skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also very illuminating to check SMART stats on "new" drives that show hundreds of on/off cycles or other evidence that the drives are not, in fact, new.

Pro tip: Many, many drives sold on Amazon by large, "reputable" suppliers are not new in the way you think they are - they are "new pulls" from systems integrators that received them as part of the complete PC and then pulled them, en masse, to sell in bulk.

Those "new pulls" may have hundreds and hundreds of hours on them ...

We (rsync.net) have started trending towards B&H Photo for larger batches of drives ... they pack them cluefully and there is no "new pull" monkey-business ... unfortunately they don't always have the quantity on-hand that we require, but that's not a knock against them ...
And you can install extensions that do that for you and actually block the requests. I'm not aware of any tool to block the facebook sdk in apps.
Let Vim do the typing (2015)
You forgot climate concerns. We can't be adding to the problem with even more inefficient methods of getting places.
This one's my favorite, use it all the time at work. It even downloaded ffmpeg for me, which was a nice bonus, and is easily portable
I don't disagree, but whatever official arguments the TSA has for existing would also apply to intercontinental missles regularly launched from american spaceports.
Natura Naturans
For deaths, the USA has a total of 1,184, and the 8 countries of Western Europe have 15,437, or about 14 times higher on a per-capita basis.
Nope, the opposite. Markdown + animated gif has been a great improvement in the world in recent years. The Visual Studio Code release information pages are an example: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_43 - this page with uBlock is about as good as the modern web gets. I don't love how long it takes to load, but if they were videos I had to click to play, that would be worse.

Video, video buffering, video with broken skipping, players blocked by ad blockers, players that take ages to load and contact tons of sites, autoplaying video, video which pops out to picture-in-picture and floats over the content, video with adverts interrupting playback, video with overlays interrupting the video, video which stalls midway through, video which breaks if you leave it paused long enough for some session to timeout and it can't resume, video which often re-downloads after skipping back to an already-downloaded section, has been the opposite of a great improvement.

Twitter feeds in a browser where the videos auto-play as you scroll over them, but play without sound so you have to mute your audio, unmute the video, then restart it to catch whether you missed anything - but if you click wrong it whisks you away to load that tweet in a new page and reloads everything including the video muted again - are the worst of all worlds.

> And videos are smaller in size

Even as someone who whines a lot about efficiency and waste and bloaty websites, this is still a time I'd rather say "if gif is too big, find a way to make gif smaller, not replace them with a worse experience".
Japan is an enigma and I have yet to see a satisfactory explanation of how they have kept transmission and fatalities so low despite minimal government efforts.
> the USA having 1.5x the GDP / Capita does make Japan the richer country.

???
My pleasure!

The best place to learn is from the official Toki Pona book by Sonja herself:

http://tokipona.org

If that's too much of an investment, the next best thing is the course "o kama sona e toki pona" by jan Pije:

http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/okamasona.php

There are active discords, subreddits, telegram chats, facebook groups, etc. - probably the handiest list is in the sidebar of /r/tokipona:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/

There are a bunch of different communities/resources - I learned a lot from the "ma pona pi toki pona" discord, which is probably the best community for learning Toki Pona (people are generally friendly and generous with sharing knowledge). There's also a lot of music written in Toki Pona on youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2eg_FknCSeoWL6tFBKOn... (some of them are decent!), which is nice for passive consumption.

And, as I mentioned elsewhere the meme reddit mi_lon https://www.reddit.com/r/mi_lon/ is pretty good as well.
This is really, really, really irresponsible.

Please do not post on this again, anywhere, ever.
Controlling the narrative is also what the US Federal government is currently doing.

They hold nightly pressers, dragged their feet on getting tests out, recently asked states not to publish their unemployment reports, etc.
I'm interested in the theory that a fair amount of untested people have or had it, and are mostly asymptomatic. Iceland did some work there: https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/coronavirus-testing... (Not my favorite source, but plenty of direct quotes)
As far as I'm aware, no country is doing that yet except Singapore; but fifteen minutes ago they announced that they would be supporting serological studies to reconcile the models with the numbers. You could think of the numbers we're seeing as a diagonal 2D slice on a more complex manifold: we're either seeing spread like this because there is a large mass of asymptomatic carriers, or because there are unexpectedly-tenacious mechanisms for infection.

A serological study, which you would usually only conduct post-mortem (but in light of the conditions, we may have use for an interim study), would shed light on how many people had been infected without knowledge, and give us some estimates of how infectious asymptomatic carriers are.

Short of that, in countries where testing has been highly available and unconditional, you can begin to get a picture of that; it's not as good though, since people who go for testing are still self-selecting to some extent.
This is the missing description.
I'm torn here. I really agree with you about UI consistency as a priority but the restriction to typically a few dozen symbols in such software is ultimately too much and I think just adding graphics is the practical way forward.

