skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is apparently an unpopular view, but after thinking a bit about it, I agree with your premise.

Splitting older millenials with gen X, and younger millenials with gen Z makes sense, because instead of an arbitrary characteristics like "being 20 in the new century", this splits seem to better match some cultural changes that are not perfectly aligned with round dates.
For people that use Plex... Do you think that it's a good place ? If we have several TB is it cheaper to use it's own PC with (let's say) 2x10TB HDD + 2x10TB HDD backup or it's better to go online today ? When I check the price, I feel that it's always more expansive.

For my backup, it's not sync in real time but I do manual backup every 3 months. I can loose some data but I feel ok with that.
> Its a safe social network. I'd much rather post memes in Slack than on Facebook or Twitter

Facebook has private groups, too. (I assume Twitter has something similar.) At worst, this is a great demonstration that defaults matter. I often hear people speak as though Facebook/Twitter/Slack/IRC/etc are only usable in their default mode, even though most people I know don't actually use them that way.

> Slack also almost never falls down. Its remarkably fast

I feel like the chat software I used to use called "Slack" was completely different than what I hear other people talk about by that name.
Frexare – Multimedia share content built on VueJs and webpack 4
A year of messages to a women in tech: Nevertheless, Ali Coded
There is a sort of machismo/bragging about not knowing or understanding what the kids are up to these days. Do what you like but it doesn’t make you interesting or wise to not know what an Instagram story is, sorry.

(I was born in ‘81 fwiw)
Everyone and their brother is still trying to start their own scooter share.
And of course, railings are there for a reason. Which is easy to find out, if you ever experience some vertigo, some muscle or back problems or just get a bit older :p
To be fair to them, I think a good portion of those bugs were back when they were an Electron app. These days they’re a full on fork of Chromium, and no longer are easily subjected to a lot of those potential mistakes.
Retards? No, but I can give you the next best thing. LLVM for Grad Students.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/llvm.html
Using a graph simplifies the query parameters, reduces the need for join() operations, and allows you to reason more directly about the data model instead of rdbms concepts and SQL. Could you do it in SQL? Sure, but the bolt browser and cypher made it go a lot faster. I'd go so far as to argue that graphs are optimized for reasoning and analysis, where relational dbs are optimized for performance.

When I need a performance problem solved, I'll hire an engineer to reimplement it, but until then, I can analyze the data at the business level. Right now I just need a rope across a river to see what's on the other side and not a bridge. :)
87.5% efficient is not incredibly inefficient.
> who I remember for two things

I'll bite, what's the second thing?
Wait there is a reader mode?
FTR: The go/parser package was _never_ used by the Go compiler. It used to be a yacc generated one when the compiler itself was in C. Then it was all mechanically translated to Go. And finally, a hand written lexer and parser were adopted, but different from the ones in the stdlib.
From what I have observed, it seems both South Korea’s and China’s outbreaks are largest among cities near rivers.

I have also read of the virus being detected in feces.

Is it possible the virus is being spread via the water supply?

The waste treatment plants dump into the river, as well as septic runoff, and humans just deciding to defecate in or near the rivers.

Additionally, if it is possible for dogs to carry the virus, I assume it could be excreted via canine feces, as well.

If the water treatment plants are also using the river as the source of water, what prevents the virus from spreading this way?
I’m always shocked at how many people will argue that torture is always ineffective. I’m 100% sure I’d cave under torture, providing a mix of everything I know and what I think they want to hear. They just need to look for falsifiable statements. Rubber-hose cryptanalysis comes up as a topic here often and is a perfect example.

It may be an immoral human rights violation, and not the best first line interrogation tactic, but I see it as undeniably effective. It seems like wishful thinking to believe otherwise.
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It could also be because your immune system got used to the change in environment.

I honestly don’t understand the particular level of fear around COVID-19 when compared to other flu outbreaks. Can anyone point me to a concise explanation? I mean, I get that it’s a new virus we’ve never seen before, but what distinctly sets it apart? Everything I’ve read says that it affects older people and those with a compromised immune system the worst, which is just like any flu. Is it mostly that we’re worried about what we don’t know that we don’t know? Not trying to be dismissive, I just feel like I’m missing something. I don’t remember the panic around swine flu or bird flu being like this.

Also does anyone know why people are panic-buying toilet paper in my country?
> Find your niche. It's OK. But don't mock the niches of others.

I couldn't agree more and wish people would approach niches of others with curiosity rather than derision. I'm sure plenty of us on the coasts of the U.S. look at something like auto racing and say "No that's not a thing, who cares about people driving cars around in a circle. And burning all that fuel is bad for the environment, so feh."

Well 250,000 people show up to the Indy 500 so yes, it actually is a thing, and a thing that a lot of people are very passionate about.
regardless of the contract, it's very difficult to say that this was reasonable and that he's not taking advantage of us.

