skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article it's clear that the intention is to replace car use with biking and walking, not use of public transport.

e.g. (from the article):

As a result, Milan is going big on cycling and walking. Over the summer, the city core will be partly remodeled to give over 22 miles (35 kilometers) of road space previously used by cars to bikes and pedestrians. Those cars that are allowed into the center must adhere to a new reduced 30 kilometers per hour speed limit. The aim is to make traffic more fluid and give pedestrians more space to spread out safely.
Vague and/or non-comparable data provides decision deniability and narrative flexibility in many possible futures. Open-source analysis and watchdogs provide one level of defense.

https://covidtracking.com/blog/weve-launched-a-new-state-gra...

> We're rolling out a new, more rigorous system for grading the public health data each state reports.
Ha; there's a little architecture grognard subthread on this unrelated topic.

The Pentium 4 L1 cache was a miracle for its time, and once the P4 was clocked to Peak Netburst levels the 2-cycle latency looks really good.

Tradeoffs on modern system are different - a Skylake cache may have 4-5 cycle latency on access, but is 4 times bigger (32 rather than 8KiB), can execute twice as many loads per cycle, and is write-back rather than write-through (more complex to design, but more scalable with lots of cores).

You can still get your ass kicked by a ancient system if you pick just the right pointer-chasing microbenchmark. This had some real implications for regex implementation, given that a straightforward DFA implementation (and many string matching algorithms like Aho-Corasik) are really just pointer-chasing.
Yes, it does tell you. You keep asking for the transmission of something that does not exist. Learn this fact: there is no keyboard map on the keyboard. It's all in software on the host. Your keytops could be entirely blank and the operation of the keyboard would continue unaffected. You have to tell software what the keyboard map is, because software on the host is where the keyboard map is.
I don't really understand why there has been so much hemming and hawing about Python 2 vs Python 3 with regard to the language itself. If you already know a few programming languages (rather than being a neophyte coder), Python 2 and Python 3 are so similar that their major differences can be summed up in one or two pages of code examples. Sure, they're not backwards compatible, but if you know one, you'll have no trouble being able to at least read and understand the other without much effort. The bigger issue is the ecosystem taking the time to catch up. Also, I'm not sure that Python 3 is really much of an improvement over 2 rather than just different.
> India has the largest English-speaking population in the world. Yes, larger than the United States; it has a lot more people.

India is a populous country with English as an official language. If you think all its inhabitants speak English you're in for a surprise should you ever go there. People are educated in English, certainly; however Canadians' well-known mastery of French as well as Irish people's mastery of Irish shows this criterion doesn't necessarily amount to much.

I'm wasn't disappointed by all the other technicalities in your post though, keep it up
Cobol is still alive, so I very much doubt Python 2 will be dead anytime soon...
CDC don’t seem to have permission to communicate with the public
Many drivers come with crap bundle apps with stupid behaviour.

My previous Windows laptop had a super annoying constant display flickering, even on a fresh installation.

After months, I learned that I had to disable "auto-resfresh display" (or something similar) that in an Intel app because it was enabled by default (and re-enabled after every major update).
Compared to macOS/Gnome, I think that Windows shows poor taste in many aspects
The data is valid, at least to the extent that the tests are accurate (there will be some false results). The Navy has openly published their numbers. If they didn't want us to know they would simply classify everything as a matter of operational readiness instead of lying.

https://navylive.dodlive.mil/2020/03/15/u-s-navy-covid-19-up...
In the uk at least we have an app that you can update with your current health status/feelings and they can track the Wuhan flu with that. They are encouraging users to report in once a day even if you have no symptoms.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/covid-symptom-tracker/id150352...
That is what I meant by rent the business space from ... a bank. Real estate prices are high as a direct consequence of financialization. When interest rates go up asset valuations go down, making it more practical to buy outright or at least pay off a mortgage early. High asset prices are exalted by existing owners as if they're indicative of progress, but they actually form a choke hold on the economy.
Do internals actually matter when it comes to performance?

iphone 6s vs xs speed comparison is only about 5% slower in actual usage and often is actually faster. Not very compelling.

