skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. "Defer" in Go isn't a great idea anyway. It's more what they were forced to, given a GC language without actions at scope exit.

(Callbacks from the garbage collector on deallocation are even worse. That way lies locking problems and "re-animation", a nightmare in Managed C++. One of the cleaner solutions to scope-based cleanup is the "with" clause in Python, which is based on "with" constructs in Common LISP. Only thing I've seen where exceptions in a destructor work right.)
>I don’t care that much about JS performance as a user and the difference in complexity is astounding.

>I prefer the web as a platform for smart documents, not for applications. I don’t want to relinquish any control of my computer to the web, and don’t want most desktop integrations like notifications, etc.

I wish more people share the same opinion. We haven't even perfected the Smart Documents yet, but browsers has abandoned that work and moved to Web Apps instead.
Also, in a matter of short period ~4 months.

This is a serious pandemic.
Gold has a couple other things going for it. It's difficult to counterfeit, anything denser than it is more expensive(and usually radioactive). Tungsten is close enough to be a viable alternative, but is very difficult to work with, so this is only a modern (1980s on) problem. Additionally it is "appropriately" rare. Try using sand as a currency, you'll need a fleet of dump trucks. You can transport a significant amount of gold on your person, but if you tried that with Californium you would probably lose the dust sized particle that represents your life's savings.
Former process chemist here. Yep, you could produce trainloads of this stuff within the month if you bypass the FDA, and even if you do play by the book, current capacity could easily crank out kilos of GMP HQ a day.
"Boost well" probably means different things to different people.

On my fanless 12" MB with a 7W TDP m7-6Y75 (1.3 Ghz base, 3.1 GHz max turbo), running a Prime95 torture test stabilizes at the following for the CPU via Intel Power Gadget: 9.5W, 1.95 GHz, 90°. (Laptop feels warm to the touch - it only ever feels "hot" under GPU load.) Normal all-thread load stabilizes around 2.5 GHz.
Makes me wonder: will they reissue the offer based on how much Lyft stock has dropped?
Yes, clear communication like this is exactly what we need in a fast-moving crisis.
A few months back, I launched a side project that builds a professional profile from your daily todo list (www.komplish.com). The idea is you can use it to track side projects and even your tasks at work, and build a profile from that to help you find work. You can also find others through the app for smaller jobs that may not be big enough for a full time job posting. I’d love it if anyone wanted to give it a try and let me know your thoughts! Hopefully it can be helpful to some!
Hey fam, if you haven't noticed - the entire world just went work from home. Have faith. Don't despair. This too shall pass. Use this time to brush up on skills, do some side projects, learn new things. Have confidence in your abilities, recognize where you can use some guidance and don't be afraid to ask for it.

Look after yourself and your loved ones. Be kind to people.
This is not a selfless thing to do (if it were, we could isolate only high-risk groups rather than everyone). If we all get it simultaneously, and run out of nurses and ventilators, the fatality rate might not be low.
Nonsense, bitcoin is allowing me to stay at home with my family during this crisis, I work remotely as a programmer and receive my salary in BTC, no need to go outside.
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I think the market tanking as a result of coronavirus is actually a very good thing in the long term. It corrected the fake value added as a result of absurd stock buybacks, and will most likely halt that behavior. If these buybacks continued for years, could you imagine the outcome? Talk about a house of cards.
> my narrow perspective is a sample size of the large group at issue and is more accurate

You stated 1/2 your employees don't own a smart phone. That is simply not representative of the general US adult population. Additionally, all your employees earn $10/hour. Again, not representative.

Again, nobody is arguing there aren't poor people in dire situations. supportlocal4h's argument was that godelski's stats were exaggerated.
It will be an unpleasant surprise on a lot of levels, ranging from the big - job opportunities, salaries - to the small. One of the things that happened both in 2002 and 2008/2009 was a sudden swing back to demands for suits, ties, and so on. There are a lot of people who resent their staff flexiworking, wearing jeans, and generally acting like it's not 1962 any more.
It's a HIPAA compliant real time chat based on groups and threads. It's mostly used for internal communication within a practice or for referring patients, generating orders, or clarifying quick details between practices. We also use it for support within the application, so when there is an issue or feedback a member of our team is put in direct contact with the person that was affected.

We have some other cool features in the pipeline, but that's what we can do today.
Interesting. Is there any research on using it in isolation to treat this or other coronavirus? Or only in combination with the other drug?
There are indications that one of the things that makes it so lethal is that the effect on the respiratory system makes patients susceptible to secondary infections, possibly bacterial. May be wrong, but if it’s true and this pans out it could turn the tides. Your skepticism is healthy but I hope this works out.
We had to be certain no facemasks would be used for abortions. Once that top priority is met the coffers will flow.
I believe average hospital stay for those that need to be hospitalized can be upwards of 3 weeks though. So something that cuts it down to a week or avoids the need for the ICU bed altogether would be a game changer.
Dividends are sometimes paid from profits, and sometimes paid from loans.
Ding ding ding we have a winner!

