skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was slightly before my time in the industry, do you have any indication on how hard they were backing it? I mean IBM brings out a lot of stuff and was quite aimless in the late 90s/early '00s. They were supporting SmallTalk for quite a while, but on the other hand, so they did with RPG and PL/I…
“So what looks like a horrific disease may be the horrific tip of a very large iceberg”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/beast-moving-very-fa...
We must put a stop to performance enhancing storms! /s
I've received duplicate items some times, like when I report something not received and they send me a replacement that arrives the same time as the original missing item.

I've offered to pay for stuff since it saves me the bother of buying it again some time in the future and the reps will go out of their way to make sure I can't do that. Even to the extent of saying they've charged my card when they actually haven't.
Further, it's very clearly higher than a 1% mortality rate.

Those deaths are from the lower outbreak figures from weeks ago, as people typically don't die in the first two weeks of infection. According to doctors dealing with this in China, it's the third week that is where patients are dying.

The questionable official numbers have us at 40,171 infections with 908 dead. That's a 2.2% mortality rate off the max figures. More realistically let's go back in time, conservatively, two weeks ago: on 1/27 there were only around ~4,500 infections.

That's a mortality rate a lot closer to 20% (even if you inflate the infection numbers, it's high). Those 4,500 people are the ones that have overwhelmingly contributed to the 908 dead figure that exists today. Unless one assumes there were a lot more than 4,500 infections two weeks ago; or people are dying a lot faster than reported.

With tens of thousands of infections in the last two weeks (again, at the supposed numbers), how many will be dead at the given rate, in a few more weeks? Something obviously doesn't add up with these figures, one direction or another.
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We don't know the final statistics, especially since the numbers we're getting are coming from the Chinese government.

It's simply too early to say whether we're overreacting or not compared to how we handle the common flu.
I’m guessing it means that they didn’t tried to validate that they could get access to the registry by actually accessing it themselves.
I suppose my comment was a bit cavalier, this wouldn't be a good choice for most of your emails, just the very important ones of which I assume there are no more than several each month (or year).

Printing as a photograph would be more durable and could easily be pasted into a photo album. If the photo included a child (of the person taking the photograph) standing next to the email then that would further ensure that it doesn't get tossed in the trash, and also provide a rough timestamp for future generations.

I don't consider cloud storage to be permanent, secure, or reliable. I used to have 'important' files on zip-drives and floppies if anyone remembers what those are. Many computers no longer have CD or DVD drives. SD cards and thumb drives seem like a lasting technology, for now at least. I still have important documents printed from twenty-five years ago.
Climate science research.

'The investment underlines Gates’s long-standing interest in alternative fuels, and his enthusiasm for new technology that could tackle emissions from industry and transport that together make up 75% of the world’s carbon footprint.'

It's an 'investment'.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/09/bill-gate...
Optical media these days has a horribly intrusive DRM system, which prevents you from watching the content on most of PCs (see AACS 2.0 on Blu-Ray drives). Ripping them is pretty much impossible unless you do some very DMCA illegal firmware patching... and even that doesn't always work.
Expertise for Java and C# ecosystem will be available 50 years from now just like Cobol and Fortran today
Block https?
Yes, Windows as well. Enumerating all the pre-IPhone incumbents with a credible shot in an alternative history universe would be a long list.
>Punctured lung, ruptured spleen, broken ribs etc.

What in the hell was going on there? I mean, I get GP's point about aggressive cyclists. I noticed them in Berlin especially (straight, wide roads on flat terrain), but even then people will usually try to brake before they run into you. This kind of damage sounds insane. Was the cyclist hitting him at full-speed? If so, how???
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Short answer is we lean more toward post-launch, but make exceptions.

Longer answer is that we typically invest $1m-$1.5m when companies are raising $2m-$5m. Usually that size of round happens after a product is live in the market, but occasionally because of the founders or idea it happens earlier.
P2P pirating we go then.
Ironically researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology demonstrated in 2013 "intermediate hosts may not be necessary for direct human infection by some bat like corona viruses"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389864/

Also, the lancet publication found that the first diagnoses on December 1st had no link to the seafood market

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Furthermore, university of Toronto just published a model showing likely start of the outbreak was November, which aligns with first reported diagnoses in December.

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/model-built-u-t-researchers-sug...

On that basis we should at the very least be cautious of the bat soup intermediary theory, and the media should stop reporting it as a fact that it was the source of the outbreak.
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I was actually talking about investments in general. All the ones I was involved with had due diligence done on them, and I was "interviewed" by people hired by the investors to make sure the tech is solid.
My take is that you're thinking like a web dev, and not like a desktop dev.
Why would you want to use 2 languages? If you use a single language, testing/debugging is waaaay easier.

