skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely possible. That's what large companies are for; they subsume some part of the economy into themselves, intelligently design it in ways that could never be found through an unplanned search, and are greatly rewarded if they do it well. Amazon, for example, found one of the best possible designs for both direct-to-consumer shipping and cloud systems.

But we don't usually think about it that way. Most people who advocate for a planned economy don't want that kind of planning; they think it's bad to innovate in things like how jobs are structured, bad have a single large company in charge of most of your shipping, and bad that Jeff Bezos can build such a good company that his stake in it is worth billions. Planned economy advocates that I see generally want the economy to work how they specifically would prefer, without much regard for whether other people think that's the best way.
Thanks, I wasn't super clear on the timeline there.
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You might be interested in watching this speedrunner go through Psychonauts while the entire dev team watches. I found it entertaining and much more fun than trying to play it myself. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDc1YVxHA0
I’m not the author.
Depending on exactly what you want to work on, also look into using something like Blink[0].

I have several servers set up that I can now easily access from my iPad (or anything with an internet connection and an SSH client). I have one "bastion" server that basically acts as a headless dev box with mosh and tmux set up. As long as I have internet, I can quickly access machines that are far more capable than any laptop I've owned.

Even when I inevitably do need my laptop for something, having this setup is great for continuity [1].

Of course, this is not a drop-in replacement for a proper desktop OS, especially if you aren't a heavy CLI user [2]. However, in a similar vein to "Linux is NOT Windows" [3], you can't expect a mobile experience to be significantly better without being significantly different.

Over the past couple years where I've been dabbling with it, I have made a couple of mentality shifts about how I want to use computers going forward. Even if I don't every use an iPad as my main/only physical device, I now happily carry around one of the 12" Macbooks since I don't need all the computing power on my person.

None of these ideas are particularly new, but I haven't seen many other people really taking it past "SSH into server, run command(s), exit".

[0]: A very well-made SSH client for iOS that supports mosh): https://blink.sh/
[1]: I can shut my laptop even if a large/long job is running since the job is running on a server.
[2]: For some things, I've used VNC or other remote desktop type tools, but this experience also comes with heavy tradeoffs. YMMV.
[3]: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
liveupdate.world was posted on HN a couple of days ago. The numbers of cases have been accurate according to the other sources I've checked, but I admit I have not really evaluated the number of deaths because the country I live in right now hasn't had any. That is my mistake, thanks for pointing it out.

That said, comparing actual numbers against a "worst-case scenario" is also apples and oranges. 97 people in a country of somewhere between 325 and 330 million people... if my admittedly poor math skills are correct, that is about 0.00002%. Yes, that's in roughly a month, but even exponentially it _could_ be worse than cancer, but there is no evidence to suggest it _will_ be thus far.
Rule of thumb: Apparent exponential growth means you've zoomed in too far on the chart you're looking at.

The important change was actually always-on Network access, but that's often muddled up with the step to 512kbps or more commonly 1MBps DSL service labelled "broadband" - because for most users both happened together.

There wasn't then and isn't now a practical need for "10G at home in western cities for everyone". Getting to 10Mbps allowed almost all the applications you'd actually want, and 100Mbps makes that practical if several people in a household are doing different things - maybe you're in a a video conference while the kids watch movies. But continued exponential growth needs a compelling application, and no practical application was found.

Fibre (often muddled together with these higher bandwidth offerings) makes sense for new builds because it's cheaper to produce and has good reliability. But ripping out working copper networks to add fibre is like demolishing an otherwise perfectly good bridge to put in a nicer bridge. It's not impossible but it is a waste of resources.
China's “Bat Woman” Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus
Containers Are Not the Future
Sierra adventure games were my favorite single-player games from my childhood. I understand why a lot of people don't like them, e.g. many of the puzzles have nonsensical solutions, it's possible to get stuck because you didn't get an item in an area that you can't return to, etc. And the games haven't really aged well. But for the time they were my favorite.
Hm, what about some kind of "chaos monkey" where a random number generator decides which countries will be embargoed and for how long? (Half-joking.)
That’s the plausible deniability part of it.
Am I the only one who would prefer the term "physical distancing". Social distancing seems open for confusion by people.

Since when they say "social distancing" it seems to mean stay physically distant from each other.
Dave Shea (CSS Zen Garden), Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman (A List Apart), Jeremy Keith (DOM Scripting), and others who escape me provided the foundation for the CS classes I taught 15 years ago. Thanks guys!
The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design
#4 on the list is taking sleeping pills. In a comment thread somewhere else, the author also said she stopped consuming caffeine, which is notably dismissed in this list.