The graphics serve the game, that's critical. If there was a choice between a fantastically complicated ASCII-only Dwarf Fortress and a graphical version with half the features, that's a clear win for ASCII DF. But here the only downside to graphics is that they're very slightly more effort on some systems and the pay off is that the game is better in practice even if only slightly.

In these present circumstances Board Game Arena https://boardgamearena.com/ is getting lots of extra attention because those of us used to playing board games socially can't go to someone's house to get infected with this virus and incidentally play board games. So we have to find another way (to do the latter obviously).

Sites like Tabletopia virtualize the physical environment of a board game. A game that comes with forty wooden pieces now has forty 3D objects. Can you stack this cow on a house? Tabletopia doesn't know what rules are, so sure, just grab the cow 3D object and balance it on the house. This is amusing for a few minutes, then you realise it's every disadvantage of playing a "real" board game, but without any advantages. Who got most settlements in this game of Clans of Caledonia? Well, let's painstakingly count the 3D pieces, then argue about it. Over at BGA there's no problem, the machine is implementing the actual game (not just providing a generic 3D simulation) and so it shows exactly how many settlements you have at all times.

The trade offs are different than for being there in person, but since we cannot be there in person it's an easy win right now for Board Game Arena in the opinion of myself (and apparently thousands of other people since they're having to do emergency scaling to handle several times more players at once in their lobbies).
Game logic can then be implemented in a safe, "clean" language where game designers can't break the underlying game engine.

It's also partly due to C++ being the Lingua Franca of game development - if it were a slightly less complicated/difficult to deploy language you could use both (I have built a toy GUI app that live compiles D code into an object file, and calls an entry point with a nice OOP interface into a made up data structure, it worked pretty well but I don't know much about games so I don't have much use for it). C++ is also ridiculously slow to compile (at it's beautiful worst) so having AI logic (say) in the main codebase is a bit of an issue for designers.
Yep, in the version I'm on (1.15) there's only global flags and config[1] which apply to all HPAs, but not all apps should scale the same way - our net facing glorified REST apps can easily scale up with, say, a 1-2m window, but our pipeline apps sharing a Kafka consumer group should be scaled more cautiously (as consumer group rebalancing is a stop-the-world event for group members)

1: https://v1-15.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/...
This is fantastic! I've often come across book recommendations in HN comments and then struggled to remember where it was posted when it came time to purchase a book on topic X.

This also seems useful at aggregating different perspectives on the same book depending on the context of the thread it was mentioned in.
Criminalize targeted advertising
The USA started later and seems to have quicker growth rate. There is still time to catch up.
I love Zotero for my academic work, but I'm contemplating using it more for less formal research as well.

As Luhmann did, I'm trying to more frequently write summaries of articles—both actual academic articles and things like blog posts, news articles, even recipes. I prefer to handwrite these notes.

For web links, I was thinking of using pinboard's caching feature which assigns a url like https://pinboard.in/cached/01234567890a/ and recording down the 48-bit identifier.

Alas, what happens when my online service of choice fails? So, maybe the Zotero citation key?

I'm wondering what others' experiences are with hybrid written/digital research workflows, and cross-referencing. Anyone have a "personal DOI" that works really well?
> Especially for mortality rates where the US is currently doing better than most large developed countries

That's to be expected, because deaths lag behind infections by a week or two. [1] and we know the US was a couple of weeks behind Italy and Spain in their infections blowing up.

We'll have to wait until a couple of weeks after peak infections before we can see the true mortality rate in any given region/country.

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/9350/1*r-ddYhoUtP_se6x-NOEinA.pn...
It's not just China hiding deaths. There are many more deaths in the US than reported officially. Simply no testing before they die and of course none after, then they don't count it.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronaviru...
Ask HN: Cots Programmable Game-Like Controller?
Looking for something like this that is fully programmable (and has good documentations/API's/etc) for industrial applications:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081WYYLBW/

The ideal device would likely run Linux, allow programming in Python and have provisions for expansion (for example, wireless communications, if not included).
It's not clear to me why a 'service-based' economy should be expected to weather a pandemic better than a 'factory-based' economy. In the plants I've worked in, you could clock in, do your work, then go home without ever talking to anybody. The work was not particularly incompatible with social/physical distancing. On the other hand, face-to-face human interaction is central to much of the 'service-economy.'
Don't let Dwarf Fortress put you off ASCII graphic games if Dwarf Fortress is the first you've played. I tried DF a while back but didn't have the time available to get comfortable with it.

