skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A point for Germany: the current outbreak is much stronger than the one in March, even though we didn't have obligatory masks in March (they've been in effect since April; few people had them before they became obligatory). We had very few cases during the (pretty warm) summer (in the county I currently live in, there were zero cases in June). March peaked at around 5.5k on a single day, October peaked at ~13k with most days >5.5k.

Given that we have a lot more measures in place now (masks, distancing etc), something else has to play a role. February and March were unusually warm and sunny. I don't know whether that's relevant, but it seems unlikely that the counter-measures predict the peak - they are much stricter now than they were at the beginning of the year.
I had to print from an HP printer the other day. I went to go download the driver and realized the .dmg file was five hundred megabytes in size. I had no idea what I just downloaded. Either it was every single printer driver for HP in existence, something else, or a mixture of both. Assuming the best of intentions from HP in that I only got drivers, it’s terrible UX to bundle them all together like that.
PNG is of course an image format, and that means it doesn't really do text well. (Oh, and PDF is fully Turing complete and can even execute JavaScript, to in some contexts calling it a DSL is straining the definition a bit.)
It renders properly. HTML doesn't even know if it wants to be an application or a document.
Slate star codex has an article I found good at covering both side of whether high saturated fat is good or not: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-against-high-...
smells like typical SV nepotism then (because substack is not yet a very large sender)
I support letting prisoners vote, absolutely. But one thing we should watch out for, is that prison gangs could have a lot of influence over those votes. We’d need to make sure there’s no way to know who another inmate voted for.
This isn't 100% true. Prisoners serving sentences of less than a year can vote in Scotland
Server seems to be down, here's a copy from Wayback Machine (archived today):

https://web.archive.org/web/20201101084005/http://techrights...
> Restricting movement in Europe between countries is more comparable to restricting movement within a country.

Which is another significant policy that was implemented in Australia, both this year and during the Spanish flu pandemic. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-24/coronavirus-border-cl...
You don't need to come up with this shared-key-DHCP scheme. SLAAC addresses already do this with privacy extensions, using NDP to resolve collisions (which are rare anyway, since the random identifier is 48 bits long).
Hugh?
I don't see how DjVu solves vector graphics, which is a pretty important usecase for PDF.
Only one state in Australia - Victoria - had a long lockdown. People in most other states have been living a fairly normal life for months.
In java / C#, this is how their exception works. Indeed it is bad in performance, but you can define exception as flow. For example:

try{
}
catch(SQLException ex) { }
catch(MathException ex) { }

So it is kinda correct thay you reinvented the exception handling in java / c#, without really raising error / exception itself.
HyperCard did some of those things!
Isn't N just the positive integers and W the one with zero?
Wow methadon as a painkiller?!

> For decades, methadone — a synthetic opioid developed in the 1930s by a German company — was associated not with pain relief but with weaning addicts off heroin and other drugs. The word summoned an image of clinics, often in seedy parts of town.

I mean that's what I know methadon from. Always has been and still is.

And I also know that it's not like a "safe" replacement for heroin to kick yourself off. It's absolute shit. But it helps with the heroin withdrawal, which is absolutely worse.

(not that I have any experience with heroin addiction, but I know some people that work at these addict care centres, that distribute methadon (not sure how this works though))
PNG doesn't support multiple pages and didn't supplant GIF until 2000 or so. TIFF does, but in practice it's always uncompressed (did it even support compression in the 90s?). Either solution didn't allow for text blocks or vector zooming or form fields.

It's not difficult to improve upon a sane subset of PDF, but that would require backing and coordination. Reviving XPS (but not under MS auspices) should also be possible.
> copying a lot of bytes

Depends on what you mean by "a lot", doesn't it? Yes, you are going to copy all the bytes in the final result once (at least). But it's hard to see how to avoid that, and no, delegating that task to the kernel doesn't magically/consistently make it faster.

> you just create a little node of a couple of words

Hmm..."just" creating a "little" node can often be quite expensive on today's machines. And "words" are pretty big, typically 8 bytes per word.

> Yeah there's non-locality and things like that

Well, non-locality and "things like that" are kind of a biggie, these days. The biggie, actually, most of the time.

