skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What persecution?
Do you personally know anybody who is going to attack a Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent, for the origin of the virus? Do you know a single person who would do this?

I think that in an effort to guard against the absolute lowest common denominator of human behavior, a lot of people's paternalistic tendencies come out. Treating people like children to keep everyone safe. It's the justification for censorship used by every authoritarian regime. Ironically, the attitude of shaping the publicity of knowledge to shape human behavior is exactly what caused the police to detain this hero for having the audacity to talk to his colleagues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
Heh. I have done this...
The browser under discussion in TFA doesn't have PWAs as such. [0] Of course I agree with your restatement of what I said browsers should do upthread. b^)

[0] https://caniuse.com/#search=beforeinstallprompt
Does anyone know what is happening with Pulsar since Splunk brought them out?

It looks to of stagnated since the announcement was made.

Architecture wise Pulsar is a far better piece of engineering than Kafka but with Confluent's funding and aggressive marketing it looks like Kafka has cornered the market for better or worse.
I think Hackintosh enthusiasts are also an intended target of this phase out... These systems heavily rely on kexts...
Can you please not post ideological flamewar comments to HN? They lead to ideological flamewars, which are predictable (therefore boring, therefore off-topic) and also nasty (therefore destructive, therefore against the site rules).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: How do you break the cycle of low standards for jobs WHILE unemployed?
Most of us know that one job is usually better than no job, and it’s easier to find a better job if you’re already working.

But if you're not working and you are looking for work, how do you prevent dropping your standards to take another sub-par job to plug the gap? I don't have any friends that can recommend me to an employer. In the past I get scared about going broke so I try to get any job I get, which turns out to not work out well, and then I have to try to make it work so I don't look like a job hopper but inevitably it's a disaster and then I'm unemployed again and do the same thing.

I do not wish to exploit yet another job as a "stepping stone". Managers at such places can pick up that you are there only for a short time, and will try make you quit or fire you ASAP.
If AsciiDoc hits the sweet spot for your project, great.

For some really serious technical writing, you may need LaTeX. :)

My point is not to dissuade anyone from using AsciiDoc. My point is that I suggest using the simplest tool for solving a gvien problem (documentation writing or a particular project, not for any project).
Sure, and there can be a lot of confusion surrounding the name Woods Hole which makes it easier to hand wave questions away.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is an affiliate of MIT.
Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory is an affiliate of UChicago.

If someone says "that didn't happen there!" you can always say "oh sorry, I meant the other one"
Mesa Biotech gains emergency FDA approval for rapid, point-of-care Covid-19 test
(I wonder if this ultraporous stuff could be used to make a emergency mask. It seems clear that is not easy to work with, but... Looks like a giant filter for a machine)
I’m surprised Zoom or any video conferencing system haven’t invented an AI algorithm that can only pass through your own voice and nothing else
There are plenty of legitimate use cases listed under section 4.5.

I'm sure there is some scumbag adtech SDK out there profiling people based on their installed apps, but I think that most uses of these API's would turn out to be innocuous on a closer look.

For instance, I've worked on apps that check if another app from the same company is installed, so that they can integrate together. Think Facebook and Messenger: two separate apps.

It seems that this sort of innocent check would turn out in this study as a "call accessing package names". Sounds ominous at first, but I'm just asking for one package X, not scraping all your installed apps to sell you something.

Anyway, this is all being locked down in Android 11 [1]. Many of these use cases are being addressed with a more secure API, but I hope there are no apps left behind.

[1] https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/package-visibi...
Yeah, I've downloaded this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHpDOWhkGk

youtube-dl -k gave me two files, one webm/opus audio file and one mp4/av1 video file.

The files had roughly same sizes, the audio being 9728k large, the video 9476k.

The video had 127 keyframes, out of 17030 frames total, distributed over 567 seconds of video (one keyframe every 4.5 seconds). I don't have a method at hand to measure the encoded size of the keyframes but if I extract the first 90k of the file using dd (bs=90k count=1), I get 21 frames, so that's a lower bound for the size that's actually needed to encode one single keyframe, more shouldn't actually be neccessary.

So of the 9.4M video file, > 99% is waste. Quite literally as 1% of 9476k is 95k. With the addition of audio, the amount of waste has to be adjusted to roughly half of the total audio+video data. Still a large amount of data that can be saved, especially at youtube scale where reductions of traffic in the sub-percent range are material for promotions.
> It's the wild west outside your firewall.

