skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not the system in the US - or hasn't been. The Federal government maintains what, until recently, was the world's premier infectious disease-fighting organization - the CDC. The implication was that pandemic response occurs through this organization. In the past, this is exactly what happened.

While you're right that the Federal government has the CDC, every single US States has its own infectious disease/health agency[1]. Furthermore, the EU also has its own centralized disease agency[2]. Structurally, both the US and EU are very similar in this regard. The only key difference is that (to your point) the EU States may override the ECDC, whereas US States may not — certainly a worthwhile policy change for the US.

> So the idea that this pandemic response is up to the states doesn't hold water. Had the states known that they'd be left twisting in the wind, they could have taken steps beforehand.

But this is factually incorrect, States did take steps beforehand. By March 23, every single State declared a state of emergency, and 48/50 States closed their schools. By as early as March 9th, the States were doing the VAST majority of COVID testing[3]. As of right now, the US has administered more tests per capita than Belgium, Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Norway, and Sweden (to name a handful). This is not because the US has a nationwide testing regime, rather it is because testing systems have been administered at the State level[4].

[1] https://www.ehdp.com/links/us-shas.htm

[2] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

[3] https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1238574921346732032/photo...

[4] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I think TCO is a party trick. Recursion in FP is almost always about structure traversal. For this iterators are usually better:

1. You separate concerns of traversal and computation.

2. You can reuse a function that takes an iterator and use it on any container. In recursive functions you generally specify the next item in the structure explicitly.

3. You can edit code on functions that take an iterator without accidentally removing the TCO.

I used to believe that iterators and higher order functions were the dual of each other (each can become a 'poor man's' version of the other (cf famous scheme koan[1])). Stepanov's Elements of Programming convinced me (whether that was his goal) that iterators are superior.

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...

[2] http://elementsofprogramming.com/
Grandma isn't going to YouTube and looking up the "Holy Trinity Church Sunday service", she is just clicking on the link the deacon sent her. As long as the page it sends her to has a play button like her VCR remote she will be fine.
If you don't define the macro, you will have to replace it with boilerplate everywhere you would have used it, and constantly rereading all that is more ongoing grunt work than learning what the macro does.
Or just write it in Python.
I think this program is generally well intentioned. I directly know organizations that benefited from it and it absolutely helped cushion the blow of initial lock-down. I also think that any time the US federal government is offering out free or low cost money it is imperative that we look closely and carefully, especially when the program was thrown together in a week or two.

"Need" is probably not the way to look at this, anytime there is "free money" there will be incredibly wealthy businesses and organizations with "need." There is a school of thought that you should "always need" free money. I think that's just business. I think the actual distribution is where you look.

It would be completely foolish, ATMO, to believe that every organization, bank, and business were treated equally or fairly in this process. We already know that banks like Cross River handled what appears to be a disproportional amount of the approved "loans," presumably because they are a slick fintech business. When the dust fully settles, I would be shocked if the distribution of the funds or the forgiveness was in any way egalitarian, the country just isn't. I fully expect that it will be another mechanism in which certain classes benefit from the US system and others will have been overlooked. And maybe there will be another excuse, minority owned small businesses may not have been as "well banked" as others or something and your choice of bank will be another differentiator. I've heard a couple stories of orgs that didn't even get applications from their banks until the fund was depleted. There will be some great success stories too, I'll reiterate that I think the program is based in good intentions. I just can't see it being executed fairly though, not when they're actually debating on whether the Bubba Wallace noose was a "hoax" or not and the president chimes in...
thats not the deal though. You would be trading 6 months of isolation for the possibility of dying 50 years sooner
The difference being you can't contract bad driving.
Dexamethasone decreases deaths of ventilated cases by a third: https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/recovery_dexamethasone_s...
I will always post this when it comes up. Nokia didn't die because Symbian was weak, Nokia died because of the Burning Platform Memo: https://www.engadget.com/2011-02-08-nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-r....

Stephen Elop's memo told all of the organizations selling Nokia's hardware that they were End of Life'ing all of the devices on their shelves, which resulted in every point of sale pulling them. This created an insane revenue gap that ultimately forced the sale to Microsoft.

This is an excellent review of what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future: https://hbr.org/2012/12/how-to-anticipate-a-burning-platform.

Edit: Source: I was working at Cingular/AT&T at the time where we pulled all of the Symbian phones from the walls of our retail stores within days of this memo landing.
The entire purpose of the Sweedish strategy was to protect the elderly and the vulnerable.

