skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end of a team dedicated to documenting an unsuccessful replacement for C++, developed by a failing internet browser company.

What kind of world do we live in??
...and I put the wrong URL in the submission. The correct URL is http://VirusTracking.net

If a moderator could change the URL that would be great.
Author is probably thinking about an Electron App. Otherwise I don’t see how that statement could be true.
Hi, I'm not sure if what you've posted is a copypasta, but did you read the post? I linked to the post so you can see that it's not flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365 It's a post with a link to theinformation.com which is quite reputable so far as I know. It is paywalled, but I don't think those are banned from HN.

I also mentioned that it is not my post, but your point #3 is written as if it's mine.

As I mentioned in the reply to the first commenter, it was on the home page (obviously, due to the 15 points in 30 minutes, as I mentioned), and then was gone when I went back to find it.

Is there any way to ping a mod to see why this might have happened? I don't think I can just write @dang or /u/dang, right?
> Does anyone know if they've ignored the concern?

Well yes, an example is their reaction on their Zero Day:

https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...

> Ultimately, Zoom failed at quickly confirming that the reported vulnerability actually existed and they failed at having a fix to the issue delivered to customers in a timely manner. An organization of this profile and with such a large user base should have been more proactive in protecting their users from attack.
Not always. Oil has many uses outside of energy production.

It's also important to distinguish between energy production and energy transfer. Petrol products are very useful for energy transfer even if they aren't energy producing.

Batteries and fuel cells are other examples of useful net-negative energy transfer systems.
Personally, I'm quite strongly against "low risk investment" because black swan events happen quite often. It's crazy to take out a 3% loan for an investment that returns an average of 4%/year. Maybe your government can't take your house away, but a warring government could.
The linked article appears to posit that Gerard Bakardy might be an invention of Teller's? That's a pretty extraordinary claim. Has anything since borne it out?
It doesn't really put an end to them, it just turns them from N×N arguments between each pair of programmers to N×1 where everyone argues with me, the formatter maintainer. But, yes, that's a significant performance win (for everyone except me...). :)
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> Johns Hopkins University, in particular their map here

OK, we're fully agreed that covid-19 is extremely serious, my disagreement is your belief that biological warfare is readily available to small groups or individuals.
Coyote sightings were a regular occurrence on my NextDoor feed long before the quarantine.
I agree this is annoying, but you can always Exit the program from the icon in the menubar (works for me on both GNOME and xfce).
The British conquest of India, which spanned the late-18th and early-19th centuries, killing millions of people, and affecting the fate of hundreds of millions seems to be strangely absent.

It's not even mentioned as a footnote.
I think you mean Pacifist (https://www.charlessoft.com/) which you can use to extract the app directly
Not sure the concept applies cleanly here. Affordance is about perceiving possibilities from an interface or environment.

For the subject of programming language idioms, the main factors are restrictions or patterns the language offers, and how naturally they fit within their context, not just perception by the user.
>mentioned once

I don't see it frequently in writing, but the majority of TV and podcast reporting from news sites has the disclaimer. And there's enough China bad articles out there that I feel like this is implicitly assumed.

Either way, no one trusts Chinese stats, including the Chinese public themselves, and the Chinese government most of all. The ability to collect accurate statistics when there's so many different development levels country-wide simply isn't there. For example, China doesn't use GDP internally, they use LKI, LiKeQiang Index which aggregates a value from measurable indicators like freight cargo volume, electric consumption, bank loans. There's also TSF, Total Social Financing. They can still be gamed, but physically (running empty trains), but much harder to fake via submitting fake excel sheets to central government. Chinese GDP is basically a back of the napkin estimate to appease foreign investors, it's also used to set growth targets instead of reflecting it. Most of the mainstream western reporting on Chinese GDP does not understand this. It's well understood among China watchers. The most comprehensive study on Chinese GDP so far, by CSIS, suggested China was under reporting their GDP.

As for stacked urns in Wuhan, the city is still under quarantine so urns would not be picked up. Also necessary to account for other sources of death. The article quotes 56K cremations in Q4 2019, so a few thousands urns especially as restock doesn't seem atypical. Like LKI, it's an useful oblique indicator, but should be considered in other context. If there's mass death, enough to measurably affect hysterical people in quarantine, it would be on Chinese social media which would leak to China watchers. There's many expats and Chinese people with VPNs, things that affect the public on a mass scale inevitably leaps over the firewall, it's not opaque like politburo politics. People need to stop looking at Chinese numbers and instead extrapolate from oblique indicators. When expats in China talk about things returning to normal, when Chinese diaspora aren't mourning about sick or dead family members en-mass, then you can assume that reflects ground reality.
I think the paragraph (and the author) meant that sentence to be taken as attributed to the report's scenario -- meaning "if the virus is left unchecked."

