skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know more than anybody else. All I can tell you is that I'm not personally expecting that to happen, or at least, no more so than usual.

One of the reasons for that is that there's actually multiple phases to this sort of thing. Quarantine is a response you use when trying to completely squash it early, but as the virus escapes quarantine, you go to a different strategy of trying to reduce the virus' effective r0, involving preventing mass gatherings, encouraging self-quarantine, encouraging working from home, etc. Some quarantines may still be part of the strategy, but it's not the only arrow in the quiver. It's not a matter of choosing between "quarantine everybody completely for weeks" or "everybody dies".

Broadly speaking, it's reasonable to expect a very high chance that the infrastructure industry will successfully keep transmission within itself low enough that it won't actually catastrophically fail. It's a high priority and everybody knows it. A lot of the work involved in this sort of infrastructure doesn't involve being up close and personal with people.

You might want to try to avoid having a plumbing problem in your residence or something, though.

I live in an area prone to power outages (a 4 day outage less than a year ago, although that was an outlier), and I haven't been buffing up my "power outage" supplies. I do have them. But I've been filling up my freezer in stages instead for this. To be honest, I don't even expect the stores to completely fail, though there may be a run on them at the beginning. But the stores will be one of the biggest remaining hubs there will be, by necessity. If I can just pre-buy some stuff I would have bought anyhow and avoid having to go there at all during the containment period, it seems worth it. The extra package of toilet paper from Costco isn't going to go bad in the meantime.

Let me give my generic "preparation" spiel here: Basic prep is a good idea anyhow. Society is far more resilient against a wide variety of threats when more people can last a week or two of infrastructure outage. Being prepped is the socially responsible thing to do. If this is what it takes for you to set up a bit of prep, ok, fine. It's not panic, it's being responsible. Shoot for not having to go to the grocery store for 2-3 weeks, probably. Buy things you'll use anyhow, which means you're just forward-loading some spending you'd have done anyhow. Don't forget to think beyond food; toilet paper, tissues, medicine, shampoo, soap, etc. (Fortunately most of this stuff keeps even better than food.)

No need to panic. But it is a good idea to be ready, because even if COVID-19 never hits your area, someday it's going to be something.

And let me emphasize again, I don't know more than anybody else; I'm just saying where I personally have put some skin in the game.
You are very welcome gmfawcett!

What Erlang programs have you found to be needlessly complicated?
That is the same approach used by the language environments on mainframes, Windows Store (MSIL cloud compiler), watchOS and a couple of other platforms, I would guess.
The download comes from dl.google.com while the checksum is published on golang.org.

FWIW the macOS pkg you download is signed.
Extremely low IMO. From what I have read it's like a stronger version of the flu.
I use the terminal for almost everything but rarely use tmux, I have a window manager for window management so tmux doesn't really seem too useful in that regard
It is geofenced in Australia at least.
Your ISP can still see the IPs that you are talking to... What are you talking about? They can even see the url even if you dont use them as your DNS
Most of that comment is Mozilla BS and not networking stuff.

--Someone with a decent understanding of networking
hah, that might actually be beneficial since it creates problems that must be addressed.
This is a joke article, right? If not the author needs to read an article on how to support an argument. Preferably not one written by himself, since it seems he is deficient in this skill.
> I can think of several ways to drastically improve the privacy of web extensions by providing audit logging or more fine-grained control over permissions.

You were talking about API surface though. Neither of these things are API surface in itself. They are after the fact, informing the user what it can do and what it did with those APIs.

> It's just pointless to have the most advanced content blocking mechanisms when you allow browser extensions to circumvent them all.

I don't think so. It's not pointless. It just means you need to trust more than mozilla, you ALSO need to trust the extensions, just like you need to trust many other things in your system. The error here is assuming that everything should be reducible or can be reduced to a single source of trust.

> There are countless studies that show most non-expert users don't know what is happening with their data and are not able to judge the risks they're taking when installing software like browser extensions.

Perhaps. But if you follow that argument then you end up with a locked-down system with little flexibility, which I was referring to as apple-style walled garden. Some people may value such a thing, but I wouldn't use or recommend firefox if it became something like that. I would flee in terror.

Also consider that privacy is not an exclusive goal for mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/#princ...

Principles 2, 5 and 6 would be endangered by a single global actor (no matter how benevolent) being in control of your software.
I remain amazed that Tesla can keep marketing "autopilot" and "full self driving" as such, despite the obviousness of the fact that it has and will continue to keep killing people silly enough to believe the hype.

Hopefully the NTSB recommendations on this include better and clearer explanations that full self-driving is anything but, and that those recommendations get implemented into serious laws with serious penalties.