You mean outside my $5 NAT WiFi router last updated 6 years ago (because the manufacturer won't maintain it any more and the ISP never gave me the admin password anyway)?
I'd like to see a similar map built into pihole. Seems like a natural fit. This way you could get a map for connections made by various apps on your phone too.
And no one pays for goods either? I suppose it does make things simpler in the long run if everyone just starves. No need to worry about restarting the economy in three months, there won't be anyone left by then to care.

Money can freeze in place, but people still have needs which must be met in a timely manner and by freezing all monetary transactions you've thrown away the best means we have to organize the effort of satisfying those needs.
In rST there are three choices of "line-style": underline, overline, both under and overline. Then there's dozens of possible symbols ("printing nonalphanumeric 7-bit ASCII character"), and the documentation/primer narrows that to a suggested interesting looking 14 options of ASCII symbols. That's a total of 42 suggested options for heading levels, and not even the "limit". There remains the practical limit that Markdown also inherits that HTML only has 6 levels.

There's not a suggested or standard order, so yes there's some mental overhead in deciding which header styles you want to be which level, but a lot of projects tend to have a "lint" guide for that at this point. For instance a lot of projects (and Sphinx recommends) follow the Python Style Guide:

# with overline, for parts
* with overline, for chapters
=, for sections
-, for subsections
^, for subsubsections
", for paragraphs

(You may be confusing Markdown's/CommonMark's own less popular Setext-style headers which only support underline and = for first level and - for second level header.)
About 8-12% of compatible VR install base already playing Half-Life: Alyx
I'm guessing for replacement launchers and apps that launch other apps?
Honestly, I think it's an amazing list of educational resources for curious adults too.
Try this: https://www.ft.com/content/5ff6469a-6dd8-11ea-89df-41bea0557...
> ...are we talking about different things?

Yes, we are, I lost track of the argument. Sorry about that: you're right.
It sure does seem to be one. Here's the author's sign-off at the bottom:

Forrest Brazeal is an AWS Serverless Hero and enterprise architect who has led cloud adoption initiatives for companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 50.

When I go to the AWS Heroes page, here's how a "Serverless Hero" is defined:

AWS Serverless Heroes are spirited pioneers of the AWS serverless ecosystem. They evangelize AWS serverless technologies online, in person, and via open source contributions to GitHub and the AWS Serverless Application Repository. These Serverless Heroes help evolve the way developers, companies, and the community at large build modern applications.

While the author of the blog doesn't work directly for AWS, it's in his interest to drive more business for them as he consults for businesses bringing more of their needs to AWS.
If you want to come out of a lock-down without also causing the number of cases to spike again, we'll need to implement a widespread test-and-trace protocol similar to South Korea's. This requires _lots and lots_ of testing.
It's a get-rich-quick scheme that has inflated house prices. These landlords aren't providing any value — they're literally rent-seeking.
We don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Slack is great for what it does! And if you read through https://screen.so/about, I have lived the experience that it’s impossible to do two things well. So in an ideal world, Slack continues to innovate on the messaging side, we continue to innovate on our side, and we mindfully integrate with each others’ platforms to give our users the best possible experience.
Are you by any chance describing the Swiss cheese model?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
I don't know if I'm a weirdo but I am so interested in learning about TurboScreenMaster 3000, but it needs to be inherently at least as good as BattleChess 3000 and Class of 3000
Right size Kafka clusters on Kubernetes to maximize throughput
I find wipr works really well.
It appears to be an impressive result, so far. What's less clear is what happens after they release the lockdown, which must inevitably happen.

Flattening the curve to a fair degree was very likely worth doing. But it could happen that like the common cold, this will ultimately pass through the entire population, and there simply might not be much we can do about it.

My guess is that we're still in the first act of this play. It might take a decade or more to gain real insight. Right now we have to guess.
What I never understand about intros like this (even intro courses in college), is why not start with types? Reading the content, it’s obvious there’s something different between a string and a number, and a list (or a dict) is obviously very different again. You quickly figure out that these things are also capable of doing completely different operations, but why? And what things (methods) are they capable of?

I was helping a friend who decided to start a CompSci degree recently (the 101 course was taught in python), and she was massively struggling with type coercion and understanding type methods. Looking at the course forum, so was everybody else. I helped her understand what types were, why they were important and what the built in type methods were (and how to read the python documentation), and it was a major breakthrough for her. She’s now getting close to 100% on her tests.

I was also blown away by how archaic some of the content was, like using .format() instead of fStrings, but that’s a seperate topic.
Deferring payment without interest is punishment. Goods in the future are worth less than the same goods in the present.
I imagine it’s the same guidelines for most centralized regulations.

