skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you drape yourself in the cloak of the victim, you make yourself socially impervious to any critical inquiry

You seem to live in a parallel reality. Susan Fowler's career was destroyed twice when she came out with accusations.

For the victim, it's not even an uphill battle, in most of the cases it's a guaranteed losing battle.
Well by this theory a search shouldn't be a search either because any group of private citizens could stage a home invasion using guns.
Maybe check how many smokes they usually do. I know some people in western countries will smoke a pack a day.
I’ve worked remote for about 12 years. I can count the number of video conference meetings I’ve had in that time on one hand. I could also cut off both my hands and still count the number I’ve had.

Hint: it’s zero.

Remote working won’t fix stupid management decisions.
Actually Germany is another strange data point: according to Wikipedia’s sources they have 21,890 confirmed cases and “only” 77 deaths.

This seems dramatically different than Italy’s experience. Italy had over 1400 deaths by that point in their confirmed infection count. Is it how they’re counting? The age group infected?

Honestly, I’m just trying to find a ray of hope here.
Personally, and this is my opinion without any evidence to back it up. I believe that this is just a combination of several factors:

- Japan acted sooner than most by closing schools, tightening their borders, informing their citizens and asking for their cooperation.

- Japan's culture is a big factor, people respect and obey their government in general, the use of masks is common place, practicing social distancing is already part of their culture, with no kissing, hugging or handshakes for the most part, the exception being their public transportation, which are well known for how packed they are near the Tokyo area.

- Japan has a good health care system https://www.who.int/whr/2010/en/

Lastly, let us assume that Japan isn't testing everyone they can as suggested by some, as a way to somehow keep the Olympics going.

- Japan has an older population, which is high risk group as we know.

- IF they are in-fact manipulating numbers as some suggested by not testing, than we would be seeing a spike in the death rate for the 60-80+ age groups. Now I can't provide a metric to prove or disprove this and the only thing we can do is wait and see, but I have doubts about the government ignoring their people in-favor of an event that likely won't happen this year or at least not the early half of the year.

EDIT: Lastly and this is a factor that none of us even suggested, is luck. Luck is important and impossible to control.
Bought a smoke detector; received a steam detector. Not a good review.
A ThreeJS clone on go to learn more OpenGL and Vulkan and Go, plus and Ordnance Survey map viewer with MapboxGL JS, also teaching the kids some more python ...
Unless you can build a system that can identify the product as fast as you can pull it out or put in in the fridge or pantry, without holding a phone in one hand, it will be unusable.
I'm creating a Rails/Django equivalent in TypeScript called Huncwot [1]. The project draws inspiration from Self [2] and aims to combine a framework, an editor and infrastructure into a unified programming environment.

In other words, I'm on a quest for the Holy Grail of Programming. ;)

[1]: https://github.com/huncwotjs/huncwot
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774
Search engine project - https://www.runnaroo.com/
To me this sounds even worse.
BMW has a pretty decent non-touch infotainment system. It is a wheel style but they do also offer touch if you want to use that.
I'm exploring a lambda calculus based variant of the Busy Beaver function at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/353514/whats-the-smallest...
I fully understand why people don't want to use the legal system. Using national data, the resolve rate here for basically anything is in the single digit. If you get robbed, assaulted, home invaded, harassed, sexual harassed, threatened, defrauded, or are victim of any of a very long list of different crimes, your time is likely better spent doing something else then report a crime. The biggest reason to file a report is to give the government data that a problem exist, rather than expecting any resolution.

Personally I have made three such reports, including two home invasions, and it is not hard to guess how many have ended up in court.

In order to fix this we could change the law and the legal system to push the resolve rate up, but there is many good reasons why society have chosen not to do that. Parallel system is much easier as long the right persons get targeted.
I've been working from home for so long this virus won't change anything in regards to my daily routine.

I've been working on setting up a CouchDB 3.0 server on a DO vps. The CouchDB team has been busy as possible working with devs on reported issues so I'll be waiting for a .1 release before putting the new version into use but I love what they've done so far.

Next week I'll probably be digging into using Python to handle cgi routines needed for the apps I'm working on. I couldn't get CGI.pm to install on the Ubunbu 18.04 server I spun up, or find any Perl package at all that would install to handle CGI stuff.

Feeling a bit long in the tooth after that experience.
Hey OP, great loaf, and great idea to bullet point the instructions. Kinda funny how the comments here differ in tone from /r/breadit so much :)

I hope it's ok if I give some unsolicited feedback:

One thing I've been trying out lately which has massively improved my loaves is diverging a bit from the Forkish recipes (which I'm sure are great when done properly, but I think there's a few things you can do to make it easier). You can see at the top middle of your crumbshot that there's a big gap, where it kind of fell down a bit. This is because at the point of cooking the dough didn't have quite enough strength.

