skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
c.f. the "Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”" thread, I kind of wonder why this took so long to arrive. It could, in theory, have been done at almost any time over the past 20 years.

I suppose it required IE to die and Google to produce a browser with an integrated payment solution. And also it's only recently that end-user devices have become secure enough to tolerate storing credit card info on them, at least on Android and iOS devices.
I store contacts/calendars on my own server as well using Radicale + DavDroid on my phone and Thunderbird w/ Cardbook on my desktop.
Does anyone know of a good article on which BLAS is the BLAS to rule them all (for specific problems).
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Did someone measure it and proved them wrong?

I am not saying you are wrong, or he is, but the ancientness of the claim is not an argument in favor or against it
Fundamentally though I thought the language ecosystem needs stability and consistency. Very many of clojure related tutorials, stack overflow answers are outdated.

Like I mentioned Windows tooling and distribution seems not get much focus.

Emacs, cider, nrepl workflow on Linux is too complex with many moving parts, and very brittle(may be things have improved recently).

A major pain point for me specifically is that on an exception you don't get a live repl, you only get the stack trace of a dead program.

Even some minor inconsistencies lambda positional argument numbers seem to start from 1, than 0, which is where indexes start in all other cases.
It may still be worth taking a blood test, especially if you have some symptoms that match vitamin D deficiency.
> Testing for COVID-19 has been an unmitigated failure in the US.

Same in Germany. Authorities have tracked and followed infection paths of several 10k people in China to contain the spread and reach a massive slowing in disease spread (confirmed by WHO) due to drastic containment measures.

In Germany 35 (without the "k") people were infected in the state of NRW and authorities gave up following infection paths. They're barely testing despite crazy rising numbers and nationally we have discussions about containment measures.

The conclusion is that we will likely not contain any communities or cancel events just yet. Because it would impede on individual freedom which is regarded as more important than preventing the spread of a dangerous pandemic.
blame the new era of fiscal discipline at google.

products have to make an appreciable difference in the bottom line
The current ticket sale only covers 8% of total cost.

"Luxembourg's public transport system covers the whole country and costs $562 million (€508 million) per year to run. Each year, it generates around $46 million in ticket sales, according to the ministry."

$46 mil is still a lot given the gov't tax revenue is only $25 billion / year, but I'm sure they also calculated plenty of upsides when they made the decision.
No? It won't obliterate other forms of payment processing in the medium term. And I'd be very surprised if a "gpay is now mandatory for online shopping" monopoly was left to develop.
Ask HN: Recommend chronological collection of books for living life efficiently?
What would be a good collection one can start without any background to learn about finance, insurance, habits, maintaining good communication skills, time management, relationships, job hunting, climbing corporate ladder etc?

Basically everything you require to go through an average life while maximizing the output with minimal effort.
Certainly, I am using firefox as well right now, but this does not mean that we should give up in our objective to privacy and just trust mozilla.
See also how 'hacking' is portrayed in movies compared to real life.
How does java prevent memory leaks which rust couldn't ? Do you have examples for that? I was not aware that Java does it and am very interested in that.
Level -1 reminds me some companies I've known, except s/CMM/scrum/g, which leads me to a theory[1] about scrum that's formed in my mind that I haven't heard articulated elsewhere -- I'd be curious to hear reactions:

If you're an intrinsically motivated software professional, you're likely motivated by a number of different factors: creating a great product, love of solving problems, writing elegant code, the fun of building new things, making users happy, etc... (exact levels those matter vary by person.) You're probably not intrinsically motivated by things like hitting sprint goals, achieving a certain velocity, meeting OKRs, etc... (Did you enroll in CS classes thinking "I'm so looking forward to hitting sprint targets!"?) Thus, all of these tend to amount to various forms of extrinsic motivation.

A problem with scrum, IMHO, is that it places these extrinsic factors front and center. Yes, the other things may still matter, but the stuff you focus on and talk about week after week are the various scrum related ephemera. (One may include OKRs, which you may not discuss as often but which may represent another extrinsic factor looming in the background.)

There's some evidence to suggest that extrinsic motivation may dampen one's intrinsic motivation, and so a pet theory of mine is that, to the extent scrum does that, it has a certain deflationary effect on the overall morale of an engineering organization. It might be subtle, depending on the particular org and how scrum is implemented[2]. I didn't even notice it until I went to a place that didn't use scrum.

[1] I'm not strongly committed to this idea. It's just something rolling around my brain.

[2] Obviously, some orgs are better than others. I'm open to the idea that the above is more a reflection of "scrum done badly" than scrum itself.
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, (UAW for historical reasons) is a broad multi-industry parent union, and has been since something like the 1950s or 1960s; The National Writers Union is part of it, among others.

