skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Flow-based" is only one kind of visual programming. UML alone has over a dozen different kinds of standardized diagrams. I can write a state machine with a big switch statement, for example, but I still find them easier to read when presented visually.

Maybe we just haven't figured out good visualization types yet for some kinds of programs we write. Interestingly, the opposite is not true. I have yet to see a case where we had a half-decent visualization, and people still said "This would be easier to understand if it were 1000 lines of C++".
Sure, in New Mexico there are routinely lawsuits against the state and county’s for completely ignoring inmates’ communicated medical needs (or worse).

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/what-happe...
I will not buy this python, eet is scratched.

Do you want to come back to Python 3, bouncy bouncy?
Poker (or Hold 'Em at least) is right in the sweet spot between "too much luck" where skilled players either don't reliably win or the long run takes too long to converge and "not enough luck" where recreational players don't have fun because they feel like they can never win. Luck obscures who is really winning in terms of EV enough to keep the game going. If there were much less randomness involved, it wouldn't be so popular.
There were some preliminary reports about COVID thickening the blood of patients. Clearly preliminary, but it might not be entirely driven by sedentary behavior.
Blisk, Sizzy have been around for a while and do exactly this. Plus I remember something (maybe Rocketmelt?) offering a similar feature waaay back.
I actually do remember reading that this was true specifically in the case of COVID — that more exposure so far seems to correlate with a worse infection.

Sadly, I have no idea where I read this. But... I know I did! Recently! Maybe NYT?
I frequented tutorialforums.com around 2004. It was quite big around at that time but sadly the site went down for months when they decided to rewrite their forum from scratch .

By the time it was up, most of the regulars already moved on.
Unfortunately the links in the README file in that repo no longer resolve (https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/)

Might you or anyone else have the updated link(s) to the nbody problem?
Living pay check to pay check is considered risky in a lot of country, but due to the high available credits from credit card or personal loads, ppl in US don't feel like the need of saving. This pandemic could be the start of more saving.
The Suicide Bombers Among Us (2005)
I visually program using vi and have for decades. Graphical programming is cumbersome for anything but trivial applications.
Individuals and small business have both been shafted.

There's a provision in the CARES Act which allows employers of any size to give a one time donation to employees towards their student loans in exchange for decreased tax liability. I am currently talking with my employer, but thus far they do not want to participate in this program.

They initially cited the company does not apply for the program due to their company size, but I literally handed them the sections of the bill and it's eligibility criteria which states otherwise. Haven't received a response since last week, but I suspect it's going to fall to deaf ears.
Is it indicated how long ago these inmates were tested? Seems like that's a key component in this mystery and I can't find it.
This has occurred in many countries and will presumably be part of way the final impact is finally measured. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Change your brain chemistry, on purpose
There's exactly one "communist" country on earth, which is North Korea. And that happens to be quite good on this metric.

Whatever correlation you are imagining in South America is completely spurious, even with your litany of reasons to exclude anything that doesn't fit your worldview. Most every government on the continent has switched between left- or right-leaning governments at least once in the last decade, and I assure you tap water quality changes much slower.

Brasil, for example, switched from Da Silva (left) to Bolsonaro (right) just a little more than a year ago. And, oh, look: the map's CDC data is from 2018: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/data/index.html

The Scandinavian countries that are frequently cited as examples any advanced nations' left strives to imitate are obviously killing it on drinking water quality, as well.
I really agree here. I've used Hammer since... well since it was Worldcraft and I used it for Quake levels. Maybe it's a VI vs EMACS type thing, but I latched onto it pretty quickly, and have always found it the easiest editor to use.

I'm really curious how they will expand it for VR level editing with the Alyx release. One thing I think you'd need is a way to quickly view the environment in VR while editing. This seems really important if you want to carefully craft some specific visuals for VR, or certain interactions. Can for example the player stand next to a hole in a wall and reach through it to access something.
I would say that because these companies are so ubiquitous, with such reach, they have a duty to stop the people spreading the lies that lead to tower burnings.

It's not true that education fixes idiots, however much you may wish it. Pushing them down stops more people stumbling on their material. The idea that free public debate will stamp out bullshit is a bust. It's failed. Debate, facts and education don't matter for shit against a torrent of nonsense. See for example the antivax folks.

You are content that society plays whack-a-mole with tower burners while the people that actually cause the problem spread their lies and usually make a very nice living fleecing the people they recruit. All enabled by tech platforms run by private companies that you would constrain from acting for some bizarre reason.

It's not that it's ok to censor - removing people from youtube is not censorship. Publishers don't have to publish books they don't want to, newspapers are not obliged to publish articles by antivaxxers, google have no duty whatsoever to provide a platform for lies about 5G and coronavirus.

