skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article states under the header “news from Spain” :
“In the last days a terrible [amount of] dying has transpired that the gravediggers state that they have no recollection [of such a thing] since the Cholera. Most people die of lung and chest complications that follow from the flu.”
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A land border closure would have only affected Far East Russia (Vladivostok). A suspension of flights is much more relevant in stopping the spread of the virus.
Ah, yes. Argumentation by number of users. Reminds me of Facebook conclusively proving that federated social networks are dead end by its own merits, definitely not by the fact that when you start using social network you are more likely use one that your friends already use.
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Nothing works good enough to be worth forfeiture of our self respect
Genuinely curious: what's the point of this? If I'm trying to look at a specific dashboard, I would go directly to it and I wouldn't want it scrolling away from under me. If I'm not looking at a specific dashboard, why would I want them scrolling around in front of me?
But are you excluding people for whom the cost vs benefit is the other way? If you're in a position of authority it is up to you to minimise the violation.
Oooh! I have long wanted something like this, something both compelling and soothing. When I've been doing something intense, it's hard for me to shift my mind into a lower gear; I often find myself back on Twitter or rummaging through the news. This seems like a great alternative.

Edit: Oh no! IOS only!
I added a translation in this thread.
Every single downside listed in the article already existed way long before cryptocurrencies were even invented.
Yet another article that confuses security of exchanges with security of cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies are digital asset designed to work as a non-centralized medium of exchange.
You can ask any citizen from countries that went through hyperinflation, capital control or cyprus-style bank account seizure (bail-in), what is the value of cryptocurrency to them. Then ask yourself if and when it can happen to you.
very sad read. a preview of things to come [to every hospital].
Can you answer the question I pose: Can you please show me the benefit to society of cryptocurrencies?

You only point to other smart people that have started companies to purposes unclear.
As someone who learnt data science almost entirely by self-learning (and getting eviscerated by HN whenever my work hit the front page), public datasets were an immensely important tool for prototyping and refining my data analysis skills.

However...

The coronavirus is a case where it's very easy to unintentionally misinterpret the data, and casual analysis will likely add more noise/false information which is not what is needed now. (and any analysis will become out-of-date very quickly).
No, because C's memory model is freer than Rust's. E.g. it's perfectly legal for memory to have multiple owners, as long as you respect the rules around accessing and freeing it.
I worked with Victor Vescovo( sign name V^2 as he was also a Navy reserve intelligence officer)for about a year in the early dot.com days.

Those days he was into climbing. A nice guy, however he would use “I” too much even when others contributed to something and only “we” when he jumped on someone else’s idea. I assumed (rightly or wrongly) being a mountain climber it had to do with not playing team sports.

That experience made me add an interview question later asking the candidate if they played any team sports in high school or college.
It's certainly biased. The question is if it is still useful after accounting for bias.

People that use these thermometers probably skew towards being more worried about the virus. They probably isolated and were more careful days before the shelter in place was ordered.
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Do you have a link to that data? Thanks.
Hi, thanks! Frankly the articles (the three panels/links at the top of the home page) need more attention, but I wanted to have the feeling of "done" so I pushed the site out as-is.

On those pages, books aren't ranked in any particular order, other than trying to pull attention to some slightly buried books that I do personally recommend. I'd love to hear, are there any books you'd add to those pages?

The "Oddities and fun" page is simply a collection of books from my notes that stuck out as interesting while I manually approved all parsed comments and book mentions.
Exactly. Bitcoin is the first flip phone. Let's see what things look like in 20 years.

The one point I agree with the author on is that the electricity waste is unnecessary and unsustainable. Proof of Stake or other alternatives, if there are any, should be a requirement of all future cryptocurrencies.
Very nice except the magnification (control-H-M) only to one level. If it is one more level (i.e. 4 times instead of just double) that my 27 inches may be good for some development. Full screen is just grey others in mine.

And the alarm sound (for bug etc.) is a bit harsh as alarm sound go. Not sure how to change this.
It literally means to make sure you avoid getting constipated.
There are horizontal monopolies and vertical monopolies, there is no law saying that a monopoly needs to have 90% market share.
I know this is a bit out of date, but I remember there was a port of the Scala Ctrie data structure to Rust using Hazard pointers. I would be quite interested in seeing how the performance of a snapshotable lock-free structure compares to this

https://github.com/ballard26/concurrent-hamt
You probably meant that as a counterargument, but to me it shows how simple UTC makes things.
Just because a system uses ML doesn't mean it has to be less reliable, especially when it replaces a heuristic that's already unreliable. The correctness of the patch can be easily verified, and the reasonableness of the patch can also be ensured with some heuristics that would be much easier to make than a whole diff algorithm.

