skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a similar experience- I use it for a website I built for a small business and for my personal website, as well as basically any other personal project I want to throw up on the internet. It's been a very positive user experience; mainly I was curious how well both its features and pricing scale to a "real product".
Facebook cancels its annual F8 conference due to coronavirus concerns
You can use docker images on Heroku so I don't see any reason they would be supplanted automatically.
Linters can prevent you from using outdated C++ constructs with ease.
I believe you can walk on flowers without damaging them.
> this is a very finite solution to a boundless problem

Are you seriously concerned about running out of places to put a 10 story building? People will just start making 20 story buildings.
I thought you had a good take till I got to the end and saw a conspiracy theory that to my knowledge has very little basis in fact. Simple explanations (species jump, evidence of similar viruses in adjacent species) are way more likely than some arcane BSL 4 leak. We shouldn’t compound hysteria with wild conspiracies.
At this point, the voluntary self-quarantines if you came from China (ex-Hubei) aren't even defensible for health (as opposed to political) reasons. Or at least they aren't defensible if you believe we also shouldn't be quarantining people coming from S. Korea, Italy, or Iran. [In Koreas' case I'm seriously surprised no CDC self-quarantine rules have been issued]
Oh, you mean like the state provided service that is trying to sell off the .org domain registry right now?
Assume only ~70% is staff. Requires more than just payroll to run a company.
There was a reddit /r/unpopularopinion thread about 'looking through people's profiles for something to attack them with' recently, but I missed the boat by a few hours, so this seems like a good place to ask folks who do this:

Why do you look through other people's profiles? I just don't understand the appeal in the first place. I like Hacker News' 14 day newbie green text, but even if it didn't exist I have never cared enough about someone's posts to try and gather any kind of intel on them, or see if they are fresh accounts, or what have you. The only time I've used people's profile info here is to find contact info to send them something, usually on request.

The whole <6 months thing just seems like old school SomethingAwful style behavior, where regdates operate on a punch-down style system.
Do you have any source whatsoever for that claim? Personally, I don't believe for a minute that additional freedom for prisoners would increase suicide, but I'm no expert.
I think this is a understatement... Every US prison/jail/detention center has a "pay-to-play" program administered by profit driven private companies who (IMU) overcharge for these basic services. $5.99 a minute is outrageous! I feel like these companies are allowed to prey on the most vulnerable people and no one cares because there not what society considers "good people".
Thanks! Would love to chat about what could make it work for the b2b side, as I'm working on that currently. Feel free to email me at hello at vidhug.
I don't understand.
You will get cold McDonalds if you driver there yourself, pick the food and take it back to your home/office as well.

Unless you are advocating for:
spending time to drive there, order, get lucky enough to find a seat, spend more time there eating and finally spend time driving back.

Honestly, the $5 is a huge time saver for most people and they gladly pay it. Those who rather save the money, can perform all the steps above.
This is something the media should be discussing more, to motivate legislators to fix ASAP.
These same people also are less likely to have health insurance. The US is particularly vulnerable to something like this.
Ajit Pai claims to be a "free-marketer." If 5G is oh-so-amazing for consumers, then why aren't T-Mobile and Sprint willing to invest in it without the government approving this huge merger deal? I mean, it's a veritable gold rush, right? Consumers are practically begging them for it, yes?

Maybe because consumer demand has NOTHING to do with it and it's ALL about geopolitics.

> I can’t guess about the outcome of this litigation, unfortunately, haven’t read the briefs, haven’t watched the witnesses. I certainly hope we will prevail, and that the partisan minority of state attorneys general who are pursuing this misguided litigation will lose. And the reason I say that is not just because of the institutional interests that the F.C.C. and the D.O.J. represent, the interests of the entire country and of competition across the country. And also because at the end of the day, we have our eyes on the future. And the future is going to be 5G.

Yes, dear leader, please look out for OUR interests and "prevail" over this "partisan minority." Free market my socks.
Nope, that doesn't work, because you can never know what context your data will be used it so you can't know what's safe or not up front:

See also: http://acko.net/blog/safe-string-theory-for-the-web/
Most minimum wage workers also don't have health insurance ( at least in my hometown area ), and that means they'd be in the hook for the entire amount.
Theatres are isolated from each other and often adjacent to the main ICU for this reason. So the trick should be effective.
fwiw, an /s doesn't save you from overestimating the comedic impact of your HN jokes.
at my local sprouts grocery store they were out of some of the bulk section bins: 2 or 3 of them. But, the other 17 bins were still mostly full. So, I don't think the full panic has set in yet.
That is where speed of spreading the disease comes in. If you can limit it so that 1% of population in local area is sick simultaneously, then it is fine.

