jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also don't think you (and others) should be gleefully clutching pearls for too long just yet. Yes, western governments have been woefully unprepared and very slapshot in their response to this. Yes, valuable time was wasted. But please avoid the trap the media wants to drown us all in, that of despair and permanent anxiety.

We will solve this, one way or another. It won't be easy, and there will be a ton of pain (a lot of which is already being felt). But a solution will be found (my best guess: probably a vaccine in the medium to long run, and in the short to medium term stronger testing and isolation regimes to let us get back to some semblance of normal life again)
Yes it sure is. Stripped down version of it. Also this is just my guess which is probably wrong. Guess we’ll have to see right ;)
Key points missing from the headline: social distancing is necessary, PPE supplies must be sufficient, and healthcare system must not have broken down for us ‘to be fine’.

He predicted the Chinese cessation of outbreak correctly because China consistently implemented the lockdown plan across regions and had strict measures to make sure of compliance.

From what we see, few western countries have bended the infection trajectory sufficiently to see the outbreak ending soon. Some people’s behaviors and general lack of mask wearing don’t help. (I think Germany may eventually accomplish that. The 2-person-max meeting rule and relatively extensive testing should help.)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

We must read professional epidemiologists, like Marc Lipsitch of Harvard, whose expertise is more relevant and who don’t have nearly as rosy a view on the epidemic. (Marc is also on Twitter.)

https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/03/lipsitch-call-to-action
Erlang has two different string(ish) value types: binaries and lists of integers. I suppose they could fit into that conceptual model.
> Musk's comments are all kinds of stupid. Don't waste your time defending him.

I don’t disagree, I’m merely objecting to the fact that new_realist appears to be deliberately misrepresenting Musk’s comments as if they weren’t silly enough as is.
This was my initial reaction, but it seems that he came to this conclusion after analyzing the numbers in other countries as well.

> He analyzed 78 countries with more than 50 reported cases of COVID-19 every day and sees “signs of recovery.” He’s not looking at cumulative cases, but the number of new cases every day — and the percentage growth in that number from one day to the next.

> Levitt acknowledges that his figures are messy, and that the official case counts in many areas are too low because testing is spotty. But even with incomplete data, “a consistent decline means there’s some factor at work that is not just noise in the numbers,” he said.
Excerpt:

"You might think—gee, seven is a very odd number of registers—and would be right! The registers were encoded as three bits of the instruction, so it allowed for eight combinations. The last one was for a pseudo-register called M. It stood for memory. M referred to the memory location pointed by the combination of registers H and L. H stood for high byte, while L stood for low byte of the memory address. That was the only available way to reference memory in [an] 8008."
Motivation is natural for us animals, else we wouldn't survive.

Fish gotta swim, Bird gotta fly
Man gotta ask himself Why why why
I don't see the clear link. A writer expects that his writing will be viewed by countless others. For instance I have no fear of the NSA reading this message. Surveillance or not, this is a public forum. They don't need taps.

Are they afraid that by writing that they will become the subject of increased surveillance? That could/would happen as easily 30 years ago as today.

At least today we have tools to fight back. The mathematics of encryption are on the side of the individual. Open source software, Tor, PGP ... today anyone with a netbook can play in the big leagues of secrecy. Journalists should probably feel safer than they did back when the only thing protecting their documents was a metal key to a leather briefcase, when the only thing stopping them from reading their mail was the glue.
Would you sigh like that to my face?

If so, you are a rude person.

This is not the game emulation world.
because then there was no other choice

I spent a long time pirating games, but seriously, 'no other choice' is nonsense. You could just 'not play the game'. I don't think that software piracy is the great evil that it's made out to be, but neither do I think it's harmless and that there's justice in people just taking entertainment because they don't have enough money at the moment. It's not like video games are a staple required to sustain life.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't care that you pirated software, but I think it smells bad that you paint it as some sort of social justice issue or class war.

frankly believe they are entitled to earn money from pure intellectual work

Work is work and consumes effort and time, whether it's shifting bricks or squashing bugs.
"Censorship-Resistant". Until your GitHub account or repository ends up here: https://github.com/github/dmca
I think I am not. Monads has nothing to do with "purity" - Erlang is a pure-functional language but there are no monads.

Monad make sense only within a language with Normal (instead of Applicative) order of evaluation, to ensure that one computation (or action) "finishes" (being reduced to a value) before another (>>= and >>). return is for the type-checker.
US content firms absolutely have reason to block it because they want to sell the content to the foreign providers in the first place.
Here I would suggest that we use a thrusters to fix (yes, fix) Earth's rotational speed. Heck, let's slow it down when we're at it, I could use more hours in a day!
Being able to address, in all seriousness, the "authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time" seems like a good second place to me though.
Yep, from the beta samples it appears they're using commodity hardware, so the only savings will be the Windows tax. Basically, if you took the original Asus 701 netbook and made some upgrades (7" -> 12" screen; 600 MHz Centrino -> 1.6 GHz Atom; 500 MB -> 2 GB RAM; 4 GB -> 16 GB flash drive) you'd have the Cr-48 specs.

