skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Contrie library is in the benchmarks and is a port. That said referring the note in the repo the benchmarks arent 100% scientific atm and will be revamped later this year.
They are even pretty regularly seen around Toronto still.

Normally they're just fine. They prefer to keep distance, but it's best to keep an eye. Any bold behaviour usually means they're hungry, which can lead to desperation.

Them and raccoons, those devils.
Ask HN: The most beautiful charts about COVID-19
I am looking for the most beautiful / useful / surprising charts about COVID-19.
He has a PhD, unlike Brin and Page.
I've seen a coyote dart across the street in SoMa in the middle of rush hour. Nature's a bit closer than we think.
If China did in fact ship emergency medical supplies to Italy, that's a gesture worth recognizing and praising. "Carrying water" is a weird way of characterizing that recognition.

China also deserves criticism; its initial response was dysfunctional in some ways (albeit somewhat different ways than the United States dysfunctional response). Fortunately, as you say, it's been blasted in some discussion.

But recognition of ways in which its response has been respectable is less the mark of someone "carrying water" and more part of the process of learning things and having our political institutions learn things.
RSS came to my mind too. If everyone self-hosted something that gives an RSS feed, your social network feed could really just be an RSS reader.
It was actually motivated by competition from Russia.
I had the same question... It looks like they use AWS, though this paper I found is dated May 2013...

https://d24cgw3uvb9a9h.cloudfront.net/static/40580/doc/Zoom-...
Thanks, the international side and "flight to safety" hadn't occurred ti me (and I am an international!). That makes more sense.
Right, I'm starting from the assumption that it would be as much fun as Farmville
The postal service kinda works like that. It can make some profit in some countries but not much. In the US Amazon accounts for 40% of the parcels. Putting things into boxes and shooting some web is impressive but getting the boxes from A to B also takes some doing.
Some measures of toxicity briefly mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22691540
> communities with controversy aren't necessarily 'unhealthy'

I recommend you explore the concept of "agonism" – which claims that (certain forms of) conflict and disagreement are essential components of a healthy democratic system. Many parallels could be drawn to online communities (specifically) and the curation of productive, social spaces (in general.)

In this era of conflict avoidance and information siloing... promoting the right sorts of disagreement might actually do a great social good!

Good luck with your assignment.
Number of users I guess.
It might have been a de facto IQ test, but they should have disguised it carefully.
Here in England we don't have coyotes but just today I saw a pheasant walking down a deserted road nearby. It looked slightly confused.
giving the [good] health and history i don't see any serious risk for me from the virus, and considering that it is hardly a choice - like many i'll most probably get it in time anyway as i don't believe it can be contained until herd immunity is achieved (and many people will die in the meantime until some big breakthrough(s) is achieved like mass availability of the antibody plasma for example) - so personally it is just a matter of getting it earlier or later, getting it in controlled manner/scheduled/prepared/etc. vs. at random time, etc. Some selfish factors may play a role too like having guaranteed medical attention in the low probable case of the things going wrong for example.
Whose System Ready to the Chaos?
Domestic dogs too, which has resulted in less fear of humans.
My impression is that to use it you'd need to sign up the organization for G Suite. Whereas Zoom you can just start for free and then if they want individual users can upgrade their accounts to paid ones. That helps with grass-roots adoption in companies. It's also a clear "we pay for video conferencing", not "we pay for video conferencing and all this other stuff we don't want to use because we already have solutions for it"
Definitely not. If we had that level of preparation, we would be testing, tracing, and isolating to contain the outbreak in the first place.

Without having to deliberately put people directly in mortal danger.
A disturbing story I heard when living in Russia in my childhood was that if you see a wild animal in the city, it means that beasts have ran out of trash and waste to eat, and are getting more riskier, and you shouldn't be coming close to them unless you want to be eaten.
This is obviously not "the one thing he wants to do", it's an offhand idea he mentioned to his brother.
for engineers, aka a design doc
Likely not unless they make it 3 inches in:

> "The olfactory epithelium is a specialized epithelial tissue inside the nasal cavity that is involved in smell. In humans, it measures 9 cm2 (3 centimetres by 3 centimetres) and lies on the roof of the nasal cavity about 7 cm above and behind the nostrils."
Is there any funding? They are not very transparent about what the fund for NGOs and SMBs does.
Yep, if your company is having leadership/strategy problems you're not going to go far.

But as a hiring manager in that situation, you can select for team members who excel at dealing with ambiguity, internal locus of control, vision, etc. Additionally, you would look for people who value learning vs. psychological safety, etc.

You're in a known situation, and that situation is constant change and churn
Won't be first time that happen.

