skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mask wearing is mandatory in several countries. This is not a situation where people are making shit up, this is a situation where you have several authorities saying different things. In the absence of solid evidence, applying common sense to evaluate the arguments of those authorities is a lot better than just picking one of the authorities and proclaiming "This is the truth!"
In case you worry that will lead to Germany introducing a national ID, you don't have to. Germany has had a national ID card for years and years now. Like most developed countries.
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Don't really know any specifics, but I'd imagine being able to use the compromised satellites as simple rams against military satellites could be a significant risk, depending on the size of the fleet... even if not destroying a target.

Not to mention just plain destruction of bringing down a fleet of satellites.
TypeSafety is a big one.

Most “standard” template languages default missing variable references to empty values and would only throw an error due to dereferencing an empty value. This would catch all those errors in advance at compile time.
Plain buying a company's shares gives no money to the company, just to its shareholders

Buying new shares from the company in exchange for bailout money dilutes the value of existing shares (not necessarily a bad thing, the investors bet on a company that wasn't prepared for such a downturn). Of course companies that have done stock buybacks could sell stock on the open market with roughly the same effect.

Buying debt from a company likely means future dividends will be lower, share prices are also likely to go down.

Plain bailing out a company with no payback is essentially an investment in jobs and a healthy economy, I can't see any reason why at the very least it shouldn't be exchanged for equity.

Of course in all these cases it's all of us who are doing this collectively (very socialist!) we should expect that companies that are bailed out by the taxpayers repay their bailouts eventually, from that point of view investing in companies that don't pay their fair share of taxes (by playing accounting games, moving profits offshore etc) are particularly poor investments
Maybe you're so used to the safety warnings that you always skip them when you encounter them? Here, extracted just for you:

> Compare that to the leaded version with the same rosin formulation. This also creates fumes that are not great to breathe (the same fumes), plus a bunch of really bad stuff because of the lead:

> [Long list of bad stuff]

> I think most of this speaks for itself, but I’d like to point out a subtle upgrade from P261 to P260 for the leaded stuff. It goes from “avoid” to “don’t” and I think this this is worth calling out specifically. Remember leaded paint? The stuff we banned in ‘78? The primary cause of lead-poisoning isn’t eating paint chips, it is breathing lead laced paint dust. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisonin...

> “But solder dust? ‘Cmon, really? How can that even be?” I can hear someone typing already… Have you seen one of these?

> [Picture of solder tip cleaner]
Someone put the Litany Against Fear to the steps to wash your hands, in order to do all steps for 20-30 seconds in total:

https://i.imgur.com/TjjinE6.jpg
It's going to be interesting to see what they do about their IPO, it seems like their RSU's "are set to start expiring in November 2020 and in mid-2021" [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/airbnb-employe...
I won't have what he's having: The brain and socially motivated behavior
The post includes the author's reasoning.
It's a quote from 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'.
One major weakness of the current N95 masks is that sometimes it doesn't seal very well to the contours of people's faces. When this happens, it doesn't work as well because particles can still travel into the airway via open space gaps.

I personally have not seen this implemented, but one possible solution I believe may work is to apply a thin layer of sticky hydrogen tape right along the edges of the mask so it would act like an adhesive that helps seal the open space gaps as it can fit with the unique shape and contour of each person's face.

Medical hydrogen tape is the same material that we often see being used in those sticky pads that they put on a person's body during an electrocardiogram (EKG) test. It's also the same adhesive that used by those electro pads in TENS pain-relief machines. This sticky adhesive material is safe for human skins and can last multiple uses.

It would be great if someone could add a feature in which you can insert a removable HEPA filter so it can be swapped in and out when needed.
Because if you're a competent enough programmer to contribute to the Linux kernel, you're probably competent enough to get a job as a programmer.
Ask HN: Any online educational games for young kids?
My 4 year old son really likes https://countable.github.io/cats-of-jasnah/ It's an enjoyable quarantine activity. Are there any similar games in terms of being educational and playable on a smartphone?
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> Of course in all these cases it's all of us who are doing this collectively (very socialist!)