There may be some places where you'd be inclined to use another language for speed, but that's where the .net ecosystem comes into play. Even then, with proper profiling, you'll usually find that you don't need to switch language.
>most people do not feel this way and are ok with metrics and adds

Where did you get this information? I suspect most people have no idea what goes on behind the curtain.
There was an article in China News Weekly that investigated the origins of the Virus and also pointed out that 1) the first cases were in November and 2) that the first cases were not linked to the Huanan Seafood Market.

https://chinachange.org/2020/02/09/the-regret-of-wuhan-how-c...
RSS fundamentally can’t have those features. Feeds are fetched over HTTP, and the server only has access to what details the client wishes to provide—and web browsers and their users have rebelled against revealing information far less detailed than that which you’re desiring. Location via IP address is the most along those lines that you’re going to get.

Any attempt to demand more information (e.g. respond 403 Forbidden if certain HTTP headers are lacking) would fundamentally fail, and/or fragment the ecosystem: existing clients would be broken on such sites, due to not sending the demanded headers; new independent client software will implement these demanded headers with spurious values, because they’re representing users more than the creators or advertisers, and almost no users want to provide such invasive details. It’s only client software from companies like Spotify that will genuinely attempt to provide the correct details.
> So long as websites pretend they are documents, they will remain bloated poorly performing synchronous applications.

I disagree.

Most websites (99%) are just barely interactive documents with buttons.

The bloat we suffer today is because we ship them and design them as full interactive App when it's absolutely not needed.

Why this happened ? Because the current tooling make it easy. Not because it is the right design.

The "distributed application" is just a bullshit fashion of a time. very little applications require the current level of complexity compares to the features they give.

They are like they are because "create-react-app" and "npm install world" is easy.
The numbers from Wuhan are simply wrong and we have no idea how many people there are infected or how many have died. So you should discard all data from Wuhan at least before doing your analysis.

The whole city is under quarantine, people may not be able to get to a hospital. Even if they do, hospitals are overloaded and beyond capacity. If people there die before being tested their death won't be counted as being from coronavirus. If they have mild symptoms but are not in a serious condition they would be stupid to go to a hospital and get tested (and risk getting infected). And China is a communist country so the numbers should be taken with a large grain of salt anyway.
How many people do you know who have actually purchased something solely because of advertisement?

Sometimes I wonder if the whole pervasive advertisement racket isn’t a case of the emperor with no clothes, if not a front for more nefarious ends.
> It merely increases the wealth of those employees by a bit. What about fighting malaria? What about fighting climate change? Do you seriously expect all those recipients of $100k would all contribute as much proportionally?

Yes. In a sane democratic system, I would expect government to finance these projects. And it does.

Now you can somehow make an argument that people in democracy are less likely to support these projects than they are alone as wealthy people. I don't see how it would work. Self-selected billionaires are on average less selfish than ordinary people?
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On a related note, there are pens whose grip is shaped to teach/enforce the "correct" way.
For example the Pilot penmanship or many Lamy fountain pens are popular ones.

That said, teaching handwriting is surprisingly very country specific. For example, in Germany proper grip and writing with a fountain pen was something you were taught in elementary school (I think now less emphasized) and simple cursive. In the US they seem to instead prefer throwaway pens and seemingly hard to read cursive.
I don't think that's fair or equatable. Everyone deserves privacy and the protection of their identity, regardless of their government or defense force's questionable ethics.
The burning platform memo basically triggered the Osborne effect [0] on the whole range of Nokia's smartphone offerings.

If you read crisis management literature this "burning platform" metaphor is literally in the "For dummies" section (at least what I recall). It implies he was desperately trying to find something to drive a message trhough the organization and he grabbed the most obvious and stereotypical thing he could find.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
While a bicycle probably isn't going to be going as fast as a car, at equal speeds bicycle collisions aren't going to be that much less dangerous than car impacts. 30 km/h is a quite attainable speed for a bicycle. I definitely wouldn't assume <<1%.
Interesting ideas, however it still sounds like you're tackling knowledge as if it's a fixed point in time. That's good to do when you're starting to build your knowledge base, but there's a stage of understanding beyond that which I'm trying to define and quantify.

As a knowledge manager, one of my biggest issues is the temporal nature of knowledge and conveying the cyclical nature of inputs and outputs to people. The "clean" process is often the exception in the real world, and short circuiting often occurs throughout the knowledge development process.

