skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no assurance at this point it'll be improved the next 4 years, and who knows what's after that. It could be even worse for all we know. So it's not wise to increase what they might be in charge of.

Anyway, let's be real, it goes into the state and city levels too. NYC health leaders encouraged people to go to parades in Feb, in defiance of Coronavirus. Their mayor was encouraging people to go to bars and theaters into March. March!

Example from March 2nd: "Since I’m encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions."

https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229

Do they not bear any responsibility for that? And for not generally ensuring their health system could handle a surge? We knew of this specific problem back in January. We knew pandemics would be a problem generally. It's not exactly a surprise.
This is some quality stuff! Keep up the great work
23.5% of US electricity production is from coal

'In 2019, about 4,118 billion kilowatthours (kWh) (or about 4.12 trillion kWh) of electricity were generated at utility-scale electricity generation facilities in the United States.

1 About 63% of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels—coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases. About 20% was from nuclear energy, and about 18% was from renewable energy sources'.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Easier to use a browser that has your back, like Brave or Cliqz
Ha! I think I think I know why ⌕ is the symbol for “telephone recorder”.

It’s because of products like this: https://www.summitsource.com/Eagle-Telephone-Pick-Up-Coil-wi...

Instead of having a device sitting on the phone line, this just suctions on to the handset, and uses a microphone to pick up the sound vibrations. Similar to how a Jawbone headset works when clipped to your head!
It's not just for the benefit of the shareholders though. If it were I'd agree with you - but bailing out these companies is for the benefit of consumers, who would otherwise be without an airline industry for a while.

We should try to get the shareholders to pay for as much of it as possible though, whilst allowing the industry to stay solvent. This seems like some of the intention of making bailouts in the form of low-to-zero-interest loans (not sure if that's the form the bailout ended up taking).
All it would take to get muni-fiber to really get going would be for the FCC to get behind it and for federal aid to spur development in places to go to these muni-fiber cooperatives rather than the telcos.

I see the internet as a road. I think it’d be cool if road tech advanced but if it didn’t the economy would still function because all of the things built on the robust road system are there.
Company of One by Paul Jarvis is a nice short read. Not SaaS-specific, though.
And they never factor in training or maintenance level complexity, i.e. your ball of mud runs fast but have fun teaching ~5 juniors how to use it two years from now.
We lost $11 billion according to this article.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-gm-treasury/u-s-gov...
I know that they’ve been focussed on getting Publisher out. Whether that is the reason for any slowdown isn’t clear.
Granite doesn't have a lot of reactive carbon to turn into methane.
The airline industry needs to be resized as well as bailed out.

Business travel will be permanently impacted by the shift to digital communications that is being forced upon business now.

Leisure travel will not come back until there is a Covid-19 vaccine, which is 12 to 18 months at least. Even then, higher ticket prices due to the lack of the more profitable business travelers, combined with a lack of consumer expendable income, will curtail demand for another year or two.
Law of Attraction and Health – What Matters
I bet a superhero from lichess would be happy to bust this out in a weekend
Assuming virus structure doesn't change inside pets, why pet to human transmission is not possible? Shouldn't it be very likely?

You've a virus which can go from humans to pets and reverse, why? Any other virus where it's proven to be only one way street?
I see this so much in Rails codebases that at this point the two are nearly synonymous in my mind. But maybe I’ve been cursed to work only on bad Rails projects or something and there’s a universe of them out there that aren’t full of that sort of thing.
Strichartz constructs two Cauchy sequences (an increasing sequence starting with a point in E, and a decreasing sequence starting with a point that bounds E above) defined by successive midpoints between the points in each sequence. (That is: take the midpoint between the current top of the increasing sequence and the current bottom of the decreasing sequence, and assign it as the next element of the increasing sequence if it is not an upper bound for E and otherwise the next element of the decreasing sequence.) You can show that

1. These are in fact both Cauchy sequences;

2. They have the same limit;

3. That limit is the supremum of E.

LLN has no definition of a real number, and therefore can only construct real numbers by field arithmetic on other real numbers. That's what's missing.

