skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversations don't shut down because ideas are worthless. When discussing or evaluating ideas, especially bussiness idea that involve social aspect, the main challenge is to select right assumptions and projections. Modeling future social behaviour is extremely hard and error prone. So it's not that ideas are worthless, but discussions about ideas and possible realizations are worthless until you start working on them.

> Ideas are the precursors of RFCs and ISOs
I disagree. Practice and experience are precursor of RFCs and ISOs.

The great example is HTML, HTTP protocol or even OAuth2. All the related RFC are there to standardize and unify existing and document evolution. They all started with ideas, but the actual adopted standards are results of working groups, that had a lot of experience. And the deficiencies of HTTP1.1 shows it very well, as authors of the original ideas could not potentially know where it would lead eventually.
absolutely, not sure why this dude is dumping on it? Has he even used it in the last 5 years?
Tech animism: Our emotional connections with technology
I mean, there's still hope that existing indicators are wrong and that the virus isn't spreading like it seems to be. But absent that, at this point I think we have to just assume that all major international events will be impossible through at least next fall.
Twitter wants the best of both worlds. They want the increased exposure and retention from celebrities, but without taking any responsibility when they are controversial.

They are deliberately keeping the verification mark vague, so that people "misunderstand" it and so Twitter can claim publically that they aren't really endorsing anyone (but remove the mark from people they don't want to endorse).
I read that a CT scan outperforms the lab test at detecting it
http://watch.everythingisterrible.com/

http://www.foundfootagefest.com/
" It's getting real now. Wash you hands, and avoid touching your face. Plan to spend less time in close proximity to others."

It is airborne. This virus attacks the lungs (please google). Why on earth are people saying wash your hands. It transfers through: "respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes." Wash your hands sure, but this isn't going to save you --- watch what you BREATH.
Second Unexplained [Coronavirus] Case Found in California, Santa Clara County
> The truth is we don't really know as much as some people like to pretend we do and we do present stories in a biased fashion. The people who are convinced we are hurtling towards our doom generally don't want to have a rational discussion of the evidence. They are too busy trying to insist that our lives are in imminent danger and there's no time for rational discussion, we must do something to stop this.

This comment is essentially self-refuting, since it would mean that you don't know as much as you like to pretend you do, and you are presenting a story in a biased fashion. Considering that its evidence includes a second-hand account of what one of your professors saying we are fleas on the butt of a dog, I'm gonna put it squarely in the "stories" category.

When I want to know what is happening with the climate and fires, I'm gonna trust billions of CPU hours of simulations based on computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods, satellite observations, and the laws of thermodynamics, economic modeling, and the scientific peer review process just a little bit more than the model your professor presents. Yeah, Earth is complicated. Fleas? Not helping the discussion.
Great post!

I went ahead and read all your posts in the series:

https://posthog.com/blog/before-the-yc-application/

https://posthog.com/blog/the-yc-interview/

https://posthog.com/blog/moving-to-sf/

https://posthog.com/blog/pivot-to-posthog/

https://posthog.com/blog/after-the-hn-launch/

I'd recommend them to anyone who liked the linked post.
(chuckles)

Now, for the colored bitmaps case, how much does the ink cost? :-)

We're also ignoring some edge effects, where bitmaps can be "shared" by sweeping an 8x8 frame across a printed page at the level of pixels to generate the patterns. I don't know how to think about the scale of that problem right now, don't even know if it's easy to do optimally or wickedly difficult, or if Knuth has a solution somewhere in Vol 4 . . .
Could Your Facial Hair Affect Your Chances of Catching Coronavirus?
It's a funny coincidence that I was just reading this book (https://toc.cryptobook.us/), Figure 4.5 on book page 102, that talks about this exact issue.

I doubt the author realises that the system must be resistant against a class of attacks (in this case, I believe a chosen plaintext attack). From reading the thread, and comparing it to the example in the book, it seems like the non-uniform patterns in the output highlight a possibility of a CPA.

And of course, the author wants a fully implemented + concrete attack instead of pointing to what's an obvious flaw to the crypto community.
I work there!
The discussion is about Go-internal features, and whether or not dogfooding should be required. There's no contract being broken.
Lol, I always wondered what the "one-time" bit meant ;)
Couldn’t agree more. I’m definitely never as impressed by AAA titles as I am with clever use of design in indie titles.
I'm running a .net exe as a server, on "raw" sockets. For the front end, typescript with 0 dependencies that aren't built into browsers. My own "framework" on both ends, written to specifically cover my needs (and do no more). WebSockets maintain connections (I wrote the server implementation from WebSockets specification - no iis or asp.net necessary), and HTML5 Canvas renders content (I wrote the renderer - working on vetting whether or not I can switch to WebGL currently). I may migrate to web assembly through C# to cut javascript out completely if that becomes available without the blazor framework requirement.

