skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a post maybe two weeks from Tavis Ormandy (a tweet) that made the HN front page, about how he uses WordPerfect:

Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) Tweeted:
@mkolsek Funny you should mention that, I was recently curious if there are any console word processors. I discovered there's a community who still use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. They kinda sold me on it, got it working in DOSEMU. https://t.co/t6j0c1G3w1
> the company is even called "Doctor's Association" or something like that

"Doctor's Associates Inc" I believe.

I worked at a Subway in high school.

Yea, it's maybe not health food, but the bread is fresh-baked every day. (Different from fresh-made in that it comes in pre-formed frozen loaves that you slowly thaw and rise usually over the course of about a 24 hour period)

And the toppings are basically what you would put on a sandwich you made at home. Granted they are now branching into more sugar-laced fancy meats, but the basics: roast beef, ham, turkey, bacon, two or three kinds of a cheese, basic vegetables. It's a pretty basic deli sandwich that you would make at home or buy somewhere else.

The prices do seem to have gotten a lot steeper than I remember them being a decade ago. Part of that may be that employees or friends of employees tend to see a lot of free food coming their way, so maybe I never thought much about the cost.

For the longest time they had a 2 footlongs for $6 (then $7, $8, $9) special. I think it was maybe only certain days of the week.
To the contrary, new websites with garbage content, swamped by ads - but published recently - often rank above actual quality sites with well written content from 10 years ago.

Not saying what you described doesn’t happen, but both are problems.
That's a pretty good start! I'm happy to see security checking be democratized.
I'm not sure but from [1]:

> This open-source repository contains the extractor, CodeQL libraries, and queries that power Go support in LGTM and the other CodeQL products that GitHub makes available to its customers worldwide.

[1]: https://github.com/github/codeql-go#go-analysis-support-for-...
Thanks for the really interesting link! Posts like this are why I read Hacker News.
This is a novel virus - meaning noone initially has natural immunity to it. This is why the infection rate needs to be slowed via lockdowns etc. Even if it was no more deadly than the regular flu (it's not - it's at least twice as bad), social distancing, masks etc would still be necessary because our medical infrastructure cannot cope with getting all the cases at once.
Is CodeQL/Semmle open source?
It isn't plausible deniability when it can very easily be verified
If only the entire planet would fall under your whimsical notions of categorization, maybe we'd have semblance of delicious order. At least in your mind.
I'm fully aware of that reason which is why I mentioned "barring regulatory reasons"

The people in this thread are acting like call centers are all bad when the real problem is the monopolized industry and not the customer service agent.
Even if it's somewhat arbitrary which kind of gatherings are still allowed, forbidding half of the gatherings still has an impact on the transmission rate.

Which means if you cut out bars but allow churches (max 25 persons in Quebec btw), you still cut down a lot of spreading.

I don't agree with keeping religious gatherings, but it doesn't mean there is no science behind these decisions.
Then how do you feel about the fact that globally the economic effects of lockdowns have plunged over a hundred million children into dire poverty, and could kill hundreds of thousands this year? https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/150-million-additional... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-childr...
Yeah let’s sacrifice our old for the economy!
Also only deaths count, fuck weak people with long term effects of COVID-19
I lived in the Bay Area for a bit ... it’s insanely overpopulated.

But that has nothing to do with birth rates and everything to do with migration- mostly from other low birth rate areas.

As we become more modern, we become more urbanized.

I’m confident the Bay Area would be very similar even if population levels hadn’t changed since the early 70s.
What does decriminalisation at a local level like this mean? Surely the feds or state police could go after you if they felt like it.
I think this maybe boils down to how Ireland wants to tax sugar in general and has little to do with subjective definitions of what's a preferable foodstuff to them or those abroad.
I've stayed at everything from a Motel 6, to Courtyards / Residence Inns / Sheratons between NYC and San Diego, to Four Seasons / Ritz Carltons.

I stand by my claim. The relative differentiation in niceness is swamped by their mass produced boxness.

Ironically, my favorite road chain tends to be Aloft. At least they're upfront about their capsule-esque nature, in a sort of ironic/not-ironic way?

Least favorite: Embassy Suites. shudders It's like every Disney vacationing family's fantasy about what a hotel should be... packed with every Disney vacationing family. Omelette?
I think you're thinking about this from the opposite perspective. We spend ungodly amounts of money on education.

For instance Detroit Public Schools spend $14,259 per student per year.