UAW provided organizing and other support beginning shortly after the first few (unrecognized) campus unions were set up by the grad students.
I didn't disagree
The internet has only been around for around 30 years as we know it and things have been standardising very fast, this came just in time if you ask me.
I hope Firefox die just to shut up these "look how not perfect Firefox is" comments.
Nobody is forcing you to do that. Your browser is very likely going to have a "Don't remember" option.

You're free to keep your credit card details in your password manager or type it out every time.
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I've been in NYC every weekend over the last few months, and all members of my family/household has come down with a cold, cough, and congestion. My wife had it the worst (2 weeks), and I had it just for a day. For what it's worth, my wife works from home and didn't leave the house during those two weeks.

I hate not knowing if we've been exposed or if this is just a typical winter thing. We're all individuals with healthy immune systems, and I'll probably never know.
What's the more precise term for a variable's "lifetime"? Its "scope"?
Decentraleyes does exactly that (at least with scripts, I do not know if they do the same with webfonts and css files)
Progress Quest is a surprisingly engaging game
> I think we can all agree that operating an aircraft SAFELY requires some prior domain knowledge, which is obviously applicable to drones and RC as well.

So you're saying drone operators should be even more strictly regulated with some form of licensing akin to pilot's licenses? I have no objection to that, I was just arguing that regulating drones more strictly than ultralight manned aircraft is reasonable because self-preservation will motivate pilots of manned aircraft to fly more safely than operators of remotely piloted unmanned aircraft.
Killing it in the way they did was painfully bad. No way I'll rely further on Google services, or recommend them to anyone.
Ah OK. What word would you use to describe the period starting where the variable is assigned to and ending when it is dropped or moved-from?
"The working group maintains a list of all bug reports that the group has not yet addressed."

As always major browser vendors already have this implemented and I don't know whether to blame them or not. Specification finalization is a slow process and can be made better in my humble opinion.
Haven't several browser vendors already implemented this?

https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/elements/payment-request-b...
I feel like AWS/cloud would be more in house, though it's more a trust issue than anything else. Infra is the backbone of a company, and something some people wouldn't trust to a part time freelancer. Or someone laying on a beach in Bali might not be so accessible in the 0.1% of time the site goes down. Whether or not this is true, it is a perception.

There's also probably more web dev jobs out there. You probably need only a small amount of infra people at any one time, but are developing a lot of features, some of which are low priority and can be outsourced.
There is such de-facto standard in Clojure too. just do `lein`. + even if you choose another build tool, it is:

1) compatible
2) if you're a newcomer, you probably only need a few dependencies, which is configured in the same way as lein's `project.clj`

I mean, I agree that there definitely is a need for better guides for Clojure and defaults, but I don't think that is the reason Clojure is not more popular, and that Python is simpler there. If I encounter Python for the first time, I definitely won't know that I just "pip whatever".

I actually think that Clojure is very popular, given that there is no big Co that pushes it, and that it still doesn't have a widely known killer app. Most other popular(ish) languages are mainly popular due to huge push by a single big corporate sponsor.
So this is a common issue on the clojure sub-reddit the two good responses i've seen to this is the library expound (https://github.com/bhb/expound) so you get more 'human' read-able errors and my personal favourite is Stuart Hallows blog post REPL DEBUGGING: NO STACKTRACE REQUIRED (http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/6/5/repl-debugging-no-st...)
I don't see anything to actually blame them for specifically. Lots of insinutations and FUD but no actual claims of harm or what they should have done instead. You have described shady monetization but not the harm inflicted. If I measure everyone in town's height when they walk by a lamppost and sell it to clothing manufacturers I have gotten money due to them but I haven't stolen anything by any sensible framework.

I mean I consider Facebook a pile of trash but that I recognize that the problem has always been the people who make up society being vapid, foolish, and vain caring more about it. Banning Facebook won't fix those problems - their ancestors have been witchhunting, engaging in stupid "reformations and moral crusades" that only make things worse without any redeeming values and lashing back at inconvenient facts long before Facebook.
it sounds like this only works for nickel?
CDC lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated
Yes, I agree with you there. Don't overwrite my browser's shortcut keys.
I don't know the specifics of persona so i cannot make a comparison, but payment processes are way harder to set up, and money is on the line, so more people should adopt this.

Logins are often provided as part of whatever framework you're using.
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That’s more a failure of the form creator as password fields were never persisted to the history. If you don’t tell the browser that the input is for sensitive data it won’t protect it of course.
I do something similar just for fun, since many years. In my experience lots of just will not care about taking the steps necessary or provide the extra info, they just want easy answers from the blurriest phone photo available. Taxonomy is not simple. Not even for trained people.

