skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had my personal blog be linked on HN without my knowledge and the comments damn near made me stop writing altogether. Everyone assumed I wrote the post for them to read it, when in reality I just wrote it for myself and someone else submitted it.
"Renowned scientist and best-selling author Vaclav Smil meticulously charts the single largest cause of non-natural mortality in the 20th century."

The article is about C20 mate.
If you can write some code discourse can do it. I’ve done it and it’s easy https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-dis...
I hear the author of Black (an opinionated Python formatter) was at a conference and gave a presentation that when something like this:

> I'm the author of Black. Questions?

Questions, of course, filled up the entire rest of the time slot.
No I don't agree. I have written both. Based on that I think the issue of which is easier to program depends more of the complexity of the app than on the platform. I will admit there are times that macOS feels more like a hell-hole of a poorly though out or incomplete programming environment.
A very interesting role the optics can play for modern satellites, which unfortunately isn't covered in the article, is using light as communication media between satellites or between ground stations and satellites. Some NASA experiments have shown that optical communication systems can present a range of interesting features, which may be of interest even to the designers of small satellites.
Prettier outputs fairly decent formatting for code that is already reasonable to begin with. It's not so great when you have things like template strings with large expressions in the interpolation slots.
How about critically-endangered animals reappearing -- e.g. the Malabar large-spotted civet: https://www.ibtimes.sg/this-critically-endangered-animal-was...
It would open many doors over the course of a few decades of market correction. Just cause walmart closes shop doesn't mean local poor people suddenly have the capital to start a business and compete. It's why ghost towns are still a thing. When the oil derrick town dries up, the driller who now lost his job isn't gonna just start drilling for oil now.
Any evidence they happen more frequently that the other clouds?
You seem to love misrepresenting people's views, or perhaps you just really don't comprehend them.

No, I don't think the unfortunate should be harmed or taken advantage of. I also don't think anyone should be forced to surrender their rights to governments, period. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to prosper in this world. That is impossible so long as there's some 'higher power' manipulating the system to the advantage of one group or another.

I hate war. I hate when the police enforce evil policies and eviscerate the lives of innocent people. I hate when governments play god and overthrow other governments for the financial gain of a select few.

You know what else I hate? When governments cover up the truth and cause massive pain and suffering. The Chinese government spies on their people, they used that system to silence the story about this virus which is now infecting people around the globe.

Giving up your right to privacy, speech, and defense is [1]literally exactly how this happened in the first place.

If the truth had gotten out sooner, it could have been contained. Instead, the world economy is grinding to a halt and people are dying. All thanks to a government spying on its people's cell phone

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/whistleblower-...
My interpretation of grandparent is that the app is probably another distraction in itself.
So, I'm not sure what the healthy food in your analogy is.
I guess I failed to provide a clear analogy for grandparent (assuming I interpreted them right).
Jobless Claims Near 1M in Canada, Crushing Weekly Record
If that were the case, wouldn't it have a low score? Instead of 17 votes? I regularly see theinformation.com posts highly upvoted on HN and as far as I know they're all paywalled. Also, it's not on the first 12 pages of the homepage, so there's basically no chance that this hypothesis could explain it, because it would have gotten down-voted to the second or at most third page, and then slowly drifted to later pages as the recent-ness component drags it down. Unless HN's algorithm is really different to Reddit's, that is.
Standing on a mountaintop in Yosemite, I could easily hear the airplanes above, one approximately every few minutes.
damn... staff of 7-8 and 168 beds. that's a biblical scene.
Self Driving Car for Free
> Why would your collaborators have to install any software to use Jitsi? (It should work in a browser AFAIK)

Honestly, I didn't know that there was in-browser capabilities. The last time I used jitsi was via the java desktop client, probably 3-4 years ago. It was a year or so later that I started using Zoom, so I didn't revisit jitsi.
I don't think this is true? I think Mozilla is interested in using Rust for new code where that makes sense, but the vast majority of Firefox as shipped today is still C++
> Your system tells you that the installer can run some code.

The message reads "this package will run a program _to determine if the software can be installed_". Old iWork updates used this to see you had a previous version of iWork on your computer. nVidia's Web Drivers used it to check if your Mac had an nVidia card. No other macOS pkg that I'm aware of makes actual changes made to your system during this step. That's not what the user agreed to.

Behind the consent message is a grayed-out "next" button that you never get to click.

I suppose this system was ripe for abuse, but that doesn't excuse the people who abuse it.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attac...
Wait for it, they're going to use this as a pretext to extend their already rampant censoring-, and account lockdown program.
Why nationalize them? What would be the point? The purpose for nationalization is to give preferential treatment to the state. Walmart already does that and (in my personal opinion) does for the people as well.

