skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The joy in using emacs for (mostly) everything is my configurations and workflow translate nicely into other contexts as well. For example, all my evil mode (vim) config, custom keybinds and extensions are available whether I'm writing code, emails or chat messages.
I'm 20 minutes in and he's spending a lot of time talking about how Rust gets correctness right.

Are there any anecdotal stories about how Rust programs have fewer errors?

Facebook, for example, rewrote Messenger with ReasonML:

https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas...

And it had a lot fewer bugs:

"Messenger used to receive bugs reports on a daily basis; since the introduction of Reason, there have been a total of 10 bugs (that's during the whole year, not per week)! *"
Coronavirus Drug Discovery Competition Results
You've arrived at the same order as my estimate of the real number of cases in Italy (I arrived at ~80k, see sibling comment), using a different technique. Yours seems more reasonable.

But note that South Korea must inevitably have missed some cases, so assuming the same ratio of diagnosed to serious cases between Italy and SK. So the real number of diseased people in Italy must actually be a little higher.
Feel free to email me with your first draft or whatever.

I don't know how to do this networking thing or whatever, but I do know something about writing and about doing stuff on a budget.
I've just finished watching the Chernobyl mini-series.

This strikes me as equal part fascinating, equal part terrifying.
When was this announcement made?

Seems less than a month to migrate off 4 million users (or whatever remnants of that) isn't much time.

You would think their client would allow some sort of export method, and that would be worth mentioning. Assuming email providers have backups seems foolhardy, people still using their service don't seem the type that are using Modern technology.

Sad to see after 20 years they are pulling out like that.
233 out of 5883 is not 0.5%
Click on it, click remove.

I'm not 100% if I had to specifically install it from the add ons menu, but I believe I had to.

Also this is Firefox Preview we're talking about - even if it wasn't able to be uninstalled it's software that's in testing!
Even adding a second (as a standard, not an upgrade) would be a start...
This looks like the numbers from the WHO-China joint COVID-19 mission. It likely overestimates the lethality somewhat. But even 1% is a big risk.
I don't think Rust has reached wide acceptance yet.

Sure there are companies that use it, but I bet you'd have a hard time convincing your manager that Rust is widely accepted in industry.

Anyway, I certainly appreciate all of the posts.
Software is neutral, neither good or evil. It only increases our effectiveness of what we were doing before.

It has its faults, but I really loved Adam Curtis’s documentary ‘ All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’. Full of anecdotes, but it is a fun watch!
I’m British and we say code. “Codes” to me is like nails on a blackboard.

The one place I do see “codes” consistently is Indian blogs/vlogs.
Are these “gifts” on top of the billions of dollars in aid the US gives Israel each year?
That, or it's on purpose and considered funny? FWIW I think it's quite witty.
He's a fascinating figure - I recommend his biography by Zweig.

Regarding the "dream job", he was thoroughly jealous of aristocracy and their prestige and wealth and saw writing mostly as a way to accumulate similar wealth and join their ranks - which was impossible because writers didn't make that much and even if they did, the aristocracy would shun the nouveau-riche anyway. Interestingly, aristocracy was fascinated by his writing and wanted to rub elbows with him, which he completely missed (which is hilarious, given that he was a master of social observation) and so he spent all his earning on expensive furniture and such (which of course couldn't make any impression of the rich - they had the same trinkets, only better).

He also once hired a team of writers to write him book on a tight deadline. IIRC, the deadline was 48 hours and each writer was supposed to deliver a chapter of the novel, with little coordination of plot and characters. You can imagine the results...

Another interesting tidbit was that he spend multiple years wooing a bored Polish aristocrat, convincing her to abandon her husband and marry him instead. Of course, it was just another plot to get to the riches. There was also investing into silver mines in Corsica. He would make a great character in his novels...
what do you like about Amplify Console?

(i work at netlify, but keen on learning about what helps devs)
I can’t disagree with this more. Public Defenders are overworked and underfunded. They have a high case load and are usually just interested in getting their clients to plea. Why would I put my life in the hands of someone paid by the same government trying to convict me if I could afford a private attorney?
Ask HN: Are there any good, lag-free remote desktop solutions for companies?
Hello HN,

I am in the IT sector (among other software related things) and deal with SMB network systems. Our company provides networking infrastructure, end-user support and solve critical business problems for niche industries.

Up until now, we didn't have an issue supporting remotely with TeamViewer and providing some employees with Google Remote Desktop access through firewalls for their own computer accounts.

With the coronavirus fear, my clients started to ask me regarding their employees remotely working. They want them to work inside the network, not only via email. There is employee monitoring systems that only work with their internal network. The problem is with slow internet connections for remote users. They experience a delay, lags, etc. Almost like playing online games with terrible internet.

