skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't make humans special. Ecosystems are defined by the interrelations of many actors. The fact that humans are huge, impactful actors matters, but doesn't make them unique.

Also recall that humans, as an invasive species, can be adept at destroying ecosystems. There's a big, interlocking series of forests in South America, for instance, that gets a lot of attention, but that's hardly the only example.
Hasn't hiring always been broken?
Most people are here to have discussions, and not necessarily read news.
It can work as a wiki, if one edits the per category security settings, which look like so:

These people: [All Members v]
may do this:

:
[ ] Edit other people's topics
[ ] Edit others' comments
[x] Edit one's own stuff
[ ] Delete others' topics
:
:

This: ` [All Members v] ` is a choose-group dropdown. There're custom groups and trust level groups, e.g. Full Members and Trusted Members.
Yes metafilter is a mess. The number of reasonable people who have abandoned that community is very high.

Bad actors everywhere are really all the same. They build up good will with insightful content and active participation, then they use that to strong arm the community to further their personal biases.

As the parent comment said, the mods at metafilter are too close to the community. Being involved can be a good thing but I think the mods have taken for granted how it allows them to be exploited and bullied by a very vocal minority.
How similar is Covid-19 to previously discovered Coronaviruses
Zoom needs to fuck off. This is apologism. We need open source and decentralized solution and we need to shut up. I'm tired of this.
Background story: GM wanted $1 Billion to retool a factory...and the number of possible ventilators kept changing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-v...
Looks great. Would be helpful to filter The Who’s hiring threads as well
We've reached the point where some people have so much money we need to invent new places no one has been to so they can pay to go somewhere other people cant, while simultaneously half the country dies because the have COVID-19 and no health care.
Now, if we could only get SE and DS professionals to stop working on mass surveillance and population manipulation systems.
Works for me in Firefox reader mode.

Always worth a shot, although some sites actually will go to the extent of not loading the full content past a leader paragraph unless you log in. Which I can at least respect, then I move on, but if you serve me the content then don't expect me to not read it even if it requires altering javascript or removing ads.
It's data to help them track if their ads lead to installs. It's not the content of the video calls themselves
Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists https://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/outofmind.html
thanks, I hadn't known about this service!
I'm really enjoying "The Code" by Margaret O'Mara, which is specifically a history of Silicon Valley. It's not particularly technical, but the history is fascinating. O'Mara does a great job of presenting a nuanced view of the different factors that formed Silicon Valley as we know it: entrepreneurship, academia, defense. Defense in particular is usually omitted from the narrative, but has been a crucial ingredient from the start.
Isn't this what the primary futures markets are for? As an oil producer, you lock in a price for the oil that you know you're going to produce in 3 or 6 or 12 months. Let a financier in some big city take on the risk that the price might be higher or lower, where they can hedge it against other investments.
It'd be interesting to run an experiment with different cohorts that joined HN at various times to see if the rise in negativity is due to fundamental shift of opinion in all users of HN or any specific "generation" of HNers.
I fail to see how "ecofascistic" does not fly apart into its mutually repellant components. Fascism is strongly tied to modernity and modernism. It is the polar opposite of allowing nature to overtake cities. Intentional decline is decadence, which is expressly opposed by fascist ideology.
There’s a very long and deep dive into the topic of healthy communities here https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html which I enjoyed.

To borrow from that analysis I would say that HN do exhibit some tribal thinking tendencies but over all dissenting perspectives are tolerated enough to allow new knowledge about a wide variety of topics to bubble up.

As someone noted the seemingly large amount of subject experts present for those topics might contribute more to this than the actual culture though.

And often enough some self proclaimed expert, or an entire clique of them, spin off into some thread sharing their take. But I’d say there just enough skepticism presented to prevent things to devolve into pure cargo culting.
Same. I even regularly see a few at Coit Tower.
Pretty sure BBEdit has wider appeal than NetNewsWire. For one thing BBEdit is the only decent text editor on Mac App Store (not that it’s a high bar to clear).
It became a moot argument due to the rise of renewable energy and concern about global climate change. I really doubt that is going to change for many decades.
"Programmers At Work" by Susan Lammers was a great read in its time, and I keep referring to ideas from it. Might be worth a look. Peter Seibel's done a great job with continuing the idea, e.g. "Coders At Work", "Founders At Work."

Is it time to read "Godel, Escher, Bach?"
The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick is great. Starts with Ada Lovelace/Charles Babbage and goes on from there, I found it fascinating.
Do you have any citation/proof? Or is this just a suspicion?
I think zoom's secret sauce is meeting reliability and quality. You can consistently communicate without audio hiccups and other issues more vs others. Otherwise, why would zoom get so popular with the word of mouth of 'it just works'?

