skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, here is the full text of what Trump actually said:

> Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa, they can’t even count. No they can’t. They can’t count their votes.

> One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning, they lost, it’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people [cases of coronavirus infection] in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.

So I'll just let his words stand for themselves. What is exactly is it that he is referring to as a "hoax" then? That the virus needs to be taken very seriously and is definitely not in the same vein as seasonal flu, as he's done multiple times, or directly contradicted actual experts like Dr. Fauci right on the same podium? Saying "your hoax remark is purely false" is total bullshit. Again, I'll just let Trump's words above stand for themselves.
There is shelf stable milk. Buying a sensible amount of that in normal times is probably the way to go.

I haven't tried it, but my understanding is that it has the same caramel-sweet flavor that most lactose free milk has, because of the higher heat during pasteurization (UHT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_process... ). I think the shelf stable is heated more than the lactose milk, which the lactose milk is still plenty noticeable.
I have been wanting something like this but for my Facebook friends. I am really bad at keeping up with people's birthdays unless it's someone I talked to at least once a week. I'd love to automate sending birthday cards like this. Or hell, even just writing on their wall with one of like 19 preset messages. Even better: an AI that determines how I talk to this particular individual (SMS, iMessage, email, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, something else), and opens a pre-composed message on their birthday for me to edit and hit Send on. Obviously I need some way to blacklist certain contacts from this since I wouldn't want my partner who I live with to get a generic "Happy Birthday" while we are out to lunch or something, or an ex who I am still somehow friends with on Facebook or some such but don't actually want to talk to.

A related problem: who have I not messaged in a while? Scan my messages and tell me who is due for a "Hey, how are you doing?" message? Again, simple in principle, hard to make usable especially given that I use different apps to talk to different people.
I'm amazed that it's spreading so fast in US.

US is a huge place. Okay NY has a high population density so that makes sense, but outbreaks in Seattle et al. is surprising me and I can't figure out why it's faster than other countries.
He thought giving them a fake face would gum up their search quality and ability to resolve him. I'm saying it would basically be a null-photo to Clearview.
>as the brain has apparently been churning away at the problem in the background without any obvious deliberate effort in between.

This is so fundamental. I picked up a similar concept from a passionate english teacher in 7th grade. He said, after a certain point you've done all that you can do, so let your subconscious work on it, sleep on it and the next day or week you'll find your idea coming together. Paraphrased of course.

Sleep is a very important component of this IMO. It doesn't work as well if you are in poor health and sleep-deprived.

It's like some kind of garbage collection and backend processing happens that we just don't fully understand yet as part of the learning process.

Similarly, I found back in college that concepts processed and stored in short-term memory needed to be "slept on" to fully and solidly store into long-term memory and "stick".

Control the input, carefully imagine and focus on the desired output and your brain will take care of much of the rest. Let it.
Signaling social acceptance, meaning more people wear them. Meaning demand number go up. Meaning production number go up.
When I started out, we had to move the electrons by hand!
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The Spectrum Next needs to be mass produced. While the raspi is wonderful - we need an 80's machine with all the pain points removed.
Have you tried cleaning the fridge coils/vents. Sometimes fridges can run louder when they are dirty.

Some independent review sites will also report on the decibel level of appliances. My suggestion would be to pick a few models in your price range and do some independent research on the search engine of your choice.
The government is in a real conundrum when it comes to relaxing the lockdown.

There are a few things we do know:

- It's impossible to keep the lockdown in place for long enough to completely eliminate the virus. Why? Because there are still essential workers out there, giving it to each other and their families.

- Because we can't eliminate the virus, the main goal to limit spread so that our existing medical resources can handle it.

- End the lockdown too early, and like a wildfire, it will spark up again in a few weeks and we're back at square one (or close to it).

- Keep the lockdown too long and the impact to the economy will only get worse, requiring massive gov't bailouts/support. The longer we're locked down, the longer it's going to take for the economy to recover.

What seems to make sense to me is, keep the lockdown in place long enough to get in front of it. Basically, enough testing so that new cases can be immediately identified and quarantined. That alone will have a big impact.

Then start to identify other essential services and slowly relax restrictions while at the same time keeping up the early identification and isolation of new cases. If things flare up, stop and get in front of it. Then continue to relax the lockdown.