If you cant limit the speed of spreading the disease, then the hospitals will miss those needed respirators and more people will die. Cause respirator is necessary if you are one of the unlucky ones.

Which is where "hysteria" around locking areas, washing hands and testing people on airports comes in. That is why locking cities, working from home and having some reasonable amount of food so that you are comfortable. The whole point is to slow down spreading, so that resources are available for sick people.

> I feel powerless in the face of this epidemic and being told to wash my hands a bit more, and touch my face less only serves to reiterate my impotence. Is that where the thirst for disaster potential comes from? An addiction to the panic endorphins?

It is not impotent to wash hands and touch face less and avoid unnecessary crowd. That done in masses is to slow down the spread. It is all actually useful.
> It is ironic that South Koreans would be worried about Americans and Japanese given the state of corona in SK.

The government is doing so much more to control the spread of the virus in South Korea. As such I can reasonably trust that the number produced by South Korean is trustworthy. The same thing cannot be said for the Japanese or U.S. government. The Japanese have an incentive to under report numbers because they've prepared many years for the olympics and don't want it to be cancelled.

I'd rather a government overreact than be complacent and baselessly optimistic and do nothing.
This is not a special knowledge. Just Google it: Vector, Koltsevo, 16.09.2019. Moreover, even if outbreak will be traced back to Koltsevo (because it's only one bio-laboratory which had this virus), explosion will be used as excuse.
This is absolutly not how a certificate signing request work at all. Please don't say something so wrong just to scare people, you cannot read encrypted packets just because you signed a certificate.
Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services
A false positive rate of 0.1% and a false negative rate of 40-50%? Isn't that... actually pretty useful? You'd never want to convict someone based exclusively on this, but it could fit into the "preponderance of evidence" standard. No one piece of evidence is foolproof, e.g. the classic examples of DNA & fingerprints- did you even lift the right set of prints or collect the right sample of hair?
Similarly, here is your reminder than US Zip Codes aren't numbers, because many of us here in the Northeast have them start with a zero (or even two). So don't store them as integers, because Boston is 02108, not 2108.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZIP_Code_prefixes
I didn't know Heroku offered that service. In any case, my question was really about source vs containers. The nice thing about the former is most of the infrastructure is taken care of for you, so you don't need a devops person or a docker workflow.
AWS basically finances the rest of Amazon. It's 70% of its revenue (that is public info). Except for retail, the rest is all losses. So the discounts don't matter much, other branches just try to save money (frugality is one of Amazon's core values) but basically get what they need.
Artificial Intelligence as the year 2000 approaches (1992)
You can, yes.
This comment is the perfect candidate for https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/
I do not believe the US government ever claimed that there were 0 civilian deaths in Iraq. What did Assange really do that you view as a positive while he was breaking so many important laws?
They did the same thing as far as the customer was concerned, only better, thereby offering a better deal to customers, who switched.
> If true, that’s insane - why does the government only take cares of $1700 and not something like $3000?)

Because a government that does healthcare is socialism that that's considered inherently evil by many.

And you're right: the healthcare system is absolutely insane.

If you can afford it (like I do), it's obviously world class in its medical abilities, but it's a disaster in terms of administrative overhead and its inability to serve the general population.
Europe may force makers of smartphones, tablets to install replaceable batteries
At what point are judges liable here? They play a vital role in our society yet a lot of what they do seems to be based on precedent established on a whim.
FYI: The parent comment is a (pretty funny) joke.
Our programming languages suck at providing useful types.

"String" is a structural data type. "SQL query" and "HTML snippet" and "regular expression" and "user-entered text" are semantic types which can be stored in strings, but are all quite distinct in meaning and usage.

You shouldn't be allowed (by the language's type system) to pass user-entered text to a SQL query function, without perhaps first calling a function with a scary name like "convert_raw_unsafe_text_to_query". A string is not a string is not a string. Or make a DOM-for-SQL so we never have to touch syntactic strings.

(It's exactly the same problem as units of measure. 5.0 feet is not the same type as 5.0 meters, and you shouldn't be able to add 5.0 + 5.0 if you didn't declare they have matching units, or define a way to convert as necessary. Numeric types in most languages don't have associated units, either, unfortunately.)

Hungarian notation tried to partially solve this, by giving up on the built-in type system and using variable names to encode intent. That solution is ugly so it's been abandoned, and it's the wrong place to solve it, anyway.

Programming languages today don't provide appropriate abstract data types for strings, or make it easy to define your own. Popular libraries for SQL/HTML/regex/etc don't require special string types. Since there's no standard types, it'd be a pain for any users who need to use more than one library, too.

