skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this is a failure of imagination. I'm not a beginner programmer. I've played with a lot of different languages and read about a lot more, and I still have a strong gut feeling that they can be unified if we just figure out the right framework. Note that I, for one, would consider a language that shepherds you towards highly interoperable DSLs to be (close to) a success; something like Racket that could generate efficient native binaries would be really close...

I don't believe for a second that syntax is the obstacle. You can express all the complexity you need with composition. Also, the One True Language will obviously have macros.
They were hiring a lot for their digital teams in downtown Austin recently. The location is a non-starter for me, otherwise...
It uses monospaced type, and then does full justification by adding arbitrary extra space between words. Overall the legibility is awful, and typographers are puking.

I used my web browser’s “reader” mode on it.
Sweat of the brow does not establish copyright in the United States.
I know that is scary when here in the US when you don't have medical insurance, but if they had called the emergency number (911) an ambulance and paramedics would have been dispatched and he would have been taken to the hospital quickly and would have received treatment. The hospital would have to treat him, regardless of medical coverage. They would still be charged for the services later, but they would have received treatment.
How come you think we had the keys in the first place?
Is there a better channel? Would love a copy but would also like to get the author paid.
resolved as of 2020-03-27 06:54 US/Pacific
Well, you've already got a macro interface, so yeah - some kind of inline editor for JSON records I paste to my Notes could be quite useful .. and would help differentiate in a way that isn't "Just more Notes" functionality ..
Your meaning is presumably the opposite of what you say: that since the 1918 influenza was and is commonly called "the Spanish flu", it's unreasonable to complain at certain politicians calling the current pandemic something like "the Chinese virus".

I agree with the analogy, but I think it goes the other way.

The "Spanish flu" was, so far as anyone can tell, not originally from Spain, nor was it especially bad there. It got called "the Spanish flu" because Spain was more honest than other countries about how much of it they had (there was a lot of deception going around on account of there being a war). And a hundred years later it's still being called "the Spanish flu" as if Spain were somehow to blame for it.

That's a really bad outcome.

(Obviously, its badness pales in comparison with the badness of the thing itself and the suffering and death it caused. But, as merely terminological things go, it's really bad.)

It would be much better if everyone didn't call the 1918 influenza "the Spanish flu", but obviously it's too late for that now. And it would be much better if we didn't spend the next century calling today's pandemic "the Chinese virus". The Chinese have handled it better than a lot of other countries, after all.

(It's slightly less unreasonable to call this one "the Chinese virus" than to call the 1918 one "the Spanish flu", because it does seem as if it did in fact originate in China, and an initial bad response by the Chinese authorities may be one reason why it wasn't better contained. I still don't think it's a name China should be saddled with for the next hundred years.)
> Can't a person have a bad experience and tell HN about it?

Not necessarily, no. It's downvoted because it's one low-evidence anecdote amidst comments from people who've been using it daily (two years, here). That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but without supporting evidence it's difficult to find relevance in a single poor call.

Some basic evidentiary questions for you to consider, that would help distinguish between "someone's Internet was broken" (more likely) and "Zoom is defective" (less likely), for example:

1) Was only one participant experiencing issues, or were all participants blurry? Did Zoom warn you that of connection instability? Did Zoom show yellow or red connection status bars for the affected participant(s)?

2) Does your (or their) Internet connection show instability such as high latency (Bufferbloat) when performing a speed test capable of measuring and reporting latency-under-load fluctuations? https://dslreports.com/speedtest

3) Did the sound quality issue involving one or more participants who were not using in-ear or over-ear headphones?

4) Was the sound quality issue reproducible in a followup call for testing? Was it reproducible using "call in by phone" audio rather than "internet" audio for testing?

EDIT:

5) If you stop sharing your video, does the problem improve? If you activate screen sharing, does the problem worsen?
Yes it isn't changing, but it does not seem to be tending towards falling to zero.
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Coronavirus Parties?
A large part of our population are children 0-14, who don't succumb to the coronavirus. Is the government evaluating the option of purposefully quarantining those children at schools and infecting them, keeping them until they are no longer infectious, in order to immunize a large portion of our community? Similar to pox parties?
I think that is happening, I hope the agencies are spending enough effort on that.
Does anyone know what happened to the doctor? Did he make it out ok?
Thanks! Happy you enjoyed the demo :)
Self promotion with ??? analysis about public health crisis should make EVERYONE cringe.
Can't wait to be tracked by tech developed by a governmental team in the name of safety. Opensource or not a leash is a leash.
Also want to chime in that just building the core features (or shall I say a very simplistic version of the core features assuming two weeks time) isn't going to make an app successful. Rather, it's handling the endless amount of edge cases and the different ways your customers will end up using your product.
So just to give you an example of what would be a product. Spotify is half way between service and product.