"Very" seems like a generous adjective since actual socialism would require the company to be run by the employees. It's more like "almost" socialism.
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I think that a reddit/hn-style voting system is the absolute opposite of what you want to have for scientific publications. These systems tend to enforce a strong hive-mind, where only the most popular posts and opinions are visible and anything else gets downvoted into oblivion.
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You can use networkd to make it easier, if you like using systemd that is.
That's the dumbest thing I've seen somebody say here on HN so far, congratulations :)
Communism and capitalism do share a weakness: corruption of those with power.

One difference between them is that a dangerous concentration of power is inherent to communism. It's intentional. In capitalism, it's an unintended consequence that can be mitigated by regulations (anti-trust laws, subsidies to startups, etc.)
Somehow I can't picture that being a very feast like affair.
I think a straight 'no' suffices. Linux most definetly wasn't a commercial project in the early years.
SARS-CoV-2 by the Numbers
Which country are you even talking about? If you think the US is literally doing everything they can, have you looked at what the lockdown in Italy looks like?

If you have random sampling from two weeks ago and today, you might find out that you won't have to go to the same extremes as italy, or you might find out that military should have been on the streets a week ago and putting them on the streets now is a good idea
While this may well be true... more likely it's part of their logistics monitoring.
There were some studies a few years ago that claimed lead free was actually worse for the environment due to a much higher joint failure, resulting in more disposal of electronics.
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The most offensive idea I'm seeing here is that Americans are somehow too stupid to be trusted with masks because they can't put them on properly or will use them as an excuse to ignore social distancing protocols.

I sincerely hope we don't dismiss the success of South Korea simply because of this kind of fatalistic presumption of ineptitude. If South Koreans can do it, Americans ought to be up to the challenge as well, no?

Of course, people clearly will need to be open to listening carefully to their government and to closely adhering to all aspects of transmission-limiting protocols, and be instructed in proper mask fitting. I could certainly imagine seeing a breakdown of that in America, of course, since we'd need people to trust in their government, and for their government to be competent and properly funded. Which are things we frankly aren't good at, apparently for deep-seated cultural reasons.
Could someone explain the sudden anger at share buybacks to me?

Media seems to portray it as some sort of evil trick, but I don't see it. It's not that different from distributing divs
You don't KNOW what the reality of the situation is right now without knowing how many people are actually infected
A power surge caused by a lightning strike would kill your master as well as your backup. Besides that, do you also keep all your WAL logs so you can roll back an accidentally dropped database?
Cloudflare strikes again.

Access denied based on my IP address. Thanks!
Saw the Starlink train go through Orion last night, a tiny sliver of the trashing of the night sky that is to come.

SpaceX is no longer cool. I plan to tell this to everyone who will listen.
So, you did the testing and know the true numbers? How's that?
It's worse than that. He's making a reasonable argument that the public will be put in the way of greater harm by letting the economy collapse. I'd find it pretty hard to say whether he's right or wrong.

However, even if you think he's wrong, this is not an argument being made in bad faith. Censorship is a simply bad way to handle it.
Kudos, that's really cool! ;-)
A very popular reuse of an item in Germany is using the glass that a certain brand of mustard comes in as drinking glasses. It even says, or at least used to say, on the label that this is a popular thing. Most people I know have a few of them.

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It's a tight community that instigate and tolerate financial practices that ultimately aren't benefiting of the average Joe, quite the contrary.

It's there for a reason, the same reason it's not stopping.

Unless there is a chance to beleive in representatives to truely represent the population, it's a dead game.

We will slowly turn to cryptocurencies and detach ourself from this non sense system of taxation and fiat decisions that are totally out of our control.
The observed reality where? Bergamo? South Korea?
> gouvernement

French detected. We spell it as "government" in English.
Like your site, though I would suggest to put more weight on the correct use of the mask. Since the lockdown, when I go out for food supply I see plenty of people touching the mask, adjusting it, moving it on the forehead or chin just to answer a phonecall. Considering all these activities mask are doing more harm than good. Once interpersonal distance limit and hands hygiene are observed you are quite good to go. Then there are all those situations (eg. healthcare) where interpersonal distance cannot be observed and that's why countries are adopting measures in order to prioritize the adoption of the mask, especially with the shortage we are facing.
According to the Corona expert in South Korea, masks help a great deal. His assumption on why the WHO only recommends masks in Asia and not anywhere else is due to the limited amount of supply anywhere but in Asia. In Asia people like already own masks. Anywhere else people would first need to stock up. Leading to shortages. As such, it's better not to recommend them so medical professionals are prioritized.

