skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was specifically talking about NYT, not other sites.

I responded the way I did because it’s a common (annoying) trope for people to complain about paywalls in one breath, then in another breath complain about ads/tracking/lack of independent journalism.
Why isn't it discoverable? You know what type is returned by "To()" and if that has a BeCalled() method you can call it :)

Now, the problem that requires an IDE, that many curse Scala for comes in when you have implicit things. So even if "To()" returns a WhateverTestDslElement that might not tell you anything because there might be a hundred implicit functions that convert WhateverTestDslElement to OtherFancyDslThingWithTheMethodYouAreLookingFor.

Of course, at this point you are basically back to reading the documentation, which is kind of what C programming looks like.

That said efficient and useful and really "domain specific" layers are great, and many systems would benefit from one. (Which is sort of what the whole clean code "entities" is about - https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/images/2012-08-13-the-... )
This is awful. Autistic kids don't need to change how they view emotions. Other people need to be more accepting that other people may not care about their emotions as much as they do.
That is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing. I think I know my next project...
Do you actually do everything that websites tell you on the Internet without thinking for yourself? You can read the article without attaching an e-mail. Gosh!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/world/coronavirus-news.ht...
Nice!

How is the site itself built? Is it a static page or do you have some sort of backend?

I did something very similar for a local podcast that gives book/movie/music/etc recommendations a while ago: https://enpassant.tk/ . It is statically-built with Ruby.
I added another version where all the links are part of the same page / inline div's that are displayed https://mosermichael.github.io/jq-illustrated/dir-single-fil...
> About half the world’s airfreight typically moves in the bellies of passenger aircraft, while the rest travels aboard air freighters.

Turns out we can just keep those passenger aircraft flying.

https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-use-empty-passenger-jet...

> But Monday afternoon, Delta said it’s putting an unspecified number of passenger jets back in the air, flying out of 13 American airports and to 70 destinations overseas. Delta’s not selling any tickets for those planes, however. Rather, they’ll be operated by Delta’s cargo arm, running charter flights to cater to anyone who needs to move a package or pallet.
I got touched by:

> The app is free.

> No in-app purchases.

> No advertising.

> We do not collect your data.

> Use the code in any way.
The British Prime Minister and Health Secretary Both Have Corona
Should add most popular no-code repo on github: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

Even if it's a pun, it might make people think about it a bit more.
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Google kicked out this guy: "Jones disputed the need for social distancing, shelter in place, and quarantine efforts"

As a former attorney, I fully appreciate the importance of the 1st amendment for our country. Nevertheless, I commend Google for doing this. Great job!
I think what it means is not 'away from phone' but 'away from social media distractions'. Hence the name. But yeah, you shouldn't need an app to take you away from other apps. You could just turn off those apps.
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You don't seem to actually talk about where the data is stored. Someone on IPFS has to pin your content, who is doing that? Or you're running your own node + gateway to serve the content? (I only read the blogpost, not a fan of video content, so maybe you answered it in the video)
We need them to rush those augmented reality glasses so we can maintain distance with the Measure app!
Mycroft was actually more brilliant than Sherlock, though also lazy.

"My dear Watson," said he, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth."

... "I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an arm-chair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solution, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right. Again and again I have taken a problem to him, and have received an explanation which has afterwards proved to be the correct one. And yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points which must be gone into before a case could be laid before a judge or jury."
Nice! Looking forward to the android version.

Small nitpick: change "an unique" to "a unique".
This is why I have a strict "PSTN or GTFO" policy when it comes to how people contact me for e.g. a phone screen.
Wait, really? As in, the WHO followed an intentional strategy of misleading the public, akin to a real life trolley problem? I'd be interested in reading more about this if there are sources.
HOW DO YOU THINK THE MODERN INTERNET WORKS
The few customers we've had that ask are large, so yes. I am speaking of the majority of individuals and small businesses.
>The consequences of privacy loss can be severe, up to and including violent death (partner violence, anti-LGBTI attacks, religious persecution)

If you are going that way then likewise, there is always someone somewhere could die because the software doesn't work because they prioritize privacy.

Beside, The reason we have growing acceptance for the LGBT is because of the openness and transparency. That won't happen if we have perfect privacy.

Yes is true that leak is only matter of time, so its even more infeasible to maintain privacy. The solution should be to assume information is public as much as we can and fix the issue that arise from that.
Does anyone know if this applies to the N95 masks with a cool vent?
Incident- or event-based war rooms are special cases, but in those cases, static information radiators are even more important. Saying "Hey everyone, look at what <metric> is doing right now" and having it rotate away is totally destructive to coherence.

