skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generally worried about this sort of thing as well, and wish people were looking into this.

However, we have pretty good estimates on how many people will die if we don't shelter and isolate, and I think that trumps what would inevitably be some very vague guesses as to how many people might die as side effects of sheltering and isolation.

And regardless, many of those potential deaths could be preventable with the right focus on mental health and financial support during and after the lockdown. (Not saying we do have the right focus; I expect we definitely don't. But that's not a reason to give up on isolation.)
Ah I misread. That definitely fixes the problem!
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele (1998)
I bought a few ads, and I can see that others have too since this was posted.

If nothing else, this could add some easy exposure for my personal side project.

I think enough time has passed since "million dollar homepage" that this could get some modest attention.

It'd be neat if open source projects used a similar monetization scheme.
I only come here to watch nerds argue. I don't even read the articles, I just skip right to the comments where someone with a math degree itemizes every incorrect statement and then someone with an economics degree tells them why they are wrong about those. Anywhere else this is bad behavior, but this is a safe space for pedants, and I love you all. Also, you are wrong.
I have a serious medical condition. Germ control is my life and I already do remote work.

So far, the lock down has mostly been positives for me. Other people are making more of an effort at germ control than usual. A few meetings I usually attend have been cancelled and I've been working on a project via a virtual group I set up months ago.

I am hearing scary things, like one third of Americans didn't pay their rent this month. But I also am seeing the local Little Caesar's spring back to life after being on the verge of shutting down due to a lack of business. People are calling in orders and ordering online and business is back up to more normal levels.

The world has been on the brink before. I think we already have a lot of pieces in place, such as the ability to do online banking and remote work, for mitigating the worst of it and using it as an opportunity to transform the economy into something that reduces the odds of future pandemics.
I'm just jumping in where I saw a misunderstanding :) I think that's what they mean by unordered as that makes sense with the numbers (I think).

To some degree I agree, but there are also a lot of cases where different orders aren't distinguishable easily. "Light bright red" and "bright light red" is the best I can come up with quickly but I'm sure you get the idea.
1 ms... Do you live in their datacenter? I sadly don't even get that kinda RTT inside my own house.
Even in the case where the Urbit container and network are perfectly implemented and widely adopted, I'd imagine privacy as of the average user if not most users would continue to be compromised:

The plebs would end up authorizing liberal permissions to to watch some out-of-network UrbitTikTok video, even as we screamed at them not to. And the devs would be forced to enable some phone-home capabilities in exchange for access to their pro tools. Or go the jailbreak route and play a constant game of cat and mouse. In essence, if you're on the consumer side, it seems like you're not in a position to negotiate privacy terms regardless of whether you access the network in a centralized or p2p way.
Kind of plugging my own project here, but I too am a software developer that found great joy from breaking away from all the layers of abstraction and working directly with the hardware. I created a portable game system with the 6502:

http://www.dodolabs.io/
It's a lie because he knows he can't reasonably achieve anything he's promising on any of the stated timelines. It's Theranos but with cars.
Agree with your last bit, maybe better to go on unemployment depending on one's risk profile, health, and family status
It’s not just running out of ventilators. It’s running out of beds, out of nurses, out of doctors.

The world can’t support 500 million people needing hospitalization simultaneously, ventilators or not.

The fatality rate isn’t the number that scares me, it’s the 10% or so who need emergency care. Maybe that number is inflated, but even 5% would be a global disaster.
Wow, thanks for the heads-up on ActivityWatch! I used rescuetime a bit a few years ago, but I really couldn't justify using it on my work machine (where I spent most of my time).
we have extra monitoring for splunk forwarders, and even then we fail to notice them fail from time to time. Sigh.....
He's talking about physical constants, to which Benford's law applies (since we expect the first digits to be distributed the same when stated in different units, e.g. meters and feet, we expect there to be the same number of constants that start with 1 in meters as those that start in 3, 4 or 5 in feet (since 1m=3ft, 2m=6ft), etc').

