skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how we do the API -

- Database models should contain all the possible mechanisms/methods for data I/O

- Data Transformation utilities/ helper functions that do one job well, that is - sort, filter, validation, whatever
-- -- If an API is using (more on API below), utils become immutable code

- Finally the API level
-- -- treat the API code as immutable, once shipped
-- -- The code should look like a pipeline of functions
-- -- -- eg: serialize(...) validate(...) filter(...) db(...)
-- -- -- need not be chained
-- -- new API version, new router, new routing logic

- Review API with an intent to extract out any possible util methods. final API methods should look like a series of data transformation functions

- Overtime the utils would become extremely messy, but the APIs would be very clean

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The layer running business logic would be the most interacted with layer, if you can keep it clean, then you can keep frustration low in your fellow devs. A lot of people can work on the API level, irrespective of their experience.

Utils and Models should be managed by more experienced devs. Rate of change in Utils and Models is quite low as compared to the rate of change in the API levels.

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Not sure, I guess I am writing something very trivial and obvious.
This ignores the area where the rich do the most climate damage - with corporate activities.

Individuals and poor people don't cut down hectares of rainforest, kill hectares of soil with mass monoculture farming, spill billions of barrels of oil into the ocean, etc. All these things are done in pursuit of more profit (or at least more revenue). The beneficiaries of these activities are the rich - the execs, shareholders, banking partners, VCs, etc.

I would guess that the scale of damage done -- the disparity of climate harm between rich people and poor people -- is far greater than the individual rich vs poor personal energy consumption.
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When looking at Nature as a system, it seems obvious to me that this virus is some kind of attempt to address the current imbalance. I'm personally curious how long it will take for nature to understand the feedback from what the virus is doing.

This is an area of research that I wish I could focus on. It would be beneficial to us if we could understand what inputs nature is using to determine if the system is balanced.
Us "Rich People" have agency to push entropy aside, using energy as a resource, in a way that people in undeveloped areas do not.
'Noughties', rather, from the word 'nought'. I don't think it caught on because 'nought' is a bit old-fashioned; more common to hear 'zero' these days.
The greatest tragedy is we have 50 years of lost geniuses doing Quant work for Wallstreet instead of making scientific breakthroughs.
It is ridiculously commercialized. If you search for a topic and there is a commercially available product that happens to have the same name, good luck finding relevant info.

Or what is new and even worse, if there is a news article about a certain topic, Google will heavily drive the traffic their way, regardless of the quality of the article.

There are few topics left where search results aren't just shit.
1) Real inflationary problems are always about money supply, not regular changes in supply/demand.

When Chavez goes nutty, people don't want his currency, it starts to crash, he prints to pay his bills, it really crashes. This is where all the inflation crisis comes.

2) The 'milk substitute' thing I think illustrates the opposite point you're trying to make. Having to give up Milk to drink water is a severely negative consequence! Projected across all of one's lifestyle and habits, it would be comparable to giving up a car to ride only the bus. Giving up Netflix for 'library books'. This implies a serious degradation in the quality of life.

If anything though, we've been concerned about deflation for a very long time, not inflation.
Declaring in international health emergency for an infectious disease is exactly warning of a possible pandemic. That's what it's for.
It can be used to effectively stop it. Flattening the curve doesn't work if we need to put people in quarantine for a year, no one will accept that. But if we wait long enough until there's at least some treatment, we can loosen restrictions then. I guess that's the plan of most governments now. Because without a treatment, the current strategy will backfire when rules have to be relaxed again in a month or two.
I read the Diamond Princess study and the 19% figure is not based on following up with departed passengers. They're using some probability estimation based on the 50% discovered cases, I assume they're trying to account for people who had mild symptoms but not at the time they were tested. They identify flaws in the study though: the passengers were mostly old, so they are more likely to be symptomatic. They also didn't test everyone on the boat, only vulnerable, or symptomatic people, so their base numbers are missing some number of asymptomatic cases. It's not a great study really but I think you could take 19% as a low bound on the figure and in wider society 50% is plausible.
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I'm not sure "their quest to control the spread of misinformation" is the reason behind this, as the search quality got lower and lower before the whole panic around misinformation started.

My guess would be that Google is tailoring their search engine to ~80% of the queries and optimizing for those, so when you're searching for the 20%, it's really bad. But when within 80%, it works great.

I remember back in the day when you had to know how to search in order to find things. Some people were better than others and different search engines had different tricks. Nowadays it seems like trying to optimize your search query makes it worse, and most engines just deal with generalized queries.
> Had you purchased BTC 8 hours ago when I made that post, the 'store of value' of your purchase would have yielded an increase in 8% in a matter of hours while everything else in the stock market and fiat currencies is tanking.

