skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They had a theory that removing her gallbladder would cure her, but she refused.

Um, it's not a theory--it really works most (>90%) of the time. The gallbladder is generally the site of the chronic salmonella infection that couldn't be treated before antibiotics.

Now, whether you want to have surgery back in a time before antibiotics is an independent problem.
Not discouraging at all - that's a very valid point! Funnily enough, I wanted to try implementing an OO language because they are popular... I use them a lot, which makes it important for me to understand how they work.
You have to look at the CFR(case fatality rate) and how wide it will be spreading.

For flu, case fatality rate is usually <0.1% [1].
As comparison, SARS in 2003 is 15% [2].
This time it's still developing (17 of 444 as of today[3]) so hard to know for sure, but nature of this 2019-nCoV virus is close to SARS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic

[2] https://www.who.int/csr/sars/archive/2003_05_07a/en/

[3] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/22/c_138727379.htm
>You always need to pay for like 40% of the house to start a mortgage anyway

What does this mean exactly? Even these days (i.e. post-2008), you can get a loan on a primary residence with 3% down. Closing costs are comparatively minimal. Where does the other 37% come from?
What if the terrorists were intelligence agencies? How would we stop them?
What are locking headers?
Thank you!

I checked here https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=New+Hartfor... - looks like all other `New Hartford` have type "node" in the database, which doesn't give boundaries of the cities.

We are thinking about fallback here: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7 but what might work better in short term: try entering a county name, and then zoom in onto the place. It is not as convenient as having a city boundaries, sorry about that.
They did make it slightly shorter I think.
Chaos Monkey is a tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures
I wonder how much of this is due to safety, and if size expansion is due to safety, whether it’s a matter of trying to be in a bigger car than the other guy. Is there an ideal car size or will cars grow forever?
> Wherever the expression originated, it diffused quite rapidly. By the 20th century, so long became a common expression of farewell—and no one knows how it happened.

"How it happened" is a hallmark hard problem in studying human language — whether from linguistics, anthropology, neuro-cognitive sciences, art, philosophy...

The gist of the question is this: is language solely "within us" and we "trade it" and evolve it as we communicate; or do the complexity and distribution of its "existence" give the phenomena a "life of its own", so to speak. (it then breaks your mind exponentially to notice that e.g. "math" is also but a language)

Claude Lévi-Strauss famously thought that humans were too 'dumb' to master language and we were mostly rehashing bits and parts of premade sentences, things we'd heard or read before, with slight analog variations (a minor form of what he called "memes", the idea of "cultural genes", memory+gene). He was proved dead wrong by neuroscience a few decades later, we do "think" the language; but the concept of "memes" remained in anthropology (well before, and hopefully after, the homonymous but only loosely related internet-slang-designated .gif phenomena).

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Recently I heard Jeff Hawkins on Lex Fridman's AI podcast with this interesting suggestion: that e.g. "science" is a distributed super-intelligence. A "thing" which evolves, grows, meets problems, adapts, finds solutions, structures itself internally and in relation to its environment, has external effects in the form of technology and thinking, etc.

I found the view fascinating.

Each scientist as a tiny part of the whole, very limited in spacetime, can never "see" or "think" at the same level that "science" does as a collective organ-ization (alt. organ-ism). Science is in effect much bigger than anyone; it actually survives and endures even better than states or corporations; it may even "cross over" to be furthered by children or allied species of ours, long after or own demise. Science is a "thing" and it's damn smart, perhaps even smarter than any and all of us in some sense, because it never ceases to carry the "intelligence" put into it by giants whose shoulders we stand on in all presents, past and future.

In some sense, science is at times even too big, too grown, too much for us individually. (notice: that's precisely the concept carried by "super")

____

Is "language" such a collective, distributed "thing" with a life of its own?

Writing this, I wonder. What happens when languages meet? Do they recognize each other? Do they battle? Do they communicate and exchange knowledge? Do they mate, engender hybrids? And what would our "science" do when it meets the science of aliens?

