skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one? Can you demonstrate that they were "making it up"?

More importantly, can you demonstrate that it has direct relevance to the topic of COVID-19 data massaging under Florida's* Republican state government? If not, this isn't the place.

* edited for precision
We'll find out in a month or so in WA state. I've filed a request and plan on making it public.
Moderna Announces Positive Interim Phase 1 Data for Its MRNA Vaccine
Brilliant article ! I love these in-depth "old-hardware" articles with my morning coffee. (It's only 8am here in South Africa)

Lol this stood out for me (although probably just semantics...):

"Reality Co-Processor running at 62.5 MHz."
What big dreams we had back then to try and"simulate reality" with only 62.5Mhz :)

Well done author... well done Nintendo !
I believe this library would be very useful for simple animations. The small size and simple API should make this usable in many cases.

As for more sophisticated animations, I can think of reanimate [1], which outputs animations in SVGs, and should work on the web with wasm if integration is needed [2][3].

I completely agree that declarative programming (and functional-style programming) shines for composing animations. Imperative programming does not show the intent as clearly, and makes it hard to reason about or time travel animations.

[1]: https://reanimate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/glue_tut/

[2]: https://github.com/tweag/asterius

[3]: https://github.com/Lemmih/reanimate
I don’t see how futures can be more flexible than go routines. Could you explain that more? And why couldn’t you just spawn a goroutine to avoid blocking your main thread?
The major challenge is that we either hide for an indefinite amount of time, which destroys the wealth pipes, aka the economy, or we get hit by a second pandemic wave. There are NO good options.

Cherry on top: everything is hyperpartisan, which leads to the destruction of public trust. In some alternate reality, Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosi would hold a joint press conference and tell us the cold facts: There are NO good options. Many people are going to die, and there is nothing anyone can do to indefinitely prevent that. Let's at least hold our heads up with dignity.
Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?
I have gone through initial chapters of "Practical Common Lisp"[1] and "Loving Common Lisp" [2], and have a bit of intuition on lisp, and the power of macros. Haven't done any projects yet, but was also researching on real issues faced by adopting lisp, and ran into articles about abandoning lisp [3], adopting lisp [4],[5]. Could not find anything more recent; but what they mention in these articles - even the ones that are adopting lisp talk about issues like:

* poor ecosystem of libraries - few gems, most other half-baked

* poor community coordination

* Dependency management limitations with quicklisp

And some specific red flags like:

* poor support for json[6]
* poor support for async

* have to restart the server every 20 days because of some memory leak [3]

* hack to tune GC [5]

If you are using lisp in production for non-trivial cases,
do these issues still exist? is there a way you can quantify effort is resolving them, and if yes, what is it?
and, finally, if you had to re-do your project, would you chose lisp or something else?

[1]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

[2]: https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp/read#quicklisp

[3]: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-turtl-switched-from-...

[4]: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-deftask-chose-common...

[5]: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...

[6]: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#s4...
I’ve been a big fan of Namesilo. They seem serious, suggest secure practices, and recommend domains are locked with them. Unsure what happens when push comes to shove.
If a neural network can build an idea of what it looks at over a few frames (or one frame ie. YOLO) then use it to improve quality of an image is it not denoising? Hallucinating extra pixels definitely.

Denoising, maybe, I'd say it fits the bill but I'm not a domain expert.
There's no danger of everyone being exceptional though, given human nature, which is essentially the point. Normal emotional defensive mechanisms such as making excuses and avoiding confrontation impede your long term goals. Trying and failing "hurts" more than not trying at all, so there's a self-defeating optimization process being performed by people typically. Of course your own mind isn't the only obstacle holding you back, but it can be a big one. I agree this kind of fluff is off-putting for technical-minded people, but the value of the point seems pretty clear.

As for the anecdotes and success stories, I also agree they are not convincing. In business they can be very useful though, since starting a new venture requires a lot of leaps of faith and uneducated decisions, something paralyzing to most people. Having a model for how others proceeded is very valuable.
You can actually do the same thing as `go SlowThing() ` in C#, though it has more boilerplate. For example, you can do `Task.Factory.StartNew(() => SlowThing())`.

The thing is, Go doesn't have async functions, because it doesn't have await. That is why you don't have colored functions in Go: it doesn't support anything as advanced. Sure, the runtime does really cool things under the hood, but the Go programming model is more like Threads than async/await, because goroutines can't return data and they can't throw exceptions.
Can you back up your assertion for not acting with legislation in response to a tragedy?

In pretty much any other aspect of life, from business to personal, people will react then.

