skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I hear about doomsday bunkers I think of Megadeth's Polaris lyrics (1990) [1], in particular:

Bomb shelters filled to the brim

Survival such a silly whim

[1] https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/megadeth/rustinpeacepolaris....
This should apply to the vaccine testing protocols too.

We cannot wait for 18 months for a vaccine.
I'm just pointing out that proprietary languages tend to die outside proprietary environments.
Export Kafka Events to a HTTP Endpoint
Yup. Time for tariffs.
Everyone is going to get sick. The best thing you can do is get sick now and let your immunity act as your PPE.
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Only 7% of companies can exactly name all people having access to their servers (according to ForcePoint).
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Unless the survivality of that demographic has an impact on the survivality of their descendants, as it has been proved.
How many of the people who pay for these things were entrepreneurs who felt they could change the world with their new products and services when it would profit them, yet when it comes to changing the world to stop growing so much and steward our resources for future generations, they say, "we can't change human nature" and build bunkers and rocket ships to escape the devastation they accelerated?
I've actually never read NKS but I did read this review of it which has some criticism - http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/

> "As the saying goes, there is much here that is new and true, but what is true is not new, and what is new is not true; and some of it is even old and false, or at least utterly unsupported."

The author seems fairly knowledgeable on the subject of cellular automata.

EDIT: I see this has been posted elsewhere in the comments
The removed cases look a bit dodgy and controls are not unbiased... I wonder if it will pass peer review
Great story! Can you share the name of your app?

Reading your post, I did a search for vb6 to see what's currently out there, found some screenshots of the IDE, instant nostalgia :)
The UTC offset would be zero if you used UTC since it's UTC.
> Bailout money should go to PEOPLE who need to eat.

I'm pretty sure the workers employed by these companies need to eat, and they depend on the company existing to buy their food.
> I'm not clear you know what science is.

> you have not made a scientific argument that gold has more uses than any other element nor does geology.com

> intuitively, gold is less useful and has fewer uses than iron since we tend to measure industrial output in terms of steel and not gold production

> tautologically though, hydrogen takes the cake for having the most uses since if you have enough of it, it can be fused into all the other elements.

I'm not clear you know what an argument is.

You have not been able to determine that I stated findings, not claimed news findings.

The scientific uses will not be by volume, but by the properties of the material. So, I'm also not clear you know what science is.
I think there is consensus the tone is what's mostly wrong with the book.
Amazon seems to have removed it, but "a new kind of review"[0] was absolutely hilarious and kind of accurate :)

[0] http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_humor.html 3rd from the top
> The end goal of that is just total collapse.

So then you agree that capitalism with it's overly parasitic rentier/usury mechanisms is a ponzi scheme, waiting to collapse?

After collapse, hopefully we have a transition to a p2p mutual credit paradigm.

"They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created. It is deeply corrupt because its leaders claim it is the opposite of what it is becoming."

"How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?

Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them. That is what this book is about."

"…today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all kinds are in unparalleled ascendancy and the neo-liberal state is only too keen to oblige their greed.

Rentiers derive income from ownership, possession or control of assets that are scarce or artificially made scarce. Most familiar is rental income from land, property, mineral exploitation or financial investments, but other sources have grown too. They include the income lenders gain from debt interest; income from ownership of ‘intellectual property’ (such as patents, copyright, brands and trademarks); capital gains on investments; ‘above normal’ company profits (when a firm has a dominant market position that allows it to charge high prices or dictate terms); income from government subsidies; and income of financial and other intermediaries derived from third-party transactions."

- Guy Standing
Hospitality labor union projects 90% of members could lose jobs over coronavirus
And once the apocalypse is over, they can live altogether in a devastated world where money has no meaning, and where true skills are the only riches. No one to steer the yatch, no pilot for the aircraft, no petroleum.

So much money is wasted in this world.

Wait, couldn't it be used to live in a better world altogether ?
‘Hi, I’m Rachel. I’m 25 and I’ve just lost my mum to cancer’
Good to know, this looks great!

Btw any plans to support Java applications?
I don't know what is the situation of contractors and sub-contractors at Facebook. I don't know the actual number of people effected. I don't know what is the ratio of contractors to employees.

