skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, you systematically avoid answering or even addressing my questions, and go off on another sealion meta-rant, proving my point.

No you certainly haven't answered my questions. Your dissatisfaction with my questions and inability to answer them demonstrates exactly why I asked them in the first place.

You've again failed to state what Biden has ever done that's worse than what Trump does all the time.

And you've again failed to justify the reason you support and condone and vote for racism, sexism, and all of Trump's many other terrible well documented indisputable character flaws.

And you certainly weren't speaking truthfully when you claimed that "I would like to maximize happiness for all humans beings on earth", because the racism and sexism and homophobia and xenophobia that you support and rationalize and vote for flies in the face of your supposed goal.

Trump's lies and science denial literally and brutally kills people, because of his desperate selfish desire to prematurely open the country back up and expose millions of people to Coronavirus on Easter just to save his dwindling election chances, and every other way his incompetence and lies and dismantling Obama's crisis management teams and preparations have made the Coronavirus pandemic much much worse.

Is spreading a deadly disease all across America to score a few political points for Trump really the best way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ?

The blood and pain and suffering of all the victims of Trump's lies is on your hands, because you support and defend him. Think of that as you watch the death tolls from Coronavirus roll in, then as you and your family catch it yourselves. Happy Easter, sealion!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/trump-coronav...

>Analyzing the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods About Coronavirus

>For months, the president has downplayed the severity of the pandemic, overstated the impact of his policies and potential treatments, blamed others and tried to rewrite the history of his response.

>Playing down the severity of the pandemic

>Overstating potential treatments and policies

>Blaming others

>Rewriting history
Curious that "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond hasn't been mentioned yet.

Also: Logicomix, about the development of modern logic up to Gödel.
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Anyone here interested in helping me improving the Python experience of this VS Code extension?

I would be very happy if you could reach out on Twitter (@hediet_dev) ;)
Evil privacy-invading shit is fucking everywhere. Why is it only news when Facebook is somehow involved?
The debugging experience in notebooks before this was through a fully text based PDB input field that would allow you to control code flow with 'c' or other characters.

This new extension gives a graphical user interface that's similar to how debugging works in i.e. VS Code or PyCharm.

I guess that's visual about it.
in the end they did the right thing with the local web server, but iirc their first response was "this is a non issue and needed for proper operation".

a definite improvement in this case and so far.
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I only read the first one (I knew about the existence of the second). It's very funny how he waxes poetic in several chapters about the future "Information Highway" (not superhighway as some have said) and takes a lot of care to make sure we understand that the Internet is not it, but just a precursor.
For this to work you would need stable bridge for calling between old and new version, and with c++ lacking stable ABI and high dependency to header-template interfaces (which is part of the bad c++ one would want deprecated), this could be an issue. Sure, extern C already exists but it's a leaky abstraction and it won't be added to existing libraries overnight. Without this you can look at python 2 to 3 migration to see what will happen.
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Lots of good recommendations in this thread. Here’s some more:

• Turner, Fred (2006) From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

• Slatalla, Michelle & Quittner, Joshua (1995) Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

• Schlender, Brent & Tetzeli, Rick (2015) Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

• Isaacson, Walter (2011) Steve Jobs

This one might also be worth lookin in to:

Hertzfeld, Andy (2004) Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made

I haven’t read it in book form but AFAICT the contents of the book are also available over at https://www.folklore.org/

By the way, you might also want to have a look at this project someone published recently:

Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693634
I think (maybe) a better question might be if a boids strategy could somehow be used to avoid a pandemic(?) - if all information is known. Seems like we are all performing a 6ft. collision detection @ the moment.
Thanks, just installed Epiphany and was able to reproduce issue with flexbox that only Safari had. Somehow I thought that Safari and WebKit browsers were using a bit different forks of WebKit. That proves me wrong.
> … the Australian FNP. They were far, far more advanced than European propagandists could allow anyone to imagine.

Other thank some claims about land management and herbal medicine, what were that not only more advanced in but FAR more advanced?

Ship building, metallurgy, literature, maths, chemistry, conflict management, law?

