jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The number of patients already overwhelmed the healthcare system.

Per some interview with some Chinese doctors who battled COVID19, they said that for many critical patients, their viral load is actually low, but the virus had caused damages to all parts of their bodies thus antiviral isn't going to do anything significant at that stage.

This might suggest chloroquine could be helpful at earlier stage of COVID19, to help prevent patients developing into server/critical stage, which would still be a very good thing if hold true.
How does WebRTC compare when you have a lot of callers (e.g. 20 people in a call)? From my understanding, it is p2p, so the network throughput required would be a lot higher, correct?
It's somewhat small, for optimal reading I zoomed to 130%.
Agreed, this kind of thinking comes from fear and desperation (and another kind is denial of reality - this can't be happening so it isn't. My neighbours still don't realise it's actually happening).

If we want to deal with covid we should have started years ago. As ever, we didn't.
It's small on 13" MacBook screen too. Turns out it's set to 12px!
The first SARS was actually more deadly, but less contagious.
Webcache for when it goes offline

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:02JdYz...
It's not pro-active, it is reactive. He explicitly states he's not doing pro-active removals.
Agreed. I was actually never that excited about the name. I worked with a designer on the app, and the name was her idea.
I don't follow the spammer, i follow the #tag. And they spam with the tag, so I have to skim their nonsense.
I would guess they didn't want to reveal anything about their plans before the announcment yesterday, which is why they were kind of vague about the whole thing. Yes, I'll just rename the app (not sure to what yet), and resubmit.
Good question. I work on the West Coast and travel a lot for my full time job, so I have some flexibility as far as location and travel. My co-founder telecommutes 100% and is location-independent. That has made it easier for us to attend conferences, and my assumption is that it will make it easier for us to pitch.
You should care about people using and enjoying what you build.

I don't really care whether my users know my birthday or what my favourite dessert is.

Actually, I'm pretty happy they don't know anything about me.

The author of this article needs an attitude adjustment.
> We're not exactly in shackles here in London.

Well, London is about as good as it gets in "Europe", of which a great deal remains where 'startups' are a something of a foreign notion. So I say the more the merrier, and things will sort themselves out.
"yes", given the temporal use of "about", and solar/galactic timescales.
Automation, metering, weigh scale measurement, Bill of Lading, balancing and terminal accounting. 100% downstream at the load rack.
http://www.pingdom.com/

Have used it for the past year or so and like it.
fixed the post to include it, also, here is the link to the demo http://jchris.couchone.com/twebz/_design/twebz/index.html
Yes it does and the critical difference is that the customer doesn't have control over when instances are yanked. Likewise servers/drives aren't persistent so you can't have nodes hibernating and then bring them in response to pricing.

Our system is designed to let you control when servers are turned on or off in order to perform orderly computing. Likewise the fact that the servers and drives are persistent allows you to shut them down and back up again over peak times and keep data persistent. This is great if you are doing large jobs like 3d rendering for example.

Best wishes,

Patrick Baillie
CEO
Yeah, I figured out what he was getting at a moment after posting, so I edited my post with my core objection, which is just that there's really no benefit I can see to doing that instead of using memorizable passwords.
Not to be daft, but what all would you do to 'start networking now'?

I've added a few possibly relevant professional events to my calendar, and I'm trying to get to know my neighbors but it doesn't feel like nearly enough and I've had trouble finding more (particularly with the holidays, which seem to have killed a lot of the late december events).
> If you only give someone a public key,
> how can they authenticate you based
> on that? You must be giving them some
> piece of private data, or else anyone
> could authenticate as you.

That's not quite the way it works. There is no shared secret required. With my public key you can create an authentication challenge that allows you to validate my identity without ever seeing my private key (or, for that matter, you can send me a message that only I can read).
Why would you use this "poor man's approach" over bcrypt or scrypt? My understanding is that these two work on a very similar concept (work factor) and are free to use.
I am still a Lisp programmer, but I picked up Java just 4 months ago, and I already shipped my first major server app 2 days ago.

Tell your Lisp hacker friends they can use ABCL. It's Common Lisp on the JVM :-)

http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/
Not if they need to type out emails
If you use emacs/viper, I recommend vimpulse: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-es/Vimpulse

This gives you text objects - and they are fantastically useful. It also gives you the saner window functions of 'C-w hjkl'
What on earth? I know we all love a good MS pile-on, but if this contest weren't being run by Microsoft, it'd be an academic shared task with results to be written up and published in a workshop of some conference, probably ACL or EMNLP (which will probably still happen, actually), for no prize money and yet with most or all of the authors open-sourcing their research code anyway.

And this isn't even substantially different from putting together OSS to do the job; even GPLed code lets MSR "use, review, assess, test, and otherwise analyze" it.

