jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe the next pandemic response after this one should better take into the sentiment that there is sometimes no good answer to viral outbreaks that does not tank the economy.

This outbreak is a litmus test for the competency of many world leaderships. It's a sad fact that it takes a death toll in the course of a few months to cause it, but that's reality. Look at how wrong some very powerful people were in addressing the scale of the crisis. There is still a lot of unfounded optimism going around. This could potentially be highly damaging to their credibility. Maybe we will learn to be more pessimistic when it counts next time, prioritizing reality over individual liberty.

Like other natural phenomena, viruses have no qualms about diplomatic red tape, the efficiency of medical supply manufacture, or personal belief. They will keep infecting regardless.

What happens when another outbreak occurs, more deadly and/or transmissable than this one, when notions of social distancing become even less effective, and self-isolation is actually the only viable option to prevent mass deaths? Will our best-case manufacturing rate always be able to outstrip the infection rate enough, and if not how would we respond? There will probably still be many people that hang on to the belief that something can be done to save the economic structures underlying society, in the face of reality. Given even more dangerous diseases, at what point does this become false? I'm not hopeful that economic measures will always be able to solve economic crises without an economic cause, because nature doesn't care about economic models. If the only solution to prevent societal collapse in the future would be mandatory self-quarantine, regardless of whether or not we'd know this, will world leaders ever be prepared to make that call, and swiftly? This outbreak will probably not lead to the collapse of humanity in general. But with the mindset we currently have of never reacting until it's too late, which outbreak will become the one where we finally run out of options?

I sincerely hope enough of the world has embedded this into their minds and will spread this memory to future generations, and be prepared, to be in time for the next, more severe crisis.
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China: yes.

Vietnam: it's gone exponential, so no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_V...

Cuba: too early to tell.

South Korea: looks to be under control, despite having patient 31 who is the worst super spreader of covid-19 on the planet. They are a capitalist economy.

Taiwan: a capitalist country that looked to have it under control early (like Vietnam) but it now seems to have escaped and gone exponential.

So far I'd say whether a country has got it under control depended on a whether a few key individuals in power decided to enact expensive decisive and control measures immediately. (Of course in hindsight they weren't expensive compared to what was to come, but it took a lot of balls to do it nonetheless.)

The rest of us (including the USA) had to wait until most of civil society understood the risk and took action. I think that's happening on a large scale in every democratic capitalist nation now. Even if you have a Trump in power, the forces that unleashes are irresistible - everyone moves as a group to protect themselves. A hallmark of capitalist economies is they are very good at self organising. Those same forces aren't so irresistible in a non-capitalist non-democratic country, and they aren't so practised at self organisation.

We now have a benchmark for how fast that happens in the internet age. Apparently in one month you can go from zero to the bulk of population on the same page, providing the facts are reasonably clear. (The highly infectious nature of SARS-Cov-2 was pretty clear from the start. The implications of what that meant were also clear to those who understood the math - but most had to learn and that takes time.)

I find that speed kinda amazing, and it's a blessing bestowed on us by the Internet.
The documentation can be enjoyable... the spec I think should be dry as a cracker. But if you want to write enjoyable docs, write like John Carlos Baez writes math/physics paper. The enjoyability should serve the clarity. Anything else is superfluous.
As someone who was a little misguided in my early programming career, I think what attracted to me about the FP community is the general enthusiasm that they have in their craft. I don't think it's about the axis on whether if someone is "smart" or not, but if the problem space is interesting enough to devote a whole career to.
There's two authors credited. I assume Stevens maintains credit the portions that he authored, and Fall for the edits & additions.
You could argue that it's morally wrong because most other Mefi-ists assume that the rules are being followed, so breaking the rules is deceptive. But Metafilter discussions bore the hell out of me, so I don't really know what the hell they think.
In what possible way could ease of licensing be worth $29+ billion?
In case anyone thinks this is about deterring online gambling, Washington DC (the municipality, not the Federal government) has recently legalized online gambling as a type of lottery.

[ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ONLINE_GAMBLING_DC]
Everyone here can understand dilution in the context of a VC termsheet. Printing $600 billion has much the same effect: it dilutes down all other holders of currency by increasing the US government's share. QE is thus basically a massive tax -- it does not increase the real productive capacity of the economy, but puts ever more of it in government hands to allocate as they see fit.