And it failed.

You can't go back, and re-write history, now, and blame the elderly care homes for the failure of the strategy. They weren't the ones setting policy.
Perhaps I can rephrase: it's not possible to test the counterfactual, therefore to know the accuracy of the statement.

Obviously anyone can make any statement/argument, but without the ability to verify it, it doesn't carry much weight.
>It started out with universal condemnation of a murder committed by the police in Minnesota

This is revisionist, though, isn't it? And in a way that specifically eliminates the meaning of the protests. The protests started before the officers were charged, I believe. And while it may not be reasonable to expect the arrests to happen instantly, it's also reasonable that people doubted it would happen at all.

Assuming you mean well and all, this specific wording could nevertheless be interpreted as a dog whistle. It triggers some peoples' political immune system.
n for me for a long time but that’s BASIC showing through.

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” - Edsger Dijkstra
>implement flatten yourself

https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#mor...
That’s Windows 95 not Windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 still used many of the Int21 Dos functions.

Windows 95 could use the 16 bit DOS routines for backwards compatibility.
Isn't that what cloudkey/dream machine covers though? The people who provision the types of systems we're talking about are the same that are familiar with how to spec server hardware.

I had no problem with unifi-video, in fact I had better reliability via ZFS zraid then what the dream machine supports with a single disk.
The way I see it, people should

A) Use the simplest possible solution, from a technical perspective. Right now for me, that's Pop!_OS, but I fully intend to move to BSD/Void/Alpine on my next machine.

B) Use what works with the right amount of effort. For many people, this is Linux/Windows/Mac, why not a different BSD
as well?

Also, how is Linux any more mainstream then BSD? cough Darwin cough
Nokia is a chink company, not so much finnish anymore.
I read that comment as well, but you are choosing to argue philosophy in a different frame of reference by arguing "morally consistent" versus my "principles".
No it's not. There's no "founders" in the sense that you are trying to present. There's no organization that you join. You're pretty obviously implying that these protests are somehow linked to Marxism, otherwise that entire posts make little sense. I realize that conservatives always want to find some "leaders" to argue with rather than accept that it's a massmovement, not some top-down movement that has some sort of charter that most must directly or indirectly accept.
I'm no defender of Harvard but I can guarantee you that most "elite" schools do this, including the whole Ivy league- and there are definitely other Ivies that are worse offenders. Harvard is just in the spotlight. Not that this changes the criticism of Harvard necessarily, but there are system-wide problems here.
It is not about old people, they don't want this either. If anything old people are a lot more conservative and libertarian. Once you are 82 you sure made piece with dying after all most people you grew up with have long passed.

It is more about catering to the sort of voter that is easily scared, exposed for the first time to the fact that life is indeed fragile and limited, a voter that looks at someone to protect them.

Old people are the pawns and "protecting" them is the spectacle of demonstrating competence in governing.
As an American I wanted to thank you. Sometimes I see Europe talking about their place in the world and wonder if they might matter as anything but a cash cow some day, comments like this show me that the answer is no.
Not to mention that the US Federal government simply does not have the power to issue nationwide lockdowns.
Well, at least we got over phrenology... right?
I believe it's a loan that can be forgiven if you fit into certain criteria. So, it's still a loan. If you fuck it up you have to pay back
Very sad. If you haven't seen them, many of his Numberphile videos are quite interesting:

https://www.numberphile.com/videos/ron-graham-playlist

Here is the one on his famous, eponymous number:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8bihEe3nA
Could you post the link from quillette itself?
> New York requires anyone entering from a set of states to quarantine for 14 days[1].

Does it actually enforce this, or is it just an advisory? Has anyone been fined or arrested for breaking quarantine? Are they conducting papers-and-purpose-of-stay-please inspections at the interestates, prior to entering the state?

The only state that I know of that actually enforced quarantine is Hawaii, and even there, the beaches have magically filled with tourists over the past week... I'm sure all of them sat inside their hotel rooms for the entire two-week quarantine period...
Came here to say this. It's rare that you want to consume these things through an abstraction layer: the layer is often heavier than the work underneath. Sucks for readability, though, so I usually spend as much time documenting as implementing.
I have been using linux laptops for so long I cringe anytime I have to use osx or M$ ... linux has just fine tuned everything so much over the years it just more productive than other OS

... the default terminal on Ubuntu is sooo much nicer than anything I have found for osx

As a server side developer I do most of my code execution on remote servers so the laptop becomes less of a bottle neck ... no need to drop 2 grand on a laptop to run linux ... instead spend that dosh on a trip to Paris
Random anecdote about the difference: I (in Germany) can't really remember seeing anything about what ECDC said or thinks in the past months in the media, only about country-level (and lower) authorities. Whereas US-CDC seems quoted quite a lot in US media.
Exactly. In addition, Sweden reached zero excess mortality at the end of May.