I found Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead much easier to get into. As a new Cataclysm DDA player I spent most of my time learning how to survive in the early days of a zombie apocalypse. Finding food, learning how to craft weapons, what the zombies are capable of.

In one game I found a large mansion in the woods. There were a few zombies inside but not too many to prevent me from clearing it out. I set up camp in one of the bedrooms. The mansion had loads of food, water, materials for crafting. Good times!

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
https://cataclysmdda.org/
Vowelled Matrix with Raku – Weekly Challenge
I am talking about the curves, adjusted for population the US mortality curve tracks Germany's pretty tightly.
I don't see how that is helpful. Blurred Lines was about the whole song, but where it had similarities, not an exact copy.
And, for anyone who's spent that hour and still wants more, the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire on Netflix is, while not truly historically accurate, very much in the spirit of the early 80's tech scene.
I actually do have extreme ADHD, latest test was a couple years ago but I take one every time I go to a new doctor.

I think that is what allows me to focus so intensely that I wind up with a stiff neck and shoulder pain. Hours pass by and you barely noticed. You only notice the neck pain when you’re not doing deep work.

You can’t break out of deep work easily. Even if it’s self destructive.

If you really are getting distracted you’re not doing deep work. Another example, Basquiat painted with music on, the news on, people visiting, didn’t matter. He was doing deep work.

It’s like playing music. When you’re in the zone, time flies by and you don’t get distracted.

Notice how both of your examples your not doing any creative work. You’re reading for fun.
Ask HN: Are you delaying the launch of your project due to Coronavirus?
I figure I can't be the only one in this spot! In my case, we have a financial services product (cryptocurrency trading tools - chartstar.com) which in the current climate may struggle to get traction. Additionally our lead dev has corona, and I myself am not feeling too great atm, which surely means we are going to miss our hyped beta launch next month unless we cut some features. Also our running costs will be quite high so were hoping to hit the ground running (no pun intended). We are self-funded.

Does the climate you launch your startup in significantly affect your success or is it irrelevant?

Is anyone else in this position? Please advise or share your current stories to cheer us up a bit!
does someone know if it's possible to activate it in gitlab web diff of a merge request ?
Job losses are expected and are priced in (which is why it crashed a couple weeks ago). The job losses were less than some expected so the market went up.
No country views property rights as inviolable. Eminent domain trumps individual property rights. Property can be seized pursuant to a lien due to debt, non-payment of taxes, criminal activity, etc. We're not operating under some slavish, unyielding notion of property rights.

There's two distinct concepts being confused as one. The first concept is property rights in general. This concept is singular and correlated with the ideas of ownership and territory. This is may be a universal concept and may be a good candidate for designation as a "natural right". The second concept is the classification of what counts as property. This concept is numerous because we have to actually enumerate everything that counts as property.

Slavery is exceptional because it counts people as property. The error is not with the first concept of property but an error of the second kind, an error of misclassification. Owning a farm and working the land is ok. Owning a farm and owning slaves to work the same plot is immoral.

We see this reified during Reconstruction with Sherman's promise of forty acres and a mule. Where former slaves would be compensated by being granted property rights to the land they worked. Property rights were to be their salvation. As we all know that didn't happen. And a century of systematically denying the rights (including property rights) of their descendants (or anyone who looked like them) is the major reason for the disparities between black Americans and other racial groups.
WSL should solve that handily.

I use it daily and test and compile my programs on both Windows and Linux.

On the other hand I also stay away from projects that don't use cross-platform build-systems like Ninja, or CMake. Shell scripts are sometimes incompatible even between different distributions and shells.

The worst offender (that I know of) by far is GNU Octave.
On Windows they basically ship a snapshot of a Linux dev box (complete with the whole directory tree, compiler suite and everything) with userland binaries compiled for Windows. So much for being "cross-platform"...
Since a lot of the world's population is in places where testing is very limited or nonexistent, this distinction might not mean very much.

Probably more useful is to watch the death count. Even there, though, many will not necessarily be correctly attributed to the virus, given that hotspots can be overwhelmed and politics in general.
I use git GUIs a lot though (mostly GitKraken and VS’ built-in Git UI) - they aren’t all as-customizable though :/
This was presented at the 36C3 last year: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10693-no_body_s_business_but_min...

I assume a lot of people just “slap” the SDK in there and call it a day and it starts sending data.
Ah I see. My WRT1900AC doesn't have that option. I was running OpenWRT but ran into some issues and panicked back to the default firmware. Now that I have another wireless router I might dare it again.
This exists : https://learnthesewordsfirst.com/ is a "multi layer dictionary". There are 360 base words, the very first ones are explained with images, then each word is defined using the previous ones.
Then there's a list of 2000 more words defined using only base words.
The last layer is a full dictionary whose definitions use only these 360+2000 words.
Panic selling is generally a poor strategy. Feel free though I'd be happy to pick up some more cheap VGRO.
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Someone compared it to preparing for a big snowstorm.
I'm sure there are 16,000 people that would be thankful that you were 14,000 ventilators short instead of 30,000.
At the same time, New York, with a population of 19.5M, has nearly half as many cases as Italy, which has a population of 60.5M.

