skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder who on earth will use chlorine in ww1 or bio... it kills both sides.

Just crazy thinking but is this why they are military research. If you can protect from icbm ...

It is horrible. If you let this onto china, they can invent a wuhan virus, with these tool to protect their solider or potentially ransom The world then release not accidentally but deliberately the virus. Just like they got the patent for the anti-viral drug.

Crazy.
Random hypthetical: Imagine you are charged with a crime, and know for certain a witness can exhonerate you beyond any reasonable doubt. Maybe they don't like you, maybe they have something to gain from a guilty verdict. But you also know their testimony would not incriminate them at all -- they are also innocent, and the 5th amendment does not apply.

You have a fifth amendment to witnesses in your defense, which this person is denying you. It seems reasonable to me that a coercive power like this should exist, even if we disagree with any given specific application of it.
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Does the WHO have any clout when it comes to declarations like that? Wouldn't it need to be a state or federal declaration?
He/She got exactly what was deserved. I only wish he'd/she'd been jailed longer.
There is so much wrong with this. It's clear that you're essentially presupposing there is either "free will" or "determinism" when in fact the right distinction to make is "free will" as opposed to "no free will".

Anyway, when you make a rerun of the universe from the same initial conditions, you get randomness because of quantum mechanics, so the future outcome is not exactly the same, and you can't predict anything with certainty because of probabilities. But look, all of this has nothing to do with free will. Neither determinism nor quantum mechanical randomness give you an absolute-metaphysical-libertarian superwill when you're not a subject to the laws of physics at all (unless you believe that you're a soul/cartesian ego/some other supra-physical mental entity with dubious ontological status). You're basically arguing against this abovementioned concept. But actually default, regular free will is just an effective description of reality where persons have volition, and it exists as an emergent rather than fundamental thing.

Before you start to make the same argument that free will doesn't really exist, consider the question: does Hacker News exist? Well, duh, of course not! There are no websites, no Internet and no computers, it's obviously all just fundamental particles acting in some ways, you know, just the wave function of the universe deterministically obeying the Schrodinger equation, etc. Naive reductionism. But here we are, reading Hacker News. Guess what, you don't live on a level of fundamental particles. Does, for example, chess exist? Your argument implies that it does not, but here I am, playing chess in a separate tab.

So, do persons exist?

Does free will exist?

It strikes me that people don't bother to make real arguments against free will, like a psychological one, for example.
really? ethics?
so.. which standards of ethics do you think leaders should adhere to? so many to choose from...
I wish them fast recovery too.
You know what, this made me realize a hilarious alternate reality/way things could have gone, where nothing got fixed in time, EVERYTHING printed dates like that, and after 2000 years we changed the dates again, with different aesthetic factions around whether to represent the date as "100" or "19100". (I would personally have been all over 5-digit years myself.)

Hmmmm. After thinking about that for a minute I realize that math and aesthetics do not mix and that one single format for years makes a lot of computers not get confused. I rest my case. :(
Also got some spare fpga, any test required?
There is no example of a place where the net impact of tourism is positive. Not in the era in which we live, certainly.
Any chance the search functionality could hook into Stack Overflow for public snippet discovery?
I’ve never been so tempted to violate the HN rules of polite discourse
The top of this order:

By Order dated May 6, 2019 [Doc. 2], the Court granted Chelsea Manning full use and
derivative use immunity, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 6002, and ordered Ms. Manning to testify and
provide other information in the above-captioned grand jury proceeding ("Grand Jury").

All she had to do was testify truthfully about the matters she was being asked about. Fifth amendment is irrelevant in this context.
I actively trade crypto. Today's crash was due (from what I'm seeing) to a massive Bitmex contract liquidation (probably in the $100m-300m range). The market, with panic, couldn't get the price in sync across all exchanges. At some point the difference between two exchanges is close to $1000/btc. Very profitable if you know what you are doing. You can AMA.
A macro is a bug report against the language; Rust is crying out for a way to treat structs generically (i.e. what frunk does with LabelledGeneric), but that only needs to be implemented once. There's no reason serde and diesel couldn't be built on top of frunk (that's how many things work in the Scala world: specific libraries like circe or pureconfig don't write custom macros, they just pull in a dependency on Shapeless) - and then once there was a clear consensus on the right way to do it, LabelledGeneric or equivalent could be made a standard part of the language and no macros would be needed at all.

