skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we give false measures and waste time and energy on things which are either insignificant or end up being detrimental.

Frequently we end up with a solution which is even worse for the environment. For instance, we switched from single use plastic bags to multiple use plastic bags in new york. I spent $8 dollars on buying 4 multiuse polypropylenes bags, not a big deal, but 2 of the four bags are already beginning to rip after 5 or 6 uses. In order for the the reusable bags to be as environmentally friendly as the single use bags they need to be reused atleast a couple of hundred times. So my grocery shopping is now a couple of bucks more expensive for me (whatever) and environmentally less friendly.

Straws are likely the same deal, plastic straws are probably more environmentally friendly than their metal straws.
The US has the highest incarceration rate of countries from which you can trust the statistics.

That is a different thing.
You can’t just spin up this capability quickly once it has been lost. There is lot of experience needed
Perhaps the most notorious happened at the very beginning, search for Li Wenliang
Maybe, but it's probably not like, say, ditch digging, where you round up some people with strong backs and hand them shovels and get to work. Probably takes time to ramp up. The time to do that was a few months back.
You are correct, my view is very North American centric. I've never been to Japan so I don't know about childcare and parenting.
The numbers probably get worse with scale rather than better because larger countries can get away with having lower medical capacity than smaller countries (i.e., larger countries will be more efficient).

The U.S. could probably build a hospital very quickly, but neither China nor the U.S. can build enough hospitals quickly enough, let alone equip them, let alone train nurses and doctors quickly enough.

If the brown stuff really hits the moving fan blades, then military tent cities it will be, and it will be more like bad hospice care than like bad hospital care.

One thing this crisis will do is highlight the need for more emergency pandemic handling capacity. That means: a) faster testing of vaccines (e.g., do double-blind testing on medical staff, since they need it most), b) faster emergency mass production of vaccines, c) faster emergency distribution of vaccines.

Creation of new treatments (new anti-virals, ...) on an emergency basis is necessarily going to lag because it's much more costly and time consuming than development of new prevention (vaccines). Manufacturing new equipment (respirators) and so on also takes time (retooling, etc.). Building hospitals takes even longer (even if you can pull together to build one very quickly, equipping it will take time). And training staff takes eons. Throw in supply chain disruptions and, really, I think only emergency development and testing of new vaccines is plausible on a timescale similar to that of a pandemic.

It's not like you can have a ton of spare capacity around: that's very costly too, and there's depreciation issues. Reaction time needs to be faster instead.

One thing I'd like to see come out of this is a treaty or agreement on cross-certification and inspection of bio labs around the world, and an agreement to not develop bioweapons, or at the very very least to not develop bioweapons that are trivially transmissible from human to human. I think it's becoming clear that SARS-covid19 was leaked accidentally from the BSL-4 lab in Wuhan, or at least that it's very plausible that it came from there, and that is rather upsetting -- this must not happen again!
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I would say the Moon will be a corner stone of human exploration.

This article touches on the anti Trump-Republican politics of the day, claiming that Democrats will kill any Moon missions because they are a waste of time and money, then spouts the benifits of Martian moon landings right after.

>>> It’s also possible that the first human missions to the Martian system may target Phobos as a base of operation due to easier landing and reduced fuel needs for a return.
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What gloves would you recommend, that are effective but "blend in"?
Cynical hottake, 150B of food waste per year in US, aka one mans trash is another's revenue.
Sorry to change the topic but I'm really struggling with a decision to fly from Tokyo (where I live) to the USA tomorrow for a wedding.

One of my closest friends is getting married. She says to come! Wedding is Saturday. Day after I'd fly to another state to see mom. A few days after that I'd fly to another state to see brother and dad. After that was supposed to be GDC. May still go to SF or just stay with dad but current flight back is after GDC.

I don't really want to miss my friends wedding and was really looking forward to seeing family as I only get to seem them once every other year or so and parents are healthy but ~80 so no so many chances left.

So, what do I do? Go and cross my fingers I don't catch it? Pray that I'm not a carrier? No symptoms ATM. I currently work from home so haven't been commuting in typical Tokyo rush hour trains but have been out at non-rush hour 2 out of 3 days a week.

Is it selfish to want to go? Is it selfish to not want to go? Is it irresponsible to go? Is it stupid to be worried?
box spreads? nah. he lost 60K
They may not be simply compared like that, because of the different measures taken. China did shutdown the entire country basically, cities with millions of people won't allow anyone to come in / out, and almost all shops / stores shut down.
Somewhere over the brainbow: a beautiful neuroimaging technique
That simply does not work. You can't sanitise, escape and reproduce correctly all at the same time.

Say you run a blog. I post a comment saying "But in this case, B<A!"

