skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a beginner, i find that watching someone code and talk provides a lot of context you don’t get from a step by step Hello World guide or API docs. I only turn to docs once I have a reasonable understanding of something. I also don’t want to commit to a 5 hour course, when a few 20 minute videos could give me enough of an understanding that i would then be able to navigate the docs.
For a surprising large number of people, "doing money" means something different than it might to the well heeled. Eating, keeping a roof over one's head, and other trivialities.

While Trump isn't right, dismissing economic impacts of this is the same foolishness with a different political point. And no, handing out cash, which is far as I can tell is the only economic plan on the table anyone is considering is simply papering over the real problems.

Gates's equation of the economy with "money" is advocating for a terribly myopic point of view. Things being made, things being transported from where they're produced to where they're needed, the infrastructure, even the health care facilities and workers, and certainly not least, everyone else are also "the economy".

Any plan that doesn't address the short term health needs without also formulating a real plan to mitigate the economic fallout isn't a plan at all... it's simply closing one's eyes to the next crisis that we ourselves create.
That there is continuum is irrelevant when the human comprehension is discreet. For example, panton colours contain less then 2k values.
A clearer explanation has now been delivered by Safari’s evangelist: https://twitter.com/jonathandavis/status/1243228885006708737

Data isn’t deleted after 7 days for home screen web apps.
>Its investment portfolio dropped 16.2%, all but erasing the 20% gains made last year

When pretty much all major stock indices drop by 30% this is a remarkable win. I'm impressed they it's such a small percentage of the fund that was lost in this climate.

Also how the hell did they make 20% last year. I guess it's true that the big funds like this are simply way ahead of what any individual could ever hope to achieve. Consistently smaller losses and bigger wins year on year.
Everything is political in the US. Can't you tell? A scientific fact such as global warming has been political for decades now. It's not surprising a global pandemic can be politicized as well.
And yet DJIA is up almost 1000 points. Is this the stimulus $$$ in work, or what is going on here?
This suggests we clarify what is meant for a language to be "mostly dead". If we consider size compared to total market or trajectory we may ultimately conclude that a project for example Clojure is "mostly dead" compared to JavaScript or java.

However this isn't ultimately the most useful metric. Would you for example select a restaurant based on the reviews and the cuisine or to total annual revenue of its parent company. If your metric suggests you forego surf and turf at a local diner in order to eat a Whopper you may be asking the wrong questions.

For your consideration here is a better one. A language is alive when its ecosystem is likely to receive enough interest and talent to continue to develop enough to allow its users to continue to accomplish useful goals. Being embedded in 2 of the top platforms and being able to reuse those libraries is a factor. Relying on these host platforms means that it can remain alive indefinitely while being useful to only thousands instead of millions as long as it drives enough interest to pay the salaries of the dozens who develop the core and the hundreds that write useful tools.

https://clojure.org/news/2020/02/20/state-of-clojure-2020
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> That SARS-CoV-2 was able to spread globally as a pandemic has more to do with its transmissibility and latency characteristics.

Which is what proves that the US isn't unassailable from a pandemic. It would be a mistake to assume that SARS-CoV-2 or something with similar ability to breach geographical barriers won't occur again. Also, nature doesn't care about political entities, and a pandemic could also start in the US.
I am a Chinese and this is a shame.
Thank you. Upvote this!
Get ready ! Wwg1wga
(I looked it up and WRITE SAME seems to be a SCSI command to essentially do a "memset".)
I hear what you are saying but 'finite' isn't that restrictive. There are some pretty big numbers that are still finite.
Can confirm this assertion. I spent years building pretty games, but often our games are trounced by a rival with by with crappier graphics and better gameplay.
Why wouldn't it have the same functionality as an internal HDD?
Man, I love HN... I started using jqbx yesterday from a friend’s recommendation and now I see a comment from the creator. Small world.
The 3D package "Blender" bit the bullet and revamped their entire UI over the course of many years/releases to (1) bring it in line with other applications (ctrl-c, ctrl-v should work everywhere) and (2) make more options visible in the UI, so that they were discoverable. It's been wildly successful.

I hope Dwarf Fortress will have a similar refit over time.
> Gates for president actually seems like a pretty good idea at this point.

Gates seems like a good idea now because he's knowledgeable about public health, at least more than Trump. But do you want Gates negotiating with China, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell? Do you want him to make decisions about law enforcement?

Maybe you do, but my point is that every president has weaknesses. The solution is for them to surround themselves with subject-matter experts and let those people lead. The problem with Trump is that most people loathe working with him, or they end up contradicting him and getting pushed out (like Dr. Fauci).

