skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing, but we've cut private car use, and it seems like the world is ending, economically speaking. Hoping this creates habits that are good for climate beyond the immediate disaster. WFH, school changes, etc. Good can come of this in the long run.
What? Are you telling me the Zombie apocalypse is not happening?
> Organize channels, messages and apps into custom, collapsible sections (you know, like folders)

Looking at my three-screens-long list of channels, this is a welcome change.
Nope. I can plug in an external SSD. Their internal storage has been reliable for ages and MacOS filesystem encryption is really good.
I don't understand Apple's aversion to accessible DIMM slots and off-the-shelf M.2 SSDs.

It used to be that Apple charged a lot for RAM and Storage, but you could save a bundle by bringing your own. For example, my 2012 i7 Mac mini has maxed memory and a 2TB SSD. When Apple began soldering stuff in, they failed to reduce their punitive prices on expansion, which really hurts reusability and resale value. In other words, they are far less green than they could be since they must now be disposed of earlier.
I'm not talking about relying on the US dollar as a currency, but relying on physical US dollar bills as a medium of exchange,just as you would on gold coins/bars.
> One big problem: if an airline is bankrupt, what airport is going to give them a slot? I can tell you: no airport, because they will lose that money in bankruptcy. Likewise: what airline will land at a bankrupt airport? Again, no airline.

Why would both of these be true? Normally you don't want to sell to a bankrupt customer, or at least you don't give them credit. But you would definitely buy from a bankrupt supplier if they have something you need.

Some airports pay airlines, but mostly the cash flows the other way, so the airline should be happy to land at the bankrupt airport.
Given the fact that a single mammoth could feed many for a long time, I would suspect that a building made from 60 mammoths was either a mass death, or a mass ritual killing - it certainly wasnt subsistence killing of the mammoths for food from which the bones would come from...
Cloud9 is nearly perfect for quickly unblocking a student with a Windows machine.
We really need to start distinguishing between masks and respirators.

Surgical masks are useless for protecting the wearer from infected people, however they help protect others from an infected wearer.

If used properly, a respirator will help protect the wearer from infected people, as it will block them from inhaling virus-containing droplets.
Double benefit in that it might encourage others to help too.
It's not the same thing by far: Laptops have much worse heat dissipation than desktops, they overheat, and your high-powered CPU gets throttled down.
> The only reason they switched to a total lockdown is because the spectacle of mass death at the ICU is too much for the public to bear.

It's mathematics. Assume a country of 100M people, of which roughly 2/3rds have to be infected to achieve herd immunity. That's 66M people. Of these, expect 2M people to die if the mortality rate stays at 3% (at the moment it's 3.4% according to WHO).

Now, as no medical system in the world has enough beds, expect that the mortality rate goes through the roof once the ICU beds are full - Italy at the moment is at 10%. This would mean 10 million deaths in the assumed country.

Or, scaled to the US: 32 million deaths.

"Herd immunity" is mass slaughter on a scale not seen since Mao's "Great Leap" with 18-45M deaths.
Changes in Google Advanced Protection – No Apps Without Google Play
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9764949?p=ap-and&visit_id=637201535597737202-11306229&rd=1

To help protect against malware, new app installations from most sources outside the Play Store are blocked on any Android device that has a Google Account enrolled in Advanced Protection.

You’ll still be able to install Android apps from:

Google Play
App stores that were pre-installed by your device manufacturer
Android Debug Bridge (adb)
Important: To install a new app from a different source, you’ll need to unenroll from Advanced Protection or remove the Advanced Protection-enrolled account from your device.
i will sign up for sure. Seems like new signups are timing out, will try again later tonight.
Question from a layman: What about "passively safe" reactor designs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety
Hard to say right now, but it's likely that bonds won't go up again until people believe the rate of new bond issuances will go down.

On another note, the federal funds rate is at zero but bank stocks are cratering anyway, possibly because Trump announced there will be no foreclosures/evictions through April. So landlords and homeowners have no incentive to pay their mortgages for a couple months, which will definitely hurt banks.
Heart disease is undiagnosed diabetes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZoQiDaWnuE
to wipe down and disinfect (if the bleach is 2.75% strength, otherwise adjust accordingly) use 1 gallon water with 1 tablespoon unscented laundry bleach for eating utensils or 1 gallon water with 6 tablespoons bleach for surfaces like tables.

a gallon is 213 tablespoons so your ratio is about 200 to 1 for eating utensils vs 30 to one for surfaces, so that's metric-ish.

This is "child safe" (like for nursery schools), I got it from here https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/8340/970-216-Disi...

