skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the best way is just to jump straight into Finnish, no point of getting confused by other languages or even toy languages.

If you don't speak any other language than English (your website says you're Scottish) there's some positives in that also as you will have a strong place in your brain for Finnish as that "other language" and you won't freeze so easily when you must speak it. What I'm trying to say is that I at least find myself very often "frozen" when having a conversation in a language in which my level is similar to another language. Polish and Spanish are both languages that I'm able to survive with but if I'm looking for the word e.g. for "Saturday" in Polish I might suddenly find myself stuck in the Spanish word for it. Add Swedish to the confusion and I might as well give up and hope to be understood in English, which is also not my first language, but at least I have a much more strong grasp of it than other languages (except Finnish) so that it isn't subject to the confusion most of the time. YMMV but I hope you get the point and maybe even find some encouragement in it to just start learning Finnish straight away.

Also, since you are Scottish you might already be able to roll your R's and pronounce the letters "ä" and "ö" the "Finnish way" since at least some Scottish accents have those "sounds", which is not the case for e.g. Australian, North American or Southern English accents.

Let me know if you want a Finn to talk to and I'll shoot you an email. ;)
Definitely not. Try finding a citation for the phrase you conjecture, without the ellipsis.

It seems more likely to have originated as a direct calque of French les pauvres.
Ask HN: What is HN doing to stop foreign misinformation during Covid-19?
In this short intense time period misinformation will amplify economic changes quickly, we should assume all sites are under some sort of attack.

Has HN increased security?
"Sophomore" is a term for second-year students (not even halfway done) that means "wise fool" referring to how they're at a level where they think they're smarter than they are, and they don't yet know what they don't know.
Extremely rapidly degrading plastics would still be a better situation than extremely slowly degrading plastics.
At a previous job, we had a law called "Peeler's Law", named after an engineer who was a top front-line bug-fixer: if you don't have time to add a test, that's when you need to add a test the most.
Because of spooky action at a distance.

Consider the following code fragment:

glob = 5;
f();
// what is the value of glob here?

The problem with globals is that you can't know. f might change glob, directly or indirectly, and there is no way you can keep in mind all possible changes (especially with multiple people working on the same codebase).

(The same problem can happen, on a more limited scale, with class fields - which is why some of us insist on requesting that classes are kept small and cohesive.)

Note that this does not happen as often with database values (which are also globals that can be changed from any point in the program) because of expectations. When using those, we have all kinds of mechanisms - like transactions and isolation modes - that let us specify how much we want a value we have written to stay like that until we're done with it; when we don't use those mechanisms we generally expect that "this value could change between one statement and the next".
I'm very much in agreement with your assessment here. If you rely on programmers to "do the right thing", some people will break those rules, and systems will suffer varying levels of quality decay as a result. Language level enforcement of key concepts prevents--or at least makes it harder--for folks to make bad decisions in whatever areas those concepts apply. Clojure is another good example where they've provided concurrency primitives that allow you to avoid all the major pitfalls you typically see with multithreaded Java programs. As such, most Clojure code does concurrency the "right way", and in 10+ years of using it, I've never seen a deadlock.
It's not what they "typically" do though.
When they switched from the old PowerPC architecture to Intel, they provided emulators, and _IF_ you use Apple's libraries, a simple recompile of your app would often be enough.

While some people see it as restricting them, Apple mostly works hard to make their libraries do whatever people needs them to do, but at the same time they keep control, meaning moving to a new architecture is as easy as Apple fixing their libraries, ship a new version, people recompile, and done.
> ... WASM instances ship with a DOM for accessing markup provided by or requested into the WASM instance.

Sounds like it would achieve the same end goal? eg direct access to the page elements, without needing to go through JS

Or is that my not really understanding the problem space? :)
Do you live in akuji1993kleinstadt?
From everything we have seen, it seems to me that an overly active immune response is responsible for the really tough cases with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and the body going into a cytokine storm. It may be that this, rather than the virus itself, causes patients to be put on ventilators.

The immunosuppressant medications I have seen which can bring this down are used for rheumatoid arthritis. Corticosteroids have a wide ranging immunosuppressive effect but the CDC advises against them, to give the body a chance to fight. I think in the early stages that’s true but if the body starts a cytokine storm we need to bring it down a notch.

Perhaps the key lies in immunosuppressive drugs to keep the immune response within a certain level?

