skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not just an issue of virtual conferences but also online college classes. Explaining itself over a Zoom conference is sadly not the same experience you would get face to face.
They also have HEPA filters, etc.
Their new email service website has the most pompous copywriting I’ve read on any website in a long time.
> covering all the niggling edge cases

You don't have to always cover all the edge cases. If you write software for fun, you can often just bake-in assumptions and neglect a lot of edge cases.
Ferrum, Ruby Chrome Driver
This most likely explains why I didn't get a dime of my unemployment money. Thanks PA.
Time namespaces that allow you to change the real time duration of a system time second, or to outsource the clock, for testing and debugging purposes among others.
Just to be clear, I'm not joking here. I've had photos boosted by a reputable publication. When I called them out on it, they paid my invoice. But Pinterest has made a fine living from wide-scale violation of the copyrights of photographers and graphic artists everywhere. The main difference with PopcornTime and this takedown is that the movie industry can afford a lot of well-paid lawyers in a way that rando photographers like myself can't.
The definition of "suitability" here seems a bit suspect. For example, this image [1] implies that a vast swathe of western and northern Australia is currently "highly suitable", whereas the actual Pilbara [1] and Kimberley [2] are both very hot and dry, and (outside a narrow coastal fringe) generally thoroughly unsuitable for agriculture and settlement.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/04/28/191011411...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilbara

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_(Western_Australia)
I tried to use it for poke, which uses its expression evaluator to poke bytes into buffers. It's not really workable. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2019-09/msg000...
Much better would be to use a simple jit with the same ideas. 10x less code, and esp. much less brittle.
XSLT is not that bad... I'd take it over c++ templates and many other things any day.
One thing that I like about the ".txt.vbs" trick is that: Ok, Windows was hiding the file extension, so users where not seeing the ".vbs". But users that were still seeing the ".txt" and thought that was a text file, even though a real text file would have had its extension hidden!

In other words, the "social engineering" trick only worked because users had been previously trained to look at the file extension to identify file type, and then Windows took away the file extensions.

HN is frequently talking about how harmful the impact of UX changes that we push onto users can be. Here's a 20-years-old example!
And, in most places, is an invasive species.
Ironically enough, the worm was spread by humans. It required deliberate human interaction - execution of the attachment - at each step.
Rush hour cars have 200+ people in them and essentially no air circulation. Generally you're just inches away from people if you aren't outright touching.
Its biggest innovation was figuring out how to avoid tobacco regulations, and it does seem likely that Washington is the next battleground on that front.
I was thinking something similar. People use email or FTP, HTTPS, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Intel, AMD, to share pirated material. Do we shut them down as well?

Also, I am pretty sure that the person(s) behind popcorn have a copy of their code somewhere else (or at least they sync/backup to their machines every so often.

So they will be fine. I think that this is just a tap on the back so they know that someone is NOW actively chasing them.
GP is talking about pre-WWII civilization, not medieval serfdom.
Sounds like you are not disillusioned with technology but with capitalism.
Here is my guess: the people who filed the notice know it is bogus, and also know that to contest it, the PopcornTime authors would have to provide their real names and contact info, and the lawyers want that info so they can sue them for contributory copyright infringement.
In research point 2 is key. I’ve been a presenter at an international conference that was done online due to the crisis, and it has nothing to do on the level of interactions in comparison to an on-site event. For established scientists conferences can rightfully seen as work-vacation and expensive social gathering, but for a newcomer it’s incredibly useful to be able to put a face on name’s, have a chat with a famous researcher and establish links informally.
I think one thing is NY is testing like crazy. They're actually trying to find out just how many people are infected.

Some countries are still trying to avoid testing. Many Japanese hospitals are turning people away from testing unless they have severe symptoms lasting several days, so naturally, numbers look tiny. And let's be frank, China's numbers just shouldn't be believed.
A Trial by Plague
I hope they had an heir.
Maybe their first aim is also to make it less accessible and reduce its use.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057569
Ah. I used to plug my old original Core 2 Duo MBP into a 5.1 system using a mini TOSlink cable, but since HDMI started doing surround audio I haven't had a need for optical audio connections. It was cool seeing a LED inside the audio jack, however.
Go is excellent for writing CLI's and network services since it comes with built-in cross-platform sockets, HTTP, easy-concurrency, crypto, SSL and a comprehensive standard library. You don't need an overarching framework. You can pick and choose helper libs if you really need them.

Doing the same in something like C++ or Java is a headache simply because the standard library is not sufficient and you waste valuable time in framework and library decision making.

I learnt golang through books. The traditional GOPL, and OReilly's "Concurrency in Go". "Go Programming Blueprints 2nd Edition" shows how to implement several projects using (mostly) the Go standard library.