You may think you want Trump to manage this crisis, but you actually just want what most presidents have offered in the past: someone with at least enough intellectual humility to listen to their own advisers.
Chinese Bioeasy also offers those, Spain and Poland tried using them, instead of 80% sensitivity its more like 20-30%. Works if you are willing to burn 5 tests per person.
Sure, if the only metric you care about is "how easy is it to try out my project" then making a website makes sense.

That's a very single-dimensional decision making progress. You're nowhere near convincing that all UIs must be made with a website.

Even if we restrict our view to UIs made for businesses for the purpose of making a profit, native apps make a lot of sense. Just think of any big tech company; they all have robust apps and consumers largely prefer the apps. You can order door dash or an Uber in a web browser, but people almost always use the app because a good native app is a better experience than a good website app.
If you can find Walter Lewin's courses online, they can get you through the first years of physics.

The main way to learn physics though, on your own or in a program, is by doing problems and labs. You can start by doing the coursework you find for an established class. Another is by working through problems in a text book. As for labs, hacking together what you can is both valuable and rewarding. A few examples are estimating absolute zero, measuring the coefficient of friction, exploring momentum with ball bearings.

A few other things that I have found work for me. First, work towards a goal. Whether that be to calculate the orbit of a planet, understand quantum tunneling, or estimate a dynamic process. The second is to take the time follow thoughts as far as you can, using the social communities and resources available on the web (quora, reddit, etc).
Presentation still matters. It's why I have 1100+ hours in Rimworld and about 8 seconds in Dwarf Fortress.
I wonder if it could also be due to the fact that Internet usage has increased, which lowers available bandwidth—maybe as a consequence, streaming quality isn't as consistent.
To make MeiliSearch expose the documents that are stored in your PostgreSQL (or any other database) you must extract them and store them in our engine using the HTTP API we provide to you. https://docs.meilisearch.com/references/documents.html#add-o...

For that you will need to also define the different attributes your document is composed of.

We thought about providing a simple tool to extract the documents from an SQL table into the MeiliSearch directly.
> In any case, it is a huge security issue, because file systems use this command to efficiently clear freed blocks to zeros.

Do file systems directly issue SCSI commands? I would've thought they tell the storage driver to do something and the driver would do it with the most efficient means available.
What are some of those general ideas that have served you well?
Show HN: I created a job board specialized in remote gaming jobs
Hello everyone,

My name is Maxime and I created in early 2019 a job board specialized in remote job ads in the video game industry. Three years ago, I created a blog (creersonjeu.fr) in which I share my knowledge in video game development. I'm part of many gamedev groups on social networks and it's been a while that I've noticed that it is very difficult to find remote jobs.

That is why I created Arcadjobs.com, in order to help my community and people in general to democratize remote work in this sector.

I think this can be useful to a lot of people, especially in these times of general confinement. Some of my subscribers encouraged me to share it more widely, that is why I'm telling you about it here. If you're looking for a job, or if you're a company looking to employ remotely, I hope my job board can help you :)

Also, feel free to give me feedback to improve the service.

Be safe, and don't forget to wash your hands!

Here is the url: https://arcadjobs.com/
I'm not arguing against the point that China is handling this better than other countries. I'm arguing against the point that it's because they "don't mind suffering." They do mind suffering, but they have no agency, and their government has decided that they must suffer so that the economy can survive this crisis as healthy as possible.

China is an authoritarian country, and they've resorted to literally locking people into their homes until a quarantine period passes, arresting them, and beating them. Can you imagine if American police started locking apartment complex doors from the outside? I don't want to live in a country like that, even if it means we're worse equipped to deal with pandemics.

And let's not forget this whole thing started in China because their food safety regulations aren't adequate.

edit: ah yes, downvotes -- mash that disagree button
I didn't make python 3

No, but you're complaining about a person using Python 2, the one that didn't arbitrarily break compatibility, while promoting the use of Python 3 because not being compatible is bad.

Again focusing on the execution of one specific project, as-is, is beside the point of "get everyone on the same hammer".

I agree with this.
> My ISP does

Out of curiosity, which ISP do you have?
Hi Paul, epic post - and so true.

I was watching CNN last night with my Canadian wife (I'm English) and I couldn't believe the BS being thrown around when all we really want to see from the USA is concrete action like what many other nations including the UK has achieved.

Saw your tweet about boycotting companies btw, you'll like this: http://www.whencovidisover.co.uk/
They were never ever intended to be taken out and used that way. You can mask potential firmware problems and ship faster if you also own the enclosure.
Curcumin suppression of cytokine release and cytokine storm
Unlikely. I suspect it's more likely month-end re-balancing.
I don't know if a point and click GUI precludes the depth of DF. If anything some things should be much easier to do with point and click. Factorio combines keyboard with point and click navigation and it has some depth to it.
It likely flows down from the same kind of code that supports TRIM or other free space clearing stuff. They won't (usually) issue the commands themselves
Football was already in the offseason, so most of the news is just teams trading players around anyway. Which they can (and are) doing despite covid-19.
Can we change the title to something less click-baity? They are still up for the year.