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
It is a dichotomy: you either believe that police brutality and inequality can be fixed within the basic structure of our society and economy, or you don't.

I'm a regular reader of Jacobin, so I have some idea of what modern Marxists think. (Though I won't say I'm well read on the subject.) But that's besides the point--I have no objection to Marxists participating in solving police brutality and inequality. I'm addressing the practice of socially coercing people to say "black lives matter." What ideas are you actually asking people to endorse? I think many, many people are happy to endorse that idea insofar as it means "the police shouldn't murder black people because of the color of their skin," or "black people shouldn't get the short end of the economic stick."

But the eponymous organization behind the slogan happens to be led by Marxists and has a Marxist and anti-Western platform. I think people are quite reasonably hesitant that what they're actually being asked to endorse is the platform and ideology of the organization. And I think it's perverse to insist on such endorsement under the banner of anti-racism.
> Can you point me at something in particular

Here is the Terry Crews stuff: https://twitter.com/i/events/1277983929966813191

In Christian circles there are several people who I am aware of: Samuel Sey, Voddie Baucham, David Shannon are a couple that come to mind. Specifically Sey, because he has a blog where he publishes stuff like this: https://slowtowrite.com/does-systemic-racism-exist/

Hey also posted a blog in June 2019 that asked why America's black/white disparities are also mirrored in Canada, and asking why those same disparities exist, given the difference in history and culture: https://slowtowrite.com/our-fathers-our-failures/

He has been called a fair number of slurs from "his people": https://twitter.com/SlowToWrite/status/1049674519458312192
Use the Right Tool for the Job: The False Dichotomy of Evernote vs. Roam
A regression model might if you have sufficient data.
It’s interesting to consider this from a finance standpoint too. Consider/compare/contrast with open source software ecosystems where large amounts of money that large companies are able to effectively “strip mine” from the ecosystem.

Hopefully there is a middle ground somewhere, where the folks working on open source software can get compensated for their work so as to enable a healthier system overall, so we aren't all just “software serfs” sharecropping for our overlords.
I use my own laptop with VPN installed. Done.
This really just takes a simple Google search to confirm.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dazeinfo.com/2019/08/01/apple-r...

In fiscal 1993, the company posted annual revenue of $7,977 million (~ 8 billion), with a year-over-year increase of 12.6%. After two years, in fiscal 1995, the company achieved $10 billion annual revenue milestone for the first time. However, after that, the annual revenue started declining till fiscal 2005 when it again crossed $10 billion mark. Apple generated $13,931 million ($13.9 billion) in fiscal 2005, registering 68% YoY growth.
Sure, could you tell me for what purpose first?
This is true for the majority of people, but not everyone. If my mom gets to a page she has never seen before, even if it's as simple as clicking the "play" triangle in the middle of the screen, she may be confused and ask for directions before proceeding.
> > I believe freescale currently owns the architecture,

> Owns it how? 68060-- the last of 68k's designs-- was released in 1994. Any patents should now be expired.

Sure, patents wouldn't be a barrier to clone the design and create an equivalent using the same patented ideas, but copyright still prevents you from copying the design, and will prevent copying significant parts of the design as well.
You're right that on issues of theoretical minority rights, the left-most position is actually pretty common in the US (gay rights, trans rights, feminism, we are all equal regardless of the color of our skin).

But even on the actual practical side of those rights, this is not true. Discriminatory policing practices, reparations for slavery, abortion rights for women, and others have very commonly held right-wing positions even among democratic voters and politicians.

And calling Macron left-wing is funny, especially since the election had a very clear divide: Le Pen for the (extreme) right, Macron for the center (even center-right), and Melanchon for the left (he won slightly less votes than Le Pen, while being universally derided and ignored in the press).

Note that I explicitly said that left-wing discourse is missing from the mainstream in the US AND Europe, and in fact this is true for most of the world in general, with only small pockets in South America and east Asia.
> The only way two symbol values can be equal is if they are actually same symbol, I would hope.

Why is this important? Specifically, why do symbols need to be interned?

