jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> 3/ people are oversaturating ICU right now. And as such, it is an emergency situation.

From what I can gather chloroquine is already used as a first line treatment in Italian hospitals (at least it is indicated as such by the COVID treatment guidelines published by the society of Italian infectious disease specialists [0], and has been for quite some time - this document is from 10 days ago, but an earlier revision was not different regarding chloroquine). If this is the case, it's pretty clear that this is no miracle cure - it has at best a marginal effect.

[0] http://www.simit.org/medias/1569-covid19-vademecum-13-03-202...
I just checked, non essential items are all planned for april 21st, I'm in berlin.
It isn't vitamin C. It has a lot of side effects, including serious psychiatric ones in limited cases. If you give it to 100 people you're going to get new health issues that you didn't have before in that population.
It's a well known drug. We already know the side effects.
In 2 weeks, 3MM will file for initial unemployment claims. That’s almost 5x more than the previous weekly record of ~650k. Unemployment rate will reach 10% in a month, the fastest it got to 10% ever.

All this will propagate to a full year of negative GDP growth each quarter. Economists are predicting GDP to grow in Q3 and Q4, but that was as of last week and every data point becomes stale every day.

Trump will be re-elected- not because he did anything remarkable during all this, but because the naturally progression of the virus will make it SEEM like he did it.

By 3 years, many more jobs will be outsourced. We think all this technology will help a WFH culture, and it will... just in homes/offices in other countries.

2 US airlines will go bankrupt and/or United and American will merge.

Schools will remain virtual after summer vacation of 2020.

Olympics will be canceled.

Longer term: Amazon will reach a $2T valuation by 2023. This won’t mean necessarily that their business will double in output- asset price inflation will be a big factor.

By 2030 rural fly over cities will develop enough infrastructure to displace the largest cities today and we will see a big migration to new cities.
It's mentioned separately, but not giving any further reasons:

> A global data safety monitoring board will look at interim results at regular intervals and decide whether any member of the quartet has a clear effect, or whether one can be dropped because it clearly does not. Several other drugs, including the influenza drug favipiravir, produced by Japan’s Toyama Chemical, may be added to the trial.

I'm not finding the original statement/source from WHO, I'm sure they gives more reasons there around why some drugs are not included (yet)
Ground transportation is so much larger of an emitter that drops in commuting have a bigger effect.
this is very reasonable in terms of flippa and other tools. in terms of 3 different languages - each is good in its own way. i would agree that rails could be totally replaced with node. but overall picking the right tool for each specific problem allows to move faster. you probably know how many languages are used at the backend of github, google, twitter etc.
Like what though - if you have enough information to generate a social graph, and you have access to the firehose, then you're going to be have what you need. Social scientists will often use a sample set as a very acceptable proxy for full data set analysis (http://www.insna.org/PDF/Connections/v18/1995_I-1-9.pdf)

There's little evidence that the Twitter guys have come up with an outstandingly amazing reputation algorithm and that this niche has been filled. The opaqueness of Klout doesn't fill me with confidence that their methodology is valid or truly meaningful.
Why?

What's so special about a username + password combination vs. an openid?

Users, of facebook for example, will still provide facebook with their name, their phone number, their email address, their birthday, etc. Not to mention the torrent of information from photos, friends lists, likes, and posts. Consider that any site offering password recovery to an email address already effectively delegates user identity and verification to another site (the email provider).
hackety hack is different from etoys & scratch.

By following your point scratch should have not been created because etoys existed.
Or etoys, since morphic existed.

Oh wait: and hackety hack is at least a couple of years older than scratch, according to wikipedia.
Dallas is an inspiration to me, and I think his story would be inspirational to a many in the HN community.

Nobody gave him permission to be a children's book author. He decided to just go for it. He wrote the book, published it himself, and put it for sale on his website. He didn't seek a book deal. He bootstrapped.

He didn't buy advertising. He got in his car and drove around the country doing readings at schools, libraries, and hospitals, handing out free copies to lots of kids. He made a product that people wanted, put it in their hands, and those people evangelized the product for him. It reminds me of AirBnB's talk at Startup School this year, how they traveled from door to door, meeting their users face to face to promote their business.

I don't think he wrote the book with the hopes of selling a buttload of units, but rather because he wanted his son, and other kids, to read it. It's a happy accident that somehow he ended up selling a buttload of units. For every book he sells, he gives a copy away for free through the Awesome World Foundation.
This is the part I never understood about Maxwell's Demon:

> If the demon itself doesn’t use up any energy (which can be done), entropy would decrease, right?