If you want more information than can be displayed on available information radiators, they belong on individuals' computers.
The issue with is the word "scientist".

In academia, science is the pursuit of postulating a falsifiable theory, then gathering facts to verify that theory, and then going through a process of intensive peer review that either confirms, dispels or amends those findings.

The formality of the academic process is a necessity. The value of scientific findings entirely depends on the trustworthiness of the research. That is, how were the results obtained, which line of thinking was followed, did the research exclude crucial biases, etc.?

The importance here is that academic research is used as a pillar to produce products and services we all use in daily life. For instance, if you need a hip replacement, you want to be sure that prosthetic was designed based on rigorous scientific findings and studies that can vouch for safety and comfort.

The difference then with "data scientist" is that they often they don't apply the same rigorous research practices. It's easy to pick a dataset and bang off visualizations; it's a different story to actually come up with relevant questions, assert the quality of the data at hand and publish your findings towards a community of domain experts who are actually able to review your findings.

One needs in-depth domain knowledge to do that. Good data scientists will understand this limitation. They often work in a specific domain in a supporting capacity: bringing technical skills and capabilities to domain experts that don't have those skills.

Then there are those who purport to practice data science while grokking datasets, creating visualisations and cobbling a blogpost together at the end of the day. That's when you need to be really wary of what they publish, even if the bigger picture contains truthiness.

Hence why I have extremely mixed feelings about what https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo is doing.

To be sure, the core points of what he's telling are in line with what domain experts are telling us. But the extreme number juggling is quite mind bending. Moreover, the man is not a domain expert. He's an entrepreneur who happens to know how to write viral blogposts such as "how to deliver your funny speech" and "How to become the best in the world at something". What he does is anything but scientific. And so, even though he's making a heartfelt plea heard by many, one should be careful to not take the precise details in his pieces at face value.

At the moment, we all are victims of our own confirmation bias. Each day yields another data point, and given our desperate state, we want to see trends that confirm improvement, a probability that one will survive this, low mortality and so on. The reality is that we only have so few datapoints and it's still far too soon to make conclusive assertions about how this will pan out for the world at large and you in particular.
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Maybe it got flagged because it's an abomination of an article. Did you even read the damn thing? The author has no authority to speak on the subject seeing as he does not even recognize the work many crypto projects are doing to help the unbanked and solve energy consumption (PoS vs PoW).

Crypto fills a niche, it's the cash of the internet providing an unregulated unrestricted ability to transfer value.

A number of the negative points in the article could have been said about regular fiat currency.

This article is a one sided brain fart by someone who knows nothing about the subject they are writing about.
It was passed by Congress. Bush just signed the bill into law.
Apparently COVID-19 is only a problem in the United States, because I can’t download this app from the Canadian App Store. I understand there might be legal issues involved, but it’s still a bit of a disappointment.
Here's my anecdote: I twisted my ankle while running a 5K and thought I broke something. I hobbled in, signed some paperwork, and waited a few minutes because my injury wasn't life-threatening. My leg was examined by a nurse practitioner and it was determined that it was most likely sprained. Told to rest, take Tylenol for pain, and return if things got worse and they would do an x-ray. My ankle healed and I was fine.

Bill after insurance? $200, which isn't bad here.

This is what an urgent care is for in the US: non-life threatening care that isn't an emergency but can't wait until your next visit with your primary care physician. If you think you're dying, go to the ER.
Can you really say it works until you've actually received them? What masks did you order by the way?
Edit: I accidentally used the stock concentration in my original calculation, updated to the effective dose found.

The average volume of a human is around 62 liters.

The effective concentration for the highest EC50 is 6.71mM. The lowest EC50 is 1.31.

Aspirin DL-lysine as a molecular weight of 326.34.

Therefore, to reach the concentrations used in the study, the average person would have to consume somewhere between 26 and 135g of asprin (from the two molarities above). Way above the maximum safe daily dose, which is 4 grams.

Using the absolute best case scenario- 1.31mM- and an effective volume of 12 liters, that's still 5.1g. Which is /just/ under the max safe dose. At 6.71mM, that's 26g.
Zoom have had several controversies with its privacy now and still going strong . Great staying power like Facebook.

