skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that was the point of the article than what does the last 3 paragraphs mean? My comment is on the claim that I understand those paragraphs put - that this isn't real unique value proposition since new competitor can easily do better.
Wikipedia isn't fascist propaganda, but it is also not immune to it. It also doesn't help that it is edited by people living under the domination of capitalism. The capitalists in power are materially incentivised to oppose socialism, since they wish to keep the profits gained from their workers' labour.

There were periodic famines in Ukraine. One of them was exacerbated through destruction of food by feudal landlords (kulaks) to keep prices high and maintain control. The Soviet state sent aid and, after the collectivisation and mechanisation of farming, no such famines happened again (http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefrau...)

There is a lot of physical evidence that does not match the idea that the Soviets committed the Katyn massacre. (https://www.cpgb-ml.org/2018/12/15/news/history/book-grover-...)

The 1956 uprising started with students, led by a member of the previous fascist government. There are some historical reports of racial violence against Jews and the uprising's demands included the re-introduction of capitalism. Most of what I learned about this was from Romanian history books, I can't find relevant English sources right now.

Gulags did exist, they were the prison system. From all historical accounts we have, they weren't any worse than other contemporary prison and in some ways better. They also didn't have that many prisoners, the US has always led there. A lot of what is commonly believed about them comes from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. However, he is widely considered by historians to be unreliable. His own wife made it clear the book is fictional, as even the Wikipedia article admits.

There's some more info on anti-Stalin propaganda specifically here: https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-...
This is a truly terrific post, but it says:

> They’re underselling the effect here. While the dominant factor is number of commits, language still matters a lot, too. If you choose C++ over TypeScript, you’re going to have twice as many DFCs! That doesn’t necessarily mean twice as many bugs, but it is suggestive. Further, while they say the effect is “overwhelmingly dominated by […] project size, team size, and commit size”, that doesn’t actually bear out. Only the number of commits is a bigger factor in language choice.

This is inaccurate. "Effect" is not the expected difference (i.e. difference between the means) but, roughly, the expected difference divided by variance. Just looking at the expected difference is insufficient to determine if the effect is large (and undersold) or small.

Expected difference is not an interesting statistical property, just as the mean isn't (by itself). If you're looking at ten Clojure projects and ten C++ projects, and all ten Clojure projects have 10 DFCs, while eight C++ projects have 8 DFCs and two have 500, then the expected difference is huge, but the effect is small. Indeed, when looking at the variance, Clojure, the "best"-performing language in this dataset, and C++, the "worst"-performing language in this dataset, the two were not very distinguishable, supporting everyone's finding of a very small effect.
IBM has an internal program for training people in Mainframe skills, but for the life of me I can't remember what it is called. I was going to be part of it when I graduated college, but then 08 happened and I was moved into Open Systems support after a RIF.

A google search showed me this page. https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/ibm-academic-initiative-sys...
Is there an estimate for how long that would take with a solar sail? If the window is every 16 months and the flight time is another year or more, I would imagine a large scale mission with multiple re-supply trips would be pretty difficult.
What are legit uses for modifying a link on click? I've only seen that used for tracking.
Ooops, didn't quite explain that properly! The tinyurl links to Berger's Facebook page.
Zoom In: Speculative claims about neural circuits
I got this great memory from electronics class in high school, we were measuring some circuit which included an electrolytic capacitor, using an oscilloscope. All of a sudden I hear a panicked voice from the back of the class saying "it's growing, it's growing... turn it off... turn it off!" and my other classmate replying "but it _is_ off!" which was immediately followed by a very loud bang.

I turn around and see my two class mates looking shocked and confused, covered in fine fur all over their upper bodies, along with the desk.

Never got around to understanding just how they managed it, but they most certainly did manage to blow up that capacitor in a spectacular way.
Robinhood Suffers yet Another Outage
It is interesting that this sentiment keeps popping up regarding the US handling of the situation. The US was fast and early to react, especially compared to the US handling of the swine flu... and people seem to just completely ignore that fact or throw it out the window completely.
It amazes me how people can be most defiant regarding usual care practice and so prompt at accepting the first hypothetical unverified claim that comes their way in an emergency. Truly dumbfounding. And I've been at it for more than 10 years already.
DOS couldn't use "/" for paths because it was already using it for command flags (where unix uses "-"). This predates both VMS and CP/M by being used in RT-11 (an older DEC OS).
S&P 500 coincidentally(?) closes right at its 61.8% Fibonacci retracement point
Show HN: An interactive Kubernetes monitoring and control dashboard
Not a bad article. Saw a few spelling mistakes.
How's that? I can read the article just fine.
Pretty new to it (~3 months), I've been using it in docker, using https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

The official docker version looked way too complicated imo -> https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/master/scripts/run....