I need HN to start accepting eyeroll emojis in comments.
According to Wikipedia, when this launched I was about four years old. It’s new to me!
Most FAANG have Canadian offices. If you don't get your visa on time but people go back to work in the office, you can ask them to help you find another team in Canada.
Using promises where? And what's difficult about them?
Elon Musk says Tesla will make ventilators for hospitals if needed
So long as structure and design overlap there will always be some inescapable coupling. The choice is deciding which one should master over the other.
What India is doing to fight Covid-19
I use a room with my team that auto-mutes everyone on a timer, so you have to un-mute explicitly to talk. So we can leave the audio on all the time.

Also, one can use an external mic, w/physical switch and lamp indicator.

Auto-mute has saved me many times tho.
It's a bit better on Android, but far from perfect. And the hardware is not very exciting.
Testing is going to be the source of many scandals. The only group consistently or frequently tested around here (Spain) is politicians. It's also the less transparently talked about issue.

The maps they (we!) are drawing and looking at might be very misleading.
Prioritize games without grinding or fluff. Short games or skill based. Start with games that can be finished in an day or afternoon: Mirror's Edge 1, Braid, Machinarium, Hotline Miami 1...

And if you do not enjoy games anymore, that's fine. Plenty of things to do in the world.
Rookie Data Science Mistake Invalidates a Dozen Medical Studies
Well, yeah, there's not much difference between a histogram and hundreds-of-percentiles. But there's a huge difference between a histogram and just a single percentile (whether it's p50, p95, p99, or whatever).

If you just want to know _if_ something changed then maybe one percentile is ok (though actually: not great). But if you are trying to figure out _what_ happened (or is happening!), a histogram is really important. Most of the time there are discrete behaviors/factors that are driving performance: timeouts, cache hits/misses, one overloaded host, a canary. The shape of the histogram will help you see those in a way that a single percentile can't.
This is only if you use SSR and is the opposite of being able to render with any existing web framework.
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> Although they are thought to be only about half as infectious as individuals with confirmed COVID-19, individuals with undetected infections were so prevalent in China that they apparently were the infection source for 86 percent of confirmed cases.

Figuring out how to manage this risk so we can return to society / open venues at a much lower risk of infection (while not giving all of our data to the government) is a challenge with which maybe some of this site's audience could assist.
Mechanics of randomly packed filaments – The “bird nest” as meta-material
Not the author, but I did write the FAQ entry for this: https://github.com/tbodt/ish/wiki/FAQ#q-why-does-ish-not-emu...
Do you think there would have been as much value historically?

The main part of the appeal of WSL is that it lets me use the Linux dev ecosystem, which (for web work) is larger/nicer than the Windows ecosystem.

I think a lot of this comes from the revenue model -
For example, nginx is free, where IIS cost money.

As the world of cloud computing took off, it was easier to have devs learn Linux than it would be to pay for licenses for each server.

Eventually this meant that more companies were expanding/developing Linux solutions, developers were more familiar with those tools, and you have a self-reinforcing circle.
That's cool to hear. I didn't even know there was lore. I bought the Bolt Action book but haven't cracked it yet. Operation: Whitebox and Osprey Black Ops are just ahead of it in the queue here.

I did recently test out One Hour Skirmish Wargames and One Hour Wargames, and discovered that I'm a major house-ruler. So where minis are concerned, I've been curious to try out that side of the hobby and see if I'm somehow better suited to kit bashing my own minis, which I would guess might be the equivalent there. Currently I use LO Draw and Inkscape for playing out games.

Oh and I've also been impressed by some of the Ogre minis I've seen...

Anyway, you got me excited. Fun stuff. :-)
No, I'm talking about using hundreds of existing server-side web frameworks that output HTML, not Node/React SSR which is far more limiting.
Coronavirus: Some Clinical Trial Data
Half of the "Debian" name comes from Ian Murdock's first name. The other half comes from his then-girlfriend's name 'Debra'. I've never heard anybody castigate Ian/Debian for that.

Somebody naming something after themself seems a little tacky to me, but I don't think it's anything to get bent out of shape about.
> For every confirmed case of COVID-19, there are likely another five to 10 people with undetected infections.

I wish this was reflected more in the numbers being presented by various authorities. There is just too much confidence that confirmed cases are representative of the spread of the virus.

This unknown denominator can change mortality rate, and severe case rate by orders of magnitude.

Because of the dearth of testing in the US, it seems highly likely that far more people are infected, and maybe even recovered.

I'm fairly certain I've just recovered from COVID-19 given my symptoms, but can't get tested here in Colorado. By the time I am able to get tested it seems likely that I won't be shedding the virus any longer, and will test negative.

