skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking forward to this being released. I briefly tested an iPad pro and was very impressed but wished it had trackpad support so I'm definitely holding off on buying one until this comes out.
New MacBook Air
Mainstream reporting has been saying masks are only necessary to protect against being directly coughed/sneezed on by an infected person. Since the virus can remain active in aerosols it also sounds like a properly fitted mask could protect the wearer when they're anywhere in the vicinity of an infected person.
To make locks touchless, Proxy Bluetooth ID raises $42M
In retrospect, Thiel was, and is right. We are facing a global crisis because we brushed away our most important problems and chose to profit from digital cats and emojis. Time does not forgive those who lag behind, and we are now facing a crisis similar to a global war. Science and tech has institutionally been failing for decades, knows it 's been failing and has generally brushed away those concerns. Our weapons are now ancient, containment is a tool from the 1920s. (I know people are offended by this, i was hoping a global pandemic would be a wake up call)
Integrated development environments, or IDEs for short.
>300 to 800 factories yearly closed their doors in France since the introduction of the Euro.

Have you got a source on that? The data I can find [1] says 600 total have closed between 2009 and 2018.

[1] https://bfmbusiness.bfmtv.com/entreprise/depuis-janvier-il-y...

from this source:
https://fr.slideshare.net/dcousquer/2018-un-ralentissement-e... , slide 5.
What do you mean by "Epicycles"? Are you suggesting the code is written like this by random?
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality
It's hard to see how lower paid jobs are more liveable or provide better quality of life, or how smaller scale and therefore less efficient manufacturing would be better for the environment. I just don't see how these outcomes are supposed to arise.

More resilient, ok maybe, but surely there are other ways that resilience could be achieved through e.g. rolling stockpiling or maintaining flexible manufacturing capability. We don't necessarily need to be able to make our own masks all the time, but have the capacity to make them if needed. there are a range of new technologies coming along that could provide this flexibility, such as 3d printing and flexible robotic assembly systems. That would come at a cost for sure, but could provide the needed flexibility at a much lower social cost than pushing people back into lower value long term employment.
Very misleading headline by the Chronicle. From the article:

> In an email obtained by The Chronicle, Justin Kirkland, a plant manager, wrote to some Tesla employees at the Fremont plant Monday night that they should report to work until they hear otherwise from the company.

> Another email sent to a Tesla employee instructs employees who are following the shelter in place order to take paid vacation days for days they do not show up to work and to contact human resources if they run out of those days.
beautiful. thank you for this.
Agree. I had to wrangle a grizzly at my workplace for IT to allow me on Insider.
Not infected yet
What if I'm beutiful, funny and intelligent? where to go? I'm so confused.
You can’t fix prices unless you’re either willing to sell enough or buy enough to fix it. If you can’t do that then eventually the peg breaks. See the collapse of the dollar gold peg in the 1970s when France wanted gold from the US, or the collapse of the UK’s peg to the DM on Black Monday.
Even the name of the place sounds like it is a derivation from кости: "bones".
Wait, that's not the reason?
Although thinkpads work fine, I attribute this due to the number of developers using them, definitely not because Lenovo is spending ANY money to make it work. This is not how it's supposed to be working. There are a few big issues that are making me reconsider them entirely.

You cannot buy a Lenovo without a Windows license. This is minor considering the price I'm usually going for, but since I don't use it at all, I consider it a microsoft tax.

Their "computrace" bios feature is still there in every new laptop.

With skylake, the last edition of the Yoga and X1 Carbon couldn't do S3 sleep by default anymore. For no other reason than to force windows use S2Idle. It requires a quite annoying work-around on linux to force S3, and only ~6 months ago we finally got a bios patch to re-enable S3...

The temperature throttling defaults are different from linux to windows, causing linux to throttle much more aggressively than needed on skylake. This is also caused by some bios issue which you can work-around with msr registers, but again... why?

I overall like the hardware. I'm quite fond of the built-in wacom pen too. I have minor quibs about the keyboard (QC issues) and screen (all TP I had in the last 5 years tend to develop bright spots in the backlight), but overall it's hard to find something similar. The dell XPS developer line is the only alternative I would be considering, and mostly due to their linux offering.
This. It's way too complicated to let society sort this thing out by themselves. For one, because only the "visible" companies like restaurants will benefit, and e.g. companies in the supply chain will be easily forgotten.
The world community calling on China to close its wet markets is racist. It's their CULTURE, don't you know?

Chang Lang NEEDS his bat soup and pangolin penis.
The government isn't a household.

You have to ask where those 10% are taken from so we can spend them on maintenance. The smartest move would be to immediately slash military budget in half if not more.