It's also interesting that in in Europe/US they focus on a person not getting a disease. In Asia they often wear a masks if the person isn't feeling well. Meaning, the mask is to prevent the person who is wearing it from infecting others. This bit is often glossed over.

The video is available at https://youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU. I don't know exactly where they discussed the masks. The entire video is great, so suggest to watch the whole thing.

Note: It also talks about spreading by touching your nose and then someone or some surface.
Last I checked they had a roughly 10% false positive rate. So if 1 in 1000 people were infected but you tested all 1000 with an antibody assay, you would get 100 positives, and probably one of them is actually infected. Basically useless for mass screening. The gold standard RT-PCR assay has basically zero false positives, but requires experienced personnel and expensive reagents to do en-mass.
I once read that getting rid of lead in gas made some seemingly unrelated illnesses go away over the decades.

Let's see how our lifes get better when we remove combustion engines entirely from our cities.
Your company makes 2 million profit per month. You don't want to sit on the cash for 12 months just to pay out 24 million, you want to give the money to shareholders immediately. That's a pure liquidity problem so the answer is to just get a dirt cheap loan.
Is that using Phoenix LiveView? Sounds pretty cool!
I don't think that's the problem. It sounds like the problem is that they are holding both a loan, and a short, which is supposed to mitigate their exposure to market swings until they sell the loan.

It's like an oil company shorting oil, to hedge the risk of the market moving against them, before they can sell their inventory.

The problem is that the fed is now buying every asset under the sun, and instead of their loan and their short being inversely correlated, they are now uncorrelated, which is killing them.

The equivalent would be the oil company's oil dropping in price... While the price of oil increases, this killing their short. This doesn't really happen in properly functioning markets, but markets currently have huge liquidity problems.

At least, that's what it sounds like.
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The first fiction that I remember really changed my outlook of life was The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. It's a fantasy novel that I read as a young teenager.

The king in the book has the head of a dragon mounted on his wall as a trophy, and one of his sons finds out that he can enter the wall and look out through the eyes into the throne room. I don't want to spoil the main thing that he sees, but before that he watches his father pick his nose and eat it when he thinks he is alone.

It made me realize that adults are people too, and that you shouldn't idolize anyone to the level of imagining them without any negative traits. It's a bit like realizing that even the most beautiful people in your life or in the media have to sit down and poop like everyone else, and that we all have sides that we don't want others to see. It made me feel more equal to everyone else, and made me feel sympathy with every other human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eyes_of_the_Dragon
Would love to learn why do you say so?
> Autonomy algorithms tests: for example for automatic collision avoidance software

Will you have some super hypervisor software, which can take over and recover from the consequences of any bugs in the software under test?
> without understanding the point I'm making.

You haven't previously clearly articulated your point, it wasn't clear if you were being wrong but relevant (i.e., claiming that there was no significant usability advantage to proportional fonts for text documents) or making an accurate rebuttal of a strawman argument (i.e., correctly claiming that fixed-width text has non-zero usability in rebuttal to the claim that was never made that it is completely unusable.) As such, I made the generous assumption that you understood the context which favored assuming the former, but you seem to have instead settled on the latter position.

>
To illustrate this point, use a variable width typeface in your code editor. It's still perfectly usable but man is it jarring when you're used to monospaced fonts.

I recently transitioned to Input Sans, a proportional coding font, for all code editing full-time, after having used monospaced fonts for coding pretty much exclusively since elementary school, for a little over 35 years; it was a big improvement and the transition was not jarring at all.
Here's an interesting reference (viruses): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438941...

And more generally (bacteria): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_tou...