I find this great food for thought, in generally questioning "intelligence" and its manifestations.
I used to barely fit in the NA but I can't squeeze into any of the later models without amputating my legs. I'm not sure how they did it because otherwise I'd be first in line to buy another.
Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal
The "well fare" system, AKA putting people on the take, and it's latest iteration "universal free money" are exceptionally powerful control structures.
Do you guys think it would be worth removing the foot paths? Someone here proposes to remove them altogether: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/3 - I'm not sure yet which direction would make more sense?
Smart.

While everyone is trampling over each other to get into the tiny little door (the SaaS/FAANG/npm/golang/frontend/iOS scene), they found the smaller side door that no one else is taking.

Delphi is good for ordinary line-of-business software, all the boring back office software that people take for granted in first world countries.
I am driving a 2007 VW Golf. You could make it easily 15 cm smaller by cutting off the center console between the front seats without sacrificing any safety. Of course, the rear bench would be comfortable for 2 only, but that already applies to it as it is. So one could design nice 4 seated cars - especially if they are designed electric only, removing most of the need for the center console, as there is no gear shifting.
Funny. I wonder if the similar visual styles led me to connect the two despite not even remembering what exactly the terrain height mapping one was.

Now I feel kind of silly suggesting to this person a great idea that was actually...their own.
Please just take it out back and shoot it.
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully upgraded their phone?
I wonder if anyone here has managed a successful hardware upgrade of their phone?

The things that come to my mind are:

* camera (provided there's a better model with the same electrical interface)

* CPU (provided there's a higher performance one with the same pinout)

* RAM (provided it's not a PoP SoC or not otherwise integrated to the CPU)

* Flash ROM (seems straightforward, but haven't heard of that, too)

or anything else, really.

Failing that, any steps you tried to that end, but failed?

I googled around, but failed to find any quality discourse on this topic at all.
I'm not capable of calculating scale of lego but just to fit one lego guy inside and being able to open up sections of the modules with hinges would be enough.
IE6 was a very good browser when it came out in 2001. People forget how the landscape looked at that time: Netscape 6 was utter garbage, Firefox was still years away and Opera was a tiny, largely unknown niche browser that did cost money and was plagued by incompatible websites which were optimized for IE.

It's just that MS ceased investing more than the absolute minimum into their browser after releasing IE 6 - it took until 2009 until a MS browser passed the Acid2 compatibility test.
I concur. I love my Panasonic CF-C2. Among the features you haven't mentioned, it has a 3-end plastic strap on the back that lets you securely and comfortably grab it and hold it in one hand. It also has a small 5-minute internal battery to keep the computer on while hot-swapping the removable battery. I think Panasonic calls it a "bridge" battery. Battery sizes can also be very big. Mine came with a 70 Wh, but there are 100 Wh batteries available online. There's also quite a few removable panels that can be changed for hardware modules. I noticed a used computer online of the same model that came with a fingerprint reader on one of the panels.

Regarding its ruggedness, at least for this model, it makes the computer more comfortable than the average laptop, IMO. I don't have to worry about putting too much pressure on the screen, for example. This is semi-rugged though. There are some really rugged toughbooks that are uncomfortable.
If you are able to find your town here https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ - and the osm type for the found place is "relationship" not node - it should work.

We are trying to find a fallback for `node` types here https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7 - we basically don't have accurate city boundaries for nodes.
That's called a 'subnormal number'.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8341395/what-is-a-subnor...

If the exponent is 0, then:

the leading bit becomes 0
the exponent is fixed to -126 (not -127 as if we didn't have this exception)

Such numbers are called subnormal numbers (or denormal numbers which is synonym).