There's a number of ways you can increase the strength, but I've found that folding is pretty useless IME with the flour that I've had. I've had some success with just 2-3 folds when I switched to a higher gluten flour (or just added some vital wheat gluten to my flour mix)... but I've found that a better strengthening technique before I do the folds has radically improved the strength of the gluten strands.

My favourite way is the Rubaud method (check out https://youtu.be/zgz0oAhgwyg?t=72) directly after the pincer and fold step, for about 5 minutes, followed by a few minutes break, then another 5 minutes. After that, you can leave off the later folds completely, or still do them to try and eek out the last bit of ovenspring.

Additionally, you can see that the loaf spread out a bit on baking. This is usually an issue of the shaping, which I had troubles with for soooo long after starting with FWSY. I found that this started to really improve when I added dough strength, but when I was starting out I was trying to duplicate what Forkish was doing and kept on failing. I think that https://youtu.be/ww78_SfGyQE?t=181 is a much easier tutorial to follow — but of course, if the dough doesn't have the strength then it'll continue to be difficult.

Anyway, happy baking. Best of luck finding good flours (and try out adding some wholemeal and rye to the mix stealing from the pain de campagne recipe, may be easier to find than plain white)!
... whatever Amazon does, it is always "however", "although" and "but" on HN

People, please get real. You all are running (or dreaming of) your own small business.

How much of payrise are you willing to give your workforce now?

This news is pure win for workers, consumers and amazon.
On a similar note, what happened to cars that would lock you out of interacting with the infotainment system whenever you were driving faster than parking lot speeds? I assume this was some regulatory/safety requirement.

I remember cars used to either implement that feature, or outright prevented you from even pairing a new Bluetooth device when your car was in Drive. But then all of a sudden it seemed like automotive companies stopped and touchscreens became acceptable. Does anyone know what changed?
Especially after the backdating scandal many companies moved to offering RSUs. These were shares just purchased at a favorable price, no option involved.
I think cultural factor is huge in Japan’s case. They don’t really like hugging and touching each other socially. They are more restrained in their physical social behaviours.
Isn't that due to mucus buildup in the nose? I think Covid doesn't have that.
"But now, it’s time for me to share that my close friend and co-founder is leaving Dropbox."
I'm working on https://lazysurfer.app - it's an app that helps surfers dial in the exact conditions they prefer at their breaks. It's been a great way to learn some react native and also explore meterology.
> Apple is not going to stop you from purchasing the iPad

Um... Apple makes the iPad, I'd sure hope they aren't trying to stop me from buying it. You could leave this whole sentence off.

So you're just saying that it's about accommodation, which I think it where the argument lies. Who's to say what's accommodating the users better? Apple? The market?

Since we drive the market, I think hearing the opinions of developers, hackers (any kind), and common users is all valuable. A balance must be struck, and I'd say that the current version of iOS does not strike this balance as a replacement for a traditional computer, making Apple's claim false.
Another significant but hard to measure factor is virus load. A lot of otherwise healthy young healthcare workers are at elevated risk due to constant exposure and lots of stress.
The state of education in this country about the history of the labor movement is seriously depressing. I'm sure that's intentional though.
The major android phones (including Google's) only have 2-3 years of support usually. I'm not sure if that also follows with Android One devices. That said, if you're careful with your selection, you can get a repackaged AOSP (e.g. LineageOS) for your hardware and get extended support out of that (unfortunately my Samsung Galaxy S6 is a particular blend of components that never seems to be supported).

I actually wouldn't be adverse to buying yearly support for my phone through something like LineageOS if it was available, in case someone thinks they can make a go of that business. There's a lot of older Android phones out there that are really only missing good support to be usable. Especially the o es that support easy battery replacement.
I really have no choice, if everyone else wants to do it, I can't very well avoid it.
Not engineering - that discussion and request was at the Jeff Bezos level.
DIY Qualitative filter face mask
Wound up running across (har) the FitOn[0] app/website, which is a fitness site with a lot of good videos. They're free to watch, paying for "premium" gets you better music and diet plans.

Not affiliated with them, just very happy with their videos.

[0] https://fitonapp.com
Simple reasoning. We know that viruses can be transmitted through saliva. Covid-19 generally presents with a cough. Coughs aerosolize saliva. Wearing a mask or face covering catches most particles, and absorbs energy from all particles, so they dont travel as far. Less virus mass, and a smaller projection plume will result in less spread. Less spread results in a lower R0.

I realize that you are just enjoying being contrary here, but please try to think through your argument and ensure it isn't incorrect in itself before posting.
Wouldn't it be better to be explicit? If intention is to "display first 10 lines, at most; discard the rest", you can write:

rm -vrf directory/ | (head; cat >/dev/null)
As I said in another comment I find it hard to separate what is Signal processing, vs what's Information Theory vs what's is ML. I have heard the argument that "if its got trigonometry then its signal processing", or "if its 1 dimensional then its signal processing" I find these arguments pretty weak and unconvincing.

