skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's a pretty lame model of political ideology.

Well, I did say it's a poor approximation. The usefulness I alluded to is to understand that all these approximations are flawed in various ways, firstly because they are approximations, but more-so because they are all hopeless simplistic representations for what is being modeled. Biaxial is better than a single axis, but that doesn't make it better. The thing the horseshoe theory represents is something that the biaxial representation doesn't represent at all, a similarity of some aspects of though in the common extremes we see in reality.

There's often a difference between diagrams that allow everything to be represented clearly and diagrams that help steer you into associations that are useful. Both have their place.
Orthomolecular News Service
Never let the truth get it the way of a sensational headline...
Nothing unleashes the stranglehold of the market and its corruption contracts, then the panic of the "elite".

They could loose it all when the neighbours come marching in.
War and civil war, were the great innovators.

Even the cold war delivered on this.
As soon as it was over, the mildew of the gilded age and its aristocratic sentiment settled again.
All the soldiers, firefighters, and doctors/nurses/EMTs (and many more) are putting their lives on the line for what they believe in. Some of them believe in the constitution and some of them simply desire to help their fellow man. Not everyone is so weak that they sell out others for their own benefit, and assuming the worst of others only serves to expose your values, or lack thereof.

> I wish you joy of it.

That was straight-up evil. Whatever empathy and respect you may have had just went out the window. I'm almost in disbelief that you would edit your post just to literally wish someone the "joy" of having a chance to die.
Next time, open the .pkg with Pacifier.
This is basically the approach I take, write towards the standards of the auto formatter as much as possible and it'll usually handle the rest.
I'm the author of the post and work on the Dart language. I spent a bunch of time last year trying to figure out a good way to make semicolons optional in Dart without breaking a lot of stuff.

Because of a handful of syntax quirks particular to Dart, it's really difficult. Most other languages that have optional semicolons were designed from the start to make them optional. Dart was not. On top of that it:

* Uses C-style variable declarations which means there's no keyword to indicate the start of a variable declaration.

* Likewise uses C syntax for function and even local function declarations. Again no keyword marking the beginning of a function.

* Has complex syntax for things like function types which means a type annotation can be arbitarily long and may split over multiple lines.

* Has lots of "contextual keywords" that are not true reserved words but behave like them only in certain contexts.

* Has a rich syntax that overloads a lot of tokens to mean different things in different contexts. "{}" can be an empty map, empty set, empty block, empty function body, or empty lambda body.

All of that makes optional semicolons just really difficult. I haven't given up entirely. We have a thing now called "language versioning" that lets different Dart libraries target different specific versions of the language. That lets us evolve the language in nominally "breaking" ways without actually breaking existing code. (For example, this is how we will migrate the world to non-nullable types.)

That may give us a way to make other grammar simplifications that would then also let us make semicolons optional. But syntax changes like this are always difficult. People have very strong opinions about you changing their existing syntax under them, and the value proposition in return isn't super compelling.

There's an old saying, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Language syntax isn't always like that because the migration cost once you have a lot of extant code (and users) can just be too painful. The best time to make semicolons optional was twenty years ago. The next best time may be today, but it may just be never.
Why "early on"? Just yesterday GM tried to price-gouge the US federal government, and restrict the number of ventilators they will produce, prompting Trump to actually use the DPA for the first time in this ordeal, something he's very reluctant to do other than as leverage in negotiations.
That came out when I was a CPU logic designer, deep in the middle of a major mainframe project. (100K ECL, 20 BTU ton water chiller per CPU). My cube-mate and I both gave that book to our wive's and said: "Here. This is what I do."
Thank you for the info! I will tell my business partner to unvote. Also told my mom and dad not to upvote.
It seems that those experts running the clinical trials now in the US with different drugs should also be taking down the blood type, and other genetic factors on each person enrolled - - - it very well might be that only certain classes of person respond well to certain drugs, the devil is in the details.
> if you're proposing expanding Medicaid to temporarily cover all uninsured, then it's true that isn't the case

Yes, specifically for COVID19 cases.
>So why are the asymptomatic cases required to quarantine under medical observation for 14 days but not counted?

Probably the same reason for mandatory 14 day quarantine for inbound travelers, China has the capacity to ere on the side of caution and enforce it.
> I will continue to be mystified ... people in Singapore give some data to authorities and they can still go out and live their lives. I want material freedom ... not some sort of religious dogmatic privacy ...

For what it's worth, I think open source, opt-in, decentralized, user controlled contact tracing such as that being discussed above is about as good a solution as we can hope for in such a situation.