But then we can drill further and compare Lombardy, which has a similar population to NYC's. They have 35k and 22k cases, respectively.

I think the only thing we learned here is that snap-judgement narratives are fairly useless here. Just look at the raw data if you want to have an opinion, it's quite accessible.
Even compared to China Communist Party who tried to suppress their own doctor's evidence of it and let it spread to the whole world

And Italy, where 1 in 10K have already died?
I was just about to re-install OpenWRT, but I guess I won't now.
If your app was a SaaS those people wouldn’t have paid for it anyway, they’d have signed up for the free trial then quit and signed up with a fresh email over and over.

The best thing you can do is identify them and segment them into beta / test updates for experimental features which you wouldn’t test on paying users.
By just marking them down as general pneumonia like Russia probably is doing? This shit is NOT killing people at near the rate everyone is constantly panicking about.

And if anyone was going to decide not to try to ventilate every single case, it would be China, who already released a report that in 81% of cases, they die anyway.
> Marx does argue for a "mechanical determination of ideology"

He literally doesn't. He is a materialist in that he doesn't believe in magic or god. He is not a mechanical, deterministic one because he doesn't think there's an obvious 1-1 determination of social structure -> ideology, but instead that the two influence each other in extremely complicated ways even though ultimately everything flows from material reality. This is a pretty basic point and embarrassing to get wrong if you're an economist talking about Marx! And obviously Marx thought Engels could be a communist despite being from a bourgeois background, which is what Piketty is saying Marx has an extremely crude theory of.

> Piketty does have a theory

The other person responded to this but yeah I did not say he doesn't have a theory, but that his theory is flawed in that he thinks "why don't we just change the laws the bourgeois made".
you're making the normative and tautological argument that values are what they are because that's what (you think) they should be, not that there is any intrinsic reason for value to be defined only by a market. markets are great theoretical constructs, but real-world markets don't behave the way we always envision they ought to. they're subject to all sorts of external forces.

beyond market settling times, what the delta between labor value and market value very likely indicates is some sort of mispricing in the market, often due to some external, malign manipulation (i.e., an application of force, or power). efficient markets should tend toward the labor value of production, that is, profits are minimized to that of idiosyncratic risk (like pandemics).
When I took my first programming course in high school, we had a PDP-11/34 and several terminals in the classroom. But for our first assignments, we used mark-sense cards (in the usual IBM form factor). There was a dedicated column for the statement keyword (chosen by a single mark).

After a couple of such assignments, they turned us loose on the terminals. Those who were quick/lucky got one of the few VT100s or the DECwriter III, but any terminal was better than the mark-sense cards. I think that was a weeding-out exercise.
> any attempt to give simple rules for this part of English grammar will fail, and will not generalize to other languages with articles

Can you elaborate? (Genuinely interested: I like languages, don't know much about NLP).

GP's explanation was just wrong, but articles are pretty well defined, easy to explain, and generalize well to other languages.

- "The" (definite article) marks a noun that refers to a particular instance of the class designated by that noun, distinctly recognizable from other instances.

- "A" (indefinite article) marks a noun that refers to a generic instance of the class that isn't explicitly recognizable among other instances.
Source? I can't find any information that Singapore's testing is random.

Also, if it is I stand corrected on my original statement. However, Singapore is a pretty small, cohesive nation with a strong central government. They, along with a handful of other city-states, are uniquely positioned for this. The poster child for testing-based control, South Korea, is not testing randomly. So, how is this a dig on the US?
Can we stop sharing data with facebook and google or literally ANY third party unless absolutely necessary? And if it is absolutely necessary, let users opt out and tell them what feature they lose?????

Zoom is quickly gaining a reputation for doing the wrong thing anytime they have a choice between right and wrong.
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I knew I couldn't have been the only person to think of this. :)
True, make sense. I like being able to search across a variety of books for specific things (i.e. AWS, Go, React, etc) and some of the videos are pretty good. Also, I still buy a lot of books and being able to go through them before I buy them is really nice.
Why didn't people occasionally photo the cards out on a table or floor? Seems so irresponsible to allow fate to control a graduate degree.
Number of coronavirus cases and deaths in US pale in comparison to seasonal flu
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Island has been testing 6163 randomly selected people. 52 were tested positive.
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https://nordiclifescience.org/covid-19-first-results-of-the-...