skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson#Science_and_reli...

Seems more complicated than that

> I am a practicing Christian but not a believing Christian. To me, to worship God means to recognize that mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our comprehension
Baselworld – world’s largest watch and jewelry event – canceled due to virus
What an interesting perspective to consider and a statement on human fragility, especially in the context of such a great man.
I'm very confused. Can someone explain what this does?
True though a lot of those roles would be a large demotion for me
Having worked with newly resettled refugees, I personally think this comment is a very important observation.
I don't know if you spotted it, but they added your comment to the footnotes at the bottom of the page now.
Octave - a doubling in the frequency. Generally speaking, in twelve tone equally tempered classical music, melodies and harmonies are drawn from a scale, a subset of these twelve notes. The most notable of those scales, the diatonic scale has 7 unique notes, and the eighth note wraps back around to the beginning of the scale. Thus, moving from a note to a note double the frequency took 8 notes - hence, the octave. Diatonic is both the name of the most used of the 7-note scales mentioned above, and also a term meaning 'within the scale', i.e., 'diatonic to a (given) scale', depending on context.

Melody is the horizontal arrangement of notes for an individual voice or instrument over time. Harmony is the vertical arrangement of notes sounding at the same time, and how those transform horizontally over time as a group. Tempo is the speed in beats per minute of the background 'pulse' of the music.

Now, asking for a music theorist to give you an algorithmic definition of how to make music with any of the above? Good luck ;)
Started writing "later” in life:

“Life begins at 55, the age at which I published my first book,” he wrote in “From Eros to Gaia,”

Never got his PhD. Taught physics at Cornell.

Thoughts on climate change:

"Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.” He doubted the veracity of the climate models, and he exasperated experts with sanguine predictions they found rooted less in science than in wishfulness: Excess carbon in the air is good for plants, and global warming might forestall another ice age."

Lots worth reading in the NYT obituary.
That doesn't explain why copyright regimes similar to the US persist in countries around the world, or why countries are finding their way to treaties that standardize international copyright enforcement that look more like the US regime than other country's regimes.
regulatory capture?
Anecdotally, companies are sending communication whereby company-related travel is restricted and requires approval from the chief health officer in the company/HR.
That's not an identical translation, the identical Rust would be

fn main() {
let mut x = 1;
x = "foo";
}

which indeed fails to compile with a type error.

(That being said there is a conflation of static/dynamic and weak/strong going on in this thread, as there always is in these kinds of discussions.)
The authors just happened to work at Google ,while having a manager that supported their work (check Go Time podcast), most of Google's relevant products keep being done in C++, Java and Python, and they are one of the biggest contributors to LLVM/clang, and ISO C++.
> We don't have to wait for the government to give us guidance.

I can not stress this enough, if you have the ability to do something at relatively little cost, which will delay or prevent the unnecessary spread of this virus, you have a moral obligation to execute on that ability. If you live in a major city or a city near one, it is probably in your community already, and the key thing that will reduce the deaths in this outbreak is reducing the peak load on hospitals.

Hospitals will be placed under extreme strain, and the quality of care will decline with the volume. A significant proportion of those suffering confirmed COVID-19 require oxygen and/or ventilatory support. Ventilatory support in hypoxemic patients relies on many highly specialized personnel and consumable resources, and keeping the rate of infection low enough that these facilities are sufficient is of great importance.

Do not hesitate to act now, even if you will be questioned later on your authority to do so.
>Did you know you can build and deploy an entire application without ever running a compiler or touching a physical machine now? We have REPLs were you can interact with your application live, in real time.

How do I interact with REPLs in real time without touching a physical machine?
Part of that is rapid transfer of information though - I could argue that the ability to rapidly spread fear of the disease to get people to worry and change their behaviors helps make us better at dealing with pandemics than when the news and the government would push propoganda saying there's nothing to worry about. I don't know if I would argue that or complete believe that argument since I agree with you that a lot of this is needless fear mongering and there are likely detrimental effects to that, but I don't know if it's as cut and dry?
Yes, in fact Go's paradigm for errors is a clever half step towards option types.
Sure Domain Knowledge is important. But again this can all be discovered as you go along.

I had an interview at a this week for my next contract where they made redundant most of their employees as the business decided to just go with turnkey applications.

They will get someone like me in for 3 to 6 months to do application maintenance on anything they can't replace. This will be stuff like implementing stuff from penetration-testing, upgrading the applications and documenting missing bits and pieces and letting the business know what needs doing and where.

I don't need a pension being paid, no HR overhead (they can just ask me to leave whenever pretty much). I will be able to gleen enough from the business and their IT to piece the bits together. This is literally my bread and butter.
Isn't that the standard library and not the language?
Go needs good criticisms like this.

