skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I used to criticize the big tech companies for stockpiling dozens of billions of dollars instead of investing them into their businesses, but it's only now I can see why a move like that was wise.

I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). Around December a 'whistle blower' came forth claiming, with extremely limited information available to him, that the Church had as much as 100 billion dollars invested to the press and the IRS [1].

People crawled out of the woodwork to try and vilify the Church for having a considerable amount of money invested legally via one or more investment funds.

Fast forward 3 months, the Church is having to recall missionaries and send them back to their countries of residence, Church buildings are closed worldwide until further notice, the Bishops' Storehouse system that helps local communities via food distribution have added shifts to meet demand for food as unemployment numbers are sky rocketing.

We told the world we save for a rainy day, as we were being accused in December this virus was beginning to spread in China. Now here we are in March with a cushion to keep the Church running while tithes likely dip considerably with unemployment rising as well as being able to assist members and non-members as the global economy grinds to a halt.

The media and those opposed to the Church were quick to rip us apart in December for having a cushion, now they are nowhere to be found when we're in a position to help ourselves and others with that cushion.

Perfect example to go with your comment.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mormon-church-...
What does gaming teach us during a pandemic?
In general, I agree with you, but it can be done well. For example, it took me a while to even notice that Netlify colours the scroll bar to match the page background (https://app.netlify.com). I think Firefox is the only browser to implement the scrollbar-color[1] property so far, which is a big improvement over Chrome's non-standard scrollbar theming (scrollbar-color is much more limited).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-c...
Surviving Remote Work: Coronavirus Edition
There are still people who believe Apple cares about the web platform, 12 years after they forbade browser competition on iOS ?
Open-sourced Covid-19 testing site search tool and assessment
Consumerism is how they define rich here. The idea thst you have access to more good and services (to buy) than your grandparents did is how this is the best country in the world. It’s a none sense argument and this crisis has just totally exposed it. We have a bunch of old career politicians running decrepit institutions chief of whom comes up with worse ideas every week than he did the prior week. This weeks special: use religious symbolism of Easter to inspire the masses to support his idea of resurrecting the economy. The sad irony here is that the people who help elect this clown and his posse are likely the ones that will be impacted most by this crises. In a weird way it’s fitting - as they say you deserve the politicians you get. And in this case you is the subset of all voters whose votes mattered (swing states) and their electoral vote resulted the people we have today.
Also it’s the standard script gossipy low class people resort to right away. I don’t want to absolve too much of humanity’s standard operating procedure.
Why an acclaimed Georgia Tech professor is barred from her Covid-19 research
Why would anyone ever post a wccftech unsubstantiated speculation piece anywhere on the internet, let alone here?
Thanks for the link, it seems useful. Luckily our own situation is quite good at the moment in this sense, so no need to worry. We're about two weeks in to moderate self-isolation without any major meltdowns, and that's with a fairly intense study schedule for the kids that the school prescribed. But I definitely see the current situation continuing for many more weeks at least, so it's good to be proactive and smart about it. Especially with an interesting mix of introverts in the house (my son and myself) and extroverts (wife and daughter). Keep up the good work!
On the road through a pandemic, some truckers fear for their lives
The incentive structure of market capitalism is not aligned with the interests of society or the welfare of individuals.
There are glasses for night driving (yellow ones) which will reduce bright light and increase contrast in low light situations. You might want to check them out.
Sure, but building typically takes more resources than executing, so it's not really feasible to use a Raspberry Pi to build, but it can be for testing.
Molecule discovered leads to breakthrough on how data is stored
Considering a lot of that cost is licensing, probably a fair bit.
India begins nation-wide lockdown
You can install other browser frontends on iOS. People just don't know that the backend is still Safari.
Modern supply chains are concentrated on pulling manufactured goods from far away where they can offload environmental costs on countries that don't care/are corrupt, wasting energy taking it halfway around the world, and then selling it in America.

They also don't warehouse anything. Everything we depend on really is about 30 days supply tops, and the goal of supply chain management is to get as close to perfect demand anticipation as possible, which is as little warehoused goods as possible.

So everything has a huge lead time.

The "economics" of it (at least for the next foreseeable earnings quarter) was pretty cut and dry on paper. Of course that economics is just for the bank accounts of the rich, and the environmental costs, lack of "production security", and other concerns that couldn't be quantified easily (and thus are culturally ignored in economics) were ignored.

What I find particularly galling is that we are on a solid fourth iteration of a possible pandemic that was reliant on ventilators and infection disease in general (SARS, MERS, H5N1, Covid-19), and the CDC and DOD should have had a turnkey plan to address covering shortfalls of critical medical equipment with whatever domestic manufacturing we have left.