That being said, I think you've completely failed to understand why some people respond the way they do. Their concerns aren't about freedom in the short term, but rather civil liberties in the long term. Quarantines will necessarily be lifted, but government surveillance has a nasty tendency not to go away. More generally, civil liberties are permanently lost with a disturbing consistency no matter how temporary the original intent.

Nobody out there is either fully informed or perfectly rational, so it's important to understand the underlying motivations behind other's viewpoints if you want to get anywhere. I'm certainly dissatisfied by the incredible ineptitude the US has displayed, but I also value my civil liberties highly and wouldn't want to live in Taiwan. Make of that what you will.
Big-Government Contagion
Not surprised one bit. I definitely heard them (but never saw them) when I was living in Daly City. Also once nearly hit a deer while I was driving along Skyline Blvd, speaking of unexpected wildlife.

Coyotes pop up pretty regularly in Sacramento, too (which is somewhat unsurprising given the proximity to farmland and other open areas, but somewhat surprising given the degree to which Sacramento's suburbs sprawl and would be expected to push wildlife further away from Sacramento itself).
“This company is doing incredibly shady things and exploiting its sudden boost in popularity, so you guys shouldn’t criticise it, because it’s made soooo much money and you didn’t and it’s therefore above criticism “

That’s how your comment reads.
The fact that it’s worth so much is almost completely irrelevant, and if anything, should mean they have more responsibility to do the right thing.
Stop apologizing for them. It's literally two more clicks, and anyone who has gone through the flow expects those clicks. Also, if Installer never realizes it installed something, it won't even offer to delete the installer .pkg.
So people didn't buy things before Amazon?
> When you have a large codebase, beautifully and carefully annotated with exact, detailed checked-exception signatures, then one day you have to add a trivial little something to one little function that might throw an exception not already in that function's signature... You may have to go through the large codebase, updating signatures on hundreds or thousands of functions which use the first little function indirectly.

And you know what? That's probably a good thing. How else can you be sure that all those functions can deal with that exception correctly? If you're adding a new exceptional case to an operation, and rather than handle it locally you decide to punt the issue up the call stack, you should expect that to have far-ranging effects on the rest of the codebase. At that point you have two options for limiting the impact: you can handle the error close to the source, or you can rethrow it as a more general-purpose exception type which is already part of the function's signature (i.e. RuntimeException in Java) with the understanding that any handling of that exception will likewise be generic—typically cancelling or retrying the entire operation.

Of course, libraries which call back in to the user's code can be an issue. (More so in Java than Haskell—so far as I know Java doesn't have any way to make library functions polymorphic in the kinds of exceptions they can throw, whereas in Haskell the exceptions are just part of the type signature so there's no issue with saying "this function throws the same exceptions as the callback".) You may need to temporarily convert the exception into a return value or even provide some out-of-band channel to smuggle it across the library boundary.
> How do you indent block comments? Do they stay untouched?

Block comments are a little tricky and there are a handful of heuristics to handle them. Generally they stick to the preceding token. Block comments are rarely used in Dart and when they are, it's often just a small marker to describe the previous element like:

foo(null /* missing */, blah);

So adhering it to the previous token usually does the right thing.

> If so, what to do if there are already indents in the comment?

It doesn't touch the body of the comment itself. There's too many ways for that to go wrong given all of the various things a human might choose to stuff in there: ASCII art, tables, prose, etc.
Um, what has this got to do with this article?

Let's just assume AirPods did make 3x more Net profits than Mac.

AirPod ASP is roughly ~$169, Mac ASP is roughly ~$1300, AirPods would still need to sell roughly 2.6 times more for it to be more profitable than Mac. That is 46M to 50M AirPod per year.

Even the most optimistic estimate of AirPod sales fall far below that number.
This isn't the point, it's the fact that the installer is being abused to install an app without even giving the user the option to proceed or not. Nothing should be installed as part of the preflight.

Par for the course with Zoom, so it seems.
How is it moving goalposts?
He says Alberta contributes very little. They've always contributed, never taken. On the other hand the second biggest economy in Canada (Quebec) is basically the opposite.
You have some deeply flawed (or entirely absent) philosophical upbringing. There are no "foundations" to anything - all definitions are arbitrary.

To assert that a premise is fallacious mandates that you have some prior notion of "fallaciousness".

You don't have an objective criterion for asserting whether one definition is better than another because you don't have a notion of "betterness" - it's all conventional.

It's precisely because I am an over-zealous formalist is why I see Mathematics for what it is - grammar, syntax and semantics.

It's just language.
I'm not disputing that customer interests are aligned with a business's profitability insomuch as they'll be around to continue to provide you the product or service you want. We agree here.

I'm simply wondering if there's a "your margin is my opportunity" play here where a company could devour SaaS companies by changing the distribution model. That's all. This thought has been banging around in my head for the past couple years due to a few data points, but I haven't had time to formally test the hypothesis.