"...computation is essentially free, because it happens “in the cracks” between data fetch and data store; on a clocked processor, there is little difference in energy consumption between performing an arithmetic operation and performing a no-op." -- Andrew Black in Object-oriented programming: some history, and challenges for the next fifty years
Wallet.fail: Hacking the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets
Some discussion back when it was written in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541144
The 'opportunities' email itself means nothing, which is why this whole exercise is laughable. What is being questioned is the rest of the so-called email dump. Emails that actually suggest damaging claims and which would be worth looking into. How strange it is that people like you cannot seem to come up with answers on those. It is so easy do to, just provide the full emails so that we can all continue to see the content and context of the entire conversation.

I could easily send you an email from my gmail account asking if you have managed to get burn all of the films Epstein made of you and those little kids on his island. It too would have a valid DKIM signature. Now show me the follow up from Hunter, or even proof the message was actually seen by him. If an actual hard drive was possessed as claimed then this would be trivial. The fact that it is not available is damning in this case. As has been noted repeatedly in this case an equally likely source of this data is an iCloud hack for some pics and the known hack of Burisma a while back. Mix in some fake messages and then add useful idiots who are willing to believe anything if it supports their cause.

Thankfully this story will return to obscurity along with the partisan hacks trying to push it. It was a lame attempt at an 'October surprise', it was executed poorly, and thankfully this time the means of viral distribution of same was limited while everyone looked into the story and then had a good laugh.
Fear and respect are different. Respect and admiration are synonymous...

I fear my boss and Branson. Neither have, nor deserve, my respect.

Fear is a natural, powerful, and primitive human emotion. It involves a universal biochemical response as well as a high individual emotional response. Fear alerts us to the presence of danger or the threat of harm, whether that danger is physical or psychological.

Respect: feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
I find scarcity of tangibles pretty artificial. Who says that a 200m2 house cannot be split into two 100m2 houses? Who says that you cannot replace a private swimming pool with another 100m2 house?

Yes, some tangibles are scarce (water, petrol, raw materials, etc.). But what we actually charge for is pretty intangible, e.g., time of people, utility of a location.
while I agree with your position the criticism of null can also be reformulated as: are there places in common usages where both null and undefined are common/reasonable values and have different meaning?

conceptually I think so, but I am not sure how much it actually helps with the language ergonomic.

in hindsight I think undefined should have been more powerful, eg setting a property to unrefined should effectively remove the property from an object (which would also affect the prototype chain)
I dont have formal training either. But I found that they collapse into blob when you don't understand them. Because then you are memorizing names of events without knowing what they actually were in any detail.

Once you listen to more detailed lecture or read more detailed book, they become clearly distinct due to many small differences and stories. So misplaced event suddenly "dont makes sense", because you can explain why it could not happen then.
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Common Pitfalls Developing a Chatbot with Rasa and How to Overcome Them
Here you go:

o = "\U0001F17E"
black = o + "\ufe0e"
red = o + "\ufe0f"
print(black, red)

HN seems to strip the special sequences, here it is on a pastebin instead: https://paste.debian.net/1169485/

More details: http://unicode.org/faq/vs.html http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-variation-sequ...
There are two different mechanisms of interest here: IP fragmentation (IP packets get broken up into smaller chunks, because intermediate networks have an MTU which is too large to allow them to pass) and TCP segmentation (the TCP stack breaks up payloads into segments no bigger than the requested MSS).

The author here presents two variants of the attack. The UDP variant does indeed rely on IP fragmentation, but the TCP version does not. To mitigate the TCP version, the ALG needs to be aware of the state of the TCP connection. Simple IP fragment reassembly won't be enough.
The use of LL/SC for atomics is a common mistake. It makes replay debuggers like rr impossible to implement.
Timeline of early eukaryotic evolution unveiled
is there a way to use the typescript type checker on js files using jsdoc types?
The moderate consumption red wine seems to be a plausible component of the low number of realized CHD deaths?
iPad runs a heuristic to convert touches into clicks or hovers.
How to Develop a Restaurant Reservation App
The worst issue, at least for the versions of the ISA that will run a "real" OS, are the lack of conditional move instructions and lack of bitwise rotation instructions. Lack of shift-and-sum instructions or equivalently addresses with shifted indexes is usually mitigated by optimization of induction variables in the compiler. They are nice to have (I have written code where I took advantage of x86's ability to compute a+b*9 with a single instruction) but not particularly common with the massive inlining that is common in C++ or Rust.

The ugly parts are indeed all ugly, though they have now added hint instructions.
Bill Gates - "IP is the incentive system for the products of the future" [2005]
Q: In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, "We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights." What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?

