skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same wiki source in Chinese language though gives a completely different picture and with much more information and sources on how the terms is used in the last hundred year in Chinese language.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%9C%E4%BA%9A%E7%97%85%E5...

>1903年前后，以梁启超为代表的中国知识分子，扩展西方的“中国病夫论”的内涵。梁启超在《新民说》第一次用“病夫”来形容所有的中国人，说：“夫中国一东方病夫也，其麻木不仁久矣。”《新民说》一发表，用“病夫”来形容中国精神落后、麻木不仁，也成为舆论界的时髦。1903年，陈天华写作《警世钟》，就说：“外洋人不骂（中国人）为东方病夫，就骂为野蛮贱种。”[5]

>1905年，小说《孽海花》出版，其作者曾朴即公开署名“东亚病夫”；此书风行一时，是当时顶尖的畅销书，“东亚病夫”一词也迅速流传开来。事实上，曾朴本人使用“东亚病夫”来自况很大程度上是因为他本人的身体不好。此后，中国人自己将“东亚病夫”与国民体质问题纠缠到一起，换句话说，这是一种中国人自己扣自己的帽子。在中国人的心目中，“东亚病夫”从来就是外国人对中华儿女的蔑称。许多中国人对“东亚病夫”一词的理解是清末中国人吸鸦片导致身体瘦弱，所以遭外国人轻视，也近似于人们所说的“鸦片烟鬼”[2][5][6]；现代也有中国人也将严重二手烟害、空气污染及黑心食品视为东亚病夫再现[7]。

In the end it doesn't matter which entity did the speaker of this term intend to refer to. The recipients have their own judgement due to the culture they raised from.
People often compare it to an iPad initially, which completely misses the point in my view. The rM has nothing in common with an iPad, and the word "tablet" in the name makes people think of the completely wrong thing.

The rM is best thought of as a pen and paper notebook, except of effectively infinite size. There are no apps. The UI (the only user-facing program) has minimal features, most of which are there just to mimic what you can do with an actual paper notebook. There are only a few exceptions, like being able to drag your notes/scribbles on the page. The device won't integrate with any 3rd party services, it doesn't have search, etc. If a physical notebook doesn't have it, then the rM probably also doesn't.

That definitely makes the rM a very niche device, but I'm getting great use out of mine, while I never managed to get much good use of an iPad.
It still is a ripoff. Nobody says I'm going to use that storage to take copies.

But yeah "I took a backup but lost the original, good thing I took the backup!" ;).
We see shortages of hand sanitizer, and at least one person facing criminal charges for charging high prices for them. And those charges are because the government is fixing prices with anti-gouging laws.
Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more
I think you're making faulty assumptions about what's happening here.

Your Requirements:
1. Have the weight of every passenger while not uniquely identifying them.

2. Have the aggregate weight of all passengers on the plane

3. Have it independently verifiable

4. Trust that no additional data has been siphoned off.

What you proposed says that everyone step on a scale to be weighed. At this point #4 can be easily broken. Any company can easily split the data, send on through your complicated block chain system and send a copy to their on private DB. They've still captured the private info you wanted to not be private. A blockchain did nothing to solve this.

Ok so the solution: make this scale opensource and ensure via some signing method that the software scanning tickets and managing the scale are running this open source visually verified code. Fine that solve the problem because everyone can inspect the code and see what it's doing. So what's the next step? Write code that simply takes those numbers and sums them together and outputs the sum! Everyone can see that no privacy is being violated because they can see the code running on the scale. And they can see that it has no negative privacy implications it's simply an anonymous sum.

A blockchain to the solution I just discussed provides no value to this. It's not solving a problem that is present here. Signed & verified open sourced software is what's required.
The Reconstruction of ZZT
Paperlike is nice, but I've heard it actually wears down the tip of the Pencil. That's another thing you may need to buy, but relatively inexpensive ($20 for a pack of 4).
Let's talk about false positives: there seems to be no solid estimate regarding common Cov-19 tests. I've seen numbers from 40% to 85% in papers suggesting at least a high number, some of which will probably be sloppily classified as "asymptomatic" cases.
> devs want these new features

Except that they didn't asked for them, as shown there (and note that Google removed <style scoped> from Chromium):

1. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552#issuecomment-17810...

2. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/bl...

Also, even Mozilla is having problems with Google WebComponents. There are 100 bugs open in Bugzilla about it.
Also moral --> morale.
Alleged Apple A14 SoC Delivers Knockout Performance at 3GHz+ Clockspeeds
every statistic has its outliers. If I was rich enough I suppose I would have a catering deal to have food delivered to me from a few restaurants, but I'm not rich enough. Probably most people aren't rich enough and only eat out for the reasons I do, I'm just too tired to make the food once again and want something I like the taste of quick. Probably the people rich enough to eat out every meal have a 5000 square foot home on an acre of land - at least.
I saw there's now an option in Github user settings which allows you to mark your entire account as always serving desktop pages when you're on mobile.

Ironically, can't dig up the link on mobile since I've not yet clicked that button.
Do you have a source for that? Because the does not really match my reading of the data on https://nextstrain.org/ncov.
I have recently had a long-time fandom of the show turn into a personal obsession, that’s even grown into infecting my friends.

We discuss who wrote the episode, analyze the balance of writing and visual gags, identify voice actors - on and on. I have a strange and personal passion for it.
Is it possible to keep documents entirely local and guarantee that ReMarkable doesn't have access to data? From what I recall, their Terms of Service leave this possibility open.

This made ReMarkable a non-starter for many companies that have policies around where internal data may be stored.
FD: I'm building Patching

Everyday a lot of awesome little software apps are created by developers on glitch.com
On Patching you can find the best and latest Glitch apps.

I find it difficult to discover interesting apps on Glitch.com The timeline on Patching was made for casual browsing from the easy chair. The site uses some PWA features to also work pretty well on your mobile.

Hope you enjoy it, feedback very much welcome!
> And a lot of countries do the test twice, and only act on double positives or double negatives.

The false-positivity or false-negativity of a test is not independent across multiple runs. Its not like each test rolls a dice and decides if it wants to be accurate or not. Its more accurately based on the human being tested; a false-positive test for one human would increase the likelihood for a subsequent false-positive test on that same human. Double-testing helps, but its not the solution.

> How can this be OK? People will spread it if they think they are not sick.

First, do no harm. This often means the first response for doctors is to do nothing (and gather information), until they're certain enough that their actions will not result in harm. Doing nothing is not causing harm; the harm has already come to their patient. The doctor is not the cause of that harm; the world caused it. Its a core responsibility of a doctor to not make it worse accidentally.

Sure, people may spread it if they think they're not sick. But what if a doctor provides a false-negative result to an asymptomatic patient? Now, that patient has been told by a doctor "you're fine". They go back to work. Now, they're spreading it. "My doctor said I'm fine, this little cough is probably just a cold." Patient doesn't go back to get it checked out again.

What if they provide a false-positive result to an asymptomatic patient? "Wow, that's crazy. I must have just gotten lucky" the patient says. Two weeks later, they leave quarantine after getting an accurate negative result. A month later, they actually contract the disease. "But, that's impossible. I already had it! My other doctor told me so, he even gave me a Test." Can coronavirus re-infect patients? Now, we're not so sure. Panic. Research studies. The truth is obscure.

This is how doctors everywhere operate, and this is true at the FDA/CDC more than nearly every other country. Our standards for drug development, testing kit development, etc are among the most stringent in the world. It would take a disease far, far more deadly than the coronavirus to compromise them.
If you know how much the general spread is, and how often it requires different sorts of treatment (or is asymptomatic), you can plan your mitigations and restrictions much more effectively.