Rogoff's Excel error destroyed entire Greek economy however IMF appologized latter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinh...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jun/05/imf-admit-m...
Simulating an Epidemic [video]
This is wishful thinking
No. You cannot edit or remove comments (this is in violation of the GDPR) and anyone with a dissenting view automatically gets their comments marked as dead.

HN is an echo chamber, just like every other social media site.
This is what the government is. It's a large non-profit, in fact the largest player in the economy, that's always zipped to produce no profits. There isn't even any structure to distribute the profits (there are no "shares" of the government or anything of this sort).

The whole point of profits and investing is to hook up the "skin in the game" of investors to viability of project. That's the definition of capitalism.
Covid19 TimeSeries comparisons – how behavioral patterns can directly impacts
Presumably using Bluetooth beacons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy_beacon
Sure, transfer payments go both ways. Unless Wexit has a surprise win!
thanks, do you see this pattern ('it's just people complaining about everything rather than improving things and building a future') as indicative of HN? for you, is this a result of endogenous or exogenous forces? both?
Full time Front-End dev here-- this site is pure delight. Reading the markup and seeing the styles is a real pleasure. It's the web as it was always intended to be, simple, effective, effortless.
Actually, yes! Erik Bernhardsson, the CTO at Better.com who is cited in the article a few times, does exactly that for finalist candidates that they ask to provide a significant work sample. I think that's 100% appropriate. But that said, a work sample doesn't necessarily have to be something that takes hours on end either.
Especially since there are some signals coming out that interest & payments on the loan may be frozen for the duration of the pandemic.
Isn't it too soon to assume that? Viruses decay faster at higher temperatures so it should have some effect on R0. With other measures like social distancing, masks, and remote work it might lower it below 1.
Debugging Neural Networks with PyTorch and 'Weights and Biases'
well the article says admins can join "without warning" (i.e., without notice) and without consent. Although the article does not say whether the admin appears on the user list or not, lets assume the admin does show on the user list. Then, it seems in practice to be very well possible to join and attend the meeting without anyone noticing. I am certainly not constantly monitoring the current user list in my meetings, especially not in larger ones.
In other news, Zlatan has decided to kick the Covid-19 virus in the balls
I think it's still pretty good, and I still learn a lot from the submitted articles and their discussions, more than any other social network/discussion site I can currently think of. For a site that constantly has discussions on topics that typically trigger egos, while also giving a lot of leeway to anonymous account posting, it's about as civil as I can imagine any Internet site being these days.
The same thing is happening in Barcelona but with boars coming from the forests outside the city, seems to have no correlation with the lock-down/quarantine that is happening (streets of Barcelona are basically empty right now, except for ambulances, police and delivery services) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/04/wild-boar-sigh...
Coyotes are terrorizing the once inhabited city.
The “stacks of urns” can almost be answered by the quote from the article: “There were 56,007 cremations in Wuhan in the fourth quarter of 2019”. (Edit: I shortened quote).

After a month of lockdown, the number of backlogged urns should be over 18000.
More likely sample degradation as well. Rna is notorious for being extremely fragile exactly when you need it not to be and extremely robust when you don't. Academic rna labs have a reputation for being clean freaks, and there was a spate of spurious observations when rt(rt)pcr became a thing ten or so years ago... I'm still not convinced of rt/rt results performed by run of the mill labs, generally speaking.
You certainly have insight into the needs of veterans that I don't have, but...

> something that isn’t the disease of the day

I wouldn't look at it this way. First of all, it's going to be around for at least 18 more months. Many thousands of people will die.

Second, veterans will be at higher risk than average Americans for various reasons (age, injuries, etc.)

> Kind of find it hard to believe out of all the things one could do to help veterans in Alaska, this is the one thing he wants to do.

Why do you assume it's the thing he wants to do? Should he ignore Covid-19 entirely because, in your opinion, other issues are more pressing? Can he only work on one issue at a time?

I don't know a lot about the VA, and I do know that it's utterly failed to uphold its promise of taking care of vets, but it's likely that a lot of OP's brother's problems are caused by people higher up the chain than he is. Perhaps he's looking for innovative ways to help that won't be caught up in the failures at the top of the organization.
Or that your creation appeals to one of HN's biases.
Set a flag during the (optional) compile phase that tells the compiler to error out if it can't statically determine where to allocate/free. (No, it's not Halting-complete because the compiler has the option of bailing due to insufficient evidence) Without that flag, it still tries but will include a GC if needed. Same for types, btw.

Ok, fine, you probably want some annotations (like for types). You got me. There's syntax involved. It's still fundamentally a semantics problem. If that can be solved, the syntax will follow.

Your post reads like, "You want to add features? But you'll have to add syntax! It's impossible!" Even if syntax is necessary for GC-obliviousness (it isn't for type inference), it implies no more about whether the project is possible than that for any other feature. Note how far we've strayed from mathematical absolutes about possible strings.