In any unit you choose, about 30% of rivers on Earth and about 30% of public company market caps will start with a 1. This has nothing to do with people's preferences and everything to do with scale invariance.
There's a lot of discussion here about key exchange, and how you need to trust whatever service is managing the keys. From the demo, it looks like the key is basically a password. If you can share the password out-of-band through another secure channel (perhaps post it in a Signal chat or something), then your meeting should be secure. It can even be included as part of the link.

But then doesn't the Jitsi web server have to access password when you enter it on their website/have it in the link? Nope! It looks like they're putting the password in an anchor fragment in the URL, which is not sent to the web server [1]. So all encryption/decryption is being done client side (and is therefore real end-to-end encryption).

Yes, it's possible the web server is sending you evil JavaScript that is extracting your password anyway, but at least that's something you can in principle check. For all end-to-end encryption to work, you have to know your client is not compromised.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/3081862
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So they paid $1000 for 530k accounts. What's the use case of a stolen zoom account? To impersonate an institution this doesn't seem quite enough, so is it just lulz?
Nim also disallows tab: https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2hW9
The only good thing Ticketmaster ever did was employ Terry A. Davis.
I was nearly at the end before it occurred to me to wonder about references for all this. It's really light on actual facts while being generous with the rhetoric.
Pangolins Malasia I think are the next closest source genetically. China imports from there as well as Africa for TCM so but the known strains from bats are still match much much better.
I wonder if New Jersey has done the same ..
That's the eternal struggle in software engineering, I'm afraid. In my experience, there's no product that performs better with a more complete feature-set than the MVP from two years ago that exists only in the CEOs imagination, and was never really used by anyone. It takes a lot of knowledge and experience to understand why the very good solution that I run off my laptop once every week or two isn't at all the same as one that could handle hundreds of thousands of non-experts running it every minute.
I use it as my DNS server, so it's working fine, but that's a good idea. Unfortunately, my home router intercepts all DNS queries and reroutes them to its own dnsmasq (which forwards to 1.1.1.1), so I can't do a proper benchmark unless I disable it.

I do wonder what's going on, but here's my traceroute to 1.1.1.1:

https://www.pastery.net/zppyhe/

EDIT: I disabled my DNS interception and it looks like I do, indeed, get 1 ms latency:

https://www.pastery.net/bykmcp/
If you don't want to answer, it's totally fine.

What ad platform do you use? Google?
On Satuday a friend and I running our own synapse homeservers used Riot develop to set up cross signing and validate each other. On Monday we invited more friends who were on matrix.org to join us and ran into no end of trouble. In the end it seems like they ended up with plain old device signing. Was this regression, or a lack of support in matrix.org's homeservers?
It's a bit funny to see capitalist corporations making obscene amounts of money violating laws and ethics and trickling a bit of that ill-gained wealth down to software engineers, who then turn around and say everyone should have wealth like them and not need gov't assistance when their own company is one of the drivers of inequality...
For what it's worth, I find this genre of tongue-clucking more unnecessary, negative, and distracting.
Probably depends on whether or not there are articles involved.
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I've always wanted to do a chargeback!
I don't either, that's why I'm puzzled. Here's my traceroute:

https://www.pastery.net/zppyhe/

I do have a fiber connection to my ISP, but still, 1 ms is pretty low. I wonder if something else is replying, but I tried 1.1.1.2 as well and the latency is the same.
I have no idea what you are trying to convey.
They are on top of that. The purchaser does agree a contract with Ticketmaster as outlined in the "Terms of Use". It even has a Who You are Buying From section. So there are at least two contracts. One with the broker to provide the tickets, and another between the organizer and the customers as embodied in the "admit one" physical/electronic ticket. A Canadian court isn't going to destroy one agreed contract and ball it up under another.

https://help.ticketmaster.com/s/article/Purchase-Policy

"Who You Are Buying From:
Ticketmaster acts as the agent to those who provide events, such as venues, teams, artist representatives and fan clubs, promoters and leagues ("Event Providers"). We generally sell tickets on behalf of our clients including artists, teams, venues, and promoters, though in some rare instances we may own a small number of tickets as part of our services contract with the individual client."
Well that sounds like an aberration of neoliberalism. My point still stands though.
In layman's terms (the wikipedia is a terrible layman's description) - a congestion game is one where a particular strategy gets less attractive the more people choose to.