(Sometimes developer time is not always the top most consideration though. There is one internal service that we refactored from Python -> Golang -> C++ for low-latency and low-memory performance.)

Not tried Rust yet.
This was HUGE news at the time, being covered by pretty much every channel and newspaper. My family received just one ILOVEYOU email (to the one email account we had for the entire family that we downloaded to the single computer in the house with dial-up internet) after the news broke, and we were smart enough to delete it without reading. But deep down inside I was kind of proud that the bug made it to the boonies and I was really tempted to open it anyway. I doubt that it would have done anything since we used Juno's software for email and browsing and I don't think it used the Windows Address Book and we didn't have Outlook configured.

I also like the aftermath, in which the Philippines caught the guys who wrote the bug and then realized that they hadn't technically committed a crime under Philippine law, so they just let them go. They wrote some cyber-crime laws afterwards, but I imagine Duterte's government wouldn't have let the guys go.

Edit: I took a walk down memory lane, and holy crap! Juno still exists: https://www.juno.com/ Also, s/bug/worm/g.
why not just use nlp to generate sql from the query /s
I read Snowden's biography - Permanent Record. Your claims are untrue. The sibling comment has it right - the US govt could steal data from the tech giants but they gradually got better at plugging such leaks. For example, in response to the Snowden revelations, all data in transit between datacenters is now encrypted. On the other hand, the govt would also request the data of a few people, which was generally granted.

It's not correct that the US govt has root access to all systems and data.
I disagree with the assessment. Nearly all of the points here are either contextless, are meaningless statements in themselves, take as literal the figurative, or are about aggressions that could only be accused of influencing others' view of the press' bias, rather than offering any real threat to rights.
Elon Musk and Grimes are now parents to a new baby boy
In 50 years:

- Groundwater will be gone.

- Fish will be gone.

- Arctic methane will be a problem.

- Topsoil will die.
Conferences are about networking not learning. We can learn as much, sooner and more comfortably from our desk by reading blog posts or watching videos. Networking is more powerful if you're a speaker, that's why I'm not going to any event anymore unless I speak there.

I guess that for speakers an online conference is as good as posting to the personal blog or uploading a new video. Furthermore it keeps the link with the conference community alive. So it's OK. For the public, no difference than going through the links in any weekly or monthly digest about that technology. For sponsors, which are an important part of the revenues of the conference organizers, I don't know.
Nerds are not the only exception by far. Quite a lot of people making an honest living are reasonably honest. The people at my corner store are not going to BS me about what's in stock. The person cutting my hair has always been frank about what she's good at and what she's not. I've worked in a library, a restaurant, and a few factories; all were populated by people who were generally straightforward.

It's a relatively small percentage of jobs that require people to be good at manipulating the opinions of others. As you say, marketing is an exception to that, but their business is manipulation, so that's not surprising.
The idea that a subway system like New York's (or even more, London's) is NOT a major vehicle of disease transmission is an extraordinary claim that requires evidence more extraordinary than this.
First, your phrasing is vague; please be more specific.

If your comment is intended as a general dismissal of climate predictions, my replies would be:

* What would you recommend instead?

* Would you recommend that no one make model-based predictions at all?

* Would you recommend that model-based predictions be dismissed entirely?

All models are wrong, but some are useful. [1] In other words, models are all simplifications in different kinds of ways, but a critical, skeptical mind can find value in them.

Science is largely based on models. Some may think current scientific theories are the complete truth, but history has shown this is not a reliable prediction. Still, you work with the best models you have, since the alternative is worse. Still, the only way forward we know is starting from where we are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
Great work and good luck for launch of this.
It happens to everyone. Maybe because you are loosing confidence in yourselves, you should start writing books, diaries or articles. That's how I started https://gauravtiwari.org. I was down with expectations, bored with studies and had no good friends. My blog kept me feel a little when readers started pouring in. After a couple of years, it went to be come a professional homepage for me and nowadays I showcase my portfolios with it
No they don't. Literally the first thing I tried had a link to 1337x:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bc6dbb81c1218cb19c54cafc3ebd...
Developing Smart Legal Contracts
The language around smart contracts is very confusing. A dev might know what they think a smart contract is, and a lawyer will have a whole different idea in their head.
We've recently started a project to create a new contract risk management system using DLT and smart contracts to rewrite how smart legal contracts are used in some of our largest industries.
It's an amazing technical challenge and equally challenging to design and discuss.

The key difference for smart legal contracts is that they are a representation of code which signifies a legally binding agreement. Funnily enough this can actually be achaieved without the need for a smart contract! Confusing right?

