skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leasing property should be out of the hands of regular regular folks because regular folks don't know how to handle it ethically. I define regular folks as pretty much anyone not heavily regulated for ethical performance.

The problem with leasing property is that once you've bought the property to lease, you the landlord (good god the feudal nature of the word itself should be setting off alarm bells) are now in possession of a basic need of humans (shelter) that you can dole out as you please. This property is also fairly easy to manage without it going down in flames so the next step is maximizing your own comfort at the top of your middle-class existence at the cost of some poor other unfortunate. This poor other unfortunate must clamber up to the top of the shit-pile racing against time as you bleed them dry so they too can afford a property to squeeze out the next unfortunate.

It's a pyramid scheme of the worst kind. But its practice is widespread and common enough that we don't bat an eye. And you don't have to look far to see abuses everywhere veiled in legal frameworks. My wife, for example, was recently thrown out of a Scandinavian country because we didn't have a strong enough case for residency. Her landlords were a man and a wife both very well-off living downstairs. We thought it was an amicable living arrangement until, on moving out, they politely informed her she'd be paying two months of rent after her departure to "give them enough time to find a replacement". This was in a city swarming with desperate people willing to kill their pet if it meant they could be move in the same day. My own experiences with landlords in the US have been of the same awful caliber.

We, as human beings, have allowed these abuses because there are no sufficient checks and balances to our own greed. It's all Self-first and damn the others. I feel a kind of hollowness eating me out from the inside every day I get a little older wondering where the Hell we all went wrong.
They are also 2 of the most expensive and sought after Mopar vehicles in existence. There is no doubt they where not popular at the time, many Americans thought they looked too European and did not reflect the muscle car image of the era. Also Mopar only built enough production ones to qualify as a stock car. IIRC in the range of 2000 each I think the Daytona may have been a little higher IIRC.
I feel like it's a subset of a much larger, more general topic of how latency impacts computer interactions. People have long tried to emulate real-world activities in computer programs, but not much attention has been paid to making those programs instantaneous.

When you mold clay, there is no lag - the tactile and visual feedback is immediate. Same with handwriting, painting, or petting a dog. On the other hand, even in this current world of multi-core 4Ghz+ computers most software fails to provide immediate feedback.

100ms, I believe, is the magic number. The maximum delay between cause and effect that still registers as "instantaneous" by the human brain. Yet, surprisingly, it's still a rarely reached target. FPS video game studios might be the only major industry that consistently cares about and delivers on this metric. (Edit: "major" was an intentionally vague word to use here. Obviously, all kinds of embedded software projects have to deal with real-time or soft-real-time requirements.)

If reformatting the whole current code file took 1ms, why wouldn't you enable it? If compilation took 50ms, why not recompile on each new line? There's a magic latency barrier below which actions feel "free", so why not try and move as many of them as possible below that threshold?
Can someone explain the bugs in the code samples? The author says they're there but I honestly can't find them.
I think there's a social element of office work that can't really be replaced with WFH.
However you have to be much more intrusive on developers if you are going to require semantic analysis of all data being sent to see if it was justified and whether it was mentioned in a (plain text, localized potentially into many languages) privacy policy.
Your comment about professional moderation led me to Google up this article:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Wow! Great article.

(Also: as of 2019, TWO, count 'em, TWO human moderators.)
Depends where you live. In Cleveland, there's still plenty of small shops I go to all the time. I also order from Amazon and shop at Walmart.
Iranian diplomats instigated killing of [Cyber]dissident in Istanbul
Wealthy buy-out secluded hotels in spite of stay-at-home orders
Is transmitted unencrypted and thus exactly vulnerable to MITM
Oh god. That meme.

I've seen it a day or two ago. Can't find the picture anywhere now (I've seen it in some group chat). Anyway, beyond the words quoted at the beginning of this article, the meme's "nested loops go brrr" had a picture of a triple-nested loop using Active Record to do some simple database operations.

To which the correct response is: "it's a 'senior developer' in an industry where you get called a 'senior' after a total of 3 years of experience doing programming; don't do stupid shit like this, just use SQL like it's meant to".
Defeat Coronavirus or Save the Economy. Can We Do Both?
No checks regarding length of source and query - may end up dereferencing beyond the bounds of the string.
Ask HN: Simple online ordering for grocery stores
I live in a small village. During the COVID-19 lockdown, stores are taking orders by phone and email to reduce the need for people to mingle while getting groceries. These are small operations. Is there a simple online ordering system they could get going with no expertise to help them take and manage orders?
Using an analogy: Do you think governments should help subsets of their population that are affected by sudden extremely rare disasters? Part of the goal of a government is to provide public goods - like fire fighting services, for example. Maybe your argument is "they should have been insured against having their family members killed by the state"? Pretty clear to me (at least) that this is an absurd position to hold.