I will never understand why this language is so popular.
SQL based unit testing exists. So why not i guess?

http://dbunit.sourceforge.net/intro.html
I love this. In literally less than five minutes it's already given me some really valuable insights and inspiration.

Feedback: make the table sortable and filterable, everyone's going to want to sort by revenue and people might want to filter by source.
Or to look at it from a different angle, their fall is caused by their old age decline which in turn triggers their terminal decline. I've seen it throughout my family, once confined to bed at old age one's decline accelerates quickly. It's perhaps that the lack of movement that has some spiraling effect on their health. More and more people should not stop doing sports when they get older, they should do sports less vigorously as they age but movement regime should stay.
"Emasculated" is a bizarre word to use, but I assume it's in reference to Trump putting Pence, rather than anyone at the CDC or HHS, in charge of official messaging around COVID-19.
They (HIMSS PR) blocked me for asking about the preparedness plan (which is completely inadequate) on Twitter... maybe I should have asked via email, but it seemed like a conversation that the community would have interest in. They seem to be in complete “protect sunk costs at all measures” mode.
This makes me think of how the story in The Expanse is proceeding.
Store, version, and share SQL queries with your database
Yes, you're completely right, it's just a beta/MVP. I was looking for feedback to proceed. And now, thanks to all of you, I have it.

In the end, I want to generate any type of calendar available on Etsy (and over the Internet), not just a blank sheet with a bunch of pomodoros and a background as a premium feature, lol.

Thank you!
Type aliases (type X = Y) are a niche feature and not meant for this use case.

If you had done e.g. type X Y you would have had more success.
I like the retro-future look. It needs a retro-future-80s soundtrack.

In fact, it is like this game, pin-out: https://youtu.be/yPUjpP4PT_U?t=51
The famous experiments from Benjamin Libet seem relevant here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet#Implications_of....

In particular, see Daniel Dennett's response (the relevant aspects of which are quoted on the Wikipedia article linked above).

I will say, I don't think this is a terribly interesting _example_; as others have noted, it's not uncommon to actually wake up minutes before the alarm goes off. (I commonly wake up 20 or 30 minutes before my alarm goes off; I can be reasonably sure my subjective experience is accurate because I look at the clock!)

But what the author hits upon (apparently naively, but it's nonetheless a useful insight) is that cognition (if one is a materialist) is not a monolith and that, as a result, various timing issues can confuse observers (as with Libet).
VP Pence has been given veto authority over all messaging, and the CDC’s funding in this area was gutted early in the administration.
I'm with you on the not really minding to watch a bit - I mean if their table is in front of me or within what 145 degrees or so viewing angle? I'm going to notice any movement of object larger than a rat in the area, and would not hesitate to say hey bud, that other person is gonna be right back or something..

On the other hand I want to help others be more secure, and taking a backpack or case to the bathroom is not a huge deal (in most places) - and is generally more secure.

This past week we had some run through the bar at ocharleys a mile from here grabbing purses hanging on bar stools and sitting on tables then run out the door and through a hole in a fence.

It would be shitty to be accused of being in cahoots with someone snatch and grabbing.. and people should be aware that sometimes that person you ask to watch your X will be tempted to steal your X. And more tempted by knowing you are going to the latrine than to the soda machine.
The offline backup can be a printout of the QR code.
Of course, but if they are not bothered by those ads that's fine too IMHO. And if the majority is fine with this (which I doubt, otherwise ad-blockers wouldn't be so massively successful), than I have to accept that too and go somewhere else.
Related Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr00k
Ah, good catch! Yeah, I changed this partway through, missed that!

Thanks for the heads-up.
The chiplet model already happened and is already working. AMD's much-lauded new line of processors are all using it.
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
Quick fact check: first of all, 3 deaths out of 750 isn't relevant without knowing the timeline of transmission, as most deaths occur 3-4 weeks post infection.

Second, there have deaths of people in there 20's a casual google search of 'youngest death coronavirus' yields that information as the first result.

And if you believe every young death (or every death) in Hubei province is being publicized, you haven't been paying attention.

I do agree that it's important not to panic, but we absolutely should be taking social distancing measures to reduce the r0.
Your rant largely has to do with a library someone wrote that did not handle dependencies well. A few years ago you would have complained about lack of module support at all. I have a toy project that's relatively simple, and the Javascript frontend has a lockfile that is literally over 10000 lines long.
Eight rituals to be a better programmer
Elon Musk says Chinese economy will surpass the US by two or three times
> Big sites will eventually convert to essentially "a web browser inside a web browser" so they have total control over the content and how it's displayed.