What are your thoughts? I believe this will be something we as a community to get ready because so many company owners are in fear and sharing their concerns with us.

-

For many reasons, personally I do not like RDP. And even if we use RDP, it is slow too. We need to provide at least 2 clients with lag-free, high-resolution remote sessions.

Thank you for reading.
Schizophrenia: The Insanity Virus
Fair point.

I currently pay $0 for a decent ad blocker but my DNS is still unencrypted. I would not be surprised if my former ISP (Big Cable Co) found a way to track me that way, hopefully my current ISP (local utility) would not. Also suspect that data can leak through the ad blocker anyway via first-party requests.
I am married to someone who has lost her keys several times so far. Upgrading from a car with a $50 fob to one with a $200 fob was not fun.
TL;DR; if you count proportion of 1s and 0s in a random binary string (of a bounded length) after each 1, then you'll get <50% for 1s for the obvious reason, that you always skip the first 1.

Unsurprising, as the 50% expectation is only obvious for infinite sequences. All kinds of statistical correlations happen if you start adding arbitrary preconditions to finite sequences.
New Architectural Issues Facing Auto Ecosystem
Once a virus is inside our DNA... can it be removed?

Also, lets say you want to get rid of your epstein barr virus that has invaded & now lives in every one of your cells... is it living in our cells, or is it just in our dna?
A working vaccine isn't guaranteed. Reminder that we haven't perfected the flu vaccine, it only applies to a few strains each year, and some years it misses more than hits
You mean a well funded police that has all sorts of military weapons so they can call SWAT for the most minor of incidences?
Cities like Chicago and Detroit really do represent a disproportionate number of homicides in the US. Baltimore is at more than 10 times the (already high) US national average, meanwhile states like Iowa and New Hampshire have a lower homicide rate than Canada.

More than 77% of homicide victims in the US are male.
ELI5 someone please.
Shhhhhh ;]
There's also this classic talk, about why talking to the police is a terrible idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
As Coronavirus Spreads South in Italy, Top Official in Rome Tests Positive
> If I was being tortured and what they wanted to hear was the truth, I can be assured to tell it to them in broken english under the right duress.

Except you also just said that you weren't able to access memories in any meaningful context, so how are certain you would or even could be truthful?

And even if you were truthful, they would then torture you more to "be sure" you were being honest, which they can never be sure of, so where does it end?

And then your information might conflict with information they obtianed elsewhere, so they torture you some more to ascertain the truth, but there's no end point at which uncertainty disappears.

Ultimately, your panic-addled brain realizes that the truth isn't actually useful in this context and grasps at any straws thus diluting the signal to noise ratio. This progression is simply inevitable. The confidence in anything the victim says is basically nil.

"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.
Something Weird Just Happened That We Can't Explain with Existing Physics
they don't have resistance
No, these kind of transactions are exactly what the "aid" in question consists of. There aren't buckets of cash being airlifted, no-questions-asked.
In the nineties when I was in second or third grade I spent little less than a month attending school from home, recovering from surgery. This being the ninteties we didn’t have this new-fangeled internet at home. One a week a teacher would come by for a few hours and talk about school and what they were up to, and hand over some assignments and talk about what I had done so far.

As I recall it I spend a lot less time on the assignments than I would in school and I learned most of what the other kinds learned (the rest was easily learned when I was back in school) - but this obviously only worked because mum was a stay at home mum and it was early enough that she could teach me.

Most of early schooling is about warehousing and training kids to behave so that adults can be around them and parents can do that in most cases. The real issues isn’t that the kids don’t learn, it is that they end up staying with the grandparents and infecting them.
> but there is no reason why the average person retaining a lawyer can't go through the effort of finding one they are comfortable with.

I'm sorry, but this is laughably out of touch with reality for the "average person".
The police have far too much power in this. The police should only have the power to name a suspect and then request a single GPS fix in a window of their choosing. Anything else requires more judges to sign off. This power of dragnet, "give me everyone within 200 feet of this property in the last 48 hours" is just astoundingly one-sided.
Show HN: Logging Utility for ML Experiments
Maybe in a way. I think they are driving at an orthogonal argument. The DNA is more or less useless without cells. It seems like the machinery of the cell carries information about the whole of the organism in an abstract sense.
https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/store/tiles/pro