Doing this with bacteria and virus opens the door to a world of legal problems and medicine trouble. I would advice against.
The paper indicates that a meta-analysis of primary effects in published research shows a significant effect, but for secondary effects in published research (those not related to study aims), no effect. Ok.

Both sorts of reports (of primary and secondary effects) have their own sorts of biases. In general, while there is tendency to only publish and report significant effects (and this applies for both primary and secondary outcomes), study design matters, and a study may not be well designed to detect, or account for other factors, for secondary outcomes- in N, choice of population, control procedures and variables used, or even how accurately and systematically that data was recorded. Does make it hard to evaluate.
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I'm a dev who generally dislikes design. I'm picky, I notice all the bad things, but design is simply not what I want to be working on. This offering was tempting for me.

Maybe worth noting, I did not buy it however. Namely because of how I'm writing my UIs atm. I can't use this product to quickly prototype - I'd instead have to hand copy layers of DOM elements and classes. At that point the buy-in of quick prototypes seems less valuable to me.

Still though, I'm definitely a target audience for this type of thing. Design, fiddling with the fine UI details, choosing colors, etc - all of that is not my area, nor do I desire it to be. I see the value in it.
Some reasons for decreasing market share:

https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-begins-showing-an-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...

This also means decreasing referral revenue from Google, so fewer resources available.

I believe Mozilla should strike back with https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-mozilla-please-of...
>it wasn't widely adopted after relatively short time

Why is that a problem, by the way? Wouldn't we expect something like Persona to be implemented in new software projects first, then gradually get adopted in existing software?

Nobody is going to gut their auth system to implement something shiny unless many are asking for it - i.e. by saying "oh it's so easy to sign into $rival_website because they use Persona, why can't we get that here?"
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>The CDC doesn't do much local testing. Mainly they provide test kits to local labs which do the tests.

Yes, but the CDC first botched their test kits and set ridiculously limited guidelines for testing (recent travel to China) that would have caught community transmission much earlier had they been widened.

If this continues, we’re going to reach a point where states and local authorities are going to start ignoring the lagging directives of the CDC out of self-preservation. This already happened in NYC when they told the CDC to get bent with their botched test kits and just started manufacturing their own.
Fairly related: https://interledger.org/

Pretty sure a lot of blockchain projects are banking on this spec becoming official.
I doubt that's the case - for many years when I was a student I lived near equator and never went out. I never felt any impact or mind or body. I even tried some vitamin D3 supplement, smth like 2000IU but had no effects after few weeks, then I quit.

The biggest effect anything I had on me is Testosterone Enthante 250mg twice a week.

Also I wonder if taking 8,000 IU vitamin D can desentivize the system overtime
It also dawned on me your method is basically the same as vonNeumann's 1946 middle square method, which turned out to be terrible from short cycles. His was base 10; yours is base 2. His dropped the bottom and top "bits". Yours drops the top (during the mult). His permuted each time via a different number; yours uses a fixed number.

Both use a mult to scramble, and then retain a subset of the bits. Adding more rotates and mults does not change the underlying issues.

This type of PRNG has been pretty thoroughly mined over the past 70+ years. You should dig through this work and the following literature on why PRNGs of this structure fell out of favor. I suspect exactly yours appears somewhere following this work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-square_method
> I just wonder if this means every single site will look the same.

It's weird because in the web world we expect sites to look different and have a unique look and feel.

But in the native world (mobile and desktop) devs are lauded when using native OS GUIs.

I've often wondered if browsers should ship a standard UI kit with everything taken into consideration (performance, accessibility, etc).
I encountered Tailwind first, but actually bought their book (and Adam's older stuff) during Black Friday last year.

Mostly, I bought those because of liking Tailwind and liking the podcast, Fullstack Radio.
The current guidelines are to test only those with respiratory symptoms who have also traveled to certain countries recently.

Resources are limited, having everyone with a minor case of the sniffles rush the hospitals all at once doesn't sound like a good plan.
I'm sure they can afford to buy rights to important non open source fonts or fund the design of similarly looking open source fonts to ship as aliases. There is no reason for the madness with fonts to continue.
> This argument is twisted out of shape.

That's true.

> Basically, you're saying that keiferski is making the claim "we don't know whether cells are machines", which he should prove.

No. He/she challenged me, repeatedly, to prove my assumption that we're talking about machinery, which he/she called foolish and handwavy. I take the position that my assumption is in line with current understanding, and that the entirety of modern biochemistry is based on and working with that assumption. keiferski holds that I'm ignorant for taking that position, implying that wide and extraordinary counter claims of something paranatural going on with minds should be considered reasonable until explicitly disproven. The basic difference of opinion is - as I understand it - what the default position should be.
> And “design of css classes” isn’t something that seems very important.

