skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your link is not the Google publication. beyondcorp.com is an advertising site by scaleft (owned by okta).
is there an HN flagbot randomly flagging posts for opaque reasons?

will smearing blood on this post keep it from getting flagged or is this comment already suspect and targeted by the Reaper XNPQ3 due to it being a reply to a previously flagged post?

does it cost you any points in heaven to flag a post?

May I simply feel free to flag posts containing adjectives in lieu of adverbs?

I've noticed that all of the 50 states I'd visited featured grammatically incorrect street signs advising one to "drive slow"... must be related to sign painters being grown up "slow children playing" also from grammatical butchery sign infamy...
if only unicode were actually that simple.
Sorry for going on a rant here, but I dislike the framing implicit in "spontaneous remission".

Addiction does vanish spontaneously with a wave of a wand. These are people of flesh and blood and free will that managed to overcome their addiction. They are making attempts at treating themselves. They might be reading blog posts with advice. They may avoid buying alcohol for fear they'll drink it all. They be taking detours around bars. They may be meditating or even self-administering cbt.

So calling it spontaneous seems a misnomer.
It takes about 10 weeks to go from 100 infections to half a million, if those flu cases were covid-19 the world would be in dire straits by now.
I once took a college course based entirely on answering the question 'What is globalization'
Globalization can be just about any interaction between two entities...

Moving production to China? Globalization

Moving production back to the US? Globalization

...

Anti-globalization movement? Globalization

Or maybe my professor was just nuts, I feel crazy typing this out
Oh wait.. unselected might be for items that have never been selected... aw man.

Well, I was looking for the verb form anyway. "Deselect" it is!
I recall Slackware had something like this, where you could e.g. install the 'D' series if you were a software developer.

Other than how the software is used (the workflow), how is this anymore than a single apt install command?

The article does a great job explaining the setup. We need more articles like it, organized and searchable. It would be nice if there were a buzzword associated with what you are describing, because then I could just google it. Without it, I'm forced to google for 'DIY' (e.g 'DIY audio engineer') at best. Software + workflow ... Softflow?
Seems like this is based on Google's own internal code search tooling, something most engineers at Google rely on for every day code-level work.
I personally can't even begin to imagine how I'd navigate the gigantic codebase without it.

(I work at Google)
Haskell…
(half kidding)
That's very different from the martial law that was effectively imposed in China. If you don't follow the law in most countries you will subject to sanctions, it's no different in Singapore. Typhoid Mary was subjected to forcible quarantine in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
There is always an exception to every rule, except for this one.
> And for "rates of continuous abstinence" they found a positive effect.

It’s been a while since I reviewed the literature for substance abuse disorder, but if I remember correctly it was highly disputed whether complete abstinence was necessary (or even beneficial) for treatment. Has this changed?

The argument was that by focusing on abstinence you are setting a significant part of your patience up for failure with all the psychological harm involved in knowing that they’ve failed, which might result in severe and frequent relapses.

EDIT: To conclude. I find it hard to draw conclusions if success is measured in “days of abstinence”. That means that a patient that has recovered from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) that uses occasionally and non-detrimentally is not considered a success! Further AA or other 12-step programs do often stress abstinence while CBT does not, this creates a counting bias in favor of 12-step programs.
Hashtags aren’t dead, Instagram just changed the game without anyone noticing
Rather than simply contradicting can you provide a more accurate summary of the case?
> when I switched the simple script to asyncpg I gained 5x over psycopg2.

This should really be a comparison between asyncpg and psycopg2+gevent+psycogreen to be technically aligned, as otherwise it's a comparison between two scripts with non-blocking and blocking IO.
How does sizing by pixel work when pixels are wildly different in size. As a designer why do I want text to be half the size for someone on a high resolution screen?
Heap Exploitation in Chrome's PartitionAlloc – Part 1 by Dr Silvio Cesare
Misleading headline. It's a _hypothesis_ that seems to reconcile two different ways of calculating the Hubble constant (that describes the universe's expansion), that has previously been at odds with each other
I think many of these don't apply today (bugs, fallback support, flexibility.) My current project uses (almost) entirely rem and em units, and it is so much cleaner and easier to manage than the alternatives.
Facebook was responsible for that information, they shared it with someone they shouldn’t have and then tried to cover their butts when the inevitable data breach occurred.

This is Australian privacy law we’re dealing with, not a Facebook EULA.
tis indeed.

as distinguished from iocaine, which is merely inconceivable.
I love the idea and vision but I think you are underestimating the benefits of a good name. I can’t pronounce Terusama, couldn’t remember it, and it would be hard to spell if heard. Also it doesn’t suggest what you do at all which is important in a name. A combo of simple words that allude to what you do make the best names IMO. Otherwise anything that can improved such a huge industry sounds like a great market to tackle.
This looks awesome - congrats on the launch.