I don't think it really becomes apparent until you've been looking at the same knowledge for a while and start to see there's a pattern above the pattern. Changes in one part of the graph seem to be connected to changes in another part of the graph.

I'm searching for a way to visualize this extra dimension of data. I don't know if graph edges are complex enough to show the dimensionality of the change.

Perhaps a simple time-lapse overview of a graph would provide what I'm looking for. Or maybe there's a temporal relational layer that sits above topics and resources. I'm not sure.

edit: Hmm. A hypergraph seems like a relevant analogy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph
tor would prove extremely painful to use with IPTV re speed and dropouts. identifiers may be avoided using packet inspection/rewrites but that is still far from a solid, PnP solution
Have a personal assistance book hotel under their name and check in for you?

Airport is more difficult, but I assume the information is harder to get at (at least in developed nations). Otherwise, don’t fly commercial airlines? Charter a jet?
List of airlines that suspended flights to China.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-airlines-fac...
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Deep Learning theory, Linear Algebra and python programming.
Ask HN: Mobile Markdown Editor for GitHub
I have a static doc site on Github with a Markdown source. I often want to work on it without a laptop and my workflow currently is quite annoying:

I start writing new content in a note app on iOS or copy over existing content to the app, edit it and then when I get to a laptop, merge it manually in a text editor.

My ideal workflow would use an iOS app that lets me check out a Github repo, do the Markdown editing and then push my changes.

I don't want to use the Github web client, because I'm worried about losing unsaved changes plus the UX is not great on mobile.

Does anybody have a good suggestion?
I've always wondered if israel tech wasn't half genius half crook. They come up with fantastic technologies sometimes, but i feel like a lot of people there are just using this image of the "tech nation" to build scam or just lousy products.

As an example, i was extremely surprised when an israeli airline company sent me my existing password in clear text via mail. For a country that's at the forefront of fighting terrorism and always assessing airplanes security, it seemed like an incredible mistake.
Those employees would contribute a substantially higher portion of their additional earnings to the governments as tax. You could easily do the math.
> sharing profits with employees?

Microsoft had generous stock option grants to employees. The Seattle Times reported in the 1990s that there were 10,000 Microsoft millionaires in the area.

Getting rejected by Microsoft in the 1980s is one of the ways I've cleverly avoided becoming a billionaire :-)
Do you have examples of that?
Good for sorting hashes.
job security and laziness. could be very meditative to do some copy-pasting over your morning coffee/tea
It's literally a non issue. Once you start development, you'll run into so many issues, that you'll simply forget about it.

Building the right team is very very hard, finding investors is very hard, finding users is very hard -- just tackle the issues at hand.

If you're not technically competent, that is probably your biggest issue - because you may think you found the right team, while you probably haven't. Using bad programmers will hurt you in insane ways in the long run. Depending on the complexity of your app, if it's made by bad/ignorant programmers, and it turns out to be successful, it's very likely you'll need a full rewrite along the way.
It’s a bit of flair that can be handwaved away. Unlike back-end systems, where due to the non-visibility, flair isn’t exactly seen, the best way of being tongue-in-cheek is a dud API or a comment highlighting some strange behaviour. But front-end is more visual, which is why designing how to animate your hamburger menu button is just something you might end up doing.

It’s not necessarily bad, trying to add a little animation or complexity, if it’s not in-your-face: it can help vary style, experiment with what clicks with an audience, and develop skills. It can also act as a status signal for the website if it can afford for developers to fine-tune every detail – Apple is a good example here.

But yes, the best design is usually one of the simplest ones. Some designers try to make content glide over your eyes and forget that this doesn’t fit usability needs.
I've rolled back to 4.19 as 5.x kernels works very bad on my setup. Any IO makes system unresponsive. Box is i7, integrated video, ram 32Gb, SSD 512Gb running debian testing.
run "apt update" and mouse stops, music skips.
4.19 runs flawless under any reasonable load on this system.
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I'm so sick of people comparing this to the flu.

It's nothing like the flu -- coronavirus death rates are 2%, flu 0.01 -- it's 200 times as deadly and it can spread before any symptoms.
Ubuntu takes all of about 10 minutes to install a full blown desktop and Just Works™ based on my recent experience. Not to take anything away from the amazing tweakability and customizability of Arch, but the target audience is completely different.
Indeed. I had planned to purchase a few Roku devices for me and someone else. Then I stumbled upon an article describing the amount of third party data sharing and how it varies by channel. Stopped me from purchasing. And this is after a bit of research on streaming devices and plans and all that!