Asus differentiates its wide range of netbooks with price point variations based on different battery specs, hard drive size, Bluetooth, etc.

The only variation I can see for commercial roll-out would be in, say, the 3G module added by a particular service provider. Given what has happened with the added "features" of some Android devices, I'm not sure that a Verizon-specific Chromebook would be a big seller. A vendor-specific would seem to lead to contracts and account personalization details that would kill the anonymity focus of the device.
I stand slightly corrected, thank you.
How do you mark a single reference? Don't you have to mark all its children recursively, in the worst case scanning the whole heap (if this cycle just started and the GC thread hasn't gotten far yet) before returning control to the program?
I personally find that the only way to find middle ground is to read a few stories from all sides and triangulate the middle ground. Intestine write up at Gigaom:
http://gigaom.com/2010/12/20/fccs-new-new-net-neutrality-com...
Read it again.

I spent significant chunk of the post explaining that a) I don't care how you code, and b) there are some good reasons to choose a different style than mine.

I'm asking JS thought leaders to stop encouraging falsehood. That's all. "Don't code like Isaac because it's ugly." Fine. I can dig that. Maybe you won't date me because you think my face is ugly. You wouldn't be the first one, and thankfully for my social life, it's not a universally held opinion.

But "don't code like Isaac because ASI is unreliable and no one understands it"? Patently false, and OMG PEOPLE ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET.

This is so far beyond goofy. Don't we have jobs or something? Who posted this? Jeez. Get that guy something better to do.
Naming and shaming can be a pretty powerful deterrant.
I don't know HTTPS, but it should be just HTTP over SSL. That means regular "Connection: keep-alive" should work just as well on HTTPS as HTTP. In both cases it will keep the connection alive, allowing several requests after one another.
How is this in any demonstrable way better than a username and password? I can't even imagine trying to explain how to use this to my parents.
You may be able to get away with scraping a portion of the site, but I still would find it very hard to believe you'd be able to scrape even 50%.

Let's do some math, these are all based on numbers from this past June which have likely only gone up since then [1]:

65 million tweets per day / 20 tweets per page = 3.25 million page views per day

Just to keep up with the stream, you'd need to do about 3.25 million page views per day or a little over 1.5 million to get half of it. Again, I'd find it very hard to believe that nobody at Twitter would catch on.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/twitter-190-million-users/
This looks wonderful. I'll buy and review in a sec.
Or you could lose 0% of signups by asking for a username and password. (Well, okay, there might be a small margin of people who refuse to sign up -- but if they're that picky, you probably don't want them as your customers anyway.)
Your accusations are exactly the kind of misguided thinking I was warning against.

> What expertise does Chertoff have with regard to airport scanners? I'd be willing to be he's never even dealt with one.

Chertoff works for a law firm which does work contracted by the scanner company. Nobody claims Chertoff's expertise is in the technical aspects of scanners, it's in the workings of the government regulation, which makes him uniquely informed on dealing with the legal issues surrounding the scanner.

>The Representative that wrote the Medicare prescription plan quit Congress after its passage. He's now paid $2 million per year to be a lobbyist for the drug industry. I think it's fair to say that he was bought and paid for.

First, representatives don't write their own bills. They are written by staffers, and these staffers are usually employed by the committees of the house, not the individual representative.

Second, the bill went through innumerable change between its submission to the committee and it's passage. Unless all the voting representatives were on the take, they easily could have changed any particular lines they didn't like. At the end of the day, it was passed by both houses of congress.

Third, it unwise to construct elaborate bribery explanations when there are such easy, simply explanations. (Seniors are basically voting themselves money.)

> Particularly in light of what a horrible piece of legislation it was.

Are you really claiming that congress's passing of horrible legislation is evidence of corruption? Congress passes horrible legislation every day. It's what it does.

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The point is that even rudimentary knowledge about how the legislative process works usually debunks most of these conspiracy stories immediately.

You should be suspicious, sure, but if you're ascribing a significant Bayesian probability to these corruption charges being true without further evidence, you're making a serious mistake in reasoning.
> My audience is programmers

This gets to the heart of why I felt it necessary to comment at all, and as you have gathered, am being derisive and negative toward your website with navigation panel.

Programmers is not a term I like. It implies that you trust someone to write a program. And the way you use the term, you do not need to be an engineer or a computer scientist. Therefore we need to "dumb down" some super-to-complicated content X.

