skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What you think of as failure - hospitals currently low utilization - is in fact success.

What bothers me is the contention that my rights are contingent upon reported capacity of already existing hospitals. If this is truly a concern, and our rights our primary, then we should be building more hospitals so that we no longer have to make this Faustian bargain.

It seems impractical and short-sighted to continue these measured based upon this single metric, especially when there are so many other ways to have a lasting impact on the problem.

Aside from that, I don't personally believe it's the purpose of the government to save lives at any cost. Even the Police won't give you that guarantee.
Hooks have unlocked so much power in React but still deserve critiquing. However I think the author only hinted at the major complaint I have about hooks, which is that it's no longer Javascript. It's not a function, it's sort of like type system magic. Hooks can't be nested, order matters, can't be conditionally called, and you have to understand trickier memoization to avoid bugs. It also isn't portable knowledge to other systems, like vanilla Javascript is. React is great because it's vanilla Javascript, expressions all the way down, and lifecycle methods, which everyone is used to. Hooks are a new non-vanilla-javascript paradigm with special and sometimes tricky rules. Other than, there's no reason to write React unless you're using hooks, and I wonder what the next major paradigm shift will be. I look back on all our HOCs and function as children and shudder compared to how easy it is with hooks.
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I live in Germany

Afaik there is no fair use or DMCA here
Whether you agree with or disagree with the Citizens United outcome, describing the majority opinion as a straightforward "completely wrong" (when, for example, the ACLU supported the verdict) indicates that you have not, in fact, read any of the opinions or dissents, or done research about the specific case that was being litigated.
Can someone explain in layman's term what the purpose of this is ?
Teams + git repositories for secrets is great too.

Makes it less likely that our secrets end up on Github where if Github were hacked, or an web account was hacked that our secrets become public.
Law is the operating system of our society So show me the manual
> Blanket lockdown has to end.

I tend to agree.

Why is nobody focusing on Sweden's COVID numbers? Sweden didn't institute city-wide shutdown measures. Yet, there hospitals are not overwhelmed. And, their COVID case counts and death counts are plateauing.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52395866
I grew up watching Disney-type stuff, and as I got older, it was off-putting to encounter stories that didn't seem to have a "point." A bunch of stuff happens and then you're required to just accept the utter lack of resolution. I know that some people view that lack of a resolution as "meaningless," and I'm not accusing you of that, but sometimes the lack of an obvious lesson is the lesson. People die, conflicts go unresolved, life goes on until it doesn't and sometimes all we can do is accept it.
And to the authoroties, who then promise to not violate that promise.

Except they refuse to be limited by cryptographic means to that.

Why? Because they demand the ability to change their promise in the future ... exact details to be specified. Perhaps “solving drugs” with contact tracing. At which point they have your data, you have zero control, and “your honour we can prove he lied: he was close to that drug dealer 5 times. Further details (such as that this happened in the train station and 5000 other people were also close) cannot be confirmed because that would violate privacy”.

This is the government that got caught letting police officers stalk their ex for 2+ years and then initially arrested the victim for more than 2 weeks when caught. Let’s not pretend they’re above doing this, especially since it’s become increasingly clear this contact tracing is the police’s wet dream.
Lockdowns are like rounds of layoffs. Better to have one too big than several too small.
> there are rational goals to quarantines beyond keeping the hospitals occupied at an optimal level

None of the counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have been willing to outline any specific goals, nor has our Governor. If you can point me to anything more specific from the above than 'if we only save one life', I'd be shocked.
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So, is this open-source firmware that runs directly on Micron SSDs, or is it an upper-layer thing that runs on the host system?
People are not showing up in the ER unable to breathe because they know someone who holds their Cellphone to their ear.

Covid-19 is not a theoretical threat.
Agreed, I think the secret is often a kind of subtlety that can often be confused with meaninglessness. For example, the first time I read "Of Mice and Men", I found the "meaningless" suffering to be infuriating - how could this book possibly be considered a classic? - until I later understood more context around the novel's time period and message, and realized it was only my juvenile tastes and expectations that made it seem meaningless (no happy ending? What is this tripe?)

I doubt Tolstoy wrote his stories without some kind of purpose, but I agree it would be a mistake to try too hard looking for meaning in case he just felt like writing up some sad shit.
Depends from who you want to be kept private. I've a hard time describing PEPP-PT "privacy preserving" the same way as DP-3T, especially as far as the central server is concerned and the blind trust I must put in it, but I admit this is still better than China like solutions. As for the trade-offs concerning privacy, it is true that DP-3T is not perfectly more private than PEPP-PT from a theoretical point of view (and nor the inverse), but this concern seems weird from a practical point of view and I have a hard time figuring out practical attacks doable against the public with DP-3T but not with PEPP-PT that would not be the sign of far worse problems...
For all its somewhat fussy verbosity, Ada really impresses me every time this sort of thing comes up.

