skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I think the success of Go has proven the contrary. You can make a modern language without those features. In fact for an MVP you want to cut difficult or not absolutely necessary features from the first version. So I think Go did fine here and I encourage other language designers to follow their lead.

One cavaet is if you don't think about at least how generics might work in your language in a backward compatible way, you box in your future options. See java for how this goes poorly. If you look at the generics proposals for Go you see how this has greatly complicated the task. That doesn't automatically mean it was a mistake to do it that way though.

If you try to do everything at the beginning you might take so long that you fail outright or don't get the early adopters who help shape the language. Plus you'd be behind the curve on adoption. So I think Go did the smart thing here.
I would bet this is not foreign entities. But who knows. Maybe the FBI are looking into this. They aren't going to tweet about it, so who knows what they are doing.
I see. You're correct that while the overall death rates in NYC are vastly higher than any season flu, it's mathematically possible that those are all deaths of unhealthy people.

It's a creative interpretation of the facts.

One important note: it's impossible that NYC is overestimating cases by 100x. Close to 2% of NYC has confirmed cases.
Where's the marketing company's criteria for sample selection? How are the communicating and choosing the people? Are they all within the same locality?

And no 863 is not representative of LA. LA is made up of individual communities and some never leave those communities. Some communities are pass through for commuters. Really important where those 863 are from. All are 863 from a small area? Are some from Pasadena and other from Santa Monica. What about Covina or Redondo? LA or Beverly Hills.
Liverpool vs. Atlético virus links 'interesting hypothesis',government scientist
I see a lot of pushback on these studies showing high infection rates. To those people, what rate do you actually believe and why?
I think it it more difficult than this. The constant refrain on HN is that this is all politician's fault, the media's fault, it's about partisanship, etc. It's always a blame game.

Of course there is a connection between the selfish, decadent, incompetent at democracy citizens that Americans are, and its leadership. And immediately the cognitive dissonance ensues, no one wants to take responsibility. They'd sooner adopt nutty conspiracy theories instead. That's how bad the brain hurt is upon being confronted by a central point of democracy: the correctness of blaming the citizens for the problems of society. And non-participation gives no free pass, it is the path to an illiberal society.
NYC has had ~141,000 infections confirmed. If the high end of this study held for NYC (50x), then the true infection count would be around 7M.

That isn't impossible at all, given that the population of NYC is around 8.8M people. It would mean that the city is approaching herd immunity.

(I don't personally think the ratio will be as high in NYC as in LA, but that's just a hunch based on the higher testing rate.)
Where can I get a printed copy?
I wouldn't call it a "hostile" fork. Imagine what motivated him to fork in the first place. He and many others were between a rock and a hard place, and a fork was a possible way out.

At the time, the author stated:

> I picked [the name "Python 2.8"] initially since when talking with friends about this project it conveyed pretty darn immediately what the project is and does. I'd be very keen to hear people's suggestions for alternate names!

This was no mistake or screw up at all. In fact, the project served his purpose for the time, and even though he's moved on, there are others who like it enough to maintain or improve it.

A fork is (or can be) a healthy, natural thing that happens.
I'm looking for a hypervisor recommendation... I am hoping to virtualize at least two if not all three of my machines: Unraid (pass-thru HDDs); pfSense (pass-thru NIC); and Windows 10 (pass-thru Graphics). I am hoping to have Windows 10 running fast enough to do some light photo editing. Which hypervisor would you think to try first?
Because there aren't two kinds of shirt, striped or solid coloured. You even acknowledge that by mentioning Hawai'ian shirts. You might want a small check shirt, a mostly plain shirt but not mind logos so not completely monocolour, a plaid shirt, a large check lumberjack style, spotted or dotted or diamond pattern, flowery pattern, you might not even know what the other available options are to search for them one by one - you just know that you don't want stripes.

There is no ambiguity in "not stripes", you can't invert it and write it in the positive form of what you want; the neatest way to describe the category of what you want to browse is "things which are not stripey".

Particular personal bugbear is car websites where you can filter in "petrol engine" or "diesel engine", but there is no support for negative filtering, so you can't choose "not LPG". In so many search-and-filter options you can't exclude your dealbreakers, and it's much more likely that I have a single dealbreaker which rejects a choice overriding all other considerations, than that I have a single dealmaker which makes a choice overriding all else.
Does this account for the rate of false positives, compounded by the low base rate of disease incidence? When designing such binary estimators, we have a trade off between precision & recall. If the virus affects 1% of the population, and we have a 5% rate of false positives, and close to 100% recall, then ~85% (5:1 odds) of tested positives would be spurious.
Building a Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Page 1: About 189,000 results (0.35 seconds)

Page 2: Page 2 of about 86 results (0.36 seconds)

It seems they're really just trimming the web.
I can't use in the ear head phones at all. Ever since I was young they've given me ear infections. They're also terrible for your ear. Your tragus is there to help protect your eardrum from loud noises, among other things. Sticking noise emitting things behind it is a bad idea.

