skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidence, but this is also the first lesson in the Tao Te Ching! :)

The lesson is our desired things (beauty, wisdom, wealth) are defined by their contradictions, and are therefore not self-standing. The only thing which is self-standing is contradiction itself.

When you step back, it argues, you see that contradiction (distinction) is that from which all things stem. The operative distinction that motivates most peoples’ actions is “desire”. Hence, the distinction between desirable and undesirable determines the meaning of more material adjectives like beauty, wise, wealth.

It goes on to say that if you remove “desire” from your perspective (to be more like nature/Tao), you can see things for what they are: mystery. Removing desire from your actions, however, is not very desirable in practice!

The recommendation (i.e. the behavior of the sage) is to practice doing nothing, and not-talking. The implication (IMO) is that, without their contradictions, action and speech have no meaning.

What is new is old :)
unattractive people are not a protected class
First, all masks and PPE do is reduce the chance of transmission/infection/inhalation, none 100% prevent it by themselves. For 100% protection (well technically as close as we can get) typically you need a positive pressure suit and a self contained breathing device.

Anyway, while you are technically correct the virus itself is smaller than the mask's ability to filter. What people are protecting against is the droplet transmission and, for that usage, the N95 masks are effective. The CDC, NIH and many scientists have stated they are even appropriate for health care workers in direct contact with patients because it will stop the primary means of the transmission when used with other proper PPE like glasses (or more properly in healthcare, face shields), gloves and gowns.

Of course, an N95 mask (or any filtering level, P100, N100 etc) won't stop you from getting a virus if you touch a contaminated surface then touch your face etc. But if someone is coughing near you an N95 mask is acceptable to reduce the transmission risk.
It's how sexual selection works in general throughout the animal kingdom. You can teach yourself to behave otherwise, but you're hardwired to behave a certain way.

Humans exist within a fitness gradient and we naturally evaluate other humans according to how they fit within it.

I don't like it, but we're bloody animals.
I have some meta-doubts about the linked presentation (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj...)

1. for starters, it's a random gdrive link not on medrxiv or biorxiv. why?

2. it's GPL3'd? Conventionally, we disseminate open access research as CC-BY 4.

3. the first author is who he says he is -- but he is a "managing partner" at blocktown capital not a practicing physician. [0]

4. The second author is a bioinformatics masters student who is also a lawyer and not obviously a practicing researcher. [1]

5. Figures 1 and 2 are presented without obvious attribution from https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42..., which is not about SARS-CoV-2, but about the first SARS from 2002.

This isn't my field, but i am a biomedical researcher and i'm very used to reading the medical literature, and this read deeply strangely in a lot of ways that are hard to quantify. The language isn't what I'd expect for a research paper, but it's kind of written like it wants to be one. I'm not super clear on what's going on.

I have no reason to doubt the intentions of the authors, per se, but this work is super rough around the edges. It reads like a thrown-together collection of notes for a lab meeting, but not something I'd show off in public.

[0]: https://twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD
[1]: https://www.riganollc.com/attorneys/gregory-j-rigano/
Well here's my question. Do you know anyone that codes on mobile? I don't but the youngest devs I know are late twenties.
I usually pay my barber in cash. If I wanted to send her a payment in lieu of my next appointment, what would be the most sensible way to do that?

I could mail her a check I suppose.

ACH transfer? (I assume I would have to ask her for her bank account info which might be a little awkward.)

Venmo? (I've tried to avoid it thus far.)
As normality is restored, they will have new opportunities during the ensuing large scale financial restructuring.
I guess, but I think I'm not the only one. I think most people who scream 'totalitarian!' do the same.
The "free" of it definitely made a difference, but there was also a certain lack of concern about the shape of the resulting product that made ZZT feel different and more flexible than the preceding tools when you tried to work with it.

It had built-in, non-configurable stuff for action gameplay with some puzzle elements. It did very little with regards to assets, unlike contemporaries - no animation sets or hitbox definitions or music importer or similar ideas, really just a level editor. It was just not good in terms of shelf-space bullet points - nothing flashy about it. If that was all that it had, it would not be a hugely differentiated game since the level editor concept had been around since Lode Runner.

But it also had code, and code integrated in a way that was well documented and tutorialized. It had scripted behaviors, functionality to manipulate and transform the board, and hypertext dialogues with event flag toggles. Having the hypertext and flags may have been the one most critical part of all this since it really enabled choice-based interactive storytelling techniques, and that's a huge deal even if you didn't have enough of an algorithms background to try abusing the other functionality to make a platformer or whatnot.