Of course, the fact that this "disaster" was directly caused by the government probably builds a stronger case for the government having to use some of its budget to help them out. That just seems like a good policy in terms of incentive design.

Edit: Maybe your argument is that Indonesia should have (in effect) sued the Netherlands if they wanted to get compensation for their citizens?
I got 20k euros for going to court after my boss that tried to blackmail me and didn't pay me extra hours (everything was paid by insurances of course), how is 10k euros appropriate in that kind of situation?!
Sorry, I meant to wite South Korea.
You don't want that option every time since its slower. But I wonder if there would be a smart way to run it occasionally, like an option to -fanalyzer every 10th time or when the size of a source file changes a lot, etc.
I will donate. It would be great it they would add a “Donate” button on the app and site.
I agree, there's something much bigger at play here. They've been telling us NOT to wear masks.

Why not put everyone in masks and gloves instead?
I don't see why they would since their expenses are essentially marketing and R&D. And they've stopped marketing and instituted a hiring freeze. Perhaps some layoffs might happen but I highly doubt that this is a death sentence for them more than Expedia et. al.

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
I switched to Affinity Photo a while ago. It took a little while to get used to it, but I don't miss PS at all now. Granted, I'm not a professional photog, but I've been using PS since it was released.

I also have Designer, and it is quite good...although I don't know enough about Illustrator to be able to compare them.

Adobe has gotten lazy and sloppy. The CC launcher/updater frequently needs to be reinstalled, and PS is slow in quite a few areas. Simple batch resizing photos in PS is a real chore because it only uses a single core. Affinity uses all of them, and the performance difference is pretty stark.

Affinity frequently updates their products with new features. I purchased this product a few years ago and haven't been charged for new releases.

Affinity allows 5 one serial to be installed on 5 machines.

All of their products are for sale for 50% off.
Surely people can tell you the Earth is flat without being delusional or a liar.

At some point, when the stakes are so high, willful ignorance is harmful and should be called out.
I believe Rhode Island taxes vehicles and residents must pay the NADA market value tax every year. It's common for people who move to RI from NY to NOT change their registration and keep the NY registration simply to avoid this tax.
It doesn't really make sense to increase toilet paper production though. There's no long-term increased demand, so the problem will probably sort itself out in a couple of weeks once everybody who has been panic buying already has a stockpile.
I wonder what the Soyuz folks are going to do with 18 half-paid-for, partially-built rockets?
What advice do you have for dealing with coyotes when jogging? I've learned the hard way that running away tends to trigger their fight-or-flight reflex, which isn't good.
After all these years in SF, every time I see a coyote my first thought is still "why is that German Shepherd so underfed?"
Competition does help when it happens. The problem is Comcast and AT&T charge higher prices wherever there is no competition and they actively do whatever they can to prevent competition, they absolutely do not just wait around for other ISPs to compete. A few years ago Comcast’s active anti-competitive bullying of local ISPs in my city pushed me off the ISP I preferred. And there are too many areas in the U.S. where competing is prohibitive, like rural areas where build-out is more expensive, so once a single ISP is there nobody else bothers.
Data that warmth produces extreme weather events or data that anthropogenic climate change is happening?
Take it.
Why would young families suddenly have more children?
Only a couple of years ago, I spent winter in Moscow (Russia) and it was the coldest winter in over a century. At one point, it was -27 degrees celcius (-16.6 Fahrenheit) outside in the middle of the city.
There was a meter of snow everywhere in the city. This winter I was in Germany and it was much warmer than last year but I wouldn't jump to conclusions on that basis.
> The most commonly cited risks of climate change are natural disasters: fiercer wildfires and hurricanes, bigger floods and longer droughts. But one of the most striking recent effects of global warming has been unusually mild weather in many parts of the world.

maybe if it was framed first as the massive and irreversible ecosystem disruption which it is, people would take more notice. the result of this could easily be loss of essential plankton at the bottom of it all, just like loss of insects and plant pollinators due to pesticides.

it's always sea level rise this and coastal floods that. i'm fucking sick of this idiotic reductionist rhetoric. there will be far bigger problems which cannot be solved by relocating 3 miles inland.

Carlin was spot on: "The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas."
You need a better dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boid

Long before the flocking model, “boid” referred to snakes of the Boidae family, like boas and anacondas.
You probably already have long term virus infections in your body right now. Most adults already have hsv or hpv, for example.
Same in the UK, we would often see queues of orderly lines on the Waterloo city line, past decade or so, that has gone and just all for themselves :(.
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I saw them the same in boxing. From time to time a newbie would show up at the gym who just seemed to understand the sport on a deeper level from the start. It seemed they were born for it. Interestingly a lot of them didn’t enjoy the sport so they didn’t pursue it further. If you have somebody with this level of talent, who enjoys the sport and has the right work ethic you have a champion.

