skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this post made other posts, including one discussing the building generation:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps

It appears to be a combination of algorithmic work from satellites with manual generation mixed in.
My wife asked me at breakfast why the new virus is such a big deal: hundreds dying vs. the 5K to 10K babies and infants who die everyday in the world from dehydration and/or starvation.

My response was exponential growth of viruses and mutation into something very deadly.

China is taking the outbreak seriously, locking down large and high population regions. I wondered if some of that is PR since after a previous outbreak they were accused of covering up (if I remember correctly).
Chinese CDC reported that there were only 144 flu-caused deaths in 2018 (https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml). So if we are to trust China's numbers, then the Wuhan virus has already caused twice as many deaths as the flu did in an entire year.
It seems to me that this would be an area where something like reactive streams excel at. The interface is by default streaming and the code dealing with the database could decide to buffer the incoming stream to an optimal amount for creating a query. (Of course only buffering until a maximum latency was reached.) This way neither the producer nor the consumer need to be aware of the exact buffer requirements and the whole can be optimised using back pressure.
Waze has a setting to "Avoid difficult intersections".
Thats not whats happening. This guy is an angel of death (to landlords). His career skills/responsibility is going to be to basically renegotiate every lease to make it viable for WW. Its going to cause problems.
Alternatively, you could put your money in a normal bond and invest the interest payout into lottery tickets.
It appears to be most-of-the-above:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps
Am I the only one put off by having to view BBC content within Facebook? Why isn't it hosted on the BBC site?
Following social conventions.
The more I grow up, the more I have the feeling this lead people to the wrong path to happiness.
Having the ability to be and act different is harder than it seems to. But when you know deep inside how you should do something, do no let society tell you how to do it.

Recently I found out that some people are truly happy being single. They're not acting. The only problem for them, is how people treat them in a condescending way: "Don't worry, love is coming for you, you'll be lucky too".
I think that's because it's not socially acceptable to say that you just need money. You need to say that you want a job, or you sound like a lazy loser and a freeloader. Social media is full of extreme vitriol against unemployed people, and even the people who are supposed to help you can treat you in a rather dehumanizing way. The emotional burden comes from many things, including stress, anxiety, insecurity (UBI would help there), stigma, etc.

EDIT: Also, at least here the unemployment benefits are predicated on actively seeking a job. If you actually go and admit you don't want a job, that can backfire in a situation that sucks to start with.

I was unemployed for nearly 2 years and it was a fucking nightmare. Because I had no idea what would happen to my life next week or next month. It's an unsustainable and extremely hostile situation. Can't make any long term plans, can't start any project that requires investment. The only way out of that situation is to get a job, which is everything you need to focus on, in place of all those interesting and fulfilling free-time activities one could think of doing during a period of true freedom and financial independence.

A steady, guaranteed, stable source of income would've changed it completely. You wouldn't need to deal with the stress of trying to find a way out of a terrible situation.

I don't think most pensioners, for instance, think that they've got into a fucking nightmare of a situation. Sure, some get depressed because suddenly their days aren't filled with the activity and people they're used to. But I think most pensioners are quite content as long as they are healthy, have enough money for comfort, have friends, and are free to find activities for themselves. And yes, some even get something that resembles a job. Maybe volunteer somewhere. It's still a rather different situation compared to being employed, and usually volunteers have only as much responsibility as they volunteer for, and they can pretty much quit or reduce their load any time. Around here, becoming a pensioner is something that is mostly celebrated. You can rest in ease knowing that you've earned your future and no longer need to compete in the rat race.

I can say that I enjoyed the heck out of long summer vacations and time between studies when I had zero pressure to worry about getting a job. I would FIRE if I could. There are so many things I want to do with my life, and 9-5 only gets in the way.
Regus owns Spaces, which I suspect a lot of people in the market for WeWork type space would have heard of (or would turn up in the first page of their search results).
fwiw way back i used not see the point of changelogs, but after experiencing what it's like to consume a lib or use software without one, also how useful they can be when you need to know what's changed, it i've changed my view on them.
not decline per se, but it used to be the de facto gold standard of economic structure. The one that had the most weight and momentum and was mostly unstoppable. Now people speak a lot more about bringing some industries back, and some are even starting local brands again (due to climate, jobs, quality concerns).
> Besides, it was the late 90s. What wasn't in semi-translucent plastic, those days?

You have your causality backwards. One thing that made the iMac so visible and discussed is that it wasn’t a beige or black rectangle.
Changing policies is the point of terrorism. You seem to be assuming it's randomized and atomized rather than itself being networked and (loosely) coordinated.
> One take away for me was: Language designers & compiler writers today need to consider editor support as one of their goals.

