skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could only wish the distinction was explicit. It's been my experience that they don't call it that but instead expect the application developers to handle everything which leads to a big ball of configuration management mud.
The iBackPack, a failed crowdfund with an FTC investigation
>Many would disagree. If proven effective, you could easily argue it is moral to torture an evil-doer to save the lives of many.

Neither of these things are an actual argument. Just because some people disagree it does not make a fact untrue. Just because you can argue something does not make that arguement correct.

The argument that many good lives would be saved is defeated by the fact that a society that tortures people is making a mockery of human dignity and the values that can underpin human happiness. When one person can be tortured for extreme need, soon anyone can be tortured for any reason. There are countless examples of this kind of slippage, from the terrors in France and Russia to the use of extreme surveillance by local authorities in the UK (to determine if school places should be allocated). How can anyone be happy when they might be taken and tortured at any moment? How can the preservation of people in terror be a goal to be accomplished by an intrinsically evil act.

We are defined by how we dispense mercy and compassion, that is what makes society worth preserving.
How is that possible? Raw Bw of PCIE is around 200Gb/s.
Even within the states, there is no link. It is not possible to find any connection between gun ownership and gun violence on a county level either.

The urban/rural divide is a good starting point. If you look at the stats, an even clearer pattern emerges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

What sets Washington D.C., Louisiana, Mississippi, and Maryland apart from Maine, Vermont, Hawaii, and New Hampshire?
Yes, that is why it is important to allow businesses to profit from costly overcapacities.

Funding overcapacity in a free market through regulation would be even more prone to abuse than most other regulatory projects. Perhaps the public stockpiling that is done anyways could buy in an artificially erratic pattern to reward manufacturers for readiness?

Regarding eBay in particular I think that it is very valuable that they block at least block sellers that haven't routinely sold the product before, to hinder not only opportunistic speculation but also outright theft which is currently an epidemic of its own.
That's incredibly racist.
You're probably right. I was trying to say that the v2 bridge requires some sort of cloud service to function with an echo when the v1 did not.
So more PayPals to fund Elon Musk style megaprojects, got it. Step 1) make Facebook killer step 2) build rocket ship to Mars
I think most people have a cultural experience they're a little proud of avoiding. For example, I've never seen a single episode of the Simpsons. I do think, however, that we should remind ourselves that while being different is not a bad thing, it also isn't an inherently good thing. Is your life about you or is it about other people? If it's about you, then maybe it's worth checking to see if you like something that a whole lot of other people like too.
For safety reasons. For disabled people.

Last year I twisted my ankle and for a few days the only way I could use flight of stairs was to held onto the rails.
20mb? My latest nvidia 'driver' download was over 500mb and prompted me to log-in to something before installing.
It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
Why would he? It's not like modern desktop email applications have any more features than the ones we used 20 years ago. If he is comfortable with the UX...
Consider for a second that you’re comparing an imaginary supposition (the magic hand) by a philosopher of the British Empire with the historical reality of that empire, and evaluate the circumstances again.
> There is a difference between regular action movie style violence (shooting, explosions, etc.) and rape/torture.

The difference being that you are used to one of these and unused to the other?
Spring Data JPA custom insert query
The Planck length is simply the characteristic length scale for processes where both general relativity and quantum mechanics play a role at the same time. Since these theories are incompatible, our current understanding of physics does not work for such processes. It is _not_ the smallest unit of distance or something like that. In both GR and QM, positions are continuous quantities with no discretization.
For sake of argument, apparently up until 1985 it was legal to shoot a fleeing felon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleeing_felon_rule

So at least some of those movies may have just been accurately portraying the practices of the time.
I obviously wasn't around back then, but even today the pace of modernization in China is astounding; I can only imagine what it must've been like in Deng Xiaoping's later years.
I remember hearing on the Joe Rogan podcast[1] about a theory of an impact at the end of the last glacial period, resulting in a short-term reversal of the warming trend known as the Younger Dryas Cooling Event. There was quite a bit of evidence in the form of meltglass and other things accumulating, but the theory was very much not accepted by mainstream science at the time. From the article it sounds like this idea is getting more support.

Randall Carlson is pretty out there with his one massive flood theory as opposed to many smaller events. Nonetheless he's not an idiot by any means and he gives an enthralling account of the climate events at the time.

Also it sounds like a much more credible explanation for the sudden extinction of large mammals (70% of species in North America.) Only Africa was largely unaffected. Including 100 million mammoths dying off which was previously attributed to human over-hunting - just the logistics of which with spears and primitive bows boggles the mind.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Cp7DrvNLQ
If they learn it. Possible in a healthy family setting. But impossible if you already grow up in a dysfunctional family. It would make sure to keep kids from "low class" families right there for another generation.
I would imagine living customers and a workforce that is not quarantined would be reason enough, but hindsight is 20/20. It would be silly if the offices of a big pharma company are closed due to an infectious disease that the big pharma company would have been best suited to tackle but cant due to neglect in fighting infectious diseases.
I feel like brass may be better, as it contains zinc and copper and does not oxidize as easily. How about an alloy of zinc, silver and copper?
The WHO is saying a vaccine is 18 months out, and I’m very curious what that means. I haven’t seen any detail as to why it takes that long.

