skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Probably the best book on product development ever written. Command Line Heroes podcast on it: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic... (Disclosure: I work for Red Hat)

Also worth checking out in this vein is Showstopper about the development of Windows NT which focuses on the role of Dave Cutler.
> But "stay at home" has been a mantra for weeks anyway, with everybody acting as if they and everyone else is infected.

That's because every single Western country has fucked up the handling of initial stages of the pandemic. Everyone has seen what's going on in China and then Italy, and we all ended up on the spectrum of doing too little, too late (US in particular is leading here).

"Stay at home", social distancing, closing up businesses - those are suppression strategies. They're meant to shut the virus spread down. But they don't have to last all the way until the vaccine - if the number of cases and infection rate go down enough, these measures can be lifted - and then contact tracing can be used to do local quarantines and shutdowns with surgical precision, ensuring most people can live their daily lives as if no pandemic was happening.
Why? I make some (not illegal, very simple) occasionally. It works great and costs me some orders of magnitude less than it would cost to buy the same amount.
I used to live in Olympia before living in Seattle and wash pretty shocked to see a coyote casualty walking down the street one morning when I was drinking coffee. Turns out it is pretty normal.
My point is not about the effectiveness of lockdowns. Its about the effectiveness of masks. All 3 of those countries used masks, and I would guess China's use shot up to high once things started exploding. Based on infection numbers its not clear that masks actually had impact.
When you have a correlation plus a plausible mechanism for causation, it's not appropriate to invoke "correlation is not causation". It's literally true, but distracting. That's where you do additional studies.
To clarify it, what I mean by semantically relevant is if it is on the user requirements. It's not semantically relevant if it's there just to make the developer's life easier. So, it seems we are using the same definition.

Every kind of software has some error log, long lived servers tend to have some usage log too, databases tend to have journaling logs, and distributed computing tends to have a retry log. There are other kinds of them, like all those lines a compiler outputs when it tries to work on a program, or the ones a hardware programmer shows while working. Every one of those are there for the user.
> If you receive packages let them sit somewhere for 2 days before opening

I am curious if you have a source for the two day number.

I have seen various reports ranging from 12-24 hours for how long this particular virus can last on surfaces like cardboard. The longest estimate I have seen for any surface is 72 hours for stainless steel under lab conditions (i.e. not real-world conditions).

So presumably if it takes 2-3 days for a package to arrive, the contents should be okay if you wait another day or so for the exterior surface to become safe.
Skinner box.
My anecdotal experience: Zoom's audio and video has consistently worked much better than any of the in-browser tools my team has tried.

I'm sure part of this is due to it being a native app.

Once a user is over the hiccup of "download and install this," being able to hop into a call immediately without much mucking about with audio and video settings seems consistently better with Zoom.
That's because it's not just a startup community. It's an amalgam of many subcommunities, including (in no particular order) startup founders/employees, bootstrappers and freelancers, open-source hackers, academics, internet culture / forum mavens, activists, and many more. I think it's probably true that the anti-startup voices have grown, but that's also reflective of larger social trends.
> Order a bunch of water and TP

The TP makes sense. I don't understand why you're suggesting to order water, though.

Can you elaborate?

I haven't seen any recommendations that tap water would be unsafe.

If you're in an earthquake prone zone like SF or LA of course having water at home is a very good idea any time of the year.
Why not infer the end of a line when finding the end of a line? ;)

This is what most BASICs and assemblers did.

(I think QBasic had a line continuation character? - or maybe that came with Visual BASIC. I don't remember. But, anyway, if you wanted, it was possible to continue a source line past a line break, it just wasn't the default.)
> Wouldn’t people just stop using any tracking applications once there is no tracking needed?

There's a risk that once the capacity is tried and tested, governments and private companies alike will try to make it enticing and useful for different means. The role of privacy activists should be nipping all these follow-up ideas in the bud. Ensuring that emergency measures are used only during actual emergencies. But not fighting them in situations like this.
A commenter in that thread indicates it’s just the swabs being used, which makes much more sense to me.
Well, for one, it's insane to say "masks don't help" in the same phrase where you say "we need them for the medical staff". Which one is it?
The more amazing part is that they are able to handle this unexpected, enormous increase in traffic. I'm guessing it's a mad house there trying to keep enough capacity. But if not, and it is scaling in the cloud this seemlessly, then their infrastructure is definitely a work of genius.
While I also dislike this type of thing, remember that Zoom's business is built on getting people into calls as quickly as possible. Seconds matter.

So I can totally understand why they would want to use 7zip to shave kilobytes off the download size.
Oh man I had no idea the big cloud providers have dependencies on other clouds like this.
> whose troff dialect still underlined words with a string of literal ^H backspaces followed by underscores!