What you're saying is basically a form of 'works on my machine'.
I'm not aware of any "eco terrorist" who also as an eco-fascist, but I could be missing someone.

Scare quotes because I refuse to debase the word 'terrorism' by extending it to include property damage.

Edit: To put it mildly, the average Earth Firster has almost nothing politically in common with, e.g., the Christchurch shooter or the Unibomber.
I've been using Jitsi Meet

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
That's not true: given enough time decomposing organic material will create new oil reserves, while all the metals excavated are still right here on the surface of the Earth used every day by us (cars, phones, ...) and ready to re-enter the surface once we are done using them.
That seems really unlikely. That is, it's like the reciprocal of the Drake equation, multiplied by some additional infinitesimal factors.
is there any good terminal assistant? something that accepts these kinds of queries but with in a cli, preferably without the need of constant internet connection
Sonnets From the Prison of Moabit (1944-45)
How well are we social distancing? Smartphone location data can rank US states
The Friendly Orange Glow : The Untold Story of the PLATO system and the dawn of cyberculture (2017) is a really interesting book about a system few people here would probably have heard of.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34373814-the-friendly-or...

How the Internet Happened is very good. The podcast that was created while writing the book is also worth a listen.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212134-how-the-interne...

Accidental Empires is also very good

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27652.Accidental_Empires
It's a lot more fun with WSL 2. Something to get you started: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/03/02/docker-in-wsl....

It requires you to sign up for the Windows Insider program though.

Also check this for an annoying issue and a workaround: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166.
hey there, thanks for this list - do you see these attributes applying equally to both 'online' and 'offline' communities?
This is literally basic Econ 101.

Commercial leases have rent increases built into them that are agreed to by all parties. Nobody is getting a surprise by their rent going up, and they're typically negotiated and signed close to a year before becoming effective. If the rent is too much, you can move your business or find ways to grow your revenue. If there's nothing cheaper, then that's what the market has decide a square foot of commercial real estate in your area is worth. If your business doesn't support that, the market doesn't want your business.

We tell contract developers all the time "you need to charge more!" and "charge what you're worth!" but the minute someone does it to us we scream about how unfair it is and how the system is broken. I'm sure the guy selling widgets who has his WordPress guy charging him $125/hr thinks that's unfair, too. And I say that as someone who has been both the widget salesman and the $125/hr WordPress dev.
Show HN: Chat that will convince you real humans are still out there
We're not far from the edge of town and the fields, and it's common to see pheasants out there but not where I saw that one, which was quite a distance from there.
Also: if you have an offer and are concerned it might be rescinded, please reach out: hello@candor.co
Another is share buybacks (which I think are entirely fine).

Same amount of profits (DCF + discounted terminal value) spread over fewer shares implies a higher share price.
If this ends up being true, does it lead to any potential lifestyle changes or medical interventions that could help lower one's risk of Alzheimer's? Are these infections measurable and curable with antibiotics or something, and we just don't bother doing it because there are no noticeable short-term effects?
The Pandemic in My Neighborhood – Michael Lewis
They are useful for someone in a nearby field trying to learn this field. That person first reads the textbook, and a few specific papers. Then once, they have a good narrow understanding, they broaden it by reading one of these review papers.

In essence, a review paper saves you the trouble of doing a literature review in a new subfield, because it identifies the important papers for you.

That said, the reason review papers are usually written is for the authors to cement their own understanding of the network of research in the field.
It's heavily moderated, so we can't really tell, but probably not, because most of us lives in the tech bubble with good salaries, good opportunities, whine about small stupid things and such (including myself).
Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush
I have not seen one, but I would really like to! It's one thing I envy about some other open-source language projects.

I also think Julia would benefit a lot from a list of "we want these but haven't had time for them". People like contributing things they know are desired, and with Julia it's hard to know whether people want or will accept something until you make the PR.
> The argument goes that a True False value will "mean" different things in a context

Well, it is the same with numbers anytime they mean something in the real world. One would have to add "unit types" to numbers and check that x + y causes a type error when a "nr. of humans" is added to a "nr. of rainy days", to give an example. If that is represented by adding two integers there won't be an error. In software comparing apples and oranges works fine as long as you use numbers...
Seems highly likely given how fantastically different we are from all other known life forms, especially in our mental ability.
How about a mask with filter and UV lights that periodically disinfect it? Could be cheaper.

