skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?

>Did the administration cause every other countries problems with containing the virus too

The American people did not elect and pay other countries to take care of them, they did for their government. The administration dismantled the pandemic team from the highest levels and along with their media cronies, actively minimized it for several weeks[1][2] and made it political, which is costing lives now. The other countries did not do that to Americans.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA&feature=youtu.be...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus...
Foundation Capital: How to Survive a Pandemic (Doc)
Understand: There is no shortage of money in the world.

It's just distributed very oddly.

Maybe this will even things out a bit. Much like certain presidential candidate's plans for fixing the mess we were in before we got into this current mess.
You can make it precise if the language in which you define a "useful real" is richer than the language in which individual useful reals must be defined. For instance, model theorists will talk about definable reals in a model of set theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_real_number#Definabi...

> A real number a is first-order definable in the language of set theory, without parameters, if there is a formula φ in the language of set theory, with one free variable, such that a is the unique real number such that φ(a) holds (see Kunen 1980, p. 153). This notion cannot be expressed as a formula in the language of set theory.
This is a gorgeous app. Love seeing good, native macOS development.
Heard a report of a test getting "lost".

https://thebatesstudent.com/2020/03/23/jack-allard-16-is-in-...
More broadly, containers solve the problem of reproducibility. No longer does software get to vomit crap all over your file system in ways that make reproducing a functioning environment frustrating and troublesome. They have the effect of side-stepping the dependencies problem, but that isn’t the core benefit.
If you want make a program that supports plugins, you have only two real options: non-native runtimes or dynamic linking. And the later gets you into a lot of trouble quickly. The former trades performance and memory usage for ease of use and a zoo of dependencies.
I think that's the problem though. It's too acceptable to say "I don't vote because it's too complicated, I'm too busy, or it's too hard". The reality is, in the U.S. at least, your country is involved in policing the world, subsidizing fossil fuels, and increasing the class gap globally (and some positive things too :)). It should be seen as a responsibility to express an opinion, even in private, by voting for or against your countries / states / regions policies to the best of your ability.

If you're working 2 jobs and barely making rent and voting is on a work day miles away... then OK. But if it's just "I can't be bothered to learn a little bit about really important shit" then you get to shoulder responsibility for your elected officials whether you like it or not.
The problem is that the price is poorly adjusted to local markets. The subscription in, say, Spain is actually higher than in Sweden, which makes no sense!

Everyone here goes on about how "it's just the price of 3 cups of coffee", but here it's most definitively not.
I noticed a lot of the recent torrents are smaller than usual.

Not sure if they have regulated themselves or the sources are reduced. Or both.
Oh, it is an adventure game? :/
That would introduce a major attack vector. One bad actor could introduce a rule that allows their malware to work.
Anyone seen any info on the Dyson AirBlades used for hand-drying in public restrooms? They are very effective at drying , but flick a lot of water up and onto the unit. I guess if everyone has properly washed their hands the WHO way, the rinse water should be safe, but I'm still wondering whether you are risking getting virus from the previous possibly infected person who also doesn't know the words to Happy Birthday.
What do you mean by "Works with every IDE, text editor and app. Perfect for remote pair programming, live debugging, and even code review."? I screen share and pair program/design/etc. pretty much all day on Zoom without video, so I'm tempted to try this and figure out what I might be missing.
Check your github issue answers! Thank you for checking the project finally, as promised :-) https://github.com/jstimpfle/language/issues/2

I don't know how much effort you put into finding this, but the result feels almost like a certificate of quality to me and confirmed my opinion that this style of coding is pretty f*ing safe in practice. And that while I spent definitely less than 1% time on debugging memory issues (running valgrind twice, according to my git history, compared to working on this project during 7 months, initially 2.5 months full time, leading to an estimate of about 500h of development time).
So, you know better than to be fooled by this clickbait. Noted. All I'm saying is that it was very effective on me, unlike a lot of things.
> some libraries deliberately choose to use runtime dynamic linkage (dlopen) to load optional/runtime-dependent functionality.

Also known as plugins.