I had actually already turned over my key, done a walk-through, and the house was completely empty. It's hard to argue that he needed to charge me $300 to returning a key late. If he had informed me of this, I would have been more than happy to replace the deadbolt for $20 and give him the new keys.

I actually did not see anything like this on the contract. It's also not clear if it's legal in my state. If it's in the contract and not legal, I believe the entire contract is void. In any event, this is a small fraction of the nearly $1,000 that he withheld from us. It was apparent that taking him to court was not going to be effective.
If scientists actually thought summer heat would kill the virus, that’d change.
The Saw films are called "torture porn". There is no good thing about them. They are horrible movies and show just how low people will go to watch trash.
Isn’t it Plaid that manages all the logins?

Still a security risk, but I don’t think the dev is the risk.
> You need the handle in advance to queue the second and third.

Think about how pipelined commands work in a command shell if you want to understand how to construct a program that can define a sequence of operations on objects before they're defined.
Most services exist to ameliorate a want. That is to reduce misery. Your statement basically means people shouldn’t profit. But if they shouldn’t profit what incentive will they have to reduce misery? It seems clear to me that if anyone is guilty of profiting from misery it is doctors, whose high salaries are inexcusably tied to misery. Truly, they should donate their time and live in a tent outside the hospitals they work at, and accept only kitchen scraps for compensation.
If it is really going to kill tens of millions of people, you can bet that pharmaceutical companies are already working on cures.
This is shameful.
That’s a good point. Marginal increases can provide out of proportion value.
I liked that. I am am 68 and although I 'retired' last year (from managing a deep learning team at Capital One), I stay active. Currently I am writing a combined iOS and macOS app (so I needed to spin up on Swift and SwiftUI, and how to use built in support for building deep learning models, instead TensorFlow which is what I am used to). I recently published a book on the very cool Hy Lisp programming language (you can read it free at https://leanpub.com/hy-lisp-python).

I get inspiration from my father. He is 98 and has taught himself 3D animation and video editing, and keeps himself very busy creating videos for the international right to die organization. (He was a physicist and is still a member of the National Academy of Sciences.)

So, for all you young 50 year olds, I say to you: it is not over until it is over :-)
Apparently brass does work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_tou...
Capitalism’s Addiction Problem
Yes, in the state I was living in landlords often include clauses in the lease that are specifically banned by state law. for instance, we had a landlord to say that we had to give them 30 days to move out, but they could ask us to move out with only one day notice. It's not legal and not enforceable, regardless of what we signed.

However, the market is so tilted towards landlords that basically if you want to live somewhere, you sign it. However in court, these clauses would not be enforceable and might be enough to strike down the entire agreement, in which case the tenancy terms become default tenant law.
That was exactly the reason, if you don't do rationing in extreme events, people start to mass panic buy everything and then you would have people starving.

There's absolutely no "free market" anymore during panic.
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it's a story because you are encouraged to post several in a row that tell a story of your day. You can tell stories IRL without writing them down so why would something need to be in a durable medium to be a story?

core concept is to give people a way to share something that doesn't have to be a perfect, a picture of cheetos or a license plate rather than a wedding or Yosemite, because it won't stick around on your profile forever. This is a good thing because otherwise what you see on there can make it seem like everyone else is having a much more exciting life than you (as you sit on the couch after work) and causes depression.

Why is unbridled cynicism towards sm so prevalent here?
it would be good for them to work that out because showing me the same ads for lawn mowers for months straight is a waste of their advertising space and their clients' dollars.

I also do things like look up something on Google for someone else, then see ads about it for months. While I understand the simple way of this technology works, they might want to rethink the idea that I need to see ads endlessly for everything I did one search for.
Audit of the FBI’s Efforts to Identify Homegrown Violent Extremists [PDF]
You could also take inspiration from all the age 70+ candidates interviewing for the most important job in the world :-)
How to start learning to code when you don’t know where to start
"OK" and "Just OK" are two different things. Californian culture tends to shy away from direct conflict unless it's deliberate so there's a lot of damning things with faint praise.
I remember some of my relatives using it at the time, and I was using MSN Messenger slightly before it became a mess with nudge[1] (allows you to shake the window of another participant and make some noise, that went as well as you'd think) and other unnecessary features.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(instant_messaging)
I've also noticed this. It became so bad in my current company we have teams which consist of:

1 Manager
1 Scrum Master
1 Team Leader
2 Regulars
1 Expert

TL;DR Experts quit max after one year and teams are left with 3 regulars dying inside to keep stuff working.

ps. When mentioned that we have too many middle managers - instant push back - coz they all cover each other, fearing someone will fire them if not. Worst part is those people have zero technical knowledge and make stupid decisions based on things they have seen on PowerPoint presentation. Last such a stupid idea was to move our platform from stable AWS environment to crappy/buggy Azure ecosystem. (simply because one of managers most likely got paid under the desk to push company into this direction). After losing over 1Million Euro on Azure we scrapped this idea..
Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect
I've noticed a lot of Instagram ads where the advertisers seemed to ignore a regional target, or Instagram does. I get ads for restaurants all over the country, which makes no sense for the advertiser. I'm not about to go eat at some Mexican restaurant 2000 miles away from me in a suburb.
If you are in illinois, it is 14 by law [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_parenting#Restricti...
The death rate, and the infectivity rate.