In a way this is very intuitive: a programming language is a kind of a UI for the language's runtime. The IDE is just another UI layer on top of that.
Still better than peurto Rico where they hid aid to malign trump.
Buzz builds around made-to-order fashion manufacturing
Not saying that it can hit 1TB/s, but I wouldn't put too much trust in one benchmark.

I got 704 GB/s on my machine[1] using their test.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/tq3nEz5
Who do you think the social conservatives are? Because they’re certainly not the highly educated, urban whites who make half of the white Democrat constituency. Then you might argue that this has nothing to do with whites, specifically, but as the article’s author notes, probably the only reason that this hasn’t completely alienated black and Latino voters is because they’re already used to being alienated and don’t see the republicans as a viable alternative. But whites don’t have the same things tying them to the democrats.

FWIW, I think there’s a good chance the republicans will start figuring out to flip Latino and Asian voters by appealing to social conservatism.
Alternatives to TypeScript `enum`s
I agree with you, but if people in China are spending hours in line trying to get a mask, they're almost certainly not altruistically trying to improve the public health situation -- they've been misinformed about what the mask is going to do for them.

Let's be realistic here -- when the public is in a panic, their behavior gets worse, not better.
> Two 20-something or 30-something friends will use "ouais" (and "yeah"), "putain" (and "fuck" or "damn") and even potentially "cette meuf" (and "that dude") without any issue

Isn't that exactly what I'm saying? Using those terms between friends (age is irrelevant and those terms are not just for the 'young') may be OK but you would not use them to even talk to a stranger in the street or in a shop if you have basic manners.
Oh agreed, it's a lesson to learn, just like the rest of their engineering practices were learned. You don't usually absorb stuff like that fully by having someone tell you once.

> Why it works in our case is because I acknowledge it's a debt and then later we pay it back. A huge problem devs have is - there is a push, promises are made, and then something new and urgent comes along.

I don't think it works any other way. A lot of times the only difference between "intentionally accrued tech debt" and "shoddy work"/"bugs"/"brittleness"/etc is communication.

> A huge problem devs have is - there is a push, promises are made, and then something new and urgent comes along.

If you're constrained by time and money, this is usually the case. You accrue tech debt to meet constraints, and you pay it off over time, not necessarily immediately. It's just normal roadmap prioritization. All you can do as an engineering leader is correctly advocate for the urgency of tech debt, communicate interdependency issues ("we must pay down this tech debt before we can tackle feature X"), and pay off some debt when it makes the most sense.
> parking lots full of empty school buses and claimed he had no way to evacuate citizens

That just sounds like a sensational headline lacking in context and details. For example, with Hurricane Harvey in Houston they had to weigh calling mass evacuation against the ability of the road system to handle that much traffic. It doesn't matter how many buses you have in a parking lot if they can't leave the city. I'm not saying that was the case in New Orleans, but I'm certainly not going to assume the worst from "parking lots full of empty school buses".

Honestly, is there even a known good example of how the response to Katrina should have been? Most people's complaints about it seem so shallow in their analysis as to appear a projection of their distaste for the Bush administration or the local politicians; nearly 15 years later.

Edit: Could you imagine an NTSB report on an airplane crash: "Air traffic control had three empty runways but said they had no way to land the plane! If they hadn't just whined and wrung their hands, perhaps everybody would have survived that flight.."
Barbara Romanowicz Receives 2019 William Bowie Medal
Honestly, I drip-brew a pot a day for the caffeine ... and coffee flavor. Fresh grind is better, and the Espresso/French press/etc stuff often tastes better. But day after day, year after year? too much fuss. When you need a transfusion, ASAP is the best way.
Well, if we are to nitpick.... apples and oranges are both round!

Yes, there are certainly similarities between the USSR and China. But if we are to be objective and fact-oriented here, comparing China today to the USSR in the 80s and its response to this epidemic to the USSR's in Chernobyl, is a big stretch.
Laser 2nd harmonic generation&dark field imaging detects defects in 2D materials
It is possible to vendor with a system-wide repository of packages to use. This is how Debian handles cargo dependencies, and I think Nix does something similar as well.
> Blow's goal of making compilation describable within the language itself brings forward a huge set of features that other languages need a runtime or complex compiler to do. Things like code generation, reflection, metaprogramming, linting, and correctness validation could simply be packages you install with a package manager. If the language is kept at a minimal feature set and complexity with an advanced enough metaprogramming phase entire language features and abstractions can be implemented in this step.

I know you're not advocating for Lisp, but it kind of sounds like you are.
This article frames the cup-of-coffee pricing comparison as: "$100/mo is less than a cup of coffee every day". But I most frequently see the comparison as: "$5/mo means giving up just a cup of coffee once a month".

