skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla and their community and it's harassment against minority projects
In the light of Pale Moon getting demonized again:

Why have Mozilla-new and their new user group of "progressive/leftist" users such a problem with Pale Moon/Vivaldi/Brave and customization and choice in general? No matter how hard people try to refuse... it is in direct correlation towards the change of the mentality of what is considered "politically correct" today!

Mozilla-new has turned into a fully anti-customization/choice and anti-politically-moderates and conservatives hating "progressive/leftist developer” – as that would (at least also theoretically) appeal to the majority of Google Chrome users - which have because of their ideology and believe much less tolerance and understanding for everything which provides choice - and everything which is more conservative aligned. Mozilla-new has fully turned into a sell-out company which just betrayed their own creation and origin user-base as it was not compatible with “leftist/progressive visions/ideas” and their more limited/restricting/intolerant world-view!

ozilla is supporting a clear discriminating concept - which is while nicely wrapped as "inclusive and socially correct" fully excluding a minority who also has rights - the group of users who are sitting in the already mentioned middle-ground/moderate-conservative-ground and do not like that everything gets intentionally dumbed-down or removed to put everything out of the way for a clear intolerant and aggressive/dismissive user group - which Mozilla wants on board.

And that is in the end the ultimate dirty reason why people and software which are sticking out from the crowd do get so much despised and demonized - or even receiving threats (Classic add-on archive) or monitored and even the smallest mistake is recorded and used in time to blacklist the projects or people which refuse to play the established and discriminating game of today.
I agree. Once you cross the point in organizational size where people stop feeling personally responsible for the organization and start feeling responsible to the organization it starts behaving like a sociopath in pursuit of whatever it's official goals are (shareholder value, catching criminals, etc).

You can mitigate this to some extent by having one or a couple people who are personally responsible for the whole organization (royal families in monarchies, the owners of privately owned companies, etc) but then your organixation is not resilient to bad leadership.
The argument for trade wars is that it encourages more local manufacturing and independence. That doesn't seem to be what's happened so far in the current dispute between China and the US though.

I suspect this is because the trade dispute has introduced so much uncertainty that nobody is willing to make long term investments in infrastructure and capacity, based on what may well be a temporary and constantly changing situation.
Scientific theories are not "proven", that is not how science works. All theories are always and forever open to falsification. The scientific attitude is one of eternal doubt. "Proof" is something that only exists in the realm of pure math.
I have sold FlowReads
My point was that as long as we're cranking formulas or stringing words together, much can seem plausible.

Hard reality does not always agree.

Nor do HN moderators, apparently.
Just as a counterpoint - I (a middle aged man) joined TikTok to keep an eye on my teenage daughter's posts. I didn't know there was a "For You" channel. I thought it worked more like instagram and only followers could see what you post.

Anyway, I uploaded the most recent video on my phone as a test which was me getting my nostrils waxed in a Turkish Barbers. It hit the For You page and it's now got 360k views :-(
> of effectively infinite size

Just to make this bit clear: with effectively infinite number of pages. One would imagine that panning around infinitely large pages would be a possibility with a product like this, but the feature is not there.
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Both forms are correct, but proved is more prevalent in recent style guides.

As one who is intimate with spelling should know, English has no unified body of spelling, grammar, or rules at all, therefore it’s very hard to say that one’s spelling is particularly incorrect.
https://grammarist.com/usage/proved-proven/
I am the kind of person who takes notes and write on paper daily, for pleasure, and I have no problem managing or carrying paper notebooks. Does anyone know were could I personally try reMarkable 2 in Germany or Europe?

Does anyone know on whether it is possible to read kindle purchased books or converted ebooks? What about custom software?
Yeah, much better than a sea of textboxes/comboboxes with no way to search.
One could bet on people not being aware of that after the economy collapses. It's going to go back to bartering then, and initially the value of gold and silver will be pretty much random.
You keep saying people don't think rationally, but you do not make any rational argument.

You say: "lock-down 2 weeks tops", when the incubation period is known to be around that or even more, and we have clearly seen that a 2 weeks period does not have any appreciable effect. You say the situation is different than in Italy, even when the number of people in ICUs and deaths is growing exactly in the same way in every other part of the world, with the only exception of countries who took measures earlier. You say it won't be so bad when you admit it will kill a 1% of the infected and all studies talk about at least ~50% of the population catching it at some point. You are not being rational.

