skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're willing to stretch things that far, a chess playing robot could be considered a DM who administers an extremely hyperspecific campaign which is isomorphic to chess. Or, tic-tac-toe for that matter.

A C-RPG captures D&D in the same sense that a WWII-themed video game captures the true World War II. In other words: not at all. A WWII-themed game applies WWII costumes, sound effects, etc. to an underlying game logic. Switching the WWII costumes to D&D costumes and marketing the result as D&D doesn't really make it D&D.
The bet is for 2030. Let's be clear about that then :-)
In a nutshell, miasma theory argued that illness was transmitted through the air, which could be poisoned by emissions from rotting organic matter. If you breathed this poisoned air, the theory said, you got sick. "Bad" air could be distinguished from "good" air by its offensive odor -- the stronger the odor, the worse the miasma. The way you prevented disease was by removing things that smelled bad to somewhere people weren't.

The miasma theory fell short compared to germ theory in several respects. While germs can be transmitted through air, for instance, they can also be transmitted through water, physical contact, etc. -- so miasma theory was spectacularly unhelpful in dealing with diseases like cholera, which is transmitted through water. There are also lots of situations where germs can be present even though there's no obvious bad smell, so miasma theory is no help there. Germ theory can explain why a doctor who doesn't sanitize his instruments between operations can pass an infection from one patient to another, for example; miasma theory cannot. And since it identifies the germ as the underlying vehicle of transmission, germ theory provides a means of protection -- kill the germ and you prevent the transmission. Miasma theory had no explanation for what exactly in the supposed miasma was causing the transmission, so its prophylactic utility was limited.

It's one of those things where people very early on made an intuitive observation (that being in places full of things that smelled bad tended to make people sick), and since that observation was "good enough" to make it useful in a lot of cases, it became part of the conventional wisdom. But once the scientific approach started finally being applied to medicine, its limitations became clear.
Personal ideal world in which everyone has pristine shoes too.
It's already a struggle to keep carpets clean in individual houses after a few years, I can't even imagine in a subway.
> We got 10 instead because we have 10 fingers to count on.

People have counted in 12s by reference to the knuckles on each finger.

Even more commonly, people have counted in 20s by reference to fingers and toes.

You can point to fingers as the reason for a base 10 system instead of a base 11 system, but you can't really point to them as the reason for a base 10 system uniquely.
Out of curiosity, what conference is that big? NAB?
Become a webdev. Current or recent homelessness is a job requirement.
Noted physicist slain by oldest foe, gravity:

"Mia Dyson says her father, at the age of 96 still regularly went to his office at Princeton University. On Wednesday, on such a visit, she says he suffered a fall and died of his injuries Friday morning."

TBIs and elder falling are a terrifying source of morbidity and mortality. So many old people start their terminal decline when they fall, for no particularly good reason. (Even when it doesn't immediately kill them, it can contribute to a downward spiral of ill health, less activity, and iatrogenics.) Who knows how much longer Dyson could have lived if his foot hadn't slipped?
I agree that the standard library database tooling is really clumsy in a lot of cases, but it's the library implementation at fault, not Go itself. Notably, contrary to your last sentence, you aren't troubling yourself with "weird Go semantics", you're troubling yourself with the semantics of the database stdlib.
Is Microsoft authenticator interchangeable with Google's?
While doing ancestry research years ago, I learned I had a 2nd great uncle who immigrated to America from Romania aboard the RMS Carpathia in 1904. (Eight years later in 1912, this would be the first ship to come to the Titanic’s rescue, and six years after that would itself be sunk by a U-Boat.) He had left Romania likely to escape anti-semitism. He’d eventually find his way out to Denver. Sadly, he’d die in 1918 (the same year the Carpathia was sunk) at the age of 25, very probably from the flu.

This is a picture of him, along with his headstone and declaration of intent to become a citizen:

- https://ibb.co/xggjjnJ (Photo)

- https://ibb.co/vvnSqMg (Headstone)

- https://ibb.co/zmNzdC9 (Declaration)

Google Maps for his Denver, CO address:

- https://goo.gl/maps/CvmeCsUARnwXNnBu6
With quarantine you're preventing the spread of disease which is a general harm to others, with this you're preventing the spread of... your own 2FA codes, which only hurts yourself, if that. Sorry, but I don't think this analogy works. I should have every right to harm myself in any way I see fit. My hardware, my accounts, my control. Preventing accessibility "abuse" does nothing to stop malicious apps from attacking other devices but does a lot to harm accessibility and advanced user features.
Sorry it seemed like I don't want to help someone - I was trying to add to the GP's thing about how he/she does not enjoy co working spaces because of broken concentration by others asking to watch their stuff.

