherwise.
Based on the memory layout of arrays, which AFAIK is defined rather strictly by the standard, a[0][2] will be the same as a[1][0].
99 year leases are common in many countries. You still get equity and you can still sell the house. If you don't sell before the lease is up and they don't renew the lease, they still need to compensate for the value of the house before kicking you out.
Builds on macOS and Windows already depleted your minutes credit with a multiplier (Windows 2x, macOS 10x), so this shouldn't change anything

https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-bi...
The article is literally about preventing speculation by capping resale prices. That's pretty much equivalent to preventing buying and selling.
Airbnb Set to Raise $1B in Debt from Apollo, Oaktree
Kid, referring to it as “my” definition makes you look like an idiot arguing in bad faith. Buy a dictionary.
I've been working from home for 9 1/2 years, and I really like it.

It suits me-- I'm more of a quiet, research-type worker.

But some of my friends are more 'cubicle hoppers' / social butterflies. I really don't think those folks would do well with it in the long term.
Really wish they would take reasonml seriously
There are some add-with-saturation opcodes in 8bit-element-size SIMD ISAs, I think that includes x86_64, some recent Nvidia GPUs, and the Raspberry Pi 1's VideoCore IV's strange 2D-register-file vector unit made for implementing stuff like VP8/H.264 on it. They are afaik always opt-in, though.
Sorry, I can't even discuss this with you. I rather disagree - this is what the whole "military-industrial complex" is about - but it's off-topic and forbidden.
Exactly. About 780Gflops/$ for Tesla V100 and 460Gflops/$
(peak) for the Epyc 7742.

I was very surprised it was this close. I thought the accelerator would be an order of magnitude cheaper per double Gflop. And AMD isn't using AVX512, yet.
Why can't the following be a warning?

int foo(bar *x)
{
x->blah = 0;
if (x == NULL) ...
...
}

And produce something like "NULL check removed---pointer used before check"?
I don't understand why at risk people don't just stay at home. Why lock everybody else up? Enough is enough, kids need to go back to school and people need to go back to work.

This document seems hand-wavy and doesn't answer anything.
Come down hard on his people? Probably come down hard on your manager.
> Programming languages are typically non-interactive and don't tolerate ambiguity at all.

Larry Wall vehemently disagrees.
Yeah, the internet trend of turning everything into hyperbole squared is obnoxious. These look like blurry insane asylum art projects. I don't think any reasonable person is going to look at this stuff and call it a masterpiece.
I've certainly talked myself into 'correcting' unit tests that didn't agree with bad code
One interesting point: "1,000 hours is also a good start, but given the generalization gap (discussed below) you need around 10,000 hours of data in different domains."

Many of the companies working in this space who aren't Google/Amazon target less general domains, using domain-specific languages models to skirt around the lack of annotated acoustic data. But the lack of annotated acoustic data is a real problem, so any effort to provide data to everyone (particularly for a non-English language) is extremely admirable. I applaud the OpenSTT team for their work.
Been hearing this for a while. The future sure comes slow?

It's a great protocol and system but not a great product/brand.
The idea of automorphic forms as analogous to symmetric colorings of a tesselation that shrinks on the boundary is a way more intuitive description than the mathematical definition of automorphic forms. So yes, I do feel like I know more about them from that definition versus the definition of invariance under subgroup action.

And for the second quote, I took it to mean that the subset of automorphic forms that map to Diophantine equations can be used to generate an infinite sequence that maps to quantum energy levels which I believe means maps to the number of electrons in the orbit of the nucleus (2, 8, 18,...) etc.
Amazon for Animal Crossing Goods
I’ve never installed a “fast food app”, do I not have a “basic understanding of the world”?

Or are you being completely sarcastic.
I don’t really understand how the #P”” “strings” aren’t différent from strings.
I get where you are comming from, but from sales perspective, charging extra for SSO makes total sense.
Literally, i.e. the fabric of space-time.

Then particles and energy are patterns in the graph -- that we can describe useful physics in terms of the graph, but that the graph just is, it's not a description or approximation of something deeper.

Unless there's a semantic difference you're getting at that I'm not aware of?
We did have a similar Artie and discussion yesterday about how people making videos for/on Google see the viewing skyrocketing and ad-revenue collapsing. Nobody is selling this nobody advertised, plus the (thank you - I haven't thought of this) when crises hit, the ad budget is the first one to get slashed.
Ohh, so they’re kinda like date objects?
Hey Thomas, you actually kind of started me in web app security. You interviewed me for Matasano, and when I told you I didn't have experience with web apps, you overnighted me a copy of The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. You ultimately made me an offer, but after difficult deliberation, I ended up joining iSEC. Thanks again for sending me the book! It's been tremendously helpful.

I 100% agree that people shouldn't design systems this way, and if I were still a pentester, I'd write it up if I found it. But if the implementation correctly checked the domain and verified it was https:// (and maybe did some cert pinning), I couldn't justify anything higher than low severity.