I am genuinely curious.
If you've got a Jailbroken phone, this post explains how to extract the TLS keys (to decrypt the traffic) using a Frida script

https://andydavies.me/blog/2019/12/12/capturing-and-decrypti...
Alphabetical order is neither mandated by any rule, nor deterministic since you can choose how to call things. "Application Bundle Identifier" made it to the top of the list, but if it was "iOS Application Bundle Identifier" it would be below the Advertiser ID.

Do you really think they prepared a PR statement to respond to harsh criticism and just decided to toss in there the list of information sent without crafting the order of the items?
A bit further south, closer to Mount Madonna County Park
WGSL [0] implementation of Boids:
https://dawn.googlesource.com/tint/+/refs/heads/master/test/...

[0]: http://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/wgsl
So https://guardianapp.com then?
It makes a strong argument that companies should not be involved with these things
Lots of people. I work with a lot of activists. Lots of folks like us are making moves now that most of the pieces are off of the board, locked in their homes. Lots of big buys and handshakes.
Sure, good they are changing. And Zoom is definitely not alone in this. Facebook SDK usage is widespread and it's a horrible thing. And even then, the fault ultimately resides with Apple and Google that provide cross-application unique identifiers.
I think the concept would look more like Rust. It is still compiled to machine code, not VM opcode. You do not need a VM and do not require a garbage collector, JIT, etc. which makes it suitable for more use cases.

But: if it's a completely new language (no backward compatibility to C++) - why do we need this? Can't we just use one of those new languages that are already available (Rust, Zig, Odin, Nim, just to name a few).
Daaamn. Whenever I see posts like this - people complaining that they can't get employed and I read the list of their skills, I get hit with anxiety and panic.

If people with good skills can't get a job, what am I suppose to do when I lose mine? I also don't understand how do freelancers stay calm, don't they basically have to be in a job, client-seeking mode all the time?
Of similar historical interest is "A journal of the plague year" about the great plague in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journal_of_the_Plague_Year

The book is free to read on project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm
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Urns in Wuhan far exceed death toll, raising more questions about China’s tally
Miracle cures are being hawked right here on HN. With that specific language.
A similar Ask HN a few weeks ago, and another one from four years ago will probably have lots of good resources for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556160
#3Blue1Brown has decent (simple) SIR epidemic simulation

https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs
Can you please explain or give a link, how can I use Find My Phone for anything coronavirus-related?
U.S. group bombards doctors with coronavirus petition to cut 'red tape'
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99% of the ones I own are unused. The 1% is for email.
Petrobras directing supercomputer capacity to Folding@home effort on coronavirus
I was walking around the Marina in SF about 15 years ago at night. I heard a rustling in a front yard and stopped to look. It took me a second to focus on what I was looking at in the dark. It was a skunk in a defensive posture with it's tail raised. I slowly backed away, and fortunately didn't get sprayed, although that would have made for a better story.
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Re desperation/difficulty in finding a job - there are people recruiting who don't care, to whom all that matters is the ability and whether you're easy to get along with.
If you get upset about not getting a job there's no need in being even more upset about being upset ;).

IMHO: People go through various things in their lives and troubles are often just temporary and if someone's going through hard time it doesn't have to indicate there's anything wrong with them.
Let me ask how many of those who now argue in Zoom's favor have bought shares or are invested in any other way, like having bought licenses directly or indirectly for their company?
The comments seem to break several of the guidelines [1]:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

==

We know that terribly unfair and cruel things are happening to people, but enraged comments with implied threats of retribution don't do anything to right the wrong.

Let's try to be the change we want to see in the world.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The economy hasn't made sense at all over the past 10 years. Companies have been hiring people just for show. Startups are all about putting up smoke and mirrors to appeal to a bunch of dumb investors.
Snap never made a profit in almost a decade yet its market cap is $17 billion. Uber hasn't made a profit in over a decade, market cap is $50 billion.

If you want to understand why things are like this, just look at how the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is constantly injecting new fiat money into the economy and you will have all the answers.
I think you might find Roam Research (http://roamresearch.com/) to be useful for this!

I'm currently contemplating how to use it as functionally as possible (categorise articles by subject? By hypothesis? Both?), so would love to chat about it if you'd like
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Is that list actually complete? It doesn’t sound like that much of a deal.
I agree about the "rocky transition" from Python 2 to 3. Still if the Python migration story gives any inference towards the outcome of an eventual C++ transition, the new language would be an even more massive success; it seems that Python 3.x is doing alright right?
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Just so understand correctly, you're contributing reference documentation to MDN but then everything else goes into web.dev? Why not contribute the "guides and other supporting documentation" to MDN as well?

