skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree for all the 'appliance' stuff; and a lot of times that's what you want. But I think also we should be sure to enable and flood computers with "play" spaces--which are about such 'tinkering' but I think it is much; much more than just tinkering--it's really what enables us to express our humanity IMO.

And I think that's actually all types of tinkering; technical or not. And for a lot of 'use' you want to tinker but want the technical part to work; which I agree with. But we still maybe want to keep them open, inviting and friendly somehow.

Just some thoughts along this rabbit hole I've been diving into lately--"game studies," "play," etc.-- https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId... collects some references.
As we all know the best way to do something about climate change is to mentally divide the economy into 50 small pieces and then declare each of them is so small that it's not worth doing anything about it.
Why not have the delivery and logistics of goods just exist as a general public service?

Then put the potential profits made into running a better society.
Right, the only medication I sometimes bring from the US now is acetaminophen/paracetamol because it's the only one I've found that's much cheaper there. The rest are probably cheaper in Germany so I would just go there if I needed them.
The Lancet has published a study this week that anti-inflamatory drugs may help Ncovid penetrate cell walls and actually speed up the process.

France has stopped over-the-counter sales of Ibuprofen as of mid January.

https://www.afrinik.com/anti-inflammatory-drugs-can-make-cor...
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Neat. Natural. Suggestions:

Add timer and stopwatch features. Maybe calendar sync.

Time zones.

Try also making option to break the red line instead of rotating disks.

Possibly also color customization. An added gradient may be more intuitive than only numbers.

Edit: and existential angst checkbox
i know. that is great! but all of those options are file formats. books != files. books are cool, files are ugly. which is also why 99 of 100 people still prefer to buy the dead tree books over tech jazz called files.
Same here with a 650 I got in 2016. It runs daily, and all I've ever had to do with it is replace the brushes/spinners twice.
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Honestly what should we learn from people who are opposed to scientific reality? The only thing we need to learn is how we make the opinions of those people irrelevant. (Which is a really hard problem, as decades of inaction about climate show.)
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Unfortunately, many people equate "printing money" with inflation, which is too simplistic.

That said, all those monetary grants could lead to excessive demand which leads to inflation, especially in sectors of the economy that are not competitive. Whether it actually would lead to inflation and, more importantly, to how much is a question that needs to be answered empirically.
I had to whitelist guce.advertising.com. Couldn't find any way around it.
Theatre play from the 30s about a disease that kills people over 45
That would be true if annual returns were independent of each other which is definitely not the case.
But does that mean anything? Without hydroxychloroquine, how many people stop shedding active virus because the immune system starts to respond by day 6 of symptoms? It seems to be about the same.
Lol, they'd never be able to compete and there are like 30 alternatives already.
This is essentially the science informing the UK Governments response.
Europe’s Doctors Repeat Errors Made in Wuhan, China Medics Say
By that train of thought, why not have a socialist society and put the potential profits into running a better society?
Have you any experience with http://cleanfeed.net/ or https://ipdtl.com/ or squadcast.fm?

I'm assuming they are good for interviews because you can correctly merge the separate audio tracks later, rather than because they keep the latency down?
Whether that value is real or whether that value was created just by the founders is something that needs to be discussed.
Ask HN: Can CS background be helpful in learning a foreign language?
I recently started learning Japanese and came to the the idea that learning a foreign language and learning computer programming would be pretty different but with certain points overlaps.
Do you find any similarities between learning new programming language and a foreign language?
I got some stern comments that "laws should never apply retroactively" for saying this, but I still believe: all those border closings should apply immediately from the second they're announced, and all quarantine requirements for returning passengers should apply retroactively, from a day or two before they were announced.

Because the story is the same all over the world. A country announces it'll close the borders in 2 days. A day after the announcement, every citizen of that country that was in COVID-19 hotspot returns to their homeland. In some cases avoiding quarantine.
The aviation sector only accounts for a small amount of global emissions because globally almost nobody can afford to fly. For people who can afford to fly, an international flight can easily double their carbon footprint for the year.
The English language is several hundreds of years old, and the ADN is several hundreds of millions years old. Everything we are based on is legacy; I do not see why it should be different in computing.
There are a shitload of jobs that are (as coronavirus crisis and the list of jobs deemed essential in many countries shows) "much needed" for keeping a country running: anything medical, public transport, childcare/education, logistics, groceries/other food, infrastructure upkeep (electric/water/phone/internet/gas grid).