I keep hoping the Zig developer will do a deep dive on Ada and bring over more of this kind of precise control. A language where I have this kind of control over layout, but can still spell `end record;` as `}`, is ideal for some projects I have in mind.
A trick I've subsequently learned is that if you crouch down all the way, many small dogs like to hide in the 'cave' made by your shins.

In general shrinking yourself makes most dogs like you a lot more, but the little dogs will bee-line for your legs.
What is your reaction to Sweden's COVID track?

They didn't shut down daily life, and their hospitals are doing just fine. In fact, COVID cases and deaths have plateaued.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52395866
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This! Disney has morphed copywrite without any input from the public. What sort of contract is valid if only one party changes the terms and the other never agreed to it?
The only people losing civil liberties are the people that die after contracting the virus because we failed to social distance for the necessary amount of time.

The "performance metric" you're looking for is the number of tests we conduct. Unless we're testing hundreds of thousands every day, we have no choice but to continue to shelter in place or stay at home. We are not even close to the amount of testing we need to know who does and doesn't have the virus.
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> That's the problem with not being specific, you find yourself spouting silly hyperbole instead of argument. No, "almost all commerce" isn't shutdown, that's not remotely true. We're looking, depending on how pessimistic you want to be, at like a 20-30% drop in GDP. And that's big, but it's simply not almost all.

You're kidding right? The drop in GDP between 1929 and 1932 was about 15% or so. You're saying I'm the one being hyperbolic for calling a drop of twice that size in three months a total free fall?

I apologize I forgot about Jeff Bezos and your local taco guy. I'll try to be more optimistic, like you are doing here, by predicting an instant drop of economic activity to twice the severity of the Great Depression.

And sure I'll take your bait on specifics anyways. I think we should pick policies just restrictive enough to keep hospitalizations below system capacity and no more. There really isn't any other reasonable choice, the current policy is just delaying the inevitable for no clear reason and without any specific vision of what success looks like.

You realize that if we have the same number of cases, and deaths, but with 3-4x the economic destruction, that's a spectacular policy failure right?
> React is great because it's vanilla Javascript

What about JSX? It’s very useful but it’s also an absolutely huge departure from vanilla JavaScript and hides a fair amount of complexity behind what your code is actually doing.
It’s not often I dare to disagree with Ross Anderson, but most of these objections don’t make a lot of sense to me. There’s nothing to stop the app from phoning home once a contact is identified, so all of the human-in-the-loop stuff is still possible.

The only difference between a centralised and decentralised solution so far as I can tell is whether or not we end up with massive centralised databases of every social contact between people who are not infected. Collecting that data seems completely unjustifiable to me, given that it is by definition unnecessary.
There are a couple of flaws with this reply.

1. This doesn't appear to be a falsifiable position with respect to being overly conservative. Any action that results in the hospitals not being overwhelmed will be taken as somehow likely causing the hospitals not to be overwhelmed. It's not clear by this logic how hospital capacities are ever chosen given various uncertainties in the environment.

2. It commits a status quo bias. Only the risks of deviating from shelter in place are considered. On the one hand we have a virus with a CFR of around 0.5% with fairly well understood vulnerabilities to various parts of the population. On the other we have a completely unprecedented shutdown triggering a 2T spending package and causing record unemployment, with an unknown end goal. Is the risk of continuing down this path somehow less than the risks to the hospitals based on our knowledge of disease?
Sure. Unlikely for 5G towers given frequencies and location.
When I was younger I could never understand why anyone would vote republican.

Today I understand.
False trichotomy and false dichotomy are both simply specific cases of the more generalized "fallacy of exhaustive hypothesis".
What's so hard about manufacturing a few million drones? With a relatively modest amount of money(relative to, say, developing a nuclear program or chemical weapons program), you could hire a contract manufacturer to spin out a few million drones. They probably wouldn't even ask what the blade/needle was for, although it would be easy to craft a cover story(i.e. "They're for mass inoculation/slaughter of livestock"). Update the SW and congrats, you now have a weapon of mass destruction. You can target people by face, race, location, etc.