Pretty straightforward, lightweight, no issues so far
Not all tech employees can work from home
This is commonly repeated but not really true, see http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2007/08/26/rabbits-1-virus...
It's not just that—the prices on The Price Is Right are MSRP. Even if you can remember the price you paid for that exact box of macaroni and cheese at the store, chances are, you didn't pay MSRP.

These days, more and more stores have (often fairly arbitrary) discounts, which wasn't the case when TPIR was in its early heyday.
Their previous comment

> Humans are notoriously good at coming up with bullshit explanations for both random/statistical & deterministic phenomena.

Apt.
Note that this is not sars-cov-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) though closely related.
They talk about a "cleavage site", meaning a 3D shape with the chemical properties necessary to cut something. And apparently, that ability to cut molecules similar to furin enables this virus to more efficiently enter cells, i.e. successfully infecting someone with a lower dose of live viruses.

Where this new shape came from, they do not know. But since viruses tend to mutate a lot and integrate RNA snippets floating around in their host's blood stream, it is likely that they picked it up from some other virus simultaneously infecting the same individual.

In short, the new nCoV seems to be so contagious because it merged in a new feature from a different virus species.

The implication is that by specifically blocking this thing that nCov has but older Cov do not have, one might be able to drastically reduce its contagiousness.
At the very end of this grand tour:

> Science has its problems, but it’s still the best we got.

I would agree if you're doing particle physics and looking for p < 0.0000003 then absolutely. Science is a great tool for the kinds of investigations of the natural world which can be understood by science. If you're doing social science by scraping some data from the internet and looking for p < 0.05, that's a very different story.

I'm not actually sure what aspect of this qualifies as "science", besides using p-values to analyze the data. Even if all the categorization and sampling and analyses were perfect, it's using commit messages and known bugs with known fixes, all of which are essentially self-reported.
Known cases is all about testing.
Just a note: even small amounts of xylitol can be dangerous or even deadly to dogs.
- It frequently stops working and needs to have the chrome extension re installed (at least on Linux).

- It’s sluggish.

- The password sharing experience sucks.

- The drop down menus often get obfuscated in weird ways.
What does this have to do with water getting cut off or restored to people with outstanding bills?
That depends on the tech. An egg's an egg, but you can get anyhing from 2012's top-of-the-line 65" for $400-$500, to an 8K OLED with a subwoofer built into the back or an attached sound bar or whatever for 5 figures.
This quoted sentence is quite dangerous.

It's also not unlikely that there are "other" patient zeros and then there are all the thinks about bad implementation of measurements and potential spread before measurements where implemented.

Also it's all about _slowing_ spread, with the properties SARS-Cov-2 is believed to have it's likely impossible to contain it anymore in long term. (IMHO)

But each day we gain saves lives by giving us more time in finding usable medicine or even vaccine and producing it.

Additionally it reduces the load on the hospitals, if we do not slow the spread it will infect to many people at the same time to early. Which likely will lead to people not getting the appropriate medical care which likely will make the infected->death rate increase noticeable.

So it's a typical "it's not perfect so lets not do it at all straw man argument" which is this case is very dangerous as it can cost human lives.

Also given that they wrote:

> County health officials located more than 60 people who’d
come in contact with him,[..] fully recovered. Somehow, someone was missed.

It's strange to end up with travel bans are futile? A conclusion like "it's hard to find all contact persons" would be better.

> All the careful medical detective work, it’s now clear, wasn’t enough to slow a virus moving faster than the world’s efforts to contain it.

This is supper missguiding, sure in this case it's not wrong, but if a single of the 60 checked people would have had been infected this would have majorly slowed down the spread. In the end the first quote said it all: Someone was missed. And IMHO someone will most times have been missed and sometimes that one will have been infected, so the spread won't be stopped. But it will be slowed down. Which is most important.
Take a look at SAASPASS
It is not the role of peer-review to do this kind of gatekeeping (although it would be nice if it could filter out bad methodology and data errors). This is the role of exchanges just like the one discussed here.
Why are you worried about GMail's outgoing links if you're using Fastmail?
I buy my produce "just in time", so I'm frequently using those scales to be sure that I've purchased as close to exactly what I need as possible for what I'm making that day. I don't want leftover produce.

For example, I made two apple pies the other day. The recipe calls for 2 lbs of apples each, so I bought 5 lbs of apples (to account for the weight loss from coring and peeling).
The Salesforce Commerce SDK
I understand, but the issue here is with making a fundamental operation (equality) an optional interface, which would make things unnecessarily complicated for the user.

We always need the ability to check for equality, regardless of type (so much so that we have an "=" operator). The trouble comes with deciding what equality even means (as this article pointed out), because it really depends on the types you're comparing.