But unlike jobs that label themselves "system critical" such as banks, investment vulture funds and others of their ilk, the really essential jobs have one thing in common: extremely shitty pay, sometimes outright exploitative working conditions.
AFAIK, the case fatality rate is always higher than the actual mortality rate, but before reliable antibody tests are available and used on large random samples of the population speculating about it is not helpful.
When I tried to log in to use this app on Safari I got stuck in a endless log in loop.
I was trying to work out whether I could replace a VPN server like OpenVPN or SoftEther with Wireguard. Both of those allow you to create multiple client/users that share a set of rules. E.g. roaming Developers can connect via VPN to this resource, but not that one. WireGuard looks to be a lot lower level and probably not well suited to that task.
Do you have any source or proof that the wealthy pay a disproportionate amount of taxes compared to the rest of us?
> My laptop has about 32 gigs of ram

Mine has 8GB, and I'm a developer and photographer. A "normal" user won't even have that.

In the course of my "computer-janitorial duties" that the extended family expects from a relative who "works with computers", I have only seen >8GB in one teenager's gaming PC. All their laptops (some rather recent) have 4GB and low-power mobile chips. Skype, Spotify and Discord (in the background!) will bring their computer to a crawl. Add one or two Chrome tabs and all the computer is good for is a space heater.

Electron is a great value, true, but that's mostly because JS developers are plenty and therefore cheap. As a mostly web developer with little C++ experience, I was able to pick up QtQuick in a week and I've gotten actual user feedback saying they prefer that over the previous otherwise-identical Electron versions.
Who wants to drink 4% hansa anyways.
> So I’m not quite sure this is the indignity you make it or to be.

It is. Eating during driving is dangerous, even more so with a multi ton delivery truck. Pissing in a bottle is disgusting and a public health risk (where to properly wash hands, for one).

If delivery set prices do not cover that employees get enough time to decently work, then they have to be raised!
Depending on your interests, Troopers and hardwear.io. BruCon maybe.
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This is cool for English text. But once you get Unicode with various ways to represent é, whew lad. This get shitty quickly in the shell.
Even slow trains are a good means of transport. I much prefer a train to buses and cars.

I think high speed rail could be potentially a game changer for the job market. In the UK if you could easily commute in from Birmingham or Newcastle then London salaries would be more accessible outside London.
The Coronavirus Reminds Us That You Can Still Be Productive at Home
let's say there were 320,000 people without symptoms in China, which seems unlikely, that would make the total cases approximately 400000, and if we just looked at the fatalities so far out of that it would be a fatality rate of 0.8% iirc the common flu is 0.1% fatality, so if this only had 0.8% but affects 40-70% of the world (which seems to me like it would be at the 70% end if there are lots of asymptomatic people)

so 40% of 7 billion and then 0.8% of that is 22,400,000 - my math is probably off here.
A common mistake in evaluating education is to just look at subject knowledge.

Good schools teach so much more. Teamwork, friendships, presentation skills etc. Those are a lot harder to homeschool.
Yeah..
2 years and 1 week to buy a Tesla model 3 supposing that I don't buy anything else...

Life is so unfair. haha!

Great idea by the way!
I agree that everybody who can work remotely is a bit privileged compared to someone who cannot, and in general tech employers are richer and more liberal.

As I said in my reply above, some employers or employees need a cultural shift. Either employers put pressure on employees to not get sick leave (which is illegal and unethical), or as you say some employees think that they are "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" (or just conditioned by decades of peer pressure), but I digress.

My point is that in my whole life I was _never_ rejected a sick leave by a doctor and my doctor definitely does not check if I am grocery store employee or "privileged" tech worker. Also it's not employers business to regulate how often employee can be ill or what "pre-existing conditions" employee has. People are not robots.
An at least brief reprieve from poverty would be better than nothing. We can treat the symptoms and the cause under UBI, just as we could do now, with the existence of welfare (such as it is in the US) and the minimum wage. I don't think these positions are mutually opposed.

Yes, UBI can be weaponized politically, and probably will be. But the current system is already weaponized. If it's turned against people hard enough, that only works in the left's favor. If not, it at least suggests that some degree of meaningful change is possible within the system.

>Just want to throw out that I disagree with this

Fair enough.
What a weird hill to die on. Books are long written compositions, their format (whether it's on dead trees, computer, or spoken out) is completely irrelevant.
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On topics were you personally don't do research it's always a good bet to fall back on the consensus of people who actually know the topic.
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Thank you!

We later realized that although they've gotten a good amount of upvotes & comments, actually many of them came from possible fake accounts / bots ... (fake photos, no past PH/twitter activities, etc)
This is a great move but I hope everyone is ready to hear a lot of "those west coast liberals are suppressing our freedom of speech!" for the foreseeable future.
I swear a lot. The swearing in this piece just isn't very good. It takes some skill to swear effectively, and this isn't it.