People who believe that central control is good. Which is a much larger discussion.
> Why do you think the glossary implies that?

Because I am at least as familiar with Latin as the intended audience of the glossary. I detailed my objections in my root comment. Why don't I repeat them:

1. "Commisco" and "commiscor" are the active and passive forms of the same verb. This glossary has the active form meaning "copulate" and the passive meaning not "get screwed" but rather "cohabit". This is not a verb with different senses in the active and passive. (I'm assuming that the glossary's "commisco" is actually commisceo; for examples of verbs that _are_ different in their active and passive senses, see video, where the active means "see" and the passive commonly means "appear [to be a certain way]", or facio, where the passive fio is so special that it is morphologically not even passive.)

2. "Concumbo", "concubitus", and "concubitalis" are, respectively, a verb [literally "lie with"], a noun derived from that verb, and an adjective derived from the noun. This glossary gives the verb as "cohabitate", the noun as "cohabitation", and the adjective, somehow, as "copulative".

Here's the Lewis and Short dictionary entry for "concubitus": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... . I'll repeat it here:

> I. A lying together; reclining; a firm, close shutting together (of the teeth).

> II. Copulation, coition.

These are explicitly sexual words.

3. "Congressus" is glossed explicitly as "coition", immediately implying that the author and audience are both aware of the meaning of the word "coition". But "coire" and "coitus" are glossed as "to cohabit" and "cohabitation", despite the fact that these are not legitimate meanings of the Latin words. They refer to sexual intercourse. (Since they literally mean "go[ing] together", they have all kinds of other senses, such as entering into contracts. Cohabitation is not mentioned. See http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... )

> The glossary has "to copulate" plenty of places, so if the author thought cohabitation only meant copulation, they'd just put "to copulate" wouldn't they?

Yes, this is very strange, as I said above. This is what I'm asking about.

> It doesn't, it says the cohabitation ones mean cohabitation. So that's living together, not just having sex together.

This conclusion cannot stand. The Latin words glossed as "cohabitation" do not generally have that meaning (concumbo does seem to offer it, though the primary sense is obviously just "have sex"), and the glossary frequently glosses different forms of the same word as "copulation" in one place and "cohabitation" in another place.
Numba the Python library is only just getting around to support LLVM 9.

https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/523
Yep, there's something that just screams "wake up and use your head" about that. It happened in Australia as well. Have people just lost their ability to think?
This comment is heavily biased towards a US-centric worldview. Different parts of the world are burning, or burning out, at different rates... so it’s not so much about “worrying about this right now” but “what lessons can one part of the globe learn from another that is a few days/weeks/months ahead”
Worse is Better versus The Right Thing strikes again.

I find that I can extend Pandoc’s markdown to do most of anything I’d want. Could RST or AsciiDoc do it better? Maybe. I haven’t tried. But markdown can do 80% of what I need right out of the box.
Yes! It’s overused, but very useful when communicating the idea.
Zig (the language) is very appealing as a "better C than C". Check out https://ziglang.org (dis-disclaimer: I'm unaffiliated.)
»8:45 each weekday morning, I drop off my four-year-old at preschool, hug him goodbye, and drive back home». Well, in that case it wouldn’t be a challenge at all for us. Here kindergarten and schools are closed, and it’s quite a challenge to produce full workdays whilst taking care of two little ones at home.
Japan versus China? Do people really consider China to have won that one? I always thought they mostly made it out due to the US defeating Japan.
Wouldn't it also help that South Korea is 1/7th the size of Texas so it's a little easier to test everyone? It also helped one company mass produced tests
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Chromium has announced their intentions to do just this in two years! https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...
Meh.

Once the bodies start stacking up this thing will go into free fall again.

Deaths in the US currently doubling every 3 days.

NYC numbers are going to dwarf Italy because Cuomo didn’t shut it down before the curve went exponential.

The median clinical course is 20-25 days, and the hospitals are already at capacity.

I don’t even want to think about what Florida looks like in 2-3 weeks.
This needs axioms beyond ZFC though. Even assuming ZFC is consistent isn't enough to know that there's a minimal countable transitive model.
The difference is granularity - inside your computer you know which application is doing it. On a network level you only see which device it is.