The only way I can see a rapid end to the lockdown is if we either get a vaccine approved (and mass vaccination occurs) or a very effective treatment is found that takes the pressure off of medical resources.
Yes, as water is to wine.
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Any top tips for someone who has just started keeping hens? Had them as a kid but I didn’t have the responsibility, so I didn’t pay much attention.
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> Every site that successfully resumes via a session identifier after the VPN is turned on can now use the session identifier and their logs to match up my real IP address and my VPN IP address.

This would already be the case if the sites had disconnected clean instead of abruptly, since the session can still be resumed in that case.

Really what you want if you're worried about those sorts of correlations is to simply never send any traffic without the VPN. Have no default route via the physical interface at all so that if the VPN is disconnected the internet is unreachable.
There are no standard mechanisms for keeping heterogeneous databases in sync, or even DBs of the same types but with different schemas.

The standard thing to do is to have a source of truth, as described in various comments here like https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22690991&goto=item%3Fi...

Sometimes you'll have multiple sources of truth for (hopefully non-overlapping) subsets of the data in question.

These things are messy. You have to do the hard work of writing sync tools. You want sync tools that work off of incremental / delta feeds, but you also need (slower) tools that can make-it-right based on the totality of your data -- at least the first time you sync two systems, and often also for auditing purposes to make sure that the incremental (fast) sync is working correctly.
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> why can't we say "a garment" or "a pants"? (Hmm maybe we can say "a garment"? I'm not sure.)

You must say "a garment". "A piece of garment" is not grammatical English and never has been.

(The word garment itself, regardless of how you use it, is basically obsolete in modern English, though.)
This is a really interesting resource. Not only because of the teaching, but because of every little link that sends you down a path of learning about the history of Amiga development.
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My preferred software for scanning a newly purchased disk is MHDD:

https://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

Because it times how long it takes to read/write each sector, it has the advantage of being able to detect "weak" sectors before they even become bad ones --- HDDs will retry accesses multiple times if an error occurs before giving up, and to a program that simply reads and writes data, weak sectors that successfully read after a small number of retries aren't noticeable. They will show up in MHDD, as taking longer than usual to read.
Another critique of the same war from a more famous author, Graham Greene, with a similar title, published three years earlier than Burdock, The Quiet American , set the narrative for future generations of political analysts and pundits for years to come.

Greene, himself a former member of the intel community, penned this to explain that no matter how "in touch" your politicians are, if your intel services are secretly sowing discord and playing dirty tricks preying on the politics of a client nation, they can make war seem inevitable.

In hindsight the Bay of Tonkin Incident seems the flimsiest casus belli there ever was for Viet Nam. At the time we seemed primed for a fight that never was what we thought it was. We were manipulated then. We were manipulated on Iraq under Bush, too.

The only difference this time was the weapon is turned on Americans (and increasingly many other nations) to serve a foreign power.
When deciding 'did something happen?' I need the sources to be generally reliable about fact reporting because they do not rely on pure reason. For fact reporting which is an aggregate, I need to rely upon the track record of the sources. In this case, some of the second-level sources are from the Cato Institute, which I know to be low trust source of truth[0].

This means I have to assign this a low-magnitude coefficient of trust (not a high-magnitude negative coefficient[1]).

That means what you're describing could well be true. I just don't know it based on who's saying it.

0: Compare http://web.archive.org/web/20090402090751/http://www.cato.or... with what I knew at the time

1: The classic "There is no gold buried here" is a high-magnitude negative coefficient
I sure hope to qualify you need to have reported W2 income or this sets up a really dangerous precedence.
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That's not const-equivalent to the example. The Widget itself is mutable.
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Things like this work great for your own network, but you often want a VPN specifically because the network you're connected to isn't yours, especially for iOS (or Android) devices because they're mobile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662807
Some guesses why it would spread faster than say Scandinavia:

- No public health care, people infect family caretakers.
- No paid sick leave means people go to work sick and infect colleagues.
- No strong government campaign to enforce working from home, washing hands etc.
- No central initiative to track and isolate cases

These are just guesses but I'm far from surprised the US is seeing explosive increases. There seems to be no crisis awareness and there's no strong public welfare.
That is like an OnStar car from GM. There is a cell phone and GPS wired to the ECU. It is good for safety but I know a woman who had it call the police when she rolled her Escalade while heavily intoxicated. If you don't make the payments they could turn the car off or open the door and start the engine remotely for the repo man.