It's a lot of fun to work on, it fits my specific (unusual) needs, it's fully predictable, and it's fast as hell.

There is no chance I could have convinced someone to pay me to build this. I'm a solo founder with 20 years of r&d programming and high complexity, high traffic, application architecture experience.

As crazy as this stack may sound to some; the chances that this system will continue to run and be usable without modification in 10 years is pretty high.
“Option Volatility and Pricing” by Natenberg is the standard text on options. There are also multiple option strategy websites that explain the different single and multi-leg option strategies, if you just want a cursory overview.

You can try your hand at paper trading, thinkorswim by TD Ameritrade has paper trading, and you just need a token deposit of a few bucks to open an account which includes paper trading.
Surely there's a startup for that.
> The sign outside says that if you have been to China recently

It is no longer only China at this moment, it is literally EVERYWHERE....
Ah, fresh (to us) Carmack babble. Perfect way to spend a Friday night.
Cryptography is hard enough when using proven algorithms..
Handy link to the 2018 50 million film: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blmn5l

Doesn't work for outside UK IPs. It is on TPB, though.
Trump is already claiming Coronavirus is a democrat hoax. We have the worst possible leadership when we need it the most.
*self fulfilling prophecy.
Isn't there a bias because open-sources projects are those more easily seen ?

What happens to those projects that are put on "wait" ? I doubt everyone just put-on his work free of consequences
> My friend, there are a lot of icons in every program. When the smart developer relies on the stupid user (emphasis mine) to guess what he wants without bothering to put a text label or a tooltip describing the role of the button don't expect wonders. And since "material design" it is really difficult to say if an UI element is a button, or a label or just a decoration without clicking on it and opening the Gates of hell.

I'm loathe to disagree but at this point, the phone icon is like the icons for designating Men and Women's restrooms. It's practically universal. It's the icon you use to open your phone app on your phone.
E3 might be looking for an excuse at this point.
Good article but execution matters. Execution is like sperm. There are plenty of eggs (i.e., ideas), never a shortage. But unless an egg is properly fertilized it's going no where.

Futhermore, Team A can faulter at the execution of Idea X, but later Team B can pick up Idea X and do it right. For example, the ipod. The idea of an mp3 player wasn't new.
Postcrypt Coffeehouse: One of Columbia University's Best Kept Secrets
Sure if you don't mind lung scaring.
I am a software engineer in Vancouver as well, feels bad. My partner doesn't want to move so I am taking the pay cut. I have noticed that Vancouver dev salaries have been increasing the last few years, but no where close to +200K USD.

My end goal is to move to the Okanagan and get a remote job where I could get similar pay to Vancouver with much lower living costs.
> I would simply trigger a Lambda function once a minute (or every X minutes) using CloudWatch to fetch the latest articles and save them to an S3 bucket which I would expose and cache using CloudFront or any other CDN service.

Lot of upsides to this design, and this pretty much outlines a toned-down version of a very large, high-throughtput, low-latency globally distributed configuration system with strict write-ordering but near-realtime write-propagation guarantees a sister team worked on (though, I hear, they're redesigning it for reasons not relevant in this context). There is much to like about it.

Fetching items from S3 (fronted by a CDN or not) would require managing credentials at the client-side, though? Do-able but may require additional code for an auth-service (AWS Cognito or AWS STS or...)?
If it's qualified as a "serious definition," they're setting up a No True Scotsman argument.
The question is 2 out of how many tests? If this page https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html is to be believed, only about a dozen tests were done over the past two days because it was 445 tested on Wednesday and we have 2 hits.
Thanks for the answer. What did you end up doing in your specific instances?
To the best of my knowledge (and not trying my to incite panic), there are only 200 test kits in the entire state of CA. The official numbers are meaningless given the inability to actually test. Why do you believe the US will be able to quarantine the entire Bay Area?
Romu – Fine random number generators
"Still using Google Authenticator? Let me recommend a replacement with a significantly larger attack surface."

I don't know what the current situation is for iOS, but on Android I've been using andOTP and it addresses pretty much all of the author's pain points (except for automated syncing between devices and the need to install it per-device, but you really should keep the number of TOTP-generating devices to a minimum; more devices = more opportunities for someone to steal that second factor of authentication).
>...Trying to keep it contained now is like putting up a truckload of sandbags to stop a tidal wave.

I don't think this is true, and since we still don't know enough about true fatality rates outside of China (yet) it seems foolish to be fatalistic at this stage about containment. There's no "shoring up the [US] health care system". We can't build hospitals out of thin air (China's attempt notwithstanding), and we can't apparate more medical devices, whose supply chains are broken because of our dependence on China. Limiting infections - especially in higher risk demographics - seems critical at this point.

>If it wasn't possible to be reinfected, I'd say the wise thing to do would be to get yourself infected now, while you can still get a respirator in the hospital.