What I have experienced, first hand, is working as a contractor for large corporations.

I think some people are having a hard time seeing any downside to this arrangement.

One distinction in contracting is if you receive a 1099 or W-2 at the end of the year. For the employer, the 1099-contractor is an attractive position. You don't have to pay payroll taxes. They're (sometimes) not included in your workmans comp and (in some circumstances) liability insurance. They're not eligible for unemployment, and therefore your UI rate is lower.

Why would you hire someone as a 1099 contractor? Maybe your department has a new project and need someone who is an expert in, IDK, 'spaghetti code'. No one knows it, so the contractor works self-directed, from home, on their own machine. I knew a guy who was a contractor for banks and setup ATMs--very specialized knowledge.

Here's the first problem.
"Looks like a duck. Walks like a duck. It's a duck." What happens when that contractor sits in your office right next to you. Does the same work. Is managed by the same manager. Working indefinitely. But, they're paid by a third-party. They don't get benefits. They're guaranteed to be the first people to be laid-off.

Compare this person to any-other worker in the market, there may be very few differences. They're still 'hired' by the third-party (and get a W-2), so they're eligible for unemployment. But compare them to the 'employees' they work with, and there may be a lot differences--such as this $1k free money at Facebook.

When the market is saturated with these sub-contracting jobs, it's a fraught choice. Work at 'Facebook' as a contractor, and start earning money, versus, what? keep looking? take a job at an unknown corporation? If you're young and inexperienced, and all of the points above sound new and unknown, you could ask yourself what's the difference?

The difference is qualitative one for the employee (No $1k bonus, and you're laid off), but a lot of small and marginal quantitative benefits for the employer.

There are a lot of other issues here. The rise of contracting and sub-contracting was a major change in the employment landscape when it started appearing 30 yrs ago. I think it's similar to the move from pensions to 401k.
What do you mean trick the western media? As if "tricking" the western media is such a complicated thing.

Have you heard of WMDs, the subprime meltdown, election of Obama/Trump, Brexit? The Western media is a unrepairable fucked up system not worth bringing into focus here.

Trump is on record saying the Saudi defense budget is whats keeping the US-Saudi relationship cozy. Its not complicated.

But beyond that Saudi leadership is brain dead (from having no internal debate/competition/ allowing the propping up of MBS) and thats a most valid explanation for what will follow.
GeoLocal contact tracing - Walk a bipartite graph - one set of nodes formed from mobile phone (or App) unique identifiers, the other set of nodes formed from location/time identifiers - such as IP addresses + day, or lat/lon + day. It won't give you who sat next to who on the bus, but it's better than nothing.
> Geology.com isn't scientific literature. It's a SEO spam site.

> You can tell because (a) the way the page is covered in ads, (b) the simple language used to improve search engine traffic and (c) the lack of references.

If the information provided is so poor, you should easily be able to disprove the claims.

Instead, you resort to a sort of ad hominem.
Depends on the user. Some report every blip in their wifi.
Being an adult warham is kind of a mixed blessing, at 19 I had no money and all the time in the world, at 36 I have no problem affording my plastic addiction but little free painting time.

At least now with the virus I'm 100% work from home, which gives me an extra 90 free minutes a day from not commuting.
I don't even get this criticism - the problem with Typescript is that it's far too easy to bypass the type system and allow the dynamic parts of JS to do whatever you want. You can lie about your interfaces all day and <any> to your dynamic heart's content.

For what it's worth, my experience with programmers who think like you is that rarely they're actually genuinely talented and right, and mostly they just spew forth bugs which often sit dormant until they rear their ugly heads years later. Most people are better off thinking about their API's before they implement them, much like one would do in a real engineering discipline. Types are often (and yes, not always) a good way to draw the effort out to the front of your process.
Rosie the Riveter
Have you tried Sage Math[1]? They also have online version called CoCalc[2]. And it's built with Python, which is a way better scripting language.

[1] http://www.sagemath.org/

[2] https://cocalc.com/
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This looks like a backwards solution to a modern problem.
The article mentions that many of their instruments do. Not sure why the researchers don't follow suit, it would certainly make life easier. Perhaps fiddling with time zones keeps them entertained.
I don’t believe objective journalism exists, unless you are somehow able to represent all 7 billion human perspectives. If you think you are not neutral, or if you have to think about to check if are harming anyone, then there is a high chance that you are the dominator/oppressor [1].