This is clearly dangerous input! But it is also exactly what I wanted to say. How do you sanitise this? Change < to &lt; in the database? Now you have to remember to NOT escape that again when outputting! And you have to make sure that, say, your text resources in your UI are all also escaped the exact same way, or you have to remember to escape them DIFFERENTLY than user-provided input.

Or maybe you "sanitise" by stripping out dangerous characters like "<". Now you have broken my comment.

The only strategy that is at all maintainable is to store the comment as received, and to escape on output. Anything else is massively fragile or broken.
Yeah you're in for a surprise in the future.
I mean, that's rather disputable: The Apollo 1 exploded, medical mistakes have a toll of 250.000 deaths per year in the US alone; among many other serious mistakes on vast different areas, I think unreliability is unfortunately a constant on the human race.
This is a fascinating example, particularly in comparison to the "wedding cake" cases from a couple of years ago.

The question of trading off between the customer's speech and the service provider's freedom seems to be nearly the same in both cases.

But the people following along at home have almost all traded sides! Those who were for the customer before are now cheering for the provider. Those who supported the old provider are now supporting the new customer. And they're using many of the same arguments to do it.

People are weird.
or Microsoft Silverlight, and soon Flash will be finally deprecated too, and I'm sure it will still be present in enterprise training modules and other nonsense
This reeks of smug engineering superiority.

I promise you the marketing team does serious competitive intel and probably knows more about the competitive landscape than the engineers themselves. That's true at my place of employment (also a bay area tech company), and I'd be shocked if it's not true at Google.
Version Vectors are not Vector Clocks (2011)
Indeed!

We, as many societies, will have to deal with the other large question: what do we do with monopolistic mega-companies?

The Youtube question has to primarily do with that they're the primary go-to for videos online that aren't related to pornography. There is Vimeo and other tiny video sites, but none of them amount to the connected monetization platforms, like the way Google does with YT.

Traditional monopolies don't really come into place, because as the canard here on HN is, "You can just make your own video site." In reality, that ignores all the interconnection and entrenchment. But Google doing X doesn't mean you can't. Are they a monopoly? (I believe they are.) And if so, what restrictions should they have in place to be fair?

(As and aside: I am arguing this in good faith. I've seen and had friends deplatformed for infosec, hacking, and gun repair videos on YT. I've also seen similar on FB and Twitter as well, with no recourse. And on FB and Twitter both, my elected politicians show up and talk with the populace. But alas, my first comment sits at -4, for what I guess is as a 'disagree button'. )
At the same time, I don't miss them. Turns out that I never really needed them in the first place. Sure, some people might need them, but I imagine the vast majority of people don't really need to use a straw.
From a philosophical/moral perspective I agree with you; that seems like a very reasonable position. From the perspective of constitutional law though I don't think its very relevant. The constitution only prohibits the government from making laws restricting the freedom of speech; it doesn't mandate the the government take an active role in preventing freedom of speech from being suppressed by non-government entities. If we want to fix that problem we'll have to do so through other means (whether they be legislative, technical, or social).
it already has hit your shore.
I think this is a really poor-faith strawman and doesn't contribute anything positive to the conversation. Please reconsider how you approach people you disagree with.
In all seriousness, why should a non-invasive diagnostic test require any sort of approval (particularly during an outbreak)? This is just RT-PCR if I understand correctly - there's nothing particularly novel going on here. Just publish the primer sequences and let the biotech industry handle things.

Edit: Oh hey they did publish an RT-PCR protocol [1] plus sequences, [2] along with a disclaimer not to use them directly on human subjects. This is just silly (IMO).

> These procedures and/or reagents derived thereof are intended to be used for the purposes of respiratory virus surveillance and research. The procedures and reagents derived thereof may not be used directly in human subjects.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-detecti...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-panel-p...
Japan is the most hygiene and clean country. Bowing instead of handshakes would help too. Also public touching is uncommon
ingress-nginx doesn't do readiness/liveness checks itself; the kubelet does[1].

If any of the containers in a Pod aren't ready, the endpoints controller[2] removes the Endpoint object corresponding to that Pod. ingress-nginx watches these Endpoints objects[3] to determine which Pods it should send traffic to.

Edit: As to your use case, I think you should remove the readiness probe from that one container you don't care about.

[1]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/con...

[2]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/#kub...

[3]: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/miscel...
>"But that would probably pave the way for easy migrations away from Github."

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Yes.
Usual mostly those things to look at are mercury etc. which are in the shot to make the immune system react.