Normal flu is about 0.005%, estimates on this are about 1%, assuming that your country can rapidly expand its Intensive Care Units to handle the influx. R is estimated between 2-6, evidence in the last 2 weeks from Europe suggests the higher end of that scale. It is spreading very rapidly.

Although we can´t really trust the figures from China, we know that whatever was happening in Wuhan in early December/January was sufficiently bad for them to put half the country under strict quarantine. Even a bad flu season, would not have triggered that kind of reaction.
The BAT stuff is dumb....I can’t wait to watch 30 mins of ads for 3 cents of a fake money no one wants.
Trunk doesn't really work for teams because you need multiple features to be worked in parallel

Commit X is stored in a well known file and committed to git
This is the COST (common-ownership self-assessed tax) from the recent book Radical Markets by Weyl and Posner.
This seems like a sensible rule that leads to unwanted behavior in this unforeseen case. Would make sense to grant a temporary exemption.
The crud would rub off and have to be constantly replaced.

The effort to do that could instead be put toward continually disinfecting the surface which would provide actual benefit.
That's super useful, thank you very much for sharing!
There's an assumption here that one can easily self-learn to self-study.

It might be true for some proportion of HN readers, but it's not clear that this generalizes. After all, those of us who self-study are often learning programming-related topics for which there is both abundant online documentation and clear, objective feedback on progress. We also tend, as a community, to have reliable access to the necessary technology, large amounts of disposable income (and security of leisure time that comes with it), a high level of prior expertise, and exposure to role models in self-learning. It's easy to take these things for granted, but they all certainly help in developing self-study habits.

As much as I might personally like to see everyone be more self-driven and self-reliant in learning, I share the concern expressed elsewhere in this thread as to what the impact of a sudden shift to remote learning would be on equitable access to education.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Yep. Featured on HAI a year ago, it's not a new practice it's just been exacerbated due to COVID-19. https://youtu.be/X8XZriAdB1g
I get this. My problem seems to be one level deeper. I do not want to share my current plate or the hiking track I'm on. Neither am I interested in this kind of news of my friends. I'm ok with the youngsters doing that for fun.

But where is the serious conversation gone? Did we share our latest meal in the forums back then? No. Where do the young people get their information when they are serious about sth?
No, the author's idea is ok and he's mostly right on the cost part. Configuration and the numbers are a bit off and unrealistic, you won't get such low 95% availability per site due to other economical and technological constraints, you'll get at least 99%, but probably closer to three nines per site and 64 out of 96 won't be necessary at all (something like 8 out of 12 could be enough). Dropbox designer is just ignorant, biased and conditioned to US market and environment, but appeals to authority, so people upvote his bad comment. I do storage too, on smaller scale than Dropbox of course, not in the US, but it is distributed and the cost is already lower than what you see in the title.
I don’t get the idea of acclaimed non-understanding.

Posting live (or recent) random
photos that I don’t want permanently on my wall, isn’t a difficult phenomenon to grasp. Trying to maintain social connections by updating and reminding friends and family what you’re doing seems pretty normal.

Wanting to chat dangerously or explicitly or just not wanting to torture yourself by seeing all your old Facebook Messenger chats explains the need for Snapchat rather well (and Signal).

Making goofy hyper-kinetic short videos makes sense. (What doesn’t make sense to me is using TikTok over Thriller considering the social-implications of an authoritarian-owned app for free expression.)

I don’t believe people when they say they don’t understand kids today or only young founders can build the tools for the next generation.

What I don’t get is playing video games for 12-hours a day and immersing yourself in a digital word, with all synthetic friends so to speak. But I understand why people do it.

It’s as unhealthy as any other digital obsession or anything that isolates us from the most innovation and rejuvenating social app and video game: reality.
For one, fear is irrational. It is based on a perception of threat and we as humans do it in many ways. One way is to see that others are afraid and therefore we should too. To add to this, the fear is not entirely unfounded. Estimates of the fatality are between 1% to 4%. No proper case fatality statistics can be computed as the epidemic is not over/have not gone long enough yet. At 1%, this is already 10 times the fatality rate of the seasonal flu so no, this is not just a bad flu season. This is an exceptionally bad flu season.