There is more than enough money to provide services.
Code scanning itself isn't language specific. There are open source and commerical tools for many languages available. CodeQL is GitHub's first party tool, and it supports C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, and Python.
It's the implicit conversation with the beer-buyer that matters. You are offering your time (which is atleast valuable to you) along with the beer. If you just buy a beer and left instantly, it's gonna be worse than $5
Loved the article !!
I’m just curious is working as a trader really stressful as you are making firm money and if so how do you guys deal with stress
Just curl > kitty-install.sh and read it?
What’s happening now might be that more and more people are getting tested, not because they had serious symptoms, but because they need to show a positive test for some travel or other requirement, of they are just being careful because they have older family members etc. So there would appear to be more cases, even if there were in reality fewer people getting seriously sick from Covid.
>Malnutrition??

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-childr...
That's a ridiculously unprofitable business model, of course they don't but almost entirely because that idea is unsound and not at all practical.

When a hotel offers privacy for instance, they aren't saying they'll wear a blindfold to check you in - their data retention policy is identical - they're talking about privacy from others.

When a plane offers privacy in first class, they're not saying they'll shred your fight record after landing, it's privacy from others.

When uber is offering privacy, they're not saying you can anonymously book and crypto pay the amount, no, it's privacy from others - they know the same amount about you as any other user

I have a friend here in LA that does privacy centric medical services (hiv, drug rehab). The target demo is celebrities who are shying away from paparazzis and gossip columnists. He still has the customer list however
I can see that happening (most of my returns are cables or accessories). But how do you know whether it's a counterfeit when you buy it? Most of the time, I'm not even looking at the brand that I'm buying.
Has any decent benchmarking been done on the recently released Safari 14? Apple was promising some fairly significant performance improvements.

I ran Speedometer 2.0 before and after the iOS 14 update and saw the score increase from 158 to 168. Unfortunately, I did not think to do the same for the macOS update.
Well, obviously, but nearly all compounds containing mercury are toxic, and in many cases highly so, even if there are a (very) few consumer products where there is insufficient data as to relative toxicity. (Perhaps they should give you MSDS for your eye drops or amalgam dental fillings!)
> Are US schools not allowed to suspend kids?

I've heard from some teacher acquaintances that it's highly discouraged because the parents tend to complain a lot and the kids view it as a free vacation from school.

It sounds like "try to ignore them" is basically the only recourse teachers have in some districts against disruptive or worse students.
Interesting. Consider that Github uses lots of Ruby but the tool does not support Ruby from the get go.
I'm 2 for 3. What's Spectre? Google returns mostly Bond.
That and they're doctors, rather than epidemiologists
Yup. All too often I see posts just like this from someone who self taught themselves javascript two years ago and after building a few personal projects, thinks they're an expert on it.
> the many vulnerabilities in open source projects suggests that the very broad but completely unsupported claim I was responding to is based on ideology rather than reasoned analysis

Does it? In order to claim that, one would have to have some idea of (a) the ratio of disclosed vulnerabilities to true vulnerabilities discovered in both open source, accessible code vs closed source, hardware locked code, and (b) the relative ratios of disclosed vulnerabilities.

Do you have any idea what either ratio might be? 1:1? 4:1? 1:4? 100:1?
What a load of bollocks. Countries like Germany have shown that you can keep infection numbers low without harming your economy too much.
Anything that seems to demonstrate C++ as slower than C is implicitly busted. You could compile the C code with the C++ compiler and get the same speed.

I'm looking at their table 4, with C:1.0, C++:1.56.

This throws the whole paper into doubt. Comparing crappy code in one language with good code in another reveals little of substance.
I prefer that to listening to the repetitive hold music.
I used to watch their videos on YouTube. Very high quality production and very informative.
Check out termite, it is, unlike Kitty, a no-bloat program. As of kitty, just check out it's source repo to get an idea of how messy everything it is, not to mention the horrible attitude of the author, it's like Linus^4
What research paper are you basing that on?

Hundreds of millions of people will suffer lasting damage due to poverty and malnutrition resulting from the global economic effects of lockdowns: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/25/pandemic-pus...
LOL. My mom was visiting us when my 5 year old asked about Santa. I explained with a stone cold face that Santa isn't real, presents come from mom and dad, and instead of waiting for Xmas we just get her things when she needs them, and that's why she didn't get anything for Xmas while her friends did. My mom was petrified, but my daughter didn't seem to care. Kids are really okay with adult stuff, there is more than one way to sparkle delight in their life, and it doesn't have to be Santa (imo).
If you are a trans person and need to use the bathroom in a conservative state, then you are forced to care about politics. If you are a black person who is stopped by the police and rightfully fear for your life, then you are forced to care about politics.
Do you have any case studies with partners?
this deserves a good write up, because it's complicated.

it's not that hard to write a es6-module. it's pretty easy, and you can ask for it, and it'll work, behave like a ecmascript module in an ok way.