What would make it further closer to a product would be (my suggestion):

1. No free version

2. And while you are at it, don't pool views. If you listen only to "Baby" by Bieber and only that once (or many times) in that month, then Bieber et al. gets your full $10. Edit: minus fees.

They still do services, but now they are not "organised around services".
Forming a cartel is a violation of antitrust laws and requires no one to form an insurance company that defects from the cartel in order to make higher profits for themselves. Passing a law against the practice requires neither.
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I don't even particularly care if he changes the name or not. If he makes decisions on the basis of spiting as many people as possible, he reveals himself to be a foolish and irresponsible individual. Unfortunately it's not even the first such incident, and as far as I can see, he learned nothing from the last one. That is a perfectly valid reason to avoid his software. What am I supposed to do, send all my life's savings to a project that I have no reason to expect will deliver quality?

(“Criticising me for punching your face really shows your entitlement. You don't pay me to choose whom I punch in the face. You have no right to tell me how I spend my free time!”)

Also, mobs occasionally have a point. The opposite of the ‘five billion flies’ fallacy is still a fallacy.
Limiting treatment for older people with Covid-19 may violate civil-rights law
Which made a bunch of Japanese elders not to suicide (yet). Yeah, no value at all.
But cryptocurrencies are neither fast, nor free. They're slow compared to regulated banking transactions, and use up vastly greater amounts of energy and resources.
The ability to function as either a standalone forum, or as a disqus style comment add on for an existing blog is neat.

Is there documentation somewhere? I can see it has some kind of spam protection by skimming the source code, but I don't see any docs.
https://archive.is/FyNzE
It is primarily dangerous to the elderly. That is what the actual data shows.

Some people are pushing a counter-narrative that youngs aren't invincible. Which is also true. 0.1% death rates doesn't mean zero deaths. A higher number will be hospitalized, and as hospitals become overwhelmed that means (a) quality of care will be degraded and death rates will increase somewhat, and (b) any youngs in a bed comes at the direct expense of an elderly in a bed.

But if you are claiming that this disease is not mainly dangerous to the elderly, no, that is false, the deaths and hospitalizations are hugely weighted to the elderly and are quite low for young cohorts.

Yes, it is important that everyone minimize contacts as much as possible. For some reason people love to really harp on this point with the youngs. I didn't go to florida for spring break, it was my boomer parents who did (or rather, were planning on going this summer and complained nonstop that Florida state parks closed and cut them off). Churches are still open in many states spreading disease. Boomers are still going to Home Depot and buying their home improvement goods. A lot of boomers aren't taking this seriously either but nobody chooses to bring that up.

There are lots of changes that need to be made by everyone, but younger people are one of the primary targets of casual/unthinking ageism in this country. Avocado toast and all that.

Focusing the blame on this onto the young is no more correct, helpful, or productive than focusing the blame on the Chinese, and I suspect is coming from most of the same media sources.
I went in for a Covid-19 test March 17 and I'm still waiting for my results
Can’t listen now but hope you release the recording!
Is this article overreacting to something that sounds like a Facebook tracking pixel?
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https://archive.is/nPynR
Writing "Happy Birthday, <name>!" takes literally a few seconds and absolutely 0 effort, but means a lot to the recipient. You should consider your coworker's more empathetically
Zoom works in China, ergo it is being recorded and analyzed. Automatic voice transcription is a thing.
It’s not clear what ‘day 1’ means in the context of China though. China has kicked out all western reporters, constantly lies like Russia even when the truth is visible in the background, and arrests citizens who try to get around this system.

The west was never going to believe what was happening in China because it is impossible to know without invading them.
A completely different drive which lacks a feature in firmware. WD creates "completely different drives" which may have physical differences, but the firmware is also a huge differentiator in the market.
I don't think it is a case of deliberately "circumventing" the routing table, but rather that the operating system most likely performed source address selection based on the routing table at connection setup. The fact that the routing table has since changed is likely irrelevant after that depending on how the source address is used when calculating the outbound interface. That behaviour is different across different operating systems but this is correct and functioning as expected for Darwin.
The first is a fair criticism, point taken.

Your second point I disagree with; I think if people raise objections, encourage people to switch, and volunteer to shepherd others through the technical details -- then people will be agreeable, and we'll see a shift which will gradually become pervasive.
To be frank, I don't get what you are up to. I sense a lot of anger, mixed with somehow chaotic notes.

> why the 1st year grad school program is virtually identical everywhere in the world

Certainly, it isn't. In the US usually starts with heavy regular coursework. In many European, there is some coursework. Unlike undergraduate physics, which is less varied, the subjects vary heavily on the place (specialization, the focus of concrete groups). In my case, it was purely research, no classes or teaching (it is less common, though).