Although the only thing I wish they cut back on was their employee culture cult stuff. It reminds me of McDonalds where you have to say thank you to a supervisor after everything, even if they're yelling at you to be a dick. It's like the f'ing military. That kinda brainwashing garbage needs to go.
Nice tangent. Is this why it's market share is falling?
> A whole host of chemicals such as dimethylmercury exist and could potentially be weaponized.

For context, quoting from Wikipedia:

"The acute toxicity of the compound was demonstrated by the death of heavy metal chemist Karen Wetterhahn, who died 10 months after a single exposure of only a few drops permeated through her disposable latex gloves."

Which reminds me of another, bit more common, chemical: hydrofluoric acid. It's a nasty substance that - in low enough concentration - can penetrate your skin, killing cells on its way to the bones, and disrupt the work of internal organs, with symptoms only visible after hours have passed.

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

Not to scare people too much, but the last 100 years have given us a tremendous amount of tools to do harm, a lot of which are available to smart and determined enough individuals. At this point it's evident that the reason humanity hasn't already self-destructed is that most people aren't crazy maniacs and don't want to kill (at least not at random). Bioweapons are particularly nasty here because they self-replicate. It's not like with nuclear weapons, where the limiting factor is that the infrastructure necessary to weaponize fission material is affordable only for state-level actors. For bioweapons, all you need is base pathogen, some (arguably expensive) lab equipment, and a smart enough crazy.
Show HN: Website of Daily Screenshots of 900 Publications from around the world
Zoom as a legal entity is a US company, headquartered in San Jose, California. So US law should apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications
The articles that I have read could use some editing, I'm guessing they were transcribed from audio recordings by people who were not computer experts.
Makes me wonder, is there a tool like grammarly [1] for source code? One that checks for large chunks of copied code from other open source projects?

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker
Concur. Past employer switched out Zoom for other tech. The demand to switch conferencing provider was easy. The other tech was painful to use and much-complained about until everyone was told to shut up about it. So, "videoconferencing that doesn't suck" is still the barrier to entry.
I have far less fond memories of Netscape Web Server.

We had a clunky CGI script that crawled the filesystem on request, no doubt a security hole waiting to happen, but Netscape made it worse. (It's possible that other web servers did, or even still do, but I really hope not.)

Anything that the script sent to standard error, which could reveal things like filesystem paths and other sensitive data, was not only logged, but also fed back to the web client as part of the response.

Luckily, because stderr wasn't buffered, in our case it was fed to the browser before any headers, causing the web client to throw up a server error instead of displaying the error messages themselves.
>I'm curious how many people who now say "give me privacy or give me death!" will change their tune in a hurry once they are themselves, perhaps for the first time in their lives, in real danger of dying.

Already had the virus, it was a bad cold.

Liberty or death.
This is really cool! (but not unexpected) On the east coast, there is a species called ‘Coywolves’. They are a hybrid of pure coyotes and timber or grey wolves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf

They are known to be incredibly smart and stealthy. They are adept at adapting to, and living in urban environments.

Like domestic dogs, they understand line of sight, as in, they are keenly aware of what direction a person is looking. This helps them remain unseen, while surviving in very close proximity to humans.

We know coyotes are living in virtually every corner of the US at this point. I wonder if these are pure bloods, coywolves that have migrated to the west coast, or maybe a new hybrid or sub species?

PBS Nature has an amazing documentary describing the Coywolf. Check it out if you have PBS Passport!

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/860...

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/meet-the-coywolf-infographic...
The Elmish Book
A practical guide to building modern and reliable web applications in F# from first principles
Coronavirus: Solicitors report surge in people seeking to make wills
Soft Security
But I thought Trump said there wasn't a ventilator shortage, or something along those lines. Didn't he accuse New York of asking for more than they needed?

Now, all of a sudden, ventilators are very important to Trump. Odd.
> while clicking away all their most intimate shit to check out some stupid Facebook game.

That doesn't describe me, that describes the straw man your require to be at ease with your own choices, which in turn is the only signal in your comment.
How on earth is this legal? Yelp started fundraisers for restaurants, made a barrier for them to collect those fundraisers, and is presumably holding on to a ton of cash people thought was going to the restaurants? This feels like plain fraud.
I have noticed there has been a lot more downvoting here recently, really innocuous and innocent things as well. It might just be more traffic or a different type of traffic to the site while everybody is staying home.

And while I agree with your sentiment regarding the CCP, the comments you link lack the meat of the one you just posted. I'm not surprised they got a kicking.