We're on the hunt for some top talent to join the team and help us develop both. We're looking for UK based full stack and front end devs. Apply via our angellist: https://angel.co/company/ehabplatform
> their new CEO (fall 2019), K.C. Crosthwaite, is an ex-tobacco exec

> ex

Evidently not.
Central African Replublic being number one on that list for hunger says much more but how much we've not progressed in some ways. It's one of the most resource rich countries on Earth and yet has the most hunger, hmmm, makes you wonder why.
Ascribing all excess deaths to coronavirus is a mistake. People are avoiding ERs and doctors; the incidence of typical CVA, MI, etc, in hospitals is way down. Not because we're having fewer CVAs and MIs, but because people are dying at home instead of being treated.

(Prolonging the epidemic increases the number of people who will die this way, too).
I would hope that any gun shop that sells products with the slogan "you can murder your spouse or neighbour with them, but you can also shoot animals or walls I guess".gets shut down ;)
Google mobility reports[1] show workplaces down 55% and retail and recreation down 47% for Clark County, Nevada (where Las Vegas is), and both dropped very quickly from March 13.

[1] https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ (Look for Nevada under the US)
I'll add this. I work with severely disabled kids as a classroom aide. I keep getting the impression that the difference in their thinking and mine is quite small. I am geting to be 73 years old and the medical fact is I am probably losing brain cells. But the illusion that I can think remains pretty complete. I see an increasing time delay in the process of summoning detail from old memories. I can also see an increasing fragility in the old memories.W With warmth, I can tell the student I work with "I'm getting a little slower now too.
Note how that's not a DMCA notice in the usual sense ("we own the IP of content distributed on your platform"), but a "strongly worded letter" that mentions the DMCA but just says "we'd like your assistance in stopping this illegal activity". At least it's not run-of-the-mill DMCA abuse.

It's interesting that GitHub decided to process it like a DMCA notice, unclear to me if they had to, and even less clear if the counter-notice is meaningful.
Yo! I'm with some people building a community that I think could really resonate with what you're looking for out of your future. It's sort of but not really an incubator of people, and one of our number (who themselves has a hell of a story) is explicitly looking to upend the VC model for basically all of those reasons. Another is the only _liked_ advertiser on Reddit. I'm taking our toy sort-of-but-not-really chat bot and turning it human augmentation for domestic abuse clinicians. It's the first time in my career (~10yrs) that I've been excited about morning "standups".

Email me or some such :)
Then what exactly is one suggesting?

"We all know what is best for us, but I'm not going to actually say what I think we should do."
You cannot compare situations in the US to situations in Asia since the populations are so different. In Asian countries people wear masks regularly... in the US the Vice President considered it too emasculating even for a HOSPITAL visit. There are plenty of good things about Americans but some of their worst qualities are a perfect match for disease transmission.
As someone else commented, this is one of the reasons why trusting companies like Apple is a bad idea. Even if employees had real concerns about a technology, or wanted to discuss the pros/cons, we would never hear about it. It should be obvious why a strong focus on secrecy and "controlling the message" breeds distrust.
ddg doesn't.
You absolutely will. In a modern car, at 50kmph you'll be largely ok. At 80kmph (50mph), not so much, but maybe you'll survive. At 80mph, you won't survive.
Twilio numbers, and most other VOIP numbers, cannot receive the short code text messages that Google uses for verification.
Yes coronavirus will impact the sports industry. But some sports will held and don't worrt about Covid-19.
If one considers the whole operation of armed forces to be unethical, it's easy to find ethical and moral hazards with the first two points as well.

Analogy: Would you consider it unethical to provide tools and services that make the lives of human traffickers easier? To actively protect assets of drug lords distributing contaminated opiates and meth?

Slave- and drug trade are about as likely to go away as armed conflict.
I really wish Python's developers weren't hellbent on breaking backward compatibility.
One more Musk.
I have been prescribed it a number of times. You are supposed to take it for a while after being in a maleria area, or at least I was told to do so. The dreams persisted back home.

The area I was visiting was not so different from other places I had visited or worked, just with a greater chance of maleria and lower chance of getting quick treatment.
Unless crimes are actually going down I don't see how lower imprisonment rate is good. Just sounds like criminals getting away with it to me.
From the abstract of your source: "Memory T cell responses to a pool of SARS-CoV S peptides were identified in 14 of 23 (60.9%) recovered SARS patients, whereas
there was no such specific response in either close contacts or healthy controls."
How is a DMCA takedown notice fundamentally different than a Cease and Desist letter?

Are companies required to adhere to a DMCA notice, or is that just policy to avoid litigation?

PDF Source on Safe Harbor provisions for OSP's: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Taking the most extreme predictions and then pulling them from headlines that misrepresent them, then cherry picking from that is a fairly poor way to organize an argument.
The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic killed in the ballpark of 10k people in the US. I don't recall ever seeing mainstream news outlets reporting in the ballpark of 100k recorded deaths.