EDIT: To be even clearer, the idea of a shared task, run a bit like a contest (with a validation corpus and a secret test corpus, and a designated winner at the end), is really well established in the Natural Language Processing community, and the usual expectation is that you publish at the end. When I say in my first paragraph that this "'d be an academic shared task", I'm not speculating. The remarkable thing about the MSR contest is not the publication requirement, but that they're paying out money at all.
The reason you will never see any six-story buildings built is the building code. Four stories is the tallest you can legally build with wood framing; higher than that, you effectively need steel framing, and the code requirements for those don't make any economic sense until you get to 10 stories. In between is a dead zone where it is uneconomic to build.
If you've already got a better algorithm, you now know it's worth at least $10,000 to Microsoft.
Well I've never used Heroku or IndexTank (or Rails for that matter), but I've had a small weekend hack I've been wanting to do for a while now involving a spattering of search. I was going to try out Solr but I think I'll learn Rails instead. I guess their marketing worked on me.

Btw, we need more hacking trophies, something made out of circuit boards, transistors, and wire, something that will put those little league "I played a sport!" trophies to shame. I suppose a Macbook will be an acceptable substitute.
I'm sorry but how exactly have those schools failed?

They have failed to become top engineering schools and create a Stanford/MIT-like community.

Expansion plans that take a decade to get government approval doesn't imply "quite willing to take property".

It didn't take 10 years to get government approval, it took 10 years for the government to take property from people against their will. What exactly are you advocating for? Giving our corporate/university overlords the power to steal your land 30 days or less?
> Q. Who is not eligible to compete in the challenge?

> Entrants who are younger than 18 years of age;

Ugh. They just ruled out a large portion of the hackers for whom 10k is a lot of money.
What does "coop" mean in this context? ("founders and 2 _coops_, based in my living room") Is this basically an intern from a cooperative education program? If so, I'd love to hear more about your experience as a startup being involved in that kind of program.
I don't know about you guys since the web 2.0 / social network boom, I tend to see this 'new' world as an eldorado run toward some kind of digital heaven where people will enjoy the freedom for a while, while recreating the same system (almost) without realizing it. But it will be their new system so they'll love it. Childish regression in a bubble.
One would imagine they'd make their APIs resilient before this?
You can't create more bitcoin but you can create more USDT and exchange it for bitcoin.
The post you are responding to mentioned drugged-up right there in the conclusion.
from the Taler website

https://taler.net/en/principles.html

As a payment system must comply with local laws in order to operate legally, GNU Taler must be designed to comply with these requirements. GNU Taler must provide an audit trail for investigators operating under the law. Furthermore, we consider levying of taxes as beneficial to society, and fair taxation requires income transparency. Thus, GNU Taler must enable authorities to track income

Which makes a lot of sense.

Privacy of buyers is protected from the merchant, that doesn't imply that the payment is untraceable (or that complete secrecy is necessary).
I single-click in address bar, which selects all (in Chrome), then I command-c shortcut to copy.

Which is my main use case for clicking in the location bar, copying the URL. So I appreciate that single-click selects all, so I can then copy with a keyboard shortcut.

I'm confused by your comment "when I want to copy it I have to triple-click anyway" -- I'm guessing you are on linux(?)... does triple-click or select alone automatically copy on Linux? (If select alone normally copies to clipboard, then I'd say it's a bug that it "looks selected" but hasn't copied to clipboard?)

This may be a thing where different behavior is appropriate for different OSes. Perhaps the FF devs who rejected the feature are also Linux users? I think FF wants to get market share beyond what can be achieved focusing on Linux users though.
Fantastic company.
No, obviously because of pre-conceived notions based on FUD, like my comments are responding to.
So she was already reading while driving and then started reading compulsively. That's some serious book addiction.

I'm an exact opposite of the author: can never pick a book because of fear it won't be "worth my time" and end up looking at pictures of cute animals instead.
Let's say we poll the roughly 1b people living in first world, and ask them each to pay $10 to see SpaceX do whatever SpaceX does. How many people even think it's worth $10?

I just wan't to add that the problem is not that SpaceX provides less to humanity than WhatsApp.

The problem is that most people are not really far-sighted, but only see things which benefit themselves in a predictable amount of time.

Why companies like SpaceX (or NASA) are important has already been answered with Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563
Sorry, I was being rhetorical, I guess it wasn't obvious. My point to the parent was that no need to bet your entire life savings on one company, you can split it among hundreds and take advantage of your edge.
Pretty sure kids (and most adults) never had time for a 4-hour game of Monopoly. Monopoly was never a good game; it had balance issues in addition to being too long.
I used to be on a High Deductible Health Plan, which is designed to be just like the author suggests: only for catastrophes. For anything else, you use a Health Savings Account (a tax free account you put money into) and use it to just pay cash prices.