Even on the semantics side, 50 years is far too early to declare defeat. There are no actual impossibilities stopping this, unless you have a formal proof you're not telling us about. Even that would just be a guide of how to change the problem definition, in the same way that Rice's Theorem tells us to add the "insufficient evidence" output to our program verification tools. Have some more imagination.
> Even some small percentage of young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19.

Some small percentage of young people are dying from the flu too, it's unfortunate, and it happens. We need to keep our eyes focused on the statistics not the anecdotes.

Every disease is potentially fatal. We definitely shouldn't intentionally infect anyone. It's just not necessary.
Coyotes come out after dark. It takes about 20 minutes for them to figure out people aren't around. Mangy jerks.

Once I was walking through some brush in a city park in Calgary, AB and a siren went by. The whole area around me lit up with howling. Little unnerving, although coyotes are pretty cowardly out West (in the East they've interbred with wolves and will once in a blue moon take a hiker down).
Yes, but not generic tests—in order to design a hiring process that's actually predictive of future job performance, the "tests" have to be designed to be directly relevant to the real world work that the engineer will be tasked with.
Red herring? Flu viruses are created by irresponsible livestock management, costing billions in lost work every year. Now, possibly millions of lives. All avoidable at the source, and well-know for decades.
No. Keep your fake news alert on max sensitivity these days. And possibly any day.
As someone who used PowerShell for a year and has used Bash for 10+, PowerShell is much less scary than Bash. The scariest thing about PowerShell is .NET, which (at least 8 years ago or so, so cue someone correcting that below) had extensive but often low quality documentation, with undocumented features you basically had to use to write useful code, uselessly trivial code examples (think "`0 + 0 == 0`" as an example of arithmetic) and some bad names. That's not to say Bash is better, just that they still had some way to go.
RSS is a good example. In the simplest form my proposed social network structure could be seen as RSS feed of all the social web that is stored in a decentralized database. The main feature is that the posts can be 'liked' or 'upvoted' by users (domains).
Ebola is a relatively local disease, since it travels by animals and direct contact, not couhing, and because it so dangerous that it kills or incapacitates before people travel too far.

Even so, it's misleading because Ebola doesn't care about geographic boundaries.
Here in Santiago, Chile, where many neighborhoods are in complete lockdown, a wild Puma was seen roaming the streets[1]. This was their natural habitat before the city was established, and many of them still live in the mountains, which are not far from the busiest streets of Santiago.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200324-wild-puma-captured-in-d...
Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain
Seems like manufactured outrage. The screenshot and messaging look pretty clear to me: "Covid19 has made it tough for local businesses and their employees. Share your support by donating..."

No doubt yelp has done some shitty things in the past, but I really don't see how raising funds for distressed businesses could be one of them.
The bar owner being jwz, Netscape hacker.
People volunteer to be locked in facilities for 30+ days to be injected with potentially fatal new and poorly understood drugs all the time in exchange for a few thousand dollars.
So, what happens if a business owner never "claims" the GoFundMe? Does Yelp keep all the illicitly raised cash, or does GoFundMe, or do they split it?
The beauty of macros is that you can just expand them in-place and read the expanded code.

Of course, for really complex macros the expanded code might be hard to read, but I guess that means "write nice macros".
You mean the rest of nature. We are also nature :)
Anyone remember Usenet?
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It's one thing to have the government provide a service as part of a carefully planned operation. It's another thing entirely to put a bunch of government workers suddenly in charge of a large corporation.

Hey Joe and Jane in GSA, GM just went bankrupt. Could you please drop your other responsibilities and run it from now on?
> When there are no tests it's very likely you won't be able to add tests without changing the code to be something that you can test

Indeed, it will most likely require refactoring the code to support the testing. But the initial idea of _why_ you want to add testing there in the first place, is so you can refactor with confidence and not having to manually test all the cases. Compare "refactor to test -> add tests -> refactor behaviour" with "refactor behaviour -> manual tests" and the first one will most likely be faster.
> AEC

I haven't heard this abbreviation before but I assume it means Audio Echoing Cancellation.
Previously:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17271963

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15063193

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10195091 (shortly after it was written)
True, but in a fast-spreading disease we shouldn't have to solicit folks to voluntarily get infected, we can just grab a few people who've tested positive.
What kind of stomach issues does the virus cause?
“ A $200 million investment fund that will support NGOs and financial institutions around the world to help provide small businesses with access to capital. As one example, we’re working with the Opportunity Finance Network in the U.S. to help fill gaps in financing for people and communities underserved by mainstream financial institutions. This is in addition to the $15 million in cash grants Google.org is already providing to nonprofits to help bridge these gaps for SMBs.”