Maybe macros make sense as a pragmatic way to allow prototyping of future language features. But language designers can, and IMO should, work towards making them unnecessary in the production-code ecosystem, because the disadvantages for readability and tooling are very real. And that's only going to get worse as more advanced tooling (IDEs, profilers etc.) becomes available and people rely more heavily on those tools to be deeply integrated with the language, because those tools are never going to be able to understand ad-hoc macros.
Having done a lot of applied work in this area, I think growth mindset training was incorrectly seen as a change in knowledge rather than a change in behavior.

The original framing was about knowledge. Some kids were taught the concept of brain plasticity and then later scored higher on tests.

But what concrete actions did these kids take in between the lesson and the test? That's what's missing.

I helped my mom adopt this training for her third grade class and thus got a closer look. She trained the class with a three part YouTube series. The first was a Steph Curry video about practice. That was for motivation. The second was a cartoon about brain plasticity. That was the knowledge. The last was Janelle Monae on Sesame Street singing about the power of the word Yet. "I'm not good at math, YET."

So then for the rest of the year, the kids practiced saying the word yet. I don't know how to do X, yet. So essentially, my mom instituted a year long behavior change toward positive self talk, training these kids to be open to the idea that practice could make them better.

Presumably they did also practice more, although nothing in this story is really A/B testable. But I'm pretty confident that this is closer to the true story about growth mindset. Also, the kids did end up with huge improvements in their standardized test scores (which sadly mattered to the district).

I wrote this up on Medium. Here's the free version:
https://medium.com/better-humans/growth-mindset-is-a-habit-y...

I'd never quite made the connection before, but growth mindset is the same sort of good-news/bad-news as steroids. It's not primarily that steroids make you directly stronger, it's that for the most part they help you train more and recover faster. The good news is that you'll get stronger. The bad news is that you end up working even more than if you weren't on steroids.

It's the same with growth mindset. The good news is that you will get smarter, better, more skilled. The bad news is that the way those improvements happen is still through hard work. In fact, a lot of growth mindset is about having an open mind to do even more work.
> Go handles it shitty, like the past five decades of computer science and PL design never happened.

This has generally been my complaint with Go. Go is... fine. It offers a lot of features that seem revolutionary if you've never seen them before, but mostly feel like someone took the best parts of every language, and then implemented the least interesting aspects of those features.

- Interfaces are like typeclasses, but without actually offering any sort of higher-kinded polymorphism.

- Goroutines are kind of like Erlang processes, but without any notion of supervision and with shared mutable state.

- The error handling feels like it's trying to emulate an Either monad, but in a way that doesn't actually allow for the compositional properties that make an Either monad useful.

I know that Go's goal was never to innovate on language design, but I feel like it ignored a lot of low-hanging fruit in modern language design.

Obviously you can do worse than coding in Go, but for everything Go is good at, there's likely an even better tool for the job. I'm not convinced that there's any domain where Go is the best choice available, but it's definitely average at most jobs, and maybe that's where it finds its niche.

Edited: I had missed the word "higher-kinded" in front of polymorphism. Thanks donatj!
The problem really seems to be in the nature of the platform. What a market needs to address issues like this is accurate reviews (i.e. informed consumers), but here we have a platform which both maintains the reviewing system and profits when listings are filled -- a clear conflict of interest.

This really stems from the regulations on payment processors. In theory there should be the digital equivalent of cash, where the buyer can easily and directly pay the seller without any third party middle man in between them imposing conditions and taking a cut.

But since regulatory requirements make processing payments, to use the technical term, a giant pain in the butt, it takes a sizeable bureaucracy to do it. Then you get a perverse incentive to have the company that handles listings and reviews also do the payment processing -- and get a cut of every transaction -- which is what creates this conflict of interest. The company whose business is reviews should not be turning a profit from filling listings, or they won't want bad reviews even when they're deserved, and then you don't have accurate reviews.
Which would be relevant in a discussion about technique.

Murder and knife crime discussions would not be.

A knife can be used for those things, but when discussing knives in cooking it makes no sense to talk about those topics.

Likewise in a discussion wherein the example of the farmer trying to protect the herd from a predator by closing the fence after the predator is already inside the farm - it is not the selection of predator animal used in the example which is the topic at hand. The example is used to illustrate the futility of the act. It does not mean that the government is a farmer. It does not mean the people are farm animals. Farm animals do not elect their farmers. Farmers do not have 3 branches and an independent judiciary or a legislature. Getting into these aspects of the comparison make no sense whatsoever. Likewise getting into the specifics of the coyote - patient zero comparison also serves no purpose. Coyotes have 4 legs and a snout. Humans don't have snouts, we have noses. Discussing all of this is not productive at all.