But it will likely be taken from education, infrastructure or healthcare/social services.
It opens the JSON file with your default JSON editor (same behavior VSCode had at its beginning, the settings UI came later). They're also going to develop a settings UI for Terminal but it will came later.

Also, since you're a Mac guy you'd be happy to know you can press ctrl + comma to open the settings
Terminal is a defined term - full stop. You cannot interact with a terminal without adhering to a standard (like VT100).
If you're still not convinced and try to tell me otherwise, then riddle me this please: what on Earth does the "VT100-compatible" in PuTTY mean according to you?

A console has its origins in hardware as well, but is a very broad term even there - from game systems to keyboards, many things can be called a console. It's just used to describe hardware or software that enables user interaction with the connected system (be it hardware or software). This is strictly not the case with CLI programs, which don't have to be interactive at all.

A terminal in computer science, however, has one single meaning and definition. You might not agree with it, fine, but disagreement doesn't change facts.

A VT100-compatible SSH client just ins't the same as a `conhost.exe` replacement, no matter how much you want to argue history and commonly understood usage away.
Neither am I an expert, so disclaimers all around :)

The problem of too low UBI seems the biggest practical one. And if we do it somehow needs-based, then it stop being universal, which is one of the supposed advantages - that it absolutely eliminates administrative costs/problems/etc. (But of course those are very fine straw men. Rationally none of those matter. Only that we somehow synthesize a long term (eg. sustainable) strategy to solve the problems that every kind of income/wealth redistribution aims to solve.)

Of course with that attitude we're quickly back to where we are now, needs based assistance programs. Plus a lot of recommendations on how to change them. One of them is that we should stop fucking around - to use the expert terminus technicus - and just give poor people money. Yes, they might even spend it on things that give them some pleasure on the very short term. They might even buy drugs. Not that they can't do that now with some extra steps. (Buy a-okay food with assistance program, sell it for cheaper, buy booze.)

And you are exactly right, the inequality is again completely independent of UBI. It depends on taxes, labor's share of income, etc.

UBI is a magical unicorn, it is assumed to provide everything good. Especially because it's so vague most of the time. (That's why talking about NIT is much easier, it's a rather concrete form of UBI.)
Hiring Remote Engineers?
My instinct tells me that the fraction of the human population which derives substantial, enduring meaning from art, mathematics, fiction, music, etc. is extremely slim. These things are complementary or perhaps supplementary to a larger void of cosmic meaning.

As Camus wrote:

> There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

To me, art, mathematics, fiction, music, etc. are not what comes to mind when I answer that question.
> They can create money by selling bonds...

Did you actually mean it the other way around as in they can create money by buying govt bonds/treasury bills/etc and retire them by selling them back to the market.
Before coronavirus crash, many big corporations broke the No. 1 rule
Yes, and on this case this is completely correct.

But evolutionary theories are so close to pure math (ie., they assume so little empirical knowledge) that it does happen once in a while to have some aspect of them proven on the literal sense.

Every scientific theory has this thing where a complex conclusion is proven to follow from a simpler set of hypothesis. It just tends to happen more often with Evolution.

Edit: On the old text it wasn't clear I agree on this case.
Yes, the difficulty of making machines to test these ideas makes their results less trustworthy. But you're applying am uneven amount of ontological skepticism here. You talk about the 'limits of what could be known', but this applies just as much to your own senses or the existence of society as it does to the validity of scientific models.
This is correct and an answer I give to people on the coasts when they ask why the US govt pays farmers. It is imperative that a country can feed itself.
"could be"
Looking forward to Bismuth necklaces and Bismuth dental crowns.
I was just wondering this. What industrial applications does silver have?

Gold is the most malleable and one of the most ductile metal (can be stretched into a single-atom wire, or flattened into a single-atom sheet), it's a great conductor of electricity and almost non-reactive (therefore non-corrosive and non-toxic).
Console's can be hardware (physical switches et al) as well as web based (AWS Console). "console" is also often used interchangeably with different layers of the stack such as the device you directly interface with (terminal emulator, physical console, etc), the transmission medium (eg RS232, sshd, etc), nor any of the console software stack (pseudo-TTYs et al). Console is a generic term for the management concept whereas "terminal emulator" is a specific term for a software application used to launch a command line.
That's very nice to hear, it must mean that we're doing a good job in Kurento, given that BigBlueButton internally uses Kurento for media streaming ([1]), just like OpenVidu does :-)

[1]: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/architecture.html#kurento...
Surveillance Company Says It's Deploying 'Coronavirus-Detecting' Cameras in US
Like most non-organic things masks "expire" because the manufacture needs to not be liable after a certain date (after all, the manufacturer can't be realistically held responsible indefinitely) and the institutions buying the masks are unwilling to take on the responsibility of determining the quality of their own stockpile so they just trash them and buy more.