Those services don't work for you directly, but you can disconnect the cell phone antenna and hope it never times out.
Well, OP says "About to incorporate" so I think the question is still in the realm of exploring if C-Corp can work for them.
Sets a pretty stupid precedent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1iIx-LMYM

This song's lyrics solely samples audio from Indiana Jones - 100% of the royalties go to Disney? Morally, I don't think Disney have any right to it, but I could maybe tolerate some payment - however, proportionality?
BTW, this is basically how all neural networks work too.
Others address that this is not uncommon in languages, nor is it unhelpful even if you don't know.

But for a different counterpoint, lets say we gave a specific name to everything. For example, in my new, totally not-fake language, a hippo is a klantomolarnal.

Unless you already know a hippopotamus is a klantomolarnal, when someone says klantomolarnal, will you know what he means?

So, if our options are:

1) colloquial compound words that are informative but inexact and may require context (most languages)
2) unique words for everything with no intrinsic meaning (no language)
3) compound words that uniquely describe a thing (ithkuil, lojban, basically nothing useable)

It seems clear that (1) is our only real option. Toki Pona just has a harder time because of the smaller shared vocabulary which makes things more ambiguous.

In my limited experience, context clears things up tremendously.

(incoming rusty toki pona)

o sina lukin e ni! // Look at that!

o sina lukin e telo suli soweli! // Look at that big, water mammal [hippopotamus]!
Good question!

Consider RandDB, a database which returns random values for reads. It is possible that with RandDB, we happen to get a history which looks, say, serializable. And indeed, the observed history might be equivalent to a serializable Adya history, even though the underlying system is clearly not. This is, however, an accident--and given sufficiently long histories, the probability that we fail to observe a violation decreases.

Another possibility is that a database can explode the state space by producing indeterminate results for transactions. Of course, a database that deliberately did this would be silly, because nobody wants (I assume!?) a database that throws errors constantly. But when indeterminacy does happen, it's possible that we might fail to resolve some underlying anomaly. For instance, say an indeterminate write transaction actually aborts internally, but we don't know it aborted. If a committed read sees that write, that's technically an aborted read, but Elle (or any external observer) wouldn't be able to tell, because we can't prove the original write transaction aborted.

Likewise, if a database happens to avoid returning reads for some writes, we can't say anything about what write orderings are illegal. In the case of list append, we have the nice property that any single read tells us the entire version history up to that read, so the fraction of the version order we can't infer is limited to some (hopefully) short series of writes in the last n seconds. If the database never returns a read, though, all bets are off!
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NFS has been converted to to the TASK_KILLABLE mentioned elsewhere in the comments, so you could scan for threads stuck in this state, scan proc for open file descriptors pointing to the network filesystems and then kill those processes.

That of course doesn't work if you're dealing with a filesystem that still uses TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
I've kinda reached the point where I don't want to install anything... unless I'm 100% sure I want it.

I'm happy to do a free trial, and have it instantly accessible on all my devices that have a browser and etc.
I love this. I’ve been using Think C on an old Mac 512k I got a couple years ago, and it’s a completely different world. I’m currently working on writing a gif animation app!

One interesting thing is that the ANSI library is relatively large, so I try not to use it, instead relying on ROM routines or reimplementing bits of stdlib that I need.
The issue is that if you're using the Firefox or Chrome apps (which are the same rendering engine underneath), they aren't allowed to implement the "add to home screen" action in their UI.
To be fair, H-E-B is the best grocery chain in the whole country.

Their produce is top quality, they don't use shopper loyalty cards at checkout, their prices are fair, and their selection of cheese and wine is simply wonderful. I've been to epicurean groceries and Whole Foods and Wegmans and all of them, H-E-B is simply the consistent winner every time.
For a very literary novel on a dubious populist politician, read All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren.
I don't think the speed of spread is fundamentaly different between most countries. Unless strong measures like lock-downs are taken, we are talking about an exponential development. Based on that, the different speeds of spread would denote different sections on the time line. That means, different time spans between the first infections in a country and the time, systematic testing and countermeasures are taken.

Based on that, one can conclude that e.g. Italy was one of the first European countries being hit by a spreading infection and it took too long till systematic testing began. Likewise, in the US there was too much time between the first cases and testing, which basically just began.
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I completely agree with you. The legal system is entirely out of reach for the average citizen, and this is something we should fix.

However, us wanting things to be a certain way doesn't change how things are. If Congress passed a "Data Protection Act" it would be indecipherable, full of technical illiteracy, and heavily influenced by the richest lobbyists (Facebook and Amazon, anyone?).