As I understand, the Product Advisory Board for MDN was created with Mozilla + others in order to combat the fragmentation of information, but your actions seems to do the opposite.
as someone who saw the demo on the github page, and wanted to use it for Python, this comment throws up some red flags.

What needs to be improved for Python use?
Dan Shiffman over on The Coding Train has a nice walkthrouhg of implementing this in P5.js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhjuuHl6qHM
That makes no sense. Wouldn't Apple want you to download as many apps / spend as much money on new shiny things as possible?

I think it's just incompetence.
Then you'd just repeat the Perl 5/Raku split. You'd have a "new" C++ that isn't actually C++ but it's called C++ with a different version number and people will then bicker for a few years until they realize that the "new" C++ isn't actually C++ and that the "old" C++ just vehemently refuses to die, so they name it something else.

The C++ standards committee can standardize a backwards-incompatible "new" C++ for all I care as long as they don't call it C++.
Not auto-export for bibtex though
If you can use NextDNS, you have something akin to a Pi Hole.
That last thing is fixable. Open an issue on github for BBT and I'll get you sorted (heh)
The rational argument for what is being proposed is that companies with (total) hundreds of millions of lines of C++ code can migrate it incrementally and (hopefully) mostly mechanically as the language evolves ... which should be much cheaper and less risky than porting code to a new language.

There are probably also strong non-rational components, e.g. C++ people would like to keep working on C++, leveraging their existing skills and status, rather than jump to another community.
Cant you put just the dysfunctional peer behind the expensive network magic?
Sounds like a pyramid scheme: invest in a startup first so that you find other investors for a subsequent round so that you can IPO and sell it all off to the next suckers who are hoping to do the same. Just don’t be the one left holding the bag.
> But: if it's a completely new language (no backward compatibility to C++) - why do we need this?

Would backwards compatibility to "modern C++" make more sense than no backwards compatibility?
I’m in Sydney Australia. Last Wednesday I woke with a sore throat and stuffy head. I drive a public bus and was concerned that I may have picked the virus up, and may be spreading it.

In the evening that night I went to the local hospital emergency. They had an area specifically for covid testing.

With 30 minutes I was tested, and told I needed to have 5 days off work. If the test was negative the government would pay for the sick time. If I was positive my company’s normal sick leave would need to cover it. I was negative and back at work, no cost to me.
Those languages are all pretty different from C++, right? I'm assuming the new C++ would be very similar to old C++ with a bunch of things "considered harmful" removed.
What if those executives invested the cash into other equity?
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Curious why you labelled The Soul of a New Machine as fiction? It's a non-fiction book by Tracy Kidder and I highly recommend it. A really fantastic piece of work I think anyone in our industry should read, great insights into teams, burnout, our culture, managing, software development etc. There are online versions of it if you Google.
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I believe it's called Rust :)
This is kind of exactly what they said it didn't do.
To what extent should an encyclopedia be affected by real time events?

Coronavirus related edits have skyrocketed on Wikipedia on many articles.

Articles already keep getting longer and without trying to be inflammatory here's an example that came to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender&type=revis...

Secondly what was supposed to be an objective repository of knowledge suddenly is increasingly at the whim of the narrative in mainstream media. Ministry of truth and global herd mentality.

Just some thoughts. Wondering if someone is already studying these questions. Can anyone recommend?
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> Can't you see how these factors mean that testing 100 people would not lead to a proper representative sample?

Where did I ever write this? I wrote it would give us an upper and lower bound.
I've confirmed with Craig Reynolds that yes indeed, then name of Boids was inspired by The Producers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6mTMShVyk

>"He's up on the roof with his boids. He keeps boids. Doity, disgusting, filthy, lice ridden boids." -The Concierge, not a Madam
Sounds like you'd like Haxe.
I'm intrigued by commenter Roger's (attempted) answer of the question of whether there is something rather than nothing.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/puzzle-with-infinite-regress-...