This has already happened: Just look at how many websites pester you to download their mobile app or even block content unless you access from the app. From a user functionality perspective the vast majority of apps do nothing a browser can't do. But the killer feature for apps is how much easier it is for the developer to get your location data, contact list, and importantly show you unskippable, auto-playing, 90s-era-popup-level-annoying ads
Testing Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Ultra 100X digital zoom camera
I still do not understand how anyone wears shoes while in their (or anyone's) home.
> lots of sites that use a lot of JS

For many "modern" sites, its really better to just take a screenshot and save the PNG.

Though there are still many sites that render just fine without JS. I've been trying out Brave Browser with JS disabled for some weeks now, and I was surprised how many sites are readable with JS disabled. And so much faster and less jumpy too.
Somewhat tangentially, in some fields and jurisdictions, the legal code which is enforced is copyrighted and paywalled by third parties or the Gov. itself.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/court-tells-georgia-it...
Tom Holland Confirms Back to the Future Remake Talks Have Happened
With the path example… just try to combine this with flags, so we do something like:

$ ./my_program --file="$(printf "\xbd\xb2\x3d\xbc\x20\xe2\x8c\x98")"

Well, just try to write the program that does that in Rust, without using some option-parsing library that hides all the details, and then try to figure out how to get it to work equally on Windows.

To spoil the answer, it turns out that OsString only exposes a couple conversion routines and can’t be manipulated, and people have been trying to figure out a way to add a string-like API to it for years. Rust’s “do it the right way even if that exposes lots of complexity” approach here has its drawbacks.
https://archive.is/3bAcF
Everyone dies of something. At the high end of geriatrics, with immune system decaying and bones hollowing out, nearly everything is a fatal risk.
Yea I was aware... I hesitated to suggest this could lead to AOP for Go because I'm not fond of AOP and it's magicalness at all (used to write a lot of Java)
Because they're balancing being extra-cautious with the serious risks of overreacting.

The worst case scenario right now is that some people might lose their grandparents a couple years early -- which is obviously incredibly sad, but also not something worth crashing the world economy over.
1. Tufte-style is fairly meaningless as a term. His books cover a vast array of graphics.

2. Almost every chart and graph I see would be better if its creator understood and applied Tufte’s principles.

3. His books are truly delightful to read and are not overrated.

4. If he’s so overrated, name a person or resource that would better impart a set of useful principles to create effective and accurate visual representations of information.
No one knows. It might be mildly irresponsible of Moody's to hazard a guess, but the author's contention that that guess is obviously wildly low is just silly.
Your biggest problem is not your lack of experience or lack of an address. Your biggest problem is that you are trying to get a job from a position of complete exhaustion (physical, mental and economical).

If your country has social services get in touch with them, they can give you shelter, food, an some job to get you back on track.

You deserve better.
>To me, to worship God means to recognize that mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our comprehension

Doesn't sound very falsifiable.
I was referring to the Democratic Party, which is the more left leaning of the two main American political parties. And additional any left of center activists affiliated with it.

Yes, one can refer to liberalism in an economic and philosophical sense which is very different.

Yet, few Republicans, including very libertarian leaning ones, would ever identify as liberal.

Nobody would call Barry Goldwater a liberal, even though he very much fit the definition.
So... if we’re not in the high mortality demographic we should just engage in activities that could be a catalyst for pandemic and significant loss of life? Not sure I follow your thinking.
My understanding is that the term 'pseudo-science' refers to theories that people pretend have scientific backing but really don't, as opposed to theories that just eventually prove to be false. So I might claim that homeopathy is based on the principle of 'like-heals-like' and claim that it is based in science, but in reality there is no scientific evidence to back that idea and so homeopathy would then be pseudo-science.
> Almost everyone dying so far has had another medical issue or been very old

I agree with not fomenting panic. However, "had another medical issue" means diabetes, which alone covers 11% of the US population, and has so far been associated with a mortality rate of about 8%. This likely includes at least one family member in more or less every US family.

It's entirely reasonable to view that as a compelling reason to avoid things like major conferences with significant inter- and trans-national mass transit.
I agree. It becomes pseudoscience when it contradicts existing scientific knowledge without any rationale or explicitly comes from a a rejection of the scientific method. There's a difference between being pseudoscientific and being wrong. A lot of hypothesis about how the world works today, including some seemingly strong beliefs backed by pots of evidence, will be found to be wrong or incomplete as we move forward and develop better tools and science.
the ridiculously hot summers in Australasia resulting in bushfires, famine and drought... seas taking over the cities are all demonstrable effects of climate change.