It's not a design flaw, it's a feature.
I would imagine excited. Rust's affine type system is an application of logic theory. OCaml is initially French academic production and (from an anecdotal experience) those academics tend to dis how impure most software (and memory management) is. While Rust does not have the purest theoretical foundations, it's still fresh air and will likely result in people paying more attention to the work of researchers in theoretics.
You fail to realise that in a lot of the cases the landlord is also the tenant. Anyone who owns a house or condo is a landlord... cutting the landlords income for a month is a big problem.
Ask HN: How to Become Better at Whiteboarding?
My whole team uses whiteboards frequently and for almost any task. We have a lot of consultants visit and they use the whiteboards, too. I do not. How can I become better at using a whiteboard in a way that it actually helps the entire team solve complex problems? Are there any tips or tricks you've learned over the years that you'd like to pass on?
This is my major concern. Heaps of legitimate companies send emails with links to things like 'http://dh380.<third party server>.com'. We're being trained to accept this sort of silliness
"It’s larger than the rational numbers in the sense that it is a strict superset"

Ok, did I miss the explanation of that? Or is it something in "part 2" which I didn't see a link to?
I use it for a bunch of goofy stuff in meetings to lighten the mood. When I want to be serious, I change the background image to a photo of our office. If you combine it with OBS studio, you can overlay yourself on presentations or videos, which is also very useful.
Ask HN: Open Apple MacBook Shipment from China?
I just received a Macbook which was shipped from China 5 days ago. Is it safe to open it and use with out wiping with a chemical wipe and ruining the screen ?
Science and Star Wars: Tatooine was a coplanar circumbinary planet
95% of my regularly used websites and applications have had usage gaps that have reached a week.
I like having a separate work space, a separate work computer, and half an hour's bike ride between work and home. But you can still do those things while working from home, and you end up living cheaper with a more customizable workplace (I can play whatever radio I want, I can set the temperature how I like it...), and no-one looking over your shoulder (I really can't understand seeing that as a positive). If you try to just work in the space where you were living without adapting it at all then yeah it's not gonna go well. But there can be upsides once you've taken the time and effort to adapt.
About a decade ago when OOP was just booming in the PHP world, I wrote my own database abstraction layer because I was a bit tired of the ORM's that existed at the time (Doctrine, Propel, ZF). Taught me what makes a beautiful fluent interface and the difficulties of achieving them. Helped me to think about UX experience at a code level, trying to achieve an interface for developers that fits all ages. That was an eye opening experience.

Then I wrote an MVC framework from scratch because I thought others were too heavy (ZF, Symfony, etc). It helped me understand an application development at a deeper level, figuring out the best strategy for code modularization, organization, and performance. It helped me to learn creating something that looks so painlessly easy to use is a pretty difficult task (there will always be something ugly sticking out). It took me on a ride of what happens with extreme level of abstractions breaking up code for each roles and a simpler route much like the Sinatra / Express bootstrap approach.

I've found a new level of respect for those who develops codes at a macro-level (frameworks / libraries). There are lot of thoughts and love been applied to them. DHL (Rails) is up there, as well as John Resig (jQuery). I'll also give a shout out to Sequel (Jeremy Evans) while at it for creating an ORM that is almost perfect. Vue.js (Evan You) also particularly deserves a lot of credit for what he is doing in the front-end world. I like React too, can be fun, but I did not like the whole Redux experience.

I think what makes a great programmer is that they are able to think at a macro-level, thinking about how 'others' will use and apply the code, and making it look deceptively simple.
It’s still easier than if you had never previously written an if statement. If there weren’t a lot of differences between languages then we wouldn’t have so many languages, but that doesn’t mean that there are not a lot of concepts that are used widely across many languages.
I study bacteria swimming in mucus and I don't understand what the main takeaway of this paper is. Can someone translate the math speak to something a mere mortal can understand?
There is a very dark joke in here somewhere given how well Dyson airblades spread bacteria and other crap around.
Agreed! Every time I need to do something in markdown I just pull up a cheatsheet and start typing. It's so simple that it fits on a page and I don't even feel like I have to learn it to use it. Markdown works for github README.md. It works in Trello. I have it on my blog that I update once a decade. I don't find the argument to stop using it persuasive at all.
I hate those god-awful AirBlade dryers. I have long fingers and it is almost impossible to dry my hands without that disgusting pool of water flicking up onto the tips of my fingers. Curl your fingers you say? Not possible due to how narrow the gap is without almost always making contact with the sides of the unit.

Terrible machines.
I'm the author of the article. I love Make---what a useful tool.
Why can't they copy the old Bird ventilator or similar?
HPE Warns of New Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40k Hours
> explored why business executives and entrepreneurs should focus on the 50+ demographic.

if people want longevity they should start before 50. Cue stuff by david sinclar, aubrey degrey et al. People may debate their specific science, but they have the right philosophies like "Aging is damage accumulation" and "Consider aging a disease that kills 100% of the population" etc.
I submitted a support question to them about the safety of their airblades, and they never responded.
Can you mention a few scares that you mention that happen "all the time" ?
The BERT multilingual models from HuggingFace [1] have even more languages than Stanza (100+ vs. 66) .