This article captures my feelings on this very well:
https://blog.longnow.org/02020/03/14/an-epidemic-of-false-co...
Show HN: Puppeteer Cheatsheet to Code Faster
I've known him for more than ten years -- we first met when I was a student in college. In my experience, he's always been helpful, kind, and encouraging.
Also, stock buybacks don’t incur capital gains tax until the appreciated stock is sold. Dividends are taxed when issued.

Maybe there’s an effect of executive compensation, but the standard narrative on buybacks is tax avoidance
Basic YAML, sure, but YAML has some insane features that I don't think would be possible to replicate in JSON. Or, at least, you'd lose some information in the conversion.

For example, YAML supports the concept of reusable fragments. You can define a fragment in one place and reference it further down in your YAML file. A JSON converter could take the final YAML output and turn it into JSON but you would lose the context of the fact that in the original YAML it was an included fragment and not just the same section repeated a few times.
It would be helpful to have it more prominently displayed, after landing and learning a bit about the product the locations is the second thing you want to look at.
nice try ISP executives!
Heatmaps sorta-kinda solve the problem of plotting histograms over time, except of course it's harder to detect differences in brightness than size.
How can QQQ which tracks mostly tech stocks have comparable volatility to SPY?
One of the doctors on one of the press conferences (sorry, can't remember which one), said that she would prefer the term "physical distancing" as well for the same reason.

She said that "social distancing" is a medical technical term that doesn't translate super well to the public.
> ISBNs of all deceased Italian authors

Book.joins(:author).where(author: { deceased: true }).map &:isbn`

> first class transactions / decrement race condition

Book.find(isbn: 1).decrement :copies_in_stock

> Row-locking

Book.transaction do
b = Book.lock("FOR UPDATE NOWAIT").find_(1)
# logic around handling out of stock
b.copies_in_stock -= 1
b.save!
end

Those are all of your examples and the Ruby code that implements the solution you want. (Disclaimer: there are probably small syntax errors here, you get the gist)

Honestly this article sounds like it was written by someone who read a 10 year old Martin Fowler article and decided to critique it without even a cursory understanding of modern ORMs. Even more strangely, when everyone starts pointing out the obvious fact that ORMs do solve these problems in practice, you've decided to move the goalposts to say "oh, well the straw man abstract pattern doesn't solve for these real-world problems."

In the future I'd recommend you familiarize yourself with a problem space before trying to publish on it.
Presumably part or running their country is investing into some projects expected to generate returns in the long run, i.e. building wealth.
Also this fails HN’s guidelines of title editorializing, by including the author’s name.
You're welcome. You'll see soon enough.
Linux didn't win because of POSIX. Linux won despite POSIX. Linux won because it was free and fast.
The Mass Is Still with Us Even Under Quarantine
Can’t remember which, but there was someone who made a CSS library that patterned like a fluent interface.

They had lots of selectors that were adjectives, and most of them composed. So you could have a class=“tiny button” or whatnot.
It's unfortunate that the success of twitter relies on .. going viral.
FWIW automanufacturers in China did this. So this isn't anything, or out of the realm of possibility (we do have more red tape in the US, i.e. see what happened w/ the Seattle Flu Study when people tried to be helpful).

I don't have any English source for this. But Boris Johnson requested the same in England, too.
Bay area rent, maybe. Most of the world pays around $80 for 2 days of rent.
While you're correct in the term being wrong, I don't think anybody misinterprets it. Moreover, the recommended 2m/6ft gap makes it clear that we are talking about physical distance, not purely social.
Adventure games are still not dead! Amanita Designs is making some of the finest games around - in particular, their masterpiece Machinarium. Anyone who even has a passing interest in adventure/point and click games owes themselves the pleasure of playing it. Sublime music and art, a lovely wordless story, interesting setting and characters, and well-designed puzzles.
Thanks to Karl Popper, the scientific method asks that hypotheses be falsifiable. When a scientist makes a claim, she then does everything she can think of to disprove it.

Stage II clinical trials of novel drugs are like this. The hypothesis is "this stuff cures baldness and is otherwise harmless." The experiment is an elaborate attempt to disprove the claim, with enough subjects to avoid the small "n" effect and control-subject randomization to avoid the wishful-thinking effect.

Science tries to avoid claims that things are true. "Not false" gets us a long way. That avoids the Münchhausen logical trap.
Hum, nope. We will not rethink globalized supply chains.

It's a good time to invest in research about knowledge protection and flexible production. It's also a good time to invest in emergency production capacity (best if it's of the flexible kind) by the government, most likely inside the military. (It may also be a good time for most countries to rethink the role of the military.)