Of course Trump has allegedly fired a lot of the old-timers, but even if those people are gone, the basics of the plan should be around, but clearly that doesn't exist.
Show HN: Skynet Simulator
Agreed. Was thinking how our Internet infrastructure has built in redundancy, chaos monkey for services, etc...
Engineers understand that things can and will fail.

If we build the Internet like the "just in time" supply chain - we'd all be screwed.

What's also sad is that people could see in January that this would be a global issue. Domestic production should have ramped up - at least buy us more time, translating to more flattening of the curve, less deaths...
Will California's coronavirus crisis look like Italy's soon?
Why are assembly related topics so popular on Hacker News? I don't see pursuit of this topic happening in my anecdata of programmers I interact with in day to day life.
865 is simply to small a performance jump to be worth it. Flagship phones are mostly about the latest features not the specs as relatively few people actually buy them.
Yes, it's very easy to remember that the disease is named by the virus, and the virus is named by the disease :)

I still wonder who got that brilliant idea.
Maybe doctor's and research scientists should present this as a data point instead of instead of yorkshirecoastradio relaying some facebook posts.

While this narrative may fit what is perceived as a good cause, do we want it at the expense of truth? Do we want every story to first be questioned, "what are they trying to get us to do by telling us this?"
Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
> private institutions have been optimized to extract profits

Where are the private institutions trying to extract profit from selling facemasks. I cannot find one at any price.
While we're here because it mentions a younger death, it is way less about your (or my) chances and more about where we will spread it. At this point, I have seen it first hand, a spring breaker coming back, carrying it for a few days, and interacting with many people in office settings.

Just because the virus doesn't kill doesn't mean you aren't being used.
To be fair, they've had bugs in iOS they've kicked around for years...
On the other hand; the fact that such (very rare) cases exist is also revealing that there we are talking about actual large numbers.
We over index on preparedness for war. Bill gates has a great ted talk on this who basically called this corona virus situation a few years ago. https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re...

When I look at the whole situation it looks like a bunch of meatheads whose answer to everything is brawn and military superiority.
Nice!

Since there's no better to place for it I'll mention one thing about gathering resources (like at your FB page), hope that's okay: I think there are a lot of people like you and our team who try to gather inspiration and resources right now. For instance, a homenaut submitted a link to this tumblr account https://pandemicjoy.tumblr.com/ The tumblr account has actually linked to us I see, but I'm a bit uncertain about that. People might get confused if we link to one another, since they probably expect to come to a resource when following a link but instead come to another list of resources. I'm thinking it's best if we all draw inspiration from each other but try to keep our own styles/niches, since different people have different tastes and what gets their motivation going :) I'd imagine the "homenaut" theme might make some people cringe for instance :p

I saw on your Instagram that you have a WIP at https://socialapproaching.com/. When it's done, if you think it fits in the "resource-itself" category, please submit it for the "Social Contact and Communication" category at Homenauts if you want :D
I feel like that’s intuitively correct, though.

A “grocery store” that you’d just call that is defined by a partnership with one or a number of domestic distributors.

There’s a different type of store (without a coherent name—it’s usually either “[country] import store” or “[culture] food market”) which is defined by a partnership with a specific import business (where that importer is in turn defined by their relationship to an export business in a specific country—though they may be re-exporting goods that were already imported there from elsewhere!) The supply chain for these companies is constrained by the logistics of international shipping, which means it’s more profitable to just specialize in one particular 1:1:1 logistical pipeline, rather than many.

The remote Alaskan grocery stores are really the latter type of store. They’re US import stores! (And a real “grocery store” in such a part of the would would just sell, like, seal meat. And maybe hydroponic hot-house vegetables, if they ever bother doing that.)
Tool for folks with job security to help people whose job is impacted by COVID19
Probably meaning one without a microcomputer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI
CCA ACC COVID19 conference: 'How did China cope?'; 'Diagnosis.' [video]
I think this is fixed. I'm using tmux and vim with mouse scroll enabled for both and haven't experienced any issues.
Little snippet that inserts buttons at the top of the page so you can toggle the stylesheet there between these w3.org sheets:

(function() {
const sheets = [
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Oldstyle.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Modernist.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Midnight.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Ultramarine.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Swiss.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Chocolate.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Traditional.css',
'https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Steely.css',
'./mvp.css',
];

const div = document.createElement('div');
const head = document.querySelector('head');
sheets.forEach(url => {
let button = document.createElement('button');
button.onclick = () => {
// Remove all stylesheets
let stylesheets = document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="stylesheet"]');
stylesheets.forEach(el => el.parentNode.removeChild(el));