The military actively researches this kind of thing and knows exactly how long past it's expiration date many products are good for. I'm unaware of any other organizations that take on this responsibility.
Yeah I think you're correct, its quite indicative of America in general currently.
An empty list is a list of anything. If it were not a list of anything, it would not be a list at all.
On the contrary - that article seems to show that the London fix is a free market process. If an individual bank wants to increase the price of gold they must commit to buying gold at great volumes to cause that market movement. OTOH if all the banks conspire to move gold in some direction, any one of them can betray and profit at the expense of all the others knowing the movement is artificial.
How do you know that 3 apples is less than 8 apples? How do you know when I give you a basket of apples that it contains 3 apples or 8?
Free Tibet.

Free Hong Kong.

Free Taiwan.

Death to the CCP.
America has lost its hive mind
Couldn't imagine my inability to lick my elbow would come in handy some day.
Yeah good point. What I'm saying is authorities have bought bonds in the past, so there's kinda a reason to think there's someone who will support the price in the future.
Ask HN: How should I spend my $1000 check to help my community?
As someone who is fortunate enough to be in a line of work that allows me to (mostly) fulfill my normal responsibilities from the comfort of home with no immediate threat to my job security, along with robust enough savings to support my family in the event that were to change, the proposed $1000 stimulus check, while welcome, wouldn't make a substantial difference in my day-to-day finances. However, it has me questioning how I might use the money to help support those most directly impacted by the closure of restaurants, bars, and other small businesses. A few ideas come to mind, but I'm curious to hear what others think of how best to use this (still theoretical) money to support their communities.

- Gifting to family or friends who are directly impacted

- Donate to local food bank or other charities/funds established to support those impacted

- Spend the money at neighborhood businesses facing the risk of insolvency
Maybe, I'm guessing, when you're at such a niche area of science like topological edge states in honeycomb plasmonic lattices you've got to double back to calling things simple shit in name-pairs just to keep everyone onboard.
The same thing is happening in the UK, or at least parts of it. I have an appointment coming up, and got a phonecall telling me it would now be done over video link.

The person for very apologetic, but I was like, "Can I have this all the time please?!".
> I hope that I live long enough to read the book-length historical treatment of the late 90s/early-2000s obsession with XML.

The alternative was SGML. Would you have preferred that, because that was the 'only' over option at the time.

It would be like saying twenty years from now: "wow, I'd love to learn why people used fossil-fuelled cars instead of EVs: ICE cars are so inferior". Well, at the time nothing better had been developed and we did the best we can.
I'd like to note that Socrates' syllogisms only address a small fragment of predicate logic. It coexisted and competed with the propositional logic of the Stoics. Predicate logic did not achieve its power as we recognize it today until Frege. http://hume.ucdavis.edu/mattey/phi112/history.html
Executing the infected hardly seems like something to take a victory lap over regardless of nationality.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.sysadmin.recovery/...
I didn't know about this so I looked it up:

> The plaintiffs in the lawsuit presented substantial evidence that implicated Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios president Ed Catmull as a ringleader of the illegal wage-fixing scheme. The Walt Disney Company has done nothing to reprimand or punish Catmull for his questionable actions, and he continues to serve as the leader for both Disney and Pixar animation studios.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/animation-workers-...

Pretty damning if true. Anyone got a better/additional source?
A distinctive feature of a pandemic event is that it really is a global thing. Even the world wars could claim to have quiet fronts... and that matters as a global society. Normally - since the modern era
began - we're in a default state of national competition and every country is under some obligation to work itself to the bone and exploit what it can to get ahead of the others. Hence the default response to crises has long been "keep a strong international image, maintain business as usual". The crisis harms a select group somewhere and everyone else ignores it. But we did periodically have pandemics, and each one changed the character of things going forward.

And it's clear why that is the case; you can't really get ahead if you don't take care of the disease. The as-usual response fails because it affects everyone. Even AIDS, which was approached so, so reluctantly, eventually got an organized response.

And this response is more likely to be humane than most crisis management because there is so little room to evade the issue and try to fit it into the usual powermongering circus.
ARM SBCs are very custom (for example, in RPis, the GPU is actually the main processor...), therefore specialized distros are required for full support.

If the target is full support with standard distros, then one needs to go for x86 SBCs. As far as I know, the only (relatively) cheap one is the ODROID H2.
This story isn’t about the difference between bin and sbin.

edit: Clearly I'm missing something in the linked article because I'm being downvoted. Could someone show me what I'm missing?
Surge in Covid-Themed Cyberattacks
They become so scarce that Turkey has put these masks under a prescription regime.
> What if information could be revoked?

