jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder: who came up with the term "social distancing"? The wikipedia [1] article doesn't say. Was it widely used prior to this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_distancing
(maybe not a useful question, given the logistical difficulty)

Could idled planes be re-tasked as medivac flights, to load balance hospitalization around the country and avoid locally overloaded resources?
How are you deriving that 1% number when tests are highly skewed toward severe positive cases, and the virus primarily manifests with mild/no symptoms?
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Subtly but importantly: it's only OK to break your own things. People hate it coming from Facebook because they hold the world's most powerful trove of personal information, and a reccommendation engine that gets to nudge what a lot of people think is important. Similarly self-driving cars.
I hardly believe phone carriers are cracking TLS en masse.
Quarantine does not accurately describe what the WHO is asking people to do. Quarantine is when you take potentially infected people and isolate them from the rest of the population, allowing all the unexposed people to go about their days normally.

Edit: Updated to clarify that quarantine is about potential and not actual infection.
"vape cloud competition" finds lots of videos that at first blush would indicate that our distance should be much further away.

As I understand it - the virus combined with droplets is much denser and doesn't float nearly as much.
Heh. Actually yes
No no, I’ve worked quite a bit with processing XML. He’s got a point.
SEAT (VAG), Spanish car maker, making use of this.

https://twitter.com/tierraymadera/status/1241662339528773632...

https://twitter.com/jcarlosnorte/status/1241708833476575233?...
This is some Gattaca shit right here. Only for the desperate.
China went to extreme measure to lockdown and contain this. To believe the rubbish that they stopped testing is thrash. They contained it, aggressive testing, contact tracing and quarantine is what I have read from other sources they are using to keep it at bay with all new infections being from international travelers.
I'm preparing a synchronous queue for the browsers. It's a queue that allows to send byte arrays between threads (workers) and it is based on SharedArrayBuffer and Atomics (subject to availability, currently works fine in Chrome, Firefox needs some reconfiguration). Early experiments show that it gives a 3-4x speedup comparing to using postMessage/onmessage. It also allows to synchronize some inherently asynchronous APIs, which is at times useful, especially when compiling C code to WebAssembly, as it often would have expectations of synchronous syscalls or other APIs.

There are still a few issues there I'd like to address before I publish it. Feel free to follow me on twitter (@yrashk) if you're interested, I'll announce it there.

I'm also considering making an experiment and publishing it under Prosperity license (https://licensezero.com/licenses/prosperity)
Home Depot has drywall stilts under US$100. Just sayin'
I think I can provide you with a good example. For instance, on Weekly Staff meeting team usually reviews its metrics. One of the metrics we review is a Queue Length(number of tickets at a specific stage). From the dashboard, we see that InProgress queue is growing the second week in a row. In this case, we start a fruit-full discussion on how to reduce it. If we can't find an answer on the meeting we should continue on Adhoc Topical meeting. For this meeting, we can assign a couple of people to dig deep in the topic and prepare some data and solutions for Adhoc Topical. Does it make sense to you?
Not everyone grows proportionally. Sometimes there's a condition attached such as hypochondroplasia; sometimes someone just has a longer torso than their arms and legs would suggest.
Still, you should mention it (prominently, hopefully) on your homepage.

I don't think it'd hurt your business, quite the opposite. For some people, knowing it's OSM-based may be a feature.
You'd think if it were so beautiful, there would be some photos in the article?
Obvious problem with that research: any information that was successfully contained are tautologically things we would not know about.

I completely agree with the entropy/leaking-gas analogy, and it may suggest an explanation for why information "leaks" so easily: compared to matter, the energy of information is extremely small. The energy cost of copying or moving is trivial, and easier movement implies faster diffusion.
If someone was foolish enough to still own BBRY, I think this incident should be evidence enough to get out while you can. What an incredibly stupid thing for a CEO to say.
lol, the irony. guess she was part of that 51%!
>Which is a problem because if only they could (not that the system will let them do that easily) stop and think a little further, in a little less selfish way, they'd likely figure a way to improve their living conditions.

This is a completely uninformed view of what it's like to be in this position. Everything in life for them is essentially a borderline crisis (I witnessed my parents going through this). Finding new jobs is extremely difficult so you have to make major compromises to keep your current one. This is even more important when you can't build any savings to cushion the impact of unemployment.