https://youtu.be/uN4JoIeRojg

https://youtu.be/a1dWINdNGl8

https://youtu.be/uN4JoIeRojg
One of the very few games that made me actually laugh with joy - let's see in what kind of shape my band of 30-something dads that I've known since college is after all these years.
Public transit is a lot better in Europe, and besides, this is a long term plan.
Your point about interoperability is probably a better expression about what I had in mind. Whenever there is a new advance in algorithms, at least all languages should benefit from the “reference implementation”, be it C-FFI (the current story - write in C first and everyone wraps) or something like WebAssembly. Then when a fancier/more idiomatic one is available, use that. Current story with the C library path is so hard to use in practice.
Typhoid Mary was a real thing. No matter the precedent for a particular class of virus, this is still a different virus that has clearly evolved higher virulence, and better safe than sorry. In this case, we're sorry
I think we’re arguing past each other. I want things that help people move up the hierarchy of needs. You want folks to have boots. We’re not at odds here. I guess you don’t like how I worded it but my appeal is the same. I want everyone to have the bare essentials of life. I believe health care is a human right for the same reason doctors heal people. It’s better than the alternative.
That applies for browsers, yes (though I'd argue is a rare edge-case), but create-react-app is a Node.js application.
Hang on, it's big brain time.

>“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
I've heard this more recently that it's a characteristic which means that people who think they're getting better will then suddenly have a turn for the worse, because they don't feel as sick but their blood oxygen level is actually quite low -- they try to exert themselves, go upstairs say, and then faint.

Happened that way to a close friend of mine.
Speakig of Lua, there is also TekUI.

http://tekui.neoscientists.org/screenshots.html
zombo.com.

it kind of sort of still exists, but I haven't had flash installed on any of my devices since about 2015.

I was also around on Slashdot when Rob proposed. I was I think a sophomore or junior in high school, sprinting into the library between periods to refresh the page and see if she'd said yes or not.
It may have both for all we know. I really do think relatively little is known about this virus at the moment. We learn a lot everyday I'm sure, but it's still somewhat of a mystery. We don't like mysteries, which I'm pretty sure is what generates all the fear around the virus.
For security reasons - you can modify the prototypes and you wouldn't want iframes to inherit that.
SA goons are also still hard at work. Fark, too.
> I’ll update you when the device is approved by the FDA and voila these objections mysteriously disappear ;)

You know a proper FDA approval takes years, right? Not the emergency do-whatever-you-want approval, a proper approval. By all means, please do post.
I think they meant that usually (90% of the time, say), you (know you) have a ~99.999% chance of getting your paycheck, and sometimes (the other 10%, say) you know you have <50% chance.
The CDC, AIUI, just advise medics and governments? It's up to the politicians to enable it - eg by putting medics in charge!?
For the particular conditions in Stockholm, such as testing prevalence etc
Fantastic! This warms the cockles and makes me feel like the Web is moving in a good direction. How is this implemented, canvas? (I haven't checked)
That's it, you nailed it.

What's more likely, a population that gets all infected all at the same time, or one person infected being careless with samples?

Then there's more: given how many tests of similar populations are getting done, what are the chances that some have a careless infected tester?
and it could be done at home, using an O2 cannister, that should be cheap even for those paying out of pocket without medical insurance.

no wonder why the medical establishment would be opposed to a simple work around that would remove the need for hospitalization or ICU
The Native File System API
Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom weblog
Nope, the article says

"Accordingly, says Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. Instead of the 1.4 million average trips it saw daily before the pandemic, it will accommodate a maximum daily ridership of 400,000."

Instead, they're focusing on supporting walking and cycling.

"As a result, Milan is going big on cycling and walking. Over the summer, the city core will be partly remodeled to give over 22 miles (35 kilometers) of road space previously used by cars to bikes and pedestrians. Those cars that are allowed into the center must adhere to a new reduced 30 kilometers per hour speed limit. The aim is to make traffic more fluid and give pedestrians more space to spread out safely."
usenet, especially rec.music.phish

It's still there but not the same.

Also I want to give a bit more info about why rec.music.phish was special. Phish, like the Grateful Dead, allow people to record and distribute concert recordings as long as they didn't profit from it. So people would offer free "blanks and postage" deals to other people on rec.music.phish who would mail cassette tapes with return envelopes and get recordings of live concerts back in the mail a month later. That whole process is completely irrelevant now but it was a unifying fan experience that had real meaning to everyone involved. Going on a bittorrent site (bt.etree.org) doesn't compare in the development of meaningful relationships with total strangers even though it is far more efficient.
Trickle down economics plus globalization worked pretty well for very poor workers in other countries. They just bypassed US workers, because the sheer cost of living makes us uncompetitive in most industries.
There already is a "leg-assisted overhead press" widely seen in competition -- the jerk. Except you see it in Olympic lifting, not powerlifting, and it's generally not done on its own, but as part of the clean and jerk. The snatch is another form of leg-assisted overhead press.