+

Bill Gates: "No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

And this debate will always be there. I'd be the first to say that the patent system can always be tuned--including the U.S. patent system. There are some goals to cap some reform elements. But the idea that the United States has led in creating companies, creating jobs, because we've had the best intellectual-property system--there's no doubt about that in my mind, and when people say they want to be the most competitive economy, they've got to have the incentive system. Intellectual property is the incentive system for the products of the future."

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Note: I'm against Intellectual Monopoly and turning something non-rival into something rival by making it artificially scarce.

Imagine how smart humanity would be if there were no longer any walls blocking our children's curiosity?

"The current [system] is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.” It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies – for copyrights, trademarks and patents – should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity. In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits."

Are proprietary non-modular black-box solutions the best for our future?

Or does it make people ignorant?

Can discoveries/inventions happen outside corporate walls?

If so, how?

Could, for example, a fractal Open Value Network, used by Sensorica and others, lead to new ways of sharing resources and producing the things we need in an open, transparent way?

I think our current economic system is dogmatic as it hasn't yet found a way to incorporate the zero-marginal cost of digital reproduction/transmission/storage.

The question that is in my mind when posting this is: does creating software require incentives? What would a F/LOSS world, without IP enforcement, BUT with authorship claims and a shared record of 'who was first', look like?

I am slowly learning more about the system and it's origins, and I enjoy the discussions on this website.
That might work, just until the supply of suckers dries up. There's one born every minute, which makes 1440*365 = 525,600 suckers per year. Hmm, that is quite a few suckers. Okay, tax away!
What's this supposed direct causal link? Total cholesterol, like we believed before? Or LDL cholesterol, like we believe now?

Or none of the above, like the the failed drugs (other than statins) that reduce LDL and improve the ratio between LDL and HDL, but have 0 effect on heart disease outcomes[0]?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/eli-lilly-abando...
You are right, we might already have an available Option to this.
one can argue that if you obtain a value in such a way you should validate it first or not use it at all
CORS is only applied to javascript, not GET requests via img, link or other tags that load resources.
This is vague. Please clarify your point. What aspect are you talking about?
"Three Felonies A Day - How the Feds Target The Innocent is the story of how citizens from all walks of life - doctors, accountants, businessmen,political activists, and others - have found themselves the targets of federal prosecutions, despite sensibly believing that they did nothing wrong, broke no laws, and harmed not a single person."

http://www.harveysilverglate.com/books
How to Stop Negative Thoughts?
The sad part: It feels more snappy than my Windows 10 desktop it runs on.
> null means "update the property to null (which usually means 'delete')".

That is pretty humorous, null means make it undefined, so I guess false will need to mean make it null, and true can mean make it false?

The general problem is trying to get enough metadata directly into the language to manipulate it's own programs with such metadata. Of course this never works it just goes to an edge case so absurd that absurd syntax stays reserved for things with meta operations so they can work on most things yet not themselves or each other.
Whoops I didn't realize the privacy extensions had managed to address this already. In other words, just collide and fix it up later.

Are you necessarily guaranteed 48 bits of address space though? Can't an ISP assign you any size prefix they like? A scheme that only works reliably (how efficiently does NDP resolve collisions?) on networks that observe some arbitrary convention seems like a bad idea to me.
I went back when I was about 16 I think, though it seems weird to write that now. Really lovely community and was great to put faces to names on the old forum.
where did you get the 4,000-7,000 figure? There were 3,048 suicides in Australia in 2018[1]. Data from the Victorian coroner shows that there's been roughly the same number of suicides in the state this year up to August 27 as last year(466 this year vs. 468 last year)[2].

[1] https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/suicide-an...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/no-spike-in-suicide-r...
How to Maintain Self Control?
> nearly every webhoster out there

Why do people bring this up so often in 2020? When you can have a $5/month Linode and install anything you need.

