skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I'm aware that the top fifteen-ish names can generally be readily identified in most cases is because I post as openly female and I've gotten a lot of flak for that over years. One of the more common lousy things that has been said to me is "So don't tell people your gender. On the internet, no one knows you're a dog if you don't tell them."

So I wrote a ranty personal blog post about that at some point and went through the top names on the leader board. My point was: How do I hide my identity to hide my gender and also establish a professional reputation? This doesn't work. If you know my name, you can readily infer my gender.

I posted for years under a two letter handle that can be mistaken for a feminist handle though it wasn't intended to be any such thing and I had it six weeks before it occurred to me anyone might see it that way. It was supposed to be initials from some handle I had elsewhere and I typoed it.

I had blog posts on a personal blog explaining my handle and that it wasn't a feminist handle. After I finally hit the leader board, I became extremely uncomfortable with continuing to use that handle.

I felt there were too many eyes on me and if I needed to explain it, it wasn't a good handle under which to have that kind of visibility. So I changed to my actual first and middle name.

The first week or two, I got accused of trying to pull a fast one and trick people and ridiculous stuff like that. After that settled down, HN treated me dramatically better than it ever had under my previous handle.

Obviously, there are many confounding factors and you can't definitively prove that it's any one thing. But I think if you are establishing a relationship with a community, there is no clear distinction between "I choose to behave X way because of how I expect that to impact me." and "Other people behave X way towards me." Those things create a feedback loop and you can't completely tease out how much people find them credible because they know their name and reputation, so they upvote it and how much people make an effort to say good things.

I don't think I behave differently since changing my handle, but I certainly have a much more positive experience of the forum since changing it. So that influences my feeling that other people do care about such things.
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What makes it different is that it is new. This could have made it avoidable in comparison to other diseases that are common. Surely it is worth trying to eradicate diseases before they get established? If we could irradicate flu we would.
You don't just wave a magic wand and get your code parallelized, though. Some algorithms are quite hard to parallelize (and it seems OCaml's user base is full of these, like theorem provers and compilers). Remember Amdahl's law.
HN is not TV. From HN’s Guidelines [1]:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why should government have access to data they didn't produce by coercion? They should pay for it if they want it and they shouldn't be allowed to compel a business to sell data they created.
In copyright law, original does not mean new. It means that a person originated the work. Here, this was done by a computer. Remember the monkey who took a selfie who couldn’t originate a work, and therefore there was no copyright work to be owned? This is a monkey on a typewriter.

Copyright law protects expression, and the labour required to produce that expression. Just like people who copy others’ work to gain from it, the “authors” have attempted to gain from doing no work and letting a computer give them all the world’s music. Imagine if they didn’t release their library into the public domain, and instead started to immediately sue over every new song that came out? It is fortunate that they cannot do either.
Lol - T-Mobile has $40B in annual revenue, does anyone think a fine of $0.09 billion covering years of wrongdoing is going to change their behavior? I'm sure 0.2% of their annual revenue will really sting.
Yes, the video goes into some depth about scales/keys.

I actually had to look up what the difference between a key and a scale is, as I thought the terms were pretty much interchangeable. I've edited the last part of my other comment to reflect this:

A scale is actually an ordered set of notes belonging to a key. A key is just an unordered collection of notes. I got this wrong earlier.

So playing all the notes belonging to C major in ascending order is playing a scale, and playing the notes in any order is playing in the key of C.
This is an unprecedented global geopolitical event that is already reshaping politics. The market is down some 15% in 3 days. The Chinese Century has been pushed back for decades as the us and other governments realize the danger of excessive offshoring. Manufacturing may return to the U.S. Iran is crippled and blaming the virus on the U.S. Borders the world over are closing and will continue to close and you may see a rise in pro immigration control sentiment.

Nothing is arguably more appropriate for HN right now than this. The time to keep your head in the sand and go about daily life blissfully has long passed. Now is the time to brace for as the CDC put it severe disruptions. If the virus continues to spread as it has in Italy, China, Iran, it will affect every one of us.
That's more than $3. Sure you get unlimited bandwidth and other stuff, but if you don't need it, why waste more money?
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Off topic from your post but:

Every morning there was a small stash of N95 masks at my local Home Depot until yesterday

Why do you go to Home Depot every morning?
How much does that actually help? Some things are much easier when system calls return sane values, but the standard library of a programming language needs to work as best it can on many platforms.
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> [the] patient [...] is now at El Camino Hospital
Thank you for your comment.