but. but if that module has other modules that it wants to pull in, the author of that module has to hardcode a bunch of assumptions about how & where that module that it depends on is. the module, in short, is not modular, because there's no way for users of that module to help it find the modules it depends on.

the best example of a work-around for this absolutely tragically-impotent pretty-much-useless es6-module system is dynamic rewrite engines like unpkg.com javascript cdn, which, on their home page mentions the ?module query parameter you can ask for. this will dynamically resolve & re-write all the dependencies of a module, to point to other unpkg.com modules. let me re-iterate: it has to re-write each module you ask for in a way where all of that module's depenencies are now also resolved unpkg modules, who themselves will also be rewritten such that their dependencies are also solved, & so on & so on, until the whole tree of modules is all rewritten to use unpkg modules. each module has to be rewritten such that there's now some kind of way to import dependencies. es6-modules provides no means to do that. each module has to resolve it's dependencies fully, ahead of time. so modules here are not actually modular: each host is left to copy, resolve, & modify the original module & make it their copy of the module, resolving dependencies however the consumer can figure out.

this is completely hosed & absolutely unbearable. modules are not modular. es6-modules are ok syntax, are ok language, but they are categorically useless on the web. it's truly tragic; es6-modules stopped while being only 33% of the way done. for what it's worth, import-maps is the only work anyone has suggested to resume progress & let modules work in any kind of inter-operable manner, & i have heard no good protest against it: i sincerely wish it would advance much much faster & be released so we can stop being stuck with terrible, unusable, non-modular modules on the web.
I have been noticing that a lot as well on other places. Ruby is no longer a "Default supported" language in many new projects.

OpenTelemtry for example doesn't include Ruby in its initial beta program announcement.

".NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, and Erlang!"
Any specific recommendation for NPR podcasts?
My take: he’s generally opposed to this kind of laborious activism and tedious “political correctness” (broadly defined). He’s had some folks on his podcast who are very outspoken on certain things (trans issues, politics, etc) that people find offensive, and they claim he’s a “gateway to the alt right” as a result. Despite Rogan self-identifying as a progressive, the label has pretty much stuck and even though he has an extremely wide variety of guests - from cutting edge technologists to comedians to Snowden - on the show, he’s forever tainted by not aligning to the activists’ goals.

My personal opinion is that they don’t like him because his platform is massive and threatens other traditional means of informing people about what to think on certain topics.
Medical decisions in the USA suggest that the statistical value of a “quality-adjusted life year” is ~$128,000 on average. Obviously the question of “life years” is critical in this context. Everyone would be in favor of sacrificing more to save healthy children than people who are 80+. (No one wants to see anyone die needlessly, but the children can live happy lives for another half-century.)
The whole sentence? I couldn't even find a part of it other than the sentiment and "flugelhorn"

Seems like a coincidence especially since bashing on all the steps required for modern web development isn't a new idea.
>This is a novel virus - meaning noone initially has natural immunity to it.

Then why do the majority of people have minimal to no symptoms?

>social distancing, masks etc would still be necessary because our medical infrastructure cannot cope with getting all the cases at once

If this is the case, why hasn't the medical infrastructure in places without such measures, such as Sweden and recently Florida, been overwhelmed?
Interesting. How's the discussion between those groups going there?

The chasm here in Germany seems to range between a majority of epidemiologists and virologists advising on sensible measures going forward and a few economics folks, a bunch of private clinic doctors and a vocal group of clearly right wing / conspiracy people. The latter group either sings the tiring "it's just the flu" or "people die for many reasons anyway" song and can be seen on Twitter, discovering basic epidemiological models in real time. Their arguments are very similar to those of flat earthers honestly, precluding any notion of a grounded debate on what measures are sensible in order to keep the health system in working order and shield those that are vulnerable.
why is this on Hacker News
people do have other expectations like typescript. but whether we can meet the expectation of "this code should be a module that i can use or you can use or they can use" is much closer to the obvious "what-it-says-on-the-tin" definition of modules. and currently, without a lot of rewriting the module & it's dependencies, that goal is effectively impossible.

i'm not worried about fancy or more. i'm worried about the base case. and right now the base case is a no-go. it doesn't work. es6-modules have not brought modular modules to the web. it has failed to do it's most important goal.

can people with no tools, with no type-script, are they capable of using modules? if they require a bunch of tools to do so, i feel like the answer is that the web does not have modules. systems like import-maps begin to give consumers of libraries ways to assemble dependencies in a way that they can take off the shelf modules & plug them together on the web. until we see something like this, some way of sharing modules, the web platform does may have the language feature, but it has none of the benefits of modules that software-developers require to build systems atop even-mildly complex module graphs.
If 90% of cases are unsymptomatic and not showing up in the cases, then 75 million people in the US will have already had covid, and you're also getting 400 thousand new cases a day.