Would anyone care to explain? Energy isn't spent moving the door around? (Particularly since the demon has to make sure the fast-moving molecules don't go right back through it... though I suppose with a sufficiently large box for fast-moving molecules, this may not happen...)
I read it through feeds and keep checking every 3-4 hours. This gives me time to do others things as well. As of now, not very active in discussions, but trying to hop in.
I wonder why anyone would use such a passive-aggressive construction in their writing.

Believe it or not, most people do not study copyright law for years in order to develop opinions about what activity should be infringing.

Really?

Anyway, I don't think you can disregard the point by pointing out (quite correctly IMO) that copyright law is a pile of crap. I think in general, Internet mobs are pro-piracy of songs/movies, but in this case these people saw something massively wrong with what is basically piracy of someone's article. Staying away from the legal side, what moral/ad-hoc/intuitive basis do you think the people had for making this distinction?
Fast doesnt do upload
I suspect if one did look at the statistics, construction workers who are victim of human trafficking do not generally end up with wife's/husbands that write on HN. A social study about what happen to those people would likely be a quite depressing read.
I refuse to maintain abusive relationships, and I hold technology to similar standards as humans.

So, if I hear that you rummage through people's address books and personal things, I don't deal with you anymore. If I come to you looking for an article, but you present me with ads or cookie banners or newsletter modals or paywalls, I just leave. Whatever you have is not worth it. If you do things without my consent, I avoid dealing with you anymore. If you think my browser or equipment is not good enough for your site, I turn around and leave.

It's been remarkably fruitful for me, as I noticed that those types of sites or properties also typically have low-quality content.
> the more I believe the courts practically seek out these sick fucks to be "caregivers" and such

I suspect its worse than that. I suspect courts don't care if the caregiver is a sick fuck, because the sick fuck is offering to fix the problem of a disabled person existing with needs.
My experience with Spectrum is that they allow a large accumulation of in-transit packets when traffic rate is near the provisioned capacity. Some people call this "buffer bloat".

Some background:
If you study traffic shaping, you'll discover that TCP behaves poorly if packets are simply dropped when throughput approaches the limit (congestion collapse). So traffic shaping usually _delays_ packets rather than dropping, at least initially. This works in that TCP backs off its send rate gracefully and throughput approaches the provisioned limit. However you've now introduced a large delay into every packet's transit through the shaper box. This isn't a problem for bulk TCP flows -- they work ok in the presence of latency but it is problematic for unrelated latency sensitive traffic (e.g. UDP, SSH). To work around this problem traffic shaping usually introduces some notion of delay per flow. This can be done in a few different ways e.g. RED (random early detection), or per-flow queues.

Ok so back to Spectrum: my experience has been that their shaper box does not do anything good as far as per-flow queues, RED etc. It seems pretty basic and dumb. The result is that latency approaches infinity as throughput approaches the provisioned limit.

I work around this by deploying my own shaping on my edge router. Through experiment, I have configured it to limit at just below the threshold where Spectrum begins severely delaying my traffic. I use RED on my router to give good latency for traffic unrelated to bulk flows. You'll need a router capable of traffic shaping, e.g. Mikrotik, Linux iptraf, Cisco IOS.
crypto solves this
I was being a little bit glib there. The judge did not literally ask me if I was guilty and I did not literally take the fifth. What she did was ask whether the thing the cop claimed to have seen, which he could not possibly have seen, nonetheless actually happened, and I said I could not remember because it had happened more than a year ago.

It was a very weird situation from a moral point of view because on the one hand, finding me guilty was not supported by the evidence, but on the other hand, letting me get off scot-free would have been even more unjust because the fact of the matter is that I did commit a fairly serious moving violation, and the only reason we were in court at all was that the cop decided to cut be a break and then took a long time to do the paperwork.
> Still, the "upper class" category lumps together the merely wealthy (smallish business owners, the most successful professionals) with the extremely rich, and all possibilities in-between.

It also lumps in the high-income earners with the high-net worth people (the ones everyone thinks of when they say "rich").
You can see the proposed pricing, ingredients, and a bit of the supporting philosophy. Seems like enough to get some feedback.
Rule 3 is what managers are for. The engineers will want to work on cool features or challenging problems, not the most urgent ones.
This. Although I have a bit of a sweet tooth, for a meal replacement (as opposed to a treat) 25grams (two tablespoons) is quite a bit of sugar. The fiber might offset it a bit but finding a better balance between the two would make me more likely to buy the product.
Amazing, thank you Sujan.
From the abstract, I gather this is a solid "maybe, maybe not".
Everything I needed to learn about corporate psychology I learned from ribbonfarm:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Not to be confused with the number that hung java: http://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-...
Or the other number that hung PHP: http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-...