I just looked at a generic bottle of bleach I bought at a chain pharmacy to see if they listed the concentration, and even better, they listed various measures as above for different uses as above, so if you look there it might be the most convenient system.

source:

in normal times, the board of health requires restaurants in new york city (but probably everywhere) to keep a bucket of chlorinated water (essentially diluted laundry bleach) around with rags in it to wipe off tables with bare hands in between customers. I infer from this factoid that it must be a good, safe way to disinfect things, so I mention it if you were looking for a way to wipe things down simply and reliably.

obviously, you want to get the concentration right so the chlorine doesn't become a health risk itself (or bleach your jeans) so I'll try to look that up now, and I found the above link from the State of Washington.
Looking at their release logs it seems that the new UI is still not released but will be released during march
This made me chuckle

Needed it with all the stress at work
Thanks, I've sent a PR.
It's clear no one here knows any 3D artist, illustrators, graphic designers, UI/UX designers, photographers, videographers, musicians, etc

Because if they did, they wouldn't make some of the silly comments I've seen here.
yeah i was on there in the past but it was too noisy with some people dominating every topic. there were lots of negative vibes and was ruining my mood.
Maybe ony more leery of depending on public transport.

I've stopped using subway last week, and can still run errands by bicycle, i.e., don't need a car. But I also mostly WFH so it's easy, of course.
A 'bit' in information theory is just a unit of measurement, corresponding to the information conveyed by one yes-or-no question (where both answers were previously equally likely).

Since it's a fairly natural unit, your alien archaeologist might even use it. However, if they had a weird taboo against binary, they could define a similar concept in other ways. In fact, we humans have too. Bletchley Park used "bans" or hartleys, which is the information carried by a single base-10 digit (without any a priori information). Nats use a base-e representation instead, which ties into statistical physics nicely. There's nothing stopping you from inventing a weird informational unit where 1 corresponds to "the answer to a seven way question were two of the answers are each twice as likely as the rest."

So, suppose your alien digs up my thumbdrive. It examines it carefully and notices that each MOSFET is always in one of two states. That suffice to describe its information-carrying capacity in whatever system they use: bits, hartleys, nats, zorblaxen. A similar analysis of their own media would let them say "This thing is so sophisticated, it can hold the work of 10,000 scribes" or "This junk can barely contain a moment of our 16D videos." If your drive were packed with different types of media, they might even discover that some parts of the disk (e.g., ascii text) DON'T use all of the available capacity.

None of this, of course, tells them what the data means. For that, you'd need to relate these data to some external source.
Seeing as the stock market is utterly tanking, I would be very surprised if the world didn't go into recession, and consequently, if there weren't a number of people losing their jobs in order to make the businesses lean again.

This is especially true of countries like the US, where it seems very simple to fire someone.
That fails to work if what you drop support for breaks Facebook. Newgrounds never had the clout of Facebook, but dropping Flash gutted them. In a world where Newgrounds had become Facebook, Apple would have invested in Flash instead of killing it.
Here's a potential explanation quoted by Matt Levine in his March 13 newsletter:

“The risk in the current environment is that sustained illiquidity of the UST market … could cause leveraged UST investors to reduce their Treasury positions on a large scale. This would essentially result in a Treasury ‘supply shock’ as these funds reduce their positions & force dealers to sell those positions in a very illiquid market. Significant position reduction from one large leveraged UST investor would likely lead to a cascading effect whereby U.S. Treasury yields rise sharply and force liquidations from other similar investors. This would worsen conditions for dealers to intermediate risk in the U.S. Treasury market, exacerbate the rise in U.S. Treasury yields, and further cheapen Treasuries.”
EUvsDisinfo has examples of other Russian disinformation campaigns. https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

They have some examples: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-kremlin-and-disinformation-about-...
You have to be a paid user, and they're rolling it out automatically over the course of a few weeks.
Purism Librem Mini is a tiny Linux desktop
> ...on top of the ¥8.5 million it paid per person based on estimates calculated under government-set interim standards.

So ¥9.5 million, or ~$88,000 total
Most companies are worth far more than the value of their assets.

Take Google or Microsoft for instance. If either of these companies were split apart, and the assets were sold at auction how much would those assets be worth compared to the market cap of the company?
I don't know about the demand side but supply is definitely going up around the world. For the massive stimulus packages in the US and Europe lots of new bonds will be issued by governments. Additionally lots of companies around the world are drawing on their credit lines which means banks need to reduce their treasury holdings for USD. The only question that seems to matter is how high will central banks allow yields to rise?
Given that we have heard about safety issues from the nuclear establishment in the US, and we have heard about all kinds of ship issues from the Navy, I feel confident that if there were problems we would have heard about them.

False negatives are what they are, but the preponderance of the evidence is on the side of safety. Can we say the same for fossil fuels? Is it really worth staying on them because of some hypothetical beyond-top-secret problems that probably don't exist?
you still have disposal issues
I think people should stop spending considering the u certainity in the markets and economy.