Did he live in UK? Yea the winter was milder I guess.
I was also very confused by this. Does anyone know why this article has so many votes? This is a trivial solution and there are many other articles explaining this exact thing.
Yeah Android 8 introduced it. It's a good change IMO.
Ok I see your point, LS might be the right place to save such a state.

However, I still disagree on doing it on a component level (with hooks or whatever). If I log out, that LS should be gone in most cases. Either the logout must know too much about specific components (leaky abstraction), or the components will need to handle too many edge cases.
Good point.

Also, client side in Go is usually web interfaces, which work across any platform.
So checked exceptions, then?
I think prevailing opinion here is that it should be left to the admins. The black bar is not a measure of the notability of someone's contributions, but rather is about their connection or impact to YC/HN (and the HN community).

Personally I agree with that. The newspapers will have great obituaries anyway.
A friend of mine flew back from Japan yesterday. They were involved with providing food to the passengers quarantined on the Diamond Princess. He worked about an hour away from the cruise ship.

This friend called the Center for Disease Control before flying back and asked them if he should do anything, like maybe quarantine himself in his home; they said no. No one questioned him when be boarded the plane to the states. When he left the plane he was asked if he had traveled to China and he said no; they waved him through.

My friend feels reasonable safe, their thinking was is that since they worked a good distance from the cruise ship, they should be fine. They are quarantining themselves for the two weeks, on their own, out of their own personal sense of caution.

IMHO, the CDC should be more careful. Japan continues to see more cases show up.[1] It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the CDC should quarantine everyone coming from Yokohoma, Japan. Especially if their work was somehow related to the quarantined cruise ship.

Science reported three days ago[0] that maybe people who directly interacted with the cruise ship maybe weren't careful enough...

"Normally, those supporting a quarantine don’t have to be quarantined themselves, presuming they use personal protection equipment (PPE)—masks, gloves, goggles, and gowns. 'But the available evidence suggests that PPE was not appropriately used on board,' Hunter says. He believes the officers who worked onboard the Diamond Princess should have been quarantined once the problems with infection control came to light. If such lax management had resulted in the infection of government officials in the United Kingdom, 'I suspect criminal proceedings would follow,' Hunter says."

[0]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/coronavirus-infectio...

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
There's nothing bad about "allowing installation from unknown sources" if you know your sources. It's just a scare tactic Google uses to quash competition.

An app you compile yourself (assuming you at least tried to read the source code, the open source Google Auth is pretty brief/readable, I've reviewed it before) is vastly more secure than installing whatever the Play Store serves you.
This founder has provided something of value to someone with tech skills looking for entry level tech employment. And you?
My Tireless Quest for a Tubeless Wipe
I'd recommend just putting this crap in the URL. That way (a) the server could see it too, and (b) users could share their state by sharing the URL (which makes supporting them easier!). If you've got so much state this doesn't make sense, then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I suppose caching it in localStorage is fine, but I haven't yet run into this problem.

Having a setSticky((k,v) => that modifies the url with the history API is pretty easy, and if you get the results using the Context API, you can have your root monitor the URL (again using the history API) and publish the result using a context so you don't have a storm of updates.
See my rebuttal to that other comment. And please elevate your discussion from the realm of feelings about people. Let’s say he is thin-skinned. So? That doesn’t change how helpful and eye-opening his delightful books are.
This is funny because after almost 4 years of working with Elixir and watching Go from arms’ length, I literally see NONE of the criticisms regularly leveled at Go. This is not an exaggeration. In fact, Elixir has few criticisms at all to begin with, and it’s driven very large sites already at this point.

(Yeah, it can’t compile easily distributable self contained binaries. It’s not (yet) designed for that.)

Not intending to start a language war, but your argument is basically the beaten wife claiming this is just standard treatment from husbands. This is my counterexample.
University of British Columbia astronomy student discovers 17 new planets
Today I learned that a lot of people on HN are in fact my 5yo. Upon gaining a command of language, she used it to simulate a reasonable person with whom I get suckered into arguing about things she doesn’t understand.
If you use F-Droid, you could also just set up your own local repository for your custom apps.
Isn't that the point though? Go is the best worst option we have and is competing with c# and Java..
To track actual time I use Pomodoro timer for Linux, https://gnomepomodoro.org/ and so far so good ^_^ Thanks for mentioning it (not sure if I'll move to another domain, though.)
Quarantine is actually an apt metaphore here. Apple wants you to stay in the quarantine for the rest of your life because when outside you might ignore the red light and get killed on the road crossing. Or die from other millions of dangerous sources.

But staying in a single apartment for the whole life is not healthy for most people or society. Modern computing grew because people were able to build and experiment on things way beyond what the original manufacturers of hardware envisioned. Even if that gave some people Windows viruses.