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
Not to take away from your post (because I agree), but satellites already clutter a lot of the space surrounding earth even without SpaceX.
I guess the question is: why don't they censor Trump / Pelosi / etc for example?
To clarify, yes, Speaker for the Dead is the book Card wanted to write, but he found he had to write Ender's Game first to lay the groundwork. And he did. He wrote them in that order (Ender, Speaker). A prequel usually refers to a work produced later that comes chronologically before.
You do realize that when presidential nominees come to your rural area, eat at truck stops, pose with hunters, and give speeches about how the "real" Americans are the God-fearing people in the heartland doing honest work in the mines and steel mills and factories, that they're just pandering, right? They don't care about preserving your way of life, only the cold calculus of turning whatever states happen to be the swing states that election year.

I mean, the two party process gave you a choice between a millionaire from New York with at least a tenuous cultural connection to rural America, and a billionaire from New York with none, and judging from your former comments, you seem to have voted for the billionaire, and then the electoral college decided whether or not your vote mattered, and chose Kang over Kodos on your behalf. Luckily for you, your state agreed with your vote. But if you happen to be of the wrong party in some states, thanks to the electoral college, your vote simply ceases to matter.

I don't think the electoral college is giving you the leverage against urban cultural power you seem to think it does.
I think the market would be totally fine as is.

Except that the average person doesn't have the same access to financing as some minority of well connected entities to financing bodies. Access to cheap or even free lending. The fed prints more money than the economy actually creates.

It's a rigged market. That's why it doesn't work. Limiting properties would attenuate the problem, but it's just a bandade solution, and a few will again find loopholes to benefit.
I know that some have worked on this... but have given thought to how one could use lower power hives/swarms in order to do surveillance. Not so much for spying on neighbors but virtual tours of national parks and monuments, stitching many photos together to form 3D tour space.

High end capacitors over batteries, and a swarm where individual drones come home to charge, keeping roughly 1/3-1/2 in reserve and accounting for flight times to/from target area...

For less coverage, of course, less drones would be needed. Getting down closer to the size between a large bug and small bird's body for total size would probably be needed as well for a bit of stealth... noise is another concern. Interesting work/ideas.
I will definitely use this approach in some of my Next sites, but I got a bit sad that the writer’s removing React but then has to go back to vainilla JavaScript and global libraries to recover the functionality they’ve lost.

At times like this is when I most think of Svelte’s aspiration, to remove the framework and compile its uses to regular DOM calls. It just bothers me so much with their magic syntax.

PS: Maybe something similar could be made for React Hooks? If a component doesn’t use any hooks it’s marked as static and doesn’t need the framework or to be re-hydrated. If it uses any, we only need to create a discrete React root for that component and its children.
The Superorganism That Created the Pandemic
I'm talking generally about all developed countries (I know what in many developing countries a lockdown will simply be impossible).

I certainly don't think the US has done everything it can. Quite the contrary - it's no surprise to me at all that it is now top of the leaderboard in recorded cases. The US had to go to at least the extremes of Italy, and it didn't, so you'll end up with many more deaths than you would otherwise have had.

The US could just have looked at what was actually happening in Europe to establish what it needed to do. Arguing over the numbers is exactly what caused the inaction in the first place.
In my opinion that is absolutely illogical because share prices can skyrocket even with weak fundamentals. Dividends should be taxed less because companies can't hype up their stocks to pay out a higher dividend (hype would actually decrease yields). Each dollar that is paid out as a dividend had to be earned by the company.
> The company would also take half of the $500 stipend allotted for dependents under the bill.

Oh wow. If I put morals aside, I almost see how execs rationalise keeping their employees wages, "keeping the business stable", etc.. How in the world can you justify taking the kids payments as well?
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Here they've found out that standing up all day not particularly good: "Standing to work has long known to be problematic, it is more tiring, it dramatically increases the risks of carotid atherosclerosis (ninefold) because of the additional load on the circulatory system, and it also increases the risks of varicose veins, so standing all day is unhealthy. The performance of many fine motor skills also is less good when people stand rather than sit."
Planetary defense researchers validate asteroid deflection code
I already knew a lot about the Spartan philosophy and outlook on life before I started reading it (both from 300, comics and movie, and non-fiction books), but I was really surprised how well he described the combat scenes, with all the feet churning in the dirt of shield wall, and so on. It had the risk of becoming repetitive due to the static nature of the combat situation, but the book always felt like it was moving forward quickly. I really liked it!

I've read both good and bad things about The War of Art by Pressfield, but I'm at least very curious to some day read it.