skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated - is there a term for exhaustion of opinions?

I swear you could go into any HN comment thread related to this outbreak and it breaks down to; Person A saying X is going to happen and then Person B saying Y is going to happen and then Person C saying that No! Z is going to happen!

How did everyone get so opinionated about something so unpredictable and unprecedented? In any case I think we should all calm down regardless of how dangerous this situation is. Stay sane, everyone!
If workers unionize right now, then it will probably put the general public opinion against the workers. Specially as the pandemic get its way into the US, and more and more people self quarantine, and start relying in delivery services for all their shopping
>War rhetoric

Wait, like a real war? Who's talking about a war? Between what parties? I have heard nothing about a war, please explain.
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I wrestle with this too, but I think it can be useful if you understand the limitations and usefulness of it for yourself. I know that the type hints are way for me to think more carefully about what I want the functions to do and how I'd like them to respond. I'm not expecting the type checker to enforce correctness or optimize better, I'm simply hoping that the tools will help me write the best code I can for my uses. I think it's analogous to a writer working with an editor: the writer is allowed to write whatever they want, but the editor's job is to analyze it and provide suggestions to make it better. The writer has to decide what to do with those suggestions. Sometimes hinting gets in the way and I hate it, but sometimes it helps me. I try to use the help and ignore the interruptions.
Debating the classification of life, while otherwise interesting, should not derail a conversation about practical steps to fight an ongoing pandemic.
The government would absolutely step in and stop a strike at Amazon right now, or just about any other business. Anyone trying to strike right now would be run out of town by citizens with torches as well. It might sound like a good idea in the abstract, but if you factor in the emotional state of the country, people would be up in arms and those on strike would get zero sympathy.
John Carmack building an AI on years of TV, video games, and chat rooms
I know it's way too late but the majority shareholder of that company confirmed your interpretation in an interview.
In most of the cases where I’m using a list or array, I’m adding items to one end and then iterating forward over the structure a handful of times.

But, yeah, if you’re relying heavily on random access, pick a vector/array or some kind of tree/hash table.
> During the measured period in August 2018, it was found that 55.7 percent of consumers with an income of 75,000 U.S. dollars and more had an Amazon Prime membership.

I dunno where you live, but if a lot of your customer base in in this income range, you’re a good deal outside the median in the US.

> What do you think family's opinion of UAW would be if they represented workers in Toilet Paper, Clorox, and Food manufacturing and got those plants to shut down and they could no longer get those products?

I grew up knowing a fair amount of farmers and people manufacturing the exact kind of stuff you’re describing. Very few of them would side with the bosses. Most of these people in the Midwest are going to local grocery chains (there are huge regional players in the Midwest) to buy this stuff, not buying off Amazon. Going to Target or Trader Joe’s instead of these stores is seen as status signaling.
Making devices that are not general purpose computers does not take away general purpose computers.
From the article:

"... quinism, which can be marked acutely by psychosis, confusion and risk of suicide, and by lasting psychiatric and neurological symptoms."

I am so relieved! I've been chewing on cinchona bark and eating zinc tablets for four days but was uncertain of dosage!

Thanks to this life-saving article I stopped the cinchona and, 4 hours later, the menacing anteater in the corner has gone away, my shotgun is back in the closet, and I no longer hear sleigh bells ringing. Maybe I can get some sleep now, once the itching stops.

Best of all, no coronavirus either!
If it wasn’t going to cause problems for people in trains or busses, I would suggest a law requirering phones to turn off/hibernate if they detect that they are moving faster fast than 10km/h.
Everything started by this paper published by The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2213-2600%2820...

It's not yet confirmed, more research is needed.

By now WHO has changed it's mind about not recommending and seems to be neutral. Here's the story: https://www.sciencealert.com/who-recommends-to-avoid-taking-... . Still, the probability that there is link between ibuprofen and corona is as high as not having the link..
Those toggles are not inert, it does loudly throw errors if I revoke any permission of Google Play Services
"Europe" is a big place, though. I fully expected everyone to have kitchen scales when I moved here from the US, but honestly, folks around here use a measuring cup. Flour is measured in dl, salt in teaspoons (or parts of them). I think the standard teaspoon is 5ml and the Tablespoon is at 15ml.

I happen to have scales: The large volume scale was easy to find. The scale that would measure things like salt? not so easy to find and not cost effective at all.