(I'll take a moment to tangentially observe that I like how my description of the proof neatly explains why it requires the assumptions it does: the theorem requires that E be non-empty because the increasing sequence starts from a point in E, and it requires that E be bounded above because the decreasing sequence starts from an upper bound for E.

If you demand that the sequences start from rational numbers, it's easy to fix the upper bound, but you have to relax the start point of the increasing sequence from "a point in E" to "a point that is not an upper bound for E". That still requires that E is non-empty, but it does it in an awkward, roundabout way.)
Cats are probably better at social distancing than dogs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/wind-and... (Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world, analysis finds)

https://pvbuzz.com/renewables-capacity-overwhelms-coal-gas-o...

> Over the next three years, renewables will add nearly 50,000-MW of new capacity and be more than a quarter of total, while gas, coal, oil, and nuclear will drop by 4,200-MW

> Moreover, if FERC’s data prove correct, then by the end of 2022, renewable sources will account for more than a quarter (25.16%) of the nation’s total available installed generating capacity while coal will drop to 18.63% and that of nuclear and oil will decrease to 8.29% and 2.95% respectively. Natural gas will increase its share — but only slightly – from 44.67% today to 44.78%.
Also nothing is going to make entrenched telcos innovate more than having to compete with 10s or hundreds more players.
Don't look too hard at Sketch. While they have been the first movers on what was (and to a lesser extend still is) a glaring gap in the designers toolkit, Figma has been clawing market share at lightning speed over the last 2 years.

Sketch has delivered on a lot of things, but I do not think their business model is root cause of their success.
Kudos for lint-clean, and for high-quality C/C++ programming. One of my own stories of that (coincidentally, from when I worked on dev tools for aerospace/datacomm):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21158546
These papers sure are getting desperate for views.
Automating Deployments to Kubernetes with Pulumi
Hi all, I have created a repo for some code I am using to automate the deployment of some apps to Kubernetes with Pulumi. With this, I can rebuild my cluster with essential stuff needed for my app very quickly. I thought I'd share for anyone interested in Pulumi.

https://github.com/vitobotta/pulumi-kubernetes-deployments
Then you shouldn,t be allowed to put your name on your application either.
Reporters are having a field day writing headlines: https://www.google.com/search?q=Uranus&tbm=nws

I submitted a link from the New York Times a few hours before this one that went "Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2’s Visit"
I don't think anyone answering in this way would be "not smart" like you seem to imply.
I just want to thank you personally for speeding up the VS Code Go extension because I use it every day! Thank you!
Picketty Takes on the Ideology of Inequality
Trying now. Thanks!
> ~20 mbps DSL is good enough for the elderly population

I used 30 mbps internet for years till my ISP upgraded my lovest tear and I worked from home. Even gigabit was available I don't really care about speed. If you don't work with big files that needs to be synced often slow speed is fine.

I only care that my internet is stable. In this regard, fiber is way better, but for most elderly even a few hours a week downtime is not a big deal.
I like to ask interviewees to imitate the sound a computer would make over an AM radio while executing different algorithms.

Nested for loops go brrrrrrrrrrrr, munching squares go bweep bweep bwweeeep bwweeeep bwweeeep bwweeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bwwwweeeeeeep bweep bweep bweep bweep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4oRHv-Svwc

Life goes shlup shlup shlup shlup shlup...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4

If they use any Don Martin sound effects, I hire them on the spot.

https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html

>CHK CHK CHA-GONK BRBBRBBRING! -- Man's Eyes Being Poked Like A Cash Registers' Keys And Jaw Popping Open Like A Till Drawer -- Mad #61, Mar 1961, Page 18 -- Kitzel's Department Store
Show HN: Distributed 3D printing jobs platform to fight Covid-19
Accelerationist Manifesto
I think this idea of "no broke compatibility"/"no rewrite" is never properly considering the presence of COST * TIME.