Now, this immune reaction means stress, right? The question is just, does this mean the immune system is general in a more active state so it can fight other diseases also more effectivly, or is it fully occupied with the fake illness, so real diseases can enter?
I don't know, but would like a medical person to answer me that.
Right, but if they're using k8s, they better already have support from their local network operations team.
They can choose to not do that. Kids can't just take care of themselves on their own, they need an adult to take care of them. And seniors are a lot better about washing their hands and other things than young kids in big groups are.
I don't really know how to interpret this. The first example I saw in English (I had to skip past some because I can't read French) was some guy beating up an Asian woman. I find it pretty implausible that guy's racism was closeted beforehand.
Well, when you invoke a pointer to member, you need an actual object (a this) to invoke it on. So when the member runs, it has a this.

But it sounds like what you want is a "handle" or some such term, by which you can invoke a member function on an object, and all you need to do so is the handle. That's a different problem than pointers to members are trying to solve, but you can do that quite easily with a function object. That's essentially a roll-your-own closure, and since you can define whatever data members you want, you can close over anything.

One thing you have to watch out for, though, is lifetimes. C++ is not garbage-collected, and so it will not preserve an object just because another object has a pointer or reference to it. If you create a function object that captures a pointer to member, and a "this" to invoke it on, and the "this" gets destroyed, and then you use the function object, you're going to get chaos.
>There's at least some merit in an argument that YouTube is so dominant in user-uploaded video that, absent a big budget and/or notability to drive viewers elsewhere, if your video is not on YouTube it might as well not exist as far as the broader world is concerned.

Lets see who funds PragerU. From the Wiki:

>Much of the early funding for PragerU came from hydraulic fracturing billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks.[2][4] Two members of the Wilks family are on PragerU's board.[2] The next-largest donor is the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.[7][23] Other donors include the Morgan Family Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Donors Trust, and the Minnesota-based Sid and Carol Verdoorn Foundation, led by former C.H. Robinson CEO Sid Verdoorn.[23]

>As of 2018, the organization reportedly had a $10 million annual budget, of which it spent more than 40% on marketing.[2] In 2019, PragerU raised $22 million and expects to receive $25 million in 2020.[4][24] PragerU consistently spends more on Facebook advertising than major political campaigns and national advocacy groups.[25] It ranks among the 10 biggest political spenders on the platform.[25]

The lawsuit also talks about being demonetized because of advertiser preferences.

You can literally start with uploading .mp4 files on your site immediately. How many tens of billions have been spent on campaigns? There's so much money sloshing about just in the immediate vicinity of the political agenda driven folks complaining but somehow no one can throw source code on GitHub of Reddit and clones onto a server and buy a domain for a few bucks, or set up a video sharing site with all the commercial tools available, and advertise them.
This is basically drivel. My personal motto is "we chose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard!" The trend of startup failures has nothing to do with the difficulty of the problem they were trying to solve, and everything to do with the fact that smart people can spot when a startup is just a copy of something else already successful.

Yes, startups doing photos sharing apps increased after Instagram was created. That's because most people are idiots and just won't realize they aren't going to disrupt a new industry. Venture capitalists also frequently invest in failures because they too are idiots.

The reason there are only 2 startups trying to do cold fusion energy is because nobody has any clue on how to make that happen, where as social media apps can be designed and built in an assembly line.

Yes, trying to invent a new industry is infinitely harder, but for the most part we all know that startups aren't going to invent successful cold fusion. Either someone will invent it by accident, or some chemist/physicist is going to figure it out as part of a think tank funded by either the government or by one of the existing fortune 50 companies.

Picking a hard problem to solve can't make it easier for your startup to succeed because the hard startups are basically trying to get retardedly lucky. There is no mythical group of employees who you can identify as being the group who will invent cold fusion, which is why these kinds of startups always fail. Funding one of them is throwing money away, where as funding a photo sharing app has a small chance of breaking even if they at least have a unique selling point.
I use emoji when texting sometimes. I have nothing against them. I used emoji as a symbol for excessive and distracting behavior, that feels similar to how memes feel – which to me has an almost mob/cult-like quality to it.

I’m not sure what other examples to use to describe the tone I’m referring to without offending anyone. But, I’d personally be really interested in an anthropologist writing about the internet culture of JS development. Edit: hackernews unsurprisingly did not let me use an emoji at the end there.
Thanks for all the recommendations, so useful!
Asynchronous communication is also distracting
Who says these 10% are using Firefox in the first place?
Imo, this is silly and condescending. I've worked with plenty of team leads and PMs who understand the value of refactoring at some level.

In your analogy, I would say the implementation details would be things like which wrench is used, which hand turns the wrench, how many turns it takes to loosen/tighten something, exactly how you hold the bottle of widget fluid to pour it into the right widget fluid opening under the hood, etc.

The concept of which widgets are being fixed seems crucial to the full picture of understanding the state change of the system (car) before and after the work is done. The owner is paying for the state change in the system.
Someone, somewhere has to be able to make a better alternative to Goodreads right? The site is slow, ugly, and buggy. The functionality is so simple: I tell you when I read a book and what I think about it.