Not to mention that it’s incredible the wealth fund has done so well in relation to such a tremendous bear market.
> if you were to report all of your findings to your local newspaper ... people would go absolutely ballistic.

You reckon? I don’t think they’d even be interested in hearing about it.

Where do you live and who is your local paper that leads you to believe they’d bother writing, let alone publishing, such a story?
> do you really believe there's a single incorporated entity on the planet that makes decision based on social responsibility?

Yes. These businesses exist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibil...

I learned about a few of them during the Sustainable Business Strategy course I took by Dr. Rebecca Henderson, who teaches Reimagining Capitalism in the MBA Program at Harvard Business School and is on the board of Ceres, a membership organization whose member companies are known to include such social responsibility and governance practices (collectively called ESG) in their businesses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social_and_co...

There is also the triple bottom line accounting framework. There is at least one incorporated entity on the planet that makes decisions based on this accounting framework:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line

Right now a lot of companies who are seeing a slump but will be able to stay in operation after making some changes will be making decisions between laying off staff and cutting costs some other way (such as the executives taking pay cuts). This may be one way to help identify who they are. Watch for news of companies whose executives are foregoing their salaries and bonuses and dividends during this crisis in order to avoid laying people off that they could just lay off due to the slump.
Go check out the Coreboot project. They're about as low-level and bare metal as you can get, because Coreboot is not running on the board firmware, it is the board firmware. And as an open source project, they document all the various things they have to do in order to initialize all the hardware on a board and have it ready to be used.

You are generally correct in your assumption: that once the CPU comes out of reset, it will reach for a particular memory address to begin execution. Some will directly begin execution from a fixed address. A sibling pjc50 comment mentions, on x86, the CPU will be in 16-bit real-mode and begin fetching instructions from FFFF:0000. Other architectures, work slightly differently. Motorola 68k fetch the first 4 bytes from 0x00000000, loads them into the program counter register, and then jumps there to begin execution.

As you saw, the child of a pjc50's comment explains how to pass your code directly to the beginning of the CPU's execution in QEMU. If you want to do this with actual metal, various classic chips of yore (z80, 6502, 68k, etc) and their documentation are relatively easy to get. A nice thing about those older CPUs, is that their memory interfaces are rather simple compared to today. You can wire up a very basic system with the CPU, an EPROM, an SRAM chip, and maybe a couple other chips as glue logic, all on a basic breadboard. And then you really can control those first bytes of executed code, on actual metal.
This isn't wikipedia.
Perfect, thank you. The links in that article don't work for me, but they do in the original essay from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-lab...

Those accidents are fucking terrifying. I'm not sure whether to be more scared of that, or of wet markets and antibiotic-soaked factory swine/cattle/poultry farms. Humanity certainly isn't taking any of this seriously enough.
Just wondering if curcumin can be used in case cytokine storm due to COVID-2019 are there any trials going on.
That may be highly specific to this period, where italy outside hospitals is in lockdown. As we move forward, people will use the tests to decide whether to go back to work, which makes them more critical
What a disappointing reply. We're trying to express that this is much worse than flu. Nobody is trivializing flu; flu is bad enough, the entire point is this is WORSE than flu, so our reaction should be more comprehensive than flu.
I'm familiar with most of it. Yes, obviously companies do bad things all the time, often get away eith it, and sociopaths are more likely to rise to high positions. How does that mean we can't judge companies for their actions and try to hold them to standards? Especially in this age where information travels so easily?

Here's one case of public reaction doing something: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/social-media-sha...

How slavery free diamonds became a selling point works too. Because people didn't want to buy blood diamonds so the business had to change.
> …Java caused a revolution of sorts by providing free-as-in-beer…

Yes, when a well funded corporation gives away programming language runtimes and development tools — that puts language and development tool vendors out-of-business.
I haven't had any issue with Spotify so far. Granted: I personally have a good connection and live in a relatively well developed country.
What happened to The Atlantic!? How did they forget to add "five years, because Trump!!!"?
init7.net. They have a bunch of official guides, but also help with other devices and have debugged issues with new devices. Basically if your device is capable they want to make it work.
there's observable runtime https://github.com/observablehq/runtime
How Should Companies Pivot Tech Innovation Efforts During Covid-19?
It seems like a bug in a storage driver in that case (if it's actually getting triggered by it)... if a command isn't available, it should be falling back to one that is, right?
if the api works & you got the app running, feedback would be greatly appreciated.

as mentioned below: contributors are welcome (for the app as well as for the multithreading JS framework).

best regards
Tobias
> Frankly I find this subject far too depressing to read about for your needs.

