skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can naively extrapolate that, but it will be, well, a naive extrapolation. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it won't necessarily be accurate. If the virus does get into, say, the US, but it happens to only infect 20-40 year-olds through office transmission, it probably won't even be that fatal. If it happens to get into a senior home, it could be a great deal more deadly.

And that's before we consider the spoiler of mutations, which is the real problem. In the long term, it is evolutionarily advantageous for the virus to become less lethal and eventually fade into the background as just another cold, if it isn't wiped out by aggressive quarantining. However, in the short term, many of the same things that will make it more transmissible, such as more effectively converting host systems into virus factories, or contrariwise, being more effectively hidden while still being contagious, will also make it more dangerous to the host and/or society.

But for all that, there is a sense in which the "naive extrapolation" is also the best thing we have right now based on available data. It is, at least, data-driven.
An incredibly huge environmental failure, though not one I've seen framed as such, is their counterfeit problem. Shipping a bunch of useless (counterfeit) stuff probably exacts a huge environmental toll.
Music: SolarPunk – Confluence of the Multitudes
I thought this article was a little more layman friendly [0].

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-is-buying-bonds-again-j...
Me: Most probably, <insert any lab name here> has used hype and hokum to raise money.
They're a walled garden and to be honest I kinda hate them.

Bostock had lots of accessible D3 examples before, now it's all on that "platform".. sure it's slick, but overall loss for the ecosystem IMO.
I once went on google maps and looked around Tehran. I found pizza shops and other very familiar things. I sat there with same conclusion: we're not that different. just trained to hate each other because a bunch of megalomaniacs want more power and money.
U.S. is critically insufficient (hasn't fracking lowered our emissions over the past few years?) while China is only highly insufficient with India sufficient for 2oC?

Genuinely curious, would someone mind explaining that to me?
D is an amazing language. But what eventually put me off is the lack of documentation for installing and linking libraries in the compilers.
Yes, that would be very useful.
The article is a response to the the blog post "The Next Decade of .NET Open Source", which is linked in the first para, and the author is stating that they have a similar experience despite being a business.
This looks like something that would be nice to have integrated in nuget.org, showing the report output for every package/version (and maybe highlighting deltas across versions).

If you're running this across your own project output, especially for a big code base, it's definitely not going to be as useful as across each dependency. For example your app having "analytics services" and "outbound http connections" might be totally normal, but if a library you're using for encryption adds those, that would be a concern.
As far as I know Dell is still the only game in town with the UP3218K. You'll want to run it scaled though for it to be usable (I use 150% or 200%), and I've only seen it work on PC. Maybe the new Mac Pro can handle it?
That's pretty much also why they'll never open source VB6, despite a very large number of developers wanting it.

Instead, Microsoft has been virtually forced to continue to include the VB runtime DLL in every version of Windows since, because there are so many businesses out there that rely on software developed in VB6 that can't (easily or cheaply) switch to something else.

Windows 10, from what I understand, almost became the first version to ship without it, but Microsoft relented under the pressure (maybe I'm misinformed here, though).

VB.NET is sufficiently different enough that conversion either isn't possible, or due to the source code not being available (or the 3rd-party company that wrote it not existing any longer as an entity - or the source code assets not available or whatnot due to dissolution) - conversion becomes nearly impossible, short of a very expensive reverse-engineering effort by another 3rd party.
in the US it's still schedule 1
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/25/6842187/drug-schedule-list-mar...

So it's difficult to get even for legit research.

The most reliable way for HN readers (in the US) is probably illegal via the darknet. (Tails OS + TOR)
I'm not qualified to have an opinion on the the virus, but the numbers could exhibit a selection bias: People with relatively mild symptoms and no death probably could be misdiagnosed as having a flu or proper influenza, which would imply that the mortality rate would actually be lower.
The Federal Reserve (the Fed), the central bank of the United States, prints money and buys the national debt (treasuries) in order to increase bank reserves and stimulate the economy. The Fed is doing this to such an extent that they are now monetizing (printing and buying national debt) 70% of all the debt issued since October, roughly when they started . They refuse to call it quantitative easing (QE) (despite it meeting the literal definition of QE). It's why markets are going up despite zero increase in overall corporate profits and mediocre economic growth. Endless artificial stimulus like this, is why the economy shuffles from bubble to bust.
Fairly elegant code. Using a library that splits the line into words makes it pretty simple.
>> And it’s hard to read Republican’s sudden enthusiasm for tree planting as anything other than a cynical effort to dampen growing calls for the sorts of regulations and taxes required to bring about those changes.

Rather than going scorched earth on common-ground, why not see it as a stepping-stone, an opportunity to draw the other side toward your way of seeing things... and maybe even suggest more small, achievable steps for the other side to move in your direction rather than pulling out a cudgel?
Most people don't get it through medical studies, of course — they get it through the dark web, knowing the right people, or less commonly by growing their own.