Officially I belong in the ML tribe but all of them are tackling pretty much the exact same problem, any breakthrough in one of them will translate to the others. The name of the topic has changed over the years, the fundamental problem has remained the same -- lets call it another name -- approximating/extracting an unknown function from samples.
This doesn’t work because so much of our world is built around loans that assume certain things about the future. When that future gets disrupted, as it has these days, all those loans and everything else that goes along with it has to get painfully unwound (bankruptcies etc).
Not really that surprising when the idiot in charge denies its even a problem for 2 months and then his cheer squad keep repeating the same lies.
The Unsung Pioneer of Handwashing
That would be illegal for other reasons, which would seem at least to me to violate the principal they are using to justify this. Certainly using a thermal camera in this manner is not illegal for a random bystander.
I have been obsessing on creating kubernetes clusters on existing virtual machines. As part of learning how to create them, I ended up writing two projects -
A golang SDK to provision a cluster on premise. This basically abstracts kubeadm.
https://debarshibasak.github.io/go-kubeadmclient/

Using the SDK, I wrote a tooling similar to kubespray to create cluster, add node, delete node and delete cluster.
https://debarshibasak.github.io/kubestrike/

Probably useless project, but learned a lot.
If the US was to cut back on defense, European countries probably would cut back on defense too. A large part of European spending goes to keep the US happy, and to defend against the fallout of US wars.

It's a price we pay for favourable trade arrangements, not something Europe would maintain on its own.
I feel like the Covid-19 crisis is causing people to bring out all the classic arguments for authoritarianism and present them as novel ideas generated by this context, as if there weren't centuries of history and debate attached to them.
I have, and I find it abhorrent.

In some lists the scrolling wraps around. In some it doesn't. Sometimes it's a click on an item. Sometimes it's a shift to the side.

And the systems I've seen (in BMW's DriveNow) have the worst feature of them all. The main screen where you have your selection of things to do (Nav, Car options, Media, Radio etc.) is not a fixed list, it's an MRU list.

So, if let's say radio is the very last item on the right side of the main screen, and you chose it, the next time you go back to the main screen, it will be the first on the left side of the screen. Now use Nav, go back. Now Nav is the first item and radio is the second item.

It is my long standing theory that people who design car interfaces have never seen a car in their entire life much less have driven one.
There are two realities, or so it seems. Some accusers are suppressed & destroyed regardless of fault.

In response, processes were created to instead suppress & destroy the accused regardless of fault.

Now cases take the shape of one or the other, depending on the context under which they are processed.
FDA approves new test that could detect coronavirus in about 45 minutes
While more of a twin stick shooter, Enter The Gungeon deserved being mentioned here. I've spent the last 4 months with that game and it's still fun. I has a huge number of weapons, actives, passives, synergies which can be combined in crazy ways (some break the game deliberatly). Almost no run plays like the other.
A quick search online yields the following [1] with an associated discussion on HN [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629513
Making an angular cms for my blog
i'm working on an auth tool for developers. it's a crowded space. i'm differentiating my tool by focusing very very strongly on convention over configuration. it won't be nearly as configurable as services like auth0 but it should be much more approachable for early-in-their-careers developers.
I am working on building a tool to help educators build explorable courses easily without writing any code.

Inspired by the explorables from "It's Nicky Case!"
It is really amazing how quickly we adapt to things. Earlier today I was watching a twitch streamer from someone at a bar in Japan and I was surprised to see that many strangers close together in one room and thought they were being reckless. A week ago I wouldn't have given it a second thought.
This is great. I'd love to use something like this.
I've been playing Hack/Nethack since 1982-ish. My friend got it for his IBM PC, and we were both addicted. The only reason why I kept asking for a computer for my parents was so that I could play Hack. I was the one who figured out that the Amulet of Yendor was underneath a boulder on level 26. My friend, however, one-upped me. At some point, his version of Hack was corrupted, so every time he read a scroll of identify, the game would crash. So he had to go through the entire game without reading a scroll or using rings. He was able to make it through the entire game and finish it, which I admit is an impressive feat.

I've been playing Nethack since, although I haven't played it in the last few years because of work and kids. There was a time in Nethack where it wasn't as complicated, but once they added all the deeper features, I've never completed the game and ascended. The game is now so deep and so complicated that I couldn't solve it without reading the cheats, and even following those, and even saving my games and redoing them, I've never gotten to the point where I could ascend. I'm really good at surviving the lower levels and stealing from shops, but I've never been able to figure out how to ascend. At some point, I should reattempt this now that I'm locked down for 2 months.
There are a lot of misconceptions about masks. They are not effective for protection if not paired with eye protection. Plus viruses and bacteria actually cling to it, and lay people not used to wearing one will end up touching it way too often (try it, you’ll immediately realize how hard it is to not touch it).
"rm -v" does.
They gave all the context required to share it without the connection "Lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls" requires. This could be telling of Bloomberg's expected/desired readership.