There seems to be a serious bias against ML in systems programming that is unwarranted. There are plenty of problems using bad heuristics today that could be improved with ML in a way that doesn't reduce reliability. Scheduling, compiler optimization, stuff like that.
Viruses or bacteria aren't 'bad' or 'good' in themselves. The former is arguably 'life' and the latter is a single cell organism. Free will or morality are foreign concepts as to how they behave. 'good', 'bad' or 'successful' are labels we, humans, attribute to them.

Micro organisms are all about spreading genetic material, since they are so small, they have evolved passive strategies to do just that. Such as using a host organism and hitching a ride via fluid exchange.

What makes all the difference is where they will end up, and how they behave in particular environments. Coronavirus outside your body is harmless, but if it gets in your lungs, it may destroy those while it replicates.

Your gut teems with bacteria. There are dozens of species living in your colon. And you actually need them since they help break down food into its constituent parts in order for your gut to be able to absorb the nutrients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_gastrointestinal_microbi...

However, if your bowels get perforated and that bacterial contents seeps between your organs, you'll get in deep deep trouble: these bacteria will start to infect organs they shouldn't infect, get into your bloodstream. You'll get sepsis and risk death.

So, harmless bacteria turn deadly if they end up in the wrong spot.

The interesting part about viruses is that through the way they operate - injecting itself into the DNA of our cells which will then bang off new copies of the virus - their genetic material has embedded itself into our own genome. It is estimated that 5 to 8% of the human genome consists of "endogenous viral elements". These are basically viral left overs, not viruses themselves, to be clear!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus

Micro organisms have been with us for a long, long time. We have evolved concurrently with them. And we will keep evolving alongside, evolving strategies - such immunity, or our ability to understand how they work - to ward off infections while new species will pop up and some might be successful in thwarting our evolved defenses.
The reason Zoom is doing so well is part of its vulnerability. There is very little vendor lock-in with virtual conferencing platforms. If something new/better comes out next month, there isn't much a company will give up by switching vendors. There is little to no infrastructure to setup/maintain. This is the same reason Slack's popularity has skyrocketed. Because of the lack of history and transient nature of the content shared in them, these areas are quick to gain popularity, but also quick to be replaced when a better product emerges.
I generally strive to avoid singletons but there are cases of API usability where they're useful. If you can carve out the responsibility of what state is being tracked in the singleton then it's useful.

It's also not difficult to test as long as you write it to be testable. It may be more verbose & cumbersome but it's not actually difficult. That means you provide hooks testing the singleton implementation to bypass the singleton requirement but in all other cases it acts like a singleton.

As an example, consider Android JNI. The environment variable is very cumbersome to deal with in background threads & to properly detach it on thread death. It also requires you to keep track of the JavaVM & pipe it throughout your program's data flow where it might be needed. It's doable but it's conceptually simpler to maintain the JavaVM object in a global singleton and have the JNIEnv in a thread-local singleton with all the resource acquisition done at the right time. It's still perfectly testable.
If you cant trust anonymous cypherpunks and organized crime to be fair and honest stewards in an anarcho-capitalist black market then who can you trust? Bankers? Governments? Might as well just burn all of your cash in an oil drum.
> You can spend 2 years (not a joke) to get mathematics to prove Stokes theorem, in one of the more general versions.

You're out of your mind. You don't need to prove Gauss-Stokes in the general version to understand Maxwell's equations; you just need 3-d calculus, and you're done. Bike shedding the process further is silly: I could claim you don't really understand GR (or for that matter, E&M) without Hatcher-level understanding of Algebraic topology. All you need is the simple calculus theorem, such as is presented in Jackson.

> For anything going into quantum field theory....

This is a rubbish argument: yes, you need more math to do quantum field theory. You also need basic quantum mechanics first, which is what I'm talking about for a self study program. If you want to go on to fiddle with QED, you can fool around with Itzykson and Zuber (and Griffiths book) later, when you actually know how non-relativistic QM works, and how relativity works. First learn basic Schroedinger stuff and something like S-matrix theory. Don't learn the shitty undergrad training wheels crapola; do the real thing. That's my advice in general. If you work your way through a differential equations book; there is no point in doing the intermediate stuff and a great argument (it's a waste of time; a make work program for physics professors, and a weeder for people with low dedication to the subject) for skipping it.