This is not the time for feel-good charity and small scale philanthropy
So you trust the military (which wouldn't do this directly anyway, they would just contract to a for-profit company), an institute which is purpose-built to kill other humans on the orders of the state, over a private company that merely seeks to turn a profit? Militarism has always been about profit and greed, more so than any company. And unlike companies, they are basically above the law.
It's fine to happen to develop (or only have developed) in a single language - you might have found your niche and all that.

But the way the author of the article put it is just so weird - choosing the word "pure" in all caps - like it's a point of pride, or big part of their identity.
The problem with this is then the state is now responsible for this thing, which wasn't able to keep itself afloat financially. This works in a some cases, where the state is actually more efficient at managing than a private corp, but in many cases you just have the taxpayers supporting zombie corporations.
> because our understanding of the situation was very poor (how wide spread the virus actually is).

It's estimated that there is at least a scale of 10x unknown infected vs known infected. South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have only been able to stay nearly CV-free because they have extremely strict testing regimens - while the US has almost no testing capacity at all (and many have to ignore a positive test as they need to work to survive/keep health insurance), and Europe doesn't fare that much better to be honest.
We've been using fly.io for a month now. They are amazing. The service is great, the team is great, and most importantly our apps have seen a dramatic performance uplift by leveraging fly. A++ would use again.

Full disclosure: I am another YC founder. Fly did not ask me or encourage me to post this in any way.
That seems highly improbable to me. Can you give some data to back your assertion?

[Edit: I see you added a Youtube video, with no further information. No, I'm not going to go watch a no-further-information-given Youtube video to find out if your claim has a scientific basis, or if you're a quack. If it's real, it ought to be in text somewhere, with data.]
They still aren't safe if someone with an AK-47 pokes bits of TNT down the coolant pipes...
Gotcha, honestly that feels pretty niche to me, which might be a good place for a startup to start.

I can't think of many back-end applications between purely static content (just use a CDN) and needs a database connection. Probably video game servers, where you don't need the game state to be (immediately) stored/accessed globally.
I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure they are misspelling the alphabet. It's supposed to be A24Z, not A12Z. Unless it's half off right now.
Yes. US Navy nuclear engineers are military service members, not contractors, and are therefore part of the chain of command. There are consequences for failing to follow protocol.

https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/NNPTC/
While the history of science emerges from and has an ongoing productive dialogue with that of philosophy, the humanities dept. status panic confection of "philosophy of science" has very little to do with this.
Yeah, it seems weird that the default presentation is to put the projects with the most volunteers at the top.
Unless you fold said single sheet in half.
> They are cooperating to destroy US efforts at self-sufficiency

This is naive. The real target is Iran, the Saudis would never do this without US approval.
Isn’t the app an electron app? I imagine they try to share UI. Not sure about that though, it’d be interesting to learn more.
California is a climate leader. But here’s why it needs to move even faster
I generally have believed that as well, but wonder if there will be some flight away from cities after all the dust has settled, at least in the shortish term.
> What happens at bankruptcy is that the claims on various assets are reassigned. The planes will get sold to someone who reckons they know how to run an airline, and the staff are likewise hired by new businesses.

Alternatively, it would be possible to create a worker cooperative from the failing business. The managers who created the mess would be ousted and the actual employees could decide what to do with the rest.
For 3D modeling, I've still not found a replacement for Fusion 360. It does appear that there are products like shapr3d that are interesting for some basic conceptualization, but, there aren't things like, say, a sheet of default variables you can use to restrict your design to. It seems like these tools are for some rough sketching, but, the intent is probably to move the concepts into a desktop CAD system.

This makes me wonder how big the iPad software market really is in comparison. It seems "tethered" to other platforms.
The camera connection kit is a quirky weird stepchild for Apple.

It works well with about anything on the iPhone - although some devices require a powered lightning cable.

On iPad, the same devices will all work, but it's a lot fussier about what powered lightning cable you use.

For example - I have a USB-C to lightning cable and a USB-PD charger. If I use those with the camera connection kit, my iPhone will access any USB storage device I've connected. It won't work on the iPad. But if use a USB-A to lightning cable to a 2 amp power supply, the same devices work fine on the ipad. go figure.
Sure, the existence of Mount Everest could be an international conspiracy for example. Or, you could be dreaming right now, and when you wake up you'll google "Mount Everest" and find no such thing exists
That doesn't grant any meaningful rights at all.

Notably, it doesn't given any right to download or use the code.
If they made their money in a vacuum with no interaction to society then they would owe nothing to society. That isn't the case. They absolutely made their money on the back of society, including the decades of wealthy lobbying/bribery that came before them that has allows them to keep their immoral gains
Why sell if you fixed the company? Reap your reward? If youre confident their value will continue to increase after your bailout.
Please don't dismiss this illness. Your stated facts are not correct. One is 50 times more likely to die from CORVID-19 than a car crash.