... which is still how roff tools do it today. Manual formatters still send, even today, TTY Model 37 style input from 1969 to the manual pager: underlining with BS and the underscore character, boldface with BS and overprinting, and bullet points formed by printing a plus sign over the letter "o"; all of which less/more/pg/most have to recognize (but ironically actually do not).

The relatively modern (1976!) capabilities of GNU groff were deliberately turned off at the turn of the 21st century.

By the way: File-based pipes were later created on a specific "pipe device", whose device number was configured by the /etc/config program and was not necessarily the root.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/450900/5132
I've been using the hosted version of this (https://www.talkyard.io) on a blog for a while and have been very satisfied. I like how the threaded discussion looks, and also like the live preview edit box which works well for long form comments.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I can't tell you how grateful I am. I'm actually a little emotional, thinking of all the people who upvoted this post until it got in front of the people it needed to (and thanks so much Aayush!).

God bless everyone on this site. You saved me.
This goes much deeper than add data. The collect PowerPoints and record and transcribe all calls this is. And it’s unencrypted
By what they do outside work/school... I specifically mean if they work on software projects, using skills related to the skills they use at work. I've seen both sides of this and tend not to discriminate when someone has more experience vs. less... it's an offset, more important for interviewing someone out of a bootcamp, or with no formal education.

It really takes all types, so to speak. At this point, I've interviewed and met a pretty broad spectrum. The same goes for on the interviewee side as well.

Again... it's a balance... work history, personal projects (github activity), the pre-interview code challenge, as well as the technical interview are a matter of finding what's needed... someone can be less in one area and make up for it in another. To me at least, independent drive makes up for experience in a lot of ways, especially for more junior-mid roles.
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Japan has low number of confirmed cases because they barely tested anyone. For example, from Feb 1st to March 18th, Japan had over 160k people who wanted to get tested, and they tested only about 5k people among them (news.bizwatch.co.kr/article/industry/2020/03/23/0001).
Actually, when Apple launched the Airbuds, I computed that it was very likely the AirBuds would generate more profit for Apple than Mac hardware.

IIRC assuming 70% profit on the Airbuds and 30% on the Mac (because lots more R&D, lots more support, lots more warranty, lots more dev...), a 30% attach rate made the Airbuds more profitable.
The other thing that's important is the privacy policy includes their marketing site You can see a clear list of tools that zoom uses on their Content Management System (CMS) aka Zoom.us here: https://builtwith.com/zoom.us
is there an android version?
Ron Hunninghake, MD, suggests these vitamins and minerals:
https://riordanclinic.org/2020/03/covid-19/

Robert Cathcart, MD, prescribed vitamin C, orally to bowel tolerance, for all viral illnesses, including common cold, which is a coronavirus:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n14.shtml

Robert Rowen, MD, suggests IV ozone for coronavirus and explains why:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=78032311573342346...

A prolific teacher of IV ozone is in NYC, has trained many nearby, and may share a list of doctors he's trained:
https://www.ozonedoctor.net/

Dr. Rowen is interviewed by Dave Asprey here:
https://blog.daveasprey.com/robert-rowen-352/

An MD-PhD neurologist at Mayo Clinic recommended Rowen to me, said she'd sent patients to him.

I got turned onto the alternative doctors, who got me back to work, after conventional medicine failed me for years. Turns out regulatory capture isn't in the public interest after all. Who knew?

See also the doctors interviewed in https://thatvitaminmovie.com/
Caring about this shouldn't be necessary. When people sign up for a service, they shouldn't have to stop everything and wonder about the many, many ways their personal information could be abused. Nor should they have to scrutinize the terms of every single service out there just to know exactly how they're being exploited without being able to do anything about it. This constant paranoia about everything is not a good way to live.
Ask HN: Are credit reference agencies violating GDPR
In the UK if I take out a loan, for example, they check my credit history with a credit reference agency. Similarly, they will pass data to the credit reference agency (CRA).

I can see that there is a lawful basis for my creditor to have my personal data for the purpose of ensuring I repay my loan etc., but I have no relationship with the CRA and therefore I don't think that there is a lawful basis for them to have my data on file.

I think that the way that GDPR handles cookies should be instructive for this, since you are not allowed to refuse service on the basis of rejecting non-essential cookies. Similarly, I don't think that refusing to have your data stored by the CRA should be valid reasons for a refusal of service.

Furthermore, while this data transfer will be written into the T&Cs of the loan, this feels about as legally valid as the EULA on many products. Am I really giving informed consent? On top of that, am I being coerced into giving up my data in a non-essential manner in order to access a (potentially crucial) service?