Pre-auth DoS may result.
> it should lose the case, not win it.

Problem is... the government is not even a party to the case! They can't win or lose; they're like the guy objecting at someone else's wedding.
I don't think IBM is gonna convince many developers to build applications on top of Watson, as open-source has never been in the top of their list.

My gut tells me IBM just needs some independent developers to develop some apps and then be acquired( as in that point they'd have no choice).

I may be wrong, but I'd rather not take that chance as I work on my projects.
I would be extremely surprised -- and skeptical, actually -- if there is a USDS with its own budget, but the agency teams serving under the secretary. There would be two masters there, and that's just fertile breeding ground for major frustration. (This is also not how inter-unit embeds work in the military, which is what colors my perspective.)

Regarding pay, I dunno. Based on quotes from this[1] article, the pay scale seems to cap out at GS15 Step 10 which is ~132k. Now obviously this is still a lot of money but if I'm reading between the lines of his quotes right, this is the most an engineer can make w/ USDS without bumping up to SES (Senior Executive Service) levels. Not to say that's substantively less than industry salaries, but they definitely are paying government salaries (by definition).

As far as dissolution, I'm talking more from the perspective of attracting & retaining top talent. With a private sector startup, you trade job security for potentially out-sized payoff. But here... Anyway, point being I think the risks should be articulated well.

[1] http://fcw.com/articles/2014/10/27/red-tape-holding-back-hir...
In India whatsapp is ubiquitous my whole family uses it my college uses it to send information all my friends use it using a alternative would be ideal but convincing people to not use whatsapp is a fool's errand here
Is there a possibility that we (us at hn, pro-privacy) are all just paranoid and the worst case scenarios we can imagine are never really going to happen ?

I am a heavy advocate of privacy and the main driving factor for these conversations in my friend/family circle. Trying to get people to a different platform since 2 years now (they did and came back), so now I wonder if I am just wasting time really for a apocalypse that was never going to happen.
Imagine a government that treated the law with such respect, that every single law was always enforced to a “T”.
Our government haphazardly enforces the law and so disrespects it.
However with the number of laws we have I’d probably be scared to see them all enforced to a “T”.
Though it could be argued our disrespect for the law caused us to write so many laws.

Trump is a power hungry man it seems. He’d even break the highest constitutional law of the land if he could get away with it, and not relinquish power.
However good thing we’ve respected and kept the 2nd amendment law of the land, so there is a force who will not allow him to break that law of the land.
Weirdly enough though Trump is taking a play from the “who cares if we don’t follow the constitution” crowd.

Will the constitution lovers prove to be hypocrites, and be fine with breaking it here?
Will those who have argued for unconstitutional laws to be passed via the Supreme Court be annoyed, when his newly elected scota judges reinterpret the constitution to let him remain president?

Let’s hope that he elected judges who take the constitution written as is so he is firmly booted out of his office without the government to back him Or else it smells like a civil war. Not the North and South this time, but probably rural vs city, across all states.
That is a scary thought.
You completely nailed it there.

Perfect example is reddit banned "the donald" sub and they went on to create thedonald.win. It is now the 430th largest website in the USA per Alexa.
> We all know what the real reason is.

Is there a name for this sort of phrasing where the speaker pussyfoots around the point instead of clearly stating it?
Twitter gets a lot of their value from all sorts of official accounts, many of which are government agencies. E.g. the last time I applied for a passport, Twitter was the only support channel available (they had a "live chat" page on their website as well, but it was broken). That's not right - what if I'd been subject to one of Twitter's arbitrary bans?
> Their infra is generating those encryption certificates, so WhatsApp can very well decode the message and store it for further processing.

This is incorrect. The sender's device generates the key with which it encrypts outgoing messages. WhatsApp's infra cannot see the content of any messages sent.

(Source: ex-WhatsApp employee)
Wonderful! I've got one of these things and love it, but hate the classes and never do anything but Just Ride while I watch the news. Seems silly to be paying $40 a month, so at some point I want to find a way to get my stats without a connection to a Peloton server.
I stupidly accepted this. How can I decline it?

Edit: Just did a comparison of all the data collected by Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram

Telegram - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/telegram-messenger/id686449807
WhatApp - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997
Signal - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874...