IT WAS HORRIBLE. The concept of course, is great. But the problem is one of chicken and egg. Because the entire system is set up for 3rd party payment, NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY, has a clue what they charge for anything. Go ahead, take the challenge. Ask a receptionist or even a doctor how much they charge for a procedure. They have no idea.

The effect was that going to any medical appointment was a crap shoot. I had no clue what I was going to be paying until AFTER treatment. The amount of friction in just getting a price was so painful that shopping around was impossible. Since "shopping around" is the whole basis behind "price clearing" in markets, the current system of HSAs implemented by Bush is bullshit. Had he gone all the way, and just forced every insurance company to only offer HDHPs, then it would be different. Medical providers would have been forced to share pricing information.
So even you, 30 year SF resident, have some slight natural incentive to not stay in the area, once Having Kids Time rolls around.

To think that the bold 20-somethings flooding into SF these days have a path charted for long-term residency here seems all but impossible...
You're honestly advocating more racial profiling and propelling us towards the state of racism, hatred, and paranoia of Israel? Really?
It's basically a desktop webkit application that happens to be written in Clojure-script (which gets compiled to Javascript).

A modern IDE written entirely in Clojure would be Clooj (which IS open-source).
Spending time on your tools instead of your work is not a sign that you need to change your tools - it's a sign that your work sucks.
In the article, it talks about how the weight of the vehicle is one of the greatest factors in determining friction, and weight is not a universally superior factor in trucks.

(It is for specific tasks, and up to a certain point, but there's a reason why Ford replaced their steel bodies with aluminum.)

In other words, given that the Cybertruck wins on torque, there may be better ways to demonstrate it than showing that it's heavier (as stated in the article.)
So unless you're hiding bags of gold underneath your bed as "saving" then that money is going to circulate across the economy naturally as investment. But it is sort of weird that any single person/group can fully know what is best for all individual actors in an economy (not possible).

Lastly, to say that a currency losing 99% of its value over time is not damaging to a household is either ignorance or corruption. The lower tiers of society furthest away from the money printer are the ones that are impacted the most. Coincidentally, I'm going to assume you want to help these tiers the most but end up hurting them.

There is something called the Cantillon effect, where those closest (banks, those connected to the gov) to the "stream" of money get benefited while those furthest away (regular people) get hurt.
Almost nobody really does this, so the economic value of resaleability can't be huge.
Greenspun's rule refers specifically to Common Lisp ("... of half of Common Lisp.") and there's no way that "half of Common Lisp", even with a healthy dose of hyperbole, can refer to the feature-intersection of all popularly-implemented Lisps, nor to anything "very pure".
One simple answer: scalablity.
The issues you mention mostly deal with the platform itself, and that has obviously been affected by the switch of focus from Maemo to MeeGo.

Agreed that the platform could benefit from rolling releases as well, but at least the current approach allows that for applications. Something that most Linux distributions don't do.
I think the market is learning the hard way that the physical aspects of paper/hardback books are marginal, and that a century of booking publishing had already set a correct price for books, and that subtracting the couple of cents it costs to actually print the book are being absorbed in the margin... It's a tough transition for customers to recognize value in intangibles when there is absolutely no physical aspect to hang on to any more (I mean I know it was for me, and I have a vested interest in it! Imagine how hard it is for others who just want cheap because they'll never gain directly from higher prices for digital goods. At least I get to take comfort in knowing that as prices (or rather, willingness to pay) for digital goods will go up, so will (partly) my income...)
I had to do it several times to collect data from HTML pages, to put the data in a small DB for further analysis.

At the end I cam up with a shell script using following UNIX/cygwin tools:

1.) curl to download the HTML side to a file;

2.) iconv to convert the HTML to UTF8 encoding if it was in a different encoding (which was the case once);

3.) tidy -asxml -numeric -utf8
to convert the HTML page to XML;

4.) xmlstarlet (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net) with the sel command and a bunch of XPath expressions to extract data that I needed from the page and to pipe it to other unix tools. Watch out after you have retrieved data with xmlstarlet might return XML escaped characters, so I run it through "xmlstarlet unesc"

This approach worked pretty fine for me.
Hmm, Google seems to have removed "from scratch" part.
Apparently somewhere between 30 and 40% of adult Americans get news from TV, depending on whose surveys you look at. And cable news is only 16-19% of adults, having fallen enormously since 2016 and 2017 surveys. It was more than twice the proportion just a few years ago!

But yeah, he can always address the press and let the press disseminate his statements, which has its own pros and cons.
Just to add on that... the original founder put a rule in the company that it must remain a family business, to the point that when they didn't had a heir, the guy adopted someone and gave him the family name, to keep the family going.

Only reason the company is not with a family CEO right now, is because the last family CEO personally gave the greenlight to the shift, because he genuinely believed Iwata (the person that would replace him) was more skilled than he was at managing the company... Yet seemly he still paid close attention to the company even after retiring.