Advertising spending, for example in the context of tobacco advertisements, is actually a pretty classic example of what the person you are replying to said though. You'll have to clarify what you mean by making decisions atochastically and how exactly this ends up a congestion game. If everyone else is advertising their cigarette brand, your optimal strategy is to advertise as well, which is not a congestion game. You just end up with a dominant strategy of "advertise" for a differentiated product, which means it is better for you to advertise no matter what. It can also go the other way in advertising though. For example if you sell some undifferentiated product like a commodity, no individual wants to advertise since driving demand for the commodity helps everyone in the market while you have to bear the cost.
You're simply ignoring what I said and talking past it.
Pretty much anything I can think of. If someone get's my phone number they can bug me or identify me much more concretely/completely.

What threat model has a IP be worse to leak than a phone number?
New Zealand has banned any sports where someone could require emergency services: so no sea sports, no mountain sports, no hunting etc. This is in addition to other restrictions.

Everybody is too busy to help, and helping rescue others puts the rescuers at risk of Covid.
If those accounts belong to an org with SSO enabled and mediocre security, that’s a win for the crooks.
That assumes no investment in upgrading our hospital capacity and testing & PPE production.

At one end of the spectrum you have (mythically) infinite hospital capacity and staffing, testing capacity, and contact tracing ability. In that world, you reopen everything, and let people go about their lives.

At current capacity, we need to slow things down. If we can increase capacity enough in the coming weeks and months, we'll need to slow things down much less.
You are right, let's make defibrillator firmware magic numbers into dynamic variables you can set from a numerical input element on a publically accessible web page.
That'll learn 'em.

...or perhaps consider limiting the scope* of such advice...

disclosure: I know nothing about defibrillator firmware, but I'll wager that it has no malloc nor any embedded javascript engines...

*perhaps software intended to be modified or customized or modular etc.
Zoom is the Windows XP of video conferencing and the most secure approach to video is now to get on a different platform.
Having a panic attack and being tranquilized
By no means has Trump done a good job, but I don't think he deserves credit or blame for masks or the testing fiasco. CDC exists to prepare for and manage exactly this scenario and as far as I can tell, it's done neither. There's lots the president can do (and much of which he's failed to do) as well, so there's no shortage of blame to levy at him and his administration, but I'm far more concerned about the CDC's failure because the CDC will outlast any particular president.
Thank you!

Before the others come with torches, I’ll point out we turned on public/free access recently, would be happy to hear your thoughts/feedback on the MintData approach.
At least the movie Sneakers was serious about the math: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/math/sneakers.adleman.html
For all they know I could be a Certified Petrol Pump Master™.
Cute!

I'd love to be able to use my mouse as a mouse instead of just being locked to the camera.
Damn, Zoom can't catch a break.
I agree with this sentiment; I try to not test anything that renders. I don't want to test React's correct handling of the DOM and I don't want tests that fail if someone changes a div to a span. The stuff I'm looking to test tends to be the code that naturally feels like it belongs in a helper function.
A well planned "cold call" can break you into any industry.

In times of COVID-19 this does not apply, but if you go to a Subway franchise, a cafe or any kind of restaurant during off hours you might meet the owner or a manager. For years I've gone to the food court at the Subway at the mall and talked with the owner about business and life.
For me, I took 2 years off of programming entirely and did something completely unrelated (started a monthly subscription box, so mostly marketing/sales/procurement).