I've been alright with over the ear style ones for the most part. Though I can see why they, noise cancelling ones especially, could cause infections if worn for long periods.

They create moist anaerobic environments liked by a lot of bacteria and because headphones tend to be left around or carried outside, they're not the cleanest things around. So as they sit nice and snug around your ears, bacteria have a nice happy place to live all cuddled up close like to the entrances to your ears.
Would be nice to make the statement-ending semicolons optional. Like Swift, shell languages, JS (sorta), and more... I have moved to Swift from Obj-C, and this is one of my favorite things about Swift syntax.
Valid point. Millions are being affected by this shut-in. So what do you suggest? Re-open the country and have a free for all?
The goal used to be too provide a good or service that people need and exchange them for a fair price so you can survive. Now, business has been turned into a way to fuck other people over so you can get more resources than you'll need for 1000 lifetimes.
The migration succeeded but the original plan didn't. People were supposed to write Python 2 and generate Python 3.[1] What worked was making it possible to have a single code base.

[1] http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/...
Aronian at least used to live mainly in Berlin, which is where his family now lives, I think. I don't know where he spends more time now.
The barrel may be worth more than the oil!
To be clear (for the benefit of anyone else who reads this), the windows in the Seattle Tower are made of glass, but the exterior of the building is not that modern all-glass-and-steel look[1]. This is a third interpretation of non-glass I hadn't thought of and it took me a minute to figure it out.

"non-glass skyscraper":

1. No glass used in the exterior construction at all -> implying no windows

2. No glass used in the exterior construction at all -> implying the windows are made out of something other than glass

3. A skyscraper in which glass is not a prominent architectural feature, but the building does contain features like windows and doors that contain glass. (This comment)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilshire_Grand_Center
I guess it seems hard, but if you understand the basics it's just a matter of finding IO and encoding/decoding things appropriately. Python 2 str, unicode and Python 3 str are almost exactly the same as they ever were, and if you are doing binary IO bytes should work as expected.

It's not that big of a project, even for a moderately large codebase. If you think you can't get it done in a reasonable period of time feel free to hire me as a contractor and I'll knock it out.
No. They aren't going to read the links because they fall on the side of the protesters and astro-turfers ideologically.
To further inflame things, it seems to me that government directing corporations to suppress peoples’ human rights of free speech and assembly is a textbook example of fascism.
I highly doubt Facebook did this because it was the "good thing" to do. Instead, it has more to do with what's "good" for business, ie FB continues to sell fake political ads.

As such, anything that prolongs the pandemic is bad for business and bad for Facebook. That includes fake coronavirus cures and anti-quarantine stands.

This is also true for the Drug Cartels. We've seen them enforce social-distancing in Central America. Why? Because prolonging the pandemic is bad for business not because the Cartels suddenly grew a heart and decided they want to do something "good" for mankind.
It's because the equivalency doesn't exist. The "both sides" argument is a political argument used by the republican party and it's always in the context of "Look! They're just as bad as us." as an excuse to justify their behaviour.

Only one side spent months pretending that the cornavirus pandemic didn't exist when we should have been preparing for it. It was one side that pitted the states against each other and held back life-saving supplies based on personal favors to the president. It's one side that is fueling the dangerous protests right now.

That's also only just the last few months. So much has happened that I barely even remember all of the other crises that one side has caused. The Ukraine scandal, Russian interference, election fraud and the long trail of indictments that came from it. There's also hurricane Maria (which foreshadowed covid-19), spygate, the revolving door of the presidential cabinet, and the fact that it's such a problem that some seats are just unfilled because they cannot find enough people who are willing to put up with "the one side" for them. All of this is well documented by loads of reputed news sources and there is no equivalent "other side" to this behavior.

Edit: It really stinks, because I personally lean conservative on financial issues, but I cannot in good conscience support this administration.
I have it on good authority, that's a feature of capitalism. Someone will come along and open buy anything valuable.

Good system, eh?
I suspect we're going to see different IFRs in NYC vs. the West Coast. There are already at least 2 strains: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/03/04/discov...
> the problem is not really that Google search was not understanding the meaning of the search term (...) Rather, it was a bit confused about what you are really searching for here. Maybe a comparison of shirts with and without stripes?

In this very specific case I don't buy it. Sure, it probably applies for other queries, but if you approach a salesperson and ask him for "shirts without stripes" it's pretty clear what you want, and he wont bring you any piece with stripes on it.
> There's even a show_expr method that prints it as an S-expression.

Yes.

However, the 99.9999% of Julia code out there isn't in s-expressions. Every Julia programmer doesn't use s-expressions. They use Julia syntax.