C++ decided that the best way to solve it would be to allow operator overloading. Unfortunately, overloading "=" worked so well that they thought "Hey! We could do the same for ALL operators!", and the mess that is C++ operator overloading was born.

The Java folks figured that they'd learned from C++ mistakes, and would avoid them by forbidding operator overloading entirely, thus throwing the baby out with the bathwater (and also they cheated because the "+" operator is overloaded for strings).

What they should have done is simply allowed overloading of the "=" operator ONLY, then maybe also add a special notation to say "I mean the actual reference (i.e. pointer value) as opposed to the object contents" (to cover the 20% use case where you actually DO want to know if it's the same reference). This would have obviated the need for equals(), made "=" work the way you'd intuitively expect it to, and also allowed implementors to override the default implementation to "do the right thing", even when you don't know the type of the values you are comparing (for example after fetching from an untyped collection).
> But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they.

That's very interesting. Where I work, looking at these graphs is part of our day to day duties: we need to know how our systems are doing, and alerting conditions have not yet been defined to cover every possible thing that could go wrong. Typically, the graphs help us point out conditions we need to watch for, which are often a combination of multiple things happening at the same time which necessitate human action to resolve.

Graphs also help us on the business side because we can see what happens with the utilization of our service after various marketing efforts, launches, promotions, etc. and while there are BI tools to do this, they often suck in many ways compared to Grafana, so it's usually a better bet to just stick in a place where the data can be viewed idiomatically.

Last but not least, without the ability to look at graphs, how do you know all of your monitoring is working and configured well? It's not enough to just have blind faith in the system, you need to check ever so often to make sure things are flowing well.

It's not about it being a fancy star trek dash, but damn if that doesn't impress management anyway.
At least 24 hours, possibly 48. There are a few similar viruses that can survive up to 9 days if they are humid and cold (near freezing). https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-670... But we don't have good info for SARS-CoV-2 specifically.
I'm not sure that your first sentence is true. The symptomatic effect that a not-mild virus strain has can help it spread, for obvious reasons. It seems like there's an optimization problem there, with a sweet spot where the virus doesn't kill its host, but makes them cough and sneeze to spread to other hosts.
It depends what you are debugging.

I have a smart home project at home and I learn frequently that this is something that normal people will fail at.

I have a sengled switch that connects to a smartthings hub, calls a lambda function, posts a message to an SQS queue which my home server drains and pushes into rabbitmq.

I found that if I didn't use the switch for a while (say hours) I would push it and wait 20 seconds or more for it to turn on (maddening because you might not have faith that it will change which will make you push the button and send more events...) It was reliable, but slow.

I got timestamps from as many parts of the system that I could, made graphs, and that led me to add a heartbeat that kept the lambda and queue active and also to switch from a fifo queue to an ordinary queue. Between those two steps the time from Smartthings to activation is in the 200-300 ms, and with the light configured to turn on instantly instead of fade, it feels responsive.

Note though I was not using Grafana or a tool like that, rather I was working w/ Jupyter and Pandas. After the system has run for a few weeks I might be able to do a detailed analysis of the tail latency, but it's not a "dashboard" I run over and over again unless the problem recurs.
I flagged this because the title was edited w.r.t. the actual article in a way that nobody here seems to understand.
I think the real takeaway is from all this is that death rate is a pointless metric. It is highly dependent on the local demographics, it requires precise information which is rarely available, it is biased by the level of care available, it has numerous ways to estimate it all of which are hard to explain and not actual estimates but upper or lower bounds, it tends to naturally decrease over time, etc.

The death rate is lower in China than Italy, but the death rate is lower within each age group in Italy vs China. Most people are too innumerate to understand this statement.

As an aside, I REALLY hate how this guy on twitter says “it could be 5.0%, look at this spreadsheet that assumes 5.0%!” Then refers to a paper as a good analysis which claims 1.6% and a set of facts which differ greatly from all of his assumptions.
Reenskaug did further work on this under the heading DCI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_context_and_interaction
Heartbeat Star
I also miss the option to choose in which container open a new tab by default. I try to not use at all "container-less tabs" and it breaks keyboard-only usage.
I really love how an opposing opinion to "the appeal to authority fallacy" has somehow turned into "denying/ignoring the science!", can people not be allowed to dissect and create an opposing opinion or conclusion of the facts that are presented by these figures?
Just curious - where have you heard this? In real life or online? If irl, would you mind sharing your locale? If only so that older folk can avoid it...
Eventing Facets
What happens if you do this via Alexa, does it just auto-order whatever it finds to whatever price it wants or does one have some control over it?

I don't have any of these assistants in my house for obvious reasons but this seems like the perfect way to scam someone.
>> Ultimately, Seattle’s experience shows the futility of travel bans

> Is there a word or phrase for the act of poorly implementing an idea, then using the failed result as a way to discredit the idea? It's like a straw man argument but done in practice rather than in argument.