That's all it is: a hypothesis that there's an opportunity here to change the distribution model to one that focuses on the customer and destroy a large number of SaaS models.
Put it in a workflow where a form is filled out until it reaches a point where the back-end needs to do some heavy lifting, queue the form for processing, and then notify the user to continue to the next form in the workflow.
> First there was the issue with them turning on the camera by default.

FaceTime does this as well, even when I'm making a phone call via Contacts. I hate it.
If it drives action, no. However, being angry all the time isn't very productive. It's the same principle as adrenalin.
Here's a nice McIlroy interview with broken formatting: https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/mcilroy.htm .
> Maybe we should pay the government a little more to put some extra money aside so we can avoid this in the future.

Forget a rainy day fund, we’re $23+ trillion in debt with $100+ trillion in future obligations.
Always have wondered, what makes Quebec a have not province?
Trump Orders General Motors to Make Ventilators
I think the issue is more when the new line doesn’t terminate the statement. Like in JS:

const a = doThing()

(() => throw Error)
There's a hypothesis that the Spanish Flu originated in China and was brought to North America with the tens of thousands of Chinese laborers.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanis...
Control Panel isn’t dead yet–but the System applet is looking nervous
The author of that post has it _so easy_! Formatting well-formed programs, in a young language with a short spec. He just starts with an AST!

No no my friend. The challenge is when the program is _not_ well-formed, i.e. has errors, or worse yet - refers to to code elsewhere, so you can't even decide if it's well-formed or not. So no AST for you. You have to go into the dark and dangerous word of speculative and partial parsing of language grammars, representing ambiguity, replacing undefined, ambiguous or erroneously-defined semantics with deductions from the author's existing formatting and so on. That's where the real challenges lie.

And - it's not gonna be 3,853 lines, I can tell you this much.
> Anytime a business model allows a company to profitably provide a product that a customer wants, its good for both the consumer and producer

I never said anything to the contrary?
Coronavirus: Bay Area economic slump looms, but downturn may be milder than U.S.
Could reducing brain inflammation prevent memory loss in Alzheimer’s?
Those aren't underwater mortgages, those are unpaid utility bills and property taxes.
This is just a bad title. Should have been named simply as “A Survey of Deep Learning”. This paper is an excellent and up to date overview of deep learning models, methods and best practices.
The controls on this look clever. Cool project!
> The establishment(God I hate that word) all pretty much agree that the majority of autoimmune diseases are a self misclassification.

Certainly not the majority, there are a lot of very severe auto-immune diseases that are very real.

I had my immune system attack my thyroid gland 30 years ago (Graves Disease) and had to have it ablated completely with radioactive Iodine 131. My TSH was 0.00.

I was skinny, angry, and losing my mind prior to being diagnosed.

After stabilizing me (I just have to take Synthroid for the rest of my life), everything is normal again.
I thought about that too, but I think that goes against the author's goal of keeping the user in charge. With Life, the machine keeps evolving and blinking even when you don't touch it.

My goal was something fun to add to it that strictly only did anything in response to user input.
Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in 30 minutes removed?
Apologies, as I'm not a HN veteran, and to be clear, I am not the person who posted the link. I just viewed the article and then went back to find the comments and it was gone (but I had the HN homepage open in another tab so was able to recover it):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/airbnb-to-halt-all-m...

I'm not proposing a censorship conspiracy theory here - just wondering why it disappeared. Thanks!

EDIT: @dang has un-banned it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708065
I think he is going by the name Ken Adams in this story ;)
update: I _think_ it could be this: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/dreams-ps4/

but im not sure if there is something similar.
This is missing a key provision that will exclude most start ups.

Control of less than 50% voting stock by multiple minority owners. If two or more
persons each owns or controls (or has the power to control) less than 50% of a
concern’s voting stock and (i) the minority holdings are all approximately equal in
size and (ii) all of the minority holdings taken together are large compared to any
other stock holdings, affiliation is presumed to exist with each of those persons. A
presumed affiliate may rebut the presumption by showing that it does not have
control or the power to control.
Example: Investor X, Investor Y, and Company A each own 23% of Company B.
No other stockholder owns more than 5% of Company B. All three persons will
be presumed to control Company B. Each presumed affiliate may attempt to
rebut the presumption by showing that its control or power to control does not
exist. If the presumption is not overcome, then Company A and Investors X and
Y will all be considered affiliates of Company B. In addition, all companies
controlled by Company A and Investors X and Y are affiliates of Company B.