I wonder how many potential top programmers just into another area because they weren’t interested in programming. I remember one physicist I worked with who had no interest in programming but probably was one of the best programmers I have met. For him it was just a tool to accomplish his goals in developing cell phone technology.
Give it a try. I have been using Affinity Designer since 2017 and never looked back. Took me only about a day to learn because it is so similar to Photoshop! I use it mostly for SVG and UI design related stuff for my open source wallpaper app ScreenPlay [1].

[1] https://screen-play.app/
(1863)
There’s nothing bigger at play. The reasoning is obvious. It’s because there are not enough masks available and it’s more important that healthcare workers get them right now than the general public.

Once healthcare workers are covered, then we can make sure everyone else starts wearing them.
Moral panic by nosy blue hairs who didn't move to Florida.
I think it’s obvious that WeWork collapses as a result of COVID-19. Their model will be slaughtered not only by work from home orders, but also from the sharp decrease in tenants when millions of self employed are no longer self employed and are cutting their costs. A receivership and restructuring awaits in the coming months.
I would love a recommendation too. This is the first time I've heard of decision journals or records
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I'm genuinely asking questions about why the economy and setup is the way it is, and why can't we change it to something better.

Everything can be improved, and we should strive to improve everything. I'm very aware of companies that operate very well without making a profit. They add a lot of value to society, the employees get paid and they're even expanding (MEC in Canada). But no profit. Nobody who doesn't work there gets richer. So why don't Apple work that way. Why doesn't Comcast work that way.

CEO pay represents a huge surplus of money (profit) that wasn't needed. The products and services offered by the company could have just been discounted that much, or the employees could all have been paid more, not just one person.
Pandemic WFH is a total disaster. As much as it becomes equal footing, the floor has fallen off. WFH works when you can actually work from home - not when every possible place where you could stash your kids is closed. WFH also doesn't work if forced suddenly on people who, before the pandemic, haven't given it even a single thought.

This event is going to taint WFH for years to come.
Is there any way to adapt the old lenses to the new body style?
This sounds like a much easier problem to solve than what we're dealing with now
In the first one, they already defined upper bound and least upper bound beforehand, so the statement is more concise than the Strichartz's one.
On the other hand, the proof of the completeness axiom, or rather a detailed construction of the reals, is a part I always enjoy in analysis textbooks.
Are there projects to integrate notebooks with version control?
Digital library of old and rare books set up by Attorney General for India
Been wondering about this for a while... How does one "graduate" a notebook to an actual program on a server? Is there an actual standard procedure for that?

I'm pretty sure that if your notebook is big enough to debug what's in it you'd be doing everyone a disservice keeping it contained like that.
But the legacy is still apparent.
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I don’t know. They can develop excellent software but it seems they are very deliberate in what they put energy into. Reminds me a little of Microsoft. They can produce excellent products if they are forced to but they are perfectly content with producing mediocre stuff as long as the business is fine.
Please edit to include publication date of (1863).
Not entirely, but that doesn't mean it's as useful as it once was: https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/what_ange...
But of course. If you intentionally prevent ppl from being infected then they remain susceptible. Short of a vaccine, you can't put it off forever. Those ppl can't hide forever.

This is an expected - or should be - result of "flatten the curve." FTC is not about the virus per se, it's about the healthcare system. That is, to not exceed the volume the healthcare system can handle.

Put another way, an increase in the number of positives isn't necessarily a bad thing. If if stays towards the 80% who are asymptomatic or low risk then the more the better. They'll get it. Recovery and will be past it. The key number - the number the media should be emphasizing - is the positives in high risk individuals. That's the curve we don't want to see spike.

Furthermore, it's where those happen. One-thousand as 50 in 20 cities is not the same as 500 in one city (e.g., NYC) and the other 500 distributed evenly elsewhere.

The aggregate numbers make great - but crap - headlines. The understanding is in the details.
Those responsible were soldiers acting for the state. The state still exists.
> Confirming what had been widely suspected, researchers have found that human-caused climate change had an impact on Australia’s recent devastating wildfires, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning at least 30 percent more likely than in a world without global warming

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/climate/australia-wildfir...

> A 2018 study led by UCLA’s Daniel Swain found that as temperatures continue to rise, California will see a shift to less precipitation in the spring and fall and more in the winter, lengthening the wildfire season.

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/01/how-climate-c...

> Van Oldenborgh also noted that climate simulations tend to underestimate the severity of such heat waves, suggesting that climate change may be responsible for even more of the region’s high fire risk.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/australia-wildfires-clim...

