skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a prize winning physicist in my area who was arrested for starting a major brush fire. He plugged multiple extension cords together to power an electric fence and the overheating of the cords started the fire.
Intelligence does not apply to every possible topic. Trusting the consensus of people trained in an area is always better than discounting that consensus because someone with little to no expertise on the subject challenges their ideas.
Freeman Dyson Takes on the Climate Establishment
And you'd be wrong. Amazon is requiring the same thing.
we have access to capital for the right thing
They already have a great deal of power. Technological progress gives us all more power.
I think you might be underestimating the size of a modern car -- they're huge!
You mean like Facebook that was involved with Cambridge Analytica and still today allows hostile nations to interfere in our elections
FWIW I hear that Iran has a pretty capable and modern healthcare system.
iPhone and iPad apps can snoop on everything you copy to the clipboard
I've been reading the updates there and have been making specific purchases as a result. For example, I read about disruption to clothing manufacturing and bought some summer shorts, pairs of boxers, and packages of socks - stuff I was expecting to buy soon anyway.
One in four Americans won’t do business with data-breached companies
If you look at the leader board of HN, most of the top fifteen or so can be readily identified by their real name even if they aren't using it in their handle in some way. (I don't know about the rest of the board, having not looked in depth at every single name on it.) Most of the top fifteen-ish do seem to be using some portion of their real name in their handle.

Real names aren't required here. You can call yourself whatever you want.

In actual practice, the community does appear to care whether or not it knows who the hell you actually are. It does appear to correlate to some degree to ranking on the leader board.
> As someone with friends in that specific Google office - I can tell you that employees have been told NOTHING.

I'm talking about contacting the people that may have come into contact with the sick employee not contacting the entire office. How do we know that's not being done? We don't have any details here to draw conclusions that this isn't being handled correctly. We don't know if the employee wasn't already working from home, came back from a vacation, was into office very little time or made very little contact with coworkers. You're assuming the worst, that the employee in question was mingling with everyone for days while being sick and then that the announcement going out on Friday was somehow too late (that the management was made aware of it for many days before the announcement went out).

> Google didn't even send the email until AFTER business hours on Friday.

Is that too late? How long did Google know about the sick employee as being confirmed with this virus before they decided to make a public announcement about it?
How can someone trust you with their valuable ideas and already in-motion projects?
Greece and Bulgaria crack down on Turkish borders as refugees arrive
> Surprising, no. He's founder and ex-CEO of Microsoft.

> Popular public figure, plus famously finances medical research and charity work.

YMMV. A lot of rich people finance medical research ( some because they are sick) and charity "work" helps them avoid taxes.
Has anyone ever dumped/reverse engineered the official Sony SDK/libraries for the PS1? I'd just be curious what the C code looked like.
> Spor-Klenz® Ready-to-Use Sterilant

> cleanroom disinfectant, sterilant and sporicidal cleaner

Ah...got it. Thank you.

> Odor: Vinegar

Ewww. Hope it's not too bad. I wouldn't want a strong vinegar smell in my clean room.

Also interesting:

"Spor-Klenz RTU sterilant was found to be effective against mouse hepatitis virus, minute virus of mice, murine norovirus, murine
para influenza virus type 1 (Sendai) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) when tested according to EPA guidelines
undiluted for 10 minutes at 20°C (68°F) exposure. Spor-Klenz RTU sterilant was found to be effective against mouse parvovirus
when tested according to EPA guidelines undiluted for 25 minutes at 20°C (68°F). Treated surfaces must remain completely
immersed for 25 minutes."
I am hearing Amazon has restricted non-essential travel for all its employees (even domestically within the US), which sounds like a bigger news than this. Maybe someone can confirm.
Translation of the first couple paragraphs: "SF street traffic is already abysmal, and yet we still managed to make it a little bit worse."

Market Street was already pretty devoid of non-bus/taxi traffic before "a month ago". If you want a better test, try closing off Van Ness or Embarcadero and see how well that goes for y'all.

"No carmageddon"? SF is already a carmageddon.
On the contrary. The age-grouped death rates in your link do not consider the comorbidities.

Indeed, the problem with the coronavirus is that a better immune system can yield an overly intense immune reaction. If this happens, it yields a blockage of the lung capillaries. Hence, it becomes impossible to breathe. This extreme state lasts for about 2 days. This period might be only survived by utilizing a special type of breathing machine.

This over-reaction of the immune system does, however, happen to a lesser amount if the immune system is in a poor condition.

Hence, the coronavirus might, again, yield a survival of the weakest (like in 1918).