Edit: And they also have a pipeline abstraction [2], so you could say that HuggingFace is also a full toolkit.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/transformers/multilingual.html

[2]: https://huggingface.co/transformers/main_classes/pipelines.h...
My 4yo did a "circle time" over Zoom with his preschool class yesterday. I was skeptical, but he loved it and it was a huge morale boost to see his friends. This is a hard time for little kids.
But we've increased rent to rule out savings.
There was a study saying it blows crap all over you. I close my eyes when ever I use it now to prevent a certain virus from getting into my eyes
Don’t they just mean the localstorage containers for other domains than the current one? Ie your normal app’s storage will be left untouched as it is currently but third party domain localstorage containers will be wiped?
Maybe they've improved but my DC59 seems to have many design flaws.

Hair and dust gets stuck in the weirdest places, requiring a screwdriver to clean properly (or the power just cuts off due to blockages). The connection between the motorised head, tube, and the main body also seems to be insecure. Normal forward and back motion will interrupt the connection and it stops spinning. For such an expensive product, I'm not happy with the replacement parts I've had to buy for that issue.
Corporations should keep paying to entities who don't have as much wealth as them. For some people who aren't extraordinarily rich, it maybe their only source of income.
It was mostly right wing media and the president, and they were pushing that even in March.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA&feature=youtu.be...
Actually the main selling point of containers has nothing to do with "proven interworking", but the ability to deploy and run entire applications in a fully controlled and fully configurable environment.

Static libraries do nothing of the sort. In fact, they make it practically impossible to pull it off.

There's far more to deploying software than mindlessly binding libraries.
You’re using one data point, 2019, a pretty damn good year for the U.S. economy. I encourage you to look at the last 20 some years of U.S. airlines profits (emphasis on U.S. since those aren’t subsidized as much as national carriers like Emirates, Singapore, AirFrance...etc). Average profit margin is around 0.5% despite creating a ton of value for the US economy.
100% on going for walks. The issue is that it is being abused/misused and thus we see one (European) country after the next one imposing bans on circulation.

Common sense is not so common. If govs encourage "people going for a walk" then majority of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards would be in the parks with a bottle of wine and sandwiches having picnics "while out on a walk".

It's the stupid ones that ruin it for all. The ones who don't want to limit themselves for a couple of weeks for the greater good.
Interesting preface.

In the UK we were told that masks were simply not effective, there was no need for them, they would not hinder the spread of infection.

Similarly with closing schools: "the gov has this special plan that uses herd immunity, you idiot, so we don't need to close schools" [actually it's always "Boris has a plan", I can't understand why -- if it's the PM's plan then it's probably entirely ignorant of all the facts ...].

Anyway, yeah, the argument wasn't that

>"[we] disagree on whether surgical masks alone help prevent the wearer from becoming infected" [from your link]

it was "masks of any kind are ineffective".

And we bloody well know that just the effectiveness of masks in preventing spread from infected patients makes them worthwhile. It's simply maths that 1 infected who spreads to 1 more is more than 1 infected spreading to zero more.
Off topic: @JumpCrisscross I love these economic related posts you continually submit, please continue!
https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60002...
It's hard to tell how far and how much anyone related to a celebrity politician such as Joe Biden indirectly benefits from their relation. What's for sure is that Biden's nomination is full of holes, and is worrisome about the prospects of the Democratic party this fall. It's a shame that Dems cannot front a more solid candidate.
They said there is no evidence of it, that's completely different from what you wrote.
That line you mention says:

> The records were viewable on a non-password-protected database open to the public Web.

Of course I read that. But it does not identify which database it was; and (which is where my guess came in), I'm guessing it was some NoSQL DB like Mongo.

Next time please try not to assume incompetence on other people's part.
Zig looks super cool. I've been wanting to experiment with it for some system software.

Are there any guides anywhere for calling libc functions from zig? I'm interested in fork/join, chmod, fcntl, and that kind of thing. Do I just import the C headers manually? Or is there some kind of built-in libc binding?
Today's ads are what we used to call "spyware" back in the day and we used to purchase dedicated antispyware products that protected against them, so yes, browsers should block malware (so ads in their current state).

Browsers, after all, are user-agents designed to serve the user and not corporate interests. Technology as a whole should be there to make our lives easier, not waste our time.

Publishers will not go out of business don't worry. Clickbait will die off because the cheap nasty ads that currently make it viable will disappear. Tasteful, pleasant ads tailored to the current content, negotiated directly between the publisher and the advertiser will remain, and will be harder to block because they are just content served just like the rest of the content on the page instead from a nasty ad network domain.
Complex problems require simple solutions. Even your bullet points are trying to do too much. Creating a single payer system is great, but creating it overnight would be a nightmare. "Affected by job loss due to COVID-19" requires some assessment and oversight. "Agreement on how money will be spent" requires negotiation. All of this takes time, which is also the limiting factor right now.