I like PHP a lot, but wouldn't want to use / learn it in a constrained environment of an old-school webhost.
little addition, the same article says:

> A case from 2009 epitomizes this divide. Two sisters, injured in a car accident in South King County, needed pain relief. One, with private insurance, received OxyContin, an expensive drug. The other, on Medicaid, received methadone — and within a week, overdosed and died.

but OxyContin is also shit.

for very different reasons than methadone, that I won't go into here right now.

but fact of the matter is that neither are commonly prescribed as pain killer meds, outside the US.

our politicians actually want less people to be on oxycodon (the generic) because it's terribly addictive, and campaign against it.
Also very common in embedded systems that simply do not have any floating point capabilities at all. For my CS dissertation I had to implement part of an OpenGL pipeline on a VLIW DSP designed for video coding, and all it had was 32-bit integer ALU’s. Dealing with dynamic range was pretty much half of the total effort to map the reference code that used floating point to fixed point with mixed precision.
I'd say provide concurrency primitives to disallow direct access to shared mutable state. You still do the reads and the writes, but you let the system take and release locks for you.

Let's say you wanted to turn a list into a bounded list of 4 elements.

Race-condition insert:

if (sz < 4) {
list.insert(x);
sz++;
}

Safe insert:

atomically {
if (sz < 4) {
list.insert(x);
sz++;
}
}

So atomically organises the locking/unlocking/rollback for you such that a fifth element will not be inserted.
You can do a lot of math (almost all of it?) without ever touching logic. It's only important when you ask yourself things like "hmm, okay, the reals are closed under taking supremum of bounded sets, isn't that too much to ask for? how do I know reals are possible?". And of course the great logicians showed us that you can find "significant problems" already in natural numbers.
They did found dogs or dog remains in the car? If they are dogs in the car will be more than one bullet to look for. If not, he could had been killed in another place and moved later.

Finding dog corpses or dogs hurt in a different place could signal the real crime scene.
The pandemic has a death toll.

A lot of these things would've happened even without a lockdown, since if the pandemic goes badly enough, huge swaths of the population would've shut themselves at home to avoid risk of contagion.

Also, the virus is clearly more dangerous than the lockdown: you have seen what happens when the lockdown is applied to the whole population, but you haven't yet seen what happens when the virus has spread to 50%+ of the population (and it's especially ugly if it'd happen all in a short amount of time).

It's sad to know about additional suicides, though the reports I've seen say that there hasn't been any increase in suicides during the lockdowns (but again: it might've been specific to the situation in Europe)
> Lockdown has a death toll. This is just fact.

I steeled myself to read this post in the most charitable possible light. Yes, lockdown most likely has some death toll. But the specific points you're making are very dubious and also very recognisable as the effect of consuming specific kinds of media.

Firstly, the point about "not getting as much exercise" is frustrating. Back when we didn't have data on this, it was annoying to me to hear people's absolute conviction that (a) people would exercise less and (b) the effect would be so large that it would lead to a decrease in obesity significant enough to offset the number of life-years lost to COVID, especially since the lockdown personally prompted me to start exercising MORE due to my new surplus of idle time. We now have some suggestion that for previously sedentary people, it led to more exercise (my experience) and for previously active people, it led to a decrease. I'd love to see any suggestion that the net effect of this was so colossal as to produce the adverse health outcomes of whose existence you seem so confident. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312512/

> In Australia, an additional 4000-7000 suicides were projected

At least in Victoria, it seems like these predictions were unfounded. Of course, that is not going to stop people from repeating this talking point. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/no-spike-in-suicide-r...
That's a convincing privacy argument for NAT.

I thought temporary addresses were supposed to (mostly) solve this and would be my preferred way. Though the default 24h lifetime is not quite as helpful, except for hopefully sidestepping the genius - embedded by MAC into my IPv6 - address generation.

net.ipv6.conf.all.temp_prefered_lft = 86400
But is this actually 'fooling yourself'. It looks more like an approximation. What is space happens to be discrete but the discrete points are very small compared to every day life? Then for most purposes approximating a space coordinate with real numbers is a pretty good approximation. Never mind that the possible state space of the universe could actually be smaller than such a single real number. The thing is, a human brain can presumably only grasp finitely many things but actually having to reason about finitely many things is difficult. Note that theorems about numbers are easier when they are about 'natural numbers' than about 'all numbers smaller than 2^32' because all theorems then will have preconditions that limit their size in order to exclude integer overflow and hence get somewhat hairy. So as a cognitive trick working with infinite sets works pretty well. However, complicated reasonings about the nature of these infinities turn into navel gazing pretty quickly. The thing to strive for, I think, is extending the finite and the discrete with the infinite and the continuous but but not having the illusion that we can actually say very much about the nature of the infinte.
From a statistical perspective, the effect size is very small... all hazard ratios are very close to 1.
It implies that saturated fat consumption is not strongly associated with the outcome.