Source: an interview with the German virologist Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Kekulé, here: https://www.zdf.de/uri/a4719bf9-a2c5-4c66-ad92-105cd8dcfcba (in German)
There is a clear timeline shown at the end which answers the last of these questions — it was 1 hour and 31 minutes until all ill effects of the bug were addressed and service was fully restored.
1. Click

2. Open network panel

3. Google Analytics

4. Close tabs

It's disgusting how so many so-called privacy advocates can't even get this right even when talking about privacy.
Probably more like 10 months. I imagine there's a shoulder season in the spring and fall where Chicago is more desirable, from a weather standpoint, than cool and windy SF, before it gets too hot and humid in Chicago's summer.
I thought Youtube comments were the cliche, then I met HN comments on the Coronavirus.

Even an attempt to understand why this particular case out of the 100,000 would be discussed is pointless given the comments.
> religions that don't permit vaccination

That shouldn’t be allowed in the first place. Imagine if I created a religion that doesn’t permit paying taxes. Would the government really allow me to do that?
I would expect to work from home more in the US. Also traveling is not necessarily as common as it would be in Europe unless it was within the US.
> hitpoints, encounters, npcs, etc.

Those are the rules, not the game.
Helping remote-first startups build successful remote teams – Feedback please:)
Can confirm -- also a Googler, but from Austin and recently Mountain View. This is both Google's default policy (not feeling well? go home) and recommendations for current conditions, with more emphasis on staying home even if you're uncomfortable. We even have a whole team dedicated to tracking this stuff and keeping Googlers safe.

It's amazing how much outright hate is being spewed here over this -- it borderlines on outright panic.
I run 8 different production API endpoints, all on Lambda, directly through Application Load Balancer instead of API Gateway, and they served 510 million requests last month for about $200.

Those API endpoints took me about a day to deploy using serverless deployment tools. They economically scale between extremely varied workload requirements. There are no complaints on my end.
Because it's not an honest comparison. A £500 bike is still a relatively budget adult bike, and an ebike is a relatively luxury product still and is probably more comparable to a £1,000 normal bike.

Decathlon (giant French sports chain) sell an ebike for £650.
This will be a turning point for remote jobs.
Fantastic post. Lots of weight on the problem discovery area which is the right move and engineers turned entrepreneurs skip this step a lot. I know I did.

A book recommended by YC's Aaron Epstein is The Mom Test[0]. The first 50-60% of the book is dedicated to how to discover problems with end clients/users that are worth tackling.

I have used the techniques personally and it's great to see what users say is a huge problem vs a problem they're willing to pay for.

It is easy to get stuck in a self-fulfilling trap that a user complains is a big problem. I recently spoke with a customer:

- "What's your biggest problem?" (book says this question is a no no)

- He replies, "If I sell 3 cars at the same time, I'm out of available float (cash) while I wait for those deals to close. This is a HUGE problem for me!"

- "How do you solve this today?" I ask.

- "I have other, larger car sales company who will lend me money at XX rates."

Right there, it's a solved problem. The end user figured out their own way. Turns out other smaller dealers like him rely on large trade line companies.

The only way I could complete is either on lower cost of financing or speed. At which point, for me, it's not a problem worth solving. The problem isn't so big for him where he's willing to throw cash at me for it.

Talk to users.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone-...
Isn't this a positive? Society would be better off if we avoid appeal to authority and instead focus on evidence-based decision-making.
> That is because in China, only the very ill are getting diagnosed at all.

I don't think this is true, considering China has built new hospitals just for patients who are tested positive but have light symptoms [0].

China also sent 12500 testing kits to Japan [1].

[0]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/369522812

[1]: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200226/p2a/00m/0na/00...

Disclaimer: I'm from China.
> Resource Acquisition Is Initialization is fine

It doesn't work well at all for transactions, where both A and B must succeed or neither.

https://dlang.org/articles/exception-safe.html
If I caught the coronavirus I would absolutely want and expect my employer to broadcast my name everywhere so that anyone who even thinks they came in contact with me could take appropriate measures.
Twitter is a "propaganda" private forum with their own agenda. Same for the other players. If it is good for society or if we need an actually independent place are other questions.
Read a little more about it. Gates is a major player in medical research.
Well, the variability in this case is how much system administration you want to do. Right?
egghead founder downloaded a bunch of youtube vids and zipped them up and sold them to a mailing list? Weren't there copyright issues? I'm not sure if that sort of advice is sound, but the rest of the article resonated nicely.
I found this video to be an extremely helpful and concise explanation of music theory basics:
https://youtu.be/rgaTLrZGlk0

"Learn music theory in half an hour" is obviously an exaggeration, but it really comes astoundingly close to fulfilling that promise. It contains a lot of information and each part builds on the previous parts, so it requires focus and maybe a few repetitions to 'get it', but I think the approach is fantastic for showing how many ideas of music theory are deeply connected.