Whether you think this is a good thing depends on whether you subscribe to Hayek or Keynes.
I would have thought this had already been tested on antiprotons, but I'm not seeing any references for it. Just a note that results from testing anti-hydrogen for gravity should be had in the next few years. Maybe containing something so charged overwhelms gravity?
...nationalities, universities, sports teams, musical genres, political movements...
I agree that the Fed is probably doing too much. I'm glad to live in Canada where central bankers act like robots and not like cowboys :)

We'll probably never know for sure if QE2 was worth it or not. It's a trade-off, let's hope that the upsides justify the downsides.

Maybe macro-economists don't really get macro-economics, but who else do we have?
I would imagine that it won't include private stuff or DMs. My guess is that, even if there is an "all your base" (as somebody gracefully put it aboe) clause in the ToS, private tweets and direct messages carry a reasonable expectation of privacy.
It isn't just "hacker types." In my experience most climbers I've met have been: programmers, engineers, biologists and doctors (sometimes a laywer will slip in.) There may be a selection bias here due to the fact that I began climbing in college and lived in Boston.

It's an extremely technical sport and the focus is on physical problem solving. Plus the rush is incredible...

(If anyone wants to climb in the UK/Europe, drop me a line. I can follow mildly hard and weaksauce lead.)
I agree that 'starting a company' is the first step, but I disagree that inertia takes over.

If that is what the author is relying on, I'd say he is more likely jumping out of a plane without a parachute, a landing zone, or any idea how he is going to get back to civilization.

Inertia in business only has an effect if you are continually putting in efforts and those efforts sometimes multiply to create inertia. But like riding a bike, if you stop pedaling, you'll coast for a bit before it all comes to a hault.
Gist has been great for me in keeping track of the business and volunteer contacts. I feel smarter and better informed during business conversations from using it, it finds a lot of things i previously had to research before meetings automatically. I haven't even given it all the information that it presumably would like[1] and have a distinctly suboptimal (for it, not for me) usage pattern[2], and it still does a wonderful job.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

[1] it correctly divines that i'm not giving it all the information about my email accounts -- i limit it to my business emails.
[2] i don't log in except when i need its information, basically. presumably the firefox integration would fix this, but i use chrome regularly.
I didn't read all the comments, but I did see a few people mentioned boats. I was going to say that there are many, many, many layouts for small, mobile, livable spaces such as RVs, motorboats, and sailboats. Given that many are more creative and better done than this example (straight line), I'm not too impressed. In fact, I don't like the openness--it looks too much like ... a school bus.

I do like some of the details, such as the ceiling lighting and the modular bed/storage. But the kitchen and dining and bathroom areas are uninspired. I much prefer the little U-shaped kitchens in modern sailboats, where everyting is easily reachable. Also, if I had such a project, I wouldn't be constrained by the existing ceiling either: I'm thinking a pop-top loft sleeping area or a roof terrace with interior ladder/staircase access.

Not to be overly negative, but I don't see the connection to architecture here. There are a few tenous links, such as the shape of the ceiling (dictated by the bus) and the thought that went into the bed-storage. But all the rest seems more like rough out interior design (fit and finish of the furniture)--and the unfinished bathroom and kitchen aren't appealing at all. I do think he got a lot done for a short project, but is it architecture?
Personally on stack ranking at MS I'd probably settle for ending some of the worst practices. Even Google's stack ranking don't have some of the problems of the one used by MS.
The only thing that matters about your coworkers––the only thing––is if, after the year's over or the project's done, you'd work with them again. If a team is doing good work and everyone on it enjoys working with each other, do not fuck with it.

Everyone in life has disagreements, petty jealousies, things they struggle with in other people. The beauty of the question, Would you work with her or him again?, is that it specifically doesn't try to disentangle those things––because to a productive team the quality its members' relationships with each other as important as the quality of their work. If one or the other is off, it's not necessarily anyone's fault, and it may not even be cause for termination. But it's as good a metric as you need.

But it's utterly foolish to winnow on a percentage basis. You'll break up good teams and prevent better ones from forming. You'll destroy morale. You'll encourage a leadership culture of cutthroat sociopaths whose success is at best tangentially related to the quality of their work. Do not do it.
You mean what sort of relationship between alcohol and death do I propose? One that isn't a neat mathematical line for sure, particularly since it seems possible that moderate amounts of alcohol are actually beneficial.

If the relationship were linear, then you could spread that 500 milliliters out over 100 days and see the same effect, which is plainly ludicrous. The rate of alcohol consumption plays a large role, a single binge can kill you, slow and steady drinking can plausibly extend your life. A single extra drink is also going to do way more harm to a long-term alcoholic than it will to a young healthy Mormon; that Mormon is at absolutely no chance at getting cirrhosis, the risk to the alcoholic is non-zero.