Why anyone would go to gold during a societal collapse I will never know. The absolute basic necessities of survival will always be the best investments in times of crisis (right now).

Don't believe me? I bet many Americans will see bankruns and possible inflation as a result of our current crisis. Money and other non material assets will become less useful. Hopefully the FDIC will save our asses but if you have more than 250K than good luck if you choose the wrong bank. That's assuming money is still worth something

But rice, beans, guns and water will always be useful
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Ideally, they’d be legally required to sell the shares to the highest bidder. If that bidder is the stock market, then so be it.
I understand that’s how it is meant to work, but I think small businesses are, on average, a lot closer to insolvency than people think. This is like offering low interest loans to... anyone to get through the crisis. It’s definitely better than nothing, but it doesn’t replace income, it just shifts it around (as you mentioned), which doesn’t help very much when you’re so close to insolvency. They’ll come out the other side with debt service payments that make business “survival” kind of pointless, unless there’s a ton of pent up demand and their revenue is much higher.
Empty would imply devoid of content, it's pretty obvious they were speaking metaphorically. As for if it's a good idea, you're insane if you think some of the timelines being discussed, like the 18 month one, are realistic. Americans might put up with this for a couple months tops but taking a full year off is for the Europeans with nothing better to do.
What's the death toll with the 'shut it all down' scenario? Not much better! It's already spreading uncontained everywhere. Shutting it all down will not stop all the deaths. Not even close.
Okay, but intuitively, I also want the property !(all(x==1) and all(x!=1)) to hold. Now what?
Very sorry to hear your news.

I heard from more than a few people that during the 2008 financial crisis, some strong companies laid off low-performers. They used the financial crisis as an excuse, to protect the company from potential lawsuits.
Speaking to the 13" iPad w/keyboard combo, a MacBook Pro 15", and desktop multi monitor Macs which I use for working…

The desktops are the thing for writing code. This goes for iOS apps, Mac apps, or Posix type server systems. It could be done on smaller screens, but I like leaving the test system on its own screen and keeping log viewing windows visible to notice changes.

Communicating with people and extensive researching are almost exclusive on the iPad with keyboard. It's great for focused tasks and I can plop it down wherever I feel like being.

The MacBook mostly stays in my "had to go out of town" bag. It might go unused for months at a time, but when I'm away from the desktops and need do something code oriented it is invaluable. The versatility is an asset, (currently I've given the room with my home office desktop over to a family member sheltering with us, but a couple displays, a keyboard, a magic pad, and some odd cables and boom, another desktop on demand).

The thing I most dislike about working on the iPad is merrily keyboarding away and using the arrows to scroll, and then I need to poke something on the screen. I wouldn't call it "gorilla arm", but maybe "rhesus arm". My nicely supported arm has to rise and make a fairly accurate hit on the screen without any support, or add the extra step to make contact for accurate motion if it is more than a single touch. Definitely a modern third world problem, but turning touch and drags into simple thumb operations will be nice.
Not an expert on languages, but I really think Unicode should leave CJK alone emoji as a separate project.
Take it up with supportlocal4h. I never even used the phrase "paycheck to paycheck." Nor did I specify "smartphone" when mentioning electronics.
Well, these magazines were issued in enormous circulation numbers. Year 1933, you would keep number of colors in illustrations as less a possible to make them affordable, right?

In 1980ies, with more modern polygraphy technology, they used more rich illustrations, check: https://www.tested.com/science/space/456670-incredible-space...
> I may be blinkered by my mathematical training

Yes, precisely the point of the article. We mostly find it natural to think like moderns today, but civilization went along for thousands of years thinking differently.
Agreed that COVID-19 is a serious threat worth countering.

Our under-reaction to other serious threats is probably both psychological and evolutionary. Psychologically, COVID-19 is salient because it’s a novel threat and our brain is hardwired to notice and react to changes. Evolutionarily, humans have encountered and survived infectious disease, but car crashes and global warming are historically new.
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Not op but I appreciate the detailed rewrite. I do find your notes confusing though.