// Insert our new sheet (<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.css">)
let link = document.createElement('link');
link.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet');
link.setAttribute('href', url);
head.appendChild(link);
};

button.innerText =
url === './mvp.css'
? 'Original MVP.css'
: url.replace('https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/', '');
button.setAttribute('style', 'cursor: pointer');
div.appendChild(button);
div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' '));
});

// Insert buttons into DOM
document.body.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', div);
})();
Shameless self-promotion: would you mind adding my classless style sheet?

https://wmeredith.github.io/MercuryCSS/

EDIT: Ha! I should have checked first. It was added in Feb 2018 :)
I don't know what your are trying to achieve here but the demographics of the cruise ships in absolutely no way represents society
Then fork it and remove the message yourself.
Sitting on your hands and moaning about the size of your logs being “immoral” is peak entitlement. He doesn’t owe you or npm shit.
When was this “golden age of truth” era that we are now after? There have always been conspiracies, mystics, cults and anti science sentiments.

Do you have any evidence to show it’s worse than it ever was?
I'm a Gen-Xer. I blog. I like writing, and I enjoy public feedback. But this article and its multiple references to how blogging is for the "intelligent" and the "intellectually sophisticated" individual... I couldn't get past that part. What a load of crap. Blogging is for anyone who wants to be read.
Exactly. Every time I have to do UI work for personal projects (I almost never do it for pro projects), they look like a-ess-ess. Design is very hard. I try to copy the looks of things I like and I get the rough feel of it, but the details, man. The detail and the subtle things. That's where the pros who know how to do UI earn their worth.
Vocabulary – Online Learning Zone Secondary – Oxford University Press
If you're blinded, you should slow down or even stop until you'll be able to see again. Driving blinded is irresponsible.
Is the quickstart template supposed to render? It loads as a txt file for me.
Does everyone here have a NYTimes subscription or is there a way to read this article without one?
I'm with you on this - I don't know so many languages but have studied a wide range, and am fluent in several programming and human languages.

What I've found that is that once you learn more than one language with different paradigms, it becomes easier to learn another one with a similar or another different paradigm.

As you pointed out, there are only so many ways a language can be designed/structured, and becoming multilingual means getting familiar with the shared (and implicit) models and operations underlying all languages.
Assuming that Apple releases the iPhone 9 with the latest A13 chip for $400 to $500 soon, what will be good Android alternative? Compact size, most powerful chip, affordable. I was eyeing S10e last year. Has anything better been released since?
>The difference between Spaniards and Germans is smaller than you might expect.

Isn't that the point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
Takes down, succinctly, both the herd immunity nonsense and the fallacious, economic, let them die position.
Open source is not the same as open. You can't run Firefox on an iPhone.
And it pretty much proves that it's not such a great thing to aspire. Images are large, dependencies aren't updatable, locations don't match with distribution defaults.
This is what I'm seeing. I took this with Lightshot on Chrome.

http://prntscr.com/rml1xf

Lightshot what you're seeing, maybe i'm crazy.
But how many people know they have no pre-existing conditions? Most of us are in the no known conditions camp.
SoftBank Dumps Moody's After a Two-Notch Downgrade
Graphing data from MongoDB with Plotly and Python
Intellectual curiosity?
I would really hope that someone working in a health clinic would be more careful than that. Going over to other people's houses is exactly what people are not supposed to be doing.

From my observations, the people who are most flippant about this seem to be boomers and young adults 20-25. I still see groups of young adults on the sidewalks, clearly not roommates, even though our state is in lockdown, and we're right next to a state that's starting to overwhelm their hospitals because of this kind of behavior.
Unsupervised learning of probably symmetric deformable 3D objects from images
Show HN: The Fed App, play as J. Powell
The more obvious solution here would be to use a selector instead of using the state directly. Then your 'view' of the data is not tied to the underlying structure of the state.

Sure, you can denormalize too - but all the more reason to use selectors then to restructure your data.
My son went the other way, was struggling with Mechanical Engineering and decided that he needed to switch to something easier. I braced my self for some ridiculous major, instead he switched to Mathematics, he's been a 4.0 student since, and was accepted into an accelerated Masters Degree program, and still kept his 4.0.

