skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am wondering if my MBP on my lap was the root cause of my fertility issues. I can't believe I didn't google this before.
Jazz music artists in South Africa are taking to the Internet
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All of these rely on a gcc extension ('statement expressions').

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a = '-'-'-'

You can also do:

a = '/'/'/'

To generate a 1 instead of a 0.

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printf("%d %d\n", 0 == sizeof(count = 2, count++), count);

This works because:

1. There are two forms of sizeof; sizeof(T) where T is a type, and sizeof x where x is an expression.

2. There are 'comma expressions'; if you have (x, y) where x and y are expressions, then x is executed and the expression evaluates to y.

3. Parameters to sizeof are not evaluated (which is important because otherwise the value of the 3rd argument would be undefined, since there's no sequence point between evaluation of function parameters).
Yeah, the read performance is like 10 times faster than a microsd on an rpi4. Also having your boot drive in eMMC is less of a risky because they are usually more reliable than microSD.
Make a face shield coronavirus protection open-source instructions
Do you believe that investment banks actually respect the principle of a level playing field? Given the widespread fraud revealed during the 2008 financial crisis, I find that a more plausible scenario is the banks pay lip service to the idea of a level playing field and make a show of instituting a firewall, but in practice the firewall leaks information like a sieve, which the banks ruthlessly exploit for profits. The bigger the bank, the more clients they have, hence the more information they have, hence the higher the chance for insider trading and big profits.
Best New Games and Apps
Not sure I understand. Are you saying you are the author of a new book, you haven't sold any copies yet, you created a listing for your book and people are offering to sell it as a collectible (presumably as an arbitrage where they'd fulfill on your book)?

Or did you create a new listing for someone else's book, that others might credibly own already?
> elPrep is an open-ended software framework that allows for arbitrary combinations of different functional steps in a pipeline, like duplicate marking, sorting reads, replacing read groups, and so on; additionally, elPrep also accommodates functional steps provided by third-party tool writers. This openness makes it difficult to precisely determine the lifetime of allocated objects during a program run

> Phase 1 allocates various data structures while parsing the read representations from BAM files into heap objects. A subset of these objects become obsolete after phase 1.

> Therefore, manual memory management is not a practical candidate for elPrep,

TL;DR: it's non-deterministic which objects will be garbage when so some for of dynamic memory management is needed.

If you disagree, what would you use instead?
Does it only support ecdsa? Surprised they don't use ed25519 in their example.

Edit: nope, seems ed25519 supported too https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man1/ssh-keyge... although internet seems to suggest hardware support is far more limited. Tried generating one on MacOS and indeed my Yubikey seems unsupported.
Frame It Right
UCSF Health Atlas: Covid-19 health data viewed through a local lens
"Serverless" + "obviously stateful thing" feels click-baity to me. Does this link get right down to brass tacks? (it didn't for me). Is there a "ctrl-f" thing I can search for that explains?
Those tactics still work for most people who don't know any better. Most people are still too lazy (even when you tell them it's so easy to save money).
You come into this thread trying to re-open an argument you tried and failed to make previously and call me gullible. It's hard for you to understand my conclusions because I've not stated any, I've simply stated we should read and criticise the article rather than writing off an entire news organisation. It's a little bit funny, that we've managed to discover 2 large, diverse news organisations with award winning journalists that you seem willing to entirely write-off in less than a week.

This is the entire problem with your position on this, you're just deciding to ignore whole swathes of journalism on some pretence.
I'm also personally unimpressed with USB-C port stability, unlike USB-A connectors USB-C seems to have a lot of natural wiggle in it and the weight of dongles can wrench the cable out.
Except this data is also lagging by three weeks, depending on what antibodies are being checked. Some deaths today have come from infections in April, so the net effect could be a wash.

And where are you getting a 35% death rate for "ever hospitalized"? It's realistically somewhere around 15%-20%, though with major age skew. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...)
It produces an error message.

error: invalid suffix '+0x0001' on integer constant

[0] https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/pR5L6v
You didn’t know it was rigged?
OTOH, you have x86 using what is effectively a compressed instruction encoding, and a trace cache (although its advantageous enough arm designs are apparently using them now too) which reduces the size of the icache for a given hit rate. So the arch losses a bit here, and gains a bit it elsewhere. Its the same thing with regard to TSO, a more relaxed memory model buys you a bit in single threaded contexts, but frequently TSO allows you to completely avoid locks/fencing in threaded workloads which are far more expensive.