We've kind of gone way into the weeds on my made up example, but it was initially in response to this:

>> > I think the author is partially at fault for repeatedly failing to communicate the issue clearly.

> I disagree. The first sentence of the report includes "HTTP", "man in the middle attack" and "store.steampowered.com" ... If that isn't clear to someone, they are not sufficiently trained to triage vulnerability reports.

I just disagree with the idea that any plaintext HTTP request in an app inherently is a vulnerability.
Over the course of US history, housing costs match GDP growth. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.32.1.3.

Housing is first and foremost a place to live; financializing it has really been a big effort (and mistake) since the '70s. https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-...
As bad as WHO may be, the US Federal government was and is far worse on all the same points.

Swapping in Trump and Kushner for WHO is not an improvement.
Or to get him under a Non-Disparagement Agreement camouflaged in employment :)
NASA awards robotic lunar landing contract to Masten Space Systems
This is an interesting time for ads since people can’t buy most of the things.
or they reachead a sweet monopoly spot and those sales reps are competing among themselves.
They applied the combination of shoe leather and tech effectively. I think tech on its own without a robust public health infrastructure would be pretty ineffective, but the latter on its own could do well.

https://khn.org/news/how-do-we-exit-the-shutdown-hire-an-arm...
> Rust is one of the few programming languages that correctly doesn’t treat file paths as strings.

Rust is one of a few programming languages that incorrectly treat strings as if it were a coherent concept distinct from byte buffers.

Among those, it has the distinction of not forcing file paths into this inherently incorrect model.

(In practice, if you have a type system that can distinguish arbitrary byte buffers from ones with a known encoding, that is far from the most useful thing to distinguish about them anyway.)
And every year there's a new batch of suckers.
Coming from Travis CI and GitLab CI, GitHub Actions was very intuitive and I had it running in the very first take.

The concept of actions is new, but it is brilliant compared to traditional approach of doing everything inside the CI jobs, or bring your own docker images.
It’s really hard to read. Love the idea though
Yeah I thought that was very odd as well; the intersection of the two stubs seemed inevitable. Not like a last minute correction at all. I think the article must be taking him wildly out of context. At the same time, we have this:

"After giving that only a few hours' thought, I realized that the world in which Hillary won wouldn't be a happy world either"

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I can only interpret it as: he was writing it as a somewhat happy world, then thought he would need to revise to make it less happy, and then realized that it should never have been happy at all. Which just seems odd, given his style.

That being said, he did discuss a lot of revision due to current events in this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gi...

Anyways the whole article is hard to follow, I love me some NPR but this misquote was rough: Gibson is quoted as referring to "an uploaded healing consciousness" whereas if you listen to the audio it is clearly "an uploaded human consciousness", which makes _much_ more sense.
Could I understand the effort this way? In general any Turing complete set of computational rules should be able to generate any computable expression and hopefully physics can be expressed with computable expressions (at least if it is at all comprehensible to humans). So you are looking for a particular set of rules (instead of
the English language and math symbols, e.g.) that meet certain kind of aesthetics. Do you expect only valid physics to be expressed or is the research on the kind of restriction that will lead to only valid physics being expressed?
Why do you think that the WHO bears no responsibility for spreading misinformation? Often times they simply repeat CCP propaganda verbatim, arguably worsening the crisis. Then there's the flagrant lies about masks, calling travel bans ineffective then scrambling to change tone, delaying declarations of status, etc etc.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152

The WHO also isn't really doing anything on the ground (besides finger waving countries into giving them billions of dollars).

Their legacy is delay, confusion, misinformation, outright lies and incompetence.
As a former member of Azure DevOps, I've heard from my colleagues that the Work Items and Agile features are totally in maintenance mode
Except we already make most of our air-based strikes from drones currently, so that can't be the reason we have SOME piloted planes.
Contagion (Movie) Advisors Discuss What They Got Right and Wrong
Note that POSIX requires that object pointers and function pointers are the same for dlsym.
Which one? There’s two!
> Co Sider biology. What is the last major biology idea that made a huge public splsh? DNA? The human genome sequence? But are biologists stuck the world round? Of course not there have been hundreds if not thousands of notable biology findings in the past 20 years.

Human genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 a few years ago was pretty big tbh.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4417674
Coronavirus: US to halt funding to WHO, says Trump
That's right. You can also use a PCIe expansion chassis (there are already ones supporting PCIe 4.0), giving you plenty of space for dual-slot-width cards.
Top militaries can be several years ahead in secret capabilities. Curious how much of what’s described is actually operational today.
Tale of Two Razors – Occam and Hanlon
Death of a Traveling Salesman Puzzle
They got comfortable with Moore's Law, which in fairness, had held for a long time, and continued to use the model that increasing feature density quadratically was a linear problem. Now, it turns out that once you get near the 10nm gate size range, the difficulty diverges from linear to exponential (and perhaps even higher eventually as some hard limit is approached).