Not a book as you requested, but hopefully you'll find the other reply useful. As for some of your specific questions:

Frequency is the same concept as radio frequency, but in this case refers to something we can directly sense. Radios transmit electromagnetic waves, which are photons moving at a certain rate, measured in Hertz, or cycles per second. Sound frequency refers to movement of air waves, so a more accurate analogy than radio waves is waves in a pond when a rock is thrown in. Human ears are sensitive to frequencies between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, so any sound you hear is a combination of frequencies. Natural language is helpful here, since higher frequencies sound 'higher' and lower frequencies sound 'lower'.

A tone is a sound at a specific frequency, also known as a note. For example, 440 Hz is designated as the note A4 by the Geneva conventions, and this is what most instrument tunings are based off.

Twelve tone equal temperament is the tuning system nearly all modern Western music uses. Certain ratios of frequencies sound pleasant, especially ratios with small numbers, such as 1:2, 2:3, and 3:4. So if we know 440 Hz is a note in the system, it would be nice to also have 587 Hz, 660 Hz, and 880 Hz. However, these frequencies will only really sound good when played with that original 440 Hz, not necessarily with each other. So instead of using them exactly, we approximate them in a useful way. The 1:2 ratio, the octave, is generally considered to be the most important, so that ratio is kept, but otherwise the notes are equally spaced (human hearing is logarithmic), or equally tempered. The most popular tuning system has twelve tones. There's no note at 660 Hz, but there's one at 659 Hz, which is pretty close, and there happens to be one at 587 Hz. Other ratios are also represented reasonably well.

A key is a collection of notes that sound good together, based on the ratios of their frequencies. The alternative would be chromatic composition, where all 12 notes are used and none is obviously 'more important'. Most music is in a specific key, but uses some chromatic notes to make the melody more interesting.
Coming from someone who does not use Twitter and knows little about it, what do you think constitutes a 'public figure' in Twitter's view? Someone who can sell out an arena? Someone who writes a blog read by tens of thousands of people? A Youtuber with 2000 subscribers?
employee perk = flexible work arrangements

Everything from this author seems to be linkbait https://www.inc.com/author/bill-murphy-jr
You have your timeline backwards. Opera was the first browser to implement a built-in native adblocker in 2016. Here is the blog announcement:
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2016/03/opera-built-ad-block...

Opera was and actually continues to be a pioneering browser with many "firsts" over the years. I was an avid user of it for a decade but I am saddened that it has become surrounded in controversy with a shady Chinese owner and predatory loans and stopped using it two years ago.

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/19/opera-accused-of-predato...
Not every social app needs to be completely open to everything especially what may be considered controversial social issues. I'm not defending what they did, I'm just saying if their goal is to create a silly worry free experience, topics of controversy run counter to that.
Where can I found a feature comparison of state of the art LSPs vs intellij idea features?
What can one do that the other cannot?
Crucial has 16GB unbuffered ECC at 2666MHz native frequency, available within the last month. It's a very stable overclock at 3000MHz. I think I've got room to move up to 3200. I would love to get to 3600MHz, but that has seemed unstable when I've tried.

CAS latency isn't the best, and tweaking this has resulted in a quite unstable system.

I'm currently running 128GB of this:

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct16g4wfd8266/ct16439854
Can we please have a 'New Version', 'Old Version' comparison, side by side.

If this is an improvement, why are you telling me instead of showing me?

Personally, the problem is command line tools, not argument parsing. Why would anyone create a command line tool instead of a GUI that only lets you enter the correct set of arguments that go together, grouped into a coherent UI?

The end result should be a json. We all know how to parse json in Swift and every other language in existence.
This idea is more or less the crux of Leibniz' Monadology.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/#MonWorPhe
>is not nearly as disruptive and negative as an alarm

My personal experience says this is likely the cause as well. A vibration on your arm is a lot less disruptive as "EENENENNNG..... ENENENENNG....ENENNENN" right in the middle of a dream.
It seems that Language Server Index Format (LSIF) https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/02/19/lsif is the successor to the Language Server Protocol (LSP). LSIF supports code navigation without having all source code files available on a local disk like LSP requires.
The article clearly states that this was the first COMMERCIAL rendezvous. It is NOT the first time this has been done. DARPA's Orbital Express program did this (and more) in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Express
Am I colourblind or is booting orange not pink?
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Relying on another nation like this for our critical supplies if a national security threat that I'm surprised is even in operation like this, today.

China Rx is a very good book about this.
> - The keys not being backed up or or synchronised across devices is not a bug, but a feature. You're supposed to keep offline backup keys. Any sort of synchronization feature adds a ton of attack surface.

And it's easy enough to synchronize multiple devices to the same qrcode when setting up 2FA so that you can generate codes from a backup device if one goes missing.
This seems like a consequence of using thin wrappers of C libraries in rust, or comparably using a java API from scala, where the error handling methodology is significantly different.

