skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To be fair though, you compiled bits of sentences from completely different sections to make it look more contradictory than it is.

I think consistency across different sections is a reasonable expectation.
Well that's a software/user solution to a hardware problem.

If you have a quality headset/microphone you can be unmuted for a whole meeting, people collectively making noises (Ahh, or Ohh) are important ways of communicating information that are lost if everyone is muted until they have a comment to make.
you sir have won the understatement of the thread award.

i'd literally be flooded with shit if something ate my plumbing, which likely means dead. that is, unless the isolation of electric cabling wouldn't burn me alive first.

weep isn't really on the TODO list in that scenario. covid is peanuts in comparison.
Mentioned in another comment, but to be clear, our team contributes to MDN, and will continue to do so.

Web.dev is not an MDN replacement.
But you can do so much in RAW alone. The retouch module alone takes it bounds above others. With the new basic adjustments, they've made many things more straightforward. You can show or hide any modules you don't want
It's hard to guess what experience is 'best'. I prefer having extra knobs.
A few years ago our team rewrote a critical part of our system in a more resource efficient language to cut a large chunk out of our AWS bill.

The system handled around 500K requests per minute. The inputs/outputs of the system looked like this.

1. Receive HTTP request
2. Make a bunch of HTTP requests
- Call external web services for business logic
- Call reporting services for analytics
3. Render result

On a single production box of the legacy system, we instrumented the http clients to dump the requests/replies to disk for 15 minutes.

Using the snapshots, we wrote some scripts to allow us to replay the data through the new system. It was a totally ad hoc manual process that took about a week. It found a TON of bugs and greatly increased our confidence in the new system. After we were done we threw it away.

I am convinced that using standard unit testing alone would not have found many of these bugs and caused them to surface in production.
Thats because the wood is treated with lots of chemicals. We would need to start treating plastics with these chemicals, creating potentially toxic plastics, which is not a good thing because it is very hard to test chemicals for toxicity and much of our food is stored in plastics.
Drugs don't spread out evenly through the whole body. For this class of drug, it's bloodstream concentration that matters.

The complex field of pharmacokinetics relates the bloodstream concentration to the ingested amount over time. The simple version uses a "volume of distribution" which, for salicylate, is 11.9 liters for a standard male. [https://sepia.unil.ch/pharmacology/index.php?id=83].

So to achieve the 1 - 7 milimolar concentrations they used would require 3.8 - 27.2 grams of aspirin.
Facebook has an opportunity to help curb a global pandemic
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I had a very nice minidisc player / recorder I imported from japan around 2001. It cost a fortune. I think I still have it and the minidiscs somewhere but not a clue where.
Thanks for this thorough response! I'm fascinated by the point you raise about 'having no interest in commenting' until being far enough along in your career to 'have actual insight to share on relevant topics'. Can you say more about what it was that made you feel ready to comment, and how doing so at that time, as opposed to commenting before, may or may not have changed your sense of participation in the HN community?
This is a major drawback of mycroft and I really hope they fix it soon.
A famous Dutchman once opined that a CS degree has as much to do with teaching programming as an astronomy degree has to do with teaching the construction of telescopes.
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Digital painting is still raster graphics.
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What they said:

> it is guaranteed that each message will be saved in exactly one S3 file

What you read:

> it is guaranteed that each S3 file will contain exactly one message
> 2. Yes, people are free to create brew taps. But you know humans are divided into 'I will do this' and 'I wont do this'

The point I was trying to make was: as a 3rd-party package maintainer, why would I look into nami (rather than upload my package to a 3rd-party repository so users are free to use the package manager they already know?)
"Open source" is a specific term with a specific meaning. These points are not it, and "open source" is not a scale of openness.

Also factual errors:

>You no longer control this software. If someone makes a bunch of money off it it then you can’t complain. If someone uses it to build bombs then you also can’t complain.

You can perfectly use GPL, for instance, which forces derivative works, commercial or not, to be released under the same license.
Hey mr-ron, do you have a github page that I can follow? I'd like to get notified when you put out new projects on github :D
Maybe they were dying before, but were categorized differently?
Yes, you'd think so indeed.

Unfortunately, I've seen the exact opposite in production: older binary running atop newer glibc and crashing with that kind of message.

glibc abi compatibility is and has been a joke.
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Are you saying that the PS2 actually sends the track names over the optical cable? I remember always having to painfully enter these via the player buttons later on.
In principle that makes perfect sense. And it is important to note that there is another choice other than the two we are given: the one the Europeans have chosen: employee protection/compensation along with any corporate bailouts.