[1] https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/imperialism.html
The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts
Mumble?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumble_(software)
A lot of articles these days source their material from various social media posts. There are some articles where the vast majority of the content comes from embedded Twitter posts.
I see where you're coming from, but I dare say that you might be conflating capitalism with a market economy. There are many kinds of market economies, not all of them are capitalistic in nature.

I also don't agree with your premise that capitalism aligns people's self-interest with society's interests. Let's take a monopoly for example; getting into a monopoly position might be in the interest of an individual actor in a capitalistic market, but that's not in society's interests, not at at all. Furthermore capitalism tends to favor enterprises that manage to externalize as many costs as possible, primarily to the detriment of society which the has to socialize these costs, whereas the profit is privatized.
GCC and Clang yes.

Do people even use MSVC to compile C (not C++) code? Last I heard it was years behind on the C standards. In any case few in the Linux community care too much about closed source compilers. Lack of MSVC support for cleanups would be amongst the least of your problems if you were trying to use it to compile systemd or libvirt.
If it's the nuclear apocalypse then just accept your fate. A bunker will just prolong the pain. However if it's something like a global pandemic and you don't want to encounter any other people for a while, then I'd much rather own a resort on a Caribbean island or the like.
There are no double blind studies for anything covid just yet.
But even if stocks double or triple, isn't there a likely scenario that a dollar wouldn't buy you the same thing as today or that some supplies or furniture would have considerable different price tags than today ?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/

That's kind of like saying "I've got a motherboard, am missing an Intel CPU, but AMD has CPUs, so I'll just put one of those in there."

Rolling out testing on the scale that was obviously needed even then is a non-trivial thing, requiring coordination of multiple parties, all in a climate of dubious information.

So, yeah, I think it's understandable (a) to stick to a prearranged plan (to avoid the risk of debilitating testing chaos), (b) to desire a domestic supply of tests, & (c) to avoid drawing on a global resource when there was expected to be no need.

As Dr. Fauci says, hindsight is 20/20.
Bio Hot Zone in the Heartland?
> The inflation has been in speculative assets.

From what I recall, all the 'inflation hawks' that were complaining about the Fed's QE were talking about the CPI and turning into Zimbabwe (or wherever):

> The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

> Thus when Bloomberg tried, four years later, to track down economists who signed the infamous open letter to Ben Bernanke insisting that quantitative easing would “debase the dollar,” it couldn’t find a single person to admit that the original warning was wrong.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/opinion/the-durability-of...

> In addition, there is debate about how accurate the inflation figures are.

There are different inflation figures, and they each focus on slightly different things, and there is some debate as to what best measure what "real people" experience in day-to-day life. There are also "perma-too-low" types who say that the books are being cooked, but I think it's been shown that the official numbers are fairly accurate:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project

> Some alternative measures are far higher.

Do you have example(s) of these "alternative measures"?
> I can't find a reference to the specific dynamic process...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular_convection
If you can build it in a Docker image or if you can deploy it to Heroku, then we support it :)

If it doesn't work, it's a bug.
Russia aims to revive science after era of stagnation
One of the least talked about things in science is the number of studies with results that aren't reproduced in subsequent attempts. More evidence is great.
It's a subtle but huge difference. In React, using JSX means you can create components and mount them on top of the existing elements on the page.

With Vue's HTML templates, the page itself can be the component and everything can become interactive. For example, you can easily output a HTML table from server-side code, then Vue can convert that into a interactive component while using the existing structure and data.

This lets you render the page using existing web frameworks, it's faster because the server puts it together, it's progressive enhancement and works without JS and on slow devices, and Vue can seamlessly add on top with nothing more than a single JS tag and no compilation step.
Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
These are glorified man caves. They exist to be written and talked about.

Yes, they ostensibly have a purpose. But as comments here call out, most would never function as actual shelters.
I thought of a fun exercise: Take the original Linux kernel, study it and slowly build upon it without looking at the current Linux kernel.