You don't need to know, the immediate doctor telling you to wait and see at home doesn't need to know, but the government absolutely needs to know.
Is it at all possible that we become progressively more immune with each incidence or that we can only be infected N times? If either of these things are true our strategy will still work.
I hope [1] takes off, that's a nice enhancement idea.
I can't find the source code. Is this app not open-source and hosted on Github?
Are you thinking of joe? https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
All Companies from YC20 Demo Day – Part 1
The electricity providers in Denmark is a better example. All money stays in the company so no one gets rich. They also provide some of the best internet in the world.
firefox is in the sites of Google, don't worry about that. They will find a weakness and exploit it to try and become the only "true" browser.
Hmm, I'll have to find that and give it a read.
No, it doesn’t: https://maps.apple.com/robots.txt
That's unnecessarily harsh, but I do agree we might want to consider developing an economy less based on such types of consumer spending. If a particularly bad flu can take us out like these, we are very fragile indeed.
All Companies from YC20 Demo Day – Part 2
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Given my experience the past few weeks 1 is absolutely true.

But 2 absolutely outweighs the productivity loss.
How about which N% will likely miss their rent payment? Because that's the key - those missed payments on 4/1 will have massive impacts to the economy.
Product Engineering: How to Create Outstanding Software Product
> ... central banks across the world that lowered interest rates, way too long.

Why "way too long"? Inflation was not a problem so why exactly did rates need to rise to cool things down?

The ECB did in fact raise rates at one point... and the EU recovery stalled. Krugman for one was very critical of raising them too soon, and he turned out to be correct.
All Companies from YC20 Demo Day – Part 4
> No one will ever build a website using WebComponents

WebComponents is adopted by Chromium (and with difficulty by Firefox).
Show HN: A machine learning based Kubernetes optimization engine
Let’s set aside the word “need” and just go with “want.” Sometimes I want to use GitHub on my phone because I’m in bed and want to read over some code, or I’m on the bus to work in the morning and I want to get a head start on a PR a coworker sent me. I don’t really understand why GitHub is a crazier thing to do on one’s phone than, well, anything else really.
Tesla is a $100B, 17 year old company.
> A theory is that the collapse of the USSR was not any grassroots uprising or the expression of people longing for democracy, it was just mostly a few higher-ups like Yeltsin figuring out that they can hold and exercise greater power and authority by dissolving the Union than keeping it.

This theory must've been dreamt up by someone with next to no knowledge about the USSR. The Soviet Union collapsed through its republics (puppet states) declaring self-government, followed by declarations of independence later on.

Day by day, general disillusionment from Afghan war, disasters like Chernobyl and massacres like those in Tbilisi and Vilnius eroded authority of the central government until Gorbachev was commanding phantom armies like Hitler in his bunker in the final days of WWII. The conspiracy theory of KGB-led (or whoever else) coup ignores the decade of events leading up to the 1991 and Kremlin's increasingly desperate attempts to maintain control, all of which are extremely well documented, with direct participants of all levels still alive today.

I would place it on the same level as suggesting that the whole Vietnam-era peace movement and 1960s cultural revolution was a KGB plot and not a genuine grassroots movement.

The sentiment in Chernobyl is spot-on.
The Infuriating Story of How the Government Stalled Coronavirus Testing
Shortages.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...
Agreed, and I too expected better from the HN crowd. Also agreed the moderators here are doing a great job.

I don't know what the solution is. Maybe we should all strive to understand the other side better instead of casting quick judgement. Environmental and other issues aside, perhaps this is one of the benefits of the recent increase (not counting the current issue with COVID19) of global travel and tourism.
At home. They have a 30-day returns policy with free return shipping if you don't like it.
No, but cancel all big events especially international ones.
Still I read about antivirals that are in tests that are already approved for other illnesses so delay as much as possible by canceling entertainment crap.
How many devs do you think will continue buying macs once the Unix CLI has gone?

If this happens, give me a call, and I'll help you build torches and sharpen pitchforks.

But until then, killing off your developer community is just about the stupidest thing you can do. Yes, it happens anyway (see also: Steve Ballmer), but what does worrying about it really get you, except worked up?
Absolutely not! What I mean is that I don’t think that IPSec having a bunch of tunables like this should count as harshly as the parent implies when it comes to configuration complexity because WireGuard isn’t all that different — the tunables are just chosen earlier in a way that’s not user-visible.
Since most commercial properties are leveraged, this would definitely be an issue.