So if that's what you're into ... take up Olympic lifting!
The evidence shown is a false negative rate of 30% based on a study of 1,000 patients with the virus. So there’s at least some preliminary evidence.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85717...
Because the PS/2 keyboard interface is a mess.

The "good old" PC/XT keyboards worked that way. By the time of the PS/2, there were two different ways to signal break scancodes, three scancode sets only some of which were supported by any given keyboard, a mapping system to make one set of new scancodes look like the PC/XT, fake modifiers so that the system still thought that pause was Control+Numlock, and keys that for similar XT compatibility emitted a complete make+break sequence for several scancodes on press. And multimedia keyboards that threatened to exceed the limit on 7-bit scancodes were just around the corner.

The USB HID protocol is a lot less messy. No scancode set switching. No prefix bytes. No translation. No XT backwards compatibility. And conversely: A well-defined mechanism for vendor extensions. Well-defined usages for a whole bunch of extra keys that one might want to add, from media players to more complete calculator keypads.

It also places no limit on the number of simultaneous keypresses. A USB HID keyboard report is a very simple concept. It is a big bitmap of the instantaneous state of every key on the keyboard. The boot report format is constrained, by (mostly) using an inverted-array form for that bitmap, 8 bytes only permitting 64 keys in normal bitmap form; but a 16-byte report transmitted as a straight bitmap could handle a keyboard with 128 simultaneous keys if that were desired.
Maybe a bit of a weird question but I'm curious: What's the reason behind this being it's own entire browser? Like, if I were given the task of implementing this I would try to avoid creating a new browser (because it sounds like a lot of work). But I know that doing "weird things" like that sometimes causes you to hit a lot more roadblocks than expected and I'm curious to hear the technical story behind this!
Glad you like it :) Let me know if you have an architecture you'd like me to review (as long as you're fine with me recording it).
OK, that's not what I thought you meant, then. I thought you were referring to the kind of engagement where you have some sort of initial "getting to know you" phase to clarify things like project requirements and contractual structure before moving on to the main project itself. That initial phase would usually be a paid engagement itself, though not necessarily on the same basis as the main project, lasting a significant amount of time.

In the situation you're describing, I find it baffling that any rational client would accept your terms for anything but the simplest and most expendable engagements. If you can get them to, good for you, but how do you get it past their legal team? Or are you only working with small clients who might not get your terms reviewed before accepting them?
You cut off an important bit there, cherry picking a part of my comment, which makes it seem like I had made a sweeping generalization. I specifically stipulated that it didn't apply in all cases.
> But python3 adds new features in 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and then immediately breaks all new code on older systems.

It really helps if you think of the versioning as 5.0.x, 6.0.x of Python3, then semver can be applied and you set your shebangs accordingly.
As a fellow commenter said, you would ideally use something like dependabot or greenkeeper/snyk.
Someone else mentioned those numbers in a cousin thread but as far as we can tell there's no source for that. Do you happen to have one?

See the comment thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22981423
The plan was for people to write Python 2 and generate Python 3.[1] What eventually worked was making it possible to have a single code base. Imagine if that had been possible all along.

[1] http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/...
It says around 40% in this tweet: https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1252356183077208082

Also lots of information in the comments.
I totally agree, you want both. Negative latency!

https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-application...
Skill doesn’t mean it makes the game profitable, it means the game rewards intelligent choices with improved returns.

Different slot machines have different payout percentages, simply selecting the best improves your returns. The Stratosphere used to have 101% payout machines that could only be reached by walking all the way to the very end of their dreary mall.

There are also progressive slots, different comp rates and negotiable loss rebates for high rollers.
The CDC is working on this, for example

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/04/cdc-launches-studies-to-...
> For a bad transition, look at Perl 6

At first glance, you're right. But if you take a closer look, from a purely pragmatic perspective, there are now at least two coexisting ecosystems in two different languages, peacefully sailing along.

Python 2/3 is in this kind of weird twilight zones that the two versions are far away enough that you can't have a smooth transition like in e.g. C++, Java, Rust, Go, etc., but still close enough that there is not a clear cut like in Perl5/Raku. So for a few years, one had to juggle with some of the libs that were 2-and-3 compatible, some that were 2-only, and the others that were 3-only.