I get that it is easy to outsell your rivals when you can market fairy tales. I just don't think it's okay when people start getting killed because of it.
However given the progress rate of the proposals, I guess we will have to wait about 5 more years at very least.
Isn't it the opposite? With DoH, ISPs now have another incentive not to boost IPv6 adoption.
People always take the most extreme examples. In the example I gave it wasn't nearly anywhere as extreme. Obviously it depends on the circumstances.
- Wash your hands.

- If you're in a cold climate, be aware of how to drain your heating (if you use water) or water supplies within the house in the event of an extended power outage.

- Have a normal kit.

- Keep the cars gassed up.

- Avoid travel to crowded places and aircraft.
Delhi is under attack by angry mob
Delhi is under attack by angry mob
Follow Through (project)
let’s try to keep the technical mistake separate from the legal bit. I think their email is entirely legit if I was living in UK, but I don’t.
Also: honestly, I use Google Maps almost everyday. Even without asking me I think they have plenty of data on me to clearly see I’ve been living in Italy in the last year and half.
5 minute guide to Haskell:

Any time you see a '::', it means 'the thing on the left hand side has the type on the right hand side'. As such, you should parse this line as 'there is a function jonk that has a type '(a -> b) -> ((a -> Int) -> Int) -> ((b -> Int) -> Int)'.

A simple type in Haskell is `Int -> Bool`. This means a function that takes a value of type Int and return a value of type Bool.

Now `Int -> (Int -> Bool)`, means 'a function that takes a value of type Int and returns a function that takes a value of type Int and returns a value of type Bool'. And because currying, this can be also read as 'a function that takes a value of type Int, then a value of type Int, and returns a value of type Bool'. As in, if you first call the function with Int, you'll be getting an `Int -> Bool` in return. Then you call it again with Int, and then you get a Bool. Because of how we define precedence of things, this signature can also be written as `Int -> Int -> Bool`, which makes it a bit more readable. However, if you really want to grok Haskell you need to grok this equivalency early on.

Compare this to `(Int -> Int) -> Bool`. This means 'a function that takes a function that takes a type Int and returns a type Int, and returns a type Bool'. By this point you should see that the type is more readable than my human language descriptions.

One last thing you're missing is the types 'a' and 'b'. You'll notice that these start with a small letter, and that's because they are generic types. It means that in practice this function can be called with whatever type instead of 'a' and 'b' in the declaration, it's just that it must be the same type for all cases of 'a' and 'b'. For a simple example, let's look at a function that takes two Ints, a Bool, and returns the first Int if the boolean is true, otherwise the second. The type signature for this in Haskell would be `foo :: Int -> Int -> Bool -> Int`. However, the function doesn't really care that these are Ints - they might as well be any values. As such, we can define the function signature as `foo :: a -> a -> Bool -> a`. This is is naturally similar to generic in C++, Typescript or Rust.

Armed with this knowledge (albeit maybe explained a bit better - see Learn You A Haskell!) you should be able to read this complex type signature now.
I'm talking about the `jonk :: (a -> b) -> ((a -> Int) -> Int) -> ((b -> Int) -> Int)` extended example that you work through.

Or take the haskell filter function: `filter :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]`. Some googling says that there's no opposite function for filter, but it's present in a lot of languages, so let's pretend there is. The signature would be the same: `filterNot :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]`. Just looking at the types, filling type holes, wouldn't distinguish those two functions—the difference isn't in the types, but in their behavior.
This is a joke people.
Already this is so helpful, as someone with only a partial high school math background. The visual "pouring" analogy alone made it worth the read.
If you are one interested in the Trump visit of India or Indian socio-political dynamics and haven't watched John Oliver's latest episode, I implore you did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVIXUhZ2AWs.

It ranks amongst his best and he presents a powerful summary of the current Indian political dynamic.

Oliver introduces Trump's visit to India against the backdrop of a blithe Indian media that seems more interested in figuring out whether the US first lady and the President will make an unscheduled visit to the famous Taj Mahal. The Indian TV reporter describes the Taj Mahal as the "enduring symbol of love". There are also quick depictions of throngs of (Modi accolytes) fawning at the US President's arrival and Trump's total lack of understanding of recent Indian history vis-a-vis Modi's complicity in the Gujrat riots - Trump calling Modi the great unifier and father of India (face palm).

This introduction is then used by Oliver in what is a complete 15 minute virtuoso rout of any shred of reverence, esteem or dignity for both Modi and Trump. Something to behold. Oliver does this with crucial evidence showing Modi's divisive Hindu nation-state ideologies linked absurdly (only because it is true) to Hitler's Nazi ideologies! It is simultaneously comical, absurd and terrifying. Then there are revelations of the ruling party's (BJP's) systematic attempt at revising Indian history in school curricula - excoriating the proud history of India's secural founding "fathers" in favour of aspects of bizarre creationist style text about the origins of different races! (I balked).