Can experts on here chime in?
Isn't that one theory? Or is that generally accepted as the leading theory.
I have been looking for something exactly like borg but never showed up in my google search. Thanks for mentioning borg
Note that the video had several errors: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstati...
little snitch supports blocklists ublock origin supports. it's a bit obscure feature but easy to setup.
At the Epicenter of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Humanitarian Crises in Italy
Guess they haven't read some science fiction classics :)

Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater
Book by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler
True. That's why we need basic income, because recession defined as more industries becoming more useless and less becoming more useful will occasionally happen for whatever reasons and hoping it never ever happens is not the best social harm mitigation strategy.
Jimmy Fallon Pen in Bottle with Alicia Vikander
Guess that is what they call a super spreader.
If you're such a "staunch capitalist", then why would you listen to an unrepentant "economic Chomsky"???
It's not clear how the masks appeared in that storage. It may be well possible the masks were stolen by somebody who wanted to sell them. The company owning the storage didn't comment.

The masks were sent to Italy within a few days.
Is this based on independent research, or officially-reported downtime? There are enough anecdotes in threads here about cloud reliability to suggest AWS is bad at reporting outages.
A Cold War Mastermind
Tried in Safari and Chrome. Doesn't work.
Not really the first one though :p

https://github.com/rcbyron/hey-athena-client/commit/50b37628... (2015)

Vs

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/commit/8e470ce7c15... (2016)

Jokes aside, it's a great work, I'll probably try it in my spare time.
The reasons mentioned in the video have nothing to do with the warping and wobbling, see what i wrote on Reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstati...
Here's the sleeping quarters for enlisted people on a Nimitz class carrier: https://imgur.com/a/2UN64Tk

Imagine the spread was fast.
I think the leading theory, here's another: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanis...
> People just want to get things done

If you let people "just get things done", they usually do a shitty job, as we've seen from the last 50 years of software development. People need at least one of unfailing mechanical guidance or impressive levels of restraint. Most people don't have that much restraint (and it's exhausting to keep it up all the time), so the practical option is to have the compiler keep us in check.

If I'm not using Haskell (or equivalent), I usually end up thinking "eh, a quick print statement in the middle of this function won't hurt anybody" and before I know it I've lost the compositionally that makes me love Haskell programming.

> strongly-typed control flow where functions can have more than just a "return"

This sounds to me like what monads give you. ContT, MTL stacks, effect monads, take your pick. There are several ways to get strongly-typed advanced control flow in Haskell.
There is also a study that shows many studies findings cannot be reproduced:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

From where I stand, the countries that have a culture of wearing masks are doing better with regards to coronavirus. At the very least, it seems like a good hypothesis.
that's exactly what depr. messages are for. it's to call to attention it's going away. once it's gone a deprecation message is useless.
The whole article is based on the pretty strong and implausible implicit assumption that the Solar system did not interact with any other objects in our galaxy. I would take the conclusions with a grain of salt.
I wonder how well this approach is going to survive the current pandemic?

I mean, is it me, or the amount of posts calling to get someone cancelled subsided?
N95 - 95% at least.

Medical mask - 96,4%.

Home made mask - 60-96% (depends on cloth and sewing).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
Carbios looks like a product. This is essentially a microorganism that feeds on plastics.
Show HN: Free web scraping data and API for Covid-19
Yeah, that's why you don't read newspapers at all and gather all your scientific news by perusing scientific papers directly. /s Educated right-wing Hindutva activists like you are the bane of India.
A t-shirt or bandana or scarf will make an excellent makeshift mask. This is not the equivalent of an N95 mask that should be used by health care professionals, but is good for ordinary citizens in public.
I cannot imagine a company dictating your Slack habits. If that happens, there is something else entirely at fault and Slack is not the problem. I see Slack receiving the same type of criticism agile work methods get, they all boil down to the same type of commentary: higher management using all the tools available to micromanage the workforce for personal gains. Any tool can be misused and that most of the time is not a problem with the tool itself.
Datasource API Overhaul in Spark 3.0 Release
No they can't because they have their individual self-preservation instincts that they can't disregard. Company owner can do that with ease.
C++Cast: C++ Build Insights
Plus you can use it for 4+ cities/timezones!
Outrageous that they called it the Spanish flu- as we all now know, it is an act of violence to name a viral outbreak after a place.
I think the "leave the site better than you found it" advice applies here. Whenever you need to touch a piece of code, write the proper tests (hell, add some fuzzy testing if you don't want to write them by hand) and then improve that code.
I don't know about that expert, but the reason I usually hear about not using masks is so that health professionals could get them - ie, the problem is that supply isn't currently enough for everybody, and we should prioritise those for which it's most helpful.
> Most popular FOSS project do not follow this model at all.

Most don't explicitly, but...

> Sure, you can see part of the communication and have an input channel, but unless you are part of the inner circle, or have some influence over it, you won't be able to see everything, weigh in, vote or determine anything.

Isn't mutually exclusive from open decision making.

Red Hat formalized and opened up our approach to this problem [0]. We actually use it, too.