In short time, is bad.
The more time pass, is good.

The cost of STUPID C/C++/JS behavior is measured in the billons.

Is not the makers of this langs aware? Yes. They know how could be fixed? Sure. Then WHY is not fixed?

Because not considering time in the calculation (and how many MILLONS OF PEOPLE are affect). But today, are DECADES behind of 100% certainty of the cost of this mistakes, and proved beyond doubts that the langs that fixed them ARE better.

In the face of reality and facts, why resist so much?

---

The thing is HOW get out of this mess?

The big irony is that the JS world show how (but not commit with the proper force): Build transpilers. Make "Better C++" that transpile to "BAD C++". Make clear that everyone must move forward, but provide this as partial step.

Make auto converters. Fix damm stupidity like dangling IFs, (seriously some stuff is not brainer). Have a clear vision in how move forward.

And drop the ego. C/c++ not need to turn into Rust, but why believe it could not truly get better?

Now, in the case of C/C++ exist a big trouble in the case of being the "de facto" ABIs for the rest of the world. Apple have the same issue with swift -> ob-c with the case of nullability (which apis never return null even if in theory could?).

Them do annotations to the APIs. This could allow to mechanize the transformations and provide ABI translations that could be injected in the compiler.

For example:

ABI STEP 1 (annotate only):

fn evil():NullableString //Imply NullableString = Option(Str)
[safe(NullTerminatedString == Str)]
fn not_evil(): NullableString

Old code is assumed to be alike evil.

ABI STEP 2 (rewrite):

fn ex_evil():Option<Str>
fn not_evil():Str

Then it could autotranslate the calls in demand at compile time, following transformations alike maps.

Eventually, when the calls are converted this step is erased and the runtime penalty removed, then all become good.
These companies have made incredible profits for many years by nickel-and-diming customers, squeezing employees, and ignoring large-scale environmental costs, and then diverted the proceeds into the pockets of a small number of extremely wealthy people instead of using it to prepare for possible shocks.

If the people are going to bail them out, the people should get an ownership stake.
>Nikon and Canon both thought mirrorless was a toy and both of them made shitty cameras that are basically point and shoot with interchangable lenses.

I hope you realize that live-view shooting was essentially turning a dslr into a mirrorless one (caveat obvious OVF/EVF differences). Canon's dual pixel AF tech is still miles ahead of Sony's PDAF when it comes to low light focusing, and video AF. Each pixel on a canon sensor can be used for AF as well as imaging. Sony uses masked pixels which limits them because they canno't mask too many pixels for fear of IQ degradation, and having fewer AF pixels limits them in low-light focusing.

>Both Nikon and Canon have realized their mistakes and recognized mirrorless is serious business and is the future. Nikon has scrapped the Nikon 1 line and started making Nikon Z, which is a super pro/prosumer oriented mirrorless lineup with a full frame sensor. Canon hasn't scrapped the old mirroless line but is pushing the RF mount lineup which is also full frame.

Or rather, like mature businesses, they realized that they could keep making money with DSLRs and slowly milk them dry and then ramp up mirrorless and make money there too.

>One thing of note is that Sony has opened up the E mount spec and allowed 3rd parties to create lenses.

That's because Sony had no expertise in making high quality professional grade lenses and teamed up with Zeiss and others to help them get up to speed initially.
I think you don’t understand what a warmer planet actually means.

I think you fundamentally don’t understand what temperature means.

Temperature is not a primary property. It’s an emergent property which reflects the amount of energy in a system.

A warmer planet may lead to a few mild winters. But it will also lead to many more extreme winters. And storms, etc, will all be turbocharged.

Mild winters are almost certainly gonna be the minority. Average temperatures will be higher, but the extremes will become even more extreme. Because, once again, a warmer planet means more energy.
Thanks, can you tell me more about the 'bikeshedding' at HN?
It's not clear what the default erase state is. It could be all 1s or some other pattern used during testing.
Bailouts for government-mandated shutdowns in crises are different than saving the banks for screwing up while trying to make more money.
At 20 USD/hour I think you would be able to fill these jobs.