It's been 7 weeks since the Imperial College model that predicted up to 2.2 million deaths in the US, that used an infection fatality rate of 0.9% as an assumption. The best science still has us in the 0.5% to 1% range for IFR, still putting us in the 1-2 million range if let ourselves get to herd immunity levels without a vaccine.

I think we'll avoid getting to 1-2 million, but it'll be because we take actions along the way to push some/most infections to post-vaccine or post-effective treatments.

> Try to reach it without a vaccine, and millions will die.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronaviru...
I mean, it can't have been too hard. Anyone can do this. Just open your laptop and take a big watery shit right on the keyboard.

Volia, Content indistinguishably coherent from the original. Bring your own sanitation wipes.
Do you have some evidence that Apple and Google run backdoors to privacy on iOS or Android devices? You speak about the track record of both companies, surely you should be able to point out several examples of this.

The spec seems pretty clear - it's not possible. If you feel that you don't trust them to implement the spec correctly due to incompetence or malice on their part - you need to supply the proof. If we're relying on your gut feel to be skeptical, you just look like an anti-vaxxer saying "I don't trust Big Pharma's vaccines based on my gut feel."
You say it like its a bad thing. Same person wont understand why putting your password into random website is bad, or why all of those windows and notifications keep popping up, or why you shouldn't click download followed by clicking run on random websites.
And yet Apple has a handful of parsers which all parse it differently…
I think this calculus becomes slightly different when you're talking about a nation that will never be in an existential defensive war. A protracted war benefits no one, but knowing that a war would be protracted might benefit the side that would otherwise be the loser by serving as a deterrent to the winner.
That seems extraordinarily naive. The NSA would not give up access like that unless forced at gunpoint, and the US gov has clearly demonstrated it doesn't care (and actually quite likes) this sort of gross privacy invasion.

The only (in)tangible difference between 2005 and today is the presumed existence of national security letters and other warrants that compel these companies to provide access.
https://archive.md/erh8C
You're in minority and won't be enough to sustain retail. It will be gone much sooner than you think.
Well, if you use hardware-assist you can get 0% overhead with shared memory and without serializing cores. Unfortunately, only some chips expose the correct hardware.

In terms of other publicly available systems, UndoDB claims properties similar to rr and appears to use the same general approach based on talks I have seen from the creator, but I have no first hand information on its actual properties.

If only advertising would help more. Unfortunately for all companies in this business, few companies are willing to invest even a tiny amount in developer productivity let alone properly value it. For instance, do you know of any company that spends more than $20k/year per developer on tools to enhance software developer productivity? To go even further, how many companies would even consider spending the astronomical sum of $20k/year per developer on tools? Yet, a fully burdened developer is ~$200k/year, so, using the most basic business analysis of just cost savings (which undervalues to a mind-boggling degree), $20k/year is a mere 10% cost increase, but for some reason it is viewed as an astronomical and ridiculous price. In other sectors, businesses easily spend significant percentages of salary cost in tooling. EDA tools for EEs can run $50k/year, trucks for truck drivers amortize out to $30-50k/year, etc. Obviously, you need to justify a 10% cost increase with an appropriate return, but the fact that few companies even bother to do so is in my opinion the primary limiting factor on increased adoption of the techniques and technologies we are discussing since nobody values them.
Thanks for the comment. I'll look into the items you suggested and see what I can learn.

My perspective on APL going forward is that it must retain symbolic notation. This is a very important element of the value delivered by this language and one of the aspects that tends to be difficult for non-APL-ers to understand (the value) from what amounts to casual contact with the language. You have to live APL for a while before the "tool for though" realization --and the importance of the symbols-- can be understood.

In the '90's Iverson developed J to get around the difficulties technology of the era had with symbols. This was a huge mistake and something that went exactly opposite the "Notation as a tool for thought" idea he promoted for years when describing APL. I watched him give this lecture in person at one of the APL conferences in the mid 80's.

The problem with any language --APL being no exception-- is that a business case must exist for wide adoption. Engineers tend to get lost in the technical minutiae, which is important when you are doing the job but it isn't a requirement for the job to be done. Or put more precisely: IF there is no quantifiable need for APL and a mechanism for better ROI, it is hard to justify shifting entire teams to this, or any other language, simply because we like the technical aspects of it.

At the end of the day things are simple: It either makes sense or it does not. I would LOVE for APL to become relevant again and for it to find mass adoption. I love the language. And yet I understand business and know the probability of this happening is so close to zero it might as well be zero. Sadly.
Is there a caching layer/plugin for Caddy 2? http.cache existed for Caddy 1, but I couldn't find it in the Caddy 2 documentation.
Look at Indian subcontinent, the entire Indian subcontinent has over 20% of world's population and yet couple of thousand deaths due to Covid.

I believe micro-droplets being evaporated by the notorious South Asian heat is playing a part.