Of course I would help keep an eye out, but I would also like to help that person with other security / safety measure too, so they would be more secure in the future -

I think some people need a little auto-flag / light that pops up saying "I'm in the zone, don't break my flow" - I can relate to working on a thing and several side issues pop up that remain in short-term attention memory while changing code.. and getting through the mental checklist - and then get interrupted by family.. and try to come back and spend an extra 20-30 minutes trying to remember..

I could of closed my door, and should have - so it's not their fault.. so I see both sides of it. Generally speaking I would prefer to be social and helpful and can get my groove / flow back anyhow - so certainly being available to be present with other humans is often a higher priority. I also understand some others may have deadlines or whatever.

Also - what happens if someone else distracts you and you don't keep an eye on the laptop and something happens to it. Or what happens if two guys in black suits with sunglasses pop in and swap the laptop and look at you and give you the shh and finger gun to the head. I mean, what a predicament to be in.

I know none of that will ever happen, but someone's competition, an ex lover - I mean any sorts of things - many laptops are just value of the hardware sure, but some are data on the device and that could be a lot of responsibility -

I'm just sayin' - if it's not a chromebook, lets get some more layers of security! and an odd "all seeing eye" could not only be semi-cool tech, but a conversation starter if that's part of the appeal of engaging in the 'hey I'm running to the toilet' starter :)

Now, how to make an auto-do-not-disturb- I'm-in-the-zone, not-on-facebook bluetooth light/sign that detects typing in visual-studio/sublime/notepad++/jetbrains vs scrolling some web page. Might need to be more than a red/green light busy/not-to-busy; maybe do-not-bother (writing code)/available-to-chat(reading-perhaps)/please-save-me (I've been on reddit/fbook more than 30 minutes).
It is indeed a difficult problem. It's not just that users cannot be expected to be knowledgable. They cannot know who to trust either. If you show them a warning that says "do not install this add-on unless you trust its publisher", what is a user supposed to do? There are thousands of add-on/app publishers with names that no one has ever heard of.

So I do understand Apple's approach. Unfortunately, Apple muddies the waters by mixing up security protections with their own business interests and the interests of authoritarian regimes. To a degree I fear this is unavoidable.

I think the best solution is to have that very restrictive app store that you can trust to vet things for you, but in addition to that they should permit side-loading for apps and content that you have to vet yourself or rely on a third party vetting system.
Web Assembly will be the end of the HTML/HTTP based web: QUIC, direct JS based render in browser, no more view source.

HTTP/HTML will become the next gopher, and this makes me incredibly sad
"Consumer skills including music, connected home and third-party skills will no longer be available in the updated Cortana experience in Windows 10"
Those Web Assembly sites will still have memory accessible by the end user, ads will still be blocked.

They would need to server side render pages like a streaming game client would.
Eating Rat Stew Serves Hobbit Research
Officials have to calibrate their guidance against how the general public will react. If they announce that you should try to stay home and cancel your travel plans, but the average Joe looks around and says "nah it's not really spreading in the US right now", how do you get him to actually stay home if/when it's absolutely necessary?
I don't get it. The new attributes make sense, but why phase-out nofollow? There's nothing wrong with it, why can't Google just leave it the way that it is?
> one is to fry the egg like an omelette and chop it up and add

That's the one I would consider normal.
people already don't do this

for example: people who don't have adblockers (like everyone in my family except me)
I'm not sure you can call it "miss" if the article tries to hide its thesis as well as this one. After you keep going about file API and windows for pages and pages, you may insist all you like that "the point is coming", but I'm sorry, I won't believe you.
Apparently basic phones and feature phones demised after mangolian gangster characters used it in movies.

Apple is defending themselves against the same thing happening to them again.
Are you talking about OSI or the author? Because I'm defending neither.
Lots of good answers here.

"All I want is to make enough money to survive" well, this may be what is wrong with you.

You have programming skills? This is amazing. I understand you currently need some help, but someone also most likely needs your skills.

It's a tough world, but most businesses will not care about your needs to make money. They might even avoid you. However, they will beg for you skills if they realize what you can bring them.

In other words, you may want to focus on learning how to sell yourself, help a business to solve their problems and you will make money.

PS: I know a few people who made lots of cash on upwork with programming skills without qualifications. Try looking for agencies looking for hands.
I’ve been seeing quite a lot of major conferences being cancelled and/or large companies deciding not to attend. In many cases they’ve waited as long as possible before officially cancelling to see if things improve. I would think you have the right to express your concerns and decide not to attend - if enough people do the same, the event may be postponed or cancelled.
Ask HN: Is it always difficult to find co-founders?
Does everyone here feel it's super difficult to find the right co-founders at the right time? I attended top universities, worked at FAANG, have strong networks, but still find it super difficult to find a co-founder at the right time, with the right culture fit and with the right interests on the startup I'm working on.

Any hacks would be really appreciated!
The most interesting thing for me was the use of Lisp they did:

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ba...