I am also tired of the doomsaying but I have not seen any serious study that is minimally optimistic, and I've seen many pessimistic ones.
I'm a little confused. Maybe I'm interpreting this news or other commenter reactions incorrectly? They seem to be saying that the price of gold is on the rise, but the price of the gold ETF has gone DOWN in the last few days:

https://spdrgoldshares.com/#home

And the futures markets are down too:

https://www.investing.com/commodities/gold

Are other commenters only speculating that the price is going to go way up, and that the price is a good deal right now? If so, that doesn't seem to be supported by financial indicators, and the speculation around it doesn't seem much better than, say, saying that Bitcoin is going to go up in any given environment. I'm surprised to see this discussion on HN. I hope I'm grokking things wrong.
The _interim_ government (_not_ an actual government), which is headed by a criminal who has been evading his trials on several corruption scandals for several years, has given itself approval to access people's geo-location data, phone conversation history, browsing history etc. using some covid-19-related excuse.

The government had initially tried to have parliament authorize this measure - but the "secret services" committee, discussing the matter, did _not_ approve immediately, requiring more information. So the government just used one of the draconian powers it has... thanks to anti-Palestinian legislation.

The tracking will _not_ be limited to covid-19 patients.

It is a total travesty.

It should be said in fairness that the legal infrastructure for this has been laid over a decade ago with the "Big Brother" law and the General Security Service law. People were silent about it then, and now the chickens have come home to roost.
You describe anarchy. Capitalism exists because such trust is not achievable.
> As part of their experiments, the researchers compared the stability of SARS-CoV-2 to that of SARS-CoV-1 under the same experimental circumstances and found similar results.

I love science for this. Instead of just guessing that they are similar an leave it at there, new experiments are done to verify hypothesis and increase our knowledge.

Right now the public is hungry for information about the virus. It's not good that most people does not understand that experts need time to gather knowledge. The more data we get the easier is going to inform the public and the better decision we will be able to take.
It's actually very ready for everyday use, even for a 0.1 release. It's the best terminal I've used so far on windows and Linux.
No inflation? Asset prices are a lot higher than they were.
Oh come on. You're linking me a picture of a physical terminal from 1978 to tell me why "console" is a vague term?

First, the whole terminal vs. terminal emulator (I can tell how much you're bending over just to make this distinction) war needs to stop already. It's a pretty irrelevant distinction, like the whole STL vs. "C++ Standard Library" war people like to start online just to win a linguistic battle. Nobody talking about terminals needs to go through the trouble of saying "virtual" terminal every single damn time, when there's no relevant distinction, no reason to bring up physical terminals from 1978, and every reason to believe it's clear what they mean.

Second, your usage is definitely nonstandard. "Console" definitely does not mean "CLI". You can say "console program", but that only clarifies that you're being vague about it and don't care about the details. But "console" as a single-word noun is generally used to mean the same thing as a "terminal", which is a program an actual user uses to interact with text-based UIs (TUIs). It definitely is not used to just mean "CLI". CLI just means the program (like 'cat' or even 'sh') exposes a command-line interface, which normally implies text. But it literally doesn't need to have anything to do with a console (or a terminal)... or the presence of a UI or even a user in the first place. It can be entirely designed around and called as a sub-command in a GUI program with some argv[] and stdin. Hence the term command-line interface. That's its interface to everything else... to contrast with, say, an API (for compiling against), or an ABI (for linking against). There's no console or terminal or user that needs to be involved for every CLI program, and in normal usage there isn't even a user involved for many (most?) invocations of CLI programs. Whereas I dare say a GUI or TUI without an actual (human) user is an aberration like having a steering wheel and buttons in a car, without a way for a driver to get in. It's physically possible, but a completely abnormal design and (ab)usage.

And lastly, if you're claiming "console" isn't strictly defined, then surely you can't turn around and tell someone "You do realise the difference between a console and a terminal app?" like that?! You're literally saying there isn't a strict definition for it and also telling someone off for not following whatever definition you have in mind?
I'm apalled by moderators banning people in this thread for "nationalistic attacks" I get the rules and values on HN but if China's inability to stop this virus is literally the worst thing to happen to this world since the SPANISH INFLUENCA then why can't I just call it like it is? criticising my own governement is done on a daily basis but is it now off limits to say that the CCP is the worst governing body I have seen in a country to date?

I hope the CCP gets what it deserves.
If you don’t like it don’t use TikTok. It’s as simple as that.
> You said you thought it was just useful for refraction

"things like refraction". Not "just".
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Occam's Razor would imply that the "asymptomatic non-transmissive" cases are really just false positives. The only work I've seen on false positives is these guys, who estimate the FP rate for the active nucleic acid test screening at 75% chance of there being a 'false positive rate' greater than 47%.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32133832/?fbclid=IwAR3LHLplR...
> Things get eaten promptly

Isn't this protection against bacteria, not virus (virii?) ?
Yes! Don't ever change, Windows Terminal.
> with no way to search.

That’s the main problem, not boxes.