We need either one popular language to do this (which others might then copy), or two popular libraries (a coalition). It also needs a catchy name for this style of programming, to help shame old languages/libraries that don't support it.
Statement on the Removal of Plague Inc. From the China App Store
> Remdesivir, developed by Gilead Sciences Inc.,

This is the same Gilead Sciences that developed a cure for Hepatitis C, but was crucified in the press because of the high upfront cost.

I want pharma to makes lots of money so they care hire lots of smart people. I want developing cures for viruses and diseases to be at least as a good a career path for smart kids in the future as working for a Silicon Valley company writing the next chat app or developing the next advertising platform.
Yes. In a time before we really knew how to accurately measure short periods of time flowing water was one of the few ways humans had to meter out time.

In theory a pendulum with the same weight and length could have served the same purpose with some limitations on the number of messages it could potentially convey.
Yeah, I have nowhere near enough control to manage that. I typically surround my centerpiece flower with 8 hives for the full season and accept inefficiency.
VMWare is majority owned by Dell.
RoboCup Junior OnStage is a good example of integrating dance with computers. You can program sensors to detect triggers from humans and respond by moving props into place. There's a lot of freedom to choose what type of sensors, computers, and actuators to use. Search for videos of RoboCup OnStage to see some examples.
Yes, in fact ublock origin has a very advanced global/local case where you can block resources globally or block resources locally and temporarily if you really want.

It's generally better to use ublock origin on it's own than to use ublock origin with umatrix or ublock with noscript. Mainly because ublock origin comes wiht neutralising anti-adblock scripts that would get blocked if you combine it with a separate script blocker.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_...

Here is a good tutorial on how to use ublock origin in advanced mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lisQQmWQkY
Looks like we can add healthcare reform to the list of potential geopolitical consequences to this virus. Time to see if the U.S. medical establishment is really as dire as many claim online.

If what you're saying is true about prices, there really will be a full blown outbreak if people can't afford to be tested. I presume some sort of emergency order will be given Nationwide to make testing available for free.
> I believe the law assumes...

That's not how law works. The law, as written, does not require -- or even say anything about -- treating all content equally. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was written specifically to find a middle ground between "common carrier" and "publisher". It's actually very simple and very readable for a layperson[0]:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

That's it; that's the full text.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
The dead / (recovered + dead) is the worst-case assessment, since most of the people who have not technically recovered yet (but may not even have any symptoms anymore), won't die either.

The dead / (infected + dead) is the best-case assessment, since some of the people who have not recovered yet, will die.

A somewhat better metric would be dead / (infected X days ago) where X is the median time for the illness to fully develop.
> and convince the store owner to sell it

That's the key bit. The store owner can say "no".
Thanks for making it all so painless. It's so good I forget it's even there. Easily the best piece of infrastructure tech I've ever used.

Also, to folks who wish to "pay" for the certs, you can do so at https://letsencrypt.org/donate/.
A yearly recurring donation for the avg price of an SSL cert is what I do.
I suspect Heroku is pretty much fine. As the other poster noted it has a system setup that is really stable, and probabbly is efficient to run.

Maybe not the most wiz bang / get the attention more complex deployments have, but I suspect it is heavily used.
> Irrelevant

Hilarious.
I'm hedging a bit because I don't have a good sense of how things are country wide, but there are some clear cases where it is not.
To me that illustrates the point further which is that it's not just about some random definition of the term "open source", there were very real practical concerns that prevented its adoption and were not addressed.
To put it more succinctly and without unnecessarily referring to JavaScript semantics, type="number" is for quantities, not mere strings of digits.

It's an unfortunate accident of the English language that both are commonly called ‘numbers’. We might not have had this confusion if some other language were the lingua franca of computing.
This is my usual reminder that Google Earth for desktop is still available and is still wildly superior in terms of features and performance to the web version.

https://www.google.com/earth/versions/

(scroll to the bottom, select 'download earth pro on desktop')

Edit: Though to be fair, I just checked out the web version and it does appear to be much better than it was when it was first released. It does now appear that they're actually trying to re-implement most of the features of the desktop app on the web. The lack of historical imagery and the replacement of the 'layers' model with a couple of 'map style' options are the most glaring omissions.
Wow this is cool.
It's different when it's personal. It's easy to ignore talking heads on TV, because they're talking heads on TV. If you personally watch a parent die from coronavirus, there is no amount of spin that will erase that.
You'd have to make a very long piece of string and avoid it snagging, getting cut, or breaking under it's own weight. Also along that distance there's going to be a lot of slack in the system so you'd have to take that up too.
That footer, though.