I don't have data sets, but after the aus wildfires many outlets reported the above posters claims with sources.
For many jobs, meetings are a fundamental part of working.
after struggling with inkscape for way too long. finally, i downloaded the affinity designer demo, and actually got stuff done. it isn't perfect, splitting/deleting parts of a curve was trickier than illustrator. but overall, very happy. i'm a convert.
Type-Safe Pointers in ATS
Comcast offered to connect my place for something around $22,000. When I asked them to write a bid, they vanished. So as far as I can tell, they were bluffing and did not expect me to call them on it.

And on 5G? I have little hope. At least here in the US where we've decided that it should be millimeter-wave, the range is insufficient to circumvent NIMBYism and FUD around installation and RF emissions.
This is a really interesting perspective on the result. I also share your optimism on what this will mean for the state of the pandemic, at least in the US for now. This very well could be the begining of the end of this crisis.
The reason they've been telling us not to wear masks is a little tricky: they don't want us to buy N95s in lieu of having them go to medical staff.

From the BBC:

"Disposable surgical masks also are not recommended for people unless they're sick or caring for someone who's ill."

Well, if it helps someone caring for someone who's ill, obviously it will help a random person no? I suppose the issue is the degree of effectiveness, how it is used, and I've read that wearing a mask makes people otherwise too confident and lax in other things aks washing hands.

If Korea can do it, we can do it, whatever 'it' is it's not magic.
Perhaps as part of your CI?
Yes, I have no problem with the fact that the concept "sup A" is defined before the statement of the axiom and then not repeated in it. (It's defined before the statement of theorem 3.1.1 in Strichartz too, it's just also repeated there.) I'm objecting to the fact that they present a theorem as if it were an axiom.
If Apple notices this press, they may very well ban uploads of new apps containing Facebook SDK versions with this telemetry.

If California and the EU get wind of this, they may also give Facebook a gentle nudge.

That'll get Facebook to remove it fairly quickly, or at least stop triggering it in the background without user initiation.
My question is, what would be the impact on the following areas if the internet was public utility?

1) security/encryption

2) bandwidth distribution

3) content freedom

4) Governance rules (federal gov?)
The victims immediate family are still alive. We're still putting Nazis in jail for what they did at the same time as the Dutch where randomly killing men in sulawesi. This isn't ancient history.
The political acceptability of releasing then locking down again is likely to be very low in my view.

Friends and colleagues I speak to who haven’t followed the modelling papers etc think the point of a lockdown is to eliminate the virus entirely - not contain, not delay but eliminate entirely. There is also a very strong fear of getting the virus (many of the same people are convinced that it’s a death sentence almost akin to Ebola). I suspect that these views are very widespread and this is why the lockdowns currently enjoy strong popular support.

A release followed by a second lockdown would, I think, be viewed as an admission that the policy was a failure therefore and would also lead to a reassessment of how dangerous it really is amongst those people. Those still suffering from the economic damage from the first (which will be almost everyone) will have a lot of reasons to resist very hard and I think most governments in democratic countries would struggle to implement such a policy.
First part is mostly correct.

Second part, you're dead wrong in two areas. Manufacturing of essential goods continues in haste. And, stimulus is essential for people have lost their jobs and need to buy food. So take your theoretical keyboard economics degree and leave it at the door. Let's take away your source of income, ability to work and see how you feed your family.
Chapel performance has improved by leaps and bounds over the past 5+ years, though link [2] above focuses on single-node performance whereas most the team's recent optimization efforts have been focused on improving distributed memory performance and scalability, some indications of which can be seen at [3].

Of course, it's very possible for programmers without Chapel expertise to write and publish bad performance results in Chapel. The Chapel team is very interested in working with such users to help them understand where performance is being lost and to improve things to benefit future users. Most of our recent optimizations have been motivated by user feedback, and in practice we're typically able to help users get their codes to match or beat the performance of conventional approaches with reduced effort. A favorite recent example of mine can be seen in slides 6-16 of Nikhil Padmanabhan's talk at PAW-ATM 2019 [4].

A good way to keep up with Chapel performance improvements beyond whatever gets peppered into our talks is through the release notes that we publish every six months, e.g. [5], [6], [7].

[3]: https://chapel-lang.org/perf/16-node-xc/?configs=gnuugniqthr...

[4]: https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/PAW/raw/gh-pages/PAW-AT...

[5]: https://chapel-lang.org/releaseNotes/1.20/06-perf-opt.pdf
[6]: https://chapel-lang.org/releaseNotes/1.19/05-benchmark-opts....
[7]: https://chapel-lang.org/releaseNotes.html
Nice, this looks pretty cool! It seems a bit like Clang’s static analyzer: https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/
https://imgur.com/TcP8deL ;)