What exactly do you think they can do to "stop and think a little further"? This might be an option if you have no family to support, but otherwise it's a ridiculous notion.
GTA is a sandbox game. If violence against virtual women is all you do in it and that concerns you, I would highly recommend seeing a psychologist to find help.
HTTPS does not break caches; that's FUD. Browsers can cache
HTTPS pages just fine

Yes, but caching by intermediaries is a very important part of HTTP caching, and HTTPS effectively breaks that, does it not?
Practical experimentation doesn't equate to rocket use at all if someone fundamentally believes that rockets are not the way forward. e.g. We don't try to launch things to other solar systems with sling shots, but that doesn't mean we aren't doing practical experimentation.
I've raised and trained working line German Shepherd Dogs (GSD's) most of my adult life. The degree of communication you can have with a dog is sometimes incredible. Yes, they tell you what they want and figure out ways to communicate what they need. Very soon you develop a mutual "language" of sorts. We use hand signals for everything (as well as spoken commands). So I can be at a really noisy outdoor setting and tell them what to do without uttering a word.

They also learn which member of the family is best for each need. For example, they learned that cuddling-up with my young daughter is always a sure bet, they rarely ask my oldest son for that level of attention.

There's also the empathy. I've seen some amazing things, like a female GSD jumping up on the bed to cuddle-up with my wife when she got a phone call with bad news. It's freaky.

They know they are not allowed in my office and stop and sit or lay down at the door. But they can also read when I am receptive to them coming in for a quick hug. They actually seem to understand when I need a break. It's an amazing relationship that I couldn't do without.
Lenovo has thankfully reversed course in 2015 after customers revolted at the Vista-like "innovations" in 2014.
There are many military flight operations where the requirements of the mission preclude them being done in anything resembling a "normal workday".

I have no objection to those pilots being prescribed/issued go pills.
Thank you for your insider’s perspective. It sounds like you had a lot of bad luck. Just curious: what do you need most at this point to get your life back on track, and if it’s money, how much?
> our job's don't stop when we go home (or turn off slack) either, we are essentially paid to think and our brains do not care about the arbitrary thresholds set by 9-5

I used to believe and practice that, but that's what led to a lot of life dissatisfaction and burnout and near-burnout.

Sure, not saying I never think about my work outside work hours, but these days I start work in the morning, stop in the evening, and in general don't worry about it until the next morning. That tends to make the hours I am working much more productive, and avoids huge variance in productivity as I swing toward and away from burnout periodically.

And I say this as someone who loves programming, and did it as a hobby before I did it professionally. For a good 8 years I didn't want to touch a code editor outside of my job; I just had no creativity and desire left for my own projects after being always-on work-wise for so long. Now that I've enforced more separation between my professional and personal lives, I'm able to do it as a hobby again sometimes without being burned out on it after work is done.
>That would be tremendously unfair to working people in or around SF, especially those making $50k or less

how is it unfair to miss out on something that you were never promised/offered/entitled to in the first place? that's like saying it's unfair to ... everyone ... when a poor person wins the lottery.

>to address the core problems: a poor educational & economic outlook for both young and old

really? i thought the core problem of the homeless is that they are without a home? isn't it right there in the word?
In my experience every site I set up a physical device with offered either multiple device support or a secondary method like TOTP as a backup. Not as secure, but much more user friendly, recognizing that we are all only human.
The MacBook power adapters here (NZ) don’t have an earth pin, but my MacBooks give me vicious shocks. I always wondered if finding an earthed adapter (must be available in other countries!?) would fix this.
I can't believe they have the balls to ask that. It's too easy to accidentally imply that the company discriminates against a protected class.
> Well, I personally haven't consented to socializing the cost of anything.

This is a strange take. If you had to "consent" to laws there would be utter chaos. The places where you can pick and choose which laws apply to you have no real laws. And all of those places are dangerous and destitute. That's why laws are decided by the majority, there will always be dissenters for every law out there. Some harmless, but others that want to pillage, burn things down, and worse.

There will always be laws that you don't like, unless there's no laws at all.
Unless you have causal proof, its irresponsible for a business to use such factors in modeling outcomes.
Primitive/retro looking cool reminds me of Veblen on the "exaltation of the defective":

"...the cheap, and therefore indecorous, articles of daily consumption in modern industrial communities are commonly machine products; and the generic feature of the physiognomy of machine-made goods as compared with the hand-wrought article is their greater perfection in workmanship and greater accuracy in the detail execution of the design. Hence it comes about that the visible imperfections of the hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and on this ground their propaganda of crudity and wasted effort has been taken up and carried forward since their time. And hence also the propaganda for a return to handicraft and household industry. So much of the work and speculations of this group of men as fairly comes under the characterisation here given would have been impossible at a time when the visibly more perfect goods were not the cheaper." – Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899, p162
Let me get this straight. The chip industry wants the US government to fund rebuilding chip manufacturing plants in the US that they shipped offshore because it increased their profits. Why didn't I think of that.
> Not everyone comes into the discussion with the same context as you, and condescending to people who may not see the world the same as you in this way turns off a lot of people here who are trying to be open minded to other view points.