I would hope that people share their ideas anyway, so at least it can be discussed. And not get shut down. It's usually obvious if an idea has prior art or if it's not really good.
>evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

Again, this is an unprecedent event. Nothing in recorded history has had the potential ramifications for society that this virus does, short perhaps of the black plague of the middle ages. This virus will test civilization.
I don't agree with the author. Sometimes good ideas solve problems people didn't know they had.
Jane Street really loves OCaml. A lot of formal verification tools play nicely with OCaml too.
It's been spreading since November 2019, initially news of it was muzzled by China and then they didn't know or didn't have tests for it in other countries.

So it's going to popup everywhere. Any town with an international airport or university with international students will be flooded with cases in a month. Absolutely no-one has immunity since it's never existed before and since everyone feels entitled to still go to work or shop while very sick, it will spread like wildfire.

Also remember there are millions upon millions in the USA without any kind of insurance or easy access to healthcare.
"Infinite In All Directions" is right here in my current reading stack next to Loren Eiseley's "All The Strange Hours"... they live on through their written words and all the lives they touched.
Tried again and now I can see them for sale here as well.

Thanks!
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Ditto, I remember driving around the course backwards and wrecking all opponents. I probably spent many hours as a seven year old just doing that. So much fun!
It's getting real now. Wash you hands, and avoid touching your face. Plan to spend less time in close proximity to others.

I saw a message at a dance studio in Monterey Park, which is like a Chinatown section of Los Angeles. The sign outside says that if you have been to China recently, please self quarantine yourself for 14 days before entering the dance studio.

I could definitely notice a difference in the approach they had. They are already worried about it and they are taking steps. I'm not really sure we're ready for this thing. But it's here. It sure seems that way anyway.
The masks do absolutely nothing for the general public. The purpose of a mask in a hospital setting is to stop what's in you from going into anyone else. That's true of both the doctors in the OR and patients. They do nothing to stop what comes out of someone else getting into you. Unless you're wearing a full-on bio suit like in a research facility or an N95, save yourself the trouble. [1] Just wash your hands before you touch your face.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/main-focus-preven...
Right now it is all about slowing down the onset of the eventual peak. Any delaying action will give healthcare systems in countries that are really working on preparations (and they all should be) time to get more capacity in place. The sooner that peak hits the harder it will be, the more people will die.
In that case... You wouldn't be using the rust file system libraries though, right?

It seems like the simplest definition of an OsString is "the type used to interact with the OS file system API as implemented in rust".
It doesn't sound like a vaccine is going to save the day here[1].

> Marks said a real late-stage trial to test a vaccine is likely “months away.” One concern is that some previous coronavirus vaccines have caused worsening of the disease, not improvement.

> “We have to make sure that as we proceed with development, we’re not creating problems,” Marks said. It might be realistic, he said, for studies of vaccines to begin by the summer, although that timeline is still aggressive.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-vaccines-are...
I, for one, would gladly trade threaded GC and unchecked effects for checked exceptions...
Unless there is a way to implement some kind of poor man checked exceptions with unchecked effects?
This sort of user-hostile approach is not a net positive for security, because most people don't want to have a bunch of offline backup codes for each one of the hundreds of websites they have signed up with.
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It seems like if you replace WebAssembly with JavaScript in this comment it makes just as much sense. What is different about WebAssembly?
if it's really profitable why don't you raise a fund
But I can review my code as code?
Diamond Princess isolated people, no? That is unlike what we'll see in the broader population.
> The Chinese Century has been pushed back for decades as the us and other government's realize the danger of excessive offshoring.

Remains to be seen. I think they have pulled off an enormous feat in slowing the virus as they have. Maybe China comes out of this relatively better than some other nations. The cone of uncertainty is a mile wide.
They do mention London down in the article, but I already knew UK because of the spelling of sceptical and the use of "hired" where Americans would say "rented."

Nice to see an article where they aren't slamming on my city, btw. :) Although I question the "rarely windy" comment.
My understanding is that high blood sugar impedes the immune system. So, the better your blood sugar is controlled, the better off you will be.
Git LFS?
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Unfortunately that's becoming increasingly difficult with the amount of programs written in go that touch developers lives on a regular basis. Kubernetes, for example, is written in go. Want to fix a bug? You're now at least a part-time Gopher.

I don't think we've seen the likes of this since PHP.
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Actually hmm, I may want to take back my earlier comment. There are multiple things at play. There's scoping (where rust will copy across scope boundaries for non-ref types, which allows closing over something as in your first example above).