That, and Intel isn't an innovative company anymore. Now they are a process company riding on their manufacturing dominance and x86 market share. It looks a lot like Apple under Tim Cook, except add another decade since there was innovative leadership (Andy Grove). They are a few consultants removed from IBM at this point.
this is probably a little overly cautious relative to the actual reduction in risk (you'd have to be especially unlucky to get infected just from regular breathing in a grocery store), but not terribly unreasonable, particularly for those with co-morbidities.

but i routinely see people with masks and gloves on while walking outside. not shopping, or going to shop, just walking. it's so odd, and frankly, wasteful.
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.
We looked at Okta, Auth0 and Cognito when shopping for an identity/auth solution. If you have pretty vanilla requirements then a SaaS solution will probably be easier. Keycloak is not the easiest thing in the world to deploy (although it's pretty straightforward to deploy on k8s using https://github.com/codecentric/helm-charts/tree/master/chart...).

If you need a lot of customizations then Keycloak is great since it has a really robust architecture for writing extensions. It's also pretty cheap to run so if cost is a major consideration it's definitely worth a look.
This page seems to omit it, but there was a third book in the Pattern Language series where he applies the ideas to a small complex in a city in Oregon. Sadly, I read somewhere that this got tangled in local politics and was ultimately crushed.

The ideas of anyone as truly gifted as Alexander are doomed to failure, at least within their lifetimes. One look at our current celebrated architecture fills me with mourning for what could have been.
Integer overflow is more than a 1% performance boost, as it lets you do a lot of things with loops.
i'm very confused about how I can get from these pretty graphs to all of these : https://physics.info/equations/
Incredible, with that much money, they could have given every American a million dollars a month, and still have a lot left over. I feel like a million dollars could help a lot of families right now.
Question for everyone in this thread: what resources do you use to follow this stuff? Are there blogs or conferences or ... that I should follow if I'm interested in this topic?
Do you think the state enforced atheism has any role?
They do, even at $4/mo/user plan.
> You can NOT concatenate two UTF-8 streams and expect that the resulting stream is also a valid UTF-8 stream.

Actually you can; the ability to concatenate UTF-8 streams is an intentionally part of the design of UTF-8. The BOM is an ordinary Unicode code point and can occur in the middle of a valid UTF-8 stream, where it should be treated as either a zero-width non-breaking space or an unsupported character (which only affects rendering). So concatenating two UTF-8 streams with leading BOMs still results in a valid UTF-8 stream, albeit with an extra zero-width space.

The bigger problem with the BOM is that it breaks transparent compatibility with ASCII. Absent a leading BOM character, a UTF-8 steam containing only codepoints 0-127 is binary-identical to an ASCII-encoded text stream and can be handled with tools that are not UTF-8 aware. This was an explicit design consideration for both Unicode and UTF-8. Add the BOM, however, and your file is no longer plain text, which can lead to syntax errors or other issues that are difficult to diagnose because the BOM is invisible in UTF-8 aware text editors.

I think the BOM was a mistake—along with the variable-length multi-byte encodings it was created to support—but unfortunately at this point we're stuck with it. (Actually the BOM is prohibited in the multi-byte formats with an explicit byte order, like UTF-16BE; it would have been really nice if the same policy had been applied to UTF-8 where byte order is irrelevant.) The best we can do is recommend that new programs omit the BOM when outputting UTF-8 and either skip it at the beginning or convert it to U+2060 WORD JOINER anywhere else when it appears in the input.
why doesnt it make any sense to you?
I think it just means it's unnecessary. Just disarm the warhead (or inert it) and shut off the torpedo like they describe in the article. The donating part is pointless.
The reason why your solution is not good is because it pigeon holes the government into expectations. The government doesn't have a crystal ball as to how this all plays out, they need to have the flexibility to change how they want to respond to each situation without having to defend an ultimatum.

For example, even in your own example here are several situations you didn't account:

-- The availability of tests for the public at large

-- Whether we're doing temperature checks everywhere

-- Whether we're requiring people to download a contact tracing app

-- How much capacity we have in the hospital system even though cases are going down

-- If we can find a drug that helps shorten the time people spend in a hospital

-- If we find new information like masks don't help or they greatly help

-- We run out of swabs but cases are low

There are a lot of factors that has to go into how the government changes the rules and while it might make it easier for the public to be at ease when the rules are hard, it also makes it a lot harder to adjust the rules.

I think being upset at the government is your right, but I also think you should channel your energy into something more productive and thank that at least in California we acted a lot faster than other areas of the country.

I think Governor Cuomo said something very interesting the other day, to paraphrase, when he was asked whether he should've started stay at home earlier and if that would've saved lives. Of course it would have, but the interviewer is not taking into account compliance and public sentiment. Likewise, for you, I think you're viewing this problem from a very individualistic point of view to get strict rules on what happens when, but you're not accounting for the edge cases where the government needs a backdoor to change the rules with new information and to play it close to public sentiment.