I'm in Norway, by the way.
Uhh, show me evidence that China's official numbers and South Korea have r0 above 1 please. It looks like it's finally under 1 right now...
If you shop at walmart, there is an option to add a receipt to your account by scanning the barcode in the app (or it shows up by itself when you use walmart pay). These can be retrieved online from anywhere (not just the app) and is how I do it, way easier than you think. It basically comes down to

$(".icon-button-children").each((index, item) => ($(item).click())) // expand all items

$(".LinesEllipsis ").each((index, item) => console.log(item.innerText)) // record the stuff

on https://www.walmart.com/account
That's a really odd keyboard layout: querty that omits the spacebar and puts space under backspace.
Show HN: Deep Dive into Spark and Join Optimizations
(For those who don't know, Byuu is a member here and will likely see comments in this thread.)

Hi Byuu. You don't know me, but I've been a fan of your work since the early days of bsnes. I've also seen at least some of your "detractors'" criticisms, while lurking. (My "favorite" was that you don't know enough math to emulate the 3D graphics of the N64, because you didn't stay in school. I didn't know they taught how to write SNES emulators in school either... Maybe I was sick that day.)

Anyway... Please don't be too hard on yourself. I think you're more mature than most(?) of your critics, and more importantly, you've made several comments and actions that make me think you have a genuine desire to self-improve.

Social graces seem to come more naturally to some people than others. The rest of us have to work it out for ourselves. You're a smart person, so I know you can do this if you devote the time to it. Of course, thinking of yourself as smart tends to be an obstacle, and the journey tends to start where you least expect it.

If you'll allow me to give a word of caution, avoid distractions. Spend some time by yourself pulling back from people online, and not writing code either. There are problems in life that no amount of code can help. If you really want to solve this, don't get too caught up in exploring Tokyo either. :)

I'm sorry if bsnes/higan hasn't made you happy, but if you still have some energy left, I know you can find a way to get what you really want out of life.

Thanks for your incredible effort, and godspeed.
This happens extremely often in Greece, targetting clueless tourists.
The more important part of the introductory comment was "then it misinterprets the relevance of these results for a headline."

The effect is known, and known to be insignificant. Generating headlines for reproducing a known insignificant effect is not helpful.
Then it's irrelevant to the OP. Just because there's an article about a company doesn't mean the comments need to be filled with random unrelated grievances from years past.
I would be sympathetic.
Shoplift toilet paper? That would be funny to watch.
Thank you too! It's important feedback to hear that the explanations are helpful, because otherwise I need to recalibrate how I do it, or just (if it's not working) do less.

People are most welcome to ask further questions if there's something we haven't explained yet. I'm slowly building up a corpus of links to previous explanations, which is why my answers are so full of HN Search links. Eventually we might compile all that into some web pages.
My wife suspects it started in Hong Kong. People started buying all the toilet paper so they could make masks from them. Then people in other countries saw on the news that toilet paper was running out in Hong Kong so they started panic buying as well.
Maybe it's not a good idea to upvote these layman ramblings and influencer opinions.
I find 4chan a quite friendly place in contrast.

This forum seems focused on hate and trying to harm people.
Re data entry: was thinking this through a lot recently.
Basically what I'd like to build requires either (1) product recognition vision like Google Lens offers, or (2) a barcode scanner and an extensive barcode product database. Both can be combined of course.

My solution would be to read frames from a smartphone's camera until a barcode is detected. This can be achieved with eg Firebase ML, on-device. If a barcode database lookup gives a product, put it on the in/out list. If not, send the frame to a product recognition vision service. This could be Google Cloud Vision AI, but they don't give you access to their product set that backs Google Lens.

Finally, provide controls to adjust the number of items on the in/out list

I thought about OCRing supermarket receipts too but these differ so greatly in layout etc. per country I figured it's not the way to go

Edit: Problem you run into as not all of this can be done on-device is privacy concerns of coursem just my thoughts on what interface I'd like to have
I'd be awfully hesitant to trust factual claims made by people who speak and behave as that site's users do. Nothing I've seen from them suggests a willingness to scruple at fabricating evidence.
as a male, i also use it for #1 and #2. but, i guess as a male you use less on the #1.
Imagine if the whole pandemic could have been prevented if we just manufactured masks at a higher rate and everyone wore them.

Now even hospitals are running out.
> approximate the system by modeling it as hydrogen, regardless of what element it actually is

That's fascinating. I found corresponding statements in a Wikipedia article:

> Rydberg atoms have a number of peculiar properties including an exaggerated response to electric and magnetic fields, long decay periods and electron wavefunctions that approximate, under some conditions, classical orbits of electrons about the nuclei.

> The core electrons shield the outer electron from the electric field of the nucleus such that, from a distance, the electric potential looks identical to that experienced by the electron in a hydrogen atom.
>They mention Google in the first sentence.