In this formulation, I think it's a pretty reasonable comparison, since a prospective user doesn't have to sacrifice much (just a semi-luxury item, one day a month) in order to use your service. The author's criticisms don't seem to hold as much purchase (no pun intended) in this context.

I'd be curious to know if others think of cup-of-coffee pricing as $5/mo or $5/day. The only context where I can remember hearing per-day pricing is life insurance or supporting a child in a developing country.
I assume the Yang Gang is downvoting the comments against UBI

Yes, this is article is very politically timed given the upcoming primaries.
I realized some time ago that weekly, biweekly, or semiweekly publications were likely the best way to consume the news, in order to dissociate the signal from the noise. Unfortunately, there seems to be a dearth of publications that provide this.

Even reading the weekend editions of various papers, there's a focus on providing the latest information over contextualizing current events within a broader timeslice than a few days at a time.
StimulusReflex
> First, the price for a plain old cup of coffee at Starbucks differs from region to region, but it usually normalizes at around $1.80 (taxes included). Refills are $0.52.

That sounds really cheap, or what's a 'plain old cup of coffee' - does Starbucks sell filter coffee over there?
doas is not intended to be a drop in placement for sudo. While the core feature (run a command as another user) is the same, many of the subfeatures are different.
The suggestions pgtune makes are really bad. It sets max_wal_size way too low, max_parallel_workers_per_gather to ridiculously high values, shared_buffers way too low, the work_mem settings make no sense whatsoever.
So your solution to the Uber versus Lyft market share wars is unemployment? People in unrelated industries should be unemployed because you find cutthroat competition backed by VCs to be unseemly?
InfoSeek was also good while it was around.
interesting.

one question though, how is xpath more powerful than css for selecting elements?
I’d go further and conjecture that our cognitive biases are necessary, that the “theoretically perfect” models that these biases are compared against when being called biases are actually spherical cows in a vacuum.

However, I’m not a neuroscientist, and my knowledge and use of A.I. is limited to hobby projects.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ?
How would you define it in English? I'd guess (German is my first language, so words existing in both are always tricky) a) it's considered a lot more vulgar in English and b) is more general for a bad situation with s* flying around?
I think the article did discuss your point, "But [with a cup of coffee] nowhere am I asked to 'subscribe' to anything. I buy it, enjoy it, and that’s it. I’m not committed to buy another cup ever again."

Maybe you wanted him to emphasize that particular aspect more.
That's my point: instead of telling everyone to switch to doas, which is a major disruption, someonee shold make a drop-in in sudo reimplementation, which can be used without disrupting existing workflows.
I once heard that this used to be a way to emphasize, by adding the thing you do not do. Not very clear, bit here are some examples:

- je ne marche _pas_ (I not not walk _any step_)

- je ne me bat _guerre_ (I do not fight _any war_)

- je ne coud _point_ (I do not sew _any point_)

And then slowly disconnected. All those words are still used as negations, and I cannot think of any word of negation that cannot be interpreted this way, so that might be true (but I cannot really think of more than those 3 either). What makes me doubt is what words would have persisted (why _ step_ as the one most common?)
> radio

If you're thinking of "Rundfunk", it's a lot less common than "Radio".
Using UIView and UIViewController in SwiftUI
According to my wife, the medical professional, surgical masks do protect you - if you change them every few hours. Wearing the same one all day, much less for days in a row, is worse than no mask at all, when it comes to protecting you. Of course, wearing a mask protects other people from you.
Very awesome experience indeed. Just shows you how powerful our brains are at filtering incoming data to provide you with experience we all have.

Salvia especially to me proved how absolutely weird and odd can an experience be like. The brief moment of thinking you are dead only to be instantly put in an experience where you forget you were even a human. An experience where you don't think about the future or past but just feel what you feel right now. Salvia is weird also because it doesn't change what you see but what you feel too.

Psychedelics are fascinating. All my experiences though come down to a powerful realization that all that I experience is all that life is. It's very God like feeling.
Show HN: Renderproxy – Dynamic rendering for your React app
Catalina has much improved since its initial version. My development MacBook now only crashes a few times a week rather than a few times a day. The Apple Catalina developers clearly know what they are doing. /s
Would be a great navigation mode for maps apps to add. No left turn or easy driving mode. If ups does it, why not others?
In my experience Nvidia on Linux is fine… as long as you have a typical/common setup. The moment you step outside the norm, the experience falls apart rapidly and Intel/AMD become vastly more pleasant to work with.
I wish western world central banks were as competent. In a situation of sudden supply constraints, prices are supposed to adjust up. This is basic supply and demand.

Western world central banks tend to pressure prices down during economic shocks by withholding liquidity. This puts private markets in a gridlock and causes untold amount of damage to people's careers.
> Too bad there was some talk of epub switching to HTML5, though it's unlikely future revisions of epub will ever see wide adoption.