But we will not adopt suboptimal methods on the private economy. It doesn't work that way.
But they still have to pay to park those planes, continue to pay lease payments, continue to pay maintenance on those planes, continue to pay for landing and gate spots at all the airports they serve globablly... essentially the only costs that go away are labor that they've put on unpaid furlough, and fuel costs, which if they've hedged, they're essentially paying for anyway.

Airlines aren't an SaaS business where you just scale down AWS and youre good.
Currently CFR for 20-44 year olds is less than 1%, but the troubling bit is up to 20% will need hospitalization, and what if the hospitals are full?

"A new CDC analysis of more than 2,400 cases of COVID-19 that have occurred in the United States in the last month shows that between 1 in 7 and 1 in 5 people between the ages of 20 and 44 in the sample of those who are confirmed cases require hospitalization"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488325-cdc-data-show-c...
cool now do that to the white supremacist side of twitter
Physical engineering is more objective. For example, in designing a bridge an engineer is sandwiched between the architect's illustration and the laws of physics. Bridges can't fall. There are various "gut instinct" design choices to select among, but it's a smaller pool of choices than that of a software architect.
> The new policy bans tweets denying expert guidance on the virus, encouraging “fake or ineffective treatments, preventions and diagnostic techniques” as well as tweets that mislead users by pretending to be from health authorities or experts.

What happens when two experts disagree with each other? This rule seems to assume that experts are all in agreement on everything.
does not being able to socialize qualify as "far from"?
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That's because the supply chain is as immeasurably complex as the real world. Does your model account for the fact that the polish or german government decided to institute border controls and now there is a 40 mi backed up line of trucks delayed? Does it consider the cascading effects of polish truck drivers being unavailable for 14 days of quarantine if they cross into Poland for non-work reasons?
How do you think medical education works? Because it's basically exactly this.
Can you point us to some current sources about ICE arresting people at hospitals?
There is one thing good coming out of this, among all the desastrous things we saw so far.And that is increased awareness of the importance of jobs like nurses, shop clercks, truck drivers, deliverydrivers, warehouse workers and logistics and supply chain management.

of all the companies Isaw, from insideand the outside, in my lifeso far, only the rare minority treated supply chain management and logistics as anything else than cost centers. If that perception changes, supply chains will become more robust. Because all the points that are now visible for everyone due to covid-19 are kind of well known in the supply chain community.

That being said, i don't think global supply chain will go away. After, they survived two world wars so far. And the economic upside of specialization is simply to big to ignore. Supply chans have to become more robust, especially for things needed for events and crisis like we see now. And that part was kind of neglected.
The basic laws of human stupidity (2019)
From the number of deaths you can crudely infer the number of infected, assuming the mortality on the Diamond princess and in South Korea (1%). Demographic effects are in play that don't make this quite right.
I haven't heard this theory before - Twitter started off with SMS, so wouldn't it increase your SMS usage?

Also in my experience by the time Twitter started, lots of people - especially techie people that would have been early adopters - had unlimited texting plans.

They definitely didn't have unlimited data plans by the time Twitter was web-centric.
I've loved watching this app grow from the beginning in TestFlight to what it has become now!
This is great advice! In modern tech there is nonsuch thing as "my resume" only "the version of my resume i drafted to apply to a particular position". The fullstack developer is still wanted, engineering manager just want them to be fullstack in the exact stack their team is using.
A simplified case: how many days are there between Jan 1, 1918, and now? Trick question! Depends on where you ask - USSR transitioned to Gregorian calendar in 1918, dropping Feb 1-Feb 13. (Actually data format which stored dates as "days since 1900-01-01"...in an undefined time zone - years are the same length everywhere, right?)

Anything that deals with historical data still has to deal with this...the same way that Y2k38 started biting in 2008, because people do have calculations that extend for decades from the present.

And those are both actual date computation quirks which I have personally met, in code; that's not to mention the cultural weirdness of "Red October" happening in November.
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Seems to me like the virus will spread with or without any tweets. Twitter would like to think it has enough influence to affect it in any way, but that's simply not the case. Only 10% of Americans read Twitter at all, and the percentage who would read a specific tweet is staggeringly low.
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I think you've possibly misunderstood the actual situation. This is a virus scanner. Analyzing untrusted code is the point.

The JS interpreter isn't there to lay out an interface, it's there to help them understand untrusted code that they find on the filesystem.
Covid-19: In Conversation with Struggling Small Business Owners
For me, getting stuck with MPBs was mostly a function of wanting a higher quality Unix-like laptop. For a long time a vocal contingent of desktop Linux users wanted only ridiculously cheap hardware to run it on.

Thankfully that has started to change, and there are at least a few solid laptops available that ship with some flavor of Linux installed. I hope those options continue to make their way into the ranks of employer issued gear too.