skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the federal level, republicans, and at the local level, democrats. There's plenty of blame to go around without being partisan.
>stoves which are increasingly induction-based and safe rather than fire hazards burners/gas

As someone who enjoys cooking, the proliferation of induction based stoves makes me sad. I find cooking over a gas flame superior in just about every way (except obviously safety and energy efficiency).

Induction cooking just gives little to no feedback and makes it difficult for any pan tilting techniques (I love my garlic basted pan seared steaks...). Pretty much have to use something like cast iron for heat retention now.
None of them. The concept is fundamentally flawed. It's as if everything you ever read about C was all about bitwise manipulation operations, on and on and on about bitwise manipulation, to the point not-C programmers think the language is primarily about bitwise manipulation and people start porting bizarre misunderstandings of bitwise manipulation into other languages and claiming they're just like C now, when it's just a part of the language that you'll pick up over time. Not a perfect metaphor but close enough.
I didn't even think of how many people are asymptomatic carriers when I said that number. More data, like all science, is the answer here.

Honestly, someone I highly respect who is high up on the medicine food chain is very concerned that a lot of people are going to die and that's been making me very concerned.
I just opened the NYTimes front page and counted the number of occurrences of "coronavirus". I counted 15 total.

The biggest winners from coronavirus are going to be those who sell fear (i.e., mainstream media). I also suppose anyone who was astute enough to open a large short position against the market in the past week or two will profit. I think we're only going to see an increase in panic and fear before things settle down. What real impact there will be on the world remains to be seen, I think it's too early to tell.

Worst case, it seems like the virus will mostly harm those who are at risk of death, but healthy people will probably be okay.
50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this.

note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.
CFR numbers vary wildly.
nothing to do with "cool". I could never go back to email after using slack-like software. It's so much more efficient.
Whats happening in Switzerland at the moment is kind of interesting: Any event will be cancelled with more than 1000 people including sport events.
So, should we even care if the actual rate is merely 50% above your regular flu? Is this 0.15% one winter/year or across several seasons?
> What the hell does "infinitely fast" even MEAN in this context?

It's nonsense, but their argument seems to be that instruction level parallelism allows the RNG's user to keep executing simultaneously while the RNG pre-computes its next output. So the application doesn't have to delay execution to wait for the RNG to spit something out.
Well, I am on 4G and they list my IP downloading whole movies and games through torrents. Doesn’t make much sense.
There are actually two ways to do Docker with Heroku.

You can let Heroku build your image during the deployment phase by simply having a `Dockerfile` in your repository [1].

Or, you can build the image yourself on your CI service and push it to Heroku's registry and then trigger a release. This last option is useful if you want to run tests against the exact image that is going to be deployed without having to rebuilt it [2].

[1] https://blog.heroku.com/build-docker-images-heroku-yml
[2] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/container-registry-and...
That can also be achieved by storing that information as user preferences on the backend, and it won’t affect your friends but let’s support people figure out what they need to know.
You mean, normal employees? That's weird.

And the "bosses" seem especially dumb. If one person is sick and contagious, you risk to get your entire team sick and then have to shut down operations.
"Soldier on" is a semi-commonly used phrase that I suspect most (at least Americans) reading the comment knew exactly what they meant.

Unsure if you were just unfamiliar with the phrase or wanted to point out something you felt was inaccurate about it.
You can do the same thing with C#, which is great for groupings, e.g. "2000000" becomes "2_000_000".

As a rust noob, I didn't realise rust supported the same syntax, or that you could use it to separate the type from the value (which in rust's case, I find really helps readability).
But not large schools, companies, hotels, etc? What's the criteria for an "event"?
I don't think they could avoided the virus, realistically speaking. What this one person did was to bring mass contagion in SK maybe 3-4 weeks closer in time.

Mass contagion is inevitable at a global scale at this point.
I am perhaps glass half empty sort of person but it’s important for me how far is it to go than how far have we came. The fact is that it’s been literally 50 years since moon landing and Mars landings is still as far as it was in 90s. Cancer survival rates have improved but curing cancer is still as much as pipe dream it was in 90s. Less people are poor but eradicating poverty and providing basic education, food and health for all is still as much away as it was in 90s. I can go on but us Twitter generation take too much pride out of rather silly little things while ignoring the things that matters the most.
Welp. I've been a bit wary about riding the subway while corona is bouncing around, and this pretty much confirms that I should be.
Commonly known as the butterfly effect or a sliding door https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_doors_moment

Watch the Sliding Doors movie. A curious movie where you can see how one little change dramatically alters the course of (Gwyneth Paltrow's) life in a vivid way.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/
As I recall, the passengers in question were all tested, but a lot of those tests were administered long before the last time those passengers could have been exposed. I see no a priori reason to believe that the number of cases is accurate.
I think I'm talking more about your Mr Golang piece, but now that I have your ear, I guess may as well. I am less concerned with the existence of digressions than the way they're introduced. When I say needs editing, I mean that because I cannot navigate the piece properly, it takes longer to understand what you're getting at if I want to, so it seems like it's too long. Editing down is only one solution to that.