That's what you're going with? So what evidence are you basing your belief of of? Sounds like it's just a feeling.
We need only believe in the possibility of a better, different future to act. We need only act to manifest it.

Go vote. Go work on things that truly matter.

Edit: If you have ideological differences please consider posting a reply rather than just downvoting.
the key thing about rimworld for me is the multiplayer mod. there are many things i am willing to sacrifice for that experience.
> having some ground rules and baseline behavior

Doesn't "if you choose to use your own cable modem/router, it must meet the DOCSIS 3 specification" do this? That's the rule Comcast made me follow.
Is there going to be some shortage of food that I'm not aware of?

Or just a shortage in distribution mechanisms for it, because we are unwilling to consider emergency measures during an emergency?
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more granular or qualified statistics.

e.g. yesterday, Gov. Newsom went on the radio and said something along the lines of "half of people hospitalized were 18-60" (paraphrasing, don't remember the numbers exactly, etc). But something like 2/3rds of our population is that age!

Another thing would be statistics on triage as the outbreak overwhelmed Italy. I'd like to know who was going to the hospitals, who was admitted, who needed to be in the ICU, etc, and how the profile of patients changed as beds got filled.

Nutrition. I've already noticed food purchasing has changed at my local stores. I would like to know if we're exasperating our public health crisis by ruining our diets and if we should be concerned about that moving forward.

And finally, alcohol and drug consumption - particularly by millenials. Anecdotally, many of my peers are drinking a lot more regularly than they normally would during the day and week. There are plenty of memes about it, but I'd like to know if we're looking for hope at the bottom of a bottle for the next few months.
I like listening to the radio sometimes because it takes away my control and having to think. If I'm shuffling Spotify for example I tend to dedicate a small slice of limited brain power to thinking about what is playing, if I really want to listen to that song, if I want to queue something up next, etc. With the radio it doesn't matter because short of channel hopping all day I don't control any of that. Makes it better as background noise while I work.

This is something video streaming services haven't gotten quite right yet. I have a Plex server with 14TB of media on it and sometimes end up with a slight anxiety of having to pick what I want to watch when I turn the TV on. I'll waste 15 minutes scrolling through stuff when it doesn't really matter because I'm just using it for background noise anyway. With cable you just pick a channel and it goes.
They have offered a paid course for free due to COVID-19?
To me this is like saying you don't like books because they're black and white. With ASCII I've some textual description of what an object looks like (say, dwarf), but most of it is filled in by my imagination, and it does a much better job than any artist, and it's more dynamic, adapting to my mood and what I'm experiecing. Talk about high-tech. A tileset puts a great constraint on that. If there's a choice between ASCII and tiles, I'll always choose ASCII.

Dwarf Fortress UI ergonomics is another story.
yes! there's something refreshing about the true variety they offer.
Interesting.

To me that’s just a subjective list the author likes.

The replies seem a bit on the level of “...but everyone knows really.”

I always took notions like “expert” virtue signaling to mean experts seem convinced we should all learn via the timelines they did.

Uni students versed in textbook physics, linear timelines for learning cause that’s how society taught them, are also experts in working cognitive theories. Incredible.
Not really. VPN is great to be able to connect from a different country that has fewer of less severe restrictions on free speech, for example.
If not supporting WRITE SAME turns out to be a security issue, it's a bug in the operating system.

And yes, some filesystems do - ESX, for example, uses what they call VAAI, which is a set of optional (standardized) SCSI functionality, like WRITE SAME, COMPARE AND SWAP (iirc), and server side copy.
Some of the confusion is that cases are reported in the county of residence, not the county of the hospital where they are being treated. I've had to correct multiple people who felt the "official numbers are wrong because Foo Hospital in Bar County reported treating 'x' confirmed cases, but the state's website only shows 'y' for Bar County.

It's likely that the doctor that was quoted in the article fell victim to that misunderstanding.

On a related topic, it would be nice if the ER doctors, nurses, and hospitals were doing a better job of reporting the county-of-residence. Here in Georgia, we have 166 cases where the county is "unknown" (out of 1525) as of noon's report.
One strategy I haven't heard much mention of is for the government to employ people directly in various capacities to fight the outbreak.

This would both stimulate the economy and boost public confidence in the government's response.

As it stands right now, having the President set unrealistic timelines when the outbreak hasn't even been contained seems like it's going to have the opposite effect in terms of shoring up public confidence.