If she loses her keys just once it pays for itself many times over.
I think the typical concern is that caseload usually doesn't permit a public defender to mount a defense, only to negotiate a plea agreement. Those connections will be useful in negotiation. But you are probably not getting evidence thrown out, private investigators, expert witnesses, etc.
firefox has tracked some stats on this that are very promising. rust and reason also share a lot of the key correctness features
A good reminder that even if you have nothing to hide, privacy is still very important. The more data you make available the greater chance of a false positive. Those who protect their privacy will in the long run come out ahead. It is one of the few situations with no real tradeoffs.
There are already two of them installed in each plane.
Parking planes in bulk isn't the issue here. Planes are expensive and nobody wants to mothball them, they want them at airports.
Your point seems to be : people have different moral frameworks. Mine differs to some others. This seems self evident.
Similar situation happened to me. There were multiple burglaries in my neighborhood, and I was coming home from school wearing a hoodie, and 2 officers jumped out of an unmarked vehicle, and slammed me on the hood, cuffed me, and began searching my backpack.
Heavily criticized paper blaming the sun for global warming is retracted
> Privacy is dead so why not have a crime-free world as well?

Crime never disappears completely, it just pivots to operating within the current enforcement model. See: Minority Report. The police destroying a house for fun, discussed upthread, is a good real-world example as well.

Also that first bit is blatantly overstated. Sure it's likely a lost battle with all the surveillance going on in public (although a commercial privacy law would go pretty far). But there is still plenty of privacy left in our personal lives. And make no mistake, declaring "privacy is dead" is a surefire way to move the battle front deeper into our personal lives.
It makes you wonder how many of these stories exist and are unheard of. I'm OK with Google sharing some aggregated metrics and statistic to help fight criminals, but tracking individuals is a nightmare becoming real.

It is not directly Google's fault, they are required by laws to provide the data. Laws are democratically voted, yet are people okay with police able to open their private lives with just a button?
The flow of the article moves like going down 'stairs' i.e. awkwardly moving something.

For once, their rubbish UI is justified.
I live in the city and it's extremely common for cars to be broken into and/or stolen because of key fobs. It's a common topic on our FB neighborhood group. We store our keys in a Faraday box by the front door now, instead of leaving them out. Not surprised the attack vectors keep growing here.
Yes, there are several layers of complexity that go beyond just the genetic sequence of a given gene.

The sequence of the DNA also impacts thing like folding of DNA which impacts expression.

And the intermediaries between the DNA and the protein (RNA), can also interact with the DNA itself to promote or retard expression.

It’s incredibly complex really.
> It's a fair assumption that a lot of people on HN have SF viewpoint or views at least that partially align with them. Even those of us on the other side of the planet.

Totally agree with you ! But maybe some people misunderstood what you wrote.

I'd rather say that the crowd here is technically fit and policed enough to try to understand elaborate and forward-looking viewpoints, sometimes contrary to the doxa [0]. That makes comment so enjoyable to read. And it's also reassuring, that we can agree on some things on both sides of the planet .

edit : and some people who like to think of themselves as independent thinkers and live in SF by design or accident, will not like to see their opinions qualified as "SF" opinions. Works equally well for any part of the world.

> As for your downvoters

+1. This mechanism is a rather raw moderation system, people will abuse it to disqualify competing stances. There are options to refine it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxa
The airlines that are stockpiling capacity at our expense will come hat in hand for a bailout at our expense.
Sure, check out my post:

ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF Part 1

https://smabie.github.io/posts/2019/10/04/vol.html

The word you’re looking for is volatility drag. Even so, levered ETFs are a good investment for most investors
If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff. It's not exactly a 'how to' manual for privacy, but it is helpful for understanding the scale of the problem.
Fantastic article!!
Just a remainder: at the start of his presidency, Trump wanted to appoint his own personal pilot at the head of the FAA. So yes, don't expect too much from them in cleaning the upper levels.
The problem with this type of thinking is that it could always go even lower and by selling now you end up missing a lot of potential profit. The window of the global optimum is often only a few days wide.
Thanks - that sounds great
So if he were using an old cellphone, before the days of apps, would he still have been served a notice from the phone company for his phone tower location?

The article says: "drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connection"

and cellular connection.
The flights aren't mandated, the airlines can not fly them if they want. But if they don't they may lose them to another airline willing to fly them. If nobody wants to fly the route, then there's no threat of losing it to a competitor.
Large parts of the certification process were skipped or glossed over.

All they really need to do is recertify the entire aircraft, which is no small task.
Generally speaking, I'd hope it wouldn't be "Everything consolidates without bound."

Doing that just sets the stage for a monopoly to form, just add time. The price war should be won by the airline that can most efficiently manage resources and adapt different business models to provide stable service with fewer inputs. That is what the Market is purportedly for, no?