The latest CORVID-19 fatality rates for those aged 15 to 44 is 0.5% [1].

The odds of dying in a car crash in one year are 0.01% [2]

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/16/lower-coronavirus-death-...

[2] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o... - assumed 78 year lifespan
Hey! Thorsten Ball here. I'd say: yes, they're similar, but still two different perspectives on the same subject. (I actually recounted elsewhere [0] how Bob convinced me, 4 years ago now, that it's valuable to have multiple teachers of the same subject.)

So if you're into the topic I think you can get something out of my books ([1], [2]) even if you've read Bob's book before. And if you read mine, then Bob's book will also show you something new.

I'm currently working through Bob's book myself (chapter 23) and I'm enjoying it immensely: the language, Lox, shares a lot of things with the one in my books (Monkey), like first-class functions and closures, but also has classes which Monkey does not. So now I can read Bob's book and on one hand think "Ohh, I wonder how he does _that_" and on the other hand "classes! let's see how that works."

My books also use Go exclusively and Bob's uses Java and C. I enjoyed using IntelliJ and writing Java for the first time in my life a lot and was always a fan of C, so that was also really interesting, to see how the ideas translate across three languages.

[0]: https://lobste.rs/s/43h7rz/crafting_interpreters_handbook_fo...
[1]: https://interpreterbook.com
[2]: https://compilerbook.com
I'm not that stressed. So I imagine my remarks will likely be unforgivable and unwelcome, no matter how hard I try to be PC and try to signal that "I'm trying to be helpful and supportive."

My dad grew up in the Great Depression and fought in two wars. My mom grew up in Germany during WW2 and its aftermath.

I was molested and raped as a child. I and my oldest son have a deadly genetic disorder.

I and my sons have spent nearly twenty years arranging our lives so we can work from home, avoid people, control germs, etc. The pandemic is mostly business as usual for us, plus some so far relatively minor inconveniences because of stores changing their hours and some things being sold out.

I spend part of my time wondering if there's some way to share useful information with the world or if people would literally rather die than show me one iota of respect, having treated me like a loon for years. Other than that, it's mostly business as usual for me.

That includes:

Playing games to keep myself occupied when I can't do other things.

Hanging out on online forums as my primary form of socializing because it's germ free.

Cooking at home or picking up takeout, as usual.

Taking the trash out immediately after meals so germs can't fester in my home.

I have no upholstered furniture and no carpeting because those things are gross health hazards for me.

I occasionally manage to work a little. After eating and gaming and caretaking, I can sometimes focus enough to write for pay, blog or further pro bono projects I'm involved with. I've done remote work for years. Business seems to be ticking up slightly for me at the moment.

During stressful times, I have a policy of "bread and circus." That means keep people fed and keep them entertained and harmlessly occupied.

I try to not do anything stupid that makes things worse because we're stressed out. I try to cut people slack for being cranky jerks. Don't escalate conflicts. Instead, de-escalate them.

Don't avoid addressing real problems that actually need to be addressed though. If x is making things worse, now is a good time to insist as politely and firmly as possible that "X has to stop/change because there's a pandemic on and we just cannot allow such behavior. It's literally life-threatening now. Please and thank you, but absolutely no."

Stay informed. Focus on practical, helpful information. Don't get caught up in panic and hysteria. The world has been on the brink before and gotten through it. Honest.

(Watch Men in Black again sometime. I absolutely love the line about how the world is constantly on the brink of being destroyed and it's imperative that the world just not know it so they can be happy.)

Somewhere in there, that morphed from first person "here's what I do" to a more third person "here's what you should do." framing. I don't know how to fix it and I don't really care that much, tbh. I'm extremely tired of "no amount of trying to be polite on my end protects me from open hatred and contempt."

Sorry you are so stressed. I hope you find practical answers for your problems. That's the best way to reduce stress: by problem solving.
It seems like they're slowly implementing paradigm safe versions of features from Desktop OSes into iPadOS in order to gradually bleed off the MacOS userbase since locking MacOS down to the App Store paradigm didn't pan out.
Yes everyone has different use cases - so why do we denigrate some people's use cases as not 'real work'?
Slack, _please_ add the ability to not be notified about general messages on Linux. I want to only have the app icon change to red if I get a private message or @'d. The blue dot is distracting noise. I edit the app's source code to remove the blue dot, but have to continually do it every time Slack updates.

Fitting into these new features, it'd be great if for each channel folder I could pick how I want activity within them to notify me.

EDIT: it's possible this is only a Linux (or at least, non-Mac) problem. It seems Mac users do have the ability to do this.
An incredible improvement. I really hope they improve notifications at some point. In some channels, I don’t even want the bold font indicating unread messages.
Bioethics Lessons from Three Early Heroes of the Coronavirus Pandemic