But if you want to make that salary picking fruit, then we'll have to pay more for it -- or you'll need to have some automation to increase productivity.

I doubt we'll want to pay more, consumers would rather buy imports instead.
Tell that to Hillary, who insists on sitting on my wife's chest any time she lies down. Or Henry who insists on sleeping on my shoulder when I lie down.
This is a demo video of Operation dynamo, a distributed network of makers coordinating with hospitals to get them need supplies. Find out more at operationdynamo.org
Controlling Module Authority Using Programming Language Design
What is the point of wearing gloves?
What is the point of wearing gloves? If I touch a contaminated surface and then my face I'll get Corona whether or not I am wearing gloves the entire time. I could swap gloves every few minutes, but hand washing every few minutes is much easier. Yet it appears that glove wearing is recommended and common. Why is that?
Scot here. The countryside is open to everyone, and the "right to roam" makes it even moreso.

But I haven't seen much different in the rest of the UK - honestly, to claim the countryside is a giant retirement home seems absolutely absurd to me.
This has not been mainlined as far as I know.
Please don't make this place even worse by adding a supercilious dismissal to a shallow one.

If you think it's possible for a large, public internet forum not to get a lot of ignorant or shitty comments, that's extremely mistaken. What's necessary is for people who know more to post better ones. Since you seem to know more, you should be helping with that, not adding to the bottom of the barrel by dumping on it.

There are excellent comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710928 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22709644. I'm sure you could write something better if you tried. Indeed, you occasionally have done so.
True. But the root cause of the problem is the influence of the insurance/pharma industries on our legislative system.

Pretty sure Obama was smart enough to see that. Did he do anything about it?
Not a book, but Microconf has been posting all of their talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHoBKQDRkJcOY2BO47q5Ruw
Unsorted-array-based maps are sometimes used in the Java world, and for two or three elements will have much less overhead than hash tables. For instance, fastutil has http://fastutil.di.unimi.it/docs/it/unimi/dsi/fastutil/objec.... The map interface and encapsulation into a single “object” is the same.

It occurs to me that I don't know whether any of the major dynamic language implementations with maps/dicts/hashes as a central data structure use a similar approach for very small ones… huh.
> Microservices isn't for re-usability.

Isn't that AWS Lamdba environment getting reused at a very high frequency?

Maybe what we should consider is that coarse-reuseabulty--thinking OS and container images, cloud services--works semi-well, but that the more fine the grain of the re-use at the application level, the more TFA author's points kick in.
great review of one of his books here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8bypq0/read...
Oh! That's interesting. Thanks!
Its not a weird comment. The current global mode of production is engineered to ONLY work when there are no global crisises at hand.

Guess what: we have a global crisis at hand now. Which means that the neoliberal modus operandi fails without a struggle. It just collapsed overnight.

And if you think otherwise, just answer me this: if tourism cedes to exist, what do wild west neoliberal goverments do (with their current lack of social safety nets) with their 8-10% of their "workforce" having zero capability to get an income?
The pandemic is not their fault, but it is their fault for not being prepared for something like it. It’s even listed as a risk factor in investor disclosures, so it’s not totally unforeseen. An electrical fire can burn your house down through no fault of your own, and that’s why you have homeowner’s insurance. How about keeping cash in reserves instead of doing huge stock buybacks the last 10 years? How about having a plan to wind things down and “hibernate” until the business can be spun back up again? No sympathy for them. No bailout. Let them fold, let them sell the planes so new management can manage them better.
Just for fun, and for the record, on iOS 13.3.1 Safari, the following do not display:

• The first in “Magnetic Tape”

• The last three in “floppy disks”

• The last in “CD and DVD”

• The last in “Pager and Fax Machines”

• The first two, fifth, seventh and eighth, tenth, and eleventh in “Telephones”.
You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore. It probably doesn't compare at all.