And so I think the longevity of ZZT really rests in the way that it guides you towards code, because it has so little else to offer.
Non-paywalled: http://archive.md/otqzQ
Aside from the fact that it doesn't prevent most infections (maybe reduce), manufacturing a billion of them in a short timeframe seems unlikely.
Ah, a Peircean I see.
This is still businesses that are going bust and will not reopen when the these lockdowns are lifted (which could take many months).
Please stop taking HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. We've had to ask you this before.

"Whataboutism" is a shallow dismissal, so please don't use that one either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not excusing Musk's decsion, but I will say that lots of places are ignoring the shelter in place request. Residential construction workers are still putting up drywall, laying tiles, etc. Parts of the city have the usual number of people on the street you'd expect on a weekday. Tourists are walking around. High end coffee shops are still selling $6 lattes.

I went to the doctor and the pharmacist and was surprised at the amount of people milling about. Definitely no 6 feet of social distancing either.

While the public works construction crews are exempt from this, maybe they can fix Van Ness while everyone's cooped up?
Ask HN: How is it that Mongolia and Russia have nominal cases of Covid-19
They are likeliest to be the countries where the disease would spread quickly and viciously, still have very few confirmed cases of COVID-19 [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/breannawilson/2020/03/16/mongolia-announces-3-new-covid-19-cases-totaling-4-how-they-got-coronavirus-precautions-right/#f3f4f434fc9e
That's less than the average housing cost per month in the US.

Big deal.
How is that image created?
Actually, it has a webapp which you can acess via your browser over the wireless or USB connection ip, which allows you a rudimentary upload/download :

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266133...

That said, there are whole lot of sync tools that users have created which work very well with Linux (for example, I personally use remarkablefs, which is a Fuse based filesystem to mount your remarkable)

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable/blob/master...
In my experience, 90% of locally-owned restaurants have gift cards. So what's the point of a website that attempts to list 90% of restaurants? Why not just use Google Maps?
That’s stupid. People don’t save so they can die with lots of zeros in their bank account, they save because they want to inject that money into your so-called “real economy” but at a later date, perhaps when they’ve retired or when they’ve amassed sufficient savings to make that large purchase they’ve been eyeing.

You can’t punish people for saving on one hand and then charge them exorbitant rates or deny them loans altogether when they want to purchase a house without that down payment at hand.
Does the "convert to text" feature work as nicely and smoothly as advertised in the Remarkable 2 launch video[0]? If yes, then that alone is worth the price for me. I've tried a number of solutions that have claimed to do this over the years and none of them really work.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY_bwFMxro&feature=youtu.be...
We don't know if social distancing and lockdowns work
From this paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993921/): "There was limited evidence that social distancing was effective, especially if related to the risk of exposure." See also this recent (3/17) critical analysis by Ioannidis on the reliability of the data available on covid-19: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/

Given the extreme measures currently promoted by governments, we urgently need critical and objective analysis and review.
This opinion piece has too many inaccurate statements.

- S3 for static assests

- SQS V Kinesis

- Lambda ('Small code that doesn't change....what).

- ELB completely overlooked, if you need session persistence then you need an ELB so for more traditional software you've completely omitted that solution because it's "Legacy".

Missing

- No discussion on when to pick Lambda, Containers or EC2

- No Cloudfront addresses S3 and any API GW or ALB fronted Lambda.

- Where is the use of SNS?

- What if I want to Fan Out on a message/event? complete missed the why SQS V SNS V Kinesis and when to use which.

- No RDS....so if i've got relational data are you advising i should put it in DynamoDB?

- No container context in any way.

Really poor quality of content and advisories needs an urgent update.
I think so, on the surface, the democratic party seems to fit pretty well with the good cop as described by [0].

But the whole thing is a farce, neither is actually acting genuinely in the interests of the subject. That's the point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_cop/bad_cop
Understanding Combine
Is Safe Internet for Children Possible?
Yes, but they're not very young.
Because TikTok isn't a nightclub, it's a place for people to put their own content out on the Internet. Not just people, but primarily people living in a pathologically authoritarian state that doesn't allow them to access other places on the Internet that they could put their content on.

But even ignoring the authoritarian state angle, surely you'd think it'd be weird and counterproductive for user content from YouTube or Instagram or imgur to have similar policies? Those sites are also not nightclubs or modeling agencies or a Hooters franchise either.

FWIW it's totally shitty for nightclubs to be discriminatory in that way. I get why they do it, but it doesn't make it any less shitty of them, and it sure as hell doesn't let them off the hook for their shittiness in this regard.

