skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do paywalled sites do, then? They don't seem to have a problem ranking just fine.
To add a little context: I’m currently scheduled to attend a ~50000 attendee international conference in the U.S. My employer has sponsored - and I’m not in a position to refuse to attend (yet). The host org is standing firm on pushing forward as scheduled, but has released a bunch of PR B.S. communications about hand sanitizer, face masks, etc. being provided and quarantine of symptomatic individuals at the event (not sure how they’re going to swing that). I’m not in the age demographic for high mortality from COVID19, but I’m concerned that I might pick it up and bring it back to my home community - where there are people in the high mortality demo. It seems that a neutral third party (CDC???) should step in and say “we’re recommending that this event be canceled”. Which would make it much easier on all to simply not attend if the event does in fact go forward.
This is going to be furiously popular around the EU. We have old, dense cities, very limited parking, restrictions on emissions, expensive fuel.

This fixes all of those, for cheap. 45mph limit isn't an issue when your limits are 20-40mph.

I don't live in a city. I live in a relatively rural county in the UK but I work from home and most of my journeys are <5 miles. Shops and school runs. This makes sense for me, and will for a lot of people doing similar journeys.
I initially had that the same thoughts, but by quickly scanning the person’s comment history, and also seeing that it goes a long way back, it’s clear to me that they’re not a troll.

But, yes, I also don’t get (when thinking from my perhaps too strictly rational and pragmatic point of view) what would imply death being only a few months away.
>It was solved (for AI) by Stuart Russell in his new book Human Compatible

Correction: it was downplayed by Stuart Russell. Stuart took simplistic strawman examples and made them look silly by assuming perfectly calibrated common sense in the hypothetical AGI. (Based on skimming the link you posted; I haven't read Stuart's book.)
He was interesting character partially because he believed in God.

This is actually quite rare at the very upper echelons of the scientific community.
People will just stop visiting such webpages where it's impossible to separate the chaff from the wheat, simple as that.
C++ has been adding things like optional types; std::optional was released in C++17, there's talk of maybe pattern matching coming soon...
West Europe, which rules out a lot of these options. Software development scene is - to put it mildly - not very big here. So tech meetups are out of the question, unfortunately.
Hmmm.. this wouldn't be too hard to write and sounds like an interesting weekend project.

Would you be interested in using WARC for the webpage though? This way, everything is captured in a single file and you aren't littering your repo with random files and images.
"When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories"

"We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods."

"...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly."

https://www.azquotes.com/author/4275-Freeman_Dyson/tag/clima...
I'm in Northern Germany. The planned/willful obsolescence here mostly applies to the "official" churches imho. The smaller, free ones tend to be a bit more radical and more grass-roots oriented, so they're more hands-on (which probably also has to do with them not having a lot of old wealth and close ties to the state).
People are quick to advocate anything from functional programming / academia here. Doesn't mean it would necessarily improve life of an ordinary programmer.
News: Coronavirus Predictions, Jan 26-Feb 1
> they will lose the ability to be indexed, searched, archived and linked to

Sounds like an API that will be implemented.
A huge part of the charm of TTRPGs is playing a non-digital game face to face with other humans. Even if we had AI that was as entertaining as a skilled human DM (unlikely to be possible IMHO), the human might end up being preferable since hanging out with humans is one of the goals of this particular pursuit.

Plus, we already have (weak) AI DMs. They're called video game RPGs. You're the player (as are many others in the case of an MMO), the game itself is the GM. They do many things better than a human could (handle lots of background math, present gorgeously rendered environments, have professionally voice acted NPCs, have skill based real time combat), but the audiences don't entirely overlap because TTRPG players are seeking the freedom of choice and limitless outcome that video games cannot really match.
I used to be homeless, so I have some thoughts:

- guard your laptop with your life, cuz you don't wanna lose it if you can't afford to replace it

- study your ass off

- don't bring homelessness into job interviews, as it is a big distraction for the employer
I just migrated from LastPass to Bitwarden and took the opportunity to delete old accounts and enable 2FA or WebAuth or whatever else was available everywhere it is supported.

I'm working my way through the list aphabetically and at "Jetbrains" I reached 32.

This is over ten years worth of accounts. I'm sure I'll reach 50-60 before the end.
It's a pretty good article. The tl;dr is that golang is a POSIX-focused application programming language that is incorrectly advertised as a platform-agnostic systems programming language.
I'll admit that I was not expecting to see an Orangutan when I clicked that link.