An example of this is when I was really confused reading about path extensions and non-UTF8 paths. I was promised by Cool Bear that you had a point to make using an example about a stat call, but you were no longer talking about stat, and yet you were still writing as if it was central to your stat discussion. So instead of expanding, I thought you just couldn't express what was wrong with the stat call. I nearly gave up waiting! And I was surprised that, in the end, you could (and put it quite well). Unfortunately, there are thousands of thinkpieces out there that never make the point they promise to, instead just dumping information at you and hoping it hits you like it hit them. So I am trained to close the tab when that is happening.

It might help to state why you're going to digress before you do, with a promise to return, so that people who are hooked can be confident you'll eventually make your point (and may skip back and forth to digest your argument again without interruption). If nothing else, you are making a promise to yourself to structure things in a way that is friendly to the reader.

Rather than making the piece less exploratory, adding signposting helps get the reader into the mindset you describe in the last sentence there. Otherwise, they are not sure whether to be interpreting what you're saying as a core argument or some side discussion. It hurts both the exploratory and the argumentative qualities of the writing if one is confused for the other. Without making it clear, the argument runs like my first para above: unnecessarily long-winded and questionably relevant, with no exploratory levity. With good signposting, you get to nail both. It's about two sentences' and two headings' difference, maybe a little shuffling around.

Hope that helps, looking forward to your next one.
I'm an idiot. I meant that objects can't reference objects newer than themselves
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This is way too critical of an approach to this issue. Coronavirus affects supply chains, schools and many other facets of our lives. If mainstream media didn’t report heavily on the risks that would be negligent.

There have been many people who were healthy and have been infected, and also just because some people are at the risk of death; doesn’t means we should just cast off Coronavirus as a minor concern.
Morphing Amazon's Snowball into a first class object store
For what it's worth, most gaming startups I know (including my own) seem to use Discord.
1. Can't share large files with discord

2. Customer service doesn't respond quickly even with nitro plan

3. Confusing UX
Show HN: Dashboard – The missing action center for Android TV
I think the payment will depend entirely on the level of payment that you have received really
I always wanted to see a control center on Android TV where I can quickly do things like turning WiFi on/off, switching to a recent app, taking a screenshot, opening a sideloaded app, force closing an app ..etc. I didn't find a good app for that so I created Dashboard.

I used a similar design as the native apps drawer to make the app familiar to users, and the same shortcut (hold the home button) is used to quickly open it. So, in a way, it's also a replacement to the native apps drawer.

In addition to showing apps, it also allows the user to access sideloaded apps, recent apps, and many actions.
I notice Wikipedia states you wrote Empire for the PDP-10. Are there two versions or is Wikipedia wrong?
In particular, E is . and T is -, so you can trivially decode any sequence of dots and dashes to strings containing only E and T.
Weirdly, almost exactly 20 years ago, I sat next to somebody at a wedding who had an almost-identical story about cleaning up after an SAP rollout, but all of the numbers had an extra zero or two. It amazes me that what the SaaS shift appears to have achieved is that now much smaller companies can get stuck in the same "solve everything" money pit.

But I guess the fundamental problem hasn't changed: executives want to believe in magic solutions that give them all the feelings of control with none of the actual work. With no regard for actual operational efficiency, and no need to hold themselves to the ROI standards they'd demand of others.
Solve it and let me know :).

On the surface it feels relatively easy. Until you realize you can't tell one letter from another.

Is it "D" or is it "T" followed by the start of the next letter? "D" is equal to "TEE". But it could be "NE" also. One letter in and we are exploding. This is not counting nonsensical combinations like this being the start of "NL", but if that is a word boundary, then maybe it is ok.
At the time, sharepoint was fairly new In Microsoft's portfolio (IIRC, they bought out another company), and it really was horrendous.

Thankfully it's a lot nicer these days - but I still wouldn't use it as a platform on which to build a web app (yes, we were forced, under great duress to do that - and the result was as awful as you'd expect).
28 tools, and no password manager? Oof.