WhatApp collect a stupid amount of data. Its time for me to shift.
I'm glad you put the time and effort to look into some of the reasons they used in their decision to not implement it, particularly those mentioned in the article.
Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it. The publisher said of somebody, "That man will get on; he believes in himself." And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written "Hanwell." I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
chesterton
That's true. I already host my domains with the requisite DKIM/SPF CNAME entries, and I supposed I could just export the mailboxes periodically.
Like Sandstorm?
Would internal use have even been legal if the decision had gone Oracle's way?
The sentence looks like the author started a thought but didn't finish it. I doubt moocowduckquack was taking a cheap shot at the grammar so much as wondering if the author didn't finish the thought.
> 95% of the stuff he released was not needed

It is my personal opinion (and the intent of the FOIA and laws regarding classification) that everything should be released unless it is damaging, which almost nothing Manning released could have been. The fact that the US government hasn't been able to point to a single death resulting from Manning's leaks implies to me that everything he released should have been public to begin with.

You say that "95% of the stuff he released was not needed". I would argue that 95% of it needed to be released.
It is based on a lot of experience running Hackathons. I chose not to elaborate much further on the reasoning in the article to keep it to the point. Ultimately the cost of running hackathons for the limited scale of developers that you reach at anyone time could be best spent in many many more ways.

The Hackathon rarely wins the customer, and it is not sustainable as a practice often due to cost and ROI is near impossible to determine.
About three months ago I wanted to download the original of a video I had uploaded to Youtube since I had lost my local copy and it was sentimental. I was unable to even access the video without first creating a Google+ account, I was unable to download my data and cancel my Youtube account without first creating a Google+ account. I went to Google Takeout and removed everything, and cancelled. (Note: This was a business account that I was paying for, not a free account. I felt as if my data was being held hostage despite me paying for the storage and usage costs.)
> If there's a lot more index fund money than hedge fund / active money it would probably mess with prices, right?

No, assets under management is irrelevant to price discovery. Trading is what sets prices not holding stocks. According to a 2018 Vanguard paper index funds only made up around 5% of trading volume despite holding about 50% of assets. So active managers are still responsible for 95% of price discovery even if they hold only 50% of assets.

https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGBEL.pdf
I herd that.
I am an undergraduate student with prior research experience (in compilers/programming languages) looking primarily for a summer internship.

Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: Willing

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Heavily use Rust. Familiar with C, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Pyret. Focusing on compiler construction and type systems but have some experience with React, basic database management, and garbage collectors.

Resume: (PDF) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rsJPiHusRNuL0eGSMaF7gVCFyo...

Email: amv036@ucsd.edu

GitHub: https://github.com/InnPatron
Yes, exactly. Rust already allows for switching global allocators through `#[global_allocator]`. But now also allows plugging allocators inline through the allocator-api methods.

I'd imagine something similar could be introduced for threadpools / runtimes.
I managed to get it to load by disabling the Brave browser's shields (lion icon in address bar).
Yes, from a fire safety standpoint, more partitions in the building are generally a good thing, especially when they consist of actual rated fire-resistant firewalls (physical firewalls not the "iptables" kind). It's amazing just how effective a firewall can be. I've been to structure fires before where you can basically say in the aftermath "everything on the 'fire' side of the firewall is rubble now, and everything on the other side is completely (or almost completely) intact". Of course you can still get some smoke and water damage, and even a good firewall can be breached if the fire burns long enough. But generally speaking, they help a lot.

And even a closed door in a residential building can slow things down enough to make the difference between life and death. This is why the fire service encourages people to sleep with their bedroom doors closed and to have a smoke detector near said bedroom door.

The downside to a heavily partitioned building, especially a very large building, is that it may become a maze that is hard to exit, and lots of doors between different areas slightly increase the risk that somebody will have a brain-fart and lock/chain doors that should never be locked, or otherwise do something that effectively traps people inside. Note to everybody: never chain/lock/barricade a door that must be used to exit a building in an emergency, in such a way that it can't be opened from the inside.
Because I didn't read the full article yet, because it's super long and it's morning and I haven't had coffee and I'm getting ready for work.

I did read a little bit to see if it's worth reading later, and was really annoyed by its loaded language, and wanted to point it out to people who might not notice otherwise. Seems like, for the most part, at least right now, people agree with me.

Also I can't even go back to read it now if I wanted to, since it's now serving a 503 after being slammed with traffic, I assume.
I've had paystubs that enumerate what the employer is paying for different benefits, like health insurance or short term disability (US midwest). There is no standard in the US.

When I worked at a university, they made a big deal about how they contributed 10% of your income into a retirement plan. Unfortunately it had a cliff vesting cycle that I never got close to meeting. (another scam that employers use to pay you less)