So people have been making these arguments for years, frequently with myopic views. These days what seems to be consuming power on x86 are fatter vector units, higher clock rates, and more IO/Memory lanes/channels/etc. Those are things that can't be waved away with alternative ISAs.
On the military and foreign relation really matters in this list. In my understanding, the only reason these two still exists is because US is backing them up since WW2.
Prior to the 7 Black I would have agreed with your original comment. For a few years, each iteration was essentially "we can record bigger and with higher fps. Also the battery life is a little bit better". 7 Black changed my mind.
Fully agreed.

I think that YouTube is in absolute legal right to ban whatever content they want, and I wouldn't want that legal right taken away from them (or any other content platform).

However, I absolutely disagree with this specific ban on their end, and it deserves to be criticized. But, again, they shouldn't be legally restricted from making this decision, no matter how poor I believe the decision is.
The HFCS theory is pretty simply debunked. Coca-Cola had already switched to HFCS long before New Coke, starting five years prior, in 1980.

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-coke-fiasco/
I find that after learning assembly language, things like this become very obvious when seen in different languages, specially C
According to the CDC web site, those numbers are 35.5M flu cases and 34,200 deaths (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html), giving an IFR of more like 0.1%. Which would put COVID-19 at more like 5-6x more fatal than the flu. Combine that with the virtually complete lack of natural and vaccinated resistance compared to the flu, and it's clear that the potential fatality totals for COVID-19, absent drastic action, would be much, much higher than for the seasonal flu.
The authors of that paper are computer scientists.
Epic! Made my day
I fear there isn't "one truth" out there, despite the content providers' and fact-checkers' attempts :(

The idea is: "We are the decent, good, people who know the truth. Now we control the platforms, so it's only well and good we control the information, and we tell the deplorable others what they can and can't say."

Almost everyone in the history books as a horrible oppressor has told themselves that narrative. Many of them were brave, noble, and well meaning, and had an ideology that told them they were in the right.

How are the employees of YouTube or any tech company exempt from those forces? What makes them somehow wiser or smarter than everyone else in history?
All unemployed workers in the US receive the extra $600/week Federal benefit. Sometimes it takes time for the States to start paying (and they are particularly backlogged at the moment) but once approved, the amount paid is backdated to the filing date. Based on the extra Federal benefit, on average, any employee who was/is making less than $22/hour is better off on unemployment (exact number varies by State.) For this and other reasons, I imagine Instacart will have a hard time attracting workers.
It was within the guidelines, even if you don't agree with the point being made. The quote grossly overstates Altman's involvement in the biotech industry, and my response addressed that. And certainly more than GP.

This sounds more like a thinly veiled threat based on my opinion, rather than any substantive advice that would improve the level of discourse here.
Simple answer: Diet Coke.

A lot of people preferred the taste of Diet Coke to standard Coke and Diet Coke was the fastest growing product at the time. And Diet Coke was apparently cannibalizing a lot of the Coke drinkers. So they made the normal Coke taste more like the Diet one.

Which failed biblically.

I just wish I could get my old saccharine-based Diet Coke back.
I try not to buy anything that I haven't of my own free will realized I needed or really wanted and then sought out a solution for.
Japronto is unmaintained...
Aquinas's Ethics (Free Cambridge Elements)
Indeed, I think you're exactly right. Changing it to `0xffff+0x0001` lets it compile.
> Wikipedia says only mexican coca-kola produced for export is made with sugar).

Wikipedia is wrong. When I'm in Guadalajara and buy bottles of coke locally, it has sugar. It's an anecdote, but it does disprove Wikipedia. One specific independent bottler in Mexico wanted to use HFCS, but there are other bottlers other than Arca Continental. Coca-Cola FEMSA is the largest bottler in Mexico and they use sugar.
shopify is collecting a lot of data for all web interactions in their customer's websites. What it does with this info, is anyone's guess. There was a pretty explosive article a few days ago in HN.

Shopify may not be amazon yet, but it is certainly learning to be that way.
I do this to some extent. Usually if they get me on the line, I have them wait, then come back after a few minutes, then have them wait, pretend I can't hear them well, pretend I don't understand their questions, etc. It's a bit of a burden, but kind of fun. But really my reasoning is that if they weren't on the phone with me, someone who won't fall for their scam, they would be on the phone with someone more likely to fall for their scam, so better me waste some of my time and have a little fun than the next person losing a bunch of money to a scam.
Ebay is decentralized which is much more scalable than Amazon's centralized approach.

Similar to you, I've noticed things on Ebay ship and arrive very quickly.

AliExpress is somehow still cheaper than Amazon for cheap things that don't need to be high quality or perfect. You just have to wait two weeks for it to arrive -- which isn't much different than the wait for Amazon currently.
If I understand correctly, new Go code was as fast as old Lisp code, with much less effort and much clearer code.