Tangentially, this is one of infinitely many reasons that nearly all of humanity hates nightclubs, including the people that feel socially obligated to go to them, and including people still young enough to convince themselves that they must be having fun there because it sure looks like everyone else is, not realizing that everyone else is thinking the exact same thing.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. I've explained why in detail in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609080

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Judging from the full body of his email (which I'm guessing plenty of people read before it even reached the news judging from how many of my friends sent it to me), it seems like he really doesn't care about his staff.

Choice quote:

> I will personally be at work, but that's just me. Totally okay if you want to stay at home for any reason.

If this isn't the most peer-pressure-y way to tell people to show up, I don't know what is. The head of the company choosing to keep showing up to the office in the middle of an outbreak is the exact opposite of the precedent he should be setting right now.

Shoot, he can even tell people he's going to work from home and still secretly come to the office; people would understand. It's his company. Or he could've just not mentioned his plans at all. But by mentioning his plans, his direct reports will still show up, their direct reports will largely still show up, and anyone who doesn't want demerits on their performance reviews will all still show up. No different from an unlimited leave policy where people take no leave.

This is absolutely wrong. And hopefully illegal. And I definitely did cancel my Tesla order (RN112815329) because of it.
Why is it hard to argue that? In my country, the ban on private sales and mismanagement of forced central supply of protective gear lead to serious issues. Hospitals are asking for donations of protective masks and respirators from private citizens, because they can no longer buy them on the market, and are running low on their stock, and central distribution is a huge bottleneck, and any mismanagement there affects the whole country, not just one company or one hospital. It's actually a big fiasco. Noone can buy anything, and government is constantly apologizing and telling people to just wear whatever. Tomorrow it will be required to wear protection in order to do shopping, and noone can buy it, so people are shopping with scarves over their faces. I sewed up something together from a handkerchief, so that I could do groceries today. It's pitiful.

Distributed supply means distributed failure (here and there). Central supply, means failure on the national level.
The page writes that its an open source solution, but it looks like the github repo only contains the frontend code, not the backend? I'd love to be proven wrong here, cause this looks like a useful service if I can run it on my own VM.
> If you’re worried about context, consider that the supply chain is already expended and has been for some time.

I'm not worried about context. I'm concerned with malicious misquoting in order to smear the POTUS, by a once reputable newspaper with very low standards for journalists these days. The president said he'd support the states but if they also try to purchase directly rather than just wait for the federal system to do its work, it might be better. There's absolutely no way one could honestly interpret this in a negative way.
I agree that AWS doesn't yet provide a clean all-in-one package for static website hosting. I think AWS Amplify Console [1] is the current official "all-in-one" service but I haven't used it.

With the recent GA of AWS CDK [2] I would say that it is getting more and more possible to define your own development workflow that is tailored to your own static website hosting needs and better than just raw S3. AWS CDK is still difficult to use with some rough edges, and I know that setting up e.g. a CodePipeline and CI/CD is difficult.

Here is the CDK example for hosting a S3 origin + CloudFront CDN + custom TLS certificate + CloudFront invalidation on deployments static website [3]. Here is my personal version of it combining Hugo that took me a day to set up [4]. Still complicated, lot of rough edges, but offers a pleasant dev experience [5], I haven't yet built up a CI/CD pipeline.

Disclaimer: I work for AWS but my views are my own.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

[3] https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples/blob/master/...

[4] https://github.com/asimihsan/asim_ihsan_io/blob/master/cdk/s...

[5] https://github.com/asimihsan/asim_ihsan_io/blob/master/READM...
tldr; We don't know.
It's mostly empty except for some splinters of wood possibly from an old cot.
That readme is 17months old. and the reference to 16.04 is atleast 3 years old. So it may just not have been properly updated.
"Stateless" is closer to the truth than "serverless".
Boyd describes the OODA loop as an analogue process, not digital. A person or organization continually orients, observes, decides, and acts. This is different than Deming's PDCA cycle which is a serial process. Speeding up the OODA loop requires the 'right' culture for the objectives, openness to new information, distributed decision making, common understanding of mission and priorities (Boyd calls this schwerpunkt),... In military terms, the goal is to disorient the enemy and thus disrupt their OODA loop while being able to function effectively in a confusing environment.

From experience, this is critical in a military setting. I find this theory difficult to employ in the technology/startup arena in most cases. That said, the elements which make for an effective and efficient OODA loop are invaluable when building an effective organization. In my experience, many companies miss opportunities because insightful information (observe) often comes into the organization from unexpected sources and does not get properly taken into account (orient); employees have not uniformly internalized the organizations priorities (decision); and decision making cannot be effectively distributed (action).
So, its like TV or films? ... or advertising, magazines.. most media come to think of it.
This could be great for a calendar or schedule at work, network a bunch together and push updates whenever needed. Or weather forecasts. Or acting as a live sign for reserving conference rooms, allow people to reserve on a web portal or at the sign. For ~$100 (with a raspi or similar) this competes with whiteboards.
The comment clearly broke the site guidelines. Would you please review them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
Awesome, I didn't know it had landed in F31. Thanks for the comment.