I'm amused by the thought of an Orangutan escaping its enclosure only to take a leisurely stroll around the zoo, look at the other animals, maybe stick its tongue out at its natural predators if any are housed there...
Bet taken. With the current rate of Perl's decline, I think that's a very safe bet to take.

Awesome. I know how hard it is to get rid of legacy code, and there are a lot more startups that I'm aware of starting with Perl today than starting with Raku.

I know I'm an old hack, but not that old: I'll be 73 for 98% of 2030.

The "then" that I was referring to in that sentence was 20 years from now. Which is 2040. As I said, you'll be in your 80s at that point.
The language should make you handle the error and the compiler should refuse to compile your code until you have done so.
No there's not unfortunately. Nowadays, I encrypt the QR codes using my GPG key and store them with pass.
A lot of the future of ad blocking will depend upon why people are blocking ads. Some of us have nothing againsts ads in principle, but do not like the practices of the advertising industry. This includes things like tracking people across websites, intrusive advertising, excessive bandwidth usage, deceptive advertising, and so on. Blocking the "analog hole" would be irrelevant in most of those cases.
You are correct: every now and then, there is a bootstrapping story posted.

But it seems to me the VC:bootstrap ratio is very unequal for submitted articles, while going the opposite way for comments.

Maybe it's just a question of scale (more bootstrappers = more commenters). Or maybe I'm just not in the target audience for HN
Not really meant to rank. Just thought the predictions were interesting fodder for those so inclined.

Lol, flag. I don't think anyone has covered the accuracy (or lack of accuracy) in month old predictions. Nice lack of reading comprehension though.
I'm not sure why officials haven't come out suggesting things like this. And to avoid non-mandatory travel.

It's probably a bit late for this stuff from a containment perspective. But it would help reduce the r0.

Speaking personally, I have to decide by mid March if we should take our trip to Legoland in San Diego. Right now I'm leaning towards "no". And I don't imagine the outlook will be much better in just 2 weeks.
So your malware guard by a giant known corrupt company indicates that you shouldn't install the competition. That's ... interesting.
That's the market -- EPYC is the server oriented product, and it supports a lot more RAM, though I think still less than Intel (I hand-wavily remember 4TB for EPYC, 6TB for Xeon, but with a huge price difference between them).
Here's a vote for an HN black bar. Dyson's work was incredible.
I love andOTP, it does one job and gives me (not my phone's firmware) control over the secret storage.
I'm a big fan of using the Yubico Authenticator instead of Google's apps:

https://www.yubico.com/products/services-software/download/y...

In addition to being supported, it avoids the possibility of a future mistake leaking TOTP seeds since they're stored on the key rather than the phone.
CVE-2020-1938: Ghostcat vulnerability
Coronavirus vs SARS vs 1918 flu: Some comparisons
"...let’s focus on two numbers often used by public health researchers: the reproduction number and the case-fatality ratio.

The reproduction number—R0 or “r naught”—simply refers to the number of additional people that an infected person typically makes sick. Maia Majumder, ...Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been tracking exactly that.

Her preliminary results indicate a transmissibility rate for the new coronavirus ranging from 2.0 to 3.1 people. That’s higher than influenza—1.3 to 1.8—but similar to SARS, which has a basic reproduction number in the 2 to 4 range. So, coronaviruses are slightly more prone to spreading between people.

The case-fatality ratio—or death-to-case ratio—is the number of people killed by disease divided by the number of people who catch it. Seasonal influenza, despite being considered a global scourge, technically kills a relatively small proportion of its cases, with a case-fatality ratio around 0.1 percent. The reason the flu is an annual public health emergency is because it infects boatloads of people—35.5 million in the U.S. across 2018 and 2019, which led to 490,000 hospitalizations and 34,200 deaths. That’s why health officials perpetually recommend that people receive a flu shot.

The case-fatality ratio also helps explain why public health agencies send up alerts over emerging outbreaks of coronaviruses. SARS had a case-fatality rate of 10 percent, about 100 times higher than influenza, and the rate for the new coronavirus is currently near 3 percent, which is on par with the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.

If SARS or the Wuhan coronavirus ever reached millions of people, it could be devastating. Unlike with influenza, Landon says, the entire human population is susceptible to this coronavirus because no one has ever had it before—and there is no specific treatment like a vaccine."

- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/how-coronavirus-spreads-on-a-plane/
There is a sweet spot and for different people, that spot lies in different places.