Also, for text box configs there’s usually a XML/JSON behind the scene anyway. It’s not like I can’t grep my iTerm config even though I configure it from the GUI.
This may be the appropriate thread to remind people that Darwin was far from the be-all and end-all of evolutionary biology and much of what he said turned out to be actually mistaken. This isn't so much of an attack on him as a celebration that we've come a long way since the 19th century. Also, you should be suspicious of any argument involving non-geneticists invoking Darwin to justify such and such social outcome - actual modern-day geneticists don't invoke Darwin for much of the same reason actual modern-day physicists don't invoke Democritus.
> Am I the only one finding the experiment's design questionable, especially for such radical conclusions?

The conclusions are not radical, they actually fit quite well with the already establish knowledge of other coronaviruses.

The article is not giving details about the experiment, so, it is hard to judge it as 'questionable'.

What is your point?
More like silver going down. YTD -30%.

Also flight to liquidity.
The Great Influenza by John Barry for some perspective on current events. A good read so far.
> utility as well ...

you didn't list utility. You listed physical properties.

Utility is how those physical properties help/hinder the use of said material for a purpose.

The utility of gold, when society is broken, will be minimal. Except as a barter currency, as it's widely recognized.

However, under such a circumstance, i would say other goods are better - such as food staples, guns and bullets, and a shelter you can defend (like a bunker).
If I understand correctly, bartering had never been a major mode of trade, even going back to tribal societies.

That said, silver could become a medium of exchange again, for the same reason it had always been.
Open issues waiting for response on Novel Covid-19 Cases – JHU CSSE
Japanese flu drug 'clearly effective' in treating coronavirus, says China
Read the fine manual. Windows Terminal is a terminal emulator to cmd, wsl, pwsh, etc; a series of shells and runtime environments. And a pretty fine one indeed.
>But only as long as it takes for the to rotate their members enough for takeover by others.

This is the key. The power makes joining their ranks appealing to those that would abuse the power.
I didn't see anything mentioned in the article that you wouldn't get checked in a regular $250 yearly checkup... what was it that they did that made it cost $5k?
That's the Turing Test. This is the Turing Award - it's an academic achievement award. They're just named after the same person - they're not related otherwise.
It's always a case of hindsight; in hindsight I should've bought gold in the mid 2000s and sell around 2012. In hindsight I should've bought Apple, Nintendo, Tesla 15 years ago.

But it's always a gamble. If you bought silver in 2011-2012, its value would still be below what you paid for it.

If it's peace of mind, just put your money in an index fund and forget about it for a few decades. The economy, broadly speaking, usually goes up over a long enough timescale.
I'm currently taking the "Economics of Money and Banking" course on coursera [0] and, as far as my understanding has developed, the Fed injecting cash is not an irreversible thing.

When the liquidity crunch is over, the Fed will start gradually increasing the rate. That will make rolling over existing overnight loans taken from the Fed less attractive and a lot of money will flow back to the Fed.

I hope people more familiar with the subject will correct me if I'm wrong.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking
Klein has gotten lost in the anti-Trump personality rhetoric, she should re-gain her focus on the critic of society / anti capitalism roots. Basically a Democrat would be doing the same things as Republicans with regards to her warnings but you don't get as many books sold if you say that. And its more comfortable to think that if you just change one person it will all change than knowing that one removing person really doesnt change much.
C++ can be indeed higher level than Java, except that you are forgetting about the money spent fixing C related bugs, developer salaries, lack of tooling to plugin into a cluster and just monitor it like JFR, VisualVM, ETW, lack of interoperability between libraries due to conflicting requirements (RTTI, Exceptions, STL avoidance, ...)

As for Rust, it remains to have something that matches Orleans, Akka, Kafka, ....

Then there is the whole IDE tooling experience, libraries like the one here that require nightly toolchains, and lack of support for stagging binary libraries, which cargo might eventually get one day, but isn't here today.

Java and C# might be inferior products from your point of view, but as mentioned, what I get are rewrites from C++ into Java and .NET languages, not the other way around.

And I never sensed lack of productivity, quite the contrary, specially when I usually don't have to think about which C++ flavor of the month I am allowed to use, or having political discussions about enforcing the use of static analyzers on the CI/CD pipeline (assuming there is even one to start with).
Bats also bite people, why do you assume it is through our food the virus jumped?
Guaranteed lead.
You can shift scroll and it changes font size as in any other Windows app.
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Cool, maybe Ed could split his part between all the workers he exploited.
>Turning the clock back is not a good idea.

Might be a more liveable, more resilient, better for the environment, and for quality of life (which is not the same as "more gadgets") idea though...
This is a graph of the _ratio_ between gold and silver.
But... it hasn't?