Turns out he was enamored with the math, and couldn't focus on the engineering parts.
What you're calling denial is an important part of information seeking. When you see an anecdote that contradicts something you believe, you say "either this anecdote or my belief is incomplete". So if you're pretty confident in your belief, it's reasonable to probe the anecdote for potential flaws; it's not a matter of denial but of trying to find the truth.
Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
They could change it to "richest countries", because the US isn't the only rich country that screwed up. Look at Austria and Switzerland and their reliance on importing masks from other countries. Or at the Netherlands, which can actually produce large quantities of masks for domestic use but didn't because the government was too busy downplaying the epidemic.
If you find a business incentive as a root cause, you blamelessly discuss ways you can change that incentive.
Doing the right thing and accurate information can be one in the same.
No, I literally getting two scroll bars for entire page. First scrollbar works, second scrollbar is disabled. Scrollable div is third scrollbar, but that's OK. It looks like that: https://i.imgur.com/Rs8a7m5.png
> Such people think, because they don’t know many institutionalized professionals who still blog, that blogging must be dead. What they don’t realize is that the credibility premium historically enjoyed by professional institutions is plummeting toward zero. This fact is so obvious to younger Millenials and Zoomers that it goes unremarked, undebated, because it is already baked-in to their reading/watching behaviors.

The idea that traditional news media is losing credibility to blogs has been around since at least the 2004 US Presidential Election, which is when regular people starting discovering blogs.

The web was a lot less populated then, and large sites did not attempt to crowd out smaller sites by generating SEO-optimized content by the metric ton. Bots didn't pollute commment sections to the point where organic communities left out of exasperation. You could create a blog and be reasonably certain of developing an audience. The idea of AOL-style walled gardens seemed deeply outdated.

FFWD 10 years, and now the vast majority of internet activity occurs in walled gardens, be it FB, IG, Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, YouTube, Twitch, you name it. People don't even bookmark sites anymore, their muscle memory causes them to open Reddit or FB and just mindlessly browse.

So you start a self-owned blog in 2020. The only way to direct traffic to it is to also post on all the other walled gardens, because that's where the people are. That sounds like a lot of addtional work just to get eyeballs on a page.
Does anyone know how to circumvent UEFI?

When the CPU starts, it will start reading instructions from a hard-coded address on the memory bus / EPROM somewhere, right? How can I directly control these bytes?

I don't want some proprietary firmware sit between me and the CPU.

If it's not possible on hardware because "secure boot", or whatever, this should at least be possible in emulators like QEMU.

Does anyone know how to do that? ... or clear up my misconceptions? :)
>totally anonymous cellphone location information

that's a bold claim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize#Privacy_concerns

and so on and so forth, these data sets are hard to truly anonymize
Thank you for sharing this viewpoint. Your end goals are admirable. I will seriously consider adopting your strategy.

Obviously, I'm using a nym. Because I've wanted to my life to be faceted. I've lived very publicly before (ran for office). But in geekdom, I didn't want people to casually correlate my politics (activism) with my open source efforts.

Again, thank you.
I don't think it's a problem of OBS, but the problem of writing a dummy v4l-device it seems. which IS more complicated! (though I wonder what it's used for)
"But Georgia Tech said it first needed an official request from someone overseeing coronavirus efforts — even though it already had the email from Lapitan"

Yeah; just let me call God here, permission restored.
New analysis of coronavirus risk: Young adults are not invincible – STAT
If you need that level of confidence - sure. But it's going to cost a lot more resources and when you're out of business your customers are fully out of updates. I wouldn't want to depend on that (then again a business customer will want to maintain a support contract anyway).

Isn't a containerized solution a good compromise here? You could use Debian on a fixed major release, be pretty sure what runs and still profit from their maintenance.
Yes. It took a while for WHO to name it. They didn't want to call it SARS because it was too frightening- SARS caused a lot of devastation in Asia.

From the WHO website Q and A [1]:

Is COVID-19 the same as SARS?

No. The virus that causes COVID-19 and the one that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 are related to each other genetically, but the diseases they cause are quite different.

SARS was more deadly but much less infectious than COVID-19. There have been no outbreaks of SARS anywhere in the world since 2003.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

I went to the WHO website to document my first assertion, that they chose the name to not cause fear and confusion with SARS, but didn't find it. It used to be right on the front page explaining the virus- they also explained the name.
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A mortality rate of 2-3% is "very high". And it's not just "very vulnerable populations". I'm 55, in generally good shape, but I have (medically controlled) hypertension. So my odds of dying are like 5%.

My daughter is 26, and winds up in the ER once a year or so for asthma. What are her odds? My mother is 78, has had open heart surgery, and is overweight and gets almost no exercise. I'm more or less assuming I will never see her again.

"Mortality rates haven't been very high at all" is easy to say when you're not in any way vulnerable.
Several decades ago, it wasn't nearly this bad or widespread. Sure, there's always been conspiracies and anti-science sentiments, but the mass adoption made all that crap much more easily accessible to the masses, so it spread like a disease. Instead of everyone getting their news from Walter Cronkite, now they get it from Alex Jones.
This can be said about any backup service, though. When the work, yay! When they don't, PANIC!
http://archive.vn/oUJ6Z