Quick question: I tried setting it up but its asking for Write access to the pull requests. I am a bit wary about giving write access - is this required?
March 11 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Update for Startups
"this virus that's looking more and more like it's a little worse than the yearly flu."

You're spreading ignorance.

Every medical expert is saying it is 5-20x deadlier than the seasonal flu, because that's what the data says. They're predicting 40-70% infection rates.

A low estimate of 0.05% mortality rate with 40% infected is: 640,000 dead in the US alone. It could end up being a 1.5% mortality rate with 70% infected: 3,360,000 dead in the US alone.

Please do some reading: https://www.flattenthecurve.com
Autonomous Robots Are Helping Kill Coronavirus in Hospitals
What's interesting is that it is containable: Taiwan and Singapore both have managed to avoid sustained community transmission, and they did this by rigorous contact tracing and travel regulation. And South Korea acted similarly! But one bad case got through (and the cult responsible is uniquely problematic), and that's costing South Korea many lives and billions of USD.

The learning here shouldn't be that mass coronavirus death is inevitable, but that good policy that takes it seriously can contain it and make it manageable.
That explains the "Using version control software (e.g. Subversion) can facilitate this process immensely"
Just some rough estimates here, a Jetranger helicopter costs ~$1000/hr to charter. Assuming the helicopter's 300 kW engine was magically replaced with electric batteries, that's only ~$30/hr for energy. And an eVTOL will be far more energy efficient in forward flight and at idle than a helicopter.

So I could see a path to 10x improvement by eliminating the pilot and keeping utilization high. Even if you budget $100/hour maintenance cost, the cost can be far lower than conventional helicopters.
> At the extreme if it killed 100% of the people it infected then everyone would've locked down borders immediately and taken it very seriously.

Depends on how fast it kills too. Something like airborne aids that somehow didn't have respiratory symptoms would be the most terrifying scenario because it would spread world wide before anyone noticed.
You didnt even mention the experimental/ultralight folks which is pretty much a free for all. Though they cant flyover populated areas.
It’s Time to Cancel the U.S. Presidential Campaign
Glorious, Thank you kind soul for listening to my slightly raving rant.

Now I feel several sorts of ashamed at missing what is kind of a core function.

salutes
Ask HN: What to do when you don't have enough problems to solve?
Sometimes I come home from work at the end of the day and I still have the hankering for a problem that needs solving with code.

The issue is, if it's something that someone else has already done a strictly better job of implementing, it tends to feel empty. Now, obviously it's uncommon for an individual without a PhD or a senior FAANG position to do something that's both generally-useful and truly an improvement on what's out there already. So most of us instead occupy ourselves with solving narrower problems specific to a given organization.

But that still leaves the question: what problems can I truly solve - even small, narrow ones - in my spare time? Outside the context of a job or even a business idea.
I credit naltrexone for my recovery.
It was within the capabilities of 1940s state actors. Even if it still takes a state actor level of resources now, that probably won't remain true all that long (considering that it's within the capabilities of North Korea, it can't be that far from "large corporation" levels of difficulty even now).

I can't think of any obvious examples of other materials that would be reasonable to restrict in the same way as fissile materials though. Those are kind of a special case where there aren't many uses for the material (power and bombs are basically the only uses I'm aware of for enriched uranium), and it's hard enough to obtain that trying to restrict it isn't entirely useless (unlike phosphorous, which you can buy in the grocery store in any box of matches). Chemical weapons I suppose.

Since it's an important example, I don't think it's a bad faith argument, but also note that an argument that restrictions on simple possession of one material without any proof of intent to use it for harm are justified doesn't mean that all such restrictions are justified. I think gp was arguing the "sometimes justified" case, not the "always justified" one.
He's saying there's no value in college. College is not 100% good teaching, but it's not 0%. Musk is the one who chose an extreme position -- that college has no value -- not me.

He is prone to extreme, off-handed statements that are easy to refute, so perhaps I should stop taking him literally.
Outside of Hubei, China's done extensive community testing of everyone who presents symptoms that would be associated with coronavirus. The vast majority are negative. This isn't consistent with the hypothesis that there are millions of undiagnosed cases.
It’s pathetic you’re defending this, and terribly evident you have never had to live in poverty in the states.

It’s also patently, blatantly false. I paid $740 to see the doctor to identify I needed an Advil.

I paid $50 for the Advil!

Your post literally incited a large amount of rage in me. Defending people like Martin Shkreli- which the pharma industry is full of - or the medical industry itself’s rape of the lower class - is pathetic, selfish and just straight up wrong.