For "core" accounts, make sure you've got 2FA on. Google for starters. Also anything to do with code, hosting, or finances.
A lot of people die every year for a lot of reasons. Have a look at the CDC's death statistics[1]. One interesting thing to note is that flu vaccines are widely available and quite affordable, and yet many people die every year from the flu.

Yes, the virus may increase the total number of deaths overall, but my armchair hypothesis is that fear and panic will do more long term damage than the virus itself.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
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Since BMI is based on the height/weight ratio of a person, and the survey is based on average people of a demographic, I think BMI is a reasonable indicator. Individually BMI is useless, but that's not what it is for, and not how it is being used here.

If the average BMI in a particular demographic is significantly higher than it was historically, or significantly higher than other reasonably similar demographics, it does very strongly suggest something is happening to either the height or the weight of that population. Since the average number is going up, it suggests either the population is getting shorter, or wider. Or both.

You'll end up drawing one particular conclusion, and it is quite probably the correct one: The population is isn't getting shorter, so it must be getting wider. And the numbers suggests it is a significant amount. You only have to look around to see visual evidence. Ever compared pictures of groups and crowds from the 60's and 70's to ones from today? It's glaringly obvious. There used to be a LOT of skinny adults, and nearly no fat kids. Now skinny adults are rare, and fat kids abound. (This could actually be a good social experiment. Bring out those old family vacation pics and do a background comparison.) Being able to track that population's weight gain by use of BMI isn't bogus.

Another way to think of it: a rising BMI for an individual either means they've been morphing into Arnold Schwarzenegger, or George Costanza. A rising BMI for a population means the average person is morphing into one or the other. Which one do you think is more likely to be the case?

People (usually overweight ones) automatically discount BMI without considering its use in the one and only way it is actually useful. Which is this particular use case.
The obvious answer is that the details disclosed are not considered operationally sensitive. The more interesting question would be why these and not other details that weren't, but you obviously won't get answers to that.

A second answer is that, in situations like we currently face (balanced on a hope that a global outbreak doesn't get worse), PR is to some extent security. If you're confronted with a frightened dog, make soothing noises.
This implies that our government is managing the propaganda around Covid-19 by simply not testing suspected cases. Is this true?
I think it's going to be the right thing to do. There should be protection of personal data
You do not switch on types, you switch on groups of tuoes having certain properties. It is not a new thing this sort of thing has been doable for the last 20 years in a form or another.
I scale my sites to 500k* users per month for free
Exactly. Hence the moral of don't give a problem you have not solved yourself. Similar to the reverse a Unicode string from the article.
> 10x amount they charged + $200/victim/incident (so, $200 for each record sent) seems reasonable to me.

Why be so nice, when companies ask for $150,000 per copyright infringement? Leaking personal data is much more serious.
As much as I want you to be right—that there would be a coup if our government in the mainland delivered these results—I’m fearful that certain cities or even states could be abandoned. I’m fearful a certain political block would even support this as a cleansing and restoring America to some fantasy version.
Leaving aside the comments on twitter. That kid would probably do a great job in information security, if he was so inclined; he clearly has the instincts for it.
Induction stoves are awesome, and definitely better than electric coil at the very least. What has been bad about your experience?
I meant what you said about the 3 months could be a suicide for your carrear.

About the rest, I'm from Portugal and I agree - I believe there are cases in Portugal for some time and probably will be confirmed the first ones next week.
What good is encryption that only works for some inputs?
Show HN: BlobCity A.I. Cloud
You lost me, boss! Why do you think mystery_c is closer to mystery_py than mystery_b?
I think it's fair that if you want to spend company money, you need to justify it, especially so if it's on something that will be used by a whole team or across the whole company.

At a smaller company that values its devs, there hopefully shouldn't be too much ceremony around this, unless it's a particularly large spend.

But at larger companies, yes, you're likely going to have to know how to make your case in a more formal way, and get involved in company politics (ugh).
You often need sfinae to implement the trait itself, but concepts (and the 'requires' keyword itself) will finally get rid of sfinae.
Sure, but those are exceptions to the modern car size, and the median car size on the street is far bigger than that. If everyone would switch to Fiat 500 sized cars, that would be an amazing start.
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So someone should uninstall the program and download a true open source product like vscode. Because using it by the terms listed on the download page is breaking a social contract. If we don't no one will offer a free editor again?

- There is a reason they offered a free unlimited trial. They were unknown and by offering it for free they increased popularity, increased business / education licenses sold. By me switching to another editor I stop telling people I use that editor my company stops purchasing that license. We all lose. Nevermind version 3 doesn't have that wording, so version 2 can be seen as a gateway product to onboard developers into version 3.