Wow, now you're using the massive volatility as if it's some sort of benefit for something you're selling as a 'store of value'

If I'd bought a month ago I'd be down 50%.

You really are off on one.

Also that's hilarious "I won't address your arguments on the internet because I get paid for that, so I'm just going to tell you I already won the discussion without actually taking part".

LOL. Amazing.

The foresight you claim has had over ten years to play out now, and we've just had failure after failure after failure. The world has not been changed by it. It's time that the players in this space demonstrated real benefits or stopped the grandiose claims. Preferably both.
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Not universally. In Germany, there is only a federal decree guaranteeing 56kbit/s modem speed, and this is not a human right but merely an obligation to the state telco.
Years ago there was an excellent tricorder app that had some of this functionality, as much as phones from 2009-2010 allowed. It was really nicely put together and worked great, while keeping the whole TNG aesthetic on point.

Unfortunately, CBS had other ideas and had it banned. Well done them.

https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/cbs-demands-removal-of-moon...
You've got to think for a moment about how your actions impact other people and vice versa.

For example, if you say, "This is my land, I'll do whatever I want on it - it's my right as the owner of the property;" but you're dumping industrial waste into the stream that flows through it, then you're negatively impacting your neighbors downstream.

The poor person downstream who has no clean water may be jealous of your fancy car and house, but chances are they are more concerned with how you've ruined their resource by your own greed.
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How hackers rob crypto exchanges and get away with it?
Static IP addressing inside the tunnel is still a major pain point for significant use-cases, e.g. company-wide VPN access for all employees. How do you do static addressing for 200+ people with their own devices?
Structured data and tools that operate on that structure. Maybe steal a thing or two from LISP machines. I remember the one time I had to work on an AS/400 (iirc) how interesting it was that one of the fundamental building blocks were records instead of dumb files. PowerShell has interesting ideas too, but it'd need to be far more built-in and integrated to the OS to truly shine.
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Testing alone won't help us unless we can really test everyone. Germany already has broad testing and some areas are discussing to close down testing facilities as there's no benefit from testing at the moment. Positively tested people are as much quarantined as everyone and the personnel used for testing would better treat other patients.

Testing only really makes sense if we either can test everyone to ensure we can eradicate the virus by isolation, or if we have medication to define who should receive treatment.
At this point, I think it's just appropriate to say "we don't know yet". This is a new virus, and not much is known about it yet.

And that is why drug development needs to go parallel with a vaccine. If a vaccine fails, we can fall back to drugs to prevent people from going into ICUs (hopefully).
Overestimates of the severity of the threat have much less harmful consequences than underestimates. For a start, actual casualty statistics are not independent from mitigation actions taken.
It's not your server.
If you ask me - No, politicians never learn anything. They are motivated by ideology (Macron and Ursula Von der Leyen still talk about open borders) and short term gains.

But that is normal in democracy. Crisis always looks like a mess. Like the begining of WWI in France and UK. Permanent political crisis, quarels in parliaments, governments falling, hysteria, royal family changing name, generals fighting each other.

Until today no one knows who started Marne counter offensive. What matters is that someone did.
It's something I first read from the Goldman Sachs client call notes that has been circulating:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/03/16/the-priva...

Certainly not the best citation, and I have no idea where GS gets their analyses, but seems plausible enough that I'm at least hoping there could be some truth to it. See e.g. India, the virus doesn't seem to have taken off there despite a few early cases.

If it's wrong, I fear things could get really bad, especially in heavily populated cities like Lagos.
"Rich People"... we are rich. It doesn't warrant scare quotes.
Agree. An exception is when one or more sides are playing foul game by using fake accounts to spread propaganda.

E.g. look at Bot Sentinel top 100 trollbots [1].

#1 @BrandonBeckham_ is (from my judgment) a fake twitter account [2]. He poses as a veteran Christian that loves everything Trump. All he posts is pro-Trump stuff & Donald J. Trump retweets him frequently.

This is the stuff that needs moderation for misinformation. But somehow this stuff is just ignored by Big Tech.

[1]: https://botsentinel.com/top-100

[2]: https://twitter.com/brandonbeckham_
Interesting.

> each dot represents a decimal which is in a segment that represents the previous decimal

Before reading this, I thought that the dot colors matched the opposite of the description: where each segment represented the number and the dot color represented the previous digit. Ho hum.