Theoretical ‘capital gains’ don’t mean much when you have no income but still have mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities.
> Could someone explain to me why would someone use GitHub on their phones rather than on a desktop computer?

I think I don't understand the question; how is github's app different than e.g. airbnb's?
I commented elsewhere that it's a big miss by marketing, they neglect to mention that all connectivity features are optional. You can use it without ever creating an account or connecting to the Internet.
I just added the Paperlike 2 protector to my iPad Pro a few month ago. It's amazing to write on now. You can notice a bit of distortion in the display, but it's really nothing that bothers me at all. I've been very happy with this combination. Because of this setup, I've switched almost all of my note taking over to my iPad. Before, I only took notes in a paper notebook (large Moleskine soft cover). And so far, I haven't had any excess wear and tear on the Pencil nib...

The only issue I had was waiting on shipping from Germany.
Open source Vitess test suite migrates from Python to Go
The U.S. trademark register is full of shit (or at least a few turds)
Just like it's hard to deliver good code when tired, picky managers are screaming.
Some fraction of that N% represents landlords who now may not be able to make their mortgage payment.
Interesting choice! But it is sort of a PC, because it can run a Linux subset... but anyway, interesting choice.

Excerpt:

"The Psion Series 3 range is regarded by writer Charles Stross as an unsurpassed PDA[1] because of its long battery life (20 to 35 hours), its stable and versatile software, and its durable hardware.[2]"

So that's really not too bad in terms of battery life...
I'm fairly sure a good chunk of Github isn't open sourced either, no?
I totally agree that Rocket requiring nightly is a deal-breaker for production. I suspect the author picked Rocket because it feels more beginner friendly than alternatives.

Actix-web is in 2.0. The original author stepped away recently, but it has quite the community behind it.

If readers are curious why Rocket requires nightly, it has to do with the macros (that resemble Java annotations/python decorators). Specifically Rust wants all its macros to be hygienic - they shouldn't be able to (for example) create variables that clobber user-defined variables. Rust has multiple types of macros, but the type used by Rocket, procedural macros, don't have this hygienic property yet. For context, procedural macros operate on TokenStreams, whereas "normal macros" (declarative macros) operate on AST nodes. See the issue https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19
That is what people do sometimes (esp. in SF where you'll get "2 months free rent"). But I think in commercial real estate the math is a bit different because leases tend to be longer - so you really don't want to budge on the actual monthly rate and even 1-2 months free doesn't end up helping the prospective tenant that much
While the GP might have been off base, there has got to be a better way to phrase this argument. The quality of discussion on HN has exponentially decreased in the past few days. It would be cool if we all started to add to these conversations instead of insult each other.
> “We encourage those Americans who can file their taxes to continue to file their taxes on April 15,” Mnuchin said. “Because for many Americans, you will get tax refunds.”

~~Seems pretty clear to me,~~ ~~the deadline for filing~~ and deadline to pay are both extended by 90 days.

Edit: Sorry, you're right, it's not clear. Others in the thread seem to disagree that the filing deadline has been moved or not. This was how I read it.

If I have updated my understanding correctly now based on reading more of the supporting materials, it looks like you can file late without a penalty if your state agrees, based on a declared state of emergency, but that you are still encouraged to file on-time if you can. Only for payments, are they saying broadly that no penalties or interest will be assessed, if you owe money on your federal return, (which is as much power as the treasury probably has.)

California for example has one of the most detailed set of guidance by state in this document. My state of Indiana is saying they will follow the federal government's lead.

https://www.aicpa.org/content/dam/aicpa/advocacy/tax/downloa...
I learned how to cook making chili. It was the first dish I feel like I made well and was proud of, it really kicked off my love of cooking. It's hard to mess up, it's cheap, you get a lot, and it lasts a while, and you can freeze it.

This is the recipe I've been building on lately:
https://www.budgetbytes.com/basic-chili/

Here are some notes:
- I leave out jalapenos and brown sugar--my wife doesn't like spiciness. I generally try not to add sugar to stuff, but it does add a bit of depth that is nice

- using beef broth instead of water will result in a better taste. You can also use beer!