Having a proliferation of types is bad for everyone but highest order FP Weenies among us.
No black bar for Dyson. The black bars overwhelmingly go to the titans of (digital) tech rather than titans of science.
> In a paper, 'Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff,' Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst criticise a 2010 paper by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, 'Growth in a Time of Debt.' They find three main issues: First, Reinhart and Rogoff selectively exclude years of high debt and average growth. Second, they use a debatable method to weight the countries. Third, there also appears to be a coding error that excludes high-debt and average-growth countries. All three bias in favor of their result, and without them you don't get their controversial result."

This one is kinda buried in the list. This is what motivated the harsh austerity measures in Greece. So an entire country was punished because of a bug in a spreadsheet.

http://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how-...

https://prospect.org/culture/books/the-crash-of-austerity-ec...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr...

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/04/17/how-mic...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/dcyvro/the-colbert-report-aust...

interview with herndon http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kbgnf0/the-colbert-report-aust...
download link seem to be broken
I particularly enjoyed being immersed in the ethos of engineering, which is very different from the ethos of science. A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Dyson said this while describing his time working on the Orion project. It had a profound effect on me and it has always stuck with me.
>(2) Saves the webpage it points into a git repo (a simple curl should suffice for most websites)

FWIW I've done something similar and lots of sites that use a lot of JS (and pretty much every single page webpage like twitter and FB) will not re-render correctly just because you have the files. It actually takes a lot of work to clone a webpage, the best solution I've found so far is to print a PDF from a headless chrome (but this has its own problems, like now you have to deal with a PDF).

Even generating the PDF is a lot harder than it seems, at least if you've never done it before, because there are a lot of gotchas (for example, did you know that most websites provide a second stylesheet to be used while printing that makes it look barely messed up, but still clearly broken? I didn't either)
Go does absolutely nothing to ensure you handle the error.

The only thing in Go source code that you see more often than the boiler plate "if err != nil" is "a, _ = foo()".

It's all too easy to ignore an error in Go.
> Ballotpedia

I love this. He did the equivalent of creating your own wikipedia entry, that you then cite.
> So now you're stuck having to lean on your terminal emulator for tabs and splitting windows

If you have tiling wm, why would you want tabs or especially splitting in terminal emulator?

> Most terminals are really bad at those tasks

Just don't use bad terminal emulators? And good terminal emulators are better at those tasks than tmux
A $7.5B Boondoggle Advances in Austin
Makes sense. The principle of 2FA is to combine 'something you know' (a password) with 'something you own' (your phone). I guess the biometric lock is 'something you are' on top of that.
I've met him and his other daughter. They are/were wonderful people.

There were a lot of "solutions" using nuclear weapons looking for a problem. There was a proposal to blow a new canal through nicaragua, to blast harbors into Alaska, etc. My roommate's father showed me his paper that anticipated fracking: drill a deep well in oil shale, through a small nuclear weapon in the bottom, blow it up and watch as the pressure and heat extract the oil and have it flow through the fractured rock back to your oil well.

He almost got to test it.
Quoting from Corral 2006:

"the longer since the last earthquake, the longer the expected time till the next".
"the belief that the longer the time to get an earthquake,the bigger its size, is false".
I was specifically responding to the “Where would you even be driving to or from in cities like that?” part — the huge demand for local parking makes it clear that many people have answers to those questions even if they're often “because the city has neglected transit infrastructure” or “the city chooses not to enforce traffic laws or design roads which are safe for non-car usage”.
Enabling Environment
Try Searching: jobs, engineering + enterprise sales + Chicago

*Yes, I looked you up. I'm that good.

Promise not a stalker!
Restrictions on that right are subject to "strict scrutiny", which is the highest standard of judicial review.

To satisfy it, the government has to show that it has a compelling state interest and that their solution is narrowly tailored to serve that interest.

Curfews for public safety after natural disasters like fires and floods, or to prevent spread of disease, or in times of extreme civil unrest like riots have been found to meet the strict scrutiny standard.

Since a ban on large gatherings is less of an imposition on your freedom of assembly than a curfew, I'd expect that it would be allowed.
Often these choices are 2 dimensional, but people don't see it because we can always agree that there's one quadrant that nobody wants, but usually there's another quadrant that some people really want, and others need but don't think they want. It gets ignored and everyone behaves as if X = Y when in fact it should be X <= Y

As a concrete example, I was struck by something in an interview where the consultant pointed out that easy to implement functionality gets copied by your competitors quickly. Differentiating features are ones that are very valuable but tricky to get right. But nobody wants to prioritize those and so (my words) whole industries are boring dystopias of cheap features with no kick. You should want to implement some features that are worth far more than the trouble of implementing them, regardless of how much trouble it is.