What does this really mean? Aside from the NGO stuff it sounds like it could just be taking advantage of the downturn to buy businesses?
not really. it's just an admission that sampling frequency matters.
The Dream Machine is very long but IMO very good and worth the effort. Part-biography, part-history (going all the way back to the early days e.g. Turing), and extremely thorough!
Point taken! I'm basing my point on a single negative personal experience from long ago (as a paying customer) as well as seeing similar posts over the years on HN. It's certainly possible that Google has improved their CS for many products since then. That being said: if you can show the OP a way to get his issue addressed by Google support, please do :)
Sooo where's the AI?
Even if its safer to be in that group than not?
I do wish the article touched on what the owners' actual complaints are. The only two that come to mind is:

1) Owners who aren't active on Yelp may never notice this feature, and so the money is never claimed.

2) Yelp may be taking a cut? But I can't find any evidence to substantiate this claim.

Edit: The article has been greatly edited since this post, and any additional points of frustration can be found in the children comments.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution ~ Steven Levy

The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
NGL, I'm not really sure why this is such a big deal. i understand it being done without the owners' express consent - that would piss me off too - but Yelp is just trying to help. I'd totally understand a "well, thanks, I guess, but what the fuck?" attitude than the vitriol the person at the end seems to be spouting.

Am I just missing something? Why wouldn't these businesses want people to help them out in this? Is it just the lack of notification and consent gathering?
Thanks. (I suppose it's still a bit biased — not so easy for me to be completely impartial.)

(And also I'm less familiar with those other tools; there're good things about them that I don't know about)
Everything the Fed, the BOJ, the ECB, the SNB and what have you are doing, reducing all the rates that they can:

- starting from short riskfree rates [all since 1981, but problems surfaced only in 2008]
- to long riskfree rates [all since 2008]
- to corporate default rates [ECB since 2012, the Fed since 2020]
- and in some cases, even to equity risk premium rates [BOJ and SNB since 2008]

Also China, but China is special, and has a much more fine grip on things that goes far beyond the general rates (they can target sectors specifically, or even individual companies).

Expect more alphabet soup of pump facilities to materialize. I don't bother listing them here, it's all the same (reduce this or that rate).
There are also some unconfirmed sightings of mountain lions. Probably.
That's not relevant. We know it's possible to build a society with no plastics, but the question is how much harm it would do if plastics suddenly started to rapidly decay.

We've only had widespread electronics for a handful of decades, but if we lost it overnight, we'd be unable to produce and distribute food at the necessary scale. Restoring the global economy wouldn't even be on the horizon, we'd be too busy dying of famine.

We've only had the internal combustion engine for a handful of decades, but if we lost it overnight we'd be similarly ruined.

If the bacteria only slowly ate plastics, we wouldn't be doomed, it would just make things more costly, as with way rust and rot.
This couldn’t be more accurate. I have also heard the same from at least 3 others irl. But this is a general trend I’ve noticed every year with every community on the internet.
Is it supposed to be obvious why these bar owners and restauranteurs are so upset? The article doesn't really make it clear, and it seems like nothing more than an opportunity for them to get free money? I genuinely don't follow.
> Have you worked on Discourse

No

> because you like them?

Yes (the software, ... and the company & founders & employees I like too, & their visions)
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Title whining, while not the worst way that manifests, is kind of emblematic of the problem. Nothing I love more than loading up a comment thread and seeing... the only replies are 5 people whining about the title.

The moderators here humor and even encourage it, despite it nominally being a rule not to editorialize titles they'll humor the people and edit it up 2 or 3 times.

It's the shallowest of content that contributes nothing to the larger discussion. I'm not sure if it's a weird way to farm karma or if people just tend to be a little bit on the spectrum, but some people just can't resist arguing about it.
This is one of the very few times I wish jwz were more unpleasant than he normally is.
Without having a clue about the situation and never having heard of it, "SF bar owner" and the colorful language made me pretty sure it was jwz, and I was not wrong. :)

For our newer viewers he's something of a character, and worked on a few important pieces of software before becoming a bar owner instead.
I agree with what you said, but I also agree that Windows shepherds you into using GUIs for everything. It's possible to use powershell, but Windows makes GUIs seem like the "natural" way to do things.
You can improve that situation somewhat by starting scripts with `set -o errexit -o noclobber -o nounset -o pipefail` and `shopt -s failglob` to fail fast.
Maybe that tells us that particular version of ethics has flaws?

Either way, people can always infect themselves under most ethics.
You've locked healthy people inside with sick people during the quarantine. Wouldn't that cause some reinfections? After your immune system got beat down the first time.
Anna Wiener makes commentary in her book Uncanny Valley that's pretty on the nose, and I know I wouldn't be able to do it justice. Worth a read.