In Clojure, "Two symbols are equal if they have the same namespace and symbol name." In general, "Clojure’s = is true when comparing immutable values that represent the same value, or when comparing mutable objects that are the identical object." [1]

[1] https://clojure.org/guides/equality
New York is instituting random checks[1]. I live in New York City, and all major exits from JFK/LGA are manned by NYPD checkpoints at the moment.

[1] https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-...
Just tried but it didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Is that a typical “All True Scotsman” argument? There are plenty of CS majors struggling to get their first job.
Probably depends on your budget and if you care about support. Building it yourself isn't a big deal at all, but pretty much every major compute vendor will have a GPU platform as well. That's ignoring nvidia themselves who are the easy button and probably your best bet if you think you'll need support up the software stack:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-station/
With the Microsoft Startup program, you get like 150k in Azure credits.
> It's pretty obvious at this point that a general lockdown is worthless as a replacement for locking down care homes specifically

New Zealander here, our general lockdown went very well and enabled us to isolate clusters of transmission and prevent it becoming community transmission. While two of our clusters were rest homes, several others were not - a school, a St Patrick's Day celebration at a pub, and a wedding, are significant "not rest home" examples.

So yeah, I think your focus on rest homes is too specific.
> When the live programming ends at 1100, the video experience would break and the user would need to hit refresh to see the next show on the schedule.

If that was the only problem, why wouldn't changing the stream with a small amount of JS have worked rather than having to add a muxing layer in front of the streams?
I'm under 35, and would consider tech to include both hardware and software.

By your description, a company running a 5G network but no user facing software would not be described as tech. Surely you can't mean this.
Author here. I already posted the C++ version of the Smalltalk-80 interpreter (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23388849), which makes it possible to do performance comparisons of LuaJIT with native based on a decently complex application (i.e. not a micro benchmark); the referenced page includes some measurement results; the LuaJIT implementation is only marginally slower than the native one.
Here's an embedded system. It has a hardware resource. There's only one such hardware resource. A singleton to manage it is a natural.

I suppose you could argue that it's still a global variable, but I think it's more fundamental than that. You use a singleton when there should be exactly one of something. Why is there exactly one? "Because there's only one in the hardware" is a fundamentally different answer than "because it's a global variable".
Curious what particular aspect caused that change in thinking for you?/What kind of software you are now worried about you weren't before?
With significantly worse hair though :D
What would be your business model?
>Well, sort of. Under a century-old law, Rhode Island classifies everyone serving a life sentence in the state as “civilly dead,” meaning they have absolutely no civil rights. Unlike other prisoners, they can’t sue or raise complaints in state court, even if they’ve been mistreated or abused.

is that really true? if it is, why did they choose Guantanamo Bay in Cuba? ergo it isn't.
> Casually weighing human life against economic cost is not acceptable in what we might call a civilized society.

The reality is quite different. We accept a risk of death to ourselves and others in everything we do. You do it, too. Everything. You even risk death by doing nothing.

You could say "if it cost $1b to save this life, we should do it". But how many lives could be saved at $1b each before we run out of money? Then what? And what about the lives that could have been saved at $1m apiece?

If someone not willing to give up all of his assets to save someone else's life, is he uncivilized and morally wrong?
Sgarbi is, hum, an "interesting" figure in Italy.

Anyway, in the real world excess mortality in Italy was drammatically higher than even the worst flu seasons especially in the worst hit regions.
Or you know we could look at statistics instead of anecdotes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...
The plan is/was also to understand it, find effective protocols for managing it, etc.

(And we also have pretty good chances of coming up with a vaccine in about 1 year.) It's not "just the same amount of death, but slower, so the crematoriums don't get overwhelmed".
Probably wasn’t as expensive either. My buddy had to spend roughly $6k to become a citizen. Absolutely ludicrous.
How should a company handle a racist CEO?
U.S. probing allegations TikTok violated children's privacy
Statistically speaking, deaths from random causes will not increase by 1% in the next year (assuming that the death rate of COVID-19 is 1%).
Stress speeds up hair greying process
I guess it's just my anecdotes, really. I find Slack search to be horrible because there is no grouping of conversations. For example, many times a day several people are trying to have several different conversations in the same channel. Reading through that afterwards is a mess.

Basically, as a software dev I don't think there are actually too many things that need to be answered "right now". If that's the case then I would think there isn't enough planning involved.
Thanks; that is a regression. We'll fix it.
It's an absolutely fantastic game,I did spend a fair share of my time playing it.