Consolidation is not good. High variety distributes society's eggs across many baskets, creating fault tolerance. Consolidation leaves us one black Swan away from a potentially unrecoverable calamity.
Site is useless on mobile devices
The Word from Wuhan
Did it get changed? I don't see any adult content related logo.
I wouldn't try hosting on Sia if you're trying to make a profit. I spent 20USD on Sia currency. And I didn't go out and purchase a RPi + harddrive for it. You likely wouldn't make a profit if you did. RPi's are great for costing next to nothing in electricity, though.
Maybe Brave doesn't technically control BAT, but last time I checked I couldn't even withdraw my BAT from the Brave Browser wallet without verifying my identity to Uphold (a crypto exchange that Brave partnered with). It also appeared to me that Brave Rewards (which uses BAT but is separate) is just a centralized website which people need to register on in order to get the money donated by Brave users.
Open source missile defence software would be pretty cool
A rich guys later success is predicated on their early success, but over time we begin to understand the laws were arbitrarily written under bias of the initial success, not that one individual is so uniquely qualified we should coddle their fee fees forever.

Now there’s a political platform embedded in math I can get behind.
His profession has some of the widest opportunities for unfair financial rewards which result from ruthlessness alone, and this has traditionally often been executable within a typical office structure not materially different from the fair dealers who actually want everyone to win.

Even if he is working for the most benevolent & generous of corporations right now, the temptation to switch to a firm or org with a significant to dominant ruthlessness component will always be there.

He was just keeping up his chops.
Why? They use it to compile a witness list, maybe suspect list, rule out many people, as a first approximation. As long as the data is archived and not open for abusive use; where do you feel any harm comes in?
Designed vs. Evolutionary Code
Author here. Sorry you think that. I see the article title has been changed, although I wrote this about 3 weeks ago so I'm not sure why it's been labelled as (2019).

This article focuses on the Timebox issue. I'll be posting the follow up in a couple of weeks, will post on HN... although there's plenty of other content on this site that covers where I'll be going with that solution.

Apologies if it didn't cover everything you wanted - but I find that long articles tend to lose the readers too easily, and I'm trying to keep to a single main point-per-article in my writing as a matter of discipline.

I'll look forward to your thoughts on the next one.
Except there won’t be money available when they ask for it. When the dollar collapses after the Fed cuts rates, the interest rate will rise very high. The government will be forced to cut spending, and there will be no bailouts this time.
Just in case this is not known, human generic code is more than just DNA.

Most important parts of what encodes us are:

- DNA
- epigenetic markers on the DNA which modulate which parts of the DNA are active. You influence these and pass them on to your children (as men) and grandchildren (as women, as girls are born with all egg cells they'll ever have)
- cell organelles which copy the DNA, ensure the cell has food and lives, etc. These tend to be independent cells that were at some point captured by our own cells. So they have their own genetic code. These you only inherit from your mother (dad gives half the DNA with epigenetic markers, mom the other half (also with markers) and everything else.

And of course much of what we are is shaped through gestation as well, I.e. the mother's body sends not just nutrients but also hormones etc that regulate gestation (and vice versa the child sends various messages to mom, up to even own cells in case of serious illness or accident or the mother).

Fascinating stuff.
Will microVMs replace containers in short time?
You mean like these conspiracy theories?
https://www.readersdigest.com.au/true-stories-lifestyle/12-c...
>>The police have far too much power in this.

Why it's not the case that Google has too much power in this, by collecting data from their users without asking their permission?
I would be more sympathetic to your worldview if the quality of the free services online weren't clearly lowered to service ad views.

Just think how useful google could be if you could filter out commercial results, or import a domain blocklist, or control the ranking algorithm.

Think how usable social media would be if it weren't a way to turn money into "engagement".

Think how much better news sites would be if journalists weren't dependent on wealthy patrons who have the power to withdraw their funding when they perceive bad or unfair coverage.

The illusion of a service being "free", without giving the user any power to actually dictate what makes a service high or low quality, is ultimately just lowering the bar on what the role of technology should be—it's not just a machine for a small portion of society to have "passive income".
"law enforcement authorities say those worries are overblown...is not enough to justify charging someone with a crime, they say."

But it is enough to justify the person spend thousands and thousands of dollars on their legal defense so they can prove their innocence
It works really well on desktop! Seriously it was a cool experience, held the down arrow on my keyboard and virtually walked down flights of stairs.

I'm not sure how well it'd worked on a portrait display!
Important Things to Speed Up Your Website
Forget about Rust, and just think of it as a talk about why you should be considering language X. Do you still feel exhausted?

I think it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the blog posts and talks posted to HN by language.
I wonder which comes out to less money, blowing up a 670K house or paying doughnut munching overtime round the clock for 3 1/2 weeks?

Well, given that they don't have to pay for the house it's a actually a no brainer! (That should probably be fixed).
Hopefully not software for airplanes
Go Winston! So much better than trying to do this in Tableau