Uhhh no. This would needlessly stress the existing infrastructure. If you're young and healthy, don't soak up resources that should be used to care for at-risk populations. WFH and wash your hands.
Thank you for your comment.

> but the actual adopted standards are results of working groups, that had a lot of experience

Talking about ideas (and applying experience) is some thing we should be doing.
Maybe the HN title should also have "Coronavirus" somewhere in it.
Algebraic effects can do all of that and more. They're all checked, because you must provide handlers for effects you include.
Why is everything happening in Bay Area? Do local official ignore CDC protocols to spite Trump?
Or be from the future. Granted, this announcement isn't that major that I expect it to become a significant part of any historical record, but if someone from the future is looking through the GDC records and comes across this, is would be nice to give them a bit of context instead of making them search around to find out what else was going on in the world at the time.
Even young and middle-age people have a 0.2% mortality rate, which at the US statistical value of life (~$10M) works out to $20,000. (And if you're a well-paid software developer, you can probable 5x that.) Whatever you would do to avoid losing $20k-$100k, you should probably do to avoid getting Covid-19 (modulo questions about how long immunity lasts).
The WHO has no credibility with me. I don’t believe anything they say anymore.
At some point in the thread the author complains that it isn't fair to point out the repetitive patterns "because the clear-text is all zeroes and this would be masked by actual data"
CT scans involve a lot of ionizing radiation. Definitely something to be avoided unless necessary.
It's important to remember that the big concern with the coronavirus isn't that it's unusually severe, it's that it's unusually transmissible. In particular it becomes contagious before it becomes symptomatic.

So if they fail to contain it, you'll be more likely to get it than to get the flu, but not especially more likely to die if you do get it. And even less likely in either case if you're currently healthy.

There isn't much reason to be concerned about quarantines either. The point of a quarantine is to limit the spread of the virus. When there are only a small number of cases, using extraordinary quarantine measures is justified because there is the potential to stamp it out entirely. If too many people get infected, there is no longer any hope of that and continuing the extraordinary measures is impractical. You shut down an airport when a city is infected, you don't shut down every airport when every city is infected. So if it spreads, you fall back to the ordinary measures. Wash your hands, if you get sick go to the doctor and not to work, get vaccinated once they have a vaccine etc. It's not good but the world doesn't shut down.

Around 10% of people get the flu every year. If this is equally severe but more contagious, maybe it's twice as bad, or five times as bad. It seems pretty implausible that it could be much more than ten times as bad.

An advantage we have here is that February is over. Flu season is ending rather than beginning in the northern hemisphere (and it's still several months off in the southern hemisphere). So if they can keep it somewhat contained as things warm up, it shouldn't spread as fast in the spring.

Don't panic.
Mostly money - don’t really care about title or prestige
Can we improve the situation?
Well known "platform app" are evil, while non-evil alternative feel tough to reach the critical mass, because they don't have as much budget to promote.
Droplets contaminated public surfaces like door handles, elevator buttons, etc, and one person normally touches his/her face hundreds of times per day.
this is a very smart comment
I just installed Memex today to help with this problem for myself. I really would like an extension that recorded everything and saved as WARC or some other re-playable format. I hope that Memex can achieve what I want now which is "Crap, which web page was that quote/keyword/idea on?". Chrome history is iffy at best.
Dyed-in-the-wool kook/crank.

http://web.mst.edu/%7Elmhall/WhatToDoWhenTrisectorComes.pdf
Even if you're in the demographic not likely to die, you will be in contact with people who are likely to die from the virus and you can infect them.
So we’re not containing the spread, we’re just fighting symptoms.

Joe can get sick, as long as the doctor treating him doesn’t?
That's a valid point. Enterprise software can be continually buggy and broken and still be commercially viable.

So that things are silently wrong is not a disaster as much as it is a dumpster fire that corporations are happy to shovel cash into while a whole lot of people huddle around it for warmth.
Based on what exactly? This thing seems to surprise us daily with its ability to spread undetected. And the US is woefully unprepared to administer tests. I fully expect the numbers to sharply rise right along with our ability to test over the next few weeks.
The first generations of Starlink satellites will serve as bent pipes. They're not doing intersatellite links. This will require dozens of small trunk-link earth stations around the USA, in the same general region for rural services.

For example an earth station near the fiber in Boise, ID would have visibility for bent-pipe type relay to the same satellites presently overhead of many very hard to reach, rural, remote Idaho locations. The remote parts of ID which are presently only serviced by small geostationary VSAT terminals (viasat/wildblue/hughesnet etc).

About a year and a half ago Elon Musk fired the part of the starlink team, based on Redmond WA who wanted to go directly to intersatellite links in the first generation, most of whom have now ended up at Kuiper.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight/m...