My thinking is that it could be quite interesting to see how different people evolve the kernel - maybe some interesting ideas result.
I'm sure Australia will be locked down soon. Maybe they can switch to a take-out model. Rural areas also need more grocery stores. Maybe sell bulk dry/canned goods since they already stock that.
Printed Pandemic: Plague Books
After nearly two years of waiting for paperwork to be reviewed by CIS and Department of State and for an appointment at the consulate, my partner received the entry visa and passport in the mail only three days ago. I am truly sorry for anyone who is about to start this process because it will take even longer on top of what is already an inhumanely lengthy amount of time to bring someone into the U.S.
Meb Faber on share buybacks and how they relate to bailouts
Why Covid-19 is worse than the flu, in one chart https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/18/21184992/co...

on edit: furthermore https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/keyfacts.htm says the range of people catching the flu per season is 3% and 11% whereas the estimates for catching Covid-19 are generally around 40-70%
How will this effect existing H1Bs?
I was going to suggest that shells should allow specifying the input redirect before the command, but it turned out that "<input command" in bash already works. Anyone knows about other shells?
Head on over to https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
> Explore languages that follow different paradigms, where interfaces just don't apply.

Interfaces as a general concept applies whether there is a type system to ensure that they are satisfied or not. Do you have function parameter lists? Do you have expected shapes for function inputs and outputs? Do you have distinct types? Then you have interfaces. Your shit breaks when they aren't conformed to. It has nothing to do with strong typing or object orientation. Strong, static typing is just a way to ensure at compile-time that the expected interfaces are satisfied.

> Do not use random libraries. A good library should have even some basic docs outline its API and how to use it.

Hearing this assurance from someone who just complained about their jenga tower of tooling causing issues, I'm not convinced.
This makes me think about the bunker that was discovered by the monk at the beginning of A Canticle for Liebowitz, where rubble on the exterior blocked the door from opening and the people inside died. The moral of the story is: make sure your doors open inward?
I actually used to prefer at43 as they where pre paints - I still have the wooden spoon from the uk at43 at games expo from a few years back
Please elaborate, I'm unable to follow you.
So it looks like the guy is a patent troll. Why is this on HN?
I’m gonna back pedal here and delete my earlier comment.
great content, it's just a bit annoying that one has to click on every portion of the command to see the "illustrated" part
I've read that breastfeeding helps transmit some key factors to help build the child's immune system, but I don't remember the details and would like to see an answer from an expert in the area
Amazon Shuts New York Delivery Station After Worker Gets Coronavirus
USA should buy stock in them, no bailout. Here's $2.74 Billion and we own 68% or whatever the market price is.

Or go caput, let's see who blinks first. Next time save some cash for bad times. Of course sell it back in the market 2 years from now or when things stabilize. Why should we bail out their shareholders?
What the heck is Backstage anyway?
I would like to recommend the official C++ extension + CMake Tools. This combination provides great IDE-like experiences.
Have fun feeding your loved ones with gold! Can you share some gold recipes? Is it tasty in smoothies?
How to reuse an old computer using Linux
Huge Spike in Google searches for ‘unemployment benefits’
Correct, this is also why we can skip animal trials for vaccine development but not human trials.

A vaccine that is supposed to be deployed across the board will affect many millions of people and if even a minuscule issue exists we may cause way more harm than good!

The situation is dire and we need fast countermeasures but regulations exist for a reason. This is about health & safety after all.
Old people aren't breeding - no natural selection.
"Expired" mostly seems to mean that no-one has tested that they still meet specs beyond that date, because there's no commercial incentive to do so. Similar thing with expiry dates on many medicines.
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/gallery_np_seasons.htm...
Show HN: How I learn programming with Evernote/OneNote
Norway lawyers hit back at 'undemocratic' coronavirus law
Coronavirus and Philosophers
This is the worst suggestion. Cash will be eroded by inflation faster than you think,
I don't think you have a monopoly on scaring the shit out of everybody.
The reason there is confusion is that you're debating a straw man. The reason none of the popular "Active Record" libraries (like Ruby's ActiveRecord) actually have the problems you're identifying is that none of them implement a pure version of the design pattern, because doing so leads to the problems you're identifying. So you're both right that the pattern doesn't really work, and wrong that it is a major problem in practice.