If for political reasons we refuse the European approach then the concern is not that fatality counts and epidemiologist will be balanced by economist but that epidemiologist and economists will be balanced by lobbyists.

As if to underscore this point, the order for 80,000 ventilators[1] was stopped yesterday on grounds that it was too expensive[2]. The cost at 1 billion is equivalent to 1/4 to 1/12 of 1% of the total F-35 order at 428 to 1196 billion [3] And the f-35 order is already controversial to begin with.

[1] https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12417326813664829...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-v...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
Looks like the S3 connector was released in 2017. So if you wanted this functionality before then, secor was a good option: https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-to-amazon-s3-exac...

It also supports going to other cloud object stores (other than S3).
The data still exists even it’s just on the phone/watch I have years of historic health data form multiple devices which I would gladly share with PHE or the NHS and any other health agency local or not if it will be useful to them.
None of us gets to go back in time and run the simulation over and see how it would have gone had we taken the other path somehow.

You are romanticizing public school and assuming it would be have been a wonderful social experience that you missed out on. Perhaps it would have been a terrible experience. Perhaps you would been horribly bullied.

Most people do not seem to look back on k-12 and miss it terribly as the most wonderful time in their life. They usually found it wanting, at best, or even quite awful.

Please don't conflate positive college social experiences with positive K-12 experiences.

College students are generally legal adults who have, to some degree, chosen the school in question, chosen their major, chosen their classes and can very much choose their social activities. In contrast, K-12 kids are usually thrown together against their will, have very little real choice, etc.
If you believe you aren't being or can't be tracked already then you live in oblivion...
Pulling Covid-19 Impacts Out of Thin Air
Any amount of coding ... involves self learning regardless of what class(es) you took.
It looks like obblekk's comment is getting some down-votes (appears gray to me). I'm honestly curious what people's objection to this comment/idea is?

I'm not saying that this will necessarily happen, but it's not a crazy thought. Anecdotally more then a few people I know have taken the time stuck at home to pursue things like reading, taking online courses, watching/reading tutorials, and working on side-projects.

In any case, hoping that something positive may come out of this bad situation just seems so fundamentally unobjectionable to me, I'm curious what other's thoughts are about this?
Very practical, there are even dictation apps with quite good accuracy (and that is dictation, which is much harder because the sentences are free-form, not predefined) which work offline (like some offline Nuance Dragon apps).
Yes, Safari is built on Webkit. Check out the downloads page for Linux versions.

https://webkit.org
Those jobs would have to be paid exceptionally well, in order to be attractive, if you want more than just the UBI-life.

It would totally change how we look at people doing those unpleasant jobs. Let's be honest, right now it's a bit of a caste system.
> Here's what a healthy online community has: respect for other members, maturity, empathy, self-awareness, strong moderation, and a diverse enough set of views from participants to make conversations well-rounded and thought provoking.

How do you know this? What data verifies that this is what a healthy online community looks like? Why is strong moderation part of a healthy online community, where strong moderation in a real life would be a signal of unhealthiness (it's censorship)? If an online community is mature, empathetic, and self-aware - why would it require strong moderation?
I don't know if you've played with the model, but going from 2.6 R0 to 3 is a significant difference, doubling the death rate in some cases. I am very curious how this affects the modeling. If the real world death rate is not corresponding to the model, then this could indicate a lower lethality and wider spread than previously anticipated.
> and a diverse enough set of views from participants to make conversations well-rounded and thought provoking.

Which communities do you know, if any, which are better than HN, in your view, by these two parameters?
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There are cureently bacteria that eat diesel/gasoline, which is why if you leave either in your vehicle tank for a long period (1-6 months) , you shoud to siphon it out and replace it.
Thanks for catching that. I've updated the math in my comment.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-main.page
I think this is a fairly natural cognitive bias, possibly a form of the Dunning-Kruger effect, but there might be a better explanation I don't know for sure.
Can you give an example of a healthy online community?
With the current legal limitations yes, but even with an opt-in they likely would get enough data to be valuable to researchers especially if people also opt-in to share location data.
I did a study of which applications use Facebook advertising tracking and was really surprised to see how many products have it. Here's a sample:

- airtable
- asana
- atlassian
- bear
- stripe
- slack
- loggly
- tandem
- pagerduty
- figma
- circleci
- evernote
- airbnb

Apparently if you want to advertise on the internet, Facebook Ads are the way to go. I figure there's enough information to tune in their machine learning just by knowing if a user clicked an ad, but once you see how much information they gather, it starts to make more sense. For example, they send the document.title every time you navigate -- that's often sensitive information! So the more "responsible" companies embed all the facebook tracking scripts inside an iframe and interact with it via postMessage.
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3D printing PPE masks for medical staff
I don't understand why people ask stupid questions like these
> Here again a command does the trick.