There is no free speech issue here. I am not obliged to let you stand in my yard and yell, even if it's the best spot in the neighborhood.
All of those can be pretty much be handled natively, and obviously. They're all primitive

isFalse would be !=
isObject would use typeOf
isFucntion would use typeOf

Where a library becomes helpful is when you have:

* A real problem (none of those are real problems, and the npm packages for them are essentially unused jokes)

* A solution that is not intuitive, or has a sharp edge, or requires non-obvious knowledge, or does not have a preexisting std approach

Checking for a promise, given the constraints of having multiple types of promises out in the world, falls into both of those. Checking if something is falsey, when Javascript provides !, does not fall into either.
I’m confused about this version of events that some are supporting. In your view, why does the media have a motive to engage in a secret conspiracy to not present any solutions other than an endless shutdown? How would that benefit ‘The media’?
Long live python 2!

Edit: this comment is meant to be funny but serious, it's not going anywhere, I've seen older tech that's still going strong in the "enterprise".
#chinesevirus
I'm taking issue with the use of the word "dramatically" not the claim that it could improve patient outcomes.
Same! I wrote a blog post that _kind of_ talks about that.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/memory-bandwidth-napkin...
+1 for Business Wars By Wondery, great podcast.
>> Also, many virologists mentioned in recent texts that the initial concentration of the virus you receive can affect how sick you'll get - the more viruses you're exposed to, the faster they can invade the body and the more severe it will get.

That is basic infections 101. When you are exposed to any dangerous virus a race starts between the virus and your immune system. If the virus starts out only infecting a handful of cells, your immune system has a head start in developing antibodies before symptomatic infection sets in. (This is also a basic principle behind many vaccines.) But if you are hit will a massive viral load that instantly infects every cell in your lungs, the immune system is fighting uphill from day one. A massive initial viral exposure can also trigger an excessive immune response, for instance dangerously high fever. Such an immune response can be as deadly as the virus. Much covid research is going into not defeating the virus directly but regulating/slowing the immune response to the patient survives their own immune response.

This principal explains why healthcare workers are suffering so. They are exposed to constant massive doses of virus, possibly from multiple patients carrying slight different versions of the virus. So they get sicker than people who are exposed in the general community.
I hadn't heard that applied at the level of the body, that's interesting!

Back when i was a cell biologist, i was very excited to read an argument that cells had tensegral structure:

https://jcs.biologists.org/content/116/7/1157
> The businesses are not what's essential. The people are.

You are totally right. And that's why it's so infuriating that the government has done pretty much exactly the opposite. It has prioritized saving huge businesses and propping up the public markets (stock/bonds/futures/etc).

In my opinion, it would have been a lot more effective to give money directly to people, then let them figure out where and how they need to spend it to get through the crisis. Businesses would then adapt accordingly to survive, or fail if they couldn't. But at least then most people would be ok.

Now inequality is going to be worse than ever. People that already had a lot of money got saved and now can keep making loads of money, while the people that really needed saving, pretty much got abandoned instead.
One piece of software (a kind of custom package/build manager) I'm using at work still runs on Python 2. If it still works, why change it?
It's unfortunate that they don't realize they're alienating the very customers that have money and will be in it with them for the long term.

The idea with LTS is to be predictable and stable.

Put another way:

- desktop people want ALL UPDATES NOW.

- server people want NOTHING TO CHANGE EVER.

(yes, not exactly that, but kind of)
Your implementation is broken even if everything uses native Promises. I don't know how many times this exact thread needs to happen on HN (as it has many times before) until people realize their "no duh" implementations of things are actually worse than the thing they're criticizing.

Make an iframe.

In the iframe:

> window.p = new Promise(() => {});

From the parent window:

> window.frames[0].p instanceof Promise
false

Congrats! Your isPromise function was given a Promise and returned the incorrect result. The library returns the correct result. Try again!
Because humans are complex emergent systems with inherent information asymmetry. We are not transparent to ourselves in that what will make us satisfied in life. Worse yet, our reward mechanisms have evolved as best-guess proximal reinforcers. For example we find food tasty (proximal force) because nutrition makes us survive (ultimate force). But our taste can be and is hijacked by hyperpalatable food that now we are divorced from our ultimate goal of survival, in fact working against it if we’re obese. This makes it incredibly hard to come up with an objective utility maximization framework, that maximizes your lifetime utility.

This is the core of any addictive processes. Hyperstimulus (e.g. cocaine) will wreak havoc on your utility function to the point one narrows and narrows on that one local goal maximization at the expense of total life satisfaction.