All normal floating-point numbers have an implicit leading significant bit of 1. If the exponent field goes from 1 to 0, then this corresponds to changing the implicit leading bit to a 0, not to decreasing the exponent.
Wow, what a way to play with statistics.
This is excessively pedantic bordering on bad faith
OpenStreetMap data license (ODBL) allows any use of renderings as long as attribution is present, and that modifications to the data have been made available under ODBL.
The poo panacea: inside the strange, surprising world of faecal transplants
"In total, the data was exposed for about two days before we alerted Microsoft and the records were secured.

December 28, 2019 – The databases were indexed by search engine BinaryEdge... "

... at least two days then.
“We’re not catching them because they aren’t there” seems like a valid hypothesis, but I’m not sure I fully buy into it.
Google could serve an older version without the user knowing.
I extensively use Rust, but honestly, I see that the entire "community" with the devoted Rust evangelists make the project look like a giant weekly soap opera gone off script.

Besides that, slapping more seemingly foreign and non-standard technologies together sounds like someone is cooking for a menu for carnage and chaos which requires lots and lots of tests to write.
Interesting! What's the city name?
I instinctively thought of high obesity rates in the US and other western nations.
It would’ve been great to have a “Political/controversial HN”, as a separate section of the site like Ask and Show.
Obviously with the HN guidelines, and where the posts and moderation have the same high quality.
Directly touching sure, but what about indirectly touching. If those city dwellers are all using more carbon and creating more pollution, then they may touch more wilderness.

Of course, they do not, but still....
Housing isn’t an investment if you don’t plan to sell. One doesn’t receive a yearly liquid return on a house like they do in an index fund. Most people aren’t buying and selling a house every year. Lowering debt (refinancing) isn’t “earning” income.
The technical report suggesting Saudi Arabia's prince hacked Bezos' phone
Yeah, Spectrum feels to me like it's "just" a standard web forum, albeit one with live reply updates and a chat-bubble style for its UI.

I've certainly seen plenty of other forum software that has live updates as well, so it's not unique in that regard.

(Note that I'm not bashing Spectrum here, just saying that I don't feel it's as revolutionary as I've seen it pitched to be.)
Thanks for the comment, I've now updated my blog post, so that when others run across this in the future, they'll see that it's living on.
Haha I've never heard of a keyboard with user accounts before. Amazing but terribly impractical.
"that is evidence of an intended cover up"

No it's not.

You're conflating the fact that this is mostly a political issue, not a legal one, and that even impeachment is mostly a political process.

Every politician on this earth will move to obscure information that is regularly private, so as to not make it available for their opponents as fodder.

In the management of 'perception' it's not 'evidence' it's just fodder for spin, talking points etc..

If Trump was legally required to submit the letter, and did not, this would be a problem, but otherwise, it's rational for him to want to hold it back as the story broke.

Once the team looked at the materials, surely they're going to let go of that which they feel helps their case publicly, which is perfectly normal.

I don't like Trump at all - but this specific transcript and even the handling of it - is a complete nothing burger.

I'm completely skeptical of all of the press because of their constant misrepresentation of all of these issues.

I feel slightly more enlightened having actually read the transcript myself.

Apparently, the White House instructed the Pentagon to withhold aid, which is illegal, and that's cause for concern, but given the total lack of any material exchange in this transcript, Congress will have to provide materials that show the direct quid pro quo.

I basically hate Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean I want him committed to bad justice.
> When will it finally crash?

When the population decreases.
Better: "Criminals fleeing police pursuit have killed thousands of innocent bystanders".
Fortran receives updates to the language spec with new features, and modern fortran is pretty different both syntactically and semantically from the 70s fortran you are probably thinking of. It is also extremely fast, often faster than C due to less pointer aliasing which lets compilers optimize loops more. (or so I'm told)
Once all the land in the world is apportioned, what happens to all future generations that do not have land? They become slaves to landowners? Will capitalism fall apart then?