The product must be really good. I have never used them more than in couple occasions and found it like any other web conferencing tool in my opinion.
Two meters straight-line distance because that's how far your sneeze travels. If it's around a bend, then someone's sneeze isn't going to hit you; it will hit the wall first.
Where is the Zoom CEO in this thread?
Thanks for the feedback! This is now the reference "first PWA" example: https://web.dev/codelab-make-installable. Let me know if you find it easier for new devs to get started with. The other codelab and a lot of other scattered content will be removed once we finish the migration to web.dev.
One perhaps underappreciated benefit of even a "garbage" mask is that it's a great reminder not to touch your face. That might turn out to be important.
Err I don't know... Didn't the bios set the video controller up for you? Not bare metal enough, I'm afraid. /s
>One that has been a total game changer for my company is when I'm hosting a conference call, I can simply "Invite by Phone" my participants. They get a phone call, are prompted to "Press 1 to enter the conference", and boom they're in. It's drastically reduced people fumbling around with phone numbers + participant codes, ending up in the wrong meeting, or getting stuck in some unnecessary software install loop. If someone is more than two minutes late, they're getting a phone call that brings them instantly into the meeting.

Why on earth are people needing to make POTS phone calls to join a meeting? Not only is the audio of vastly inferior quality, the information isn't being kept secure AND they can't see anything being presented.

Instead, why not shoot them a link so they can just click it and be in the meeting? That's how it SHOULD work, but that's not how it DOES work with Zoom (unless you engage in tomfoolery to make like you're trying but failing to install the software, and only then do you get a link to join via browser — but then then you get a deliberately-crippled experience because fuck you).
I think in these extraordinary times, it’s nice to see the government proactively trying to do more to counteract the worst pandemic the country has ever seen. As much as we might all cry foul over the curtailing of freedom, there is a lot to be said in this current environment about contact tracers immediately knowing who a known covid carrier has come in contact with, which in turn means a speedier response from the medical teams.

That being said though, the app is absolute garbage on iPhone. Obviously not really their fault, but needing to have the app actively on for it to work is absolutely going to lead to people not bothering to turning it on.
I use Forest (https://www.forestapp.cc/) which does something similar: plants virtual trees (you can pay to plant real ones too) for every time interval when you stayed focused.

I will also try this one when the Android version appears. The generative artwork makes it very compelling.
Will Ridesharing Replace Public Transportation?
Though you can access the website from Canada.
mainly because it was cheaper than ADATs.
I am afraid you would need to rewind further than that.
Yeah that's an issue with many 'modern' apps. MS Teams does the same :( I really preferred slack but now that MS throws Teams in for free we have to cope with that.
No, you've missed the point - you don't quit and rejoin, it just freaking stays up. It's really remarkable - I can switch networks and VPNs on my macbook any time during a screensharing session and get nothing more than a slight delay for a second on video, and zero perceptible drop on audio.
https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/04/singapore-city-of-senso...
I have the feeling that outside of the HN community and other tech communities, most people just don't care about this, which is sad.
Apple launches Covid-19 screening website
Both mods and community can result in a dead post. (You can see them by going to your profile and changing the dropdown)

w.r.t. cryptos, I think this community is less interested in the topic than two years ago. Turns out most of the content is either bs and shilling. This community is more interested in blockchain, less so about cryptocurrencies. Technical articles or those that teach something interesting do well.
I mean more in the scenario that you’re about to turn a corner and someone is standing there. Maybe if you got an alert you would wait and let them pass or take a different route.
I've seen buzzfeed news report on stories I'm familiar with. Its all clickbait and sensational.
I worked at a very successful research lab in the UC system for a few years. Nearly everything we did was fabricated. We would literally write proposals in a day or two and DARPA would throw 250k at us. We'd have some undergrad f around with a robot and video camera, write a paper and call it a day.

Everything was a business decision. I remember watching a PHD candidate being told he needed to stay another year because basically, we needed him to get grant money. I was an undergrad at the time and was offered a PHD track, but I declined because I didn't want that to be me.

The experience has left me with a deep distrust of academic science.
Bacteria fail to eat our organic wooden houses.
Website is here https://www.apple.com/covid19/
You can't really divorce IPC from the process used, the amount of nested logic in each pipeline stage is a direct function of gate delay and therefore the manufacturing process. On one process I may be able to fit 10 stages while on another I could fit 20. It's quite likely Intel's IPC would be much better on TSMC's 7nm vs their current 14nm.

This is also a problem when moving designs to a new generation FPGA. You may find your current level of pipelining is no longer optimal and you should do more each cycle.

People seem to have this weird idea that IPC is unrelated to how things are manufactured.
This conversation has taken a very disappointing turn, and it just feels adversarial now. When you say something like,

> And no matter how bad it [JavaScript] is as a language, it still beats compiled languages as a dynamic extension and scripting language.