But the problem is bigger than the reward mechanisms. People were not able to say “I bet bread baking will make me satisfied” and go ahead and do it. Only after necessity pushed them to participate in doing it, they were able to realize its value. They had to gather this participatory knowledge before making any prediction on its utility. This inherent information asymmetry makes broadening the utility maximization framework very very hard for an individual.

This is not true for the market; market optimizes the shit out of what they will take out of the worker and the consumer, because market’s objective function is clear. And by them I mean us because it is us who made the market and who treat that objective function of the market is good enough to be objective function of all humanness. It is not, and that is why I’m against using the language of market (currency, utility, productivity etc) in general for all human activity and why I find it inherently dehumanizing; it simply cannot capture all that is human and that is valuable.
But oddly, in Multics they became "ec" (execute command maybe?).

r 13:41 0.055 7

ls >sc1>system_start_up.ec

Segments = 1, Lengths = 2.

r w 2 system_start_up.ec
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The smartphone wasn't a new invention - but a continuation of the mobile phone. Mobile phones had already hit mass adoption in the developed world before the smartphone appeared. People knew what they wanted because they were already using the technology. This isn't the case with bitcoin, which most people have never used. The more accurate comparison is mobile phones in the 1980s, which people didn't know that they needed or wanted. In fact, many laughed at the idea of carrying around a briefcase to call people on the move, which was necessary as the early handsets weighed in at several kilograms. Very few had the insight at that time to envision the phones of today.

The relevance of Bitcoin has already been explained to you: it provides for the first time in history, a form of money which is inflation-proof, censorship-resistant, easily verifiable and possibly private (or at least plausibly deniable), making it potentially unconfiscatable.

Bitcoin isn't merely about transaction costs or means of paying people. It is about having sound money. It has a use case for anybody who wants to save money, which is impossible to do with fiat money, because it is rapidly devalued due to the monetary policy of central banks.

Other "crypto" or "blockchain" is irrelevant. We can agree on that. Only Bitcoin matters.

Just because you have not seen the need for Bitcoin yet, does not mean there is no need for it. You are like those who would mock the mobile phone or the dial up internet of the '80s, with very little insight into what value Bitcoin can bring to the world. Bitcoin will be used to bypass warrantless surveillance and State-enforced restrictions, and yes, even to avoid paying taxes - which you might consider "criminal behavior," but this merely highlights your state-worshipping world view. Tax is theft - and a significant amount of "criminal behaviour" is coming directly from the State itself.
From what I can tell, this makes a strong suggestion that were much further through infecting the whole population than we think.

Anyone with some bayesian ideas on by how much?
Is this for the US? Do you have a link for the source?
Every article I see about people testing asymptomatic is followed by comments insisting they were asymptomatic when tested, with no idea of whether they stayed asymptomatic or whether virtually all of them had symptoms a few days later, thus basically invalid.

But this doesn't seem like a hard problem to solve, folks. Is nobody bothering to follow up with the asymptomatic people a week later? Just take their mobile phone number, and text them en masse with a quick Y/N question as to whether or not they got sick?

This stuff baffles me. This is literally a matter of life-and-death, and yet the most basic questions seem to be unanswered. (Or are these follow-up surveys being done but the media just refuses to report them because it now feels like week-old news? I'd love to know.)
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That page may say that, but I still maintain a ton of Python 2 work stuff that will never be off of Python 2 while the work ecosystem lives.
Where did I say the primary purpose was to prevent infecting yourself?
It doesn't help if they reduce transmission, if they increase the risk of infection at a greater rate.
"It never lands on that surface to begin with." is a flawed assumption. You see people taking off/adjusting masks all the time because someone on the phone doesn't understand them, they want to eat something, etc ... or they retie the scarf they use as a mask and don't care which side is the "outside" ... and then go on to touch stuff in the store, and then again their masks ...

Like I said, I used to think it was a good idea, and now I've seen lots of people using the masks.
Do states have an legal obligation to prevent the spread of disease in prisons? It seems like prison does not provide enough space to stop people from dying from diseases.

I wonder if you can sue.
OK, then the legacy library can't easily make that choice. I'm not saying every single javascript developer should be accepting async or sync callbacks, just that some libraries are choosing to do that for legitimate reasons.
If people are double-spacing on a wysiwyg, doesn't that imply it's not frugal markup?
Because only Republicans can do bad things, obviously.
I find it surprising that anyone would disagree with this. What do you view as the purpose of government? Isn't any other role just instrumental to ultimately benefiting society?