Psilocybin is genuinely fantastic, one of the greatest gifts of nature to humanity.
A $300 projector can fool Tesla’s Autopilot
How would you suggest changing the rules?
I loved my SAAB 900, my first vehicle... but as the article pointed out, GM killed the soul of SAAB and should be viewed as a warning when buying a company. Culture matters!
I would guess poorer countries' citizens produce less co2 per capita due to using less resources?
What happened with this company and pitch?
Incredible medicinal substance from nature. Not for everyone, like all medicines, but for those who it is suitable for, what a game changer. Have had some of the most profound life changing realizations of my life while on psilocybin.
I spend a lot of time in the backcountry trekking, hiking, snowshoeing, and canoeing.

Over the last couple years I have increasingly started using my iPhone for navigation using GaiaGPS and Avenza PDF Maps.

My old phone, though unpowered for day to day life still functions great for navigation. On long trips I’ll bring this second phone as a backup map/gps which is smaller and lighter than the equivalent paper maps and navigation tools.
I generally as a rule dislike ZeroHedge, but there is good pertinent information in the following link. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/944-trillion-reasons-why-f...

(Commence the downvotes.)
You might be surprised. As the OP mentions, configure scripts could contain literally anything. Ditto makefiles. If you're not reading them, you really have no idea what they might do. It's a little harder to embed something awful in git, but with hooks etc. it's not impossible. So when you do "git clone" and "configure" and "make" you're just as subject to vulnerabilities from file replacement or DNS hijacking, and there are just as many opportunities for something bad to happen as if you had piped curl through bash.

This is why checking signatures is the most important part of code distribution. It doesn't solve every problem, but it solves most. At least then you know whose code you're getting, and that they attest to the code's validity (including safety). Maybe they're wrong or maybe they're not as good as you thought they were, but it's still a big improvement.
New Research Exposes Security Risk for E-Scooters and Riders
I wonder what would be the better pay-off on aggregate: more tax revenue from extra fuel use or -- presuming people get to where they need to be more efficiently -- more tax revenue from the increased productivity/consumerism? I wonder which is better in terms of pollution and other potential negatives? So, which is net cheapest? (My money's on green waves.)
>Those aren't lost sales. Nobody sane would pay $40 or so for a 20 pages paper. Even if Scihub didn't exist. Publishers know nobody pays that. There are other options free for academic, such as subscriptions universities pay for or inter-library loans.

This may sound tinfoil hattish, but ever since I was in school i've believed it's to keep knowledge out of the hands of the poor. Accessing journals is basically out of the question for ordinary people, unless they go to a university library, or spend money they're not going to spend, almost all reporting on science is complete and utter garbage that at best, gets most of the facts wrong, at worst misrepresents or distorts the article being reported on completely.

I don't like making blanket statements, but i've noticed, many people lack even basic knowledge of scientific methodology and almost see it as a black voodoo magic or something. Average people have no real way to verify scientific claims made by media even if they wanted to.

I have to be honest too, going through school, this attitude was prevalent among my teachers, that scientific knowlege was best left to scientists to interpret for average people. Everything around science has a 'it's our special club' thing going on designed to trickle only what information scientists and authorities deem necessary.

Hell, the data from my own project was locked away by the government behind a paywall, despite it being funded by tax money under the stipulation in our grant that our results and data would all be made publically accessible and we were only studying small mammals.

Science, especially publically funded science, should be available for everyone. I've never agreed with the idea of hidden knowledge. Human progress comes from humans learning and sharing knowledge with eachother. Keeping knowledge locked up for a special elite cripples the progress of humanity.
We talked this to death in the 90’s and early 00’s. Containing hydrogen is not a trivial task. Neither is detecting leaks (hydrogen sulfide is added to methane).

Hey rockets use hydrogen, lets use it for everything. Rockets are some of the most expensive machines built by man and the hydrogen fuel lines and tanks - if they even use hydrogen - are measured in meters, not miles.

There are many methods to generate methane. Some of them, IIRC, can even use waste heat from other processes. We don’t have to ransack the tectonic plates for every cubic meter of natural gas.
I think that at some level it is insecurity. The idea to make money out of nothing is harder to convince yourself you can do than to take money that is already there and move it.
I agree with some of your points. The problem is that a lot of engineers are just not good at DS puzzles under that kind of pressure in that amount of time. Also that's totally unrealistic and is not how Software Engineering works in real life. In real life you have group discussion, design sessions, time to think without the pressure of having to talk the whole time spitting thoughts, etc. I think some companies are starting to do pair programming and design sessions during the interviews. That sounds more appropriate to me. But it's also more expensive and time consuming.
What is IoT? and various IoT app development tools
America has a huge problem with corporations bribing politicians to loosen "costly" regulations at the expense of our health and environment.