I would love to hear what people think of this? Am I wrong in thinking that this is a class-action (equivalent) lawsuit waiting to happen?

For reference, I found this piece in the FT which is relevant [1].

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/afef327a-e291-11e8-8e70-5e22a430c1ad
I think the key phrase in that tweet was "general public". Medical professionals who are in close contact for many hours of the day, day after day, do not count as general public.
That's nonsense. How are you going to blind people to whether they're wearing a mask or not? There's already a lot of evidence supporting the use of mask to protect the wearer and to protect transmission of infection from the wearer ("source control") both in healthcare and in community settings.

We wrote a sort of mini-review on this recently: https://medium.com/@matthiassamwald/promoting-simple-do-it-y...
They record and transcribe all calls why? Where do they store it? Why do they store it?
Haven't seen anyone mention these but I like them a lot:

"Show-Stoppers: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" One of my favorite, exposes how large software project can really grind on people. Dave Cutler an interesting character and some of the connections between the NT team, DEC and Cutler hate of UNIX is fun.

"Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age" - Others have mentioned Hackers by Levy but this one is also really interesting. Talks about the story of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman (Of diffie-helman fame) and others.

"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet" Cover the early creation of the internet.

"What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" - If you've heard of the mother of all demos, this covers Doug Englebart and a few other important folks from the 60s.
LWN has some good coverage of the licensing and technical aspects: https://lwn.net/Articles/797963/
I think that's missing the point, which is that the only way to get the necessary accuracy is to use multiple independent sources of information. It's not whether clinicians are better than tests or vice versa, but that no single datum is good enough.
Meanwhile in New York, the worst hit state in America, masks of all sorts have been illegal in public for the last 175 years.
https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2013/10/halloween-history-new...
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/240.35
I work with a very small group at HP that uses inkjet technology to dispense fluids for work in life sciences. Basically, inkjet TIJ technology lets you dispense very precise amounts of material with very precise timing. Normally that's just ink, but you can do it with quite a few other things.

In our case, what we do is dispense liquids that normally would be done with a micropipette. We can mix up to 8 different materials in different combinations as part of various life sciences experiments.
the difference between your hypothetical tweet and this article is that humble qualifier "I think".

what I've seen hn (and startup culture in general) distort is people's confidence in their own opinions. this is probably because it is repeated ad nauseum that you cannot start a successful startup without being an iconoclastic innovator.

what isn't repeated ad nauseum is that you should save that kind of arrogance for your vc pitch rather than take it on as a mantle.
The corporate vehicle is a fantastic invention. The problem is that when fortune 500 companies fail by taking on too much risk (debt, acquisitions, regulatory breaches) they are bailed out. These bailouts prevent their competition from taking their business or competing fairly. Or prevents new companies springing up from their ashes.
I like it! Good and minimalist implementation :) Also, you can improve it by adding "how to finish a conversation" feature ;)
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How do you propose a XXI-century technologically advanced society can do to ensure its biosafety? The current pandemic is force majeure, the next one might be accidental, the one after that purposeful. Advancement of science and technology in large parts means making more and more potentially destructive power available to individuals and small groups. Society needs a defense to compensate. Biology is particularly nasty here, as it's self-replicating.

Quite honestly, I'm increasingly starting to believe that privacy has been on borrowed time ever since we discovered DNA. That doesn't mean all privacy is going to be gone; just that to survive, societies need to learn how to handle pandemics very swiftly, and that seems to require large-scale, real-time management.
It's no coincidence that his is being pushed so aggressively.
This change is about to break tons of userland & competition, just not at Microsoft.
Been meaning to spin up a blog every time I spent more than a certain amount of time researching and reviewing things and then decide on a first or second choice <anything>. I do sometimes find myself thinking about one or two elements of the other choices but when I try and recollect which one it was, or where I was struck by something... it can often be an inaccessible part of my recollection.
For what it’s worth, there aren’t thought to be any brown bears left in California; the closest ones are in Washington or maybe Idaho.
There are already dozens of severely ill patients on many cities in Brazil, what is the easy to compare metric. The rate of growth of cold and hot cities isn't very different, and hasn't been very different from the untreated growth on the rest of the world.
I'd see Coyotes relatively often when I'd go on insomnia walks through Outer Richmond and Golden Gate.

They were pretty small though. I wouldn't want my Yorkie near them, but they were more like an oversized Fox.
RSS readers are a very specialized market. Around me, only techies and nerds have heard of it. Mobile Natives haven't and are using FB/I/Twitter instead (sad !).
So this boils down to th enerd market on iOS and MacOS is the same size. I'd go one step furter: it's probably not only the same size, but, simply, the exact same.
There are always corner cases. For example, clang-format at $day_job doesn't understand semantically that I want my 4x4 matrix constant to be formatted as 4 rows with 4 numbers each; putting all 16 numbers in a single long array will get a lower score.