Sure. But the title is what it is.
No mention of NetHack?
Not an expert is no way, so I could be wrong, but in python could you use signal.SIG_DFL to have that expected behavior:

# cat.py
import sys
from signal import signal, SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL
signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_DFL)

for line in sys.stdin:
print(line)
Also, disease and death from disease was more a cultural norm at the time. From scarlet fever, diptheria, rubella, smallpox, dysentary, cholera, mumps, measles, chickenpox, on and on. Disease hadn't been conquered to the extent that the 21st Century world assumes. We've lived for almost eighty years with penicillin etc. This shapes how we will handle the pandemic.
By that logic, with those numbers (and if 1M is the total globally), then we “lose” almost as badly to the seasonal flu, every year.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t care about deadly illnesses. But the world is a dangerous place, and we’ve been pretty bad about changing that, historically.

Also, if we ruin 5 million lives to save (some percent of) 1 million, is that worth it? How about ruining 50 million lives? We can save lives with drastic measures, but drastic measures will have bad consequences too, and it seems like nobody has any perspective on that.
It's also worth noting that if our economy starts deflating (basically inevitable at this point), real incomes will rise. So $15 an hour next month is like $20 an hour last month (or some ratio like that).
Not with over 1 billion people and the western world on its knees. If anything, their going to progress far faster than anyone else once this is over.
While that supports people, which is the most important thing, it does not preserve the status quo jobs.

That means that when we are able to restart the economy, we start with massive unemployment and with companies which have simply ceased to exist. Much better to just put everything in the deep-freeze and then pull it out, ready to go when we can.
It's proto-banking, eh? They skipped the earlier phases of finance.

It reminds me of the aliens in Douglas Adams' who, having fifty arms, are the only species to invent under-arm deodorant before the wheel.
Striking in order to exploit a global disaster for personal gain would be a great way for organized labor to turn many people against them for a life time. It may work in the short term, but even that is debatable. Many people would gladly see the national guard break a strike if it's between them and basic essentials. Long term, the optics of that kind of move are so damning that it would likely be a net-loss.
Sure, they can try to convince people to spend money but you don't have to follow it, and then there is adblocker too.
I got desperate this morning and woke up early to wait in line outside of a store before it opened (which on its own was insane), only to find that they didn't have any stock come in overnight. Rushed over to the next store -- queue of people around the block waiting to get in. Drove to another town at 7:30am and tried their store, and they had TP but only small packages, limit of one, and I got one of the last ones. Not looking forward to doing this again in a week or so, but at least we got some.
Well sure, you don't just lay all your cards out on the table when you've got a good hand going.

There are already rapid antibody tests available. It's extremely curious to me why they haven't been used or we at least aren't seeing any data that they have.

This isn't about a rapid test, but is still interesting:
https://globalbiodefense.com/headlines/singapore-first-to-te...
This is the definition of land contract, so maybe that’s a better analogy.
It happens in every crisis, across every culture, and has been happening for decades.

One hypothesis is it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. The other is it's the defence of an intimate space.

Either way, it’s older than this crisis.
Yes. Absolutely. While you may very well have long-term success without a degree, in a lot of industries a lack of a degree limits your upward mobility. I work with some very talented and experienced individuals who are self-taught. They are paid very well and are well-respected. However, they've also reached the upper bounds of their career. I also work with people who may be slightly less knowledgeable about the specifics when compared to those self-taught individuals, but they are the ones who get promoted and have no limit to their career potential. Why? They have a college degree, often a Master's. It has very little to do with coding experience. In most cases it has to do with everything ELSE that you learn in college. Problem solving in areas you may not be familiar with; "learning how to learn"; understanding different viewpoints or unrelated subject matter. College helps you to become a more well-rounded individual and, more importantly, a better LEARNER. All the people I hear saying that college is a waste of money and useless are missing the point and are limiting themselves.
> Are user-submitted links safe to open?

No.

Well, most of them are, and when one that is unsafe is detected the mods kill it, and when the mods don't see it, the users put a comment and flag it (when it has enough flags, it is killed automatically).

Also, after a few (or even one) problematic submission, the mods may put the site in the autokill list, and ban the user. So most of the time the bad submissions are just [dead].

If you see something very bad, you can email the mods hn@ycombinator.com

To flag the stories you need 200 karma. Here you get one! Use the flag button wisely when it is available to you.
Cardiac arrest has been noted as one of the results of COVID-19; it's not just the ARDS that gets you, but at some point, most terminal patients arrest.
Also completely broken from (I think) US residential IP addresses (wget'ed html does not contain page text at all).
At least they were transparent about having a mic that's always listening.

Google sneaked a microphone in some speaker device trojan-horse style, enabling it only when lots of such speakers were already deployed. Sneaky.
> with a worse screen, camera, cpu, etc that they use for hours every single day.

I'm not sure I agree that people are necessarily making poor decisions. "Worse" is a contextual parameter.