This also means that in order to establish service in a particular area it will require putting in place starlink earth stations in the general region. Meaning that there might be full satellite coverage over the same latitudes in Canada, and Russia on the same calendar date, but Canada will receive live service much earlier.
then you probably shouldn't be posting this information here.
97% of cases have been in China so far.
This might actually be good to included as required reading in first year computer science courses. It's an excellent example of "how not to conduct yourself".
They are taking action, there’s no hand sanitizer on the shelves
Isn’t that basically what it’s like already?

You can have free gmail, consumer edition. With ads, no privacy, etc.

Or G Suite. Which includes gmail, docs, calendar, etc, for $6~ (I’m seeing $7.80 CAD) Per month.

Making it about half the $200 you quoted, but none the less, possible.
This seemingly goes further than Google’s travel restrictions[1] and it’s safe to assume more tech companies will encourage reduced or even restrict travel. How long until these companies start to encourage remote work to reduce transmission or has any major tech company already done this?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-tests-positi...
How post apocalyptic do you think things will get?

Notes posted in the lobby. Going door to door to talk to people...
Miranda is still taught as a language for University College London's Functional Programming course: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/functional-pr...

Students grumble at having to learn such an esoteric language; the justification of the professor is that it's simpler and more focussed than Haskell and so better for teaching functional concepts. This may be true but perhaps he's just been teaching the same material for decades and doesn't want to update it.
Apple says Mac Catalyst is working. We asked developers to find out the truth
Optimistically if a self-supervised algorithm is capable of understanding a concept then it shouldn't need all that many examples to make it useful. Ideally you could just show it what cats look like (with just a couple of examples) and ask it to find more of them.
That seems pretty extreme to me. Who else is a better authority?
if this gets bad enough in the 'western' world maybe the Chinese could spin the narrative into "look how well we were able to control it in the place it started"

time will tell...
China: Suppress the disclosure of damaging facts.

USA: Suppress the creation of damaging facts.
Ad networks can easily work around this, either by requiring publishers to proxy their requests or by having lots of domain names and proxies, which can be dirt cheap. You can't block requests as fast as ad networks can add domains and ips.

Sometimes I wonder what keeps ad networks from becoming more aggressive. Wonder what keeps them from breaking the content and force users to disable ad blocking. Because I know it can be done.

It's probably because publishers don't want to piss users off. Or maybe it's because on mobile most clicks come from Facebook or Twitter or other apps using web views that don't do ad blocking.
Why? Genuine question
Yes, I was alluding to that. The proposed methods are crazy, but there is a valid point in there, particularly for TBIs and falls.
I don't think key should be in the last part of here, because key should never change inside the closure:

React.useEffect(() => {
window.localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
}, [key, value]);

It's pretty neat because it has a simple and familiar API. I think it's more like sticky props than sticky state, though...

Edit: here's another hook with a more accurate, less catchy name, plus error handling: https://usehooks.com/useLocalStorage/
Countries that are heavily affected right now primarily have open borders with China (still!!?) - japan, South Korea, Italy, Iran, with tons of Chinese workers going back and forth
Obviously what I mentioned is just an oversimplification. I expect that when some particular piece of software (open source in this case) is causing major trouble to a big chunk of its users, they get together to fix it.

In the particular case of this user, some of the problems are are really related so I can imagine that if they were widespread it would´ve been taken care of.

I am sorry for using sarcasm to take a detour from my real point and I was just making some light-hearted fun about op's problem.
Unfortunately, no matter how great you are, you are still a few pounds of grayish peanut butter in a calcium jar.
GP wasn't referring to those types of exceptions. They were referring to the golang authors making escape hatches for themselves which aren't available to end users.
Exact, this fine probably represents a fraction of the fee the carriers charge the NSA for a data feed of this information.
I don't think community transfer is a "maybe". If two people have been infected without any link to known cases, there must be at least one single person that links known cases to the two new infections. That can't really be debated. And what are the chances there is only one? And they only infected two more people, won't infect anyone else, and those two people didn't infect anyone before being quarantined? I think this thing is in the wild now.
SXSW is (currently) planned for Mar 13-22, which seems dicey.

YC Winter Demo Day is scheduled for Mar 23-24.
They should make repeat offenses harsher. Kind of like with road infractions.
Exchange phone numbers.

Set up a Google group, Reddit sub or other standard platform for your building.

This will depend a lot on how well you know your neighbors, what their default digital platforms are and how compatible everyone is in that regard.
But US had rejected China travelers' entry and it had been almost 3 weeks now.

The chance that people here in get the virus from travelers from Italy/Japan/South Korea/Middle East is MUCH higher than that from China at this very moment.
Seems to me that 200 dollars is what Google owes me for the privilege of selling my data to advertisers.
oneweb, kuiper, starlink, telesat, and SES (o3b) are all hiring. Not necessarily in the bay area.