Or are you just disagreeing with the part about contract enforcement in particular?
> Dividing -1 by 2 gives a quotient of 0 and a remainder of -1 (See the DIVMOD routine if you want to check this out). But shifting -1 right by one bit gives -1. [1]

Yes, this is because asr/and rounds toward negative infinity (as it should), while your DIVMOD (also round toward -inf) routine incorrectly[0] implements QUOREM (round toward zero).

0: Well, you could say that it's rather the name that is incorrect, since I gather it's intended to implement quo/rem rather than div/mod.
The way you use them and how you model the world with them seems very similar to me
It wouldn't work even if everything were native – see my reply above.
The way I see it, those are orthogonal concerns. I love the modern world, there isn't a time and place in past history I'd prefer to live in to where and when I'm now. But at the same time, the way how new technology modifies the environment[0] is very interesting and worth a separate consideration. It sometimes does go too far - technology can be dehumanizing, if we're forced to lose some cherished values to accommodate a simpler/cheaper design of a machine / process.

--

[0] - As it must. Technology that doesn't modify its surrounding context is just too hard. Humans have built roads since forever, so that they didn't have to build off-road vehicles. Bureaucracy has to fit everything into its square holes, because otherwise it would be impossible.
> A lot of this is like Russian Roulette -- there's a huge amount about this virus which we don't know, and it could be super-bad or not-that-bad.

I think at this point we know enough to say:

1) For most of the population, the virus is not that serious

2) For a subset of the population the virus is seriously deadly. For example, ~20% of NY state coronavirus deaths were from nursing homes, ~37% are 80 or older. By contrast, there were 2 people under the age of 10 at the time of this post. [0]

> I think the key problem here is failure to understand risk management

I think another key problem is a failure to be frank about the cost-benefit of our actions. I have had to make stronger cases about changing the color of a button or optimizing a backend call than I've seen presented by authorities who are shutting down or reopening or anywhere in between.

[0] https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
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I work at a homeless shelter where a young guy in his mid twenties recently had a stroke that left one of his hands completely limp. He's active and outdoors all day, but cannot self-isolate at night because he lives in a shelter.

I was shocked when he told me because he's "fit as a fiddle" otherwise. This article makes some sense of it.
We watched "The Shining" last week, oddly enough.

And yes it has something to say about "Cabin fever"

It seems likely to be an influence on a lot of David Lynch's work - in terms of a sense of oddness that's hard to define the cause of, and malign supernatural elements presented without much explanation, but which "make sense" in "logic of dreams" kind of way.

I did see The Shining years ago, but have seen a lot of David Lynch's work since then, so it's only now that I make the connection.
Funny you'd say, I live in Portland, Oregon, and we do not drink the water, except after filtering or heating. We think we've seen enough negative reporting on the water quality, even if it's just touchy-feel reporting about the dead birds in the uncovered water treatment basins. To us, the water doesn't even taste as good as maybe in, say, the Netherlands. Yes, chlorine taste at times.
Yeah, I saw it too. The hypothesis, as I recall, is that the more virions inhaled, the more likely some of them will get deep in the lungs where they can do the most damage.
Did you see the NYC antibody sample that showed that approximately 21 percent of citizens had antibodies? It seems like a nursing home is a pretty bad representation of a population.
Sadly enough, Sweden repeats German mistake of 1930s - listening to an overconfident charlatan, killing thousands of people.
Here's a similar spreadsheet, with less detail but more studies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/g6eqtt/...

It may be helpful to you.

Thank you for tracking these metrics.
It is naive _in the extreme_ to sit locked in one's home, in the greatest curtailment of civil liberties in human history, while the economy is a patient with heart failure, about to die, with the largest bailouts (Trillions!!) in history and then only enough to hold on for a 'few more weeks' - and then have as a 'primary concern' some, specific umbrage with the privacy of data by some gov agency, which is secondary in the first place because it has nothing to do with contact tracing, probably would be illegal for the gov. to use it, and even if they did, it probably won't cause any short term harm.

It's completely irrational to the point wherein the issue of interest really boils down to how people could have such a perspective in the first place.

Though there are 'concerns' obviously, and certainly 'some' impropriety will take place, and 'some' government will behave poorly, it's conspiratorial _in the extreme_ to suggest that 'every other government' is going to turn their country into China and to illegally and inappropriately just turn their countries into Big Brother.

The 'game has changed' - fundamentally and existentially.

For the next few years at least, there is a completely different context for everything. Everything.

People are going to have to adjust their thinking.
Everything I asked it just said, "you are [bad adjective]! That's a bad, bad question!"

Or similar.
This is a rather common effect. Does a lot of police on the streets make you feel safe or unsafe? There are obvious and opposite arguments for both possible answers.
Yes, one study when the diamond princess was tested it was originally 50% asymptomatic and then later on that had gone down to under 20%