Re: size, I'm surprised by the library size. Is it possible that the library needs more files than just the .so? The guile-2.2-libs package is around 40-43 MB on the current Ubuntu LTS, plus a few more MB for supporting Guile packages.

(source: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/guile-2.2-libs)
Upload a file consisting of all zeroes (or any other known content for that matter) and now the contents of the screen is the secret used to XOR the input. Surely you meant something a bit more substantial?
I like it, but I suspect we weren't to take that poem literally. :P
Probably not old enough to remember Obama 8k cash to home buyers or the nearly same amount given via the economic stimulus act
1) no testing is being done

2) no reporting on actual cases is being done
I used TikTok for a while and saw plenty videos of actual bullying. The comments were never too happy about it, but there was clearly no effort to moderate it.

TikTok doesn’t care about bullying.
I've been a fan of Rocket Lab since they started, but desperately wanted them to build a reusable rocket. A quick check on Wikipedia shows that they are in fact working on this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab (even if using a parachute/helicopter and not direct full, rapid, reusability, it's something)
This is easy to synthesize and very cheap.

It also has potentially irreversible side effects, namely retina damage.
Mayor: NYC Should Prepare for Possible Shelter-in-Place Order in Next 48
Whether or not a Model 3 counts as a luxury car is debatable.

And I say this as a Model 3 owner. It's a nice car for sure, but I personally wouldn't call it a luxury car.
Thank you. This is the last bastion of the old internet. Please continue to keep it that way.
Who are they being assholes to? You don't have a right to invade people's private spaces. I don't have to invite you into my home.

Provided it's not a matter of a protected characteristic, the idea that you can push your way through the door by law is silly.

They go there to meet people who titilate them, and who don't remind them of how life can go wrong; that's their business in my view.

I know that I'm not attracted to ugly, unhealthy, or elderly people, and it's not wrong to feel that way, it is basically natural; and people who are themselves ugly, unhealthy, or elderly also feel these same things that you find ugly to acknowledge.
Ways C++ prevents you from doing X
If you search for "gron", you will find a family of such tools, e.g., https://github.com/tailhook/rust-gron.
MENSA seems upfront about their requirements, and doesn't rely on tricking the masses to make them think they have a chance.
aws pipeline is one more cloudformation template, very low investment
Nobody's talking about shutting anyone down. People can do shitty things even if they have a right to do them, and everyone else can think they're assholes. No contradictions. Same with free speech- people can say whatever they want, but if they say something that makes someone else think they're an asshole, the other person has a right to call them an asshole. Assholes are not criminals, they're just assholes and deserve to be treated as such.
Religious flamewar will get you banned on HN. Not to mention it is the last thing we need on top of nationalistic flamewar. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does anyone run this on a CPU machine?
And 100 years ago race, sex, and sexual orientation weren't protected classes. Society makes progress, slowly.
Ok, when there is extreme bias for untruthful, factually incorrect, obtuse and imbalance in HN opinions, I resign. I want to be part of a community that is not overrun by falsehood and hypocrisy.

I shall resign from HN. It was fun.

Btw, I have a lot of respect for you and generally doing a great job at moderating this forum. I’ve just had it enough with the people that exist here.
Hey, nothing wrong with turning Saudi money into free beer.
Quanta is really good, I agree. It seems to me like a reincarnation of Popular Science at its peak. If you like similar work, check out Nautilus. For more philosophical tangents, Aeon is great as well.
> push your way through the door by law

I guess you missed the part where I said you can leave them alone.
The Algorithm is people!
All: This thread is terrible and violates the spirit of this site in too many ways to list. HN is not a place for nationalistic flamewar or accusing each other. Please don't do that damage here. The container is fragile.

If this epidemic continues, we're going to do less "please don't" and more "we've banned". I don't mean the coronavirus— I mean the epidemic of violating HN's guidelines. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.

The vast majority of the community come here for curious conversation, not to hear people bashing each other and their countries in the same few ways over and over again. That's not only nasty, it's tedious. Please take it elsewhere.

More explanation in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605365
Why would you not shame them? Shaming is free and legally inconsequential. You are essentially saying no one has the right to complain.
This is all well and good but people are transmitting the virus in their breath and by being around other people so while this might help it's a bit like pissing into the wind I feel.
Aren't most viruses stable for hours on surfaces?