I'm just shocked Amazon has been able to own this niche with so little effort.
If that's a concern, the more practical solutions are to 1) brush your teeth after drinking coffee or 2) don't drink coffee.

I do choose to drink coffee and don't brush immediately after and accept the risk to my teeth.

I was worried about the effect of soda on my teeth so I stopped drinking it.
It's 2020, and Chrome doesn't score 100% on Acid3. It's unlikely that any browser will, since the standards have changed.
Oh hey guys, Comical Ali is back[1]!

In all seriousness, I'm truly baffled what motivates you to stand out so strongly in your anti-hysteria hysteria. I mean, I'm the anxious type who just like to prepare for stuff just in case, especially if the cost is low, but you appear to go actively out of your way to spend energy on countering any degree of concern, and it's frustratingly difficult to understand the underlying motivation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf
I originally had it at 1.5 meters, then reread the article and saw the author listed 1.5 feet.

Personally I’d staying about a meter away from people at least. Can anyone comment of 1.5 feet is fine though? I’m assuming the author knows more than me.
You'd also disproportionately impact the poorest people in any given area where the cost of food increased.
You are once again spreading a variation on the lie that there is some magical legal difference between a “platform” and a “publisher” that somehow limits a company’s ability to control what its users do on that company’s own servers. There is no such distinction, legally.
Some forget. This page explicitly sets the background white. If the user runs a browser extension that overrides this setting, what can the page do?
Is it wrong that I find it a terrible thing that people aren't allowed computers with internet or cellphones in prison?

How do we expect people to join back to society when they can't use literally the number one most important thing?

Maybe give them phones with no cameras and monitoring of use, but just nothing seems very inhumane.
The OP is accurate. Canned food would see much less waste.
I think an important question is how much slack does the system need?

Such huge overproduction of food seems wasteful until there's a risk of famine. As the effect of coronavirus on supply chains is currently demonstrating, there are potentially giant hidden costs to maximizing efficiency at a certain point in time.

I agree with drastically decreasing meat consumption, but food production in general is, AFAIK, a relatively minor portion of total greenhouse emissions (especially everything that is not meat and especially compared to how important food is sustaining human life).
Unless there's a dialog going on, it shouldn't matter a great deal. But it's easy to mess up a dialog (having a conversation with both stdin and stdout).
What do those 40 empty lines in setup.py do?
The world is a better world when reasonable opinions are well-considered on all sides.

Prager U's videos are not hate speech. They are reasonable opinions voiced in a calm manner.

It is sad that YouTube chooses to de-promote Prager's content. But it is not illegal.
I predict the virus will persist in being unmoved by public opinion no matter how fake the news is.

With less confidence, I predict people who get sick, have friends and family get sick, and/or watch their 401k value drop 25% in a month will develop antibodies to certain types of fake news.
The problem comes from most first-world people lifestyles, it's an accumulation of consumerism and damaging things, like buying products with (plastic) packagings, non-necessary products (like cosmetics), non-seasonal vegetables/fruits, having pets for example (1/5th of meat and fish production is used for pets food)
>dominant in user-uploaded video

As far as I'm aware, I can't upload videos to CNN. I'm certainly aware that other sources of video exist; I don't even use YouTube much myself.

I'm actually sympathetic to your overall argument especially when complaints focus on the difficulty of monetizing video outside of YouTube. But it's at least worth discussing what it means when a private company has outsized control over certain types of information sharing.
God Damnit I Hoped They Wouldn't Do This. I love you Firefox but you make it so hard. I've come to depend on NoScript on mobile (the mobile web is a _nightmare_ with JS enabled by default) and now they're going to break it on me. The worst part is the part of this article about how their browser is not ready for extensions is labeled "Extension-ready". No it fucking isn't.

Fuck this is so frustrating.
> means that Safari can lag by three years in terms of features (case in point: WebRTC).

In the case of WebRTC, it's even worse than that: public stable releases of Firefox and Chrome supported WebRTC by early 2013, but Safari took until late 2017. That's more than five years for an extremely popular feature (I had three professional engagements where we had to integrate a native WebRTC client component into a Cordova application, and couldn't support that feature on iOS through the browser, before they finally released it).
Stitch looks cool, first time I'm seeing it (long-time happy mongo user via rails/mongoid). Is there a self-hosted version I could hook up to an existing app?
Krusty looks about right.
That reminds me of Allison (a super uptight soccer mom) in Orphan Black - But Alison had worked out how to find a supplier.
Nah, they are still catching up with what we had in 2011, and took it away from many of us that actually enjoyed using it.

https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81BrnktI4Gg
Maybe false negatives or even false positives could be a liability issue?