There's a reason the US military has been playing with drone clouds for years.
I thought raft was the obvious choice since it is a far simpler framework.
Judging from the Office Wars of the '90s and '00s, this is a general microsoft product "personality trait"...
You start doing it when you can gather enough information, fast enough to prevent new spikes from happening. The number of "known cases" becomes very low, and then ideally one can react fast enough when new clusters start forming.
My mental model of JSX is that it's vanilla Javascript, and it's helped me appreciate trying to write more expressions and less statements. Like JSX isn't getting transformed into some weird different control flow, it's just a nicer way to write the same expression. And DSLs are a good general computer science principle. Hooks don't seem quite as general of a concept to me as a really well thought out DSL that has a minimal surface area but still turns out to be super useful.
Hedging Your Business from Disruption
The article mentions 802.11r for fast roaming between APs and how this avoids it. I've seen mentions of networks where the APs just forward WiFi packets and a central router does all the actual negotiation to achieve the same effect. It's too bad something like OpenWRT doesn't include it.
After prolonged service outage, Petnet shuts down, citing coronavirus
From the guidelines[0]:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nice read, good summary. Thanks for focussing on the structural and protocol difference. Helped me understand.
There's also gitg which is fairly fast https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Gitg
People forget that there is no law which can put everyone under house arrest. This is all done voluntarily.

Why is it ok for people to shop at Walmart and not at their local small business that sells the same goods and is better equipped to enforce social distancing, with customers explicitly opting in to visit the smaller store?

If a small business can protect workers and customers, and a comparable large business is already open, the small business can consider opening and preparing to litigate all the way to the Supreme Court. With video cameras ready.

There may be a few hundred bored lawyers who remember the US constitution and would take their case pro bono. The federal government recently said it is willing to join lawsuits against states, on constitutional grounds.

Obviously, the business in question should be carefully chosen to maximize health, legal and business outcomes. But with many businesses shutdown, there's a large pool of candidates to be triaged.
Series X is DirectX 12 Ultimate, and the PS5 will most likely have another generation of LibGNM/LibGNMX.

Even on Switch there is the option of going with NVN or middleware like Unity and Unreal.

According to Unity official numbers, they have about 50% of share across Switch titles.
The US also has a weird dichotomy between rights against the state, which are plentiful (i.e. Bill of Rights) and broadly stronger than anywhere else in the world, and a lack of rights against other citizens or corporations, where they are weaker than the rest of the West.

So you get obnoxious Home-Owner Association rules when you buy a house, you get unions (your right to freely associate and organise with others) curtailed and destroyed, you get no meaningful privacy protection against scummy companies vacuuming up data (e.g. Equifax)
core-JS: Get rid of postinstall message
Some jurisdictions have a rebate program in effect for these. You should look at whether your utilities company has any information on the subject.
Yes, --dark is the default and it will choose a dark theme. To see a demo of other dark themes, you can do

delta --list-themes --dark

and then delta --theme <chosen theme> to select it.
Have they contributed to MySQL/MariaDB or to Postgres?
Wow, what a strange story. Super surreal and dreamlike
I though we were talking about high performance APIs here.
I mean, why wouldn't you be able to form a contract through tweets? You can form a contract through any medium you want, especially just to give permission to Disney to use your tweet.

I don't think Disney is setting any precedent or anything else weird by saying "send us messages you want us to publish, by the way here are the specific terms we want to use" on Twitter, they've been doing that for a long time before twitter even existed. Think about America's Funniest Home Videos, they did exactly this for decades but over TV.

Your tweet fails to give Disney any "consideration" so it's not going to be a valid contract and not because it's in a tweet. Offer them clearer terms and a dollar and then maybe you'd have a point. Right now they offer you a chance to see your tweet in some marketing materials, better than nothing right?

Lastly, this is incredibly specifically scoped. Does anyone tweeting "Love the new movie #MayTheFourth @Disney" really expect Disney not to want to use it? They are going to have someone review the tweets before they use them. How could this possibly come back to bite Disney?
There aren't interest groups buying ad time for scaremongering or people beating the drum for moral superiority about the evils of caffeine... no. But energy drinks have gotten a bit of a bad wrap, and four loko with the caffeine and alcohol got banned... and if you have a heart condition or anxiety your doctor is going to advise you to lay off the coffee. Isn't that enough?

Or does it have to become a social evil for it to count?
> The above legal language applies ONLY to replies to this tweet using #MayThe4th and mentioning @DisneyPlus

Couldn't replying to their tweet be considered sending it to Disney?
Will this be a replacement for something like the overpriced and under performing proprietary products from Pure Storage?
What's your point? Is there a statute you're thinking of that requires San Francisco to spell out specifically what their goals are? You said upthread that the lockdown is a violation of people's constitutional rights, but it seems clear that it isn't, at least not in our jurisprudence. You can find legal scholars debating the constitutionality of quarantine, but only in the context of hypothetical orders that haven't been issued by any state yet that would imprison people in their homes (the way China apparently did). If you don't even have the broad strokes of this right, it seems fair to ask for a citation here.
+ Deaths by obesity from staying home,

+ Home violence,

+ CO2-increased houses make people much less clever,

+ Demotivation/decrease of testosterone makes people durably less productive, further hampering our ability maintain the little flow of goods that’s left.