Then there's mutable refs and mutable variables, which as hope-striker mentioned I was confusing, possibly because I was using ints in my example. If instead we used a vec:

fn main() {
let x = vec![0,1,2]
x.push(3) // fails since x isn't mutable
}

There's no clear direct related concept here by default. If we're allowed to use pytype, you get this:

def main():
x: Sequence[int] = [1,2,3] # Sequences aren't mutable
x.push(3) # fails since x isn't mutable

Cool, so mutable and immutable values are possible in both langs. What about refs? Well we went through that one, if you pass a mutable ref to a function in rust, you can modify the ref in ways that just aren't possible in python:

fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
let mut x: i32 = 3;
modifies(&mut x);
println!("{}", x);
}

fn modifies(x: &mut i32) {
*x = 5;
}

There's nothing analogous to this in python. Everything is always passed as a mutable "value"[1], nothing is passed as a ref.

Cool so that's mutable variables and mutable references. That leaves this weird scoping issue. In rust (and in cpp) there's lots of scopes. Any set of braces creates a new scope, and so shadowing can happen across scopes. Lambda capture/closure happens over the scope. A given scope binds a name to a value, or a set of names to their values.

Python's a bit different, only new names are created in the scope. If a name isn't accessible in the given scope, the name is pulled from parent scopes etc.

So for the capturing behavior you want, there's weird nonlocal stuff that needs to be done, or you can explicitly make an additional scope, which removes the wonky behavior. If the name were really mutable, you'd be able to change what x referred to in the enclosing scope, which you can't.

tl;dr: This isn't mutable names, its python's (admittedly abnormal) scoping rules.

[1]: Unless you add in mypy or whatnot, where the typechecker will prevent you from modifying something that is non-mutable, but unlike in rust this isn't done with mutability as a first class citizen, its just that some interfaces expose mutating methods (`append`) and some don't. You can pass a list to a function that expects a list or a sequence, and the first case is mutable, while the second isn't.
Personally, I prefer command-line tools over GUIs in many cases. Also, JSON doesn't help me at all if I'm working with other userland tools that expect something else. Piping is very important for CLI tools, so you have to talk the same language as the rest of the userland population.
Congratulations, you've reduced a hard problem to a harder problem!
I just read a write-up of some chess drama (https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/f9uv4d/chess_sp... ) and one of the plot points was that lichess doesn't accept electronic boards in their ranking system - you had to use their online client.

Now that's untrue. The timing is surprising/odd to me - I feel like there's some connection or twist waiting to be revealed here.
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Hint: look at the url of this page. :)
AMD does not rest easy - it know the crookedness inherent within Intel and will be en garde. Seriously, AMD advanced in the face of whatever Intel threw at it - do you think they are not watching whatever Intel does and have their own specialists exploring every avenue?
Uneasy rests the head that wears the crown...
UCLA researchers quantify participants' levels of empathy in new study
And sometimes ideas for "problems people don't know they have" are not good. I would guess this is more common.
Not only that, the penalty only takes place IF they didn't follow the "adequate precautions to secure the data".
I am a layman here, but couldn't they just use more aggressive cooling on the outside? If the exterior were cooled to -20°C, wouldn't that keep the interior from getting too hot as well?
True for cheap surgical masks, definitely not true for N95 or P100 masks with HEPA filters.

If you are carrying for a sick person in your home or in a hospital, you need a quality mask and eye protection.
That's a fair point, the rate of increase in cases in China is now lower than the rate of increase in some countries. At the same time, I think that any numbers should be taken with a large grain of salt, both on the up and the downside. Not all countries test suspected cases in large quantities, reporting is inconsistent between countries and over time from single countries. Some countries are still in 'head in the sand' mode and asymptomatic spreading could translate in many more cases than are registered.

The ratios of cases:deceased and recovered:deceased are converging, which at least reduces the error bars around some of the more important numerical parameters of this particular virus.

The most important thing to realize is that R0 is not a hard attribute of the virus but something that we have some control over. By reducing R0 through the application of best practices we can stretch the onset of the peak and hence reduce the number of fatalities and the number of people that end up in a critical condition.

Some examples of best practices:

- good personal hygiene, in other words: wash your hands

- don't travel if you don't have to

- don't touch your face all the time (very hard, subconscious)

- if you think you have 'a' bug don't go to work and stay indoors until you've been tested (call the doctor, they should have a protocol)

- avoid crowds

The next few weeks will be crucial and will have an enormous effect on how we (collectively) will look back at this in a few months time.

I feel super sorry for everybody living in countries that do not have free healthcare, the virus will have a disproportional effect on people of different wealth status but in countries without free healthcare that effect will be vastly amplified.
It wasn't clear from the article. I wasn't sure if it was Los Gatos or MtnV.
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Not to mention that political leadership and one corner of the media is throwing chaff in the air and blaming the Democrats and mainstream media for sensationalizing the virus. Trust, which is absolutely key to having the population take action, has been eroded.
No word on the reason for postponing?