FWIIW I was not a theorist, though I had some theory papers queued up on quantum dynamics. I think what everyone knows after first year of grad school is a pretty good basket of knowledge, which is why the 1st year grad school program is virtually identical everywhere in the world. It's like a gentleman learning Latin in the old days. There is a direct line from advanced calculus to completed first years of grad school physics; one which I outlined above. The imbecile make-work program of doing a bunch of intermediate problems in junior and senior year; it's really not worth it if you're an adult with a functioning cerebral cortex. Or if you're trying to pass prelims/GREs which test you on these subjects. Otherwise; skip it -do the important bits, and revisit the training wheels versions later when you need them. That's all.
You have this backwards. They are saying to stay away from ibuprofen, not aspirin.
Each client has to send n-1 streams and domestic connections usually have quite weak uplink.
In the absence of a specification, documentation, or access to the people who originally implemented the program, the program itself is the spec. With no way to decide what the program "should" be doing, whatever it's doing right now is the right behavior.
The flip phone was usable from day 1. This is not a flip phone. It's a tamagotchi.
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What the hell, I hate Bluetooth now?
I was simply pointing out a fact, not looking to argue. You won't hear any support for centralized media - be they social networks or cryptocurrencies - out of me.

However, I'll also point out that when it comes to things which claim to be effective means of exchange, buy-in from users is pretty dang important.
No, you're making the bold claims, it's your job to demonstrate how cryptos have been materially valuable for and society or organization.

Take some time to do it, because you might come to realize how fundamentally unpragmatic cryptos are.

Also, you might discover that there are some existentially wrong assumptions regarding crypto that make it all moot: there is no such thing as a 'trustless decentralized currency' or store of value because currencies are inherently a form of the social contract.

Crypto advocates, it seems, don't even know what a currency even is.

There will be a place for digital currency but it will be much as you see it today, blockchain in currency and everything else will probably fade away.

Cryptos are a neat idea and a meme, an intellectual fashion, like Uggs or Emo.
Have you taken a look at [0]WhereBy? It's been recommended as a great alternative to Zoom.

[0]https://whereby.com/
No, it really doesn't, which is why I prefaced it with talking about being flip.

It asks the question "What is the point of a principle?"

I dont think calling privacy a principle is true if you are willing to give it up for something that "just works" - I believe covid is likely one of the biggest problems in the modern age, but during times of hardship we need to cling ever harder to our principles, or consider that maybe it isn't nearly as important to us as we thought.
It’s hard to know what to do. Personally, I’d stick it out through April and reassess.

If it were me and I had family out in the country somewhere, I’d consider staying with them. But... you seem to have your stuff together and the devil you know may be better than the one you don’t!
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I get what you're saying, but I don't consider the two things separate magisteria. I don't think there's anything generally wrong with people trying to spread honest ideas they've had, even if they aren't experts.
I mention this 'argument' in my article.
This story also highlights the enduring strength of IBM's 360/370 architecture. It is still in widespread use today. The correct syntax is:

//SYSIN DD *

A data definition statement indicating the next line in the program is the start of the input program to be processed.
Haha, the idea that a "proper" scripting language is more portable than a shell pipeline is amusing. Sure it is, if you can guarantee everyone has the same version of Python, and all the right libraries at the right versions, etc. But if you can do that, you can probably have them all install the GNU userland on their Macs, too.
You generally would not put logging into pure functions as that would be fairly pointless. You only log in the IO actions where you can log freely anyway.
But your flawless experience does not help me.

I had a horrible meeting today (not the first time, but today was particularly bad).

In fact, I recorded part of it with my phone and tomorrow I Will have a chat with our IT people to ask people to avoid using zoom.
I know the article is Europe specific, but Netflix is dropping quality in Europe for 30 days due to demand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630665
No. I think it will be a services provider operating within a "remote economy".
I believe Zoom Phone is a whitelabel of RingCentral
And that's why my question was calling privacy a principle, it seems like its not. You don't give up your principles because the cost outweighs the benefit - that's literally what principles are about, you do them when they are hard.
Please state the benefits of cryptocurrencies. Nobody here seems to be able to answer this question without resorting to crazy jargon.
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Having used zoom, teams, skype for business, webex, and many others ... zoom is the only one of these which just works. I'm on the con calls typically 5+ hours a day. Yes, it is soul crushing.

Teams sorta works, though it often messes up with devices. Headsets and speakers (I've got a Jabra speak 710). Often times it handles contention badly.