I get that land ownership incentivizes the development of the land by rewarding the owner, but what happens after all the land is gone and someone is born into a world of such legacies?
Glad to see that BSD is catching up with Linux a bit in terms of having lots of random distributions. ;-/

Is there any good reason why various differentiating features (e.g. booting from a USB drive, various GUI packages, codecs, better driver support, better installer, whatever...) can't or shouldn't be upstreamed into a mainline BSDs like FreeBSD?'

Perhaps FreeBSD should have multiple installer images such as live/server/desktop, a la Debian/Ubuntu?

On the other hand, perhaps the most popular (Free/Open/Net?)BSDs should take a stand against Linux-style fragmentation and adopt a standard desktop GUI, API, and application binary package format.
Damn. Thank you. This comment had my dying in a restaurant earlier. I really enjoy writing rust and I was sad when Steve was sad. I had a similar thought, “why when actix is dead?” I’m glad actix is back.

I was coming to SHOW HN a rust tool I made when, boom, front-page: actix is dead.

Every journey has its obstacles.
But can it be done without resetting all settings on the phone?
>One thing that would be interesting to know -- high rises can use a ton of energy to heat & cool.

Sure, but how does that compare to the energy needed for lots of smaller buildings, which can provide the same floor space to the same number of people? I suspect the high rise is more efficient: it has far less surface area on the outside. The more surface area that borders the unheated/uncooled outside, the more energy you need to expend.

>And the taller they get, a significant portion of the building is just stairs and elevators.

Again, how does that compare to smaller buildings? Once you get past 1 floor, you're going to have to use space for stairs and elevators. You can't have a city with 1-floor buildings; the sprawl would be ridiculous.

>Manhattan & Shibuya could very well be past that point.

Have you been to Shibuya? Buildings really aren't that tall in Tokyo, especially in Shibuya. Remember, Tokyo (and pretty much all of Japan) is a highly tectonically active area, with frequent earthquakes. Manhattan has no earthquakes and has a huge layer of bedrock under it; it's basically the most idea place on the planet for building skyscrapers, except for being close to the sea (because of hurricanes, but these are rare because it's pretty far north). There are some reasonably tall buildings in Tokyo, but nothing like the 100-story behemoths in Manhattan.
Linux itself gives you decent data from procfs (see /sbin/ifconfig, shows you data transfer in/out per adapter), you can just compare data transfer from the server to any of the boxes that are supposed to connected to.

I can’t imagine that even MS would be running ES on windows, although then you’d probably have even more data available.
Many of those cities are only in the last few years returning to their peak populations. They certainly aren’t more dense, but there are fewer units of housing available now. In many places lots of housing was torn down, or multi family homes were turned into single family homes.

The cost is directly related to the fact that it is defectors illegal to build new homes in the most economically vibrant zip codes.
HelpScout has similar shared-inboxed software as Front and recently launched a chat feature that's similar to Intercom. Might be worth checking out.

I'm not affiliated with HelpScout in any way nor am I a customer. Just know of them because they used to be headquartered in Boston (where I'm from) before they went distributed.
Build taller.
Does anyone have a similar “toy” for Unicode? (UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 vs. UTF-32)
I completely agree with that idea. Especially when buying a first home, I often hear that rent is throwing money away. In reality, your rent is or should be lower than equivalent home mortgage and as a renter you do not need to invest in long term maintenance of the property. Problem most people find is that they do not invest the difference and instead just live a slighty more expensive lifestyle.

If they buy a house, they can no longer "cheat" themselves out of the savings and instead their home becomes a type of forced long term investment.
They're not criminals if they haven't yet been convicted of a crime. Innocent until proven guilty.
At least on my CF-C2, the hard-drive can almost be changed with just my bare hands. It's in a caddy that you just pull out after pushing a switch on the bottom. To remove the disk from the caddy I need something hard like keys or a usb cable connector to push some locks and free it.