So you have to remember all commands for things you only use once in a while? That doesn't work for me.
> This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds.

This would be a point if near-omnipresent camera feeds were reduced in favor of using this.

But the much more likely outcome is that this will only end up increasing overall surveillance capabilities, not reign them in.
> You don't come out of uni a good progammer if you study CS

Do you think that this is untrue of boot camps?
How is this not reviewed by other developers who might not be as negligent as the one who just copied the code?
It encourages skipping everything. Life's too short.
Give us an example of a healthy online comunity
I would appreciate if you provide data/source.

> There are also millions of Taiwanese that either live or work in the PRC

Taiwan has a population around 23.78 million. So you are saying at least 1 in 20 live or work in the PRC...
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I was thinking of the Toots and the Maytals song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw66FA6OTqA

Then again, maybe Iain Banks was a fan of one of the various artists who have covered it over the years.
The absurdity of athletes taking on the burden of billionaires amid pandemic
PyTorch supports both `__cuda_array_interface__` and dlpack which allows effectively sharing the GPU pointer without having to go through a host numpy array. Tensorflow is actively working on adding support for dlpack here: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/24453
It can get very insular and dogmatic at times. Some common views -

1. "I don't know who would have smart speakers at home. " Most people don't care.

2. GOOGLE is Lord Voldemort.

3. FB is Sauron.

4. Startup life > Big company

5. "Who would live in the bay area. I am happy at my ranch doing remote work."
What is the most underrated skill in technology?
Mystery in Wuhan: recovered coronavirus patients test negative then positive
If only it was also a wiki.
You don't have to use emscripten or its language extensions to build C or C++ for WebAssembly. And in the other direction, emscripten's raison d'etre is unmodified C and C++, by providing the platform APIs those unmodified programs use.

.NET Core 3.0's C++/CLI support, again, is not standard C++ and never will be! It's just the same C++/CLI on a more up-to-date CLR.
> I have encountered one instance of "AWS just simply denying and hiding any outages until they're undeniably proven" so far this year, so I suspect it does happen. But overall, I do feel like I've had less unexpected behavior or service interruptions on AWS.

Fewer spurious niche "affects only you" problems per customer, times far more customers, may still equal a greater total number of spurious niche problems, though.

For an awkward analogy, it's like being friends with a con artist. They might have conned you once, or maybe even never. But they might also have 1000 other friends that they've conned zero or one times. It may add up to a lot more conning than the average person gets up to!
I disagree.

I think technical concerns are underrated in the general population. The other day I was watching some lectures by a quant finance prof who started out telling people that "you can still be smart even if you don't like repetitive math" -- there is so much mollycoddling of people whose main ability is the "social skill" of coming up with the same wrong answers that most other people come up with.

I like HN because it is a place where technology and business are taken equally seriously. I think of the programming subreddit which is overrun by communists who think that if money has any effect on your motivation as a programmer you're like a pedophile or something.

Also HN is mostly free of the unproductive "culture wars" discussions that have led to the heat death of so many fora.
Exactly. It pains me to see so many developers just going with the flow and not exercising critical thinking to decide what all they need to do before and bringing a dependency.
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Thanks @sayhar! specially given so many libraries across the country are currently shut down.
Another factor is that schools remain closed. We know children are largely asymptomatic and their R0 is 2x - 8x greater than the general public. We’ll see how they fare when they reopen schools. That said we just need enough mitigating measures to push R0 < 1. If it’s 2 now, then two 30% measures will work, or three 20% measures, ...
See their first paragraph for how.
As I said, your long random numbers on your special devices are yours forever and you can decrypt more SHA-1 if you like.

There would be a lot less of that going on.
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/OynEo
I 100% agree with you, and furthermore I assert that I am far more qualified to make this assertion than you.
> WebEx and GoToMeeting are OK, I guess, and I've heard good things about BlueJeans.

GoToMeeting has had a banner up for the past few days asking people not to dial in on time for their meetings, because they can't handle the current load. My company uses GTM for everything, but there have been problems. We'll probably switch to Zoom.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste" - Rahm Emanuel.

I agree with this and your sentiment, but I think it is misplaced in this instance.