A study released by a team at Imperial College London concluded that if the pandemic is left unchecked, those beds will all be full by late April. By the end of June, for every available critical-care bed, there will be roughly 15 COVID-19 patients in need of one. By the end of the summer, the pandemic will have directly killed 2.2 million Americans, notwithstanding those who will indirectly die as hospitals are unable to care for the usual slew of heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents. This is the worst-case scenario. To avert it, four things need to happen—and quickly.
@aaronbrethorst I think this post was caught in some sort of spam filter. Might want to post it again (or somehow contact mod?). I asked about it over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707640

Edit: Looks like @dang has replied and un-blocked it: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22708065&goto=item%3Fi...
I am glad to hear. My perception is based on entire posts (not just comments) that were flagged due to extreme polarization of views. I can't find the thread but most comments that were anti-China were downvoted/flagged in that thread. I just have a general feeling, but I am glad to see your concerned voiced.
You can dislike auto code formatting without disparaging people.
The innovators by Walter Isaacson.

He did Steve jobs bio, Ben Franklin bio, Leonardo davinchi bio, but this is my favorite since it's basically 30 biographies in one.
I was talking both. They're related - local pollution does local damage to the environment; climate change is bad because it does damage to the environment everywhere simultaneously.

I don't expect COVID-19 to show up too strongly in temperature graphs, but I hope some of its effects show up somewhere with large enough effect size that we have a statistically significant dip in the chart to point to as direct evidence that human activity is causing this, and changes are meaningful to fixing it.
Why don't we look at Mexico and try to draw some conclusions? None of this data is useful as long as governments continue to stifle the freedom of information. Every country is hiding numbers from the international community, I'm not so sure we can trust Japan's numbers (or anyone's) to be honest...
> You are implying that individuals could release a bioweapon upon the world - sorry, but again I think this is pure alarmism, and absolutely not what we need right now.

Honestly, it's not alarmist at this point and it's not just limited to bioweapons. A whole host of chemicals such as dimethylmercury exist and could potentially be weaponized.

Science and technology advance relentlessly; at some point we will have to figure out how to apply our new capabilities to achieve surveillance without the dystopian part. Unfortunately, current political processes don't lend themselves to this.
The fact that Roche was not forced, meaning they where able to offer the dutch government something better, should greatly worry everyone not living in the Netherlands.
Can I get an introduction please?
y, I still don't understand how wearing a mask isn't a priority when people do go out.

I understand people might be taking away masks from trained professionals but if everyone wore even basic masks it would stop droplets on the spreader and spreadee side of things and keep people from touching their mouth and nose. Some type of glasses would be a plus too.
IANAD, but fingers can presumably increase the bacterial and viral load on the mucous membranes. Smear infections are a thing, hence the recommendation to not touch one's face during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. On the other hand, nasal crusting is presumably also acts as petri dish. Clearly our nostrils are appropriately sized such that our fingers can fulfill a cleaning function, and this is also observed in other great apes with dry nostrils.

Some researcher even suggested digesting dried mucous (read eating it) may be beneficial for the immune system as it allows it to build antibodies to novel viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_nasal_mucus
Also, those other numbers on the carton can be helpful. There's the packed on date so you can judge freshness.

https://food.unl.edu/cracking-date-code-egg-cartons

https://eggsafety.org/understanding-dates-egg-cartons/
I'm not a MacOS user, but I'm having a really hard time getting my head around this:

1. You download an installer.

2. You activate that installer.

3. Your system tells you that the installer can run some code.

4. You agree to the installer running some code.

5. The installer installs some software, via the code that you said the installer could run.

Seems perfectly acceptable to me. If you literally cannot open up the archive file to inspect its contents without running some code inside it, that's not Zoom's problem. It's just a really stupid decision on the part of Apple.
Well, one part of trailing commas in Prettier is that different versions of JavaScript support them in different places. With go fmt, the formatter is updated in lockstep with the language.
Here's some:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=%22hello+world%22+program+qua...
Do you have a source for this? I couldn't find anything regarding the 5 year time frame. I did find [0] which references a few different retention periods, especially at 7 years.

[0] https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/
You have some rather bigger beasties running around in Russia than I'll ever see here.

I live in a small town in the SW of England, UK called Yeovil pop. 45,000. We have loads of foxes and badgers. Foxes seem roughly comparable to a coyote. I regularly see foxes here and not just in the parks. I do live rather close to a lot of park as well as the town so that helps.