- Even though vscode is open source by supporting that editor you are supporting big microsoft over a much smaller company. Long term this hurts small developers more. I think open source can hurt small players when used by larger corps trying to get you to buy into there paid ecosystem.
Anyone know of efforts to enhance the efficiency of electrolysis with RF resonance?

There is a relatively old patent, but I'm looking for recent scientific work.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4265721A/en
> Skimming through the article it seems to be all over the place topically.

Well, the author does at least admit that: "So it’s going to be a sprawling, messy hot take on the State of Textual Media. Or at least a simmering take, since I’ve been thinking about this stuff for a year on the backburner".

Not that I disagree with you. My immediate reaction, rightly or not, was to remember the review comment 'It is not even wrong' [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
Also, I wonder how much time they waste switching between tools and managing them (accounts, settings & preferences, payments, upgrading plans, checking release notes, news & other notification emails, etc).

Don’t using 28 productivity tools make you less productive eventually?
'To hell and back': my three weeks suffering from coronavirus
I wrote a solution to this some time back: https://github.com/paulhankin/morse-decoder . It finds the most likely sentence based on n-gram frequencies and a dictionary, and runs a relatively fast dynamic program (it's been a while since I looked at the code, but I think linear if word lengths are bounded). Word list and n-gram frequencies aren't provided in the repo, although they're easy to find online.
how exactly is it controlled by the "House leadership of the opposition party." when bills need to pass the senate too, and the republicans are flat out refusing to pass anything.
> Induction stoves are bloody awful and a huge regression from gas, even electric coil

You must have used an underpower induction plate. Gas carries a lot of energy, a standard house power outlet cannot deliver that much energy.

Induction stoves with enough power are slightly less reactive than gas, and can only use cookware that is magnetic, but MUCH more energy efficient (you only heat the cookware, not the air around it) and much easier to clean than gas stoves.

Electrical coil are so slow to react to heat change that cooking in them is a different skill altogether, and makes some cooking more difficult.
No, Morse Code is not a prefix code.
Teams actually works well for us too. My only complaint is about startup time and the consistent 2 or 3 second hangs that happen when I'm typing things sometimes.
This is actually useful for finding parks.
50 years? Try Iceland, right now. http://docs.apis.is/
APIs for gas stations, concerts, TV schedules, school syllabi...
I still don’t understand how this is supposed to work in areas without internet coverage.

If the drone loses connectivity, is the pilot supposed to file reports to the NTSB?
This rings so, so true.

At my very large company, in my particular department, any one trouble ticket may bounce between

(1) a Java ticketing app
(2) a web/email ticketing system
(3) a Jira issue, or
(4) a Gitlab issue, or
(5) a company-wide issue tracker

Other groups (e.g., customer service) have their own, completely separate systems besides the above.

Some development tasks are tracked with an issue tracker. Others are planned out in Confluence or Jira, per the whims of each team. We have literally 5 different chat "solutions," with various factions preferring each. Every day it seems someone brings online yet another script that sends out helpful emails. My count is around 16k since Jan 1.

The result of all of this is a sprawling, utterly insane flood of useless noise that everyone ignores.
Thailand’s Rising Anti-Government Student Protests
Very little has survived on paper considering how many people have lived in the past.

It's just life. A lot of what may seem important with our backups really isn't. Whatever we have produced today will return to the earth, and will be reinvented by generations in the future.

It's their lives to live, not ours.
It’s not purely a practical argument, though it has a strong practical component, to me it’s also a moral one. We expect loyalty and patriotism from our people. If we owe loyalty to our country and each other, I believe that carries obligations.

I’m no socialist, I’m a true believer in the individual freedoms and liberties at the heart of capitalism. Free enterprise is the most powerful force in human society, and it is generally a force for good.

I suppose where I part ways with American style conservatives is my attitude to government. To me, in a democracy we are the government. It’s not an external force, it’s something we all carry responsibility for, and can be a vehicle through which we meet our mutual responsibilities, and to me that’s tied to my sense of patriotic duty. I know America has a much stronger sense of individualism and personal autonomy. I don’t want to malign that or trivialise it, there are good historical reasons for it. It’s just that over here in the UK we learned different historical lessons for different reasons.
Just tried to sign up with Roam to give it a spin so I could compare it with Tiddlywiki. I couldn't sign up. It forces me to give my email to subscribe to their newsletter in order to sign up.

There is no visible way to get past that newsletter screen and if I do try to subscribe it actually redirects me through some tracking site that pihole (helpfully) blocks. What an absolutely terrible design and user-hostile experience. Shame on them. They lost one possible user for sure.
Everyone regrets missed experiences. Whatever you're doing, you're not doing all these other things.