Source: quite a lot of my friends did graduate-level physics in various places worldwide.
Nice tool!

Better guy that wrote it!
> I didn't suggest ignoring anything.

You responded to DanBC's comment, which extrapolated the exponential by a few weeks, by suggesting that he might be wrong and that somehow a logistic curve will set in.

I responded to you by pointing out that the only things that will break exponential growth are herd immunity or strict social distancing measures.

> I'm currently much more concerned about what will happen economically and politically because of this thing.

That's exactly what I suspected. I think your line of thinking, which is being pushed by a lot of people now (beginning with the President of the United States) is dangerous. You're asking us to roll the dice and hope that either the laws of epidemiology will cease to hold, or that the mortality will turn out to be much lower than is currently estimated.

The available information indicates that the death toll in the US from business as usual will be around 2 million people by early summer. That merits a strenuous response, even if it does damage the economy.

> There are real and awful consequences to all of this panic that have nothing to do with dying from the virus.

We're at the beginning of a pandemic, with 0% immunity, 60% of the population expected to become infected within several weeks, and around a 1% mortality rate. A bit of panic is justified. Better than panic, however, are strong measures implemented quickly. Luckily some states have taken those measures now.

> So you get to keep doing your fear mongering predictions of 2 million deaths, and then later you get to say, "well yeah, that didn't happen because we sheltered in place".

You simply can't accept the number of 2 million deaths because it's outside of your experience. It is what epidemiology predicts will happen without measures like sheltering in place. How do you think we'll avoid 2 million deaths otherwise? This virus is going to infect ~60% of the population in short order if left unchecked. Do you think the virions will suddenly decide that they don't feel like infecting anyone else?

I really do hope that I get to say in the end that "that didn't happen because we sheltered in place." That's what people are already able to say in China, because they sheltered in place and stopped the epidemic.

You're asking us to roll the dice and hope that the best information about the R_0 and mortality rate of the virus is incorrect. I'm looking at what happened in Northern Italy, where the hospital system was overwhelmed in two weeks, and I'm not willing to do that.
Here's one on Nettle..

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085190/
You are selling the author's argument short. They are suggesting that cryptocurrencies have no big positive qualities, but so many negative qualities that it is possible to list them in a table and categorize them. When something is net-negative, we can ask whether we should continue harming society by propagating it further.
Yes but a static analyzer could enforce _new_ projects to maintain single ownership model, which could push C and its existing tools closer to Rust.

A borrow checker for C is totally feasible as it is just compile time analysis of object lifetime. Something like
gcc -fborrow-check would prop up C to safe new heights.
Yet we call Ebola that name, because of a place. Lyme disease, same thing. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - obviously.\

This isn't some condemnation of the place, and its pretty silly to think of it that way. Doctors go to pains to have diseases named after themselves, proudly.

Folks are over-thinking this.
The over capacity modeling is incredibly difficult to do. Please stop trying to spread additional gloom and doom about a part of this future most people have no control over.

There are already novel ideas to address that issue being put into use and capacity is ramping up rapidly.

Modeling the future is incredibly difficult. If you think it is so easy, feel free to go become a billionaire in the financial markets and donate the money to help with the cause.

Spread fear about uncontrollable and unpredictable future events is wildly irresponsible.
Does it matter? Getting granted a "limited-time" (ha) monopoly is only because it encourages the arts, commerce, and advancement. That monopoly is oppressive, so the public better be getting something out of the deal.
> Mayor Parris explained in his YouTube video that the 17-year-old is believed to have had no underlying conditions that may have contributed to his death.

I guess Gizmodo missed this key update to the story. Odd, the update was published some 2-1/2 days prior to publication of the Gizmodo article.

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-minor-dies-due-to-co...
The human has to verify the snapshot. Its quicker to create. It can be slower to run.

Its not lazy, its just a trade-off space.
Outliers would be easy to spot.

Maybe they should split in lines each figure, make a coordinates map of the entire figure or so, make a copy and applying a bulk search with a machine for crossing the map and annotate as many undoubtely identifiable numbers as possible. Then paint it in a different color easy to filter or hide it and remember its position.

And then add humans to focuse only in the remaining dificult cases and outliers armed with a reference sample chart. This way an human would need to focus its eyes in 20 characters/image (instead 60 or 100). They would accumulate more completed figures faster and obtain a bigger sense of reward. If the human can't recognize the number, could put a ? in the chain and move on.

Thus the machine would annotate for example 1_3, 4_67_, _8 and the human would write: 5?01 for the same line.