I was completely burned out and couldn't stand to code even side projects when I started the hiatus. When I was ready and got back into it again, the passion was 100% back. Still going strong 3 years since.
Lets see, I hope not :)
I changed it only for when you call it with just 1 argument, which is not valid normally. Otherwise it calls the original mv.
At this point in time though, who's to say the courts won't just let the commerce clause creep in its scope? It'll be pretty easy to argue that these lockdowns interfere with interstate commerce.
Agree with you about the pickup part, I think that's a reasonable pivot. I was only referencing the supply chain portion with the "well oiled machine" bit and was just worried about drastic changes that would significantly alter the functioning of the existing distribution of goods. I'm totally on board with all the the smaller optimizations you mention
No, I mean the search bar and some features of the app are slow.
Considering the creator, it seems in the vein of Davis's TempleOS. Not a prank, but also not a thing really built for it's utility for the wider world.
Take a 6 months break and don't use a computer during that time. Then see how you feel.
Hi - we certainly do have an API at transferwise. I'm in the product team. Drop me a line at n at transferwise dot com.

Nilan
In bash, you can do ctrl-w ctrl-y ctrl-y to cut paste paste as long as it doesnt have spaces
I would say it would be a great thing. It’s insane that monopolies like Ticketmaster have been allowed to control entire markets and charge whatever they want and do whatever they want because consumers have no alternative.
It was during the colder months. There were three of them on the path. I think it was a female and two adolescents. One of them tried to get closer to me by heading up the back of a hill. I threw a rock at it to deter it, then we turned around and headed back down.

The eyes and the way it moved in the dark were very catlike. I've not seen any bears or coyotes that would move like that.
Recovered coronavirus patients can donate plasma
GrubHub, Doordash accused in suit of pushing prices higher
What was it about JavaScript that wanted you to leave programming? I'm just curious.
Hey - if you are interested in using the TransferWise API to power your payments drop me a line: n at tranferwise dot com

Nilan
And Sodipodi started as a fork of Gill:
https://www.levien.com/svg/

Here is the “Secret Origin of SVG” per the W3C:
https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Secret_Origin_of_SVG
Part one: https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2019/10/deconstructing-seg...
You describe it as if people are enjoying the experience. People around me are desperate to get out of the house, have some genuine human interaction, get their jobs back, maybe go to a bar or restaurant with some friends, go on a date, etc etc etc. And you can still get random stuff on amazon. And I dont know what " simpler, less expensive pleasures" you are referring to, but people are spending way more time on Netflix and YouTube. Cooking is more expensive because food delivery is expensive, you cant go to a hobby store, and so on. For most people this is hell and they can't wait for it to end - if anything I can see there being an overreaction to the crisis ending where people go out more and eat out more and so on
What’s wrong with js?
hq sleep and long walks
Jumping in this post to recommend the exact same idea. Learn a new language outside the type of language you're used to using. I've been using my extra time indoors to learn Clojure and Forth. The things I'm learning are already changing the way I write Swift. I'm also excited about making things on microcontrollers again because Forth gives me a way to escape the horrible tooling forced on us by the chip manufacturers.
CloudFlare's blocking appears to be focused on, say, gay rights groups, while allowing access to StormFront.

I'm not sure that fits the needs of OP, or indeed most families.
How did you start a monthly subscription box without programming? outsourcing? hiring?
I've disliked Sharepoint in the past, and recently also had good experiences. Yes, perhaps they have cleaned up their act.
The amount of FUD appearing everywhere around zoom ensures that google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. are very very annoyed by their success
Thanks for the referral! Sadly it turns out they're only for online memorials. There's no "find a plot" feature, which I'm trying to find.
0.1 + 0.2 → 0.30000000000000004
I manage to do it every so often, mostly because I stumble into a problem far outside my usual domain and I avtually feel technically and intellectually challenged again.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted (unfortunately people seem to use this as a proxy for "I disagree with you" or, worse, "you contradict my position"; here have an upvote) but you are 100% correct. All those fees Ticketmaster charges, the artist (and venue?) gets a cut off. Ticketmaster is the lightning rod here but everyone is complicit.
I've been shopping around because my lease is up. There's no collapse that I can see. Nor should there be. The auto plants are shut down. There's no new product being built. While most people aren't driving as much, some folks (delivery drivers, nurses) are driving more. Those cars will wear out.
I'm on the other end of this. I've been monitoring Craigslist the past couple weeks to see if people start trying to dump vehicles.