This episode stands out as one of Oliver's best because he crafted the best "shit sandwich" argument I've seen in a while. He neatly folds the absurd proposition made by Trump that Modi is a unifier of the people. But only ironically for the opposite reason! The Sunday punch lands with "Because India, home of this enduring symbol of love (points to the image of the Taj), frankly deserves a lot more than this (points to the mugshot of Modi) temporary symbol of hate."
Sorry if it wasn't clear enough. I'm by no means a React-developer with lots of React experience. I'd say I have more iOS-development experience than React. The app I wanted to port is already fully written in Swift. I've written and launched a couple of apps in Swift over the years, and also a couple of apps in Objective-c.
Apparently, “I don’t buy it” is a legit way to win an argument.
Normal MS Paint runs fine in Wine, I know somebody who uses it regularly.
Brilliant. Tremendous this exists already. Someone get this to Mozilla!
Can you cite evidence of governments that were overthrown or even moderately affected by the Spanish Flu? It was a terrible epidemic but most effects seem to have been at the personal or micro-economic level.
Copyright for written works protects the particular production thereof.

I.e. You can summarize, you can quote, and you can paraphrase, but if you copy the thing in it's entirety, bind it, and sell it as a production of that work, you've violated copyright. If you copy the entire literary content, but leave out all the other trademarks, illustrations, etc, you'd still be likely to be held in violation of copyright as long as the amount of word for word reproduction of these original text in an unaltered form approached unity.

However, as far as I'm aware, you could technically get away with reproducing another book in it's entirety if you quoted every piece it of it, but there were other substantial chunks of content around said quotes. This hasn't typically been done for practical reasons, (as you'd arguably have two books worth of content in one), but would still technically just slide in as fair use as far as I am aware. Though I'm fairly certain anyone would just encourage someone seriously attempting to do that to just get permission, or publish a standalone work with references to a particular edition of the work in question.

The absurdity with music related copyright infringement is that the copyright holders assert they own a copyright to the underlying melody. The foundation of the composition if you will. It should encompass the work as a whole. Either that or the particular scoring. The example I gave above of a book that reproduces another book as part of it's composition would roughly parallel another song composed with the same underlying melody. A book containing a repro of a book in the sense of set theory is still a different composition than the original work. So too should be music.

Unless I'm flawed or unaware of some extra nuance about these things.
NASA Astrophysics Data System GitHub
Interesting contrast with TipTop, who makes modules which are derivatives of other devices (808 and 909 drum modules), but they patented Stack Cables (even though stackable banana cables were already a thing), and has sued to prevent other companies from also making stackable cables.
So the solution is to own 24 homes and move one timezone over each month?
I played a lot of American football growing up and so heard the quote "Defense wins championships" very regularly and I always disagreed.

Teams lose games all the time while holding the other team to a very low score, but almost no one ever loses if they put up 50 points.

But then again, I played offense...
It's not always US specific, Oliver has had pieces on other world leaders such as BoJo and Brexit, and Bolsonaro to name a couple.

A lot of the feature pieces are US-centric but a fair bit of US politics still applies on the world stage, plus it is interesting to learn how many US systems like healthcare and pharmaceuticals are completely broken.
As someone who learned to program before taking any interesting math I was always so confused by the amount of early math classes spent explaining function notation.

It wasn't until I tried teaching people that I realized how odd the notation can seem.
At my latitude, that’s excellent advice – for a few weeks each spring and fall. The rest of the year, the day is either too long or too short.
What happens if the next viral outbreak occurs in the US? How is putting factories in one arbitrary geographic location any safer than putting them in another arbitrary location?

If anything, this isn’t an argument against offshoring, it’s an argument for offshoring your factories across as many different countries as possible so you have less concentrated exposure to a specific country.
> Google will make a good effort reducing such errors

suuuuuuure.
I would take surveys like this[0] with a grain of salt. What people say they will pay for something is very different from what will actually get them to open their pocketbook, and the same for selling. Users regularly sell their privacy for "free" (or rather, viewed as payment for the use of a site, even if they don't entirely understand the scope of what they're giving up).

It's interesting for comparing attitudes across countries, and it will be interesting to compare survey results over time. But I wouldn't do any actual budgeting based on the numbers.

[0] Assuming it is a survey. TFA is kind of thin on methodology, but it sounds like a survey.
Classic Shell app for the win!
http://www.classicshell.net/
It still posits a legitimate question. Do people get hiccups as often?