To read this was a very important resource for my own education. I was shown the power of Lisp by a man that looked wired to emacs and so fast typing I could not follow him on the screen that solved problems orders of magnitude faster than me using this "wizard language" I could not understand.

It was mind blowing but at the same time very confusing, so I started searching material over Lisp that I could digest one step at a time and(combined with books I bought) that was very useful because it talked about real problems, not super simple simplifications like books did.
Do Yubikeys have a shelf life? Something akin to a usb flash drive?
Well, currently adblocking is already full of such easy to detect overrides, and extension APIs already have plenty of limitations on what they can touch and replace allowing websites to easily bypass most of the overrides, but they do work at the moment and websites don't bother.
fn main() {
let x = 1;
let x = "foo";
}

Does this make rust not strongly typed? Here's a Rust program with no types in the source code.

It seems the issue you're objecting to is that python doesn't differentiate variable declaration from assignment (The fact we need let twice in this code is a result of Rust doing this). Which is a fair thing to complain about (and why Python had the "nonlocal" and "global" keywords), but is not the same as being strongly or weakly typed.
Software 2.0 and Data Programming: Lessons Learned, and What’s Next
The biggest thing I took away is that it wasn't the initial outbreak that was abnormally lethal. It was the only after it had been incubating and mutating in millions of human hosts that the second wave broke out.
FYI, I'm not a trademark police, but "Pomodoro" is a registered trademark of Francesco Cirillo http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:gia...

"... ELECTRONIC AND MECHANICAL TIMERS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME FOR USE IN THE FIELD OF TIME MANAGEMENT ..."
A type alias binds a new name to a type. All of the type’s methods are available through the new name.
Second that. I‘m from Germany and attended a conference at a an Evangelical Church in the Netherlands (in Ede: https://www.schuilplaats.net/) a couple months ago without having booked a place to stay. At the end of the last evening session, I simply asked the pastor if he could help me and sure enough, one church member offered me an entire vacation apartment that he owns for one night for free. This is not a suggestion to take advantage of their hospitality but I have to say that the people at the church were very open and welcoming to new people without displaying a missional agenda.
Panic is unwarranted.

On the cruise ship, which is known for being full of old people, there were 3 deaths out of ~750 known cases. Almost everyone dying so far has had another medical issue or been very old. Reports now say that many people testing positive have no symptoms at all and aren't getting sick. There have been zero deaths of children so far, which is unlike the flu. The youngest death was in his mid 30s.

Everyone should chill. Visit with your parents or compromised friends on FaceTime for a few weeks. Wash your hands. Don't go to work sick. If you're pregnant take extra precautions.
Otherwise live your normal life.
Spoken like someone who has never worked in a low-wage job, owned a business, or managed low-wage workers.

There are low-paying jobs for a variety of reasons, including in large part, corporate welfare for the largest employers, like Wal-Mart, which the government subsidies at taxpayer expense to facilitate the payment of starvation wages.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

As far having everything you need for your products due your internet research, I hope you will enjoy the coronavirus (or whatever other communicable disease you acquire) as an added bonus from low-wage workers who are unable to call in sick. The people who brew your coffee, make your sandwich, park your car or do a million other things that allow our society to function. Perhaps when your mother, your aunt or child dies because they were needlessly infected by a low-wage worker who couldn't afford to seek treatment or call in sick to work you will factor that "worth" into their perceived value.
Flip side of your argument, just for brevity's sake.

I fear many governments and leaders are going to use this as an excuse to take full control and become the tin-pot dictators they want to be through those same draconian measures.

So here we are.
Perennial philosophy
Fascinating

Voitures sans permis (VSPs) can be driven by anyone aged 14 and up and are limited to 45 kph—just 28 mph. VSPs can’t be driven on expressways or highways, since a 28-mph top speed and, well, you get it. Drivers must only acquire what’s known as an AM category license, which requires a seven-hour training course, of which only four hours are spent driving on roads. Those born before 1988 require no license at all.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15345640/an-aixam-to-grin...
And there's a reason why empty catch blocks in Java are an anti-pattern.
It may be worth noting that while this piece presents it as settled that the Spanish flu originated in Kansas, that's not really the case. The author of this piece, John Barry, has long been an advocate for that position, but there are other theories of origination as well supported by at least as much evidence as the Kansas theory.

Wikipedia has a write-up on the various theories of origination here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_t...
you might want to rethink your analysis.

global GDP is not "the stock market". The "stock market" in this story is actually the S&P 500.

The high on 2/19 was 3386.15. The low right now as I post this is 2978.76. That's a drop of 12%. That is not a pothole. That is the grand canyon, opening all at once, not over a million years.

Luckily, this is correlated to a single "act of god" event. It will recover. In the short term, however, there will be real consequences.