The RAM can be accessed by just removing 1 screw.
I think at that point they thought Rhapsody was going to be enough.
Over 70% of 12- to 14-year-olds in China are short-sighted
Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
Basically the same reasons i had 20 years ago when I switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux. Except for the money reason, which in the era of Win98, Win2k wasn't that big of a problem.
Reaching $10M ARR through hard work, building a great team and consistency
I’m hoping for a less drastic resolution, like people voting left-wing parties whom will more or less cap rents/increase capital/estate taxes to even things out a bit. Would you not see this possible?
In order to truly address "Ethical Issues" we need to build solidarity between all professions that run up against these problems. Lawyers for example, defending large corporations etc. It would be nice to have a framework for defining what is and isn't ethical
This main goal for me is learning and not developing a production-ready language. When picking the feature set, I wanted something like Java (OOP, GC, no arbitrary pointers) but without a VM.

I think implementing TypeScript natively would be a very interesting project, but the 'all valid JavaScript is valid TypeScript' part of the spec means you're also implementing an AOT JS compiler, which is much more challenging.
The layout of these cars also plays an important role. Sedans have been getting bigger because the internal space is wasted in every possible way and manufacturers have been struggling to sell the smaller ones given how useless they are. That market segment has been completely dominated by the new generation of small hatchbacks like the Honda Fit/Scion XD/Toyota Yaris etc.
What are the highlights of Fortran's array manipulation capabilities?
All array languages (apl and its derivatives).

Raku (perl6).
TotalCross at Embedded World, leading international fair for embedded systems
I have a bunch of male and female header and wires, but now I'm looking at whether to buy right-angle header because I will have a couple of boards that are close together and having straight-up pins on the bottom board gets awkward.

Then I start looking into various kinds of connectors, and wonder if I'm overthinking it.
I used FreeBSD on my last laptop.

Here are the things I liked:
- all applications that I needed to do my work on windows or mac or linux were available.
- native encryption of all the file systems even /boot and even /root and even / through geli on top of zfs. This is super easy to deploy through the installer. Seriously.
- it also offer native compression of file systems through zfs. /var/log, /home, etc
- there are tons of stuff like easy to compile custom kernels, rebuild the world, etc, but this is just me being a geek.

What I didn't like:
- there is just one thing that really turned me off. I was never able to properly configure a wireless interface with also the ethernet connection. What I'd like is that if both are connected that it prefers ethernet then switches to wifi if I disconnect. This should be done by default without fiddling around. I had to use some hacks and it turned me off.

I'm very tempted to try ghostbsd, but before I do so, I'd like to know whether it's possible to have dual network connections: ethernet + wifi with preference with ethernet and smooth transition when I unplug network.

Can anyone confirm whether dual network is flawless in ghostbsd?
Thanks! I've updated the doc to Markdown as suggested by other commenters, so it is now available at https://github.com/neeilan/neeilang/tree/master/doc/Lang.md
No, it was a cheap red plastic one, but that's kind of hilarious that there's more than one counterfeit hummingbird feeder.
It seems that over time any sufficiently well funded non-profit will eventually hire a financial engineer as CEO and transform into a Hedge Fund with some sort of charitable appendage.
Where's their leverage? In media, which is dominated by liberals? Or in academia, which is dominated by them even more overwhelmingly? Where exactly are all these powerful conservative voices? Is Fox News and Breitbart so much better at getting their message across than almost everything else?
PIR (and, apparently, ICANN) are simply selling us out on this, and whether or not the sale goes through, they both have taken a huge credibility hit -- and ICANN, anyway, already had credibility problems to begin with.

In terms of its impact on the net, I see no upside to this at all. It's nothing but harmful.
Ridiculously long
It also suggests that Elon Musk is somehow obligated to spend his money for these other things, in a way that isn't necessarily how he sees these issues getting solved or at least dealt with. Instead of electric smart cars, electrical battery farms, solar roof tiles, communications in space, getting to space, etc, he should drop it all to spend it on this one specific thing someone completely unconnected to him or his plans decided he needs to spend it on.

The world's problems don't have a singular solution. There are many things that need to be done.
Making better espresso through science