- Don't skimp on the tomato paste! It adds a depth and richness you won't get otherwise

- There's no shame in buying a jar of minced garlic. It's easy and it lasts a long time. Fresh garlic will taste better, but if it's your first go at it, why not make things easier on yourself? Just remember for the future to try out mincing it yourself

- Check out this video for how to chop an onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGS067s0zo don't worry about getting it perfect though, just as long as they're smallish pieces

- This recipe doesn't mention draining the ground beef, but I would. You might think that the added beef fat would add to the taste, but in my experience it just makes it greasy, especially once you've chilled it and end up with a layer of hardened grease

- Don't skimp on simmering! Turn the heat all the way down low, put the lid on it, and let it do its thing for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally to make sure nothing is sticking to the bottom

- Ignore everything I said if you want, try stuff and see for yourself.

If you want more vegetables, carrots, celery, kale, bell peppers, all good choices for a stew-ish dish like this. It's not "traditional" chili at that point, so it's more of a stew I guess, but who cares.
Assuming a game is played more than once (a safe assumption for human social behavior), I think an occasional Defect / Nobody Gets Anything is quite rational: it's a credible deterrent to disincentivize a grossly unfair distribution.
Political and community organising during Covid-19
Sorry, I misunderstood you then.

I do believe that the influence of Russian propaganda is vastly overestimated by you and others. I believe that they are paying and trying to influence and/or harm Western societies, but it's working because those are obvious break-lines that have been created over the past few decades.

I see it more like a glacier that is going to calve any minute, and Russia is a guy with a 2x4, using it as a lever to help widen a crack: in the grand scheme of things, it's insignificant.

RE "banning it in their own countries": of course, that's what authoritarian states do. It's always been my belief that if you want to uphold your standards as a country with a free and independent press, you need to accept that this can make things difficult. And your press must always, even if they think it hurts, be critical and vigilant.

The US media all falling in line for the Iraq wars multiple times in a row and essentially becoming propaganda outlets did immense damage. That they admitted as much afterwards and promised to do better is noble (and is a major difference, that wouldn't happen in the state-controlled media of Russia, China or Turkey), but ultimately useless.

I understand that they feel they have a responsibility to not harm their governments, but imho they are harming their societies much more by abandoning their role as an independent fourth power in democracy. If media companies discredit themselves, they're doing the enemy's work. If you know I'm out to get you and you keep lying for whatever reason, you're really making my job too easy, because all I need to do is point it out.
I have to leave my two cents on this topic.

I spent a good amount of time writing situated agents in persistent worlds (aka bots for things like everquest). My experience was that the tighter the feedback loop the less the bots would get stuck in weird places. So when I first was exposed to the concept of OODA, it was very clear to me that the concept mapped very neatly to the work I'd done. All the bots I've written got better essentially the more frequently I applied the OODA loop.

You'll also find if you read the literature on situated agents, that robots got much better much faster once scientists started building them to react to the world, as opposed to the early days where it was assumed they'd need to build these massive models of the world for the robots who would then need to spend massive amounts of CPU time trying to decide what to do next.

What I think the article may be missing, when it talks about half-beats, is that ideally you really want to iterate over your OODA loop as fast as possible, so that you can make more decisions than your opponent. The first step is often to define your Action in the smallest timestep that you can. So if your opponent thinks one step is their smallest action. You should really be trying to define the smallest action as a half step. Now you can potentially make 2 decisions in the same amount of time. Then do this for each stage of the OODA loop. Find a way to Observe faster. Find a way to Orient faster. Find a way to Decide faster (even deciding to defer deciding until the next OODA loop).

At the end of the day, your sample rate and your real time deadlines dictate a lot about how an agent can act. And don't get me wrong, a good algorithm will always trump a high sample rate, but don't underestimate just how important a high sample rate is when talking about an OODA loop.
In short: only bad luck. gus_massa gives a thoughtful explanation in another answer.

Cheers from Milano.