Similarly, getting a concise design may be one of the hardest things we can do. So we end up with naive or baroque most of the time. When someone stumbles onto something better a bunch of us copy them in the next generation of tools, but the inspiration/perspiration balance is very evident in the slow rate of change we see.
No! He was a hero to any aspiring physicist.

I can’t even begin to list his accomplishments!
Parties are nice opportunities to make some friends... If you can't find any, go to language school, art club etc. and invite people just like that.
Can they at this point? It seems like their authority has been emasculated.
Wuhan Outbreak Is Caused by the Bacteria Prevotella
> The kind of settings described in the article should be tied to an account.

I disagree, these kind of settings should not be tied to the account as an account may be accessed across multiple devices. Using LS to store device-specific preferences seems like a good solution to me.
AI Helps Scientists Discover Powerful New Antibiotic
I recently had a discussion with someone who complained about the Gmail permission dialogue when adding his Gmail account to the Windows 10 mail program. He was absolutely convinced that he will not agree to giving Windows permission to view and send emails for him and instead requested that Google and Windows enter a contract that only allows him to do that.

It was completely impossible to explain to him the technical background (e.g. that him sending an email through the program and the program sending an email by itself is technically the same thing for Gmail) and he wouldn't accept that Google is quite rightly informing him about the implications (Google should change the text to say it only allows him to send emails).

As you said he expected Google to give him technically impossible guarantees and handle that the third party software can't do anything without him confirming it.
It's complicated. Initially there was Mozilla Suite. Mozilla Suite consisted of a browser, a mail and an IRC client. Then Firefox came out as a simpler browser, without all that unnecessary stuff. And the mail component from Mozilla Suite became Thunderbird. But the Mozilla community liked the old Mozilla Suite, so they kept developing it after Mozilla gave up on it, under the name SeaMonkey. So today SeaMonkey Mail and Thunderbird still share lots of code, but technically speaking they aren't the same thing.
I think I know the pomodoro technique quite well, but as others have mentioned I am as well at a total loss how I could use this calendar/template to improve my workflow. It seems just a habit tracker and the only Pomodoro specific part is the actual pomodoro symbol used. The link to the Etsy templates shows that most of them track much more than simply the number of pomodoros. In addition, the wikipedia link mentions shorter and longer breaks, so perhaps at least the template should help tracking these? And "calendar" implied to me some daily, weekly or monthly planing, but either I'm missing some options or I can only specify the number of symbols without any timeline/calendar part?

Perhaps, the template would be more useful if you add some hints on the intended use in the lower third?
Ebikes still cost way too much. You can get a really great bike for £500. An ebike is going to set you back £1500 or more.

I think the price will come down but I don't think they're a great solution yet.

Fortunately they don't need to be a great solution. In all but the hilliest places plenty of people will bike if the cycle lanes are there. Loads of people cycle in Bristol despite it being quite hilly and not really cycle friendly (but they are very slowly improving).

Flatness definitely helps but it isn't the only thing that matters. The Netherlands was completely car based until the 70s for example, and it was just as flat then.
If I can't block the ads on a page I'm simply not going to visit it ever again. I've never seen a website that was actually necessary for me to visit that had ads or couldn't be blocked.
Counterpoint to what you're saying: Any trusted CA can MITM almost any site on the internet (ignoring CA extensions like Name Restrictions, pinned certs, etc). Google has a trusted CA, so while the OP is wrong it's not something they can't do.
Big properties do that and Google doesn't care.
Is there any clue what the MSRP is going to be for these chips? I'd like to get a sense of how much a SBC mounting one of these is going to cost.
Past Strains Between Boeing, FAA Threaten Max Simulator Plans
Note that Perl 6 has been very much a thing since December 2015 (first official release). However, last October it got renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). And it is still very much a thing. If you want to keep up to date, you should check the Rakudo Weekly News (https://rakudoweekly.blog).
It's a good example of articles that shouldn't be on HN because they have been covered by 24/7 news organizations already. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://archive.is/cO4YV
“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematicks and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, musick, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelaine.” - John Adams

Seems like we are regressing from artists back to "mathematicks". Hopefully we don't regress further into "Politicks and War".
I think last week someone mentioned the dyson sphere with a link to wiki.
It said he regretted they named it after him.
This is a preprint and needs confirmation. It may just be bad statistics, as prevotella from what I understand is not an uncommon gut bacteria.

This is however loosely supported by multiple reports[1] that patients still test positive for the virus up to a week after recovery and discharge.

1. I'm having trouble finding it but it's a recent Reuters article reporting that up to a week after recovery patients tested positive.
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