EDIT: I’m unsure, as well - how I was unable to downvote this comment.
Buildings are pretty flammable on their own - people die in house and building fires without any gasoline being involved whatsoever. An animation studio filled with paper, without a fire supression system, and possibly without fire escapes is no exception.

When holding out the kyoto animation studio tragedy - are you sure you're not arguing for better fire codes and gasoline regulation, rather than the deregulation of phosophorus? You're certainly not making a good argument for deregulating gasoline entirely, if that's your intention. Yes, an arsonist can get their hands on enough to do damage. Suggesting we remove all those pesky regulations so they can trivially get a gas tanker and drive that into a building - making it easy for them to cause an even larger tragedy - certainly doesn't follow as a logical conclusion, nor does giving them ready unregulated access to potentially more dangerous materials:

https://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/1337
https://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/11498

...which would allow them to do more damage, or shrink their packages, or maybe just delay detection and reaction to their actions. Gasoline has a distinctive smell that would make me curious/cautious. What does phosophorus smell like? I could see myself mistaking someone spreading it out for someone spreading fertilizer or something, at least until the point it starts spontaniously combusting.
Database [WIP] Covid-19 Contingency plans the U.S. companies
Just like how my employer sent an email saying "you are allowed to work from home" and then all the managers come and say "that doesn't apply to our team" :)
It seems to me that WHO waited for the stock market to tumble down first, before declaring this pandemic. This way, WHO may avoid getting blamed for the end of the bull market.
What the hell is evangelicalism? Sounds like some kind of virus for the brain
This article is exclusively about young people, not middle aged folks with the money for things like yoga classes and a social life outside the workplace.
Direct link to study:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Infrastructure Testing for Terraform with Clarity
> For the love of God, please listen to doctors/The CDC/Goop product descriptions before me.
Easily share your Spotify music with friends. Bops Music: just launched
They can just hire all of the explosive experts that went through the right channel to develop their skill and knowledge safely.
Between snap, flatpak, and appimage, a lot of those issues really go away. Regardless of distribution or version.
Running a Rich MSA Constellation(Scala,Java,Go,Python,Rust) in Kubernetes
TLDR; Bops Music (launched today) showcases your saved, recently played & top Spotify songs and has a nice timeline format to preview your friend's songs as well. Think instagram + spotify combined. It creates a music timeline so you can listen along with each other.

This idea came from the fact that I usually just find some new music, save it, and then go to my saved songs and put those on repeat. I thought that opening up my favorite/saved songs to others and being able to view friend’s songs would provide new music inspiration.

The interesting thing about music is that you can gain hours of new tracks from just connecting with one person.

The information you can access on Bops is NOT available in the main Spotify app, but it is open for developers to get creative with it.

It is currently only available for iOS. I'd love to know what you guys think! Any/all feedback welcome.
You'd use Sourcegraph, probably.
Ah, this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

Super interesting! It's like, data, without an interpreter, has no meaning. We rely super heavily on humans as general purpose interpreters, and when we design computers, we make sure as much of the meaning as possible is implicit.

Rich was saying that the interpreter is secondary, which is only true if data serves a single purpose. Alan is getting at the idea that data could serve every purpose if only the interpreter wasn't implicit. If the concept of "data" referred to both the value and the meaning, the language and how to interpret it.

But, from a reddit comment: An interpreter doesn't magically give meaning to data, since the interpreter has to translate to something, and that something has to be written by a program that understands both the from and to sides of the conversation.

The point of dit is to literally be that universal language. Yes, you do need both sides to explicitly lay out what they main, both to convey and understand the meaning. The difference is that the number of connections is unlimited. You need a human for that critical first step, but then the machine can speak "dit" language to any other machine that speaks dit. Rich couldn't conceive of the idea that dit could be real. I think it can. I think we can make Licklider's vision, data and programs that can move around without respect to the original developers intentions because they all speak dit.

Thank you for sharing, super interesting!
It's also WebRTC based, which takes the load off the Jitsi server considerably. Popular alternatives like Zoom requires rerouting traffic through their servers AFAIK.
the funny thing is: this website made me touch my face wayyyy more than I would have otherwise today.
Nice, my team's project is on there! (Nomulus)
Generally thats exactly what it means - the individual products don't have nutrition info or something else which would be required for them to be sold by themselves by law.
Just like the fake eclipse glasses did?
Postgres' pgAdmin software is still a huge pain for many operations, especially for creating functions and views. I believe they could learn a lot from this.
Googler here. We have the same Code Search tool internally, this is honestly one of my favorite things about working at Google. Great to see this open sourced.
Ah yes! Get to 10x cost improvement by eliminating the pilot. Perfect.