Just an idea, don't know if designing that is easy-peasy or really defiant but the number of possible values is limited in any case, so should be possible to train a machine to recognize some single characters or even entire numbers. Specially if written for the same people.
Second paragraph in my other comment should do the trick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703834
Apparently aspirin contributed to fatalities via aspirin poisoning, so it did not necessarily have a direct impact on the virus.

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Aspirin_poisoning
Not all self promotion is good self promotion. I've nuked candidates because their online portfolios demonstrate bad technical judgement, questionable professional ethics, a fundamental misunderstanding of core ideas, etc.

Put more simply: a portfolio is a demonstration of your work. Anything you put out in public with your name on it is part of your portfolio. Obviously, don't put bad work in your public portfolio.

There's a reason you see very few serious data scientists publishing hot takes on their medium blogs -- it's a serious threat to your professional integrity and brand if you get it wrong. The only people I know & respect who are writing publicly about this topic have SME collaborators. (Of course, we're all playing with the data and talking about it in private with friends/coworkers over coffee.)

Self promotion specifically by spreading your amateur take on a health crisis seems a bit... immoral? Or at least the sort of thing that makes me question the candidate's judgement.

If you want to write publicly and in a formal way on this topic, get a subject matter expert to serve as a co-author. Anything less is more risky than it's worth, even from a purely selfish perspective.
Now the focus is on bending the curve with minimal effort.
> you can't treat e.g. the entire state of NY with 3,800 ICU beds plus however many the wonderful people in the Army Corps of Engineer can put together in a pinch.

Can't you? Cuomo seems pretty optimistic that once they get their 30,000 ventilators they'll be able to handle the peak.
Hey, good work.
Bad advice, relatives would contaminate the OP with high probability.
I love this. This is a property already baked into another messaging queuing system called Pulsar and I've thought about writing my own for internal use (maybe to be open-sourced). The only quirk that I see is this link in the project description readme:

> it is guaranteed that each message will be saved in exactly one S3 file

This can get expensive. Specifically a 1-to-1 write per message with S3 (or any cloud storage provider) gets expensive very, very quickly. Further, when reading from cloud storage, you've got to read one message (object) at a time which adds up as well. I'm not talking about egress bandwidth either, I'm talking about S3 PUT/GET operations. I'd love to see some kind of batching operation that takes groups of messages (perhaps configurable time/size limits?) and writes them as a blog to cloud storage.
Some kind of input validation and user feedback would be welcome. Show a green check mark, if the input annual sum equals the computed sum of the input monthly sums. Typically, all values have two decimal places, thus, validate that there are no more and no less in the user input.
Zoom links are of the form zoom.us/j/IDENTIFIER
Change the "/j/" to "/wc/join/" to get the web client.
No need to go that deep to experience it. Dive 20+ meters and you'll feel it.
Love it, please do an android version!
It seems the author is using legacy code to mean "bad code I didn't write". My experience with legacy code is that it exists on one server set up by someone who left the company 10 years ago, only runs on a particular version of a runtime that isn't available to download any more, and if you run it locally, it makes hard coded calls to the live environment, breaking it. Having a unit test framework is the dream.
Yep, looks like the WHO chose to manipulate the public into not using the masks so that enough is available for health-care professionals. It had a positive short-term impact, but also damaged their reputation and trustworthiness, which is very bad.
Yes the title didn't help, a good lesson. Less judgement in titles.

You call my post bias and unoriginal, which you can do. But can you answer the core question I pose?

And please not with esoteric examples of availability of medicine for chronic diseases which to me raises the question: is that all you can come up with?
grey goo scenario :)
>My perspective on that is that, given contradicting reports and initial confusion, you can't fault any organization or person not picking out the correct response

You can fault an authoritarian, oppressive regime for covering up the virus and suppressing whistleblowers. Now the world is paying for the CCP's SOP.
Zoom is a lot smarter than this blogger implies. Even if I sit with my back to the sun, it still tracks my face and differentially exposes the image so I am not a silhouette.
> You shouldn't either unless you're bleeding out on the floor.

That's the thing though, they aren't for life threatening emergencies.
Lots of theories. They have a culture that doesn't shake hands or hug, they caught cases early and had a relatively low infection rate (they claim 80% did not spread the virus), a culture of wearing face masks or possibly it is just due to low testing rates and is actually worse than the numbers suggest.

source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/a-coronav...
The open source definition literally excludes commons clause licenses. And for very good reasons!
The source says it compiles for Android. https://github.com/IamIntrovert/Introvert
Someone has a plex based music skill. https://community.mycroft.ai/t/plexmusic-skill-test-and-feed... Doesn't seem to be quite what you're after but I know very little about upnp renderers so this might work for you.
It's not a 1:1 write per message, it relies on Kafka offset guarantees to batch messages into S3 at a configurable threshold, 256MB per S3 object is common.