Sadly the badgers in Somerset seem to be suicidal and shoot themselves before jumping over hedges into a road. That's before, during and after an official cull to try and avert TB in cattle. Science ... lol.
That’s nice. Seeing as exFAT was developed for flash drives, it seems like you should be happy with that :)
Engagement is something that's required for contribution. For example, I would never contribute to your project because I don't even know it exists :-) Even if I did, I've got little reason to do anything other than use the result.

Occasionally people stumble across projects. I had a very long running project to help myself learn Japanese. I had about 1000 users at one point that stumbled across my project randomly on the site where I hosted it. But I never had any more than that because I never put any effort into engagement (although, I think my documentation was actually pretty impressive, for a programmer ;-) ).

I think just having a project is not really enough. You need to create a reason for others to reach out to you. A conversation is a bit like a game of catch. In order for someone to catch the ball, you have to throw it first. I've been streaming development of the game I'm working on and I've been really surprised by the response. I've got more contributions in the short time I've been doing that than I've ever gotten on my other projects. I think the key is that having already started the conversation in the chat of the stream, it's easy for people to get invested and to contribute. I think there are other ways to start that conversation, but I think it's fairly tricky. Possibly having a blog would be another way. Once you get 1 or 2 people responding with comments, you can engage them and then others will join in. In the old days, that's what happened with mailing lists.
> Prominently the FS being aware of it being at flash storage or magnetic etc. We surely should oppose artificially prolonging the fat shelf life.

All of those are good things in isolation. However, the reality is, Linux/BSD/etc. doesn't have the marketshare to push any filesystem cross platform.

Any filesystem with the characteristics you want that goes cross platform will start on MacOS (unlikely) or Windows (much, much more likely).

Until then, people need a way to accomplish tasks and exFat is the best we've got today for cross platform flash storage.

* I suppose it's possible it could come from Android or iOS, although iOS is pretty unlikely since it's so hostile to the idea of filesystems. For this to happen, though, it would have to be a regular task to plug flash drives into phones. That is currently not the case and won't be the case in the near future.
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Decision record journals can help teamwork, especially when the team also logs the decision alternatives.

Decision record templates are here:
Template: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision...
A scan of the original 1964 memo:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-sense-of/9781492...
You are looking for Druid: http://druid.apache.org/
Why make a language and make a linter? Make the linter part of the language.

In my opinion, there's no point in encoding certain concepts into a linter as best practice, if it's best practice encode it as law into the syntax of the language.
> Next time YOU are about to spout off about something, perhaps think about reading the f'ing page being linked to?

this is very cruel, there is absolutely no need to be so harsh.
This 3M product brochure explains it more clearly than anything else I've seen.

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1794572O/surgical-n95-vs...

Surgical masks:
1. keep the wearer from infecting the patient
2. keep fluid spray (e.g. bleeding) from getting in the face

N95 respirators are meant to protect the wearer from airborne particles, which surgical masks don't really do at all, since they don't form a seal and air and particles still go around the mask into the mouth. Many N95 masks have an ubobstructed one-way output valve for easier breathing that will not protect the patient from the wearer.

And as it mentions, surgical N95 masks (the blue respirators many medical professionals wear in news photos lately) do both.

* Edit: Another 3M brochure shows that many of their non-N95 masks are also tested for filtration efficiency, even though not certified by NIOSH.

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/312703O/masks-and-respira...
"The rejection of potentially effective treatments because “everyone knows it won’t work” is named for Americans’ persistent belief – from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries – that tomatoes were poisonous. Although tomatoes were available in America, throughout the 1600’s and 1700’s they were considered inedible decorative plants. The belief that tomatoes were poisonous stemmed from the suspicion that the tomatoes were a part of the poisonous nightshade family. Americans, however, were aware that Europeans were serving and eating tomatoes at the dinner table.

The fate of the tomato in American changed in 1820, when a New Jersey man publicly consumed a basketful to prove they were safe to eat. When he neither dropped dead nor even suffered any apparent ill effects, witnesses of the experiment slowly began to open their minds. By the end of the decade, American gardeners were growing tomatoes for food.

Dr. Goodwin coined the term “tomato effect” to explain the rejection by American medicine of therapies that did not fit with currently accepted theories of disease and treatment. He believed the tomato effect delayed the acceptance of vitamin and mineral supplementation. This type of intervention is outside the familiar medical paradigm, particularly for mental illness."