> I am gonna fire off some anon emails to WSJ/NYTimes/WaPo/Guardian to create some awareness

Well done.
The workers who supply the world’s food are starting to get sick
That is the nature of crowdfunding. This is not a scam unless there is deliberate malice involved. A mere inability to deliver a product is not a scam. They cannot give you a refund as the money had been spent on development. If they had held your money so that they could now give you a refund, that would be extremely problematic.
>There are things that I cannot say due to our employment contract and NDA, but to say the least, we are looking into this matter.

Who is "we"?
Apple offers free consultations to help teachers make best of online learning
Discover things that don't charge admission
Folks who grew up on and only value activities that charge admission, maybe discover what nature has to offer. Put a little balance back in our collective culture. Your pooch might prefer a walk in the woods instead of the neighborhood for the 50th time in a week..... or do you think if Corona won't kill you, di lyme will!
As a follow-up, anyone have any books written about the Dotcom era? I was still fairly young at the time so I don’t remember a lot of it and I can’t find any books or shows that cover it. Lots of stuff from the 70s/80s/early 90s (Masters of Doom, Cuckoos Egg, Halt and Catch Fire, Pirates of Silicon Valley), and lots of stuff from modern Silicon Valley (Bad Blood, Silicon Valley, the various Steve Jobs movies/books) but it seems like the startup world from 1995 to 2002 is just a blank space waiting to be filled.

What about Yahoo and Amazon and Pets.com and Webvan and eBay? What about stock being used for toilet paper and employees wheeling their Aeron chairs home when the company folded? What about Enron? How did 9/11 impact the Dotcom bust? Hell, what programming languages/frameworks were they using?
Well, according to [0], Aetna's revenue in Q3 2018 was $15.5 billion - so, extrapolating, their yearly revenue was something on the order of 60 billion dollars, of which that 500 million you mention is just 0.8%. Also, some of that $500M is in stock, not cash.

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https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181030/NEWS/18103...
Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call
The article mentions the come-from-nowhere stories of people like Hong Xiuquan and Adolf Hitler, but I see these figures as catalysts of larger forces that had been in play for decades.

I see two major mega-wars in the past 300 years within the western world, whose history I am most familiar with. Both were results of a rising power challenging the existing superpower for supremacy.

The first was the stretch bookended by the Seven Years War and the Napoleonic Wars, which I think can causally be combined, especially when factoring in how French finances following the Seven Years War and American Revolution contributed to the French Revolution. These wars were a Thucydides trap as Britain was challenging France for European supremacy. Britain succeeded in displacing France at the top.

The next megawar was the German challenge to Anglo-American supremacy, which took place in WWI and WWII. Germany failed to displace the Anglo countries.

Both war were Thucydides traps with different outcomes, and the severity of the conflict and long shadow cast by the wars is due to the stakes involved.
Thanks, calculating subtrees only once makes sense. But can't you go further (as in TeX and in the comment you're replying to) — that is, if there are two "paths" of breaking that eventually end with the same break at the same indentations (plural because of the matching-siblings issue), then you should have to recalculate the rest only once?

Another question: I must confess not understanding everything clearly, but it sounds like you pop off the lowest-cost breaks until finding a solution that fits the column limit. Couldn't there be cases where avoiding the "best" split in the first step could ultimately result in a lower overall cost? Optimizing over such solutions is the main thing that makes TeX's paragraph-breaking better than the usual greedy algorithms…
Stay at home is the mantra, but because there is zero enforcement of it, there's no shortage of stupid people coughing in grocery stores, or visiting out-of-state relatives, or fleeing the epidemic centers, bringing the virus into rural communities.

Lockdown buys time to introduce new measures. Those measures are:

1. Quarantining positive individuals.

2. Physically enforcing that quarantine. The honor system doesn't work. People are very clearly not obeying voluntary quarantine.

3. Contact tracing, and testing of everyone that positive individuals have interacted with.

Once we get a system that can handle 1, 2, and 3 in place, we can lift the lockdown. This is how Korea and Singapore are beating the virus. This is how China's going to be lifting their lockdown.
How much software have you bought that has a return policy? Darn near every software product I’ve ever bought specifically says there is no return policy after the license key has been entered.
For anyone curious about the difference between the two: Hughes' pretty printer works really well for pretty-printing Haskell code, but Wadler's is more flexible for pretty-printing C-style languages where there is a dedented closing brace at the end of scopes.

It is 100% true that Hughes' paper is a better introduction to the idea of having algebraic document combinators. One can skim Hughes' and then feel at ease using a library that implements Wadler's printer - the bigger differences between the two libraries are tucked away in the layout algorithms and the APIs are similar.
>It's a mercy you won't be held to this when you get sick, and find it's somewhat easier to talk in the abstract about coming to terms with death than to face the imminent possibility.

It's unfortunate that you're a coward.

Death is not something to fear, and with a stock of strong pain killers neither is dying.
> So I can only assume...