I’ve definitely seen people trying to share context, and they are called government-sponsored trolls by some and downvoted to oblivion. Then they get frustrated and make more sour/coarse comments and now they’re accused of not sharing context. It’s a negative feedback loop.

Just because you may not have engaged in it doesn’t mean certain opinions aren’t suppressed. (Now some will tell me those opinions are simply wrong and deserve to be suppressed. To which I have no answer. You can’t convince someone who’s already made up their mind.)
Brute force? Nothing brute force about bringing you your laptop/phone so you can unlock your password store.
I think your argument applies at least as strongly to Happy Hour.

In both cases, parameters should be picked to accommodate the preferences of as many people as possible, the experience should be set up to allow some participation by those unable to participate fully, and it should be optional in the first place.
We will become 'one' who we will be able to actually understand.
Cannabis is not a recreational drug. I am prescribed it by a physician for anxiety and depression. Please leave your 20th century Prohibitionist mindset somewhere else.
Yes, the internet promised to be a place where everybody could be an independent broadcaster, yet this turned out to be a pipe dream.
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I think companies can sponsor community projects just the way Apache was sponsored. Replacement for online email, documents and other services - in software. The ones that people can run on their own.

I think it is not a pipe dream. Some social and organizing groundwork needs to be done. :)
How about a licence with a special clause forbidding adware and/or "privacyware"?

As long as you hold copyright, you could always offer different licensing if anyone had a genuine need for it (say re-licence under GPL for some "worthy" project, or re-sell under BSD for a price).
Err, some of those are tied to stock exchange crashes, others to extended warfare periods etc. And all are tied with ever-expanding industrial production, which is another independent parameter.
> The 360 was likely the last product of theirs I will ever buy.

This kind of categorical statement always baffles me. How can you be so sure that they will never, ever release a product you might want?

You can't, so maybe you're just showing an emotional bias against a company, another thing that I find baffling.
GitLab has basic support for image diffs since v3.1 http://blog.gitlab.org/images/3_1/3.png
In America, repression is freedom.
Yes. And she still likes him. It's not an unknown fantasy.
And Microsoft revolutionized the PC industry, which has led to the generation of billions of dollars of wealth for millions of users on the entire planet.

You don't seem to be very fair in evaluating the merits of tech industries by focusing only on the bad parts of the one you don't like and the good sides of the ones you like.
> len is a holdover from earlier python

No. len is basically a multimethod.

> (you can define a method __len__ if you want…)

You have to, it's part of the length protocol, `len()` will not work if you don't. Because `len(o)` calls `o.__len__()`). If you start calling underscore-methods directly (outside of a super() access), you're heading for trouble with your coworkers.
I think the issue with the Chinese is not that the Chinese would lock them away for life (big deal) but that the Chinese were refusing to take them at all.
I wish Wikileaks would just dump the contents, and leave the analysis to the rest of the world. By doing selective "analysis" and redaction, they're basically doing exactly what they claim to be fighting.

Either release all the information, or withhold it. Don't play sides.

Oh, and while you're at it, Wikileaks? I'd love to see leaks from Russia, China, UK, Japan etc. You've been picking on the US for far too long; these other countries are no angels either.
I get the idea to publish war documents....it helps shed light on the war, might make it end sooner.

I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand it.

I don't get the publishing of diplomatic documents. I've not had time to read though the entire contents yet, but this just seems like it might CAUSE war, not end it.
Yes, but you're not getting the point. Humanity still has not learned to resolve all of its conflicts without violence.
I'm just getting betting sites tab-pops
The fact that there is even a debate means not everyone likes it, therefore, it shouldn't be forced on everyone.
Read the HN submission guidelines (at the bottom of the page); you will get better results by linking to a good story on your blog than putting up a general promotional post.
or http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/
There's definitely an interesting parallel to sports here: the 2 best teams facing each other are rarely part of the highest scoring games.