The claim that your last sentence is more constructive seems a bit weak. what is constructive about it, you basically just derived a logical consequence that touching the website yields a result? Also, what does 'expanding' even mean in this context? At no point did you give any constructive feedback (what should be improved, why is it low, why is it 'really low' etc).

on the note of 'really'. i find 'dreadfully' much more useful than 'really'. much stronger, gives a clearer indication of how bad it really is. 'really' doesn't do anything in this context, let alone be less pretentious.
Related discussion a few days ago [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22599415
If you buy it by purchasing newly issued shares, then the money does go directly to the company and the existing shareholders stakes are diluted.

The effectively takes the bailout money away from the stockholders, which seems appropriate, since their shares would be worth even less if the company were allowed to fail.
This seems like the time for the classic Big Brother article with Nair http://i.imgur.com/KwhJc.jpg
Ads would be terrible but I'm really interested in the whole idea of "do something else when an app os over budget". I hadn't considered much except a 402 status code, which seems kinda mean: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
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I do the same thing for USD, and I'm not saying that under a throwaway out of self-consciousness. It's not the Bitcoin that makes your situation possible. That's not some inherently valuable attribute of your scam currency.
Indeed, some things had been built over thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Eagle
So, in the US at least, at auto parts stores, it is a ‘HEPA cabin air filter’, to use as the filter for this parts list.
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Lol, I used to believe that logic was an intrinsic faculty of human reason, and then I taught a bunch of freshmen.
You are so right, it's incredible how many people don't grasp this. Further, people in lower brackets think that the tax rate in higher brackets is unfair because it applies to the whole income (rather than just that bracket).

I guess a piecewise affine function is just too complicated...
Yeah, once I got on the management side I learned the whole "oh you got 100% of the bonus but our numbers feel off so the bonus pool is only 75% funded so you only get 75%". It's all made up and we have to balance a dozen situations and someone is always going to get screwed. To be honest I usually give bigger bonuses to the people who are already underpaid, which is what I suspect may have happened to GP.

It's also why VP and above bonuses are written into our employment contracts -- we know better.

Also yeah, definition of "weird flex but ok".
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Far from that.

Popular Mechanics is a better match I think (if to add there SF section - 10% of magazine volume usually).
Security is done via row level access control, a system that is vastly better then the ad-hoc systems people reinvent outside the database for every application.

You also absolutely take the time to think through what should and should not be exposed to end users. Either you creates a namespace for your API with views that expose only the necessary data, or with something like Postgraphile you can specify which functionality, columns, and tables are hidden. Personally I prefer the view approach as it decouples your API from the database implementation.
If you view any and all as reductions

any([x, y]) == x or any([y]) == x or y or any([])
all([x, y]) == x and all([y]) == x and y and all([])

then any([]) must be false (otherwise x and y would never matter), and all([]) must be true.

In the query API you're describing, does {topic1, topic2} find datasets on (topic1 OR topic2), or is it (topic1 AND topic2)? That's what determines whether more topics means more or fewer results, and whether {} should correctly find nothing or everything.
Buybacks used to be illegal, you know.

(Well put, by the way — I’m agreeing with you.)
Hopefully less people hoard masks for no good reason.
Per year. The number of shares are listed for each as well. As you can imagine, the dollar amount is changing rapidly with the market crash.
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Pretty much, a big portion of the country (not just the predatory elements of the GOP) sees corrupting government for personal gain as quite the sport, and people generally don't think they are doing it.

Like how the fuck does any serious person vote to approve Betsy Devos as Secretary of Education. Even for an ardent believer in privatization of grade school education it's ridiculous.

Yes, I'm calling almost the entire GOP membership of the Senate predatory. Fight me. I'm not saying it's limited to them.
Based on ScopeGuard ( https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/generic-change-the-way-you-write... ).
I believe the consensus literature today says Aristotle was open to indeterminate values (there’s a huge debate about the meaning of his “there will be a sea battle tomorrow” example which is taken to be indeterminate), but Boethius botched the Latin translation and said all unicorns have horns is false. I could be wrong though.
There aren't "tens of trillions of dollars" people can spend on healthcare. Making everyone sick collapses the economy, and these companies would be negatively impacted by it.

Face masks are running out in many countries, not just the US. This isn't really a product of the atrocious healthcare system the US has, it's just a product of not being well-prepared for disaster scenarios.

Think about how most companies don't check whether their backups work. Now, replace "working backups" with "stocked-up pandemic supplies".
Well, everyone becomes a socialist in a time of crisis.
Two points, if your DB schema doesn't model your domain correctly you're doing it wrong to start with. And two, views are typically used to decouple the raw database tables from whatever you want to expose to others, be those other developers or in this case external API users.

Modelling databases this way has fallen out of favour for various reasons, but it becomes extremely useful and relevant again with systems like Hasura.
I think Boethius would say all stonemen are made of stone is false.
Wat?