As another sibling of your said ('gwd):

> Everyone being able to participate isn't the same as everyone having identical influence.

In particular, most anyone has an avenue to participate, but that doesn't mean everyone is involved in explicitly making the final decision.

The examples of use aren't complete in that repo. Fedora is currently in the process of using it for the Git Forge selection process, Red Hat used parts of it at various times in our logo process [1]. And I'm sure there's other uses I'm missing.

The logo process is probably the best example: for numerous reasons (trademark law, ...), 12k employees community designing a new logo just wouldn't work. There'd necessarily be cohesion in the final product. So we were given input at various stages (what do you think of X, Y or Z... polls, open meetings, &c) and from all of that feedback, the designers formed the logo. Was it a perfect process? Nah. But you definitely say you got input into it.

And yes, I'm a 'hatter.

[0]: https://github.com/red-hat-people-team/open-decision-framewo...
[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/our-brand/open-brand-project
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-government-zoo...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000119312519...

The top of page 21 in the first set of SEC documents:

Quote " Many governments have enacted laws requiring companies to provide notice of data security incidents involving certain types of personal data. In addition, some of our customers require us to notify them of data security breaches. Security compromises experienced by our competitors, by our customers or by us may lead to public disclosures, which may lead to widespread negative publicity. In addition, we have a high concentration of research and development personnel in China, which could expose us to market scrutiny regarding the integrity of our solution or data security features. Any security compromise in our industry, whether actual or perceived, could harm our reputation, erode confidence in the effectiveness of our security measures, negatively affect our ability to attract new customers and hosts, cause existing customers to elect not to renew their subscriptions or subject us to third-party lawsuits, regulatory fines or other action or liability, which could harm our business. "
dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683745
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665276
I'm curious, what's your interest in the train schedules?

One day at an antique shop, I came across a book from ~1910 which had hundreds of pages of annual reports from railroads with many metrics we'd expect to see in the 10-K reports public companies file.

The book was published annually, but had much of its data in tables with grouped headers and cells, which could make automated OCR-ing with a good (useful) end result challenging.

I think it'd be interesting to map out the Railroad consolidation, track all their financial metrics over time, and do some level of forensic accounting to see if/which companies probably had funny business going on.
Ask HN: What do you think on volunteering opportunities during a pandemic?
There are many opportunities to volunteer during a pandemic: Helping at hospitals, helping dependent of healthcare workers, elderly, patients at home isolation. There are also volunteers needed to curate academic research for doctors on the field.

What do you think would be people’s approach to such volunteering opportunities?

What could be done to mobilize more volunteers from all over the world?

ps. I’m building a platform to collect volunteering applicants: https://pandemicvolunteers.org
Phone data showing where those Florida spring breakers traveled afterwards
Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful in Treating Covid-19
I have wondered that for a while, especially since countries like Malaysia had outbreaks long before Italy. Originally I thought: https://simonsarris.com/sunlight (note: data last updated March 16)

But there are several axes that could matter just as much as quarantine/lockdowns: Humidity, sunlight (as proxy for vitamin D levels, or simply UV), pollution (which also affects sunlight), median age (47 in Italy, 30 in Malaysia, that's huge), and mask use.

Bergamo has low sunshine in Feb and March comparatively.
Places hard hit, and their average sunshine on selected months:

* Wuhan: 100 (In Feb)

* Paris: 79-129 (Feb-March, North France harder it by # of cases, cannot find death info)

* Bergamo Italy: 100-150 (Feb-March average)

* Seattle WA: 100-150 (Feb-March)

* Iran sunshine varies a lot by locale. But some places like Rasht, its very low light: 90, 78, 71, 113 for Jan, Feb, Mar, April

Places less hard hit:

* Bangkok 250-275 (Feb-March)

* Kuala Lumpur 185, 192, 208 (Jan Feb March)

* Ho Chi Minh City, 272 (March)

* Seoul: 175-200 (Feb-March) South Korea contained it of course, but their lethality numbers are also lower, and its the lethality that I find odd in all this.
New lower pricing for data transfer
Title reminds me of "guide you to the pit of success" (ie, a slippery slope w a positive ending), which IIRC I first encountered in a post by Zeit cofounder G Rauch, writing about NextJS.
If you have a large application written in Haskell, you're probably already using some sort of abstract or extensible monad for your "business logic", and that means it's usually not hard (in practice) to add a MonadLogger instance to your code.

Also, when you've written Haskell for long enough, you start to write your code in such a way that it's astronomically unlikely that you need to add logging to a pure function. I haven't found myself wanting to do that in years. Haskell has a library to do logging in pure code, but it's unpopular for a reason.
I get a Database Error on the homepage. Hug of death?
Facinating. There's a lot of Dutch people here. Some might want to translate
I'm saying that copyright is unjust. It violates fundamental individual freedoms of people like freedom of expression to achieve goals that do not justify that mean, and is therefore illegitimate.