The relationship between alcohol and mortality is something that you could probably fill damn near half a medical library with. "half a liter is a micro-mortality" is silly oversimplified nonsense. It might work for radiation exposure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model) but it is nonsense for alcohol.
I've heard of it, but the only reason you would bother with server-side javascript is if you were writing for the browser and had of browser-side javascript code to work with also. Does anyone choose javascript just because it is the best language from a productivity standpoint...for an application completely unrelated to the browser?
That doesn't work. People eat when they are hungry, if someone is hungry when he doesn't actually need food, he'll still eat.

Telling people not to eat isn't going to work.

For some, small, subset of people it might work. Emotional eaters, or people who make really poor choices of what food. But for most people who are trying to lose weight your advice is useless because it doesn't work.
Curious what made you go this route rather than say a more full featured framework (Django/Rails)? Just based on assumptions, was it the ability to specify each of your preferred components?
on the other hand sometimes protections are (were) lame. I remember probably 16-18 years ago "cracking" a CAD software worth thousands of dollars by just modifying the script used for the installer: the software was using a protection scheme based on some hard drive serial number, so that the activation code cannot be reused on a different system. The problem (for them) is that they implemented this in the installer too and the installer was using some kind of simil-VB scripting for doing the check. I modified it to print the activation code instead of just verifying it and pronto the installer became a keygenerator :D

It had been a great satifaction..
Are all of the dates within this site dynamic? If so that's genius as it will never need to be updated again unless APIs change.
> If the condescension of "Silly me, should have stayed in Russia" is kosher

It most certainly is not kosher. It's the sort of acerbic swipe that is far too common here and erodes the discourse to the next level down. But it wasn't a personal attack. That is the next level down.

If I don't comment on every acerbic swipe, don't think it's because they're ok. I wince every time I see one. But to comment on them all is impossible, and one would lose one's marbles if one tried. So personal attacks are where we explicitly draw the line.

My hope for the culture of HN is that more people wake up to how the acid in their comments destroys this community. As someone who used to make such comments myself, I realize that it's often unintentional, more careless than malevolent. If people can figure out that pollution is bad in some places, maybe we can figure out that it's bad in this one.

It would be good if many of us reminded each other not to do this. One moderator can't cut it.
I think the idea is that this worked for Phelps because he was in cold water all day, and this is what the vest is trying to replicate in a way that will fit in more easily with most peoples' lives.
When I took mine, they were exactly what they were commonly considered - cram-fests to get out of some first-year coursework and bump up your grades.

I still wish I'd taken more; I could have gotten out of more dull first-year classes.
Still surprised people use incrementing ints for ids over uuids for web apis that may become immense.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt

uuids are made just for this purpose, string based, never bigger than 40 characters (with dashes and curly braces).

Most products use uuids or Microsoft's name for them guids.
My comment on potential benefits: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1894277

Rest of that thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1893686
This is true sometimes. Other times it is used because fixing the problem exposes far larger systematic flaws that relied on the bug, changing a simple fix into a massive refactoring project.

I think the position you put forward however is often a mask for fear. People don't like change, particularly when they don't understand what is going on already. It is a sunk-cost fallacy. They invested a bunch of effort in learning the old way, which they didn't fully understand, but apparently it worked, so the accepted it. Now a new way comes along, claiming to be better, but once again, they don't understand it fully, so they just see it as an attack on the way they had been doing stuff -- which in a lot of people's minds translates to an attack on them. When this happens they start justifying "It was fine the old way, I don't see why they had to change it.". Those with some foresight then start saying "if it ain't broken don't fix it" when a change is coming down the pipe. This causes people who can see the benefit of the change to write articles like the one we're commenting on.
That doesn’t make the phrase useful. It’s a catch-all phrase, often dropped without any arguments backing it up, vilifying any change to any working system.

There are good reasons why you sometimes really shouldn’t change working systems (you mentioned one), but then you shouldn’t use that phrase and leave it at that. Say something like “Changing the system in the proposed way at this time would be bad because of reasons A, B and C.” or something similar. Don’t take “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” as a self-evident truth.
So, if you want to download and build it, here's the page:

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/build.wiki

The prebuilt images are labelled as 'snapshots', and or you can "Select a version of of fossil you want to download" to build from source with no guidance on what version would be a good idea to use.

Maybe everything is stable? Who knows.
I've only visited there from Raleigh and never followed through with finding a job. Probably wouldn't be our cup of tea, overall.