It’s short enough that clearly they expect it won’t be very hard, like no one would say a general cure for cancer is 18 months out. So what is preventing us from speeding it up more? Why can’t it be made in 6 months, or 3 months? Is the majority of that 18 months a basic r&d phase of figuring out what will work? If so, why can’t it be parallelized and sped up with more resources? Is it time for clinical trials? To ramp up manufacturing? I can’t help thinking that for a disease that prevents such a big risk to society, there must be clever ways to speed up the normal process for this kind of thing, perhaps with some government involvement in funding or coordinating efforts.
That's only because you chose the lessons that support whatever you wanted to prove.

Alternatively, John Wick, and almost every other action movie, show us that violence - and killing people - is an effective and morally acceprable way of solving problems. The distinction between violence and torture depictions is not as obvious as you want it to be.
Thanks, that was what I meant.
The idea that these plot points are beyond criticism or commentary gets us formulaic plots, one dimensional characters and generally the same story again and again and again.

There is no big conspiracy in entertainment to make torture acceptable. It is primary dumb plot point that is easy to plug in to get cheap thrill. Just like dumb one dimensional characters characterized by one personality trait are not result of some kind of psychological conspiracy.

Acting like this stuff is inappropriate to comment upon is what allows those to stay. Criticizing and commenting on bad cgi and bad acting raised quality of those too.
I've heard the exact opposite. It spreads through droplets, but mostly through touch, not inhaling. Do you have a source?
Show HN: Cookiecutter React Django, swift Heroku deployment
How about Iron Man?

Tony Stark is a stone cold murderer sociopath, he kills a bunch of terrorists and then seconds after almost killing someone in a friendly fire incident, laughs about it with his buddy.
They're much more expensive than a TV though.
If commercial incentive isn't viable then the incentive needs to change. Think of it like the military but as a medical industrial complex.
I learned from my dad to always use the paper towel to open the door, if the garbage is close enough, otherwise the bottom of your shirt.
So now we're supposed to have a fear of touching things as well as all the other neuroses programmed into us in modern life? I need to invest in some mental health startups.
Exactly, I'm just pointing out the limitations of `let/const`

I usually solve that case with

let attribute1, attribute2;
try {
const object = getObject()
attribute1 = object.attribute1
attribute2 = object.attribute2
} catch () {}

But I'm just not satisfied with it, too many statements. And it gets really messy with many attributes
It's been a while since I built this, but recently received a bump in users and some great feedback so I thought that it could be useful for you as well.
Coronavirus Early Outbreak Response Guidelines
The WHO agrees with the OP:

'Both COVID-19 and influenza cause respiratory disease and spread the same way, via small droplets of fluid from the nose and mouth of someone who is sick.'

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

[Edit: however, I could see both of you being right with this quote]
JavaScript. In your browser, no need to mess around with a dev environment, and you can see something happening in front of your eyes (making DOM elements change, etc).
> I remember there was controversy over them banning someone's account because they didn't like the content.

Source?
The problem is less discovering the vaccine - though corona viruses seem to be a quite challenge in this respect - but to get it to the point where it can be used. For that it needs to be proven:

- that it is harmless. As vaccines are to be used on healthy people, it needs to be very safe. And of course

- it needs to be shown to be effective.

So even if we find a vaccine right now, it will take at least a year until it can be deployed. Though in this case, everything will be tried to cut the time short.
In an effort to cut through this meta-irony, here is a link to the reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJIQm9qH-w

Maybe it should be included in the bootcamp!
Why are we surprised? If the incentives are not for curing infectious diseases than they won't do it. For big pharma, the incentives are: keep humans sick as long as it is physically possible and charge along the way.
I did not think of that; good ideas!

In fact, the more I think of it... excellent ideas!!!

It's sort of like, whatever a standard college/online EE CPU design course told you you would only need one of on a CPU (ALU for example), you could actually have 2..n, with the right circuit design, if the software that was to be run warranted it, and if there was enough space on your FPGA... Yes, the actual underlying circuit implementation might be far more complex, but again, as a high-level design idea, it's a great idea!

For the right software/application -- I can visualize it working really well!
Hi everyone, author here.

Growing tired of having to customise cookiecutter-django for any project I work in, I made this cookiecutter that separates a front-end built with React with a Django-based backend. It's in very early stages but any feedback is much appreciated.