Right now the children of the last CEO that theoretically own Nintendo biggest share block, but seemly nobody is sure of that, only information I found is that seemly one of them sold the shares to Nintendo itself (thus increasing the shares the other members had of Nintendo, percentage-wise).
Sure, let's throw out rule of law, it's not like we can trust those judges, right?
The four port ones, and my 2013 pre-touchbar MacBook Pro, both have 3x3 MIMO.

I found some interesting Apple documentation on this: https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/deployment-reference-m...
> "Slippery slope" is also most commonly a fallacy, which a lot of people seem to ignore.

I don't ignore it. I reject it outright. Politics especially (and human behavior, more generally) operates on slopes. Allowing x quite literally can and does often lead to x + 1. If x + 1 is unacceptable, then it's perfectly legitimate to oppose x on the grounds that it will produce x + 1 (even if we all could agree that x is itself acceptable).

The fallacy, such that it exists, is that the truth value of x exists independent of whether it will lead to x + 1. You can't disprove something about x by arguing that it will produce x + 1. That's all well and good, but it's not what anybody's talking about when they invoke a slippery slope argument in the context of human systems.
My strategy is: tell them I will be leaving WhatsApp, and they can reach me on Signal.

If they don’t care enough to install a free app to talk to me, good riddance.
What people are missing with all of this is that censorship is a bandaid but doesn't address the root cause. The duopoly of parties that have captured the US political system are corporate servants that have allowed the public to descend into worse and worse conditions since the 70s. The reason Trump was successful was because he (falsely) claimed he would address this grift and corruption. Instead of addressing it, the establishment has tried to tamp down any dissent and promote censorship. Without relief and a release valve, the pressure in tank will certainly will get even higher and eventually explode, with a more competent and scary Trump 2.0 when the democratic establishment fails to deliver even through they now control everything.

Censorship is not necessary in a fair society.
Energy is also pretty critical to achieve a post-scarcity world. A lot of Tesla engineering effort is focused on batteries and energy efficiency.

It's quite difficult to invest in SpaceX, as not only is it private, but all their recent rounds have been oversubscribed. They've likely been significantly underpricing the company.
Congrats on completely misunderstanding his essay, and confusing the consumer with the developer.
And also, thanks for doing the run and posting a link to your setup.
Oh yes. I know what you mean now. Although you can pretend the humans are computer algorithms : )
I don't really understand the definitions - typeface is the style of the letters, you have a font file, which is the implementation of that typeface, but what does "font" on its own refer to? Is it the same as the typeface? I guess that's how I would use it in conversation.

If that's the case then I'd say you created a new implementation of existing font?
I actually just happened to be watching a really good talk by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc where he leads a meditation session, and provides some basic concepts to refer to as well. Relatable, articulate.
The current Google perhaps, but not the Google of the future.
Baskerville for the title. Minion Pro for the menu buttons (better legibility on older iPhones)
Great info.

I have noticed this set of graphics on various websites, not necessarily the same characters, but it has the same general style. Are these available as a set somewhere?
Also, included in the CS-experience is the socializing – nobody wants to host someone who's just taking the "free couch"-part, so actually there is compensation included, but it is not money.
The police will likely be pretty limited in what they're able to do. I suspect they'll have you file a police report, and then leave. Here's what I'd do ... and the success of this tactic will probably depend on how large the hotel is, and how helpful whomever you're dealing with wants to be.

1. See if you can get an idea from the hotel about how many of the rooms are occupied, and if it's a small number see if it's possible to get that list.

2. Give each person in housekeeping $10, and ask them to tell you if they see any of your stuff in the rooms they're cleaning.

3. Focus on rooms with the do-not-disturb signs hung up if it's a limited number. You know that somebody is staying on those rooms, and that they prefer privacy. While this doesn't mean they took your stuff, it helps locate the rooms with patrons.

4. Write down the license plates of the cars in the lot (if it's not an overwhelming number). If there's one way for vehicles to leave the property, you could wait by the exit and ask drivers as they leave if they know anything. If the driver stops, you'll get a read on their response. You can also write down license plates based on how drivers handle this (whether they stop, how they react, etc.) and cross-reference this against the ones you recorded from the parking lot.

5. Check the trash. Sometimes people steal things, get scared, then dump whatever they've stolen.

Good luck to you. The odds aren't in your favor.
Or perhaps, more to the point he could keep the MacBook but drop the iPhone (assuming he hasn't already.)

However, one good reason he has to move now as opposed to later, is that later might be too late. Moving to a new platform can be costly and difficult and Linux can be trickier than most to pick up. He might want to have more experience with it when the time comes to drop Mac entirely if that's his goal.
Clearly they were high on gas fumes.