Of course, this doesn't make the games or records any less valid. I don't know much about the organizational structure of competitive Scrabble so I can't speak to the argument about "club sessions" vs tournaments but the record should be recognized regardless.

I think there's actually a bit of jealously involved here too. Top players probably wish they could play this way more often but they have rankings they need to keep.
Reminds me of the setting in Stephenson's Anathem.

A high-tech monastery would be great, except that the need for a good connection to the web pretty much kills the whole isolation idea.
what's it like working at ProPublica, and what do you do there? I've liked everything i've ever read/heard that's been produced there, and i know they've got good taste in terms of the journalists they poach from other orgs.
I love the design - did you do it in-house?
Why so, our process works very well, we are very happy with how we have streamlined it and our developers are really happy to work this way. We offer them the ability to develop skills in the other areas, if they show interest, we just don't impose unrealistic requirements on them. We would rather have a few top of the industry guys in their field that 3 guys that can do it all, but average. With our market and our clientele they demand it and we do our best to accommodate it while providing a great work environment for our developers.
If anything, it would be more fair to fire the GM. It's not uncommon elsewhere in the world for management to be fired if their team as a whole performs poorly. Being held responsible for the performance of the group as a whole incentivizes the right behavior, as long as management is empowered to do what it takes. Head coaches aren't really that empowered because they can't make personnel decisions.
Agreed, has the visual readability of a Captcha
The lack of any free or hobbyist-priced editions when everybody else was giving away their tooling for free more or less killed it off.

It is still beloved by it's acolytes and there are a handful people out there who learned Delphi 20 years ago and stubbornly refuse to use anything else. It's an uphill struggle though because no-one releases a Delphi SDK for anything anymore.
Depends upon how you use your database. If tables are a 1-to-1 representation of domain objects then you should use select *. If it isn't then you should prefer to be choosy about your columns.
There's a cost to everything, including enumerating just the fields you need from the query. When a new column is added, does a developer now need to revisit every query involving that table, update if necessary, and retest? That has a very real cost in terms of time and money, probably more than the cost of 'SELECT *', or not using an ORM.

A lot of times, the technically 'optimal' solution isn't necessarily optimal.
I'm interested in this, too. Will be wauting for answers.
Some mix of these three - IMO not much else counts:

A) Having your open source software used by lots of people who thank you for your efforts.

B) Making something that helps a lot of people in some other way.

C) Making a lot of money from it.
Their domains DNS servers were switched to cloudflare, I'd imagine that's the DNS compromise they're referring to.

Not _their_ DNS servers getting compromised.
I develop mostly on Windows and I use Sublime Text and Eclipse. I can't stand Visual Studio, it feels to clunky for web stuff to me and I miss the Sublime Text command palette. I also can't easily integrate a lot of my toolchain into it; looks like that parts getting better from the current state of the extension gallery though.
I can touch type and I have worked very hard to be a good typist. Having said that, I intentionally limit my typing to 30 wpm for several reasons. First, it has seriously helped RSI for me. About 15 years ago, I started to get warning signs that I was going to have problems. I slowed down and implemented short 2-3 second breaks every 30 or 40 seconds. I've been symptom free since then. YMMV.

More importantly, when I intentionally slowed my typing my coding improved dramatically. I went from short bursts of thinking followed by short bursts of typing, to continuous thinking. I started thinking about things that I had never considered before. Since I had time, I started to wonder if what I was typing was really the best way to solve my problem.

When I am coaching others, especially junior people with only a couple of years under their belts, I tell them to slow down. Like you, I am a huge proponent of learning to touch type properly. You should practice and refine your technique. However, I highly recommend typing slowly, steadily and calmly.
> I think it's rather unlikely that VIM and Emacs are actually the most used editors, or even among the most used.

Apparently there is enough demand for Vim key-bindings that it seems most text editors and IDE's have them available.

> The learning curve for VIM and Emacs is so high as to almost be prohibitive for what is probably the vast majority of users.

Vim is probably more widely used by developers and system admins than say... writers. If you have been able to tackle the learning curve of learning to program or learning to administer Linux then the VIM learning curve is just another day at the office.
"If you want to change finance, first understand it."

You should take your own advice.

"just a technology looking for a problem to solve"

haha thanks for the Monday morning laugh.

I'd give you a clue but you took, "corporate finance, capital market, macro economics classes, and understand government's role in currency and economy." at a US school.

You should ask yourself why, knowing it all, you don't have it all...