Also what xenophobic thing have I discussed? I am pointing out the fact that the comment you were replying to used an analogy - which is a linguistic device intended to draw a comparison. There are many phrases and figures of speech like "fox in the hen house" and "bull in a China shop" or "frog in the well". These phrases are never intended to compare the person to an actual fox or bull or frog.
I still love that movie....
Sounds like a very listenable collection of anecdotes and war stories. I would be very interested if you ever share :)

(You're almost certainly already aware of http://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport - but just in case. And hint hint.)
"Also on the advice of doctors, he will not be tested at this stage since he has no symptoms. For the same reason, doctors say there is no risk to those who have been in contact with him recently."
Was it just me, or did POTUS seem hoarse/out of breath during the address yesterday?

I think this has spread to more people faster than anyone in several governments expected.
also reduces physical activity and social contact, which are not good for life expectancy
But they aren’t testing him at the moment. They’re waiting until he shows symptoms?

Maybe he won’t show symptoms but still be contagious?
The "write the thing" attitude perhaps comes to some extent from (human) languages that have that as a natural word invention mechanism - such as German, Finnish, Sanskrit. In Sanskrit, etymologies seem to often go down to single syllables.

I quite often miss that in programming languages. To some extent, functional languages let you construct functions that compose like that and we also see that happen with CSS with frameworks like Semantic-ui and Bulma. But it would be fun to have or experiment with it at the identifier level.

Edit: I generally prefer to use "abstraction" to refer specifically to "beta abstraction" and not the "make named functions" kind ... Which is more about encapsulation. Beta abstraction always results in something more general and abstractions are about leaving out detail.
…but isn’t it asymptomatic?
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He's also putting himself in 14 day self quarantine, for those skimming comments
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If you knew squat about me, you’d assign a low probability to it being spin. Particularly the flavor implied.
> Anybody who doesn't want their data copied will be shedding tears. Including anybody with private files.

FDE and things like OpenPGP are not broken by this.

> You are more than welcome to decline to use DRM if you don't like it

Or to try and break it.
Agreed, we need to just push onwards and all will be back to normal in 12 months.

The facts remain that children, young adults, adults and even elderly without comorbidities will survive. Deaths are still restricted to those with existing health problems, particularly the elderly.

From an economic perspective, this is the perfect pandemic. We should maintain all schooling and social activities to spread the virus as far and rapidly as possible, to gain herd immunity as quickly as possible. The vulnerable can self-isolate.

The savings in pensions and long-term healthcare for the elderly, as well as a reduction in housing prices owing to the deceased estates, will promote an economic boom that may even - in the long term - offset the short terms costs we are facing right now.

You can imagine a situation where the USA has survived the virus and gained mass immunity, with 5% of its elderly population perishing along the way, giving the USA a long-term advantage due to lower payroll taxes, versus Europe who shut down early, have continual flareups due to lack of herd immunity, and continue with a heavy taxation burden due to elderly losses of only 0.5%.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why wait for symptoms? Why not test him anyway? Is there any downside to testing? If not, then seems outrageous not to test the PM whose wife has recently tested positive.
Sounds crazy. He and Trump should be both tested and given vitamin C, D, and zinc.
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He often does. It’s quite an eye opener to watch more of his live addresses and press conferences. When you read a recap of what happened it all sounds vaguely normal and presidential. But when you watch what actually happened you realise how far off the deep end he really is.
Is this peak government dysfunction?
And Trudeau himself is not being tested: https://twitter.com/CameronAhmad/status/1238281503005642753. I don't understand why some governments seem so averse to testing in general and have really tight constraints around it. In comparison, Bolsonaro had an aid test positive for it and he's being tested with results coming tomorrow: https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238232367006912514
This was a grand jury proceeding. While this was about a matter that happened while she was in the military, anyone that is granted immunity but refuses to testify could be held in contempt by the court.
Canada is like the US but lite. Ontario's government just replac car license number plates with blocks of color of the party in power, led by the brother of the former Toronto mayor who smoked crack with gang members, on video, while he was mayor.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/torontosun.com/news/provincial/...
> I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know.