If you do rolling 5 year blocks over the past 20 years I think right now (as in the last 3 days) is the only time gold out performs the Dow Jones.

And even today - on one of the worst days in stock market history - gold only outperforms it by 12% (26% vs 14%).

The gold price now is ~$1500/ounce. In March 2015 it was ~1100/ounce[1]. That's 26% increase. In March 2015 the Dow Jones was 18127, and now it is 21237. That's 14%

That's not a great record for gold! Your financial advisors are right.

[1] https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/10-year-gold-pric...
Yes. If there had to be a group of people to have access to so much data, I trust Googlers more than I trust my own government both in terms of ethics and definitely competence.

That said, I don't really trust them much either.

Google has existential power from their information and search. If they wanted to be a hedge fund, my god, they'd be very successful. Most elections these days are narrow, if they wanted to tilt the board in one direction, they absolutely could - which is a shocking thing to consider.

Imagine if you're French, and some massive foreign company could adjust their algorithm so that most of the news about Candidate A was good and Candidate B was bad.

Sometimes it's hard for Americans, in particular, to get the concept of such foreign control because nobody is 'big and powerful' enough to control the US.

But consider the analogy: everyone in the US uses Baidu. Everyone buys a lot from Alibaba. Most people read China Daily and watch films made and produced in China. Chinese stars are beloved and often more influential than local stars.

It's almost incomprehensible, but that's what it's like being in most countries in the world.

So you can argue about Verizon/AOL etc - but to people outside the US, it's a more existential concern.
How do you as a developer never use a shell? I'm genuinely curious. How do you compile, install dependencies, etc?
Coronavirus choice for world leaders: Wreck your economy, or millions die
I switched my phone off yesterday. I plan to power it on only on emergencies.
That would be good news - as it is about time that a cure is found against this horrible sickness.
What guarantees stability? Killing off the competition in favour of business owners who are able to balance the books is one way.

> The obsession with efficiency at the cost of other, far more worthy virtues

Having many competing businesses does not ensure these other virtues arise. Having a mechanism whereby the better businesses rise make it more likely they have the income to explore.
For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms
For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. This line is appearing in most articles now but is buried near the end.

Considering this, isnt the current shutdown of everything an over reaction. Wouldn't a better solution be for the elderly and weak to take precautions.
The device you linked detects specific VOCs, not viruses or even proteins. I don't believe this would be appropriate for infection detection. Or at least not a specific infection detection without a known baseline.

The cost also seems suspicious. Every patient needs their own mask - you can't reuse those. Also, with the 4 cartridges per test, as recommended, that's unlikely to be $0.

FTR: Current coronavirus testing uses either an RNA match from a saliva sample, or a specific antibody reaction test - both are very specific to that single virus.
...and the potential for persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 to shed and transmit the virus while asymptomatic.

So anyone can be infected and spreading it and not know. And you have to assume that surface you just cleaned can be infectious for days by anybody touching it.

...can remain viable and infectious in droplets in the air for hours...

And anyone that sneezes or coughs could be created an infectious cloud that could persist for hours?

That's kind of a grim conclusion. Also, why aren't masks mandatory for everyone if you can't know you have it unless tested?
If I contaminate my elbow then rub it against you, then you are now carrying and spreading the virus. If you touch your elbow at any time, you are now at risk of infection (let alone if you actually cough into your elbow).
How would this solution have helped you? You'd have to integrate WorkOS in your app instead of standardised SCIM?
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Why is this post title in English while the actual article linked is in Italian?

Shouldn’t they have to match?
EHD2 protein regulates cellular fatty acid uptake
At workplace this is what I do, mostly for better key profile - I'm using MS Natural 4000 with a front bar. But when traveling or working from home I'm using it as-is, with a laptop KB.
Cascading Failures
I wrote a blog article about why Sociable tests are highly susceptible to cascading failures.

https://principal-it.eu/2020/03/cascading-failures/
By my estimate, we would need to shutdown 10 years worth of life in order to save 1 year of life from Coronavirus.

And those shutdown years are in the peak working years, whereas the years saved are in the twilight years.

The suppression strategy is hugely economically destructive. We should not accept it. Politicians need to isolate the elderly and prepare the public to accept hundreds of thousands of deaths within the elderly population - ie. doing their job and making hard decisions for the good of us all, instead of just pushing all of the cost to businesses and individuals.
If you're going to plan for all of the one-in-a-million events, you're not going to be able to get anything done. It's more reasonable to round small probabilities to zero and deal with them on an ad-hoc basis.
Suppressed is wrong. The for you page is more like free promotion and free promotion is not a human right. You can still promote your content manually even if it doesn't get on the for you page.
Wouldn't cash dollars be a better bet than gold? Harder to counterfeit, easier to carry around, easier to split.