However, regardless of dot colors and segments, it could be really cool to see this visualisation in different bases, eg base 16, base 60, base 360, etc. (eg pi in base 360 -> 3 . 50 : 350 : 146 : 304 : 186 : 269)
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Any example for when it was necessary and when it was abused?
Public health is almost the canonical example of something where you need concerted response organised by a government. So yes, we expect government action.
More accurately, some passengers are rich enough to afford to buy an extra seat just to carry their extra luggage, depriving a poorer person the opportunity to share the ride.
It's the capacity that is the issue. Testing labs all over the world, are running far above capacity already. It's not something that can be scaled up overnight either.
Not true. Zinc has a proliferation effect on lymphocytes and monocytes that leads to positive outcomes in immune function. There have been a number of clinical studies on the topic. Here is one: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/79/3/444/4690140
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Those measures are fuzzy at best but besides the point.

That we are 'happier because we can travel, but sadder because we have Facebook' is another can of worms entirely.

But this 'no improvement in wellbeing' argument is mostly undermined by the fact that given the choice, almost 0 people chose to 'live like 50 years ago'. Everyone today can do that easily. They can go back to not having dishwashers, not wearing seatbelts, smoking a pack a day, black and white TV if they want to, but for some reason, they mostly chose modern convenience.

But the real issue is the fact that economic activity is diverse, and heavy-handed centralized attempts to intervene will have crazy consequences.

If there are 'obvious' ways to use a crises for 'obvious good' then sure, but I don't see any such thing.
Yup. Apparent efficacy of the South Korean approach versus more generalised 'self-isolate if you have symptoms' instructions would be a point in favour of the disease being often asymptomatic [for extended periods]
Just people washing their hands and not working when sick would probably help a lot with the seasonal flu. But maybe another idea would be to get more people to use the flu vaccine every year.
You have IP rights around your video and copy but you're not in the business of selling videos and copy. You have X amount of dollars, Y amount of time- how much of that do you want to spend on pursuing the outrageous behavior of psychopaths, which itself is an unlimited resource?

You have to deliver a level of excellence which distinguishes you from all other entrants, including these unworthies. Supposedly you know how you're going to do that in a way which is defensible or at least very hard to duplicate. That implies there's something like a wicked problem at the heart of your business model which you know how to solve or you can deal with better than anyone else.

Failing that you're a commodity.
> "high contact exposure to my suspected source"

An attempt at levity, but sounds to me like you're saying you hooked up with a girl, despite her being sick...
It might not be surprising, but it is an extremely important point to keep reiterating.

People keep spreading the malthusian myth of overpopulation and shifting blame to the poorest. Blaming the poor while giving the rich a free pass is not only unfair, it’s cruel.

Once climate change denialism is not tenable anymore, climate change will be instrumentalized for atrocities.
You wrote: "The idea of being contagious and spreading the virus to others doesn't bother you?" - To me, the point you seemed to be making was: if you do something that applies some level of risk to others, then that must mean you don't care about the harm.

So I addressed that by pointing out that most people risk the lives of others, but do care about the potential harm.

Now you've gone off on a tangent, and made an entirely different point, but presented it as an argument related to your first comment, or my response to it. It is neither.

I understand your position to be: Something bad is happening, and anything other than the most extreme response is to be criticised. Which is usually the response to be expected on Internet forums, so I'm going to move on now.
As the crypto-market plunges following stocks, the question is: what's next?
I take my jeans to the nearest clothes repair booth, they stitch on a patch from inside. Here doing one patch costs $4, that's much better that >$100 for a new pair of Levi's.
If coronavirus was this far spread in Jan already then there would have been much higher positives in late Feb when people were starting to test outside China.

To an extremely high degree it was just the annual flu.
It is in the linked article.

"So, the reason for the abrupt ban of all my public repos turned out to be just a random comment I’ve left on GitHub jokingly calling a guy a prick."

"Only that I’m more used to GitHub so I’ve posted a (now deleted) issue rather than a tweet. The issue was titled “You’re a [funny-word]” where [funny-word] was a set of latin characters reminding a transliterated Russian half-offensive word for “gay”, while not being equal to that specific word."
Also all these nice voluntary helpers that like boots too.

I mean there are just so many reasons to do that because people are so bad.
What? No. The system just is. There's not attempting at balance whatsoever. Any appearance of a balance is emergent from the individual parts trying to optimize for reproduction.
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v...
You talk like you've never heard of DJ Roomba.
I had high hopes from this title. Unfortunately, it only involves misinformation in regards to COVID-19.

I would really hope they would unite in a joint effort against the spread of propaganda from fake accounts instead.

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, take a look at Bot Sentinel top 100 trollbots [1].

#1 @BrandonBeckham_ is (from my judgment) a fake twitter account [2]. He poses as a veteran Christian that loves everything Trump. All he posts is pro-Trump stuff & Donald J. Trump retweets him frequently.

This is the stuff that needs moderation for misinformation. This is _dangerous_ - it affects people's minds and changes their minds. But somehow this stuff is just ignored by Big Tech.