Maybe there's something with a central server and an agent installed on every device connecting but I doubt it's as easy and pretty as LS.
Honestly? Unless I missed something, that's a totally OK level of force. They did not hit, beat, trample or otherwise assault that guy. They were rough, but not violent. As rough as required to get him out. I'm sure he was bruised, that's part of resisting. But no, I see no violence there. I say this as someone who is European and politically left-wing (i.e. against government authority).
Well, you get somebody out here going "Hey, we've got great tests for this, the best." and a bunch of people who are about to drink aquarium chemicals take the test, get a negative result because the test doesn't work, and now you've got a bunch of morons running around infecting everyone else.

The testing shortage is a grand fuck-up, to be sure. But it's not as bad as waiting to tell everyone to stop congregating and start washing their hands more.
Show HN: Pregnancy-like Rapid Test Tweaked for Covid-19 – Proof of Concept [pdf]
Depends on how long this goes on for?
No need to wonder. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818327945/israel-begins-track...

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's Shin Bet domestic spy agency, usually tasked with monitoring Palestinian and Israeli extremists, to launch the cellphone surveillance. It locates people who could have the virus and messages them.

"Meanwhile, late Thursday Israel's Supreme Court stopped the police from using the data to enforce quarantines, which it had started doing. The court also said it could scrap the program unless it goes through parliament or if the country is put on a total lockdown."
forget about the legal technicalities for a moment. through no fault of their own, a subset of businesses are taking a disproportionate share of the burden of keeping us all safe. this is a direct result of government action that affects the employees as well as the owners. you don't think the government (ie, the taxpayers) have any obligation to make things right here?
> The market is not a living being. It’s a concept. Why should The Market matter more than real people’s lives?

The market is real people’s lives. Every good traded is done so in a market. Your mental model of a market seems to be the stock market, which makes it easier for you to pretend that when markets stop, there are no real consequences for non-shareholders.
Poland made an app that forces coronavirus patients to take selfies
South Korea started developing tests for the virus early in the year and had the capability of testing on a wide scale when the virus broke out there. This combined with aggressive tracking and management is what gave SK the edge in controlling the disease.

If the CDC had been at all organized they could have been in the same position as SK with respect to testing. If you can test and target the infected you don't need a stockpile of supplies.
So are you arguing that conflict of interest is okay, or that the political system is so horribly corrupt that this is just another line item in the list and not worth pursuing in light of the more egregious violations?
When I have issues like this when searching my next search is usually "slack chat" or "zoom video." Now that they're popular, you don't need these qualifiers. What would someone add to "screen"? "screen sharing"?
U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak
I, uh, wasted a bit of time once on the Tree Packing conjecture of Gyarfas:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0642

In your left hand, place a complete graph, which has n-choose-2 edges.

In your right hand, a collection of trees on 2, 3, 4, ..., n-1 vertices, which, by miraculous concidence, also has n-choose-2 edges.

Q: Can you pack the trees into a complete graph with no overlapping edges?
Yes! We’ve been laser focused on getting the product right, so the discount model hasn’t been fully fleshed out, but you can expect something similar to what other SaaS companies do in this space, but leaning to the more-generous side of that spectrum. I don’t know exactly what other companies do just yet, but that’s the philosophy we’ll use when we get to this. For now, it’s free for everyone, of course.
> They are surely referring to their Cable Modem, DSL Modem, Cellular Modem, or Fiber Modem.

This was tongue in cheek, but clearly lost on some.

But since we've now switched to full-on anal retentive mode: none of the above are modems since there's no modulation or demodulation happening in any of them.
Kdb+/q 4.0 released, adds support for multi-threaded primitives
wow that's crazy, thank you for the explanation
Yes, this is not new territory. This is exercised with eminent domain.
> then languages

Perhaps a slight digression, but: I think there are very few people who can really say they can 'see through' the difference between languages.

C++, Erlang, Prolog, and Haskell, are very different languages, all the way from the shallow matter of syntax, through the type system, and even down to the fundamental model of computation. When I hear someone say If you learn to program in one language, it's easy to learn another, I assume that person doesn't know much about programming.
what does "numerically unstable" mean in this context?
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New brain implant device could record activity in thousands of neurons
Put call parity makes the jagged slide of misery identical to the jagged ascent of the bliss. The only consistent thing is the market likes to shake out the over leveraged weather they are rich or poor.
> I never got it but I also never went on a cruise ship.

Well I have been on one. A friend thought it would be a good idea to hold his 60th birthday on a cruise ship.

It is exactly as you say - a hotel, laid sideways. But unlike a hotel there no way to out, and in my case no internet worth using.

The primary ways people seemed to keep themselves occupied were drinking alcohol, eating food and watching other people in various ways. None of those thinks work for me. Exercise consisted doing the same brisk walk around and around the ship every day. There were other options, but you had to pay for them.