C++ et al. let your code evolve Theseus ship-like; Perl makes you build a new ship; and Python tells you that your ship should be OK if you repaint that thing, change a bit of that one, oh, and by the way, you'll have to check very carefully your bunkers, because the boilers will explode if every coal nut is not Unicode-compatible.
I was wondering what could be added to the discussion at this late point, and the answer is - nothing. The page is nothing but a transcription of one of Monty Python's better bits. I'm sure someone else has done it before, perhaps better.
If you parse Python 3.8.2 as Python3 8.2.0 then the versioning follows semver nicely.
> Why can't methods (for instance) get displayed as convenient, without worrying about where they are in the file?

This is something unison is playing with with their codebase manager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI
Oh come on. There is no grand conspiracy to keep the shutdown going for two years. Everyone realizes that would destroy the economy and not a single government official wants to sit at home with their screaming children for two years straight. This is a fake controversy ginned up by the right. Here are the facts:

The Virginia health commissioner said on Friday, "I personally think Phase One will be a two year affair." Phase One involves re-opening of non-essential businesses, continued physical distancing, telework, and face coverings in public.[1]

A few publications on the right interpreted this the worst way possible. Washington Examiner wrote[2], "the top health official in Virginia said the state could be in lockdown for the next two years." Lockdowns are generally defined as the closing of non-essential businesses and requiring a reason for people to be outside the home. It's clear that Gov. Northam's Phase One guidelines are a loosening from the general definition of a lockdown. Federalist[3] decided to interpret this comment as schools remaining closed for two years. Indeed, Gov. Northam's presentation did not touch on schools, but that could just as likely be because a decision on schools hasn't been made yet.

In any case, on Saturday, the health department clarified the comments, saying, "Dr. Oliver intended to say that the Commonwealth will likely be dealing with COVID-19 in some form until a vaccine is produced, not that Phase One itself would take two years."

[1]: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/...

[2]: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-virginia-health-...

[3]: https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/25/virginia-health-commiss...
There’s no silver bullet you’re absolutely right, but does that mean there isn’t room for improvement? Or that you shouldn’t try? Dropping all dependencies is extreme for sure but to argue against something as simple as vendoring is a bit odd.
News media was actually heavily censored in 1918 due to the Sedition Act. It was literally "fake news".
>On 1), what do you consider "not that serious"?

Death rates, hospitalization rates, etc.

As mentioned before, 20% of NY deaths are nursing home patients. 37% are 80 or older.

I'm on mobile and a bit lazy, but check out death rates for the flu in younger populations and compare them to this virus. The virus has a higher mortality rate but not enough to be worth worrying about in younger populations.

>Regarding the cost-benefit discussion, my perspective is that people only want to discuss the downsides from a reduced economy.

While keeping the benefits in mind is an important part of this analysis, the fact is the pre-quarantine deaths were already accepted as "worth it" given that there was no political will to reduce them.

But yes, we should tally the reduction in deaths, pollution, etc.
Anyone else find it painful scrolling through that site and waiting for the animations to reveal the next "block"?

They're smooth, but by the time they show up my eyes have moved on from the void where they had expected content to be. Coupled with the "marketingy" phrases it annoyed me enough to leave before I learned anything about what makes this browser special.

(Not knocking the tool, just the landing page)
I don’t like to see developers go unrewarded for useful work.
None of our projects had any trouble, rarely is an overstatement. Only if the project was huge and dealt heavily with string/bytes was it a problem. Everything else could be fixed mechanically.
Doing most of your changes made essentially no difference X)

I suspect the assembly generated by the compiler is pretty fancy.

Edit: Just briefly looking at the objdump again, gcc is using a lot of scalar variants of instructions, instead of vector. Maybe this is giving the CPU better hints?

Maybe my code would run better on a more modern CPU (while still constraining the original C program to SSE3 only) ?
So I'm going to have to go to the apple store for major surgery every 12-24 months? No thanks.

Seriously though, we long ago reached the limits of audio and stopped innovating there. We're close to that for 2d screen visuals (8K, full visible colour spectrum, etc).

It is neat to think about what being able to reproduce media at the limits of perception might be.
In this study they tracked 104 patients from the cruise ship, from Feb 11 to Feb 25. Started with 43 asymptomatic (41%), went down to 33 asymptomatic (32%).

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20038125v...
Huh? First, look at the context. He's starts with "time", "space", and "energy", and discusses them in the context of the "parameters of the universe". Second, he specifically says in his reply to me he intended to mean the physics concept of ”energy", not the everyday notion as you suggest.
Is the Economist trying to get us to kill our wives and children?
I remember Silicon Toad's page. Lots of cracking software, docs, etc.
Until you want to write code that works on platforms not supported by these compilers.