On top of that the author is simply wrong. Aerosolized virus is possibly one route of infection, but we know that there is a fecal-oral route for covid-19, and we know that touching surfaces and then your face can transmit covid-19.

PPE is difficult to wear correctly, and if you don't wear it correctly you normally increase, not decrease, your risk.

Public health experts in most countries are telling people not to wear masks (unless they have covid-19 and are self-isolating, or are healthcare professionals). This is only partly because there's a shortage. It's also because of the risks from improper mask use.

I've seen a few people wearing masks in public and every single one of them did something stupid.
The WHO predicted that 150 million people would be killed by avian flu

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2005/...

Using the same logic that had lead to the severe predictions for cv19.

For swine flu they promoted and stood by a CFR of 60%. Again turned out to be nonsense; nonsense known at the time to others

https://jech.bmj.com/content/62/6/555.abstract
This is a nice tutorial, but I’m a little sour on gitbook because their project really pushes their service, that seems really expensive to me.
Growing up in Kenya in the 80s, it was common to take chloroquine as an anti-malarial medicine. I took it several times and the same applied to almost every other person I knew. Other than being a very bitter medicine, I do not remember any other side effects. This was commonly prescribed and available over the counter. However, in the 90s, doctors started encouraging people to take newer anti-malarial medicines because the of drug resistance of the malaria parasites. However,I know of only one person who ever got blind from taking anti-malarial medicine and that was not exactly chloroquine but quinine. There are differences between the two. As per the Wikipedia page, chloroquine is considered a safe and essential medicine by the WHO.
So far the actual problem seems to be the hospitalization rate, not the death rate in ideal conditions. Most countries just don't have the spare capacity to handle COVID in addition to the normal workload.

One factor in this is that a good portion of the at-risk population is vaccinating against the flu, greatly reducing the overall impact.
Are there countries who conduct serologic tests? PCR tests (widely used?) wouldn't catch people who got the infection, developed antibodies with no or mild symptoms, but didn't transmit the virus around at the moment test is taken.

From the article about Covid-19 serologic test development:

> The serologic tests, which are different from the ones used to diagnose active infection, would allow researchers to test the blood of people who were not confirmed cases of Covid-19 in communities where the virus spread. They would be designed to look for signs that people have mounted an immune response after being exposed to the virus.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/cdc-developing-serologic...
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South Korea and Taiwan obviously. And Singapore. Sensible measures taken without damaging everyday life and economy.

Most European leaders have failed us terribly in my opinion. China have bought us time and showed the dangers (WHO report from China have been available two weeks prior to current lockdown). But most European leaders had been reluctant to introduce necessary measures (closing borders, quarantines, partial lockdown, getting supplies)... In March people from all over Europe stiil had been going for skiing in North Italy..

But saying that - begining is always chaotic and politicians are playing catch up with events. It is the middle part of the crisis that matters now.
Author here. Quick sidenote: this is chapter 2 of a book aiming at teaching the terminal and related tooling (make, jq, regular expressions, etc) to beginners and people trying to become developers.

I've been on the job for 10 years and I still use these tools daily. For example, I sent a PR yesterday that was adding a configuration entry on 150+ config files by using find, grep and sed.

I'm not pretending these are the only tools that exist, but darn are they handy sometimes, and good to have in your toolbelt.
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I see the news and see things are getting worse. I have developed anxiety. Also I have WFH mandatory. I don't seem to be handling it very well. Do u have any tips and methods that help you.
You might want to look up what the Green New Deal is supposed to be.
"Everything is just a few percent here and there, and everybody shifts the blame saying we should be cutting XYZ instead of ABC.."

Wow - no, totally not.

The value derived from some kinds of emissions and resulting costs for changing them is infinitely differentiable from others.

For example, changing our electricity grid over to a more renewable resource, piece by piece, will maybe be a little bit more expensive, but it won't be disruptive.

'Stopping all flights' because airplanes emit CO2 could be devastating to the world economy, in addition to a massive reduction in the quality of life of people everywhere.

The factory that produces medical drugs needs some kind of Co2 emissions - probably worth it.

The one producing plastic bouncy balls for pets - probably not.

'The Market' has a lot of asymmetries, but it also contains a lot of intelligence, which is why it's always reasonable to be skeptical of arbitrary, system-wide controls.

Using this crisis for a 'massive experiment in what to turn online next as the basis for CO2' is excessively totalitarian, because we wouldn't really know why, how, what we are doing, and the resulting social pain would be great.