Source:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-breakthrough-dep...
I should hope so too. Boulder is in a bloody huge mountain range.
This is how I have Emacs set up, but when I use VS Code I really appreciate that syntax errors get the red squiggly underlines.
I would be unsurprised if it was also just downvoted a lot because the article is not readable without login.
Fine until you eat up all your other pasta. Then where are you? Well, I guess at that point you have bigger problems. :)
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CEO is the one with all the information. The one with the most information and the most rationality should make decisions.

That doesn't necessarily mean creating a strategy, but sometimes just approving one.

And like in your case, often a startup CEO gets burdened with technical, funding, sales, finance, legal, and so on. I personally resolved never to be a CEO & CTO again, because you're effectively a solo founder for a good portion of time - the non-CEO cofounder can't do a lot of things and development is often the bottleneck.
It's kind of how alarming raising Sinophobia and Chinese skepticism since the tradewar has made people unable to process reality when it comes to China. Millions of accessible posts on Chinese social media showing the conditions of lockdown from Wuhan to other cities. Thousands of expats stuck in China confirming the ground truth. Media reposted on twitter and youtube etc. But everything either gets downvoted out of view or dismissed as propaganda to the detriment of their own response. If everyone saw the measures being taken in China to contain COVID, then maybe they wouldn't have reacted so poorly.
Of course, lots of Firefox is Rust now.
(edit: I'm saying "lots", not "most")
Instacart’s gig workers are planning a nationwide strike
Doesn't appear to be flagged, has 19 points. Most likely it fell through on point/new-ness(age) and dropped off the front page.

I believe new posts are weighted a bit higher - but there is also some threshold going from "new" to front page. This appear to me to be a typical "almost interesting" (as judged by up-votes) - made it to the front page, but then got overtaken by other posts.

Ed: the current code behind hn isn't open source, but it might still resemble this to some extent:
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-s...

A great book on history of the information economy over the periods of Radio, Telephone, and cable TV that has a lot to say about how the longer cycles of technology play out.
Harvard College adopts universal satisfactory-unsatisfactory grading for spring
I don't think adding the time component means that the user isn't in charge any longer, especially if you add a potentiometer for controlling time all the way down to zero.

A tactile Game of Life box that you can speed up/slow down/freeze and change sounds delightful.
JavaScript for some reason chose a very strange way to have its newlines work; a number of other languages have it figured out: Swift, for example.
Yes that is most definitely true. The intent isn't for your company to go spiraling down into bankruptcy. The problem is these bourgeoisie types at the top don't change even after getting bailout money. Why the hell are we rewarding the people who maintain a company culture of "Well if we go bankrupt, we'll just ask the government for money cause they can't afford for us to go out of business!"

It's a load of crap that this is even a concept if the government cannot get involved at that point.
This is extremely concerning as somebody looking to move or build on top of GCP for the long term. I wonder why anyone would choose GCP if outages are occurring on a regular basis.
"CEO pay is usually an insignificant fraction of a company's revenue" What is insignificant? For example, the CEO of Aetna walked away with 500million. That's money that should have gone to insured, injured and sick people. What risk did he take that exceeded the risks of the children we sent to Afghanistan and Iraq?
You are clutching at straws here. Zoom fires an alert when somebody joins a meeting. If you're not paying attention, that's not Zoom's problem. If the alert isn't surfaced very well, that's an UX issue, but not a creepy privacy invasion. And if you expect to be able to use a platform which your employer has provided without any oversight whatsoever, I don't even know what sort of problem that is. Do you also expect to be able to lock the door to a physical meeting room, on your employer's property, and use it for your own private purposes unchallenged?
??

You mean the word "codemonkey"? That was meant from the employers point of view. I'm a codemonkey myself...
> Preclinical data have indicated that microorganisms associated with periodontal disease may contribute to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

That shouldn't be too hard to test: is the proportion of dentists and dental hygienists with Alzheimer's significantly different from the general population? It's just a homework problem for a Biostatistics course.
> my disagreement is your belief that biological warfare is readily available to small groups or individuals

As a counterexample, have you considered that much of the cutting edge biological research takes place in academic labs? The vast majority of those would fit the definition of a small group, and many of the projects they undertake are conducted by only one or two individuals. The level of expertise required and difficulty of learning the material are the main barriers to entry for outsiders.
"It's Behind You" by Bob Pape chronicles the porting of the arcade game R-Type to the ZX Spectrum. He never published it and instead created a website where it can be downloaded freely: http://bizzley.com/ It's a great short (136pg) read on the development processes necessary back in the day to squeeze performance out of limited hardware.