There are widespread report of lung damage for severe Covids patients who recover.
Unfortunately putting incompetent people in charge of the Federal government has had predictable results -- We don't have enough masks (they're sending 1/10th the number that states are requesting) and the majority of the stockpiled gear is expired:

https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1240114213009358852
I'm certain the people unnecessarily infected with Covid-19 will be glad, as they pass away, that the cough that killed them wasn't suppressed by an out-of-date mask.
Here are the CDCs #s - they're released @ noon for up to 4pm the previous day.
https://nyti.ms/2x2naQu

Masks work. Telling the public they didn't need them in order to conserve them for doctors and nurses was a mistake.
Twitch is so low: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...

Is that because a lot of people want to work at Twitch, and/or because Amazon doesn't pay that well?
Do NOT take a bunch of cash out of the bank because of coronavirus
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Fascinating product! I was wondering if there are any other products that are similar to yours? Other than serverless platforms such as Cloudlfare Workers or AWS Lambda.

I know Stackpath has been offering this kind of thing for a while. So how would your product compare to theirs? Since Stackpath has a well established cdn network already.
I suspect it wont be long before someone calls your post whataboutism. I relatively recently discovered HN and originally had high hopes bot those quickly evaporated. It looks to me that "exercise evidence-based reasoning" and HN are 2 things that do not have much in common. And the system of downvotiong does not make it any better.
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Somethings that's going to impress you down the line with C# debugging are using parallel stack views to debug multi threaded apps (without this could be significantly harder), remote debugging (sometimes you simply can't debug your application due to practical issues like may be your app interfaces with an expensive or impossible to deploy in your dev machine to debug with it), the watch feature in the debugger that allows you to debug complex linq queries and even expression trees on the fly and debugging external assemblies by attaching debuggers. VS is heavy on resources, but it delivers value unlike a gazillion of JS apps.
I believe their entire credibility model is largely based on this, as per the TechCrunch founder himself at Startup School back in 2008 https://youtu.be/HbUnatPfSgg?t=238 (the whole talk is certainly a trip back in time!)

I remember listening to that and thinking, "So.... the info I have on close friends and business is valuable, and I should potentially sell it out to TC in order to curry favor."

I wasn't in SVBA at the time, and even then I felt that it didn't quite match the spirit of the valley (I still believe that to be the case, having been here for 10+ years now).
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The answer: otherwise the existential quantifier wouldn't work (since you can transform forall x into there does not exist a not x). When you use the existential quantifier, it makes sense. I'm not sure how this is relevant to python, this question is purely in the domain of first order predicate logic.
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Tangential, but the only Nicholas Christakis I know of is a sociologist[0]. Is there another one?

[0] https://sociology.yale.edu/people/nicholas-christakis
What about large excel files with a bunch of pivot tables and v/xlookups?
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It's worth noting that this is backwards in function of the surgical masks. The surgical mask which strap on over the nose and mouth are about preventing the wearer from spreading disease by catching the exhaled droplets and crud. They help for inhaling, but lots of inhaled air gets in around the edges. It's right there in the name "surgical mask", you wear it in surgeries to avoid infecting the patient.

The positive pressure mask is about providing only safe air to the wearer, protecting them from others.

The passive respirator I wear when sanding or working with solvents is P100 (P means tolerates oil, N means doesn't and the 100 is better than the 95 you see in N95), but it is also backwards. It protects my airways, but has an exhale valve which lets my lung leavings right out into the atmosphere, and it does nothing for my eyes.
That sounds backwards to me. It's corporations which are generating the vast majority of the HTML in the world. Individuals can stop writing JS (and for content-first websites, I have), but that won't stop us from having to see it.

Turning off JS entirely will kill a lot of common webpages, so that's not really an option any more. Instead, everybody runs a content blocker, to try to battle with corporations over what dumb junk we're exposed to, or exposed by.

Corporations are also writing most of the popular web browsers. This isn't a fair fight.
Just to add, but why would a bioterror agent not be crafted to be contagious?

Spread is the big differential on bioterror, and most other forms of terrorism do not require a team with members that have 2 PHDs each.
If you use a pressure reducer -> good quality bidet with metal pipe -> to a simple head which is openable and fixable, should last a long time, mine is approaching 10 yrs and should keep going. The flexible pipe will need changing in a few years probably and the bidet itself will need a new spring + washer if it starts leaking.

You could also go full hackernews and have a sensor connected to a wifi valve which shuts off the water supply when no one is in the loo.
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Ask HN: How should I invest $200K in this market?
Investment horizon: long term to forever

Risk appetite: If I lost this money, my lifestyle would only slightly be impacted.