The comparison to laws that protect people is invalid because copyright does not protect people. It grants governmentally enforced monopolies. Copyright has a legitimate goal. There is a value in certain activities for society and copyright is a governments intervention to increase that activity.

There are other things that are considered so important that the government takes action to provide them, like for example social security, health services and infrastructure. That is realized by taxation. I'm suggesting that the state should use taxation to ensure the activity of those who rely now on copyright so the restrictions of individual fundamental freedoms is gone.

Note that copyright has become even more restrictive with time. There are situations where people are forbidden from singing a song on a birthday party in public. This is an example of where the unjust restriction of individual freedoms becomes apparent.

And I'm saying that this injustice in some situations is so grave, that we should show civil disobedience and try to break and mock copyright when possible as a form of protest.
Knowing someone is angry allows you to act accordingly.

If you don't know someone is sad how do you console them?

There's a great comedy on Netflix called Atypical, one of the things the main character deals with in this show is his inability to read peoples emotions.
Wouldn't "What is HN doing to stop misinformation during Covid-19?" be better?

Foreign, domestic, deliberate or otherwise.
It's basically a generational cache pattern
> Sidney

If you're thinking of the city in Australia, it's Sydney. Probably explains why when you search for Sidney it comes up with small towns in USA.
Home assistant is a home automation tool, not a voice assistant. You can even hook up Mycroft to Home Assistant.
A lot of people was/is sewing them at home. My wife (data scientist in a normal life) made some for our family incl. grandparents and also for some neighbours. A link from a local "Etsy" [1].

The government even made an exception so the sewing supplies shops could open.

[1]: https://www.fler.cz/zbozi/oboustranna-rouska-11339514
I'm puzzled that you think factual and relevant context is an aspersion. The article is technically correct that asset prices took a long time to recover to the previous levels. But it is limited in its application. In order to judge the return of an investment, you have to look at not just its asset price but what it produces. A chicken only decreases in value from the time it begins laying eggs, but that doesn't make it a bad investment. Same with the airlines.

> So your solution is to "guess" that it didn't happen?

It's not a guess. It's an informed inference from my knowledge of airline dividend habits, which I subsequently backed up with a citation. However, I will not do hours of modeling work to satisfy your curiosity. If you want that information, do it yourself.
Sadly, if an etymology seems clever, it's likely false:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sophomore

> 1680s, "student in the second year of university study," literally "arguer," altered from sophumer (1650s, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Greek sophos "wise" + mōros "foolish, dull" (see moron). The original reference might be to the dialectic exercises that formed a large part of education in the middle years. At Oxford and Cambridge, a sophister (from sophist with spurious -er as in philosopher) was a second- or third-year student (what Americans would call a "junior" might be a senior sophister).
Mi Fist Publication
You just won a new user, I was a big fan of Pixlr Editor, but the new version does not fit my needs. Kudos!
That's exactly what I thought about. I think this is the blog post that made this phrase popular: https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
I really like https://everytimezone.com

It's what I've been using for years.
From the WHO, here: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

> Most estimates of the incubation period for COVID-19 range from 1-14 days

Honestly, I took the 15 days from memory. There are plenty of sources citing anything on that range.

Keep in mind that after incubation a person will start to show weak symptoms, that get strong gradually. Hospitals will only notice a change after the week or so (from memory, there was a good interview with a Chinese doctor here a few weeks ago) that it takes for people to get really sick.
> (reading Denthor/Asphyxia tutorials)

oh man I read those as well! Nostalgia overload right now.
I still don't understand why HN isn't limited how many times a day a single person can flag something... Seems obvious to become abused.
The World That Refuses to Stop, a Planet That Moves Forever Part 2
Exactly. Apple may just want to replicate the ios Appstore experience on the new Macs and collect the 30% rent on _all_ software to be installed in them - that's what I said I will run away from. Technically ARM is just another CPU, so compiling stuff to it is not a technical problem although an opportunity for Apple to get greedy and call it "the most secure OS ever" :-|
Similar memories for me too. Born in '69 and also felt part of a unique period in tech and the UK.

In case you haven't seen it, I would definitely recommend watching the BBC film Micro Men (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92). Enjoy.
The —help is not particularly useful when you have proper man pages.
People around me are already organizing volunteering small groups. A global platform for collecting volunteering leads could get quite popular fast.
Kindred soul, have a look at this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635012, the author covers quite a few tools, you may find something that fits your needs. In the meantime, you can always combine many tools to achieve what you want.