Especially since this isn't a one-time tragedy, but one that plays out continually. We need to act now before we let this happen again. I'm going to need to see a citation on your numbers, but 40 since 1980 is once a year! By your criteria of not responding after a tragedy, you are actually arguing that we should never act at all.
Wait a minute, Free86 is also a pun for 386.

It only took me almost 2 decades to notice.
Man is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.
Do you propose a archaic-communist dictatorship to solve the issue ? What's the alternative world you envision, where people are forbidden to vote, especially against their own interests (or at least, as perceived by you) ?

A true democracy, first tell people not to vote only for their own interest, but the nation's, and whatever they vote for, it's THEIR responsibility. No buts, no ifs, you vote you pay. Fake news or corrupt oranges, the citizens have the last word: they wanted it.
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I appreciate Mr. Paul's sentiment and agree with him. I would like to see him go further though and end the drug war that the US gov has waged against the American people. I think these no-knock warrants and other systemic, organized violence committed by a militarized civilian law enforcement is largely enabled by this war.
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This might help?

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/NovelCoronavirusOutbreak2...
I quite like the "Information Revolution - Happiness for Everyone" aspiration. Just needs a bit more work.
People are always harder on Democrats, as if a Republican putting on their pants in the morning is enough of an accomplishment.
See also xournal++ -
https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp
You’re right. Forcing officials to lie to the public is comparable to shitty web design. There’s probably some secret collaboration between the State of Washington, Atlassian Jira, vaccine companies, and MySpace behind the whole thing.
Yelp is another one of the trash companies that's acquired their customer base through bullying small business owners. They're welcome to piss off as well.
Oooo baby, I love this techno-fascism we got brewing
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This does not look remotely like NY state's or have metrics/thresholds/categories. (I am familiar with it.)

From this data, what algorithms/models does Inslee plug it into? What are acceptable levels of infection/community spread/ICU beds? Cuomo is very transparent about the 2nd question, which is enough for me given a two month window of time to work on it.
If that is true (and I have no reason to doubt it), I hope that:

1) She will not be subject to long term repercussions for being honest and doing her job

2) Whoever asked her to cook the numbers, will be sued and arrested and go to jail. Cooking the numbers in this case equates to me as killing people, because decisions related to reopening, etc, will be heavily influenced by these numbers.

3) I hope that someone Rebekah Jones will know that unknown people in the internet, even in this obscure hacker site called Hacker News, are proud of what she stood for. She has nothing to gain and everything to lose, and yet she chose the right path. (again, assuming this is true)
You can get most VW van parts.[1] There are many replica car kits.[2] Usually they look like some classic, but have a modern chassis and powertrain underneath.

[1] https://www.piersideparts.net/BSM.html

[2] http://kitcarlist.com/porsche-kits.html
locate relies on indexing crons. This has killed several production servers until I disabled it.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/net/...

I don't see how this breaks the whole Internet. Yes the server might not behave, but that's not a TCP problem.
Wait no longer! Here you go: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/05/15/te...
It became a big thing because of the drug war, if you knock and announce yourself people will flush their drugs. The Drug War: the gift that keeps on giving.
This is satire, if it wasn't clear
This is amazing.

This is why I come to read HN =) - interesting content like this, or esoteric/cool facts, or awesomely deep tech discussions.

Out of curiosity - do you have a background in this kind of thing (linguistics), or its just an interest topic for you?

(As a side-note, this whole SJW crusade does irk me somewhat, but hey, I guess it resulted in gems like this).
>> shitty web design

You're beating a strawman. I don't care about the markup. I care that Inslee doesn't come close to Cuomo on distributing thresholds and limits on how phases move from one to the next. Cuomo has been very clear. Inslee has dumped data on a screen and some clipart.
This suggestion is going to sound stupid, but what is the current tech and cost of bullet proof riot shields?

Could we use technology to re-train and equip officers with shields and non lethal weapons to eliminate the fear of death, and unnecessary fatalities?

What would the price be? A few billion?
I did a buy to upgrade my home office - at my salary an 6 hour investment equals a great standing desk with motor. My employer chipped in a few hundred for a good wobble style chair.
Not affiliated in anyway. Just a very happy customer, but want to plug PDF Studio [1]. I've used Atril, Evince, Adobe, PDFXChange (through WINE) and this PDF Studio (not FOSS) is worth every penny. It even interfaces with docusign (but you don't need it since you can import real digital signature) their support is amazing, and linux is first class there.

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"Neo-liberal oligarchies" and archaic communist dictatorships are not the only two types of government. Social democracies for example exist as well and are much less of a strawman to argue against.
Respectfully disagree. I don't think there's anything that could be done with a be knock that could be done without.
> zero metrics behind them

Um, what? You just linked to a random non-(data) dashboard page and decided that metrics aren’t published?