I don't know, so I'm going to coin a term for it: dishonest experiment.
Edit: found this below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535930 (see sampo’s response in comments)

I am completely baffled to the meaning of this given the scientific nomenclature used, but I would really like to know what it means and why it is front page HN.

What I imagine it means is that the red things on this picture

https://www.cdc.gov/homepage/images/banner/covid-19-1330px.j...

have some sort of indentation, or cleavage, that makes them either more or less dangerous.

Am I close? Can someone who understands explain for the layman?
I expect that they will ban travel from infected regions (i.e. everywhere else). Or do what Israel is doing and impose a mandatory 14 day quarantine for all inbounds. Tourism is not going to be a thing this year.
SAASPASS password manager is both for enterprise and consumer use. It also has 2FA and SSO etc..
Now imagine you are shopping for a family of six for an entire month and you have two carts bursting with groceries. Still think it's only a tiny improvement?
Did you have diarrhea when you started Metformin?
Thank you, that makes a lot more sense than some sort of “gain” (as in, increasing output levels) of “function” (as in, a mathematical calculation where each input has exactly one output).

I’m thinking what the heck is a Gainof Function?
I mean, I get where you are coming from but it still is a huge stretch to make a blanket statement like that.
I had the same thought. Sure, I take photos of my kid, but sometimes I might go weeks without taking a picture of him (Oh my, the horror!). Then people bug me that I haven't taken any recent photos of him for a while and I can't help but think, "yeah, because I was too busy having fun to take a picture." And if I do decide to take one, I usually try to snap it discretely when he's not looking so I'm not interrupting his play. I also show them to him later and he likes looking at them, or a video of him going down the slide.

It's the same when I go on trips. I go on vacation then come back and realize I only took maybe three photos on the first day and that was it.

I think people take photos when they're not having fun so they can look back later and pretend they were.
Komodo dragon with no male partner gives birth to three hatchlings
Reputation matters, and it's important to cultivate and improve it.
After Mozilla bought Pocket.
Vladimir Putin Is One Step Closer to Being President for Life
Quantum Chemistry 0.1 – Introduction
The fun is that capacitors work even when power is off, so if they had several caps together and one was the wrong way round or the power supply was off but not disconnected OR the capacitor was already charged beyond a point of no return, it'll blow.

While they look fairly harmless, one should also never forget that capacitors are the most dangerous part of any electric circuit; they don't become safe if power is off and they have no limit to their current other than "what the wire can do", which is usually northwards of "the wire evaporates".

I've experienced various caps burn their legs and solderpoints in less than a millisecond without warning once a short was realized. And on top of that, the huge currents running through wires not intended for that will usually cause quite a bit of inductive backlash in nearby components.
Quarantine isnt just about preventing the illness in the most vulnerable, it's about keeping the explosion if cases at a level that doesn't swamp the healthcare system.

Absolute containment is highly unlikely, but delay can help a ton.
Bitwarden is amazing! And I have tried all of them over the last few years.
An article closer to home with no Spiegel-Spritzen. I think the “I Don't Think the Virus Can Be Stopped Anymore” is clickbait out of context to sell more Der Spiegels, marketed to people who are waiting for some final pronouncement of doom.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/officials-det...

Here is Marc Lipsitch quoted properly with a definition of "flattening the curve" which is the rational way to present the idea that containment is no longer possible.

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/10/21171481/coronavirus-us-cases-...

Containment is no longer possible because the disease is becoming globally endemic and will probably survive in successive waves over several years and the only thing under our control at this point is to prevent a spike of cases. We must dispense with the idea that our parents or grandparents can be kept in a perpetual bubble and will NEVER get the disease. We might however take steps that ensure that it unfolds slowly enough that adequate medical care will be available.
They own a bunch of chrome extensions that track all the websites you visit and queries you enter into google
No, eggs can be ethical if you run a small farm where you have the resources to take care of both the males and females. But I've not heard of large farms doing such, probably because of the issue of fertilization necessarily leading to segregation of sexes. Perhaps there is a farm that takes care of the males despite their economic negative - if so, sign me up for their eggs.
Does this break "California Consumer Privacy Act" of 2020?

As far as I now, companies are now legally obligated to give California residents the opportunity to see how their personal information is being tracked, how it's being sold, and how to opt out.
That last one, the drop down menu getting some auto full garbage which obscures choices and interferes with selection is annoying.
None. Some people do, it is a documented side effect.
The desktop version should be a lower-level priority in the mobile driven world. The Android version of the browser is still annoyingly slow and too complex to be a daily default.

Brave, with it's dead easy setup should be an example to follow.
The URL https://www.datree.io/