The reason I think countries are still trying to contain it is because if we allow the this flu strain to become seasonal because of lack of containment, it becomes an ongoing price that we have to pay each year. Within each new strain of flu that we encounter in the future, if we successively fail to contain each one, there will be many more strains of flu seasonally. Of course， a technological breakthrough may alter such a course.
I'm somewhat surprised at how many censor-happy people I see in this thread. I'd be interested to see a survey of the ages of the people here...
COVID-19 mortality is about one order of magnitude higher than that of a regular flu, for every age group. That's a lot. And R0 is higher. And there is no vaccine. And the US botched the response with its stupid "don't test, don't tell" policy.

I estimate my probability of dying from COVID-19 this year to be higher than from all other reasons combined, and I'm not that old yet.
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Case fatality rate for swine flu was around 0.02%[1]. There's still a lot of uncertainty around 2019-nCoV, but most estimates appear to be closer to 1-2%.

You're not wrong in that old and sick people are the affected the most, but it's significantly worse compared to e.g. Influenza[2].

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

[2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbloom/CoV_vs_flu_CFR/mast...
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> 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.

I don't think that's accurate. More like, John Wick implies that violence and murder of those above the law is an effective and morally acceptable way to solve the injustice they perpetrate. That's a much more reasonable position that will have plenty of people on both sides.
What is it?

Does it search for feeds that include my search text?

It looks useful, but using two minutes to do two searches was not enough to figure out.
Chlorine. They put it in water for a reason.
The Zen of Python DOES NOT say "preferably one way" or "only one way", as often misquoted. As can be easily checked by `import this`, the relevant line says:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

The key word, so often ignored, is OBVIOUS.

Now, we can argue what "obvious" means, and what is more obvious to different people. But this one word makes a huge difference.
To be honest, Fb login is one of the least reasons I worry.

I have seen apps sending requests to facebook graph without using the login, or they don't have facebook login at all..

I haven't rated any apps based on this, though.
> This seems like a sensible rule

Does it?! Why would you ever want to motivate an airline to fly just for the sake of it? Whether there's a pandemic or not it seems like a bad thing.
They haven’t stopped returning results that don’t include my keywords yet, unfortunately.
Yes, I should have precised. Web extensions are a work in progress in Firefox preview. Currently it is only supported in Firefox preview nightly and only ublock origin is available.
Are you saying you wouldn't defend yourself if someone attacked you? You have that strong an aversion to committing violence?
Mortality-wise it looks to be around 20x worse than flu, and easy to spread before outward symptoms manifest. There's no vaccine, so the usual partial herd immunity isn't present, and no confirmed treatments yet beyond trying to help your own immune system. As you say, it will probably be mild for most people who catch it (but who wants to risk "probably"), but certainly worse if you're not in good shape.

Panic buying is just like a rush on the bank; if everyone buys more than usual there will be a temporary shortage of stock, and no-one wants to be caught short on the loo. People are anticipating needing to self-quarantine for 2+ weeks (probably more if you need to isolate your whole family), but without knowing which two weeks the timer starts. And people are probably vaguely aware that there will be a supply crunch in a few months because China's manufacturing lines have been slowed and the knock on effects haven't fed through yet.
You often want a wavelet with compact support anyway so you don't even need to choose the window size: it's built-in.
I have to say, TikTok really impressed me which was really surprising. It wasn't until I created a Tiktok video that I "got it". The mobile video editing tools they created are really top notch.
I have always found dicts and sets being pretty much basically the same thing, with dicts allowing for "attaching" additional values to the set items. In fact, before sets were introduced (in Python 2.3), using dicts (with elements for keys and some arbitrary values -- commonly None -- for values) was a common way to emulate them.
This is why people are against blind capitalism. Not everything is supposed to be unconditionally placed in the supply and demand curve. Price gouging is immoral, especially when people's lives are at stake.
A long time ago I wrote gomatrix: https://github.com/GeertJohan/gomatrix

It's a Matrix emulator inspired by cmatrix. It doesnt have as many features as this posts one (e.g. just 2 colors for the kanas), but was a fun exercise to learn Go.
Pull requests welcome :)
When people say it doesn't "work" they don't mean that the victims don't "cave", they mean that the information the torturer gets isn't useful because as you say the victim will tell the torturer anything they want to hear. Also in movies usually the purpose of torture is to make the victim divulge something we already know they know, like where they hid the treasure we saw them steal in an earlier scene. In real life we don't know if the victim knows anything in the first place - they may be guilty or they may be totally innocent.
haha, I forgot about that one. I went to that site here and there, but I wasn't a developer, so I felt lost. I actually finally learned to program last year.