And from other UV uses, it would be cool to use it for disinfecting bathrooms when nobody is inside.
Well thinking that oil will go back up might be but Saudi did this this exact same thing before.
In Berkeley we have these, plus bobcats, foxes, and mountain lions. One of the interesting things about California is that even though humans have stepped all over the ecology of the American West, that hasn't been going on long enough to extirpate literally every wild species. Compared to places that have been settled for 1000s of years, California can seem wild.
A good review article is worth its weight in gold for both the researchers who write it and the research community.

Remember that research communities are extremely transient because of the professor : phd student : practitioner ratio and the low odds that a graduated phd student a) stays in research and then b) stays in the same research area for their whole career. Therefore, most members of a given research community have approximately 1-3 years of experience in the broader academic field and approximately no experience in the area covered by the review. Therefore, a good review can simultaneously:

1. prevent a lot of wheel re-invention, and

2. push the research field in a certain direction (either accidentally or purposefully).

Also, good review articles typically include some amount of synthesis. I.e., the creation of a conceptual framework and language for understanding and talking about a bunch of vaguely related stuff. This article tries to do that e.g. in Section 2.1 but the topic of the review is so incredibly broad that the categories are not super useful.
Philip Wadler has a seminal paper [0] on implementing pretty printers by modeling them using an algebra. There's implementations of the algorithm in most programming languages nowadays, and some state of the art advances that help with performance [1]

It's a very elegant algorithm, and is very pleasant to work. Elixir's formatter uses a variant of it [2], and it appears in the standard library [3]. I've personally made use of it to write a code formatter for GraphQL queries, and it was a very small amount of code for some powerful results.

Definitely take a look if you ever need to do something like this.

[0] https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/pretti...

[1] https://jyp.github.io/pdf/Prettiest.pdf

[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.2...

[3] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Inspect.Algebra.html
> while not the worst way that manifests

I find the worst type post is "the website is broken / that css could use some work / when I see this site on Chrobar XX Turbo the scrollbar disappears".
Agree with mathdev here.

Looking at the data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

It seems logical to state, at least within the US, the accuracy of deaths due to COVID-19 are more accurate than total cases of COVID-19. There are a lot of asymptomatic people out there. Even if someone has it with mild symptoms they are told to stay home and only reach the hospital if symptoms are severe. Deaths are more accurate as I assume a test can be performed posthumously for COVID-19.

So, even with this exaggerated ratio, the US has 5 deaths/1M pop. One can reasonably argue this might've been worse if no quarantine measures were in place. However if the true rate is less than 1%, I think the economic effects will be more impactful.

The above link also shows ~27k deaths worldwide due to COVID-19 at the moment. Italy had ~25k deaths due to the flu alone in 2016/2017.
Agreed. It's very much a culture of internalized "progressive stack" commenting.

Plus, all of the things Metafilter "doesn't do well" (a list which grows), the departure of the old guard (if they were not run out of town), and so forth.
The NES book in the Platform Studies series (I Am Error) is the best of the lot, although they're pretty good (particularly Racing the Beam). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9805921.Nathan_Altice
Well, they're wrong, so...
Your latter two statements are just false though, so it isn’t a fair criticism.
The link you has its fallacy in the premise. It's defining "function" as "computable function", then complaining that many results that follow do not agree with the former definition! Either I'm really missing something or this is some poor attempt at trolling / bait-and-switch. Of course you have problems with that "computable function" definition when dealing with functions from Real -> Real, since many (in fact, almost all) real numbers are not computable!

Re mutating getter:

Monads for example are a standard way of formalising state in a pure-function universe. You seem to have some fundamental misconception about what "mathematics" is, since you keep repeating something about purity. Mathematics is merely the rigorous study of formal systems, of which your mystical "mutating getter" is one such system.
As I understand, contact tracking is recording which people come into proximity so that if one gets sick the task of contact tracing can be facilitated by the contract tracking data.
Agreed. A lot of people here are benefactors of the current economic reality brought on by the past 10 years or so of radical expansionary monetary policy and they will completely reject any criticism of the financial system and refuse to acknowledge the validity of any alternative views.

I think probably as you say, it comes down to a lack of empathy. The startup scene is generally cut-throat and devoid of any empathy or higher principles besides money. So this is not surprising.

They probably wouldn't like to acknowledge this about themselves either - Just like colonists of past centuries, many successful people today refuse to confront the simple reality that good lives are invariably built on the suffering of others. Ironically, it is successful people's collective inability to see this which makes it self-fulfilling.

The name of the game is "coerce then moralize" and it hasn't changed much since colonial times.
I'd suggest the miSTer instead. OSHW cores. Vampire might be somewhat faster, but it is very closed.
What is the math that leads you to saying 12-18 months?
> They could price their products so they don't make any "extra" money each year

Isn't that precisely what you get from competitive pressure in a free market? Things end up priced barely above production costs.