However, the map for Wake County confirms the mass influx of people that have been moving to the area as of late (well, in the past decade):

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...
I'm not an expert on Stoicism, having read just a little bit about it. I do find it provides a helpful framework for developing and maintaining a bit of perspective, and in reducing anxiety, both of which I've always struggled with.

For example, in the context of HN: although I often find the content here inspiring, it can also be intimidating and discouraging. When I read about software engineers making $200k+, five times what I make, it makes me feel as though I've failed, or that I'm not cut out for the profession. Similarly, when I see the amazing projects, startups, and other technical achievements here, I often feel discouraged because I don't feel like I'll ever achieve that.

Stoicism focuses on what you have, not what you want. Negative visualization teaches us to appreciate the present: What if I lost the job I have? What if I lost my wife, my family? What if I'm badly injured and can't work at all? In that context, I can appreciate my job, even if it's not as good a job as I want. After all, I get paid enough to cover my bills, to sit in a squishy chair and think and solve puzzles. This helps relieve the anxiety I generate by foolishly measuring my self-worth by the yardstick of others' achievements. Ironically, this doesn't rob me of my ambition to improve my lot. Instead, I find that when I am calm and content, I have the energy and focus to do the studying and practice that I believe are necessary to do so. And most importantly: in the meantime, I've given myself permission to be happy today, not on the day in the future when I reach the ever-moving goalposts. Just as you would "bus-proof" a software development effort, you'll benefit from bus-proofing your happiness by appreciating what you have today.
I think "Fluent" is another word for compromized. The design has to fit in with all of the previous generations of design (which don't get updated) as well as 3rd party platforms like iOS and Android.
Didn't Europe banned neonics? Is there any data showing a recovery?
Welcome to the end of truth and fact.
The article does mention...

> Consider a meta-analysis of 39 studies in 2007 by Sam Houston State University in Texas that found a ‘clear, consistent association’ between using avoidance-based coping strategies (that is, staying away from upsetting stressors or avoiding thinking about them) and increased psychological distress.

... BUT the operative word is "associated" not "caused"
I wonder how much this has to do with an increase in people knowing that there exists a system to complain about poop, versus the actual increase of poop itself.
While I was there, we used to joke that the claimed strategy was “launch and iterate” but the career strategy was “launch and leave”.

It’s made worse by internal churn. An unstaffed service will blow up pretty quickly (because someone in infra wanted to go for promo) so you either have to justify staffing a project indefinitely or kill it gracefully.
I'm not sure about this specific tree, but the problem with similar trees is that the roots grow too much under the sidewalk and raise and destroy it. They are even forbidden to be planted in the sidewalk in some places. Also, the trunks and the aerial roots form a big messy block that is 6 foots wide and make the sidewalk unusable.
Yes, I see this as healthy turnover, the circle of life. I can testify that every main project I worked on when at Google is gone now except Chrome, the last thing I coded for. However, I don't think my time on other stuff was wasted.

Each of those previous projects shipped and did something useful for the public and helped Google in some way, like providing technical research or laying down infrastructure later used by other projects that still exist. At the very least something got killed because the team was needed on a high priority project, where they made a big difference.
This is a bigger move than I thought they'd do. Props to VW.
Ah yeah I think you are correct, AVS is sometimes required. Sorry for the confusion.
This is a great question, thank you for asking!

Initially a few teams around the org had folks investigating poor performance from different perspectives of the applications that were observing issues. Once it was clear that it wasn’t the applications themselves or their configuration at fault, the team that runs our Kubernetes infrastructure started collating information together (in github issues) and getting to the point of having a clear repro (the Vegeta test) and what to look out for. This was the slowest part of the process because we needed to understand that something non-application-level was going on (and because “random network latency” is a very difficult thing to narrow down) - it probably took on the order of months from the first sign of an issue to fixing all the other issues that were contributing to small amounts of latency and being sure we still had an underlying problem to find.

At that point it became clear that something more low level was going on, we put together a focus team from a selection of teams to investigate the underlying cause - that was a group of about 5 engineers actively working on it, with another 5-10 interested engineers following along and helping out. Folks were typically working in pairs or solo to dive in to different potential leads, looping in everyone else in Slack as they go. Most of the work here was finding signal in the noise, we found a lot of other smaller system-level issues along the way that got ruled out and/or low priority to fix. There were other DNS related issues at play, fixing those also improved things, but not the specific underlying issue in the post here. Going down the specific path in the post took just a few days once the first few steps showed something was wrong at the packet level. The remediation from there was also just a few days, because we already had infrastructure in place to detect a known issue and mitigate in a safe/graceful way. The focus team was working on this as a primary task for around a few weeks overall.