Skype ... yeah. The less said the better.

Webex. Must be marketing for Zoom and others, given how unreservedly horrible the UX is.

I've also used uberconference some years ago. Almost as good as zoom.

I am looking at containerized ways to run zoom to restrict its access to my system, but it is the best IMO, by far.

[edit] I should note that I've also used Viber a bit. Less now though. Mostly for calling home from overseas. Not great for conferencing though.
Funny, coincidentally I recently read a paper [0] arguing (among other things) that truth values should be completely removed--that for software engineering they are largely useless and cause mistakes.

The argument goes that a True False value will "mean" different things in a context, but then when trying to model a complex entity there are inevitably leakages of definitions.

For formal verification of existing Boolean logic, however, it reasons that "verifying" our truth values would be very helpful, by exploring and modeling the state space that is made up by the composition of multiple booleans. This is very interesting in that regard!

[0]: Formalizing common sense reasoning for scalable inconsistency-robust information integration using Direct Logic Reasoning and the Actor Model, Carl Hewitt. https://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.4852.pdf
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I'd like to send my folks a Raspberry Pi with a camera, preloaded with some sort of video conferencing software so they just start the thing up and press "Call" and it calls me in video chat. The only thing they should have to configure is their wireless info. This seems to be outside the realm of things people have built disk images for, and would likely have to be built from a buncha packages and scripts, right? Seems like a very useful thing to have right now.
They had conducted hundreds to thousands of tests before the first case in the country was detected.
Good points, all.

I thought of Java only because I'd been reading essays about Java exceptions considered harmful, and then one day I recognised the problem it described, where to change one small function I had to do an absurd number of boilerplate-like edits elsewhere.

I found it quite thought-provoking about "type brittleness" with regard to aspects of the dynamic vs. static typing debate.

I've written in Haskell and SML too, where it didn't feel like the same level of brittleness. Perhaps it's to do with the size of applications and libraries, and how they evolve.

That's why I think of it as a software engineering getting-the-balance-right thing, rather than a correctness vs. prototype-in-a-hurry thing as static-vs-dynamic is often portrayed.
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One thing the quarantine made me realize is how atrocious the image and sound quality is for videoconferencing. It doesn't need to be atrocious in this day and age. It's just that we don't demand a better product, so companies keep feeding us barely functional garbage to save costs.
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Compared to the other ten or twenty videoconferencing solutions, it's the only one that has worked reliably and without accessibility issues for technical and non-technical people in my life. The automatic video and audio processing features make it so that a day-one user has as good an experience as a year-two user, and I haven't had to answer any technical support questions about it to my family.

FaceTime is the only serious competitor I can think of that's able to deliver as quality of a call experience in a 1:1 setting with non-technical participants, but it's inaccessible on Windows/Android for starters, and lacks the presentation chops to be used in a business setting.
Yes, they said a 25% cut, not a 95% cut... curious what people are seeing outside of Europe?
I was under the impression many private sector companies have already deployed these tools.

Just a matter of companies buying/implementing them.
> This article is garbage, it is 100% trying to get clicks and isn't even remotely actual journalism.

So in other words, it's Gizmodo?
As a dev and company owner, i would say its optional. Ive always like to use my own devices, most of the time. Sometimes i receive some money because of that, but it was just a bonus. I did because i wanted to.
I’m interested to hear the type of institution and age range of students with whom you are having 1 to 1 video calls. I’m a teacher in an 11-18 secondary school in the U.K., and we have been instructed to avoid 1 to 1s with students as a safeguarding risk.

I’m not casting any aspersions here, I’m only interested in comparing notes with a fellow teacher.
One of the first victim in Turkey wrote her twitter she was using vinegar and aspirin solution before she passed away. But she had also some permanent sickness which i can not recall. I also wonder how ahcc plays well with it because i have been using since a month and had asymp symtomps since 10 day so far i can say i recovered and my gf shows no symptoms at all (she is also using) atm asked my gp and waiting response him.
Another project by a group of Czech volunteers:

https://github.com/covid19cz/erouska-android

https://github.com/covid19cz/erouska-ios
I kind of get it.

I've definitely been on teams before which have investigated aggregating all of our metrics into Geckoboard to have posted up on TVs near our work areas.

These may be an interesting alternative since it gets rid of some of that integration portion and instead just shows the source and scrolls.
I run a SaaS and in my case, this doesn't happen. Not only is it super annoying for the user but you lose all your data each time.
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