Thus, the task of writing Macros in Julia is harder than doing the same thing in Lisp.

>So I'm seeing nothing that would be problematic if it had just gone with a Lisp syntax.

They should've gone with a Lisp syntax, IMO. Beginners, who haven't passed through the chore of learning C-like syntax, find s-expressions as easy as any other kind of syntax.
A decent LSP is able to detect avoidable var declarations and rewrite them as val on demand.
So the visibility does not matter much, what matter the most is speed to rewrite from mutable to immutable.

Also, Var val isn't new, it is used by Kotlin which is arguably the language with the most modern/uncluttered/beautiful syntax.
Yup, five or ten years ago they'd literally have said "for the lulz". It's just the same thing.
Those videos are great, very educational. Like a mashup of Khan Academy, Derek Lowe, and Calvin & Hobbes.
So what exactly would the “harshest, most severe possible” actions be?

Because when I hear someone say that in the context of war, my mind goes to some pretty severe actions.

Would you sanction them? Maybe, but that’s hardly the “most severe”. This is war, after all. Would you missile strike Russia?
You and the parent are correct. Package management and generics are essentials for any general-purpose programming language. But, they fall lower than many other features (like syntactic consistency and simplicity) ranked by importance for developer productivity and usefulness.
How is this different than shouting fire in a crowded theatre?
NYC is massively overreporting deaths. Just the other day they added 3700 "new" deaths that didn't even test positive, they just suspected (ie. pulled it out of their behind) that it was cause of death.

Death numbers are overreported in general - Dr. Birx herself even claimed that if you test positive but die of something other than the virus they track it as a COVID death. It's preposterous.
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While I'm sure this is A Hard Problem to solve by NLP I for whatever reason was under the impression that this is trivial to special-case.

As in, "X without Y" sounds like a common enough use case to have it's own little parser branch in places as big as Google or Amazon
Sure...you wouldn't be the target for the greedy. There must be, though, a pretty good market of people that HAVE TO sell or buy for job relocation, "need the equity", etc. And nobody really serving that in this environment.

And I say greedy, but there's a lot of room between the "we will give you half market value" and regular realtors right now.
Paper (dead tree) bags are worse because they tend to rip apart after a few uses. It doesn't matter so much what bag you use, as long as you re-use it.

Plastic in the oceans is an issue, but for the most part The plastic in the ocean doesn't come from developed countries.
I was driving through a very small town in Missouri a few weeks ago. A small used car lot advertised "disinfected and sanitized cars."

The new "undercoating?"
Our initial policy was based on early data from China which seemed to imply 3% mortality, an R0 of 2.4 and a 5% hospitalization rate. In the past month, data from all sources and methods is showing this to be far less deadly but also far more contagious. Perhaps it’s time to adjust our view of the lockdown.
https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...

89% of total fatalities in New York have at least 1 comorbidity. I wonder to what extent anyone with unknown cause of death or death due to cancer, but also had COVID-19 gets lumped into the death due to COVID-19 category.
Educators turning to video games amid Covid-19 pandemic
Have you ruled out unraid? It has built-in VM management and supports pass-through.
I think loyalty is the root of all corruption. If it's not it's pretty close.
Me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875994
Video Tutorial: Selecting elements on the screen using the keyboard / joypad
Specificity of 90% seems really low? Does that mean almost 1 in 10 would test positive even if nobody had it?
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Covid-19 changed traffic trends of 400M visitors on 172 Stack Exchange sites
A Systematic Review of Meat Abstention and Mental Health
Thanks, I too use expect for some tasks, atbswp was built for quick and dirty things, and non-technical people.
Not sure if people actually search for "Shirt Without Stripes" or this was picked for academia over what is actually needed

But make a script that scrapes the top X results for these sites. Get your own AI / humans to rate it.

Make it competitive for these large sites <==> give them an incentive.
Same type of question: was there ever popular left-wing AM radio? Like a counterpart to Rush Limbaugh? Like highly emotive and monetized liberal (in the American sense) talk radio?
> two things the maintainers really didn't think it needed on Day One

Deep down they know they need these in order for the language to survive in the modern world. I'm guessing that the reason they chose that tone back then was because they wanted to release the language as small as possible so that people can start using, learning, and grow in moderate fashion. And also they can't solve all problems at once.
You have it backwards. Perl 6/Raku is a completely new language, the mistake there was to call it "Perl". Perl5 on the other hand has handled its evolution much more gently than Python 2 -> 3 did.
> I see little reason to doubt that all involved are trying to minimize general death and misery, even if they may disagree radically about how to do that.

It's interesting that even with the best case scenario there are entities with enough power to control behavior like that.
That fact is scary.