But as a whole, I found it easier to navigate the monolithic code base when most of it has been auto-formatted, exceptions aside. When applying a formatter to existing code, I usually do that in a separate commit and then follow it with any hand-rewritten lines afterwards (in case either the formatter or my changes afterwards accidentally regress something).

And once the formatter is enabled by default, it's usually easy enough to come up with a set of smaller statements that auto-format well to replace a longer statement that auto-formats poorly.
That's fair... a few days ago, got a solution (the problem is generally a cli program to transform a csv) that included a full API, data access layer and React ui. It was frankly impressive, and total overkill... turns out the request was unclear from management on our end.

I'm still surprised that almost nobody has used an actual library for csv parsing (naive solutions reading a line and splitting mostly), which to me results in so many headaches in practice.
In general, I agree. The online medium in its current form simply isn't suited to making healthy communities.
Yes to both of those (but not thaaat long). But in this case I still would have ran an exhaustive nmap because it's a device on my local network rather than a remote server.
The "false sense of security" point needs evidence the same way that we need evidence on whether masks are beneficial or not. There's evidence for the latter, and, to the best of my knowledge, only speculation on the former point.

Either way, no one is advocating for mask wearing to replace other mitigation measures.
Also this news that reagent is no longer required:

https://www.ssi.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/2020/03-ssi-loeser-stort-...
Nope. Haven't found any yet.
> This also why I believe human doctors are still unbeatable by AI.

Because you hypothesize that they can rapidly learn new, not very distinctive patterns without much data?
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Ah, ok.

As a technical note, I wouldn't call those words "syntactically plural". They are syntactically plural in that they can be the subject of verbs inflected for a plural subject, but that's not the best criterion. There are a few relevant questions:

1. Does it have the form of a plural noun?

2. Does it take plural verb agreement?

3. Does it take singular verb agreement?

Phrases such as "the poor" are hard to call "syntactically plural" because they fail criterion 1. They pass criteria 2 ("yes") and 3 ("no"), but nouns that are syntactically singular can also pass criterion 2.

Scissors (syntactically plural, semantically singular):

1. Yes. Scissors appears to be a plural noun in terms of raw morphology.

2. Yes. Scissors has obligatory plural verb agreement.

3. No. Despite the semantics, scissors has obligatory plural verb agreement.

Family (syntactically singular, semantically plural):

1. No.

2. Yes. My family are all painters.

3. Yes. My family is coming to visit me this summer.

With only the verb agreements supporting the classification of "the poor" as plural, you get into an unresolvable argument over whether singular verb agreement doesn't happen because it's impossible (syntactically plural) or because "the poor" are always being considered plurally (syntactically singular).

If you want to consider "the poor" as a mass noun, you also run into the problem that there are no syntactically plural mass nouns. Mass nouns are always syntactically singular. (Well, this depends on how you want to classify scissors and pants, I guess.)
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Have the establishment really been pushing against these ideas that hard? Molecular mimicry seems to be a rather old idea, but I'm thinking that the push back is maybe more about what to do with this idea treatment wise. You've definitely done more research and reading in this area, so perhaps you could expound on how the establishment is being slow?
OTL does not need to be surjective onto the set of all binary programs. You only get "information loss" when you try to go backwards, from the end result to the intent. That's reverse engineering, not programming. Now, during translation, the compiler might fill in some information you didn't care about. If you do care about specific instructions and registers for some part of your program, supply them. You probably want to have an assembly DSL that knows about how to integrate with the other code rather than embedding strings. You probably can generate any assembly this way, if just by writing exclusively in the assembly DSL, but the actual requirement is to correctly translate all valid specs.
It sucked less.

Loved that tag line.
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What are some examples of communities that are significantly "healthier" than HN?

I'm particularly curious about communities that are "similar" to HN. Use whatever definitions of "healthier" and "similar" you think are appropriate.
Break userland? Sorry.. explanation?
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One of the things that are special about the video conferencing is how easy it is to switch compared to many other industries. You wont need a factor ten here.
With respect to it's goals, it is a healthy community. But in general, it suffers from several echo-chamber ailments that are difficult to overcome for any community.
What exactly do you mean by this?
I like your thing.

I posted it to http://reddit.com/r/generative

Are you familiar?
Why do they have to record calls? Transcribe the call into text then Store it. Why do they need to take copies of whiteboards and PowerPoint’s it’s does not make sense.