For another example in the same genre: https://poignant.guide/

This kind of narcissistic behavior and writing is amateurish and insulting to those of us who actually do the fairly hard work of learning and working in a formal field.

Just about every security vulnerability and every broken memory hog of a java program is due people acting and thinking like programmers, not engineers. Computer Scientists are not the cause of rampant security vulnerabilities.
I wonder whether thinking harder does burn more energy.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calo... seems to say, not really.
I don't use Vue.js (I use React), but I agree that the project is extremely well-documented and beginner-friendly.

The project also has 3400 stars on Github, so the lead dev is gaining some significant popularity. Furthermore, a number of for-profit businesses are almost certainly using the framework in production, as a key part of their websites (Optimizely is cited on their web site as using it in production, but I'm positive there are others).

And yet, for all his efforts, the developer is given $5.00 a month on his prominently displayed Gratispay account: https://gratipay.com/yyx990803/

$5.00. A single Starbucks cappuccino. A month.

When I see things like this, it makes me despair of ever making a decent living doing open source software (I have some semi-popular projects, but nowhere near the level of Vue.js).

In the end, it also makes me wonder if open source development isn't devaluing the software profession in terms of compensation and prestige. If seems like if people don't pay for something, they just don't respect it, regardless of how useful, well-documented, and well-designed it may be.

I love open source, but every time I see a super popular project with only a few dollars of total donations, or hear the lead dev of a open source project used by massive companies around the world tell me he's barely making a living, part of me dies inside.
Bell Labs was one organization. While it's always a big blurry how much pure research goes on at corporate research labs, I'm not sure there isn't as much research going on today than there ever was given all the money especially in software out there.

Hard to measure as I say, but I think it was maybe the 80s going into the 90s that a lot of the old-style corporate research labs were going out of fashion and nothing had really come in to replace them.
The massive volume of Airpods sold multiplied by the high number of hours used by each customer should surface these issues quickly due to scale alone.

600 out of 200,000,000-300,000,000 units sold is a reported incidence of around 0.0002%.

It's possible that earbud usage has some negative effects in certain people due to earwax impaction or changing pressure in the inner ear, but Apple may be getting the blame because they're the only vendor operating with such large market share.
So important info for people who wants to understand our current health crises.

This, and the normalization of frying with plant based oils that denaturalize at those temperature seems to me equivalent to how the romans society was led poisoning themselves because most kitchenware like spoons and pots were made of led.
*PEX (not PVC which is used on waste lines)
Why does it have to be "built"? It could have been isolated from bats and studied, and an error / human mistake occurred and it got out.

There's a rational reason to study this one, since SARS (1.0) was a big deal in the early 2000's, and anyway why wouldn't you study something you don't fully understand as a matter of course. It's not a stretch if it was found that it leaked from the lab by accident and a cover-up ensued.
You really should cite those paper if you're going to offer such significant information. your comment is worthless otherwise.
Guys, you dont get it. Science isn't government work. In fact, to the extent that it is bureaucracy work, it is doing fine. But it is so much bigger than that.
Clubhouse is a startup, what ruthless expansion? A lot of startups cut corners to get to market faster, but this is just inexcusable.
That's not quite right. Yes natural uranium and its daughters are a bit radioactive (this is partially why the center of the Earth is warm). But when you go ahead and fission nuclear fuel, it breaks into smaller atoms that are less stable. This means they give off their excess energy faster, or in other words are more radioactive. The higher rate of energy release can lead to higher amounts of biological damage.

You can hold fresh nuclear fuel in your hand and be fine. Once it goes in the reactor to be fissioned, you'd get a fatal radiation dose in seconds if you stood next to it unshielded.
From the linked report:

During the recovery operations, the following steps were taken:

(1) The vehicle and container were positioned so the rear of the vehicle was close to the radioactive sources.

(2) Two members of the recovery team installed stairs on the vehicle.

(3) The recovery team was divided into two groups. The first was positioned in an area located 20 m from the radioactive sources. The second remained beyond that area at a safe distance from the location of the radioactive sources.

(4) Two members of the recovery team placed the manipulating devices near the location of the radioactive sources.

(5) One member of the recovery team cleared the surrounding area of the radioactive sources.

(6) One member of the recovery team collected one of the radioactive sources and placed it into a special vessel.

(7) Two members of the recovery team transferred the radioactive source in the special vessel to the vehicle.

(8) Two members of the recovery team standing on the vehicle received the radioactive source and placed it into the container.

(9) In the event that a recovery team member became unable to complete their activity (e.g. due to the dose received), a substitute person was ready and available.

(10) The second half of the recovery team conducted the same actions for the second radioactive source.

(11) One person conducted individual dosimetry control for all members of the
recovery team and recorded the doses.

(12) Two members of the recovery team conducted dose rate monitoring.