Thanks for your support!
> Having to "tweak your language" just sounds like a cop-out to me.

Totally agree. But even Google is nowhere near perfection here, so we’re left with the same two strategies we all use when searching:

* try over and over
* continually tweak queries

It’s especially easy to forget that we often actually search multiple times, because we do it so quickly that it’s an ingrained habit.
> didn't buy thanks to HN saying it was a scam/bubble

Didn't buy because, like most people, you didn't bother. When bitcoin was @ 10 cents it was not that expensive to mine.
I agree, in this context it's likely an emotional play to go against encryption (especially if you look who is behind the law), I'd like to know more about what tech companies mean when they say they have their own plans to tackle this problem.

To me, it seems the requirements that:

1) you should be unable to access the data

and

2) you should monitor the data for certain content

seem hard mutually exclusive:

Even if you developed some magic AI technology that could detect child porn in an end-to-end encrypted connection, well congrats, you broke the encryption, but then it's not end-to-end encrypted anymore. (And you could likely use the same technology to detect other things)

The only way I can see how you could keep both promises in some sense would be to move the detection into the client scan for content before it's being encrypted.

This would require that you tightly control all clients any kind of tampering or use of alternative clients impossible. I'm not sure, that's a good vision for the future either. (It would also render the encryption mostly useless, because the vendor could simply instruct the client to extract whatever data they are interested in. I can get the same level of security with plain HTTPS and a vendor promising not to look at the data.)

If this is the alternative, maybe a controlled, traceable way to intercept connections would be the lesser evil.

So, what are the tech companies' takes on this?
>knew about bitcoin at 10 cents (didn't buy thanks to HN saying it was a scam/bubble)

they still say its a scam/bubble
GM Unveils Battery with Capacity Twice as Big as Tesla’s
Hotel-Quarantine Collapses in China
What boggles me is why modern buildings still have so many manual doors with handles. At least in the building I work in, you could easily eliminate a ton of doors and not reduce access control flexibility. The rest could be made automatic with some keycard authentication.
At least here in Germany, my ISP doesn't even give me a publically routed ipv4 by default anymore. Ipv6 no problem though.
So, is this it? Dropbox designer challenges the project broadly, gets top comment, Author refutes – and we leave it at that?

I mean this is basically the moment where I would expect every systems designer on HN coming out of the woods and crushing Sia into the ground, if there were, in fact, any ground at all to crush Sia into.

Is this actually legit? If so, where is the rejoicing? What am I missing?
Just return the same IP for everything and check the Host header or SNI name to know where to forward requests to

It’ll work fine for web traffic.
Seems worth noting that the quarter would end in two weeks anyway.
I like the speed and dynamic aspects. Use of 256 colours means extra shades etc. Simple effect and very good.

Now I want to dust off my old snake game and upgrade it to 3D.
Obviously I couldn't not to click after reading your comment. Somehow doubt the website contained the text:)
I got sick 12 times my first year living in a city again. I got pretty paranoid after that and now I mentally have a "my hands are infected" notion as soon as I touch something outside the house. The very first thing I do upon entering my apartment or a restaurant is to wash them. Unfortunately I still touch my face sometimes while my hands are potentially dirty, I need to be more careful about that.

I've got sick a lot less often since implementing that, maybe once a year now on average.
>The money that comes from this tax needs to be funneled back into healthcare or even better go straight to the ones who are paying for the particular medicine that the patent protects.

Tax money is allocated for one thing is often used for other things. There is nothing preventing lawmakers from doing this, they after all, make the laws.
I've got three posts on targeting LLVM by hand in a compiler basics series that you may find to be a good intro.

Here's the first one: http://notes.eatonphil.com/compiler-basics-llvm.html
Okay, my comment might make me sound a bit like a douche: fb/ig stories are the youngsters version of this guy blog post. They are social tools to make them feel better about themselves.
GIMP has something similar, triggered by pressing /. I discovered it way too late, but I haven't touched a menu ever since.

Libreoffice has a feature request for such a function [1].

[1]: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91874
Purely online courses have huge failure rates - even when paid for and run through same university as in person variant. That is simply how humans work currently. The younger the kid, the worst it will be.

Incentive and opportunity is something quite different then "there is no other option".
> People have been saying a vaccine is 12-18 months out, and I’m very curious what that means. I haven’t seen any detail as to why it takes that long.

All the things you said are factors. Clinical trials are one of the biggest because you have multiple phases to observe to guarantee safety.

It's no use shipping a vaccine in 3 months after a small test and have everyone die in a year because of a side effect no one waited long enough to see.

Drug development and safety is a very complex space from what I've learned
This. If the organizations devoted to learning drop out then it is reasonable to expect that a great deal of learning will also drop out. This will be particularly pronounced among students of limited means.