The country is already destroying itself with fracking and coal mining. Nuclear power is orders of magnitude more devastating. So while nuclear is plenty safe when handled correctly, it's completely understandable to feel like America is not a country which can be trusted to handle things correctly.
What are the legalities surrounding it? TX of all places has legalized thc free hemp agriculture. Shrooms seem to be the next wave of legalization an in some ways it seems like it is already partly legal. Spores at least are legal.
I like his view on how interfaces should be self-revealing.

I used to feel dumb and waste time trying to figure things out, but then I decided that if I wouldn't get something quickly enough, that's because it was badly presented, and I had better discard it and move on. This approach saved me both much ego and time.
(This can be read as a joke, but I'm mostly serious.
I also use it when I design: I keep reworking things until they feel as easy to grasp as possible, and then only I can start to really build on top of them.)
Wow! Looking foward to see that code
NPM packages are not, to the best of my knowledge, cryptographically signed. If you're using them blindly, then you are indeed in the same camp as those who curl|sh. Needless to say, you shouldn't blindly install and run NPM scripts either.

And if it takes a CVE to allow a MITM attack to inject a malicious payload into an apt package, that's already better than curl, which does not. It's also worth noting that the CVE had a stable fix available as of that announcement.
What happened to the money?
> It turns out searching "Dev Ops" gives a lot of responses not relating to the product.

Good, "DevOps" is a philosophy of moving DEVelopement and OPerations together, operating in production, deploying and monitoring software, not merely a MS product.

Arguably the monitoring and feedback part is more characteristic of "DevOps", because well, any software method that succeeds must involve deploys.

And that's why it's an awful product name for a deploy toolset.
It comes to down to "FOMO" Fear of Missing Out. Who wants to be known as the VC who passed on the next Google or Facebook?
iMacs actually used to (models from 2009 to 2014) support being used as a monitor for external input:

“Use your iMac as a display

You can view the desktop of your Mac on the display of some iMac models using Target Display Mode. In some cases, you can also use Target Display Mode to play the sound from your Mac (called the primary Mac) on the speakers of the external iMac. For example, if you have a MacBook Pro you could use an iMac as the display and for playing audio.

Note: Target Display Mode isn’t supported on iMac models with Retina display. Only iMac (27-inch, Late 2009), iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010), and iMac (Mid 2011 to Mid 2014) support Target Display Mode.”¹

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¹ — https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh30822/
Paid installs.
Nope, event loops and asynchronous programming in general don't have a concept of taking a lock, because the code in any event handler already has exclusive access to everything. I.e. everything is effectively sequentially consistent.

There are some broken ideas out there that mix different concurrency models, in particular async programming with shared memory multithreading, not realizing they are bounding themselves to the lowest common denominator, but I was never talking about any of them.
No one gives a shit about the Open Group's trademark. Seriously.

4.4BSD (unlike FreeBSD, or 4.4BSD-Lite(2)) contains proprietary code from AT&T Unix, therefore it's Unix in most people's eyes.
The Fed is at least delaying purchase and interest payments on a significant amount of newly issued (short term) Treasuries against which they allow currency (paper or electronic) to be issued. This borders on issuance of fiat currency since their purchase is itself "unbacked" although the trades could eventually be unwound in the market if/when there is enough inflation that their value is negligible.

It is what gold bugs call printing money... or a money drop that goes straight to the leveraged banking system which lends out a multiple of the money from the Treasuries now held at the Fed and earns interest on the full levered amount. That has an inflationary effect, but mostly on financial instruments (stocks & corp bonds) since that's what banks usually buy with their new found money... and the Fed hopes that has ripple (wealth) effects on the rest of the broader economy.
U.S. Media Polarization: A Nation Divided
http://www.growmagicmushroom.com/2013/08/how-to-grow-magic-m...

This seems pretty simplified but I wonder if someone should try to grow their own.

I am curious about other hallucinogens that are easy to produce or good if legally available.

jfi, I live in india.
My personal favorite: the hockeystick that always takes of two months after the proposed closing date.
You have 498 Karma, and you made a great point. I'm curious as to why your comment is light grey?
Harry and Meghan’s big funding source is private. Sort of
My butthole has been a location on Facebook since 2012 – I can’t get it removed
I firmly believe the only way to convince _all_ countries to stop emissions is to add an import tariff to goods coming from countries that don't act with the same effort as you.

What if they tax me back in revenge (hello donald)? just jump 10x their tariff.