Perhaps people do, but I used to get them much more often as a kid, and almost not at all for the past 10-20 years (1-2 incidents).

Maybe it's more prominent based on level of physical activity?

Or maybe people have different chances of getting the hiccups depending on age (e.g. more often young)?

Perhaps this (getting less hiccups over time) is just true for me and the author (and other random people, and not some majority). Again a question would be, why is it so?

There is not stupid question, but there are stupid kneejerk refusal to ponder a case at all...
Do you build React Apps?

If so what are you using other than Babel?
Autopilot yells at you too if you don't interact with the steering wheel.
Ah, I had to read what was up. Star India only became part of Disney as a result of the 21st Century Fox, so like beginning of 2018.

For most of its life its been part of Fox, but when Disney bought them they ended up in the weird situation where Disney had the syndication rights to both competing services, but also it's own productions.

I agree, quite murky as international media agreements seem to be.
You should try writing a sci-fi thriller novel.
My theory on safety: there's more safety in a world where things just work better. I think that LOTW can crank that idea of "things working better" into overdrive!
This is ok but nothing is as intuitive as 3B1B's series on YouTube that has been posted hundreds of times on HN [0].

Linear algebra is really about linear transformations of vector spaces, which is not captured in this blog post.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs
My impression is that people who stay up late and sleep late are more productive, while people who get up early are more social and/or do more planning work.

Is anyone aware of scientific research that looked into the possibility of awaking early vs. awaking late being different, but equally useful evolutionary strategies?
> only a few western countries police this

I don't think this is true at all. I actually immigrated to the US from Iran and even decades ago it wasn't acceptable there either. There was always a parent, grandparent, family member, or neighbor to look after the children. That includes rural areas.

> That is, if you've actually raised them well.

I don't think it's that simple. I have two kids and the younger one is completely independent requiring less supervision while the older one is dependent on us for everything and needs constant supervision. Their personalities are so drastically different that defining "raising them well" can mean basically anything with hundreds of dynamic factors.

I watch a documentary series on YouTube called "Most Dangerous Ways to School" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tg0ipCdiQQ) where kids travel to school alone for via dangerous terrain, but in most episodes the parents acknowledge how many kids die attempting to do such things and how dangerous it is. It's far from safe.
No, it would be straightforward if they asked the user something like this:

"Is it ok that this extension sends every single URL you open to an untrusted third party for processing? Please note that URLs might contain sensitive data like access tokens or session information."

Even so, I don't think such an API should exist. And if you absolutely need to have something like this you should restrict it to domain information by default, cutting away the path.

I can understand that Google might not care much about this (Chrome itself is a data collection platform), but I really don't get why Mozilla is so lenient about it as well, as their main differentiator has been user privacy for years.
maybe this will make Elon musk think twice
The problem is that the autopilot almost works, so drivers dont need to pay attention most of the time.
They both ruin the game, we agree. I just think one is much worse, and object to the comparison and framing. They exist on a spectrum, like doctoring the ball (and the varying degrees of doing that), corking bats, the existing practice of stealing signs by baserunners off 2nd base...

Sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22416698 said it much better than me.
Psychological Techniques Behind Subscription Services
the windshield wipers work like trash. and don’t nerf my car. i’ll look away all I want. I did in my prius, i’ll do it in this car. it’s bullshit I even have to touch the wheel as often as I do.
I'm reading Strang's linear algebra book and he teaches it in terms of combining columns and rows which I think is a lot clearer than explaining it in terms of linear equations.
Automatic graph digitizer (free, uses CV to extract data)
Reminds me of this work:
"On 12 Sept 08, German Avantgarde musician Johannes Kreidler registered – as a live performance event – a short musical work that contains 70,200 quotations with GEMA [german copyright collecting society] using 70,200 forms."

http://kreidler-net.de/productplacements-e.html
There are only 676 3 letter acronyms starting with 'A'. We've got to be getting close to that at this point, right?
>The stats department at columbia must be pretty strong if you can publish a blog article where the only data cited completely disproves your point.

Actually it does nothing of the sort, except correlation-ally. It counts searches for hiccups online, which is close but not exactly the same to someone getting hiccups.
If this interests you, you should check out the bivector community https://bivector.net/.

Join the discord https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk.

Check out a demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits

Also at the end of February, there is geometric algebra event in Belgium. https://bivector.net/game2020.html All the big names in the field will be there.
I love his videos he has a webpage with merch if you want to support him https://www.curiousmarc.com/

If you are new to his channel I cannot recommend enough the Apollo AGC videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&list=PL-_93BVApb...