Maybe you have some work to do on yourself then. The inability to restrain your mind from compulsively assuming things (or waiting patiently, or speaking respectfully) is part of my complaint about modern day Western arrogance and lack of discipline, or even appreciation for the principle.

Maybe if you actually read what I wrote earlier, and put some thought into it, all the while keeping a disciplined eye on your mind injecting ideas of its own, you wouldn't be left with this impression that I haven't answered your questions. Your dissatisfaction with my answers does not constitute a proof that I haven't answered them. This is your mind playing tricks on you. I have a feeling you don't have a deep background in this realm. I don't know if my background qualifies as "deep", but I am well knowledgeable about the subject. This is because I have invested significant time into learning.

When racists assume things about other people, you condemn them. What is the differentiating factor here?

This behavior matches one of the adjectives I used earlier, can you guess which one?

I am busy working today, I will reply on my timeline, not yours. You are not my master. Your imagination about what I am doing at the moment, or why, is not reality. Learning to distinguish the difference is a skill that must be learned. Humility is also a valuable skill, I recommend you revisit the topic.

I'm well familiar with your cartoon, I have seen it and dealt with it many times, I wouldn't get too excited about the idea that you've checkmated me somehow.

Also: please try harder to speak truthfully.
"Getting Started with Qiskit" https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html

Qiskit / qiskit-community-tutorials > "1 Hello, Quantum World with Qiskit" https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-community-tutorials#1-hello...

"Quantum basics with Q#" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quickstart?tabs=tab...

Qutip notebooks: https://github.com/qutip/qutip#run-notebooks-online

Jupyter Notebooks labeled quantum-computing:
https://github.com/topics/quantum-computing?l=jupyter+notebo...
Curious if aircraft have cycle limits due to pressurization, how many cycles do these subs support ?
Built-in replacement for SettingsSync in VSCode will require Microsoft account
15 points in 30 minutes? I have enough experience with HN to be near 100% confident that it should have been on at least the first 10 pages. It was completely missing. Honestly, I'd be nearly 100% confident that with a score like that in 30 minutes it should have been near the top of the first page (like it was one second, and then completely gone the next).

I'd have guessed that it was a part of some sort of filter - perhaps a "voting ring" was detected or something, but I'd really like to hear from a moderator, or something, because this seems a bit strange.
Your employer most certainly "governs" your life in ways you may not even be conscious of. Just because they don't have a label on it in that way doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist. Industrial feudalism is the same as the old ways, it just confuses people more because there are innumerable things to do, buy, and see. You're "employer" is no different than a fief. The "entity" is the manor. The "inheritance" is described in the companies by-laws. And yes, it is 100% legal to have direct inheritance to your kin, and you can even write it in the by-laws that cannot be usurped by the board. You can write whatever the hell you want so long as it doesn't go against the way the federal government wants you to play the game (IE, basically the Emperor of the HRE or Emperor of China proclaiming a mandate for all tributaries to follow).

Your behavior is shaped by so many external influences that we often forget that the government most often has very little direct influence in our lives. Businesses typically encounter more interactions with the government, but average folks interact with businesses. Corporate cultures in a weird way end up becoming our "culture" we believe in, our "religious" views (not in a theological way). While we're all essentially considered "Freemen" in this world, sometimes you are not because of things like bills or debt bondage. You cannot leave from your "Lord" or "company" because you owe a debt somewhere or simply cannot afford to leave. It's a complicated system, but the concept of fuedalism has just been expanded.
Energy-harvesting design aims to turn Wi-Fi signals into usable power
We can make sand (and do so) by crushing rock. So concrete is renewable too in that sense, or at least not sand limited, but the cost would likely go up.
This is like saying “There are no atheists in foxholes.” People who say it might believe it, but it is demonstrably false.
What about a program that just toggles the state of the nearest neighbors? That way it can be a game, but it is not timing based nor computer controlled. The game can be to turn everything off or on and can also be used to try to create interesting patterns.
“Will not treat spending as dependent on approval of congressional committees”
Link a GitHub account to a Microsoft account?!! No, thanks. :(
It's particularly funny given that he's been such a lousy bar owner that he has previously asked people to just donate money so they could stay open.
> We were all over the world and using Mac/Win/Linux. So latency was high and bandwidth was often narrow

for me, i think this is key. I've used skype, hangouts, and gotomeeting over the years. only zoom works this well, multi-platform, including my fave, linux, in all sorts of conditions.

i wish this wasn’t so, and that we had good cross-platform solutions. :(
Laurie Garrett: What can we learn from the 1918 flu? (2007)
I'm in the middle of this right now. It really is an interesting read. He's clear enough, and keeps out of too much detail, so a civilian can read it, but there's enough meat to be interesting to a techie.