2 bullet points:

* Everyone gets a check for $X,000

* Unemployment benefits go up 50% for 6 months

Just cut everyone a check now and raise taxes later if you need to. Adjust it for cost of living by state or county if you want to, but don't means test because it'll never be perfect.

Some businesses will fail. Others will borrow at close to 0% to survive the crunch. Let them apply as needed.

It's not perfect, but it's something everyone can understand without all the pork.
You should read the factcheck.org link more carefully, as it details/addresses these points, and also indicates congress indeed funded (they control the purse, after all) the CDC, despite Trump's proposal.
Dito. I picked Latin in 5th-9th grade over French and Spanish only because I was so intrigued about ancient Rome and Latin from Asterix. Still remember visiting Rome for the first time in 10th grade. It felt surreal.
ebookc should cover your needs [1]. It can output a bunch of different formats, including HTML and PDF.

1: https://www.xmlmind.com/ebookc/
If it's a solid color or simple enough for the static image compression algorithms in play to optimize away, even those keyframes would be tiny. Some codecs will just optimize those keyframes away entirely.
I've had a refurb V7 for a couple of years now, and never had any of your problems. Maybe the DC59 suffers from V1 types of problems?

I chose the V7 because it was the cheapest / oldest model with the new ejection mechanism.
Pfff. Imagine the state of the github if everybody wrote documentation in HTML.
The 10k hours idea, to me, feels like it's more about the distribution of competitors' skills. By the time you reach 10k hours, you're way on the right-hand side of the bell curve and there are very few more-experienced competitors.

I'm guessing that staying on the bus line doesn't hold up for directly competitive things like sports, where fanning out from the field doesn't matter if it doesn't increase your win rate.
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YouTube's a video encoding site. The original video that was given to YouTube will have been substantially larger than 13 kb-ish.

If your content is audio only then use an audio encoding site like SoundCloud. Or, if you really want to use YouTube, then you need to get them to develop an audio specific option.
This so much. The system is absolutely corrupt and broken to the core. Poor leadership exacerbates the problem but it is not the fault of poor leadership. We've merely been coping with the horrible brokenness of our system for decades.
I believe they also have an "identifier for vendor" that persists even after app uninstalls/reinstalls and is the same across all the apps from the same developer, so Apple are not ideal either. Still better than the competition though.
Thousands of U.S. Land Corporations form shell companies; sad dogs, one-legged orphans popular choices for board of directors
> Some industry insiders have suggested that Dyson's approach to create a new model will take too long.

You don't say. You can't just turn a vacuum cleaner into a ventilator by setting it to Blow instead of Suck. Medical devices take a very long time to develop, certify, build, release and develop training for because they're medical devices. The rule of thumb for consumer-grade hardware is it takes a minimum of one year from ideation to first delivery.

You want new ones fast, you get the manufacturers who make existing ones make more of them. The problem isn't that we're out of ventilator designs, it's that we're out of physical ventilators.

This feels like Elon's child-rescue submarine, and at least as far as COVID-19 it's likely to save exactly the same number of people.
More relevant from the wikipedia link: "Despite its name, it is often regarded as the world's largest lake, though it contains an oceanic basin (contiguous with the world ocean until 11 million years ago) rather than being entirely over continental crust."

Regardless, whether it's the largest or not isn't really the point, it's just that it sounds interesting. I believe Manitoulin island (which is a bigger island in a smaller lake) has a similar island-lake recursion pattern. If you start looking at islands (not necessarily the largest ones), there are also several lake-island recursions (Lake Taal on Luzon island being one). And then one could rank the size of the recursive islands (or lakes) at the various levels. It's a lot like trainspotting in the end.
How much stockpiled cash are you estimating that Subway or Mattress Firm has?
Most of these companies are paying rent to gigantic REITs typically owned in turn by hedge funds. They're not ripping off mom and pop here.
Since you are being snarky:

Are you aware that the sensitivity quoted was mostly in symptomatic and hospitalized patients and not those in the very earliest stages who could also be shedding less virus?

Are you aware that each false negative can infect N others, some of whom might have also been previously tested, and also be greenlit to deal with high-risk populations like nursing homes?

Are you aware that your 4^x vs 1^x comparison assumes that in that chain everyone is tested, which is not even close to the case now.
I'm not sure how widespread this will be, but it will be interesting to see the impact on commercial real estate in SF and NYC where empty storefronts are already a major issue.

I'm imaging a lot of businesses were barely scraping by before the shelter-in-place.

We might see a huge increase in empty storefronts after this passes.