In a normal conversation, I can disagree, and we can argue all we like about the reasons we like or dislike various languages for dynamic extensions / scripting. Maybe I might learn something! But no, I'm just reading a monologue that you wrote about why JavaScript is better, filled with arguments that I've already heard.
> CNF we would not say the Englishman lives in the red house we would say either the owner of the house is NOT the Englishman OR the house is red (which effectively means the same thing).

Effectively, maybe. Somebody might object that those two clauses (NOT the Englishman OR the house is red) can't be satisfied both at the same time - because not only the Englishman lives in the red house, also nobody else also lives there. So it's also true "NOT the Englishman IMPLIES the house is NOT red", "house is NOT red IMPLIES NOT the Englishman", neither of which is derivable from the original clause (CNF allows regular, "mathematical" understanding).
Irrelevant in the sense that anything will kill baddies at high enough concentrations, but it'll also kill people?

Or irrelevant in the sense that it's totally achievable to do that in people and it won't mess with their bodies too much?
I found a glitch/bug: you can accidentally go back to the launch screen (with no way to go forward other than force-closing the app) if you swipe near from the edge right below or above the number scroller/selector.
I feel like it’s the new cool fad that everyone is trying to retrofit into their api for 0 benefits.
I jump between Java and .NET languages depending on the project/customer, and one thing it bothers me in .NET land, or JVM guest languages, is having to hunt for exceptions, because documentation in some libraries is hardly up to date.

So one ends up putting a couple of catch all handlers in critical code paths, just in case.
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For one thing: restaurants and similar businesses have sound fundamentals once the crisis is over. They need something to help with cash flow in the next few months.

I've known restaurants that have sold discounted meals in advance of a big investment (expansion, recovery from fire, ...) to move cash forward in time.

On one hand this is a marketing method (e.g. "gift card";) another way of thinking of it is an alternative form of finance (e.g. a bond.)

Patrons of a restaurant have more reason to invest in it: not only do they get discounted meals later, but they get to keep a business they like going, so they can give better terms than a bank or public market.

Helping businesses like that survive by instituting such programs is certainly something you could do if you have nothing else to do and want to work at a breakneck pace immediately. It scales: you could do it for just a few local businesses that you care about, but it's also a very large market.
Slack Develops Technology to Work With Microsoft Teams
Even older than that, hotspot would in-line the common case for method dispatch in situations where there is one implementation or where one implementation dominates. (Kind of wonder if Spring would perform at all without it).
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I suspect part of it is the "controversial" state of Taiwan vs mainland China. (i.e., do they count as separate countries, etc)

Some graphics and stats make this distinction more obvious--others sort of roll it all together.
Wait till you hear how Boris Johnson feels about said mayor!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/13/boris-johnson-c....
I seen now that my comment was out of context. Sorry.

I was referring to longevity in general. Back in the day, DEC computers would just about never go down. They easily had up times of longer than 5 years.
If anybody else is wondering about alternatives, DHH sourced some ethical options in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1243248363979419649?s=21

Of those, I tried whereby.com yesterday and was blown away. It just works with zero downloads in any browser, including mobile, and is very high quality. From my brief usage, I highly recommend it for small teams.
DHS Makes a Master List of Knowns and Unknowns of Covid-19 Outbreak
I was using it mainly for parsing and Hakyll. This is the first time I tried to use it for a web server though.
> Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic? If so, I'm not sure what to tell you.

If the result is (another) permanent loss of privacy and freedom akin to the PATRIOT act, then yes.

Technology has immense power to do good for people, but only if those who deploy it do so ethically. How many governments around the world can we honestly predict to do so?
Exactly. Masks are like dampeners. Even if not everyone's masks are good (cloth masks), they'll still slow the spread, hence significantly fattening the curve.

Advising people to not wear mask is the biggest disservice the American government (and the CDC) did to its people. Just asking people to cover their mouths with bandanas and scarfs would've helped a lot.

I shudder when I see reporters in a breakout zone reporting without masks on. Man.
Why only a little bit?
WebAssembly also does not support unmodified C and C++.

What do you call emscripten and the language extensions it makes use of, then?

One of the major features for .NET Core 3.0 was C++/CLI support. It is a major .NET language in Windows desktop applications, as it is more convenient than writing P/Invoke annotations.

Also CLR is just the example more people nowadays can relate to, I can give other C and C++ bytecode examples.
Requires sign in and ios 13.1. I feel like this is a nudge from them and not completely altruistic.
I'd be interested to learn more about Zotero's history and whole space. Do you mind if I reach out to you with more questions? Email's on my profile :)