People in one of the online neighbor groups routinely ask about options for this channel or that channel and such as the lineup out here with some services seems to change regularly and lots of people are moving.. invariably someone squeeks about how great their Roku device is...

I ask them how they like the device sharing info about what is being watched and when with multiple third parties, If they knew that before purchasing, and if they tell other people who use it... every time the answer has been 'this is the first I've heard of this"
Stopping to lecture an adult in public is rarely well received. Had you instead said "hey, this is a dangerous road to walk on, would you like a lift to the end?" The chances are that she would have refused but your chances that she took something away from the conversation would have been much higher.
It depends what the app is, surely? The problem is too many things that should just be displaying a single document instead produce a bloated SPA with worse usability. Medium is probably the archetype of this.
Well, to be fair, it's very very hard to take away any conveniences for cars because of the strong opposition by pro-car people.

Just recently there was a proposition in Germany to enact an absolute speed limit on the Autobahn. The german Autobahn is famous for having no upper speed limit (in reality you only have that in some parts though), so you can imagine how well that went...

It's one of the "drawbacks" of living in a democracy I guess: Revolutionary changes are basically impossible to implement, because the disadvantaged side also has a right to be heard.
Whoops, I meant Geary (and edited my comment).
>Personally, I am much more worried about public officials freaking out about the corona virus than I am about the virus itself.

That's understandable given the circumstances you are personally encountering. I hope you are allowed docking somewhere soon, followed by a suitable period of quarantine in comfort, and a confirmation of no infection.
I am not convinced board hired Elop to sell the company to Microsoft. Anecdotally Jorma Ollila, the Nokia Chairman when Elop was hired[0], was extremely agravated to learn the sale of handsets had taken place [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia

[1] Siilasmaa: Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change
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I'm curious where you live and what the signals are like there, because what you describe is how almost all the traffic signals I see work.

When the light is green on the N-S street, pedestrians have the right of way to cross N and S (on the E and W sides of the intersection). Cars going straight N and S also have the right of way, and cars can turn left or right from the N-S street after they yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians.

There are a few intersections in Ontario with a dedicated phase for crossing in any direction, including diagonally, but they're rare.

Anyway, I bet the different ways traffic signals work inform people's perception of traffic and streets in different places.
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> it is very revisionist to call it failed

How so? It never achieved much market share AFAICT, despite being marketed heavily everywhere from slashdot to the tv.

It had to be relaunched each revision as the platforms were incompatible, it was always way behind on features and playing catch-up... and eventually MS ditched it entirely.

Sure, absent android it could have had a shot. But I wouldn't call the platform a success.
I think your comment hits the nail on the head. Statistics about viruses are based on tests and test kits are limited, personnel to test are limited, lab capacity is limited. The results we see may be heavily influenced by testing capacity.
We are currently witnessing this experiemnt play out in the real world. Let's see in how far Bloomberg is able to buy a larger audience for his campaign.
But we have not been to China and we are not going to China. We were originally going to Hong Kong but that plan went out the window over a week ago.

We have been denied entry to the Philippines, Taiwan, Viet Nam and Guam (despite the fact that our last landfall was in Guam). How many airlines have suspended service to those destinations?
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> The reason businesses have black-out deploy dates is so that they can control the risk. Deploying code 24 hours before a critical business day, like black friday is for some businesses, is an entirely different risk/reward ratio and should be treated different. Even 90 day risk periods can be valid for some businesses, for example seasonal businesses during peak season.

That's a completely valid strategy, but as I explained you need to actually embrace the consequences of this strategy in your thinking. If the next 90 days are a "risk period" then when somebody says "Next week" they actually mean "Three months from now" not "Next week" and everybody in the business needs to start thinking that way. Sometimes that's going to cost a bunch of money.

For example, if you have such a 90 day period covering November, December, January as in my example, then a system which alerts you to certificates on public facing web sites that expire in less than 30 days time is no good, you can't act for 90 whole days, so that system needs to be re-calibrated for more like 100 days.

Once you accept the 90 day risk period as a reality rather than a convenient fiction it gets very expensive. Make sure the people who insisted on this risk period are paying, because that's the only way they'll learn anything from it. If you don't make them pay for the actual consequences of a 90 day risk period (e.g. hiring a lot more staff, buying more expensive products that don't need intervention) then of course they're going to keep increasing this magic "It's not my fault" period and you'll pay the price in your sanity.