> I think we'd live in a better world if a company like Apple didn't exist to make ever increasing profits, but existed just to create the products they create.

That would be a nicer world to live, true. Unfortunately, we've created a system in which the primary reason for a company to exist is to make profits - and then we pit companies against each other to minimize profits made. The end result is a lot of creativity unleashed in the process of innovating, cheating and defrauding your way into not being a commodity.
RTFA? native app collects a LOT of data and sends it off god knows where and what for
Boars are no joke. Some More News has been reporting on them for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JMaFfAxq0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFFls6mBb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MTMCo8JbQ
I really laughed at this comment.
Ask HN: Why does “turning it off and on again” work?
If humans hold our ecosystems together, then elimination of humans will also result in the rest of animals dying off.
Thanks for the nice write-up! I have been wondering for quite some time how pipes were implemented but never knew where to start. Very well done!
Optimistic of you, to assume good intentions here.
I really loved "Valley of Genius"

500 pages of straight quotes. It reads like everyone is gathered around a campfire talking about the past, and you're there with them. Great book

https://www.amazon.com/Valley-Genius-Uncensored-History-Foun...
Yelp is implying a supportive relationship that does not exist.

Quite the contrary - jwz does not want his business listed on Yelp. He does not like Yelp, and his blog describes some of the issues.

(Eg, Yelp requires/d "a photo in which your whole face can be seen" while DNA Lounge wanted to use "our logo as the image" - quotes from jwz's blog.)

How would you like me telling everyone that "I'm frank_nitti's best friend", and (honestly) raising money for you, when you don't want me in your life?

wk_end comments about it being "free money".

DNA Lounge already has a Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge and a one-time donation page at https://www.dnalounge.com/donate/ .

What happens if an alternative GoFundMe site, auto-generated by Yelp, results in a reduction of the overall donation stream? Then it wouldn't be "free money", would it?

So, who decides if this plan is appropriate for the business?

Hint: not Yelp.
Of course it isn't. OP seems to have some kind of misconception about what "mathematics" means, since they keep fixating on a vague concept of purity of notation.
Chlamydia swabs used to test for Corona (Swedish)
> PS: You don't have to download a program -- it has an online version.

They push their client so hard it's not at all surprising OP thought it was required. I would have assumed as much if I hadn't read otherwise. They don't even show you the link to join via web until after you've told them that the download isn't working.

And given what I'm reading about the quality of their web client, there may be a reason they're so pushy...
Here's a short 2014 paper from McIlroy himself discussing his early thinking back then: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/sieve/sieve.pdf

TL;DR: McIlroy was applying the concept of coroutines, which was described by Melvin Conway in 1963. Two processes communicating over a pipe are basically coroutines, except instead of passing structured data they're just passing bytes.

A Unix pipeline is a set of multiple coroutines. In fact, Tony Hoare's 1978 Communicating Sequential Processes paper cites the UNIX shell[1] for the concept of coroutines, and discussion of coroutines figures prominently in that paper. See https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf CSP basically models the behavior of a large set of coroutines.

AFAIU, Erlang was partly inspired by CSP. You can draw a straight line from coroutines, through Unix pipelines and CSP, to Erlang's processes.

[1] Specifically, Ken Thompson's 1976 paper, "The UNIX command language." See https://archive.org/details/theunixcommandlanguage
Manhattan is quite the edge case. It's one of the densest areas on the planet. I don't think that's a good model for development. Sprawl in the U.S. is more of the suburban variety and there coyotes do thrive quite well. They don't even need large tracts of land. They are fully capable of burrowing in little pockets of green space. See: https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/coyote-info/general-informat...
Licensing or Service Advantage
This just isn't true. There's a lot of tooling nowadays that provides IDE-like features in text editors, or via command-line tuning. And different people work differently. Where some people use IDEs, others never leave the terminal and just use e.g. vim/emacs, a build system, and a debugger.
Alberta is the only province to pay into equalization every single year since they started it (except the very first year where they weren't allowed to). They've never got one equalization payment. Quebec gets billions every year. Why exactly?
Oh yea, I know that there are technical difficulties considering the decentralization. But why aren't we working on it now? Dunno what we're waiting for. Mass adoption?
They might exist in congressional testimony, if FBI decide they need more money or something.
Even though it is a generic solution, they apparently use a slight modification in the recipe (not which components, but the amounts) on which the machines are calibrated. You could reproduce this, but it costs time and you need specialized equipment that only a few labs have. With this disclosure, labs can produce their own without that research.
With sapience enters ego...
thank for suggesting the concept of 'agonism' here, would you say that HN enables or doesn't enable 'agonistic' relations well, such as the ability of its members to 'disagree', and how?