> Most existing Common Lisp implementations use stop-the-world, sequential garbage collectors. To achieve good performance, it was therefore necessary to explicitly control how often and when the garbage collector would run to avoid needless interruptions of the main program, especially during parallel phases. As a consequence, we also had to avoid unnecessary memory allocations, and reuse already allocated memory as far as possible, to reduce the number of garbage collector runs. However, our more recent attempts to add more functionality to elPrep (like optical duplicate marking, base quality score recalibration, and so on) required allocating additional memory for these new steps, and it became an even more complex task and a serious productivity bottleneck to keep memory allocation and garbage collection in check.
0.5% IFR is still very high, I wonder what the antibody detection threshold is - i.e. is it possible that a lot more people have been exposed but don't have detectable antibody levels ? Would it qualify as infection in the sense that they are not susceptible for covid19 in the near term ?
> The closer we get, the better it is. Having 21% "immune" leads to far different outcomes than .1%.

It depends on how long the immunity lasts. If it's permanent, this is indeed great. If it lasts only a few months, this 21% won't make any difference for another wave of infections this fall.
> I don't think that's contradicting.

Sure it is. Only means exclusively, one, no more. They're saying, "You exclusively need to wear a mask if you're taking care of a person with C-19". This action, excluding all others.
Say you completely ignore scaling. The two things you simply cannot replicate at that scale are redundancy and operational resource. AWS has their entire operations team working at all hours of the day and night supporting their infrastructure. They also offer some of the most highly redundant services in the world. There is simply no way you could ever dream of replicating those service levels with such a small operation, and if you were to even attempt it, it would require an absurd level of over provisioning. As I said, you’re completely misrepresenting what the actual trade offs are, and there’s no possible way your claims about replicating AWS service levels is even remotely plausible.
High value does NOT mean expensive
so, we can say that B-Cell vaccines are good enough coz they have already been working on other types of viral infection, right?
Could Microsoft’s climate crisis ‘moonshot’ plan work?
Are you allowed say that Robert Mugabe was not a good choice as goodwill ambassador ?
I said 15% of New York City, and now we have the data -- no preprint yet, but... https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
I have done this every time it involves money. Banks, Credit Companies, etc... don't let an incoming call end up with your money.
I'm moreover pointing out that it isn't clear what YouTube would enforce or not - taken simply, there are a lot of YouTube videos that would have been in conflict with this statement on Twitter. Would they have been taken down?
I'm no expert here, so someone can correct me if I am wrong. But I believe as long as each infected person spreads it to more than 1 other non-infected person the disease will continue to spread until there is a herd immunity level of infections. That spread rate will decrease as more people have antibodies, but it seems unlikely to get below 1 since even all the stay at home orders haven't been able to get that number much below 1.
Amazon commingles inventory with the same SKU. You can choose a legit manufacturer, and they get credit for the sale, but you could still receive a counterfeit item that was actually stocked by some scammer. (Later someone may choose to buy from the scammer and get a genuine item by mistake.)
In Februari the WHO urges to not impose travel bans:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-chie...

Nations who handled the crisis the best, imposed travel bans early on and were criticised by the WHO.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/30/275959/the-china...
When someone tells me the offer expires when I walk out the door etc, I just reply "It must not be that good of a deal if you don't want me to comparison shop." I've never run into a salesperson that had a good/any comeback to that.
> "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly," WHO executive director of health emergencies Mike Ryan said Monday.
- https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/...

WHO has been saying "uninfected" people should not wear masks from the beginning. That's bad advice unless you're trying to save masks for medical works which makes it a well-intentioned untruth. Either way I don't like YouTube deleting a video that contradicts this WHO "advice".
Great post, couple days of visibility and then back to business.

Google (YouTube), Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others have recently increased censorship. And. Nothing. Will. Happen.

Unless we all leave their sites or something else
I've had this happen to me, getting emails about credit score applications and u-haul rentals and whatnot. I can't even contact many of these companies to fix it except creating an account which I'm obviously not going to do.
Herd immunity will cap the total %!
The second wave will be less contagious where current infection rate is higher.
I have never heard of any healthy person under 40 dying from purely the flu. COVID-19 is certainly less dangerous to the young than the old, but there are plenty examples of it killing young and otherwise healthy people.
Hey, I'm happy to have optimizations around weight and I understand that internal jacks and cards to handle specialized lines adds weight, but an integrated jack is going to add a lot less overall weight than a dongle and, while not everyone uses ethernet, I think it's at least common enough to justify keeping the jack around.