Sort of terrible, but also I've been hearing that we're in a vehicle financing bubble for several years now.
Can confirm that this does not happen, as a premium subscriber.
I think most people are uncomfortable to admit how effective advertising really is on every person, so as a result, they think up multiple reasons to protest its existence, even if they don’t always make sense as a whole. My opinion on this apparent contradiction is that some who say advertising research is dangerous also believe it is inherently ineffective — that the intrusive advertising methods used now are as helpful as general surface-level research on customers — but it’s the treasure trove of personal information that is dangerous to us all, as it is readily available for abuse.
Genuinely curious, How does this particular report amount to FUD?
Students are suing their colleges for coronavirus-related refunds
In terms of creator income it absolutely competes. In terms of raw spending, adtech is king by a mile. I doubt patreon would ever grow to compete with youtubes ad sales volume, but creators get a very tiny cut of the yt ad revenue. Typically single digit dollars per 10k views. Or far more views, depending on the audience (cpm varies wildly among different target groups). As someone who ran a slightly successful yt channel (20k subs), I was making a pittance from ads ($100/mo). That was back before things like patreon existed, but I'm sure I could have gotten more from donations.
I used Cratejoy to handle the e-commerce backend, so the extent of it was some minor HTML/CSS work. There's existing solutions for Shopify that do the same as well, so no programming needed.

Later on (still running 5 years later), when I got back into coding again, I got rid of Cratejoy and wrote the backend from scratch in Ruby.
Unless you are locked into the platform. Sure, people hold off upgrading for a bit or buy an older phone, but people dont leave the ecosystem for a 200 dollar android. They'll be safe in the long run.
Only true if there is sufficient liquidity. Outside of main market hours I've seen pretty thin liquidity in odd lots and thus wide spread (GBP/AUD).

I agree IB is still a pretty good way to go overall though
escape button works as a toggle for mouse control, i didn't see it listed as a control
MDN Web Docs Glossary: Chrome
Some good couplets...

As corollaries for the hardest problem in computer science:

> A NAME MEANS A LOT JUST BY ITSELF

> SYMBOLS ARE MORE MEANINGFUL THAN THINGS THEMSELVES

As advice to myself because I love refactoring:

> ABSTRACTION IS A TYPE OF DECADENCE

> DECADENCE CAN BE AN END IN ITSELF
What planet do you live on? San Francisco? Maybe you can get lucky and accidentally buy a house in a place that becomes the next silicon valley like your landlord.

In the real world, there are thousands of landlords that are just regular people and regular businesses that are not royalty. You can live anywhere you like.
Coverage is pretty comprehensive https://transferwise.com/ available in 59 countries (see half way down the home page)

The borderless bank account seems available in a ton of countires too - https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/
Yes, the fabled Emacs way.
That's not unique to JS.

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> 0.1 + 0.2
=> 0.30000000000000004
irb(main):002:0>

$ iex
Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:16:16] [ds:16:16:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]

Interactive Elixir (1.10.2) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> 0.1 + 0.2
0.30000000000000004
iex(2)>

$ python
Python 2.7.17 (default, Dec 2 2019, 13:23:33)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.12)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 0.1 + 0.2
0.30000000000000004
>>>
> This completely misses the point of the original.

No. You miss the point of the original. That it was a cash grab by the person who made it. In that regard this works just fine.
Interesting. Looks like I have the same thing going on at home, because I have 2.8 ms to 1.0.0.1 and 0.5 ms (!) to 1.1.1.1: https://i.imgur.com/5qpMbuh.png. Both answer to DNS queries, though.