Basically, poor people, and people struggling with disabilities and disadvantages, will get far less education. Overall, society will see drastically less education as a whole. This includes not just technical education in math, physical sciences, automotive tech, etc., but also in civil society areas such as social studies and literature.

Current education systems are very far from ideal. But abandoning them for an extended period of time under the belief that people will see it as in their best interest to learn to be good citizens on their own is potentially catastrophic.
So very cool. I just built and installed it on my MacBook. Looks great on Apple's standard terminal, and I think a little bit better even on ITerm 2.
I don't know how much you can chalk up to people wearing masks or rather the swift and rigorous isolation of affected areas.

I guess, we'll see soon enough how Italy is doing.

FWIW in Switzerland, the authorities recommend "social distancing". https://foph-coronavirus.ch/
What's yer slashdot ID?
Geofence warrant scoops up all data of everyone in a location
"Healthy family setting" here means that one parent has to be the teacher. Even in middle and higher class, that still requires massive investment in time and effort, way more then when kid goes to school.

And it also requires not just resources, but also parent that could be good teacher. And even among richer people, not every parent would be good teacher, quite a lot would sux at it.
> I had no idea that the whole thing is yet another altcoin IPO with excellent marketing.

Excellent marketing and a useful product with widespread appeal. It's weird that you focus on the coin as if it was the primary goal. It's merely a means to an end, and one of the best real-world uses of cryptocurrency that I've seen.
30-year U.S. bond yields less than S&P dividend rate
> Entropy is hard to beat, I know. But, not today old age, not today.

Great write up and I share a lot of those fond memories!
Wikipedia’s volunteers became the web’s best weapon against misinformation
It will probably stay around for a long time, now that it spread through the whole world. But, and that is why currently every step taken to slow down its spread is so important, it will be less of a problem. Beyond a possible vaccine and a cure, there will be more and more people with immunity or partial immunity against it, as with every wave, there are more people around who have successfully fought the virus. With each seasons iteration, the society is less vulnerable against the virus. Especially, if we remember some good practices against viral infections, which would be of benefit against all common infections, ranging from the cold to the flu, which kills far to many people every year. Many of those deaths could be prevented.
Yeah put disgusting grease on railings let’s see what happens to your lawyers phone in a day
Not sure of your specific building, but they may be designed as fire doors, in the event of a fire, to isolate areas of the building.
Am I the only one who uses brave with all bat stuff off? It's a fork of chromium that's up to date, completely open source, ad blocking and fingerprinting defeating built-in, reader mode, etc. Chrome but just better.
The examples were good, so it's worse than just "yet another python page filled with ads". But I'll summarize them:

* First example, merge with update:

# d1 and d2 being dicts
d3 = d1.copy()
d3.update(**d2)

* Second example, using dict():

d3 = dict(d1, **d2)

* Third example (3.9 onwards):

d3 = d1 | d2
# or
d3 = d1.copy()
d3 |= d2

The examples also show how each operation works (tl;dr: last value assigned to a key "wins").
How do people get from floor to floor in the elevator?
I'm living in a 1930s house and every interior door handle is brass.

Edit: Photo: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/20200307_141218_HDR.jpg
And yes, thanks anonymous previous householder for inexplicably moving the doorknob about a quarter of an inch to the left.
Physical fitness definitely gets harder with age, but the good news is that if you keep fit habits, it's not hard to maintain.

Basically, you're going to need to care a whole lot more as time passes if you really do want to get fit, so better to start now!
> Also possible that they know what will cause the eyes of the government to turn in their direction - anyone price gouging in a crisis must be evil, after all. And of course the first store to start doing this will get media attention, amplifying the negative impacts...

I'm guessing you're trying to be snarky with this bit?

> anyone price gouging in a crisis must be evil, after all

That's kind of text definition of "evil". Taking advantage of people panicking. Pragmatic, probably rich by the end of the thing, but still evil.
Just stumbled on this, an interesting convention to use. Thanks for the thoughts.
Probably a lot better and sounds good. Advantage to disinfectants is that we probably would have fewer problems with resistant germs. In my country everything is meticulously disinfected in hospitals, but many have problems with the norovirus which is quite resistant. Not a too dangerous disease on its own, but in hospitals it is a serious problem that can cost lives.
> I use Slack on a daily basis and view it as just another chat app.

Can you edit a message once sent in Facebook messenger?

Once you understand why that's important, you'll start to get it.

Slack actually cared what the users wanted. Not what managers or IT teams cargo culting current message apps thought workers should have.

This is upside down .

People secretly installed Slack at workplaces (there are old articles on this) and the managers had to get it. The rest is history.

Last month Signal got a Thumbs up and Thumbs down icons, after how many years.... The IT teams are partly to blame here on top of the managers.