When I visit https://www.doh.wa.gov/, I see a banner that links to https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus, which in turn prominently links to the actual dashboard https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/NovelCoronavirusOutbreak2... The aforementioned page also has simple data summary tables https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus#CovidDataTabl... I can’t even find that random page you linked to without digging.

To be clear I’m very tired of partisan bullshit and has no dog in the fight, and there may be other valid criticisms, not to mention it’s not at all clear the published data is accurate (given earlier scandals around care homes), but this particular criticism is very misleading.
It's interesting that you say that, since it was one of my favorite parts about Europe being able to just walk up to any main street corner and have a ride somewhere. No need to have an app or anything, always works, no privacy/data issues. And it was never a big deal to walk a couple blocks to the main roads
Durable goods and appliances as you said, and regular maintenance.

If you need to have something inspected once a year, then you might have been able to postpone it some, but you'll need to do it eventually.

Also travel is not so clear.
I realise I am quite lucky, but my bottleneck for travel is vacation days.
I will still go on holidays the same amount of time this year, but it might be in a different place than expected if the borders do not reopen.

But yes, it certainly does not apply to the majority of businesses.
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And look where we are now. There are 30 comments that have been made on an irelevant topic, that detracted from the issue.

Was it worth it? Did you feel good about yourself, to distract everyone like this?
I love the original thinking in this post. If there was no React/Angular/VueJS, how would YOU design ANY system to help you code faster and more maintainable? That what I'd love to see: more original ideas to solve complex tasks, and not stopping at the first idea coming to mind.

BTW: I believe tailwindcss is fantastic at achieving and helping with the OP's frustration.
I think he is a poor leader who has a Democrat branding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
Alright. One reason for my confusion is that I assumed you would post "async functions (and generators?) are not colored functions in JavaScript" at the top level if you meant that, since the article is about async functions in JavaScript. So I wondered, what's the distinction between async functions in JavaScript and in Python that makes one "colored functions" but not the other? But this is not what you intended. Thanks for the clarification.

Some programming languages have stackless async functions and generators that work the way you said, and some other languages have stackful coroutines. In the languages I use the most, functions that switch to other parts of the program are functions (according to the type system and the calling convention, but not in the sense that they have only one entry point and one exit point and no state). This is pretty great, because things are composable in precisely the way the article complains that they are not. Given that these things exist, it's fine to say "coroutines and functions are two different things" but maybe saying "a function which jumps to a different stack and which can then be jumped back into is not a function" will just make people very confused about the whole thing.

If you have this, uh, code fragment:

function read_five(socket)
local data, err = socket:recv(5)
if not err then
return data
end
return nil, err
end

perhaps we shouldn't say "the value declared by the code fragment is a function or is not a function depending on whether recv nonlocally switches only to the kernel or whether it can also switch to an event loop in the same process"
Neuroscientists Think They've Found a New Form of Neural Communication
Let me know when I can extract the full text

You can extract the full text from these (with whatever tools you like) with better fidelity than you can from a pdf, which is a lossy conversion from the same source. This seems to barely merit debating, unless I'm missing something.

PDF works just fine.

I'm sure it works for you and I'm not harbouring any delusions I'm going to talk you out of your decades-established workflow. But for anyone looking for ways to keep track of web pages, thinking about building tools in this space, etc - no, PDF is not a good way to archive web pages, either manually or programmatically.
I wanted to add that i successfully ran game promoting ads on Google Ads and Facebook Ads through the whole March, without any limiting despite having "virus" words in the ad.
Have you tried FZF? [1] Fuzzy matching. It's loaded as a vimplug but binds to bash. It even fuzzy matches your bash history (CTRL-R).

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Also referenced in this paper (section 5): https://research.fb.com/publications/machine-learning-at-fac...
I do Javascript and wish throwing quick scripts was a bit easier, which are made a bit harder with promises/async since now you have to separate your scripts and functions depending on their color. So I made a library to help me[1]:

const name = await swear(fetch('/some.json')).json().user.name;
console.log(name); // Francisco

const error = await swear(readFile('./error.log')).split('\n').pop();
console.log(error); // *latest error log message*

It makes all functions to look like blue functions, but internally they are all red. I made this by using `Proxy()`[2], then queuing the operations and waiting for any unfinished one on the last operation, which is always a `.then()` (since there's an `await`). It is fully compatible with native promises.

While I do not use it directly since adding a library to make syntax slightly shorter defeats the point, I've included it into some of my async libraries:

• File handler `files`: https://www.npmjs.com/package/files

• Simple command runner `atocha`: https://www.npmjs.com/package/atocha

• Enhanced fetch() `fch`: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fch

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/swear

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
When I opened the article I got a gdrp cookie popup from Sinclair, who apparently owns CBS12.