This is my objection. I would love for a real data protection act to be legislated. But Congress has its own agenda and ineptitudes. Do you really trust the people who wrote the Patriot act to protect your sensitive information?
The rate you're referring to must be (number of deaths)/(number of cases).

That rate is low, but the denominator grows at astronomical speed; evidence of the high numerator is going to show up eventually.
Never more than now do I feel we are in an actual dystopia with Trump.
Cash is taking a hit? USD is the only asset increasing in value.
Why not just buy direct from the manufacturer?
Nobody but the Chinese were throwing their justice system at people for merely indicating there might be a problem. That's very different than incompetence.
How long?

Buying a week or less isn't worth the damage to the economy.
See article 78. There is an escalation path.
Why do u think it wouldn’t work today?

I think the strategies in the book are timeless
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2... (PDF link on the top-right of the page)
You can construct finite sets of melodies but when you start to consider rhythm (Loads of pop songs use basic polyrhythms!) and more exotic intervals it's way way bigger than you might imagine.

This also completely ignores there is not a finite number of notes - ever heard someone play a theremin? - and even you restrict yourself to finite tuning systems, there are many to choose from. These can also be used in a pop context - if extremely rarely.
If you like the Ascii aesthetic, check out Cogmind. It has amazing Ascii graphics. Full animations.
Yes. There are no settlements to care about, so the total cost is always 0.
> To consider your example, in the current crisis, there are plenty of people who did not link anything from past to present, but who do show up in hospitals evry day, help people and save lives. They have a much bigger impact on society than the smart planner who could link past and present, but they see no rewards for it.

The same argument would argue that medical professionals could and should ask for much higher compensation in times like these, but they won't, because they're good people who wouldn't use other people's lives as leverage, and because the community backlash to doing so would be insane. It would go on to claim that if medical professionals did make bank in crises like these, we'd have more medical professionals ready to step in in times like these, and that this would save lives. Surge pricing makes surge capacity viable.
Many people confuse virus growth rates with positive test rates (limited by testing), owing to governments testing slowly in order to claim positive lockdown effects (slower positive test rate growth). For example, here in Austria the tests are increasing by ~10% per day currently and they pat themselves on the back when positive tests grow "only" 15% per day. Meanwhile, deaths are increasing by 30-50% per day.

If Iceland with its extensive tests has concluded that 1% of their population is currently infected, it's naive to assume that more accessible countries where covid19 spread earlier are less affected.
You don't need a static IP per se if you use something like duckdns to keep track of where your router is at.
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Because apparently even non evasive medial test are bound in ridiculous amounts of regulatory red tape and pointless bureaucracy by the FDA.
The US is a well off country and we have increasingly started moving all over it. I personally have family and friends on both coasts. I don't visit them much but I have many reasons to travel. Our travel is also extremely cheap. A friend of mine routinely drives from CT to NM and back. She has very limited income, yet is able to do that.

Also, it doesn't help that our leadership has completely failed to act on this situation, and is continuing to mostly fail to do so. This virus should rightly be called the Trump virus in the US. Our president* not only failed to act, he did things that actively enabled COVID-19 to spread faster. In these kinds of circumstances it's no wonder it's spreading so fast.
Oh we used to dream of having electrons! We used to have rotten fish dumped on us every morning and we'd use the presence of a head to indicate a true bit. Where do you think "running headless" comes from?
> There are no multiple Philippines - there's only one. Yet we should say "The Philippines", while we cannot say "The Switzerland."

I think kaoD's point is that islands, states and lakes are not unique entities, so "the" does designate a particular instance of a class in these examples.

I think he might have a point: your three examples are proper nouns that happen to include "the", and they evolved from "definite article (+ attributive) + noun", where the definite article was used to pick out a particular instance of a class.
I'm not sure to what extent things are shutdown in the states, but all of our major cities are more or less locked down. Vancouver is imposing big fines on social distancing and already didn't have a great nightlife to begin with. We also have less cities close together.
My next project: 1) gather SEC income statements sorted by industry, sector, and year. 2) gather death statistics, sorted by cause and year. 3) create a model of deaths as a function of parts of the economy shutting down. 4) create a model of Coronavirus transmission as a function of segments of the economy shutting down. 5) make an apples to apples comparison between the costs of quarantine to the costs of no quarantine.

Hacker news will be hearing from me soon.