If they have ulterior motives.
That fact is scarier.
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This is yet another problem that exists largely because our system stabilized at two parties. In a coalition-based system one party being this blatantly and continuously corrupt would risk turning their coalition members against them. As it is, turns out you can just dig in and ignore complaints for years and nothing happens.
China's false postives for Covid tests are 30%, I chest CT has a false positive of 6% https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/a-more-sensitive-test-fo....

So these test a more accurate than either of the more accurate test to diagnose Covid-19 from what I've found
$7.5k Google services mix-up (2018)
> Produce and spread good information instead.

Also: identify bad information and seek to stop it from spreading! That’s what this article is all about.
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Mm, indeed I meant to say "also contagious" in the first part, not "most contagious," pardon me, I've edited to reflect. I mean, I did provide a link that said as much.
I still don’t fully get why we can’t have ‘print x’ in Python 3. We would have avoided 10 years of schism for something that was soooo backward incompatible.
> Home confinement must be voluntary

No-one is "confined". Even in Washington state, which has some of the more strict rules in place, says "You are perfectly allowed to go outside, and do the things you need to do, but practice common sense and public health best practices when you do".

> No one should be using force to ensure that.

Where has force been applied to keep people in their homes?
The language is fine the community is not the funnest comnunity to join.
I’m too tired at the moment to figure out where I stand on this [issue of free speech / assembly] but I have a general question: I thought the Supreme Court has already shown that there are limits to speech, such as yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater. I guess the distinction is how directly the speech leads to harm. Would that apply in this situation where most medical experts would agree that the quarantine is necessary for saving lives? Or is the thinking that this is too far removed — like telling people they can’t protest seat-belts.

Edit: I’ll clarify by saying that (my personal opinion) is that the protests are at best ... misguided. My question is about precedent on free speech / assembly under circumstances where harm might occur or it violates something like a quarantine or shelter-in-place order. The Atlantic article linked below is fascinating because I definitely have always thought of the “fire in a crowded theater example.”
Hi everyone, I'm developing a game using JavaScript that runs on canvas. I can't really rely on HTML DOM elements or CSS to position, select or to style elements on my game, so I had to write my own UI elements. Here's a quick video showing how we can cycle thought elements using keyboard or joypad.
The real question is, will the US voters living in the states which are recipients of the seized PPE be _more_ or _less_ likely to vote for the perpetrators of such malfeasance.
What does that have do the ability to shut in a well? A shut in isn't stopping something that's leaking or stopping a blowout. It's the ability to deliberately and temporarily stop production.

A loss of containment is very very very bad and a huge problem, but it's not related to a shut in.

I'm well aware of shallow hazards (e.g. mass wasting aka mudslides). I've mapped them in many areas. I'm well aware of the ongoing Taylor spill. I've actually worked with monitoring it using satellite imagery from the regulatory side. I've also worked with it from the oil industry side...

None of that is even remotely relevant here, though... I'm still very unclear how anything you mentioned relates to anything I said...

That having been said, if you think _anything_ around the oil industry isn't done with safety and environmental concerns first and foremost, you've _clearly_ never been anywhere around the industry. I'm dead serious.

What they do is really, really, really damned dangerous and it's fair to debate whether that risk is worth it at a societal level.

However, don't for a goddamn second think that these folks don't care or are sloppy. _Every_ meeting all the way to the top starts with a discussion about safety and possible environmental impacts. I really, really mean that... Every damn one. It's vastly more important than very literally anything else. The first decision is _always_ HSE, never money.

Yeah, things can go wrong in very bad ways. It's not because people don't care or are trying to make a buck at the expense of the environment. It's because they're working in a really difficult environment. Yes, deepwater horizon was preventable. Yes it was due to a poor well design. BP fucked up. That doesn't mean that the oil industry is some evil mustache twirling villain.

You want cheap vegetables, flights across the continent, and plastics? Right now, we have to have oil for that. It ain't ideal, but it's not because people are out there trying to make money off of environmental disasters.
This is a strong response from someone who claims not to have read the article.
I think the user is referring to the conflict of interest and the lack of interest in proper ethical conduct by one of the co-authors. If they won't follow generally accepted ethical guidelines, what other rules will they ignore or bend?
Yes, but real estate prices have risen even faster - and helping people experiencing homelessness fundamentally requires real estate to house them.
"I'm partial to cold buttermilk."

Mattie in "True Grit", after declining coffee
I mean, if I google the phrase "shirts -stripes" and click the Images tab I see mainly shirts without stripes.

So it's essentially the same input, and essentially the same expected output, but there must be quite a knot between understanding the word "without" and literally just using the - operator.
I've found that the false postive rate of the normal test to be 10% and chest CT to 6%. https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-test-free-testing-update-ac....

Shouldn't we use this simply because the false positive of 2%-1% is lower than those tests we are using for making policies right now.