This is one of those very, very good times to buy.
C'mon, don't advertise your website on a post where someone's looking for help. If you truly cared and didn't just want to advertise your service you'd have PMd the OP and your comment wouldn't sound so much like a marketing ploy.
Coronavirus: At least 210 have died in Iran, say hospital sources
Mildly awful, but not surprising for anyone old enough to remember "Ayds".
I am puzzling over that! Because we're having a party tomorrow :-) It's fifty people tops so it falls under #2. I don't think we're going to care about the ban since the party is private and not registered.

We do have a public party registered with the authorities for end of March. So if they extend the ban that may become a problem. But until then I hope we'll know whether the disease is reasonably contained. If not contained we probably don't want to be there anyway!
> Hairdressing is a ridiculously qualified job in the UK..People go to vocational school to learn it.

Can confirm. It is actually a very technical and regulated field, despite what many people think - myself included before i met my wife.

For instance, you need to know the risks of all the chemicals used, and infection vectors, etc. etc. and prove that you know it all in a licensing exam (both written and practical).

(Source: Married to a licensed hairdresser)
The community and content is great. Outsource some of the work?
> poor backup support

None at all. Or did I miss something?
In comm-central, there are three overarching directories [1]: mailnews, mail, and suite. The first directory is essentially all of the backend logic corresponding to the implementation of mail protocols, database logic, etc. The latter two directories are Thunderbird- and SeaMonkey-specific code, and almost entirely consist of the GUI display and GUI driver code, although there are some product-only components.

[1] There's a few more directories that are split out of mailnews, due more to historical reasons than any sane code split.
I think the Reuters article you refer to is here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-reinfection-...
“A Game to Change the World” – Online Game Jam
Here comes the fear mongering. We are far better equipped to handle epidemics and pandemics now than 100 years ago.
Stealing advanced nations’ Mac malware isn’t hard. Here’s how one hacker did it
Ryzberry Pi sounds even better IMHO
Legal eagle did a video on Youtube that came out yesterday that seemed to suggest that the government has leeway in cases of pandemics (sort of like in wartime) that it wouldn't have otherwise. It might technically be unconstitutional under some readings of it, but SCOTUS might rule that it's warranted.
Isn't basically all of this shortcomings of Go's standard library, not "Go the language"?

The Go standard seems to be heavily geared towards doing work on the server-side, and "server-side" essentially means "Linux" today.

If I'd need to write "client-side" cross-platform code that also needs to run on Windows, Go wouldn't be my first choice, also not my second or third.

And TBH, most other languages are not that much better (Python might be the only notable exception, and even this requires different code paths for "Windows vs the rest of the world" here and there).

For this type of cross-platform code, it's almost always better to talk directly to the underlying OS APIs and put those under a thin custom wrapper library instead of relying on the language's standard library.
Might not be immediate money but could be something like owning the rights to a song. Also "some men just want to watch the world burn"
HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society), the irony is just...
We live in a time where small community organizations are on the decline. These organizations exist in the form of clubs, athletic leagues, religious organizations such as churches, and others.

Churches provide an emotional support network to many people, perform acts of charity, and generally do much more good than harm. If you intend to use the Westboro Baptist Church as an example of the harm done by churches please be aware that you risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If you castigate churches for being close-minded, please consider reading up on the Unitarians for a decent depiction of how varied the moral philosophies of churches can be.

If you want to make accelerate the trend of declining community involvement, tax churches. I don't think it is wise.
Did you look at Haskell, and, if so, what do they do?

Good article BTW, IMO.
Miasma theory was the belief that it was the smells themselves that caused the disease, or rather, that bad air which was synonymous with with bad smell, that caused disease. The plague doctor outfits, for example, were not actually airtight. The 'beak' contained incenses and perfumes intended to protect against miasma by preventing smelling of bad smells. It actually was not very effective (fleas getting in through under the coat was among the many defects,) and the mortality rates of plague doctors was very high.
What did you look up exactly?
Rome, a New JavaScript Toolchain
OMG. I love lite.cnn.com. Please oh please, HN moderators, change all CNN links to lite.cnn.com automatically from now on.
Huh, I'd be curious to see that source. I know he somewhat recanted the idea of a Dyson sphere, as it is completely impractical even with unimagined technology (re: tensile strength of the materials, and preventing such a megastructure from falling into the sun whenever a rock hits it). But he later proposed the idea of a Dyson swarm, an extremely large array of solar-sucking satellites orbiting the sun as an idea that's theoretically possible even with today's technology.
And if uBO doesn't cut the mustard, you can set up Nano Defender to work in tandem detecting this stuff, though it is a manual setup.

Though I personally can't tell how effective it is, since I also run Bypass-Paywalls and uMatrix, so I don't know how much credit to give to those extensions.
TitaniumBackup does the job quite nicely if you're rooted, transferred codes through 4+ phones so far.