We are setting up ourselves for a much more deadly future.
My first thought: please don't.

My second thought: let the new SEO war begin! I hope this time the SEO scum gets annihilated.
The Government Must Decide If It Wants Pedestrians to Die or Not
Why Mining the Moon Seems Possible – Moon Mining History
>> I know rough vacuum-grade vacuum-packed frozen meat rates a 3-year shelf life

That is the number for taste, not food safety. There is lots of guidance that meet is "good" for a few months to a few years. But it is also true that people have eaten mammoth meat frozen for thousands of years. The reality is that long-frozen meat will not taste as good as meat only frozen a few days.

>>Because freezing keeps food safe almost indefinitely, recommended storage times are for quality only. Refer to the freezer storage chart at the end of this document, which lists optimum freezing times for best quality.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety...
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No, that's a bad pattern that should be avoided.

First of all, what happens if the value of Field is actually 1? Did you want that record affected? Because now it will be. It's not exactly clear from your query that you did, is it? This is explicit:

WHERE (Field = 1 OR Field IS NULL)

And it's not actually that much shorter:

WHERE COALESCE(Field, 1) = 1

Second of all, if Field is indexed, well, you probably just ignored that index or turned a seek into a scan (i.e., a slower operation). Putting a field into a function will often mean the query engine can't use the index to help with query performance. It means the query engine will have to do a whole lot more work. The term in the industry is "sargable": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargable
It's a class divide, unfortunately. The people who are getting hit hardest are the people who were already getting hit hardest. Most of those don't frequent the same internet forums we do.
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Sure, my list was focused on things that at least on the first glance don't appear "political". Your items definitely cross that threshold ;)
> However, do you have any bench / source for std::unique_ptr ? You are the first one I hear giving critics on it.

Chandler Carruth talks about this at CppCon 2019 [0]. From a quick review he says part of the reason std::unique_ptr isn't zero-cost right now is:

- Objects passed by value (like std::unique_ptr) are passed on the stack instead of in registers, and changing that will be an ABI break

- No destructive move means extra temporaries will be created/retained

[0]: https://youtu.be/rHIkrotSwcc?t=1046
Cloudflare's API supports this for free; my Ubiquiti router updates my DNS records when/if something changes. But I love your hack :)
Okay, but can anyone find a case where this went to court and a lawyer successfully argued "Your honor, it's not our fault the info was leaked because we put a disclaimer at the bottom of the email when we sent it to the wrong person!"

I'm skeptical.

If the language doesn't actually prevent liability anyway, then get rid of it.
Can you give a couple simple examples of the kinds of things might be revealed through loss of privacy in such an app, that would be very damaging?
Don't forget anti-terror laws were used to ensure people were putting the right things in the right bins... (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-coun...)

So, given the existence of a privacy-preserving option, it is extremely dubious to be pushing a privacy-destroying option for the sake of a small amount of extra data and flexibility.
Anyone selling an option determines the price (same as a stock). You can sell an option yourself for any price if you so desire. If there is an influx of buyers, the will purchase the cheapest first, but as they do, those that remain available are at a higher price. This is why people say that demand increase price.
OK I'll take your bait. What if we have enough tests, then what's the rule?
1. Sith Corp put out draconian statement.

2. Clone army of internet nerds raises awareness.

3. May the Force, is a marketing success.
Some home routers even have a feature to keep your IP address updated with the DDNS service.
The experience of people getting their business fucked by platforms when they get traction mean that less people will try it again with those new ones.
Idk, searching Amazon has always been such a frustrating experience for me that i find hard to believe 10 seconds of searching achieve anything
You should be ashamed.
It actually does mean something, which is that freedom is not unlimited. Your freedom of action ends at the point where it harms someone else. Classically, "your right to throw your fist ends at my face." It's the same reason (legally) you can't point a firearm at me.

What we have here is the problem that merely by breathing around someone, you can cause them harm. Unfortunately we lack the ability to determine whether or not you will, but given the contagiousness of this disease if you are infected (or become infected) it is quite likely.
Did you order Newegg or third-party? So many stores, Newegg included, are trying to be a 'platform' or something and allow third party sellers, but it makes the buying experience awful.

Arguably the worst things about buying from Amazon all derive from third-party sellers: long shipping times (from China, generally), commingled inventory, counterfeit products, faked/swapped listings... Companies like Newegg should be explicitly doing the opposite as a competitive advantage -- yet they seem to be copying. I don't get it.
Bay Area counties extend coronavirus stay-at-home orders to end of May
The 'misleading' horn of the title guideline. It's obviously not a first release if there have been major threads involving people using it!

Not saying it's a bad submission, by the way—and I hope that including those links didn't make it seem that way.