Who else would have named him?
Follow up: for those who have dealt with both, which was more stressful? SAP, or y2k?
if you're going to self isolate anyway there's not much point in testing I suppose other than for statistical purposes and at this point my guess would be that testing people on the frontlines is more important.
I think US just doesn’t physically have enough tests.
I have a feeling, the reason why we are now hearing politicians, celebrities etc. being infected is probably because they are getting tested anyway. Symptoms or not. They either have the money to do it or they are in important positions and are prioritized.

Which could mean that the actual number of infections truly is much much higher than we know and therefore the fatality rate could also be significantly lower than what has been estimated so far.

I'm not a medical professional at all. Just guessing.
Chelsea's pronouns are she/her.
Not enough tests to go around? So preserve them for who needs them.
America is still not the same. I'm not talking about airport security, although that's a minor, minor difference. I'm talking about the government, the society, the culture. The terrorists won on 9/11 and they've been winning every day since. America is not a free country, if it ever was. The surveillance state has been ramped up. The police state has been ramped up. Wars have been ramped up. We started a war with a completely unrelated country and killed millions. Life for most citizens is absolute shit, barely making it by.

9/11 was not just a battle. It started a war the terrorists have been winning ever since. That's probably why there haven't really been any major attacks since then. Why try to attack America when us idiot Americans are attacking each other and bringing down the empire ourselves? The terrorists are just watching with glee.
I asked somebody today (union steward) and they suggested going to the hospital. If I decided I wanted to get tested, I think I would call my primary care doctor instead, or possibly an urgent care center and see what they said.

I assume nobody wants you to waltz right in, even or especially the ER.
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What "frontlines?" Everywhere are "frontlines" at this point.
That would reduce the death rate, note the infection rate.
he still tweets memes and his approval ratings, he is fine
On the one hand, I understand the hacker ethos and the feeling that the Espionage Act in particular is a disgrace, especially as applied to Assange. (I thought the resurrection of the Espionage Act during Pres. Obama's administration was one of the most disgraceful actions of his presidency.)

On the other hand, Manning has no leg to stand on. She was granted immunity per the first sentence of this order, thus her Fifth Amendment privilege doesn't apply. She has no privilege against testifying against friends or people she wishes to lend moral support, and especially not when being called to testify in a (secret) grand jury proceeding.

She could have chosen either to comply with the court order or face contempt proceedings as a form of civil disobedience. Instead, she's arguing that she's special and that contempt proceedings need not apply.

I respect people who commit civil disobedience, especially in reaction to injustice like the Espionage Act. It's a credible signal that someone finds some particular law wrong. But this is not that scenario. By trying to avoid punishment for her contempt of court, Manning has done nothing to sway the minds of the people who need to be convinced (i.e. Congress or maybe the Justice Department).
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She was granted immunity for testimony. Had she testified, instead of willfully ignoring the court, she would not have been held in contempt.
I have a question. Do we test all death? What if many death are not tested for coronavirus hence the death number is not accurate either?
Have you ever been around Chinese tourists? I've never seen such blatant disregard for others as they elbow their way into the front of a line or completely clear out a buffet table. Not all of them, of course, but I think I'm not alone in that experience.
Are you the GRC guy?
imagine making up a story like this to virtue signal how much you hate trump, meanwhile she is imprisoned under obama doj and released under trump doj
I’m a medical professional and I think you’re right.

There are medical professionals I know who are quarantined with obvious COVID (or H1N1) symptoms but not tested because they don’t fit the requirements. It matters because if it’s just H1N1 they can be back in action sooner.

Not saying we shouldn’t test famous people, just saying we should expand that type of testing much more broadly.
healthcare workers, public service workers, food, transportation, pharmaceutical and so on. People who need to definitely know if they are sick or not.
The voting cohort that votes for politicians that don’t support climate change mitigation policy have the highest mortality rate from the pandemic.

If this pandemic doesn’t lead to universal healthcare and climate change policy because citizens have a change in heart, it might occur because enough of those opposed to these ideas die.

Not intended to be morbid or gratuitous, simply an observation.
Politicians travel around the world to shake hands with one another and bring crowds together.

Or at least they used to until recently.
How does he do at the rallies ?

I imagine he talks for longer than 10 minutes
Whatever we -have- got, we use to identify and isolate, to flatten the curve. Test priority for healthcare workers.

"Containment is making sure all the cases are identified, controlled, and isolated. It’s what Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan or Taiwan are doing so well: They very quickly limit people coming in, identify the sick, immediately isolate them, use heavy protective gear to protect their health workers, track all their contacts, quarantine them…"

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
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> Do you hold the dollars in your bank account?

No, we don't, which is exactly why gold is considered superior.