[1]: https://botsentinel.com/top-100

[2]: https://twitter.com/brandonbeckham_
Wasn’t there a $1 test being proposed?
You can start by testing people with high temperature at the entrance of buildings and metro.
Still cheaper that closing schools and all the rest of the economy.
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Everybody could see that SARS-CoV-2 infection graph was going to beat SARS outbreak from 2003, long before WHO called an emergency.

They waited until a foreigner (Thai national in Kolkata) died and only then declared an emergency, saying that nobody outside China died yet. During the declaration they sounded more like the WTO than the WHO, stating that banning flights from China would do zero to help combat the spread.

The main reason for not escalating sooner was the tremendous pressure that China applied. In the initial stages the WHO was just a mouthpiece for the Chinese CDC, who was trying to save face.

Then they waited to call a pandemic, while everyone was annoyed with them for waiting.

Just, please don't.
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The economy is going to get more broken each day this is affecting us, supply chains are going to break down, demand is going to sink, investment will grind to a halt.

Huge amounts of wealth is going to be destroyed and people are going to suffer.

Development is going to slow down further limiting our ability to respond to those problems.

Meanwhile you are cheering for an emission rate blip and suggest it's worth hurting us even further ? That's going to do what exactly ?

I'm surprised at how regressive the popular opinion is around here - I wouldn't expect it from people who are in the filed of problem solving with technology.
Quercetin is over-the-counter and has similar properties
Studies according to the video below on Ebola and Zikka used 50-100mg/KG - a lot lot.

This Medcram video talks about Chloroquine and the others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4_LsftNKM
Caution : This paper has not been peer reviewed yet
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I read this study and the recorded figure is around 50%. They're using some probability estimation based on the 50% discovered cases to account for people who had mild symptoms but not at the time they were tested (potentially after they left the ship). They identify flaws in the study though: the passengers were mostly old, so they are more likely to be symptomatic. They also didn't test everyone on the boat, only vulnerable, or symptomatic people, so their base numbers are missing some number of asymptomatic cases. It's not a perfect study and I think you could take 19% as a low bound on the figure and in wider society 50% is plausible.
Ask HN: Will we see a raft of new or improved remote solutions for home working?
The current pandemic sweeping the world has meant that many people are now confined to their homes including school kids, university students, office workers, and of course eldery and immunocompromised individuals.

Do you think we will see an explosion of online, remote-friendly software solutions to the many different situations people find themselves in?

The scope and possibilities seem wide-ranging: improved online education platforms (more than just video + quiz), user-friendly Learning Management Systems (LMS), tools for online health management, online medical diagnostics and consultations. The list goes on.

Will this also highlight the shortcomings of current solutions and how clunky and poorly designed many solutions are?

What are your thoughts?
On the other hand, if you look at those 8 bit word processors, the reason why PCs were considered "serious" is quite apparent. Going from a C64 word processor to e.g. early versions of WordStar is quite a jump. After that, not a lot of really interesting things happened in that area. Embedding tables and collaborative editing maybe.

(Although I haven't worked with a C128 WP, the 80 column mode should at least bring graphical fidelity to the same high level…)
ye and that agency comes at a global cost. I'm looking at the ankle deep water in Bangladesh. Who is paying for that? Not the 'rich'.

How is that anywhere near the human principal of 'fair'?
I found that Chrome runs these instructions about 20x slower.
Air transportation is a major contributor to CO2, if you limit the scope to the people who use it. It is estimated that about 80% of the world's adults have never taken a flight, and 94% of the world's adults have not taken a flight in over a year.

So, the real picture is that this 2.5% of global CO2 emissions are caused by as few as 6% of the population, who also are incidentally the richest and bear a high personal carbon footprint in other domains than transportation.

Also please remember that the aviation sector is growing, and therefore its global contribution to GHG emissions will grow as well in the future. Discounting the carbon footprint of the aviation sector based on today's numbers is a mistake.

If you do not want to impede on your ability to travel, you shouldn't object to it for the 94% of the population that want the same thing as you, and when it becomes available to them the aviation sector's emissions will increase 15-fold.
Musk has missed just about every goal he's ever set by a wide margin and has only managed to pull through because hordes of taxpayers and investors continue to line up to dump money into his black hole projects on the back of his self-aggrandising.
Mycologist says fungi can clean up oil spills, nuclear meltdowns and more (2013)
nowadays mainstream media spreading fake news
A friend of mine built SMOS, an open-source terminal UI task manager similar to TaskWarrior, fully based on a tree editor (but IIRC not a DAG -- no merging):

https://smos.cs-syd.eu/features.html

In general I think that tree/DAG based task managers will become a lot more popular as more people need to organise more tasks.