> NIH…Turning Discovery Into Health®
The article is recommending against using type=number.
Taken literally, you are correct and you advocate good advice - to remember this and presumably weigh it among the pros and cons. However, your phrasing could be interpreted to have a subtext suggesting less bureaucracy is always better.
Masks in Japan are based on the desire of Japaneses not to infect others and not to spread their own germs. They won't filter the air coming in or out, but they'll catch a sneeze and a cough. They also make it so you don't put your fingers in your mouth or nose. It's the sick that wear them. You barely see them elsewhere because the idea of "wear something uncomfortable for the sake of others" is a hard sell in the west.
I had a problem a couple years ago where my test showed that I had hypothyroidism. My doctor wanted to immediately put me on sythetic thyroid hormone to adjust this. The problem is that I'm thin, athletic, and have no other indicators for risk of hypothyroidism.

I said no to the doctor, and had them do another test, which said I was just fine.
>needs to pay for $1400 to test?

The individual in that article likely had reasonably good insurance, someone earning minimum wage likely would have insurance that would cover very little if anything and they'd likely owe the entire 3* amount.

The countries doing lots of testing are basically countries with socialized medicine, the cost is being passed on to the tax payers. For the United States you are responsible for your medical costs, if you are fortunate you have good insurance that will cover varying percentages of your medical insurance.

I have 'good' insurance, several years ago I required hospitalization and ended up incurring somewhere between 13 and 15k USD in bills for about 30 hours in the hospital and the ambulance ride. I ended up paying something like 12-13% of that. At a start I personally owed 100 USD for every single doctor that touched my case which ended up being 5 doctors if I recall correctly, only 3 of which I ever met. In this instance the hospital was very courteous and allowed me to set up a payment plan and repay them, interest free, over many months. I paid the debt off over a year and a half if I recall correctly.

They then wanted more blood over the next several days and had to see a primary care physician to get my medical leave paperwork filled out and those two things cost me another 200-300 USD after insurance.
Adapting Education to the Digital Age
"Basically, the government doesn't pay for anything; only private insurers do."

That's not true. Poor people can get Medicaid, old people can get Medicare, and there are also various other ways of getting one's health care expenses subsidized by the government if you're poor or have medical reasons for not being able to work.

Just to be clear:

I'm for 100% state-funded medical care, but it's simply not true that "the government doesn't pay for anything; only private insurers do". The government does pay for quite a lot, even if many people in the US don't qualify for such aid.

They absolutely should qualify for such aid, in my view, but my opinion doesn't change anything. Some people qualify, some don't, and the government does pay for some, and private insurance does not pay for absolutely everything in the US. These are just facts.
Wait, what was your point here? That women actually are wonderful?
Ooo can’t wait to check them out!
> Rome is experimental and in active development. It's open for contributors and those interested in experimental tools. It is not ready for production usage.

This is because, unlike the historical Rome, this Rome may fall in a day.
> Most minimum wage workers also don't have health insurance

Oh, I thought that the government provides a default one; realized that US doesn’t have a ‘default’ insurance from the sibling comment.

> that means they'd be in the hook for the entire amount.

Thats... insane and sad.
Apparently, that's partisan misinformation: https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
Air driers have shown to be terrible for hygiene. But they're convenient and save paper.
Treating input as data (good):

def echo():
user_input = input('enter some text: ')
print('your text: {}'.format(user_input))

Treating input as code (VERY BAD, DON'T DO THIS):

def echo():
user_input = input('enter some text: ')
command = "print('your text: {}')".format(user_input)
exec(command)

The second example allows the user to do all kinds unintended stuff:

enter some text: '); print(10**2000) #
your text:
1000000000000000000000...

(abridged)

That would print however many zeroes the user specified, and use a whole lot of memory. With some creativity it's possible to cause lots of havoc.
Or you know, we can determine that the cost of keeping people healthy is a social good and invest in that. I don't think we need market indicators to show that we don't want people to die. And we know that that market signal distorts the needs addressed so that chronic alleviation things get more attention than one-time cures...
What a deceptive headline
Starbucks: A Reconsideration
Why Hasn’t the U.S. Done More Coronavirus Tests?
Those social skills black magic, I should have been drinking more in high school instead of programming.
That was my thought. I think the main complaint is that there evidence is presented without the statistics you mentioned, as if it's near effective 100% of the time.
Epic officially stated they are attending. https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/1230899968157868032?...

Edit: As stated in the reply Epic is now out also.
Microsoft just did I think. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/blog/gdc-and-the...