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/affiliation_discussi...
I want both freedom and a competent government. However, there's no need to spy on people to properly prepare for a pandemic. That said, given that governments have proven to be both incompetent and evil, why should I want to give them more power?

My comment regarding illness is only to reinforce the point that everyone is mortal, and the vast majority of us have empathy for others and value the lives of at least one other person.

> unlike life, rights can be won back

This costs lives. How many wars have been fought to overthrow evil regimes? How many journalists or 'other' people are killed or enslaved in the world today by evil regimes?
Teach them and let them know the risk if they don't do it right.

I think this is one of the situations where there is no scientific study to be able to make an informed decision.

The CDC has said over and over that asymptomatic individuals can still pass the virus and that it's mostly transferred via respiratory droplets. The mask would at least reduce transmissions.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmissi...
Coincidentally NextDNS blocked my use of the Harvard site for bad ad tracking. Hmmm.
One thing I've noticed about it which rubs me the wrong way is that, on Linux, when I exit the application it keeps running in the background. There's no reason that it advertises why this should be necessary, and I don't see any option to disable it. I shouldn't have to manually kill the process to exit a program.
Simulating Covid-19 interventions with R
I think you both overstate human understanding of ecological systems and desire to maintain them.

Humans mostly tend to radically reshape local ecosystems for their own ends, at times collapsing them.

Aside from some very local remediation successes here and there (which are more repair jobs than preservation), I'm unaware of any evidence that humans have "recognized, anticipated and averted" any of note.

Do you have any?
It’s easy to find something to criticise, knowing what’s good about something or adding a constructive thought requires knowledge of the problem your product is trying to solve or the tech behind it. Fewer people have the latter.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150928214855/http://news.ycomb...

I found this Hacker News simulator in the archive. You could also look into /r/subredditsimulator for related stuff.
That's nothing new. During the recessions of the 90s and 00s, it was the Americans who came in and snapped up Australian companies as bargains. Mainly food companies such as Arnotts Biscuits, etc.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/us-ownership-of-aus...
I would argue that this is by design. If you cannot figure how to do it, despite fairly simple and quick instructions, you probably shouldn't be sideloading apps on your phone.
Israel already moved from a central system to a different one called Hamagen which is not centralised and keeps the privacy of the people. This is the one they recommend for Italy. It is open source so you can verify it yourself.
https://github.com/MohGovIL/hamagen-react-native
Ask HN: Unemployed. What on earth should I do with my life?
I've been unemployed for several months. I don't know what my next job will be, or how to get it. I humbly request your advice on: "What jobs should CC seek, and not seek? How can CC provide value to others?"

Skills/talents:

I'm much more interested in "how do I get $THING working enough to accomplish important tasks?" than "how do I optimize $THING performance?" My last job was in a CS research lab; I did no computer science but plenty of automation and process-improvement. I've written & implemented a text adventure. Emacs diehard. BA Linguistics (5 years analyzing patterns in syntax, semantics.)

Outside computering, I'm a keen writer: between my journal and my website, I produce >100,000 words a year. I consistently make others laugh: in conversation, on stage, and through writing. I've been a Chinese translator and have decent spoken Mandarin.

I've already:

Applied to hundreds of jobs (interviewed for perhaps ten). Translator positions ask for native Mandarin and good English, not the other way around. Engineer roles select for those who can whip out perfect algo/DS on command (I understand the need for expertise, but my IRL experience is that not having the perfect construct memorized is never the bottleneck to success.) I've had "data analyst" interviews, but no offers, and no clinical research analyst callbacks despite having done that job.

Sent loads of cold emails. Volunteered with techy/Chinesey nonprofits/meetups/interest groups. This has brought friends, satisfaction, and board membership, but not career advancement -- and COVID-19 has frozen all events.

I'm now:
Applying to automation-engineer jobs (thanks, HN "Who's Hiring.") Building server development skills: learning Flask, EC2. Looking at videogame writer jobs. Seeking out startups/small firms that might react positively to who I am/what I do. Considering grad school.

My resume and I are at confused.computerman@gmail.com. Thank you for reading. Have a pleasant day. CC
>...and the millions that Bill Gates asked for pandemic research 5 years ago.

I for one really regret I haven't been chipped yet from Bills ID2020 program. I wish it could be funded. The only people who could be against it are the anti-science nutters.

I'm sure the EULA of the chip program will include both a robust privacy policy and a CoC.
This is the most levelheaded comment I've see in this thread. Not least because I have literally never seen an ad run on either the Zoom website or the app. Moreover, Zoom is one of the most successful SaaS companies in the world because their unit economics on their basic business model (of selling premium subsriptions) is literally better than almost any other SaaS company out there: https://tomtunguz.com/benchmarking-zoom-s-s-1-how-7-key-metr...