If there were a rational, clean path forward and 'good timing' for the introduction of specific measures, then yes, use the opportunity. But I don't see any of that.
And as discussed previously before in many submissions, hydroxichloroquine is already actively being used against Covid19 by at least the following EU countries:

- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- Italy
The comment you reply to says that.
It worries me that this is not directly addressing the obvious issue of people who will not be getting paid for 3 weeks needing to pay rent(not to mention food and other living expenses). Will this need to be handled at the federal level? What are the options? If it doesn’t get addressed soon the words “rent strike” are going to become louder and louder.
I don't really see how friendships and relationships in general don't align with that sort of model. Can you reduce them to purely mathematical transaction values? Of course not. Are they totally unlike any other markets where two people "trade" and both feel they get something of value? For voluntary relationships (i.e. it's different for your immediate family than for random people you meet): I don't think so. A market-model-based explanation doesn't deny that there's some non-trivial background, it just seeks to analyze how things happen, and it does an okay job in most cases.

The Atlantic article (which I'm obviously not the target audience for, I find them hard to read with all their side stories and presenting n=1 anecdotes as meaningful) seems to not argue about the idea that they are markets, but rather that we shouldn't consider them as markets when we are engaged in it, i.e. if you're having a good time with A, you shouldn't wonder whether you could have had a slightly better time if you had met with B. Don't treat your friendships as you might buying a cell phone. Even business relationships have shifted in that direction, in my experience, it's a pretty recent thing to "shop around" and switch providers because you might save a few bucks.

That's a different issue though, I don't believe that's happening because economists or sociologists use market-models to analyze relationships. Tinder and the commoditization of dating, like-count-fetishizing etc are not a thing because somebody said "hey, you know how car sales work? we should manage our relationships that way". Rather, it's how humans work on a very low level and these technologies and trends are just exposing that by giving people a way to visibly act on it. This isn't new, and pointing it out doesn't cause it, neither will it vanish if we just don't mention it and pretend it's not real.
My usual go to is every time I write an interface, I think to myself: "How easy would it be to explain this module to another developer?"

For every additional change, I look at the module as a whole again, and keep thinking "If we got a new hire, how easy would be for the person to understand this in the bigger picture?"

Understanding is all about mindset. If part of the code starts to do too much, then other developers are likely to make incorrect assumptions of the logic behind that piece of work. The small mistakes slowly compounds over time, and if not taken care of, the whole project becomes un-maintainable.
If that was true there would be more protests in the US than in France. I think the exact opposite of that is true.
I realise even quinine is in the list of essential medicines and also considered safe by the WHO.
how in the world is this serverless?
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Maybe because it's one of few medicines being sold by foreign companies in USA?

America doesn't have a lot of opportunities for foreign players, let alone in such militantly overregulated sector like medicines.
Yes, but I am guessing also if your IP has been used for other accounts and certainly if you use multiple residential accounts from different places (I had my account disabled while travelling). It's pretty sensitive.
I hope these news means that we get a native, Hashicorp-supported Podman plugin to Nomad ;)
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Well yes of course if you're employed with a contract that doesn't represent your working conditions, which is illegal in the first place, you're fucked.
What I meant is that in some countries you can come to work on day x and be asked not to come on day x+1, even with a regular contract, that's going to be very hard to pull in europe, and especially not going to happen if the reason is "took a week of because of the flu".

That's also why there is such a big thing around uber, deliveroo &c. in europe. These types of contracts weren't the norm 20 years ago and are very limiting when shit hits the fan.

In my company we just had the opposite, some dude was very obviously sick, couching for weeks, the CEO couldn't legally force him to take his sick days. So he stayed, and got a few of use sick. So brave and heroic, right ?
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How're those Mars flights treating you? https://nypost.com/2018/03/11/elon-musk-flights-to-mars-will...

Good place to hide out from COVID-19, I'd reckon.
And the UK could change its laws such that that kind of thing is impossible.
It's actually really common in the JVM ecosystem to run private mirrors of Central.
can we give this some visibility?
> This destroys incentive to invest in productivity improvements, because the gains are eaten by wages.

No, the share of returns that go to labor is constant, so productivity gains are split between labor and capital the same as returns prior to the gains are.

In the alternative, capital captures an ever greater share of the returns over time because they are incentivized to invest in those areas that creates the most return to capital.
not it's not just a backup. I backup my vault of course.

it's:

1. a way to access most of my passwords from everywhere even when I don't have access to the vault
2. a way to access most of my passwords even when all of my vault copies and backups are destroyed
To be honest this did give our team a good comical relief in a somewhat stressful time .. :)