It seems odd to dance around the issue like that. I mean, I get it, we all know why its being postponed, but it seems weird to not say something about coronavirus risk.
*side projects that aren't already a for-profit endeavor (why would someone sell it if they're already making/planning to make money?)
According to this podcast featuring a Harvard epidemiologist, someone can get it twice: https://pca.st//episode/ca05539a-1c01-4862-9e86-8882e5e42178
Will it? Obviously it could be due to all the precautions, but thus far no children 0-9 have died from the virus. The data shows mostly older people, and apparently those already ill. Thus far, that isn't to be compared with black plague because it had a much worse impact.
I've been shocked how expensive everything here is compared to London. Everything is at least 2x, if not more. Grocery shopping has been a constant "can you BELIEVE toothpaste costs $10?" etc. That does also include rent.
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> I’d say though you’re fear mongering posting a comment like this, why ?

If you're just stating that without posing a counter argument then I think you have failed to understand what I am saying. And that is precisely why I posted.

1. The methodology being used to arrive at the 2-3% figure is unambiguously vulnerable to bias. It may be the case that other biases (under-reporting mild cases) cancels out the effect, or maybe not.

2. The same methodology when applied to SARS was provably biased, and an alternative seemingly equally valid estimator was accurate for SARS and gives a much higher estimate for the mortality rate of coronavirus.

If, in fact, we are off by mortality estimates by a factor of 4 it needs to be more widely known because the appropriate economic trade-off in handling is different at the two mortality levels. (In particular, if the mortality rate is much higher for working age people then economically disruptive countermeasures are more justified.)

I'm doubtful that any comments on hacker news are likely to result in public panic. I think for the most part the audience here is capable of reasoning about these things and making prudent decisions.
The main difference between industrial and medical oxygen is that for medical oxygen the providence of the tank is tracked to make sure that it has only been used to store oxygen, and hasn't been left unused for a long period of time. With the massive need for various gasses and the cost in transporting them long distances, most large metro areas have at least one air distillation plant that produces them.

Pressure Swing Absorption oxygen generators have been getting cheaper, and will separate oxygen from air as long as they have electrical power and maintenance every few months. PSA is not suitable for all medical uses though as it typically produces 90-95% oxygen and is not directly capable of producing pure oxygen.
> I would then gladly share it and collect my pennies per day or opt-out and get degraded service or no service at all.

The latter part sounds awful. Why would that be acceptable? Do you mean that your selling to them your data would be in place of paying a service charge?
Isn't point #1 and (partly) #2 incredibly dangerous?
Sender field is easy to spoof, and while advice to go directly to their website is sound, it doesn't explain what "checking the link" actually entails, and many might not know a link in an email can say one thing and take you somewhere different.

So people reading this might be _more_ susceptible to future, more sofisticated, attempts of the same type, rather than less.
What if he’s not meant to be read in good faith?
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It'll definitely be Mountain View, they're set up with a proper ICU and isolation.
Because the US is doing nearly zero surveillance testing, we don't know what we don't know.

Maybe there's community transmission right now beyond these two cases and we don't know because we're only testing people returning from China or from the cruise ship.
it's a common spot for tourist muggings.
Something I read in another HN thread was that while $200M may not be much compared to T-Mobile's annual revenue, it's probably a lot compared to how much ISPs earn from selling user data.

This doesn't factor in the ongoing PR cost of headlines like "FCC weighing fining ISP X", "FCC fines ISP X", "ISP X appeals fine", "ISP X loses appeal", etc.

Still, I agree the fine could have been harsher.
Not enough? What are you gonna do about it, little people?
Thanks for posting it again. Always would enjoy more discussion so I've created issues for discussion threads.

There's a page 2 now (another 85+): https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2 Which are even better IMHO. I'd suggest someone not familiar with the series to try ideas2 first.
Corona can be spread by fecal contact so refrain from a2m, o-after-a, etc.
So am I going to get my ticket money back?
Sorry to hear that. I know how it feels -- anytime I share anything online (my blog posts, my open source projects, etc.), I get beaten up by a vocal subset of readers. Sometimes they're well meaning, and sometimes they're just jerks (and sometimes both.)

I've learned over the decades that any feedback is good feedback, and it helps to stay optimistic, and keep trying anyway.

Good luck to you!
You may also use Caddy instead of Ngnix. It's way easier to set up and customize.
Was discussing this with colleagues recently. The last big global event was the GFC, and before that WW2. Suspect the impact of COVID-19 will be closer to WW2 than the GFC, but truly hope I'm wrong. We are living through an interesting time, which is never fun.