In this case, the git2 crate (https://docs.rs/git2/) is a thin wrapping over libgit2 (https://libgit2.org). To ensure a push went through properly you have to watch what happens inside a callback. The docs state the following:

Note that you'll likely want to use RemoteCallbacks and set push_update_reference to test whether all the references were pushed successfully.

It looks like the only sensible way to utilize this is by closing over mutable state and then checking that imperatively, which is far from idiomatic (this is what they do in the patch). If you were pushing multiple refs it would be even worse!

Usually, when you use some rust code, it's pretty easy to tell what can fail simply by looking at the types - this is a huge win. Thin wrappers can subtly violate this intuition: sometimes errors are handled idiomatically and sometimes they aren't, leading to a sort of false sense of security.

The takeaway here is to use an abundance of caution when utilizing a thin wrapper and to understand just how thick it is, especially with errors.
Works less well on mobile, which is what most people use these days.
> I watched it for three hours and it got to the final scene to reveal whodunnit and the tape ran out.

I ran into one of these on Youtube just a couple of weeks ago. The reaction in the comments was something less than amused.

(Bittersweet memories of taping over some of Mom's seemingly non-important video in order to record...what was it, the first X-files episode? A _Wings_ episode about a favorite jet? Something like that. But man, she was not happy.)
You could call in sick?
Exact same experience. Me and my stupid brain are not alone!
Do you have a need for those systems? Unless you're working on a large project which has specific needs, you will need at most the package manager, framework of choice, test framework, and maybe babel. Just because you can use more things doesn't mean you need them.

If you're doing something internal and tiny with Vue for example, you could just import it like any other script and not use anything else, not even npm.
> , they created escape hatches for themselves but not the language users.

man, seriously disappointing..
I keep saying: A/B testing is how Satan influences this world. They make it all too easy to turn your product development into optimizing bad metrics, and they give ammunition for justifying self-destructive decisions (it must be good, the data says so).
Thanks, that's a fascinating story I'd not heard about before.
it is “the measurement problem”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem
I wonder how difficult it would be to compile this for Classic MacOS, given the abandonment of Classilla.
I've been using the OTP Auth[1] app on iOS as it has support for encrypted backups with a passphrase. It also offers iCloud backup but I have that disabled as I'd rather manage the backups myself. No affiliation, just a happy user.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/otp-auth/id659877384
"Actually, I ran the numbers on this, and in this case, it makes financial sense to gain money."

Unless your marginal rate is over 100%, you will never save enough money in taxes to make up for it. (Though you can intelligently time and strategize the donations you do make.)
Given that nobody even looks at these, it doesn't seem very important. Personally, I'd prefer a raise instead.
That metric may mean in an indirect sense as well as a direct one - i.e. ads are the most common first step in a pathway that begins with getting a user to take some action that eventually leads them toward doing something that ends in compromise, even if it's several (mis)steps later.
The 64-bit installer passes.
You have a “team”, yet Gmail is your primary email? Ok
Really? I have no experience with Haskell's internals, but self-referential objects are fairly common in Haskell thanks to its non-strictness. The simplest one is probably the list with one element repeated forever.

ones = 1:ones
People attune themselves to repetition. They wake up before it goes off because they wake up around the same time almost every day. People are not imagining no alarm for 5 to 10 minutes.
I think the study is missing a condition.

Both of the biographies they used suggest that the article was written by generic, if competent, journalist. Neither include details that might push you towards trusting this specific person. Since the test article was about a 'superbug', imagine one profile said "Jim completed a masters in immunology at Columbia University before moving to NYU'S Carter Journalism Institute." Without that, it's hard to know whether readers just ignore these blurbs altogether...
And rightfully so, because their whole point is to compromise your mental faculties. They're a memetic hazard.
No, I don't see those issue, at least in the U.S. Are you under the impression that the media is barred or discouraged from reporting when a murder happens, or who the victim is? * What would be the legal basis for that? As a recent example, 5 people were murdered in Milwaukee in a mass shooting on Wednesday. On Thursday, the identities of all 5 victims were released and publicized:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/28/milwau...

edit: *added "or who the victim is"
They include a breakdown by date of onset as well, which isn’t exactly the method you suggest (but I read somewhere that recovery time is ~2 weeks for mild cases and ~3-6 weeks for severe).

Case fatality by date of onset:

[<Dec 31] 14.4% (n=105)

[Jan 1-10] 15.6% (n=653)

[Jan 11-20] 5.7% (n=5417)

[Jan 21-31] 1.9% (n=26468)

[>Feb 1] 0.8% (n=12030)

That does make the overall fatality rate look quite a bit worse than the naive calculation.
The book Why We Sleep discusses the phase of our sleep that has extremely accurate timekeeping. I've forgotten the details, of course. But I think it's quite clear our brains know precisely what time it is.
You reminded me of this spy film, which starts with a shot of a VHS recorder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFYFT1nqp8