This is called putting the bell on the cat. Or Belling the cat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
3D MNIST Classification Using Swift for TensorFlow
Trump bans all travel from Europe to US for 30 days
Settled on Zulip to replace Jabber based system.

Rocket.chat, matrix/riot, mattermost, Zulip, and likely others were tried. Zulip's 'topics' (think threads) was the feature that put them ahead of every other system. Free push notifications were a plus as well.

If threading isn't important, check out Mattermost. If you're into federation, matrix is something to check out.
Compiling untrusted code isn’t going to save you.
Most helicopters fly without air traffic control, under visual flight rules. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/new-york-city-helico...:

”One might imagine that the Federal Aviation Administration is fully in charge of Manhattan’s crowded airspace. But the agency isn’t even aware how many helicopters hover over the city on a daily basis. The FAA doesn’t generally monitor chopper traffic, which operates under Visual Flight Rules (VFR): Unless pilots approach an airport, they’re required to communicate only with other pilots in nearby crafts, and not with air traffic control. This means that depending on where a given pilot is, they may not have to speak with anybody at all.”

Presumably, these would, too (until too many accidents occur)
some might say that restriction of X, even if X has no "real" value, is already a significant cost. depends on whether you think freedom is merely a means to an end or a value in and of itself.
Sorry for linking to a youtube video but this is the official source. No transcript on the White House website yet.
I was surprised to learn about the glassware. When I learned that mdma therapy for ptsd wouldn’t be available for years and would cost 15k even with insurance, I dusted off my old organic chemistry book. I can’t believe I’ve been made to do this in order to get medical treatment.
Do you not have long vacations in the country you live/grew up in? (Sorry for sounding kind of snarky.)
~0.5% is a very reasonable estimate of the initial CFR when an epidemic starts. It's bad, around 5x as much as the flu, but probably not worth a national China-style quarantine.

But it has a key context: that's the CFR for when all patients are treated. In most of China, there were never enough infections to trigger a healthcare system collapse: that's why in all but one province, the CFR was indeed ~0.4%.

In one province, Hubei, the medical system did collapse.

Its CFR jumped to 3-4%. That is worth going to extreme measures to prevent. In the USA, that would amount to ~10M dead.

That is not a seasonal flu.

I think a superior approach for most of the world is one along the lines of Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea: extensive testing and contact tracing and limited but real quarantine measures. But, yes, everything should be on the table to prevent the nightmare healthcare system collapse scenario.
eh? I grew up in poverty on public assistance and didn't have a decent job until I was 25. I've been hungry. etc etc. I know about being poor, ok.

I also didn't defend the behavior. Get out of your personal shell and re-read it.

You paid 0.05 for the Advil. You paid $49.95 for everything else that goes along with it, when you get an advil at an advanced medical care facility. You would understand that if you comprehended my post.

Do you realize that when you go to any store and buy a coke for $1.50, you are only paying maybe .25 for the soda (incl. the bottle it comes in)? .75 or so is shipping and .50 is to the retailer. Every product has non-production costs associated with it, and that is what you pay for when you get a $50 advil at any kind of medical facility.
U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
I hope I get to work for Google sometime.
Tiny bird fossil might be the world’s smallest dinosaur
Why should they find an alternate group? I thought the purpose was to address alcohol addiction. And to what group should they go?
After leaving social media, I've been wanting something like this for a long time, and considered 'scratching my own itch', as you have. I settled on Feedly being good enough. It still isn't great: e.g. the Android widget is hopeless; I miss out on content because links sometimes don't refresh for days. I'm using the free option, so maybe the paid option is better, but it's free offering hasn't convinced me this is a good idea.

So I'm wondering whether to port all my follows over to fraidycat. Have you used Feedly or it's ilk before? How do you think it compares? Also, if I switch, how will you be keeping the lights on? Is there some monetization strategy in your mind?
My local store doesn't buy its inventory from a tweaker out of the back of his 1980s van.
I don't know the state of it, but Kythe is open source: https://kythe.io/

But in reality you probably want something more like SourceGraph which packages everything up nicely so that you don't need to worry about it, or something more specialized.
> Contribute software you develop, operate, or analyze with this software, including changes or additions to this software.
I think that this opinionated writing style is really great for product documentation, particularly when you are documenting something that is not intrinsically interesting.

As an author writing like this you are leaving yourself vulnerable. It shows that you have fuzzy, opionated and possibly irrational thinking, which is very easy to criticise. This is unlike our typical dry and academic writing where we remove ourselves and personality from our prose. I am guessing that this vulnerability is what makes you feel foolish when you write this way.

I've also been told that this style is not great for non-native speakers.