(13) All actions were led by a team member assigned to give commands to start or to stop, according to the plan. A signal to stop was given to every worker after 40 s from the beginning of each activity, indicating replacement by the
next worker.

*edit: formatting
I was recommended Novo too. Tried Brex and they didn't have their ____ together.
Garbage In, Garbage Out?

I don't think it is dangerous in itself to read his thinking, because everyone is coming at it from a different experience than DFW. But it would be dangerous to hold his thoughts up as some ideal to strive for, as opposed to hold his thoughts up as evidence that incredibly talented people can also be incredibly broken.
If a cashier is caught stealing, you don't assume it's his first time. And you'd be wise to at least investigate whether his comrades have also been stealing. You'd be a complete idiot to assume that it was a single instance and no other theft is occurring in your shop.
Ok, then go off and work alone on your own projects. No one is going to bug you if you are working alone.

If you want someone to pay you, though, you are going to have to let those people have a say in what you do.
Envelope budgeting sounds like something grandma did. I just get enough total money in a bank account to pay bills.
YNAB is a good starting place youneedabudget.com

hledger.org and ledger-cli.org if you want more control
Don't you mean pessimistic?
NTFS does supports journaling – as far as I can tell it's been there in Windows NT from the start, so XP would have been the first consumer version that offered it.

As for the shell, they did have a (barely) halfway decent clone of the OS/2 Workplace Shell in Windows 95, but by Windows 98 they had already screwed it up (trying to make a spatial file manager also be a browser) and every version since then has been a regression. :/
>It's not directly relevant to the topic, but if you really believe this you should better educate yourself with regard to what has been done in the name of gamergate.

No, really, gamergate supporters like Milo Yiannopoulos have also been doxxed, sent death threats to, sent threatening packages to, had their family members harassed, etc. The social justice movement contains honest supporters of diversity in tech, and psychotic scumbags like Shanley Kane. There are idiotic assholes on both "sides," and you shouldn't let them discount the entirety of the movements they "support."

I'm in no way excusing SWATing, but I absolutely think the outrage it generates should be directed towards our militarized police system. The drunk driving analogy is stupid because the benefits that cars provide to society outweigh the negatives of drunk drivers, but there is no good reason for an anonymous tip to warrant armed soldiers breaking into your house in the night, usually making no indication that they are policemen and not just thugs and robbers, and shooting you dead if you so much as move the wrong way in your confusion. It's a profoundly dangerous and easy to abuse system, and it needs to change.
He makes good point, but you can also address some of the points he addresses with a Safe. His complaints seem more about poor valuations. You can assign "value" with a Safe (or a note for that matter) by putting in a cap.
Can you define "joureyman" here? I have always understood "junior" to be the entry-level.
I don't know how many times I can watch a ball bounce or a hand put the round peg into the round hole. I've watched way too much Baby Einstein videos and I don't even have kids (wife just babysits).
After convincing all my friends to move from WhatsApp to Signal I am really annoyed about this move. This really damaged the trust I have for Signal. I hope they realize their mistake quickly and drop this idea.
I expected something about snake oil products for Linux environments. That was a shock (┬┬﹏┬┬)
Its a bit of a chicken/egg situation. The right people to hire are the people that meets your requirements. Some of the requirements would be what their cultural beliefs and behaviours. So the cultured is enforced by enforcing the right type of people you hire. It is a vicious circle.
Scrum-Master
Where in the world is the “severe discrimination” and prejudice in that comment? You’re knee-jerk character charging without addressing the main points.
I apologize sincerely to Nadin, I didn't mean to imply this was their personal goal. I meant the team/team lead/department lead/etc that approved this public blog post. Probably there's been some grumbling from above about not showing the value of said team, so somebody said, hey Nadin, can you write up a blog post of that security work you did? The end result is the team gets some public recognition and their bosses (& execs) are now happy. Meanwhile, the internet is like, why are they showing us somebody's two-week project like it's a new VPN or something?
I find this looks goofy, but other than the lack of physical buttons inside, this is a dream vehicle for me. Most weekends I want to drive 4 people + 4 mountain bikes a 120 mile round trip including fast highway and rough mountain roads.
No, They really do not

EFF is debunked this myth many many many times I wish people would stop spreading it, as it just an excuse for Over Aggressive enforcement that companies that DESIRE to do it use to divert the bad PR, "We had no choice" sounds alot better than "We want to crush any competition"
They're a great example of the unintended consequences of regulation. I'm sure the original intent was not to have a huge banner where the options for managing what the site tracks were a one click "sure, whatever" or a multi-stage process of "no -> manage preferences -> categories -> reject all -> find the actual 'save' button, not the 'enable and save' one -> confirmation page where 'cancel' is lined up in the same place as 'save' was previously".
Though not a library, Discord also seems to love using this style for their changelogs.

I'm not a fan.