At work we all use laptops to allow working from home and we're also all hardwired in because there's no way we'd have reliable throughput over wifi with the multitude of employee work & personal devices our network supports.
One problem here is that by answering at all, you're confirming your phone number as one with a real live person on the end. They track this and will keep calling. Anecdotally I noticed after I stopped picking up, the number of calls I was getting decreased.
I don’t think the vulnerability was in malloced memory, it was some buffer on the stack. I’ve actually patched OpenSSL to stop heart bleed as an excersice and iirc the fix was in fact just preventing a typical buffer overflow.
You are making a different point that the US could have acted sooner in late Feb.

Before the news coming out of Europe and Iran things were breaking in China. The 4chan guys were all over it way back in Jan. Remember the Chinese Dr whistle blower who got punished for letting the truth? He was dead by Jan 20-22.. at this point the WHO was downplaying, later praising China and telling everyone not to wear a mask.

The WHO response caused the outbreak to get out of control in Europe and elsewhere long before it hit North America.
Your comment doesn't address my point. See this Twitter thread, https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1251999295231819778

specifically this comment:

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1252008040376614912

for a good illustration of what I'm talking about. Keeping the rate of transmission low through the peak can definitely save lives.
I don’t know what is going on but their “essential items” excuse is totally bogus. There are no essential items in stock! Go try to buy toilet paper, paper towels, hand soap, etc. I can’t buy ANY of that and haven’t been able to for at least 4-6 weeks.

And the “normal” products have shipping delays of 4+ weeks sometimes. And then other times, none. It seems totally random and nonsensical.

I think they have serious labor issues that they are covering up. I’m just guessing here with absolutely no information. Just can’t make sense at what is going on.
There's a metric called something like "estimated years of life lost" based on mortality rate by age and life expectancy, but you'd also want to factor in individual life expectancy—a lot of the people dying from this already had other health conditions.
I don't get it. We have numerous reports of the antibody tests being inaccurate. We have numerous reports suggesting you can get the disease twice => once does not equal immunity. So how exactly are these Swedish scientists testing for immunity?
The consumer doesn't feel the effect of the consolidated marketplace until Amazon decides to start squeezing its customers. Once all the ducks are in a row, look out.
I don’t think YouTube believes WHO is accurate. This is just CYA. The media gave Facebook a hard time about fake news.

With this policy, they’ll be on the clear pointing to WHO.
> The investigator said another man had called in on Saturday posing as Mitch, had provided a one-time code the bank texted to the phone number on file for Mitch’s account.

Wow. In the UK as far as i'm aware no bank uses auth codes over txt, we have a physical devices to generate one time codes for identification or transaction signing using chip and pin.

Most people here are aware txt messaging is not secure, it's enough of an issue for email hijacking, I'm very surprised banks are using it in US.
Oh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up. I thought the implication above was that he was also selling hardware VPNs. Apologies to the ipfire guy.
Actually, technically that is the WHO summarising results from preliminary investigations by the Chinese authorities.

Saying that that is the WHO making that claim is incorrect, a kind of logical fallacy. It's like a newspaper reporting on the words/claims of a celeb or politician, and folk claiming that those words/claims were actually the newspaper's claims.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breas...

> American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.

> When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.

> The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.

Importantly, however:

> In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.
A while back a local station was having a problem and their analog signal was off but they were still transmitting digital. When I tuned in it was kind of funny because it was all static and then it faded into whatever music they were playing.

I've always wondered what full digital stations do, but for the reasons you've said I doubt there are any.
If a representative portion of the population didn't click on Facebook ads then Facebook wouldn't generate revenue from these ads. Testing doesn't rely on the person being intelligent either. Because it sounds like you're just saying "results are bad because only idiots would click on a Facebook ad".
> you could implement a JVM that used reference counting

It would leak memory - reference counting cannot collect cycles (you need tracing GC for that, defeating the purpose of refcounting).
> New York City had the highest positive rate at 21.2%. The potential good news to come to light is that the death rate may be far lower than some estimates, at 0.5%.

How do they get to 0.5%? According to NYC data if you include "probable" cases, 15,400 people, or 0.18% of the population, are already dead. Wouldn't that imply 0.9% fatalities if the whole city was infected?
Google to cut marketing budgets by as much as half
Even a small difference in taste is enough for people to prefer A over B for the rest of their lives. The products don’t change. That’s worth billions.
No, it makes "release when ready" easier, since the entire distribution doesn't have to wait for that single software release becau the next distro release is not that far away. At least that's how it works for Java. (I'm not that deep into Linux distros.)