Sorry, but that's nonsense.
Kind of surprised PHP isn't a front runner here
Is IFR the proper metric though?

The virus seems to be able to have long lasting effects in otherwise healthy people who survive, albeit I find it hard to find a legitimate study about the prevalence of this rather than popular "news".
Car seats as contraception
Children can also be the victim of domestic violence and fighting among kids is not uncommon.
Anytime you give something a legal definition, there’s no requirement that it has to resemble the common use of the word, and it often won’t. You can see the issue play out in the self-sustaining cycles of ever increasing complexity that you get with pretty much any regulatory framework.

Take the FIA’s technical regulations of F1 as a non-political example. They’re long and get longer every year, primarily because they have to address issues like having a mass damper mounted inside the chassis defined a “moving aerodynamic part”, but a giant fan on the back of the car not defined as a “moving aerodynamic part”.

I think it’s important for people to pay attention to, because when you hear somebody like a politician speaking, you might think that you know what all the words they’re saying mean, but there’s a good chance that you actually don’t.
Playing DRM media, I would assume.
Without practicing, you can lose your skills
> This is a novel virus - meaning noone initially has natural immunity to it.

This has then been proven to be an incorrect assumption, due to cross-reactivity with existing coronaviruses. While this does not prevent infection (or it is likely it does not), it may explain why some people did not experience symptoms, or very light symptoms.
I take it you (your brain) believe you are the sum of your body and your mind — here I’m presuming brain. Others over the centuries have disagreed. Many others. Billions of others.

And some of those say you can personally validate that you are more than your body+brain while you are living. I’m not in the business of selling any particular approach to do that.

But entering into a downward cycle of negativity about aging isn’t going to do you, and those few still around willing to put up with you, any favors as you get older. If there is more to it than body+brain, and choosing to not confirm it to yourself leads you into negativity and misery as you age...well doesn’t that just sounds like you’re dumber than a door nail?
Depends on the bread and the cake. If the bread were whole-grain, this swap would almost certainly be unreasonable health-wise.
Generally Americans are unable to afford food for their children, so they rely on public schools to feed them. Without the school, the children go hungry
Open Source authors [1] [2] (including myself) have complained of automatic security scans. They yield way too many false positives, increasing the burden of maintaining repositories. Specially troublesome are when e.g. the "vulnerability" (if it's even one) is in a devDependency that is not deployed to production.

In theory automatic vulnerability scans sounds great, but having every repo ping you with not-actually-an-issue becomes a chore very quickly. So far the vast majority of vulnerabilities I've seen are actually noise/not applicable. If this code checker is actually good, unlike all of the previous ones, that's another thing and might actually be a game changer.

Prominent open source authors have often suggested ways that GIthub can help but seem to be ignored, e.g. allowing to add friction to opening random issues would benefit open source greatly. At some point many beginner devs migrated from StackOverflow to Github because their really bad question were being closed there, and now they just overwhelm open source authors.

[1] https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1123986529498664961

[2] https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1311551520689713152
But CFR isn't the only decision input: CFR is only relevant when you can easily isolate some groups harder than others, or else unchecked spread in e.g. the low-CFR age group of children will inevitably reach the elderly as well. E.g. people who work in elderly care can be parents as well, making the infection chain required from lowest to highest CFR age groups very short.

BTW, back in February many then-current spread models where extremely optimistic in hindsight (e.g. aerosol spread was virtually ruled out "because if aerosol was a factor, spread would be much faster than observed", they simply didn't know about other spread-slowing factors), we now know that non-blanket spread control is actually harder.
The last sentence painted a big smile on my face
I've noticed this in Asian bakeries in the US. Everything is made with the same very sweet, fluffy pastry. That includes savory items like green onion buns or those ones with a cold hotdog in them. It's an interesting but somewhat unsettling combination of flavors.
In the not-so-distant future: Code snippet scanning for copyright infringement or Stack Overflow attribution. 2 years? 4?
You would assume correctly. The core issue is that one can't interpret meaning from a table and its values from semantics alone. A table's layout conveys a great deal of meaning.

I remember looking at a couple of systems that would try to do a visual-based zonal tagging of a table, but I think the challenge there was how to logically integrate the zonal tagging into the broader semantic processing of the surrounding text.

Not being able to construe information from tables is a huge stumbling block for semantic and NLP systems for a large number of use cases that incorporate technical content. Automating patent research is one I looked at 6 or 7 years ago and tables tanked the concept. Semantic search over digitized maintenance manuals is another use-case I've wrestled with that's a tough nut to crack if the underlying manuals aren't available in a structured schema.
It supports tilde tabbing on osx