If I understand this correctly, then "nothing" is in itself something, and you can create more structure by grouping the original "nothing" with itself, and you can similarly combine the groupings, so the entire universe is essentially built from sets with "nothing" as the leaves.

But this still leaves open a lot of questions, such as who is controlling this grouping, or do simply all possible groupings exist? Is grouping what makes time progress? And if so, can we estimate/determine how many groupings the current universe is from the leaves? And where does consciousness enter the picture?
I guess that book is https://www.amazon.com/Ceo-Building-Million-Company-Ground/d...?
And the worst part is that all these people who were hired were misused for bureaucratic purposes and so their practical skillsets have atrophied.
Then when the big burst arrives and these people are collectively fired, they will be totally unprepared and incapable to adapt their skills to the economic reality that they were shielded from by their previous employers.
The ability to assert the most about what the code cand and cannot do, trumps both, which is why the use of strongly typed (check, even dependently typed) functional languages should be more widespread.
This was before the crisis
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Probably not, at least not if the generalized version of Parkinson’s law holds.
The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero).
The namesake original hacker culture tended to have a solid anti-establishment streak and valued accumulation of knowledge over material goods, and I think that's still highly represented among the community here
It's not downvoted, now.

Yep, no doubt it was when you commented, but an unfairly downvoted state on a comment usually corrects fairly quickly, which is one of the reasons why the guidelines ask us not to complain about it.
For a small personal project [0], it was 14 lines after three years continued in a company.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/tipiwiki.html
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no. the government merely needs to look like it will be a tough debate next time that might not go through, by having a tough debate this time that spooks businesses
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While I have zero love for any given hyper capitalistic business like Apple, Android is not any better on the whole in this space, and in some ways measurably worse (especially when you take into account what devices actually hold the largest market share)
The human sacrifices always troubled me.
That is somewhere in the logical region of saying 'Stephen Hawking was really smart, maybe amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a good thing'. The transition to Python 3 was not pretty. Still isn't; Python 2 documentation features prominently when I'm trying to look up information.

The to abandon backwards compatibility in C++ is to make a mockery even of the name of the language (see the "C" in there). If they want to create a new language they should call it something different. Willfully abandoning backwards compatibility and keeping the name is an abuse of one of the great brands in software.
Just wrote a short summary of my method to a friend. Might not be terribly readable for people who haven't used Roam, so take it for what it's worth. Hope it's for some use :-)

What I do is an interaction between the following:

Article <-> Tags <-> Hypotheses <-> Synthesis <-> Prediction <-> Research

So I might read an article, then tag the article/figures with the relevant tags. If it's for a specific project, I keep a list of tags on a separate page. This ensure that I use the tags consistently, so that I can find all the relevant articles later.

I purposefully keep the tags general, like "psychiatric conditions" rather than "depression, mania, schizophrenia" etc. When I reach the hypotheses page, this means that I can form relatively general hypotheses, and then nest them into gradually more specific hypothesis that are specifically supported by the articles.

Then, I use those hypotheses to form new predictions. These predictions turn into new research questions, which I either explore via the literature or doing my own experiments.

An example of this might be:
"Wood 2018" <->
#Procedural Memory #Habits <->
Habits are part of procedural memory [[H]] <->
Habits are part of procedural memory [[H]] & Procedural memory is stored in the basal ganglia [[H]] <->
Damage to the basal ganglia disrupts habits [[H]] <->
Seger 2011

This affords me a lot of flexibility in total processing time; I don't spend a lot of time forming hypotheses that aren't interesting/necessary for me, I can quickly tag a lot of sources, and I can quickly collate those sources on a specific topic when necessary.

You might say that the first half of the workflow is "induction", the second half "deduction and confirmation".

I would love it if you had any questions or comments, but just writing this up has been useful for me as well.
One thing that Knuth forgot is that it is (imho) ugly if two successive lines in a paragraph start or end with the same word. Or more generally if two instances of the same word appear close to eachother.

This shows that writing a formatter is a task that is probably never finished :)
Turing’s Cathedral but von Neumann was the Pope.
That makes sense. There seems to be a better option available in the U.S.: Abbott ID NOW, which produces results in 5 to 13 minutes. The cost was $8K before the acquisition of Alere by Abbott:
https://serfinitymedical.com/products/id-now-instrument-us-a...