Why? Because of switching to HTML5 (if that indeed happens) or any future revision at all won't see wide adoption? If the latter then what's the reason according to you? Amazon's dominance?
> People who go out in those cities 4-10 times a month are the same people who have a daily Starbucks/La Colombe/Joe's Coffee/Pete's Coffee habit

I have a daily coffee habit precisely because it's significantly cheaper than having an eating out habit, while providing me with the same or better satisfaction.
You can make it yourself really easily, using: sassafras tree bark, sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and lighter fluid.
They happen to be substantially cheaper than most web and streaming services!
I remember hearing a joke around that time - "Who is the happiest man in America right now? - Gary Condit." Condit was being tossed and gored in the media for his supposed role in the disappearance of the intern with whom he had an affair. It was all forgotten pretty quickly that September. Apparently he had nothing to do with the intern's disappearance and murder, but it took years for that to be established.
Considering the rapid efficient response to Katrina in New Orleans and the Hurricane Dorian in Puerto Rico (catastrophes which, unlike a new virus, are completely unpredictable in their timing of appearance and scope of impact) it's pretty clear that the US would have rapidly deployed infrastructure and supplies exactly where they needed to prevent any casualties.
How stable is the power that Xi has consolidated? How would the party and the public respond if there were leaks about his private life and behavior? I wonder what his skeletons in the closet are...

I've also wondered how receptive the Chinese people would be to a series of documentaries or dramas that point out the inequality and unfairness in their system. A film that highlights how the government treats humans and families as cattle during national emergencies and disasters. Even the great firewall can't keep that out.
If you love mismanagement that produces excess housing, you should move to Detroit.
OCaml interface files–hero or menace?
While I'm not saying you're wrong, I think it's worth pointing out that the reason the 1918 flupandemic was called the "Spanish flu" for many years, was that Spain was the first nation to admit that there was a problem. They weren't the first, or even second or third nation to get it, just the first to admit it. So the problem of not admitting the seriousness of the situation, is not a new one.

Which is not to say that it's not a bad thing, just that it's not in any way unique to China, or even to non-democracies.
JavaScript-IPFS: The Async Await Refactor
Dev creates animated PNGs (he also wrote sublimetext) (2012)
Came here to say that, thank you mon bon ami !
Cool article. I remember waiting for things like border-radius to have the prefixes removed too. Also, flexbox has turned my world upside down. Chrome had just come out when I was learning web dev.

Get off my lawn. :)
My favorite book on this exact sentiment (with healthy doses of neuroscience) is Happiness Hypothesis. Recommended!
What are the odds that business as usual resumes tomorrow (Monday 02032020) in mainland China?
Oh, I think it's more than inspiration. The Wire producers are obviously guilty of plagiarism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4pldh_pOA (nsfw).
The iPhone Isn’t Made in China–It’s Made Everywhere
Yeah, running Catalina with Sapphire 5700XT Nitro+ in my hack tower and it’s buttery smooth. Way less pain than with Nvidia web drivers in High Sierra.
> something I'd consider [...] since the alternative for me is [...] commento

It sounds as if there's something about Commento you're not totally happy with -- I'm curious about what that could be?
I appreciate you linking this - I've read at least a books worth of panicked news coverage over the past week and had not seen a single story about potentially successful application of antivirals. I guess fear sells better.
I like Salvia the most (not for the faint hearted) partly because of how unusual/odd experience it is it doesn't imprint me a bunch of spiritual beliefs afterwards. I feel like I learn more about the mechanism of perception from it; albeit in an uncomfortable way.
Carbon hotkeys are how you register for a single keystroke. Event taps give you everything. This sounds more like the latter.
glibc has SIMD-vectorized math functions? I don't quite understand what is being compared here. Any specifics you can share?
Marketing makes this tough to discern the value of a service like this over the many existing solutions. I'm assuming this is just a cached version of the rendered output of chromium or whatever.

It also operates on the notion that client side apps cannot be spidered, which in a post puppeteer world seems disingenuous. Google certainly doesn't care and they're the most important bot.

Finally, search engines get cranky if you serve them something other than what you serve others. That would worry me.
How do you start a business for a product for which there is no demand? Not as in “didn’t know I wanted it” but as in “can’t pay for it “.

That said, I’m not a fan of UBI. Yes, do tax the hell out of people who made fortunes from their inherited wealth and social connections / status, but use the money to hire people to do something useful and purposeful. E.g., roads, parks, schools, healthcare, basic research.

Maybe we try old fashioned Keynes style policy again, as Reagan / Laffer nonsense seems to have objectively failed for 90+ percent of the population, then maybe we discuss UBI if still needed.

Edit: P.S. I mostly like your comment, otherwise.