Don't call me protectionist: the wolrd economy acts like a a supercomputer after all, and we need to rebalance the production economy to places where CO2 matters.
We typically use comments to describe our client's business process. Even though the code itself looks straightforward what the client wants certainly isn't.
Totally missed that :(
An Anthropology of the Industrial Revolution
> So basically, add a table and a tablet becomes silly

Yeah, I didn't express that right. What I meant is that a Surface would make more sense in a coffee shop as a laptop than a tablet.

> Why should I use a tablet over my 6 inch phone screen? Why use a tablet instead of my TV?

In most situations I'd rather use my tablet than my phone.

The TV for me is relegated to watching tv shows/movies with the home theater. For anything that is casual like youtube I prefer using my tablet.
I don't know if you've ever tried growing food in your back yard to eat?

It's a fine hobby if you enjoy gardening and find satisfaction in the honest simplicity and hard work of digging over soil, weeding, and spreading manure.

But the truth is: supermarket food is incredibly cheap, and you'll be putting in 50 hours of labour to grow $20 worth of vegetables.

If you enjoy the process and don't mind not getting much output, by all means enjoy it as a hobby. But as a way to feed the nation? I'm skeptical.
Since this topic with Huawei started, I keep thinking that the US doesn't want Huawei to sell equipment to anybody, not so much because , you see, the Chinese will use the equipment to spy, but rather that they(the US) won't be able to spy using this equipment.

edit: remove paste garbage from the beginning
it's easy to say vulnerabilities don't matter... when responsible disclosure results in fixes for those specific relevant systems for which actual executable Proof of Concepts were designed. The authors have the skill and knowhow to do this for new systems, and the surrounding knowhow and skills are not gained by merely reading the whitepaper that focusses on the exact nature of the side-channel. Similarily a paper from the field of say physics, will not hold your hand by having a huge appendix filled with the physics courses, exercises, ... the authors enjoyed as a student...
> nobody is going to pay the crazy costs of nuclear just to have it idle 23 hours a day as a peaker.

Are we anywhere near the limits of what can be done with time-of-use pricing? If we flatten the "duck curve" then nuclear is a good match.
I've only toyed with D a bit. IMHO, if you come from a typical OO programming language background (which to me includes C++, Java, Python...), the majority of D will immediately feel familiar, and to a great extent, obvious.

The syntax is familiar and the ideas are familiar. You don't have to learn anything new (not immediately anyway) like you do in Rust (where you basically need to learn EVERYTHING new).

Where this idyllic scenario starts falling apart with when you start actually using it for anything half-serious. Some of the bits feel extremely unintuitive and the documentation is difficult to navigate. There are few examples and the tutorial is a bit spartan. For example, I needed a deque-like container (double-ended queue), but it took me ages to figure out that a) the language actually has one and b) how to use the bloody thing.

There is also a bit of schizophrenia going on, with the "new" ideas and the "old" ideas clashing in some places. For example, they claim that you can run D without a GC (the new), but apparently a good chunk of the stdlib requires the GC (the old), so you're stuck.

I find this all to be unfortunate because D, to me, feels like it could be a better, saner C++.
I assume most of the users of scihub have legitimate access to some content. Even the most well funded universities don't subscribe to every journal. When doing a lit search, it is very common to wind up with many potentially interesting papers you don't have subscription access to. Getting access to these papers legitimately involves writing request forms for each individual paper (as access typically costs something like $40 per paper) and then sitting around for between a few hours and a few days before being granted access. Frequently the papers don't even contain the data you want (which you can't know in advance because you can only see the abstracts before paying), rendering the entire exercise a waste of time. It's far easier to simply jump on scihub, get the data you need immediately, and sidestep this process.

It's also not like there was no piracy before scihub showed up. When I encountered a paper I didn't have access to back in the day, I would ping all of my friends at various universities / companies / hospitals and request that they check if they had access. If so, I would ask that they download it and send it to me. They would do the same when appropriate. Even doing this was more efficient than going through official channels, and every time this was done it represents another lost sale. From a user perspective, the piracy has nothing to do with money and is instead entirely about friction.
China just shut down 15 cities and 2 provinces with nearly 80 million people and put men with guns in nbc suits at all the exits,shut down the internet,stop all travel and extend public holidays Im sure its perfectly harmless
On the one hand I'd like to encourage comments like this because I feel that thoughtful, introspective conversations are rare, it would be good to have more, and this seems like the sort of comment that might encourage such conversations.

On the other hand I also want to snark off by something something like "Hi, Eliza!"

So I guess I'll ask: was this a serious comment? (I genuinely can't tell)
The problem is not many patients who have contracted the virus have released from hospital yet. Any there are many serious cases. From many Chinese sources such as [1], Chinese gov's data shows there are 4515 confirmed cases, 106 deaths, 976 in critical conditions, recovered and discharged only 60 cases. So I'm not sure how we should calculate mortality rate right now.

1. https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51276067