What if information can't be revoked on systems outside your control? That's the reality, however many secret handshakes you do, blockchain, etc, eventually some person or process knows something and can do something with it (e.g. copy it).

You could pull a gmail and say, there is no human in the loop, it's just a process of personal data ingestion and ads come out the other end. That might be more comforting if it was open source, but even open systems have things can be hidden in obscure technical details.

The truth is, we are all human, including our leaders. Your average human is weak and susceptible to trading a vast privilege like having control of everyone's whereabouts for favors (e.g. money, position, control, sex, etc...).

I'm a sucker for an open source process (e.g. robot) that would look at the data and tell us who needs to be quarantined, but again, you still have human technical people, with all their failings, controlling the system (e.g. source code). How much do you trust the open source process is a matter open for debate.
Hope your friend is doing alright. I’m talking to my sister about a project for small businesses and gig economy workers today. Hopefully we can get something going. Let them know that the New Orleans Business Alliance has also set up a fund for people out of work for 7 days or more!
The demand for USD being too great is not because the American economy is strong, but rather because there is $12 Trillion in dollar denominated debt owed by the rest of the world. At 2% interest this is $240 Billion worth of USD that has to be paid out every year.

And now because of the world economy shutting down, those dollars aren't being fed back into the markets outside of the US, meaning that no one can generate the cash to repay their loans.

This is why cash is so high priced right now, even while the Fed is desperately trying to lower it. It's also why gold and silver are taking a beating. In order to raise cash not to default, foreign corporations and governments have no choice but to sell everything they own, including gold and silver (as well as cryptocurrencies).
That didn't take long...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22613426
To my house, I will paint you like a French girl.
The Helpful Engineering project has several thousand volunteers and a global scope: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cM87eJdXhP_8e9gJJZ_SnZXd...
In logic non-existing objects have all properties, including contradictory ones. This follows from the fact that in propositional calculus from a contradiction (or from False) everything can be concluded. I.e., P /\ ~ P -> Q.

One could conclude that the definition of -> is not very logical but if one is to attach a formal meaning to -> it would seem hard to avoid this. One would need conditions like that when P -> Q we have to have that P and Q are related in some way but that does not sound like something that is very easy to formalize.

It also does not matter whether one uses intuitionistic logic. P /\ ~ P -> Q still holds.

In type theory False is the empty type and proving something about it can be done with case analysis. Since it is the empty type there are zero cases and one is immediately done and can prove anything.
Agreed, I actually see plenty of settings dialogs in complex products with a search function nowadays (cmder, Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider etc).
I agree with others: everyone has heard of "flight to gold" and no one has heard of "flight to silver" If many inexperienced people panic it would be natural that they buy gold instead of silver or even copper for that matter.

This will possibly change, the ratio go down, as people move from "panic flight" to "considered flight" as the crisis deepens and as people become more knowledgeable. And if the price of gold becomes too high for many people.

Perhaps the best thing is to avoid anything that has speculative value or irrational value at this time. Gold has some irrational value because fewer people trading it have a full understanding of alternatives etc.
The whole "say someone's name 3 times in a mirror" predates Beetlejuice by a long stretch. That said, I don't know of any of the those myths that ended in happy endings for those saying the name, so I think your main point still stands. ;)
Firebase Hosting is superior to any of those alternatives you mentioned (netlify, amplify, zeit etc) in terms of capability. With the added benefit of tight integration with other firebase products (analytics, authentication and cloud storage).
Covid-19 live maps: impact on perception
Top question: Is the keyboard a butterfly keyboard or is it more like the new MacBook Pro's 16 inch keyboard?
They're taken from thin air. The Fed just prints it.
South Korea’s Mirae Asset Leads $500m Funding in Impossible Foods
By all means keep little silver or gold in the case the whole society collapses or for emotional reasons. You don't have to defend it. You have to defend the argumentation you arrived into it.

The problem I had your comment was the rationalization for what you did.

When US was trying to hold to gold standard, population growth was high and the country was barely industrialized, you could expect inflation. None of the reasons that applied then apply today.

(Gold standard is similar to debt in denominated in foreign currency. It can cause out of control inflation and even hyperinflation.)
See the following videos by Scott Hanselman. They walk through a lot of things and a pretty functional end result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0PPcUUtHlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHhiMf_6exY
I wonder how effective it would be to make an exam like this when you are at your healthiest as a baseline.

Then when you are not doing that well your values can be compared to your baseline and not the average person.
What? Gold is used in a lot of electronics.
New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
The EU commission was criticizing Trump for banning flights from EU, before banning them themselves a few days later.

It's a circus.
Facebook announces public NTP service
At least if this keyboard goes bad, it's a simple component swap instead of RMAing an entire computer. IT departments could keep them in stock like they do other spare parts.