Also coal itself biogenic source of gas and probably surrounded/connected to other gas generating lithology. So when you expose a coal seam to the atmosphere it will naturally release some amount of gas depending on exact composition and cook time. I'm just guessing here, my experience is in oil and IIRC coal is typically way past the "oil window" but probably comfortably within the very generous gas window.

Uranium is inorganic.
Adobe has access to plenty of APIs on Windows, yet it didn’t run any better and was an incessant security nightmare. Why would anyone have a reason to believe that Adobe would’ve done a better job on the mac than much flexible windows?

Adobe’s current performance on Windows and Mac in 2020 does not add any backing to that argument either.
This is weird.

> the cheetahs, but developed no overt symptoms [6]. Also, experimental transmission of the Aju-CoV to three domestic kittens
failed to cause disease [6]. Perhaps also relevant is that when the human SARS-CoV was
induced in domestic cats, they developed no symptoms

1. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(04)00143...
It's also true for most NOR memory and most earlier EEPROM and EPROM chips. This convention came from the original OTP memory - a "0" is created by burning the fuse to physically destroy an electrical link [0] on the chip, you can only change "1" to "0", not vice versa.

[0] In physical implementation details, however, an antifuse is actually more common than a fuse, i.e. breaking the link (e.g. by a high voltage pulse) creates a short, not an open.
Likewise. I will not create an account unless I am certain I'll use the app.

With Apple Sign In, I will consider trying it.
Another that probably won't work is xterm (which I currently use). (And if I implement my own terminal emulator, I probably won't implement it either, as I would probably mainly implementing the features of xterm and of DEC terminals.)
Could be an old theory, but the popular theory was it transferred from bats to humans, so yeah, this will probably happen. What this case doesn't say if it's readily transmissible between cats or between cats and humans. For all we know, people get viruses from other species all the time, the virus doesn't transmit well, so it stops there.
Yikes, you grew tomatoes indoors? How did you stand the smell?
> Living outside of the city in Northumberland(say within 30 minute driving distance to Newcastle) can be stupidly cheap.

Shame there aren't many decently paying jobs there, though. Unless you work remotely I'm not sure what there is compared to the south east?
At least in the US, I don't think people appreciate how expensive "expensive" actually is to encourage people to work in a part of the country where no one wants to live. You see the same issue with hiring labor for oil fields in places like North Dakota, where it requires six-figure pay to entice a marginally skilled worker to move out there.

Agriculture has an identical problem in terms of the market clearing wage for labor, except they don't have the profit margins of the oil fields that allow them to throw $100+k at farm labor to make the problem go away. In that version of the world, it would be better to be farm labor than a farmer. It should also be noted that in some parts of the US, the migrant labor is not "cheap" either by any normal definition as they are paid well above the median wage in the US since they have all of the leverage.

When I was growing up a significant fraction of farm labor in my area was ex-convicts from all over the country. The labor supply was so short that it was one of the best paying jobs that would readily hire an ex-convict. You still see some of this but it is greatly reduced, mostly just convicts who are from rural regions and are already accustomed to that environment.
You can give a path to your SSL cert in the config, and set "protocol" to "https" and you're done. If you're using Certbot, give the path to the live cert and it will work even after renewal.

About CSRF, as the framework is focused on APIs, the use of cookies is possible but not recommended, so you won't need CSRF protection when using Goyave.
Everything I have ever read indicates that white Americans don't want farm labor jobs even if you pay $20/hour.
Do Alkaline foods reduce susceptibility to Corona Virus?
We made a profit overall in the program that included GM/AIG's bailouts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/business/us-signals-end-o...

> In all, through TARP and other efforts, taxpayers injected $426.35 billion into banks and auto companies. The sale of stock and interest payments brought in $441.7 billion.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

It's fine to ask what the language is suited for. It's not fine to generically dump on it (or the people working on it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html