I'm not American and all I know about the US media landscape is what I get from HN, but isn't Sinclair this local broadcaster that's notorious for spreading absolute bollocks all the time?

Does this site have anything to do with the real CBS?

More specifically, is any of this true?
The team behind kurento got hired by twilio some years ago. Now it's basically dead with some very minimal maintenance being done.
I don’t think there is a conflation before your own comment. There is no reason to discuss legal obligations because that part is covered by licenses.

The entire discussion is at the level of social expectations.
The premise here is wrong. These guys aren't looking for better ways to deescalate - they're itching to kill. Never forget the UPS shootout last December where 19 cops opened fired, killing the hostage and a bystander, taking cover behind the cars of families.
Not sure your point. I have no problem with Democrats. I'll likely vote for another one this presidential election. The parent comment asked for Democrat examples. I gave two - one good, one poor.
"“New, low-cost batteries designed to last for a million miles of use and enable electric Teslas to sell profitably for the same price or less than a gasoline vehicle are just part of Musk’s agenda,” Reuters reports."

What bizarre phrasing.
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My cell plans are crowded as I have every provider in our country. From 100GB data only for 10€ to full fledged plan for more than 60€. COVID changed nothing.
If "level" is ill-defined then low and high aren't relative terms, they're meaningless. But there is a lowest either way, the machine code. Then high level programming languages have the programmer writing code in a model independent of machine architecture. Those models are't one dimensional, so let's not bother trying to put them in order from low to high, let's talk about their features.

That's how i'd have it if it were for me to decide, but this isn't how language evolves.
You can get the presentation with voice commentary here https://group.softbank/en/news/webcast/20200518_01

Unicorns in the ditch at 30:30
A better example is a 401(k) match. I make contributions that maximize the amount my company matches. My benefits agreement says if I contribute up to $X I’ll get $Y. If I precisely contribute $X am I screwing my employer? It feels almost like I am gaming the system!

I take all the vacation days I’m promised, too. I precisely time it so I use every last day. Screwing my employer again!
Yes they can and no they don’t.

Ting are a true MVNO; the phone numbers are mobile numbers, thought I understand where you’re coming from and I am also very annoyed by some companies rejecting “fake VoIP” numbers.

(For those who will come along after me and say that VoIP numbers are easier to get and carrier numbers have some kind of identity checking: I can get a hundred numbers that validate as “mobile” in the name of George Crabtree for a handful of dollars in under a week. Scammers can also do these schemes so all you’re doing is pissing off proper customers.)
Relying on a database which gets updated nightly is problematic for some usage though in at least 2 ways: I don't leave my computer on if I'm not using it so there's a good chance the db will simply never update (I guess?) plus it's only usable for locating files with confidence if you know they're system files or else they were on the system yesterday. Or, you run updatedb manually all the time and weep because that's not something instant, at all.

All in all, the idea is good, but I'm almost sure there are better implementations (even Windows has tools like 'Everything' which use a database but which gets continuously updated).
Sure, use "pay as you go". Can't even remember when paid for cell last time.
This is why, after years of pining over Librem phone and similar, and learning a lot about security along the way, I've settled on GrapheneOS.
I use Ledger for double entry accounting.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/
My brief googling lead me to Wikipedia, which sources most of its statistics from the new York times, but I also read some stuff from the ACLU and other left-leaning news orgs. There's very little good data out there is my biggest takeaway.

Which brings me to my point, the reactions are emotional, not logical. If we're creating policy based on feelings that aren't backed by data or actually run counter to data, that's bad policy. Many areas do regular no-knock raid and many areas have banned them entirely. I expect organizations with strong opinions on this subject can investigate the effects and do better than the New York Times throwing 80 links to local news websites into a csv file on GitHub and then linking to it like it's an actual source.
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Assembly was an alternate notation for machine code, but i understand nowadays that's a fiction.
Well of all the generalizations used to describe americans nowadays this may be one of the nicest.

But I do have to say, as for blame, society gets eviscerated 24/7 on every public forum and other platform. Stories like this are more the exception, even here. For every professor publishing on "individual success" there may be 100 researching "group studies" of one kind or another.
Interesting, but perhaps that anecdote makes sense?

It’s kind of middle of nowhere FL with a low population density.

Everyone is retired and the closest major airports are Tampa and Orlando (I think) and I suspect visitors/tourism to The Villages are relatively low in number.

Additionally, from what I last saw around 50% of confirmed cases were in South FL. Where there are major international airports, plentiful tourism, and greater population density.
Yes, but who owns AOSP?