Or, they wanted an alliterative title.
Your goal should be for your software to behave correctly regardless of persistent state. That is, all persistent states are valid, or else that's a grave bug.

If the situation is "Program fails when restoring from state X" the priority for "Don't fail when restoring from state X" is higher than for "Don't cause whatever happened that results in state X".

Example: Let's say your code believes 'foo' is supposed to be a file with an XML structure in it. A user reports that something went wrong and now the program crashes, the file 'foo' is now exactly 4096 bytes (one page on most architectures) of binary noise.

Correct priority: #1 Make the program work when 'foo' is not an XML file. If possible (maybe 'foo' is storing animated profile pictures for a chat program) it should carry on, if that's impractical (maybe 'foo' defines which model of X-ray machine we're hooked up to, best not to press on without knowing) it should give a clear error explaining what's wrong.

#2 only after fixing #1 figure out how 'foo' gets corrupted and try to solve that.
> Is there any legal precedent for what governments would do?

I don't think you should be looking for legal precedent, just practical one.

Depending on the severity of the impact, governments would (and did several times):

1 - Declare the strike illegal and order people back to work, fine and at the worst case arrest the organizers if they don't comply.

2 - Declare the involved unions illegal, free companies to hire whoever they want and disobey agreements.

3 - Conscript people into doing the work, either by using the company as middle-men or by literally enrolling them on the military and absorbing the work.

But I don't think any government will have to do any of that. A strike does not fit this crisis very well, no party would gain anything.
> that is not a reasonable assumption at all - it's a dice roll regardless. admission at one good school doesn't guarantee admission at another

Saying "reasonable assumption" is not at all saying "guaranteed". Please stick to discussing ideas and not deliberately misinterpreting plain language.
I think it helps to throw away the abstractions and think about people and situations.

Let's say there is a restaurant on a street corner. They have good food, people enjoy the vibe there and the decor is tasteful. Half a year a go they employed 15 people and the owner made a modest profit.

Now guests have stopped coming. But rent is still due and so are wages.

If somehow political leaders had the time to micro-manage what should they do about this situation? Should it stand empty so it's ready start serving people immediately as soon as corona situation is resolved? Should furniture be put in storage and the space be reused for something else in the mean time? Should the restaurant disappear to make room for something else? The employees should they be on standby? Or take on different roles while they wait?

And then having answered that question we can take the abstractions back, and ask how the outcome can be approximated by manipulating interest rates and helicopter money.
There's a quote that states that all models are wrong, some happen to be useful.

With this in mind I think we should stop nitpicking on non-specialists who try to raise awareness of this pandemic.

Yes there might be some differences from what a specialist would have done.

Due to the speed at which the situation evolves and the inability to test everyone daily there are lots of unknowns so even a specialist may not be able to give a more much precise figure, everything is going to be a rough estimate.

This is a very serious situation and it's better to err on the caution side, people's lives depend on everyone doing their part.

Non-constructive criticism of people who raise awareness will erode people's buy-in and people will die because of this.
I'm working on Warhol [1], which performe tests on web design based on pattern libraries right inside your dev tools. Think reverse DOM diffing on the CSSOM. Sounds way WAY easier than it is, but that's sort of true for web development in general I suppose :) Currently working on rolling out tests for interactive styles (hover and friends).

[1] https://warhol.io/
Our quarantine has thus far been socially enforced, and quite effectively I might add. Schools are closed across the entire nation, despite the fact that children are the least likely age group to even express symptoms upon contracting coronavirus, let alone die from it. If the contagion is "spreading either way", why not allow people in the lowest risk groups continue on with our lives while we help the most vulnerable groups weather the storm from the safety of their homes?
That's all fine and well, but you're still susceptible to a stool pigeon attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xU0fnjUcg
Great, always wanted to make a menu bar app, and this will get me a head start AND a timer is always useful! :-)
Thx!
> You don’t need a mask unless you are sick. For protection you need a mask and glasses, but keeping your hands clean and away from your face does 95% of the job.

Except you do, because carriers without symptoms are contagious and the main drivers of this pandemic.

And no, coronavirus doesn't have wings, they are carried by water droplets, and any sort of barrier that can stop water droplets is better than no barrier at all.
In the exception handler, you should reset SIGPIPE disposition and reraise the signal:

signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGPIPE)

(Then there's no need to fiddle with stderr.)