As I understand it, the TraceTogether app collects (and stores locally), information on other users running the TraceTogether app nearby. If our government's contact tracers contact us, we can provide the information, and it can help in contact tracing. This seems to me to be at or near the minimum amount of information collection necessary to fulfil the function. Assuming voluntary widespread adoption, it is useful, and can be uninstalled at any time once the crisis blows over.
I think you can strike lines between technical and fictional books. In doing so, I would expect a difference in quality since the avg HN lurker is a technical person.
I don't understand your comment. Are you presenting an opinion of your own that you want me to respond to?
The Internet was built for this [video]
Almost half of them are actually an influx from other countries, mostly overseas Korean in EU and US.
>One that has been a total game changer for my company is when I'm hosting a conference call, I can simply "Invite by Phone" my participants. They get a phone call, are prompted to "Press 1 to enter the conference", and boom they're in.

Jitsi Meet has this feature
It has been known for a while now to not touch their desktop app with even a ten feet pole. The best bet is using the web app.
Are you having any (professional) “I told you so” moments?
It could be positive ("I'm so glad I convinced Management to let us set up for working remotely" or "I'm so happy we tested for a ridiculous setting on scalability testing") or negative ("If you had let me set up the server to [whatever] we would not be in this pickle").
Hi, I'm not sure I follow - would you elaborate on these metaphors?
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This has that data:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
Like some of those views are silly, but I find it hard to get worked up when someone is passionately expressing one of them.

If I feel my buttons are regularly being pushed, then that is a sign of an unhealthy community. That's why I quit twitter.
How exactly is this "speaking truth to power"?

As an aside, I hate that phrase. I get it, but i find it cringe-inducing.
Most of the wood used in house construction is not treated with anything. Only the stuff that touches soil, foundations, or is exposed to elements is. Unless you use real wood siding, that’ll be less than 5% of all lumber used. It doesnt decay, because it’s kept dry, and microorganisms arent very good at decomposing dry wood.
Have you tried Jitsi Meet?
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Don't read anything into downvoting, especially soon after your comment is posted. Give it time to settle out.
Lyme disease, Ebola, et al would like to have a word.
Jitsi Meet is open-source and self hostable. Conspicuously absent from your list :)
I think we can all agree that the verbiage could be more elucidating and less confusing.
Moderation isn't necessarily censorship.

Think of the evening news on TV. You have half an hour to fill, you are going to have to pick the most relevant things. Some things will make the cut, some won't.

Once you get to 24 hours news then it is another thing, because they are repeating the same 15 minutes over and over again. The model to describe that is not censorship, it is spam, electronic warfare, jamming -- an entirely disingenuous communication that superficially looks like "speech" but has nothing to do with "free speech" and such. In fact, it inhibits real communication the same way weed killer kills plants.
> Spread fear about uncontrollable and unpredictable future events is wildly irresponsible.

I'm not sure about that. Back in January, it was surely not irresponsible to get people worried about a pandemic. China is often criticized for suppressing online fear-mongering. Climate change activists are praised for it. Fear motivates people. It might not be the most rational motivation but neither is passively believing everything will continue as normal. This idea that the world is full of gullible idiots and that "us" smart people have to be careful what we say in case they act on it is arrogant. Facts online are often self-correcting, as you can see right here with people immediately challenging his claim.
> everytime you give up a right it's taken away forever.

This is tin foil hat nonsense. The US has implemented martial law before. Those rights weren't taken away forever.
Let the peak oil hysteria from the 80s and 90s be a reminder to everyone here how fallible common beliefs are among the population.
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"Attention, the ability to pay it and where it is directed, is the most valuable tool..."

Oh snap, the MOST valuable tool. Shit. ADD is really holding me back.
Here in Taiwan now just had some delicious bittermelon and pork rib soup after a gym session. All had hand sanitizer at the door and temperature checks and all wear mouth masks. Really impressive what they've done here. Feels safe and relatively normal. American here and staying safe in Taiwan till this blows over. It's funny people say be safe in Asia but I fell a lot safer then in USA!
Why not go whole-hog and use Kinesis Streams and eliminate Kafka altogether?
> people self-report any benefit

And who other than the people is qualified to report whether people benefitted?

> And getting medicine through the dark markets is shady as fuck.

Are you a Christian? I'm amazed and ask seriously, because I can't imagine much of anything else that would make you spew this much of a nonsense with this much conviction.

dang, yes, I know, this is the last post from me, sorry.
> ... full of self-assured personalities who think themselves experts on topics ... It is also filled to the brim with groupthink ...

Aren't those two clauses basically antithetical? The experts are the ones who don't group think. You can't be full of both.