The lack of name spacing in css is a big issue on any non trivial project. Tailwind was made specifically in an attempt to address this, but I guess that isn't very important?

$150 for a template is pretty average, checkout themeforest.net its got loads of components and templates many of them free. As a non designer I use designers resources all the time and modify them to fit the purpose great value to me and my customer.

Thats kind of my point, at first you think "How can you make half a million with such a dumb cookie cutter business model?"

Then after thinking about it for five seconds the answer is obvious. Just the same way as everyone else on theme forest make a theme and sell it to 3000 people job done.
I had an opposite experience with Xamarin.Forms - I loved my time with it. A deployed commercial app I made is in the stores for a year now.

No idea about Flutter though.
Persona was also implemented, the problem is to keep it supported and iterate on the solution for long enough to reach wide adoption.
I’d love to see a tutorial on how to do this with Clojure—especially integrated with the Clojure build tooling.
> web fonts

I installed NoScript recently and was surprised to see so many sites linking to typekit or other centralized repos for JS related to rendering fonts. Why do sites using webfonts have JS dependencies? Is it something to do with licensing?

Between products like DTM and typekit, Adobe has been quietly positioning itself to be a tracking/advert power house.
Pandemic is defined when a virus reaches multiple continents so it’s already the case.
> Well, Mozilla is in a hard place. They're already losing browser marketshare, and they don't want to annoy people by breaking stuff.

Well, the web was always like sw development: if it compiles - release it - and let the user test it. Mozilla ( and Chrome and ...) breaks stuff with every release. Yes, your facebook may be perfect but internet is not only google and facebook.

> uBlock origin is a third-party project they don't control so I can't blame them for not including it.

They don't include it because that will hurt they revenue. They are not "free sw" anymore. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend in open source world when a company (Hi Canonical) starts making money by selling user data(legal spyware).

> I agree about the analytics and telemetry though.
To me that sounds more like an argument against our patent system than an argument in favor of counting impractical prototypes as inventions.
The Inka built and maintained an extensive road system. The wheel was not, as far as we know, in use in toys in Tawantinsuyu, as the grandparent comment suggested; it was in use in toys in Mexico, thousands of kilometers away, where there were no llamas. (Some North American peoples used dogs as pack animals, but I don't know if the peoples with wheels did that.)

I think it's just very difficult to make a rolling wheel. It's not like the Flintstones and the Far Side where you bang some rocks together and get a stone disc that you can then slot into your wheelbarrow (or, say, ride like a unicycle). Metals help a lot, and even bronze came fairly late to America, which didn't develop iron smelting until after Columbus. In Asia, the first (solid wood) wheels date to the Copper Age, close to the time of the domestication of the horse (and the donkey), which presumably provided much of the incentive. Those wheels are fairly fragile, and chariots had to wait for the wood-spoked wheel, which is much more complex.

But spoked wheels are expensive to build; even most of Africa didn't make much use of wheels until the colonial age, despite having iron, which the Americans lacked.
I'm not sure we have the confidence to run the logic that way right now. There are still some ways to harmonize "this hit China really hard" and "this won't impact much of the rest of the world" at this point. I've seen it hypothesized since before it even spread out of China that this may happen to target some people more than others based on different levels that people express the receptor that this virus targets. There's also some reason to wonder if China is getting hammered due to widespread smoking [1], and even more widespread exposure to pollution levels that are not entirely dissimilar to smoking. If, perchance, all of these factors are true at once, then it could be that what was in China was a perfect storm for them, and it'll be just a cold for everybody else.

We still don't really have the evidence in yet to know. At the moment we can fit the facts both to "everyone's in big trouble" and "it isn't that big a deal anywhere else". In some ways, the best possible news would be that it's been spreading in the US for weeks... and we didn't notice, because it's literally not noticeable because it's not that big a deal here. I'm not pitching that as "truth" at the moment, but it's on the table.

[1]: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202002.0051/v1 - note this preprint disagrees with the "differential expression" theory; given it's "early days" I'm taking this merely as a data point, not proof yet. This could explain how it's a catastrophe in a high-pollution city and just "a cold" everywhere else. This scenario raises the interesting possibility that covid-19 could have started anywhere, and it simply wasn't noticed until it happened to get to Wuhan through normal mechanisms. What if "patient 0" turns out to be an asymptomatic business traveler from $NOT_CHINA? I'll call this a low-probability outcome, but what if we start widespread testing in the US only to discover that almost everyone already has it?