I have a 6S+ from 2015 that I am still using and it works fine for me. I'm debating whether to replace the battery or buy a whole new phone in the fall. Camera quality long ago exceeded what I care about so I no longer even consider the camera when considering a phone, though I have friends for whom it's very important. Both of us are correct. Same applies to screen (my main reason for considering an upgrade), cpu etc. They are adequate for my needs.

OTOH I will be buying a close-to-top-of-the-line iPad Pro I can use for demos (just yank it out of my bag and go) that would actually run more slowly on my laptop! Yet the specs of such a machine are absurd for most people.
We're not a startup, but what helped us nail delivery down is actively choosing between releasing feature sets or releasing on a schedule. You can't realistically get both. If you can, having a rolling release every two weeks that includes everything that's gone through Q&A means you have constant progress, no matter how slow it is. The other end of the spectrum is digging your head down until you get a set of features out and doing a release once that's done. Having constant rolling releases relieves your team of a lot of unnecessary pressure and is also a roundabout safeguard against feature-creep. I'm aware it doesn't work for a lot contexts, but if you can make it work, it's great.
if there's massive unemployment many people are going to be happy just to have a job and will not want to risk losing it
There is a good book covering the development of computing in Kyiv in those days:

intro: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/DIFFERENT/StoreEternally.ht...
pdf: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/TXT/MalinovskiyBN_StoreEter...

Some more about Kateryna Yushchenko on the Museum's website: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/Ushchenko-memoirs.html

See also: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/museum-map.html
I attended a 3-day online conference with 300 people - tools organisers used:
This week I attended a conference that had to change plan -- like 100s of other conferences - and move online.

There was about 300 attendees. The event went very well.

Below is a list of tools they used:

- Mailing list: to engage the conversation with registered attendees before the start of the conference.

- Typeform: to collect information before the start of the conference.

- Loom: to communicate voice + shared screen messages with attendees

- Zoom: to host keynotes, panels (and stage managers); audience could Q&A, chat and "raise hands"for each "room."

- Mighty Network (white label social network): for attendees to create profiles, chat with each others via direct messages and group messages; plus a newsfeed.

- The organisers had built their own platform for attendees to browse the program (keynote, panels and workshops) and link those to each dedicated Zoom conference room. That worked fantastically.
Chinese Americans objectively have better SAT and ACT scores (so much so that they get screwed by affirmative action policies)

Maybe Chinese themselves aren't "more capable" but the Chinese elite who can get to America and likely the Chinese elite who stay in China are certainly "more capable"

They have a collectivist culture with "tiger parents" who force kids to study far harder than the average throughout the non Asian world. Sometimes, stereotypes are simply true.

The only reason the civil servants do dumb stuff like you describe is the CCP. If you removed literal communism and the orwellian society, they will beat us long term. Imagine that the government of Taiwan ran modern China. It would be unstoppable...
Extreme testing policies wouldn’t hide exponential growth - if it is growing exponentially, you’d expect the number of people meeting the criteria to also grow exponentially.
If the heart attack was caused by the cold, we'd say the cold killed the person.
Even on an HDHP, the discount you get by going through insurance is significant. For a recent bill, my insurance website shows:

Total amount billed: $771
Plan discount: $699
Plan paid: $0
You may owe: $73

Because I haven't hit my deductible yet, the plan didn't pay for anything, but I got their negotiated pricing, so I'm only paying ~9.5% of the "billed rate".

> But the expectation is that you “negotiate”, which is one the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of. Why can’t my insurance company do that?

If you have insurance, you're not expected to negotiate - the insurance company does that for you. That's the "plan discount" quoted above. You have to negotiate if you don't have insurance.

Not defending the system - I think billing is incomprehensible and hard to stay on top of. Just pointing out that you get significant benefits from being insured even if you never hit your deductible.
The folks in Green Bay say they're busy making more. That's the difference between toilet paper and money. If you run out of toilet paper, you can print more.

... oh, wait. ;-)

But seriously, I think there is probably no fundamental shortage of the ability to make more TP. When you drive through northern Wisconsin, you will see huge stacks of wood all over the place.
> Stocking up to prepare for a crisis isn't 'panic buying'. It's actually a pretty rational choice

That's because stocking up in preparation for a crisis happens when there is no crisis and you buying a thousand rolls doesn't trigger other people to do it; they just shake their heads and mutter 'prepper'.

Panic buying something when the crisis has already started just means that uncritical people will also panic buy that thing and everyone, including you, suffers because now there are queues just to get in to the supermarket even if you don't want to buy that thing.

So it's only rational if you discount the rest of the system.
Based on downvotes I'm gonna go ahead and guess that there is no war (aside from the wars that are already going) and this use of the word "war" was referring to something else. Still I would like someone to please confirm that there is not a real war coming.
It is strange how aggressive people can be against such ideas.