skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
Look I don't think it's the medium really. HN is quite similar to Reddit. Reddit I wouldn't consider to be that healthy as it's really driven by strong politics and it's sometimes impossible to express an opinion reasonably without getting into trouble. The big difference: the people. I think HN is a healthy community because it consists to a degree of like minded people. Smart people with an interest in programming and technology business/startups. Whereas Reddit is everybody from teenagers to farmers. That's not to say I dislike Reddit. I was on that site many years.
> might be coming soon

No way they gonna let you use existing hardware
Honestly, as both a free software and privacy advocate... yeah. If contact tracing significantly improves our ability to eliminate the epidemic, and my current understanding is that it does, this seems like a pretty good implementation. So long as the data collection is explicitly voluntary, I'm asked for my permission first, and it's for an important cause like this one... I really don't mind!

I would much rather have a system like this than to be indiscriminately tracked and lose more privacy potentially indefinitely. The tracking can't be indefinite if I'm asked for permission, because if I don't think there's good reason for it I'll just say no. And if I'm worried the app's privacy measures aren't good enough and it'll be abused, I'll just uninstall it.

Consent is the key!
This is unfortunate for the folks at AirBNB. As someone who specializes in front end, I've admired their user interface and it is clear they have talented people.
Was this posted by Beavis or Butthead?
Apparently, there's an upgrade for HIPPA compliance, too. I have no idea what that entails or how to tell from the client-side if that's in place. I was working with a medical provider and had to switch to remote sessions. Our first VC was cancelled last minute because they were upgrading the account for HIPPA.
sometimes warps the context of a personal blog post

That's true but those blog posts end up making poor HN posts. This one is very short, contains a little bit of data and would not have been hn-noticed other than for the deliberately provocative title which then becomes the central topic of the HN discussion. People familiar with the author/blog don't have any trouble recognizing their chain is being playfully tugged; on HN it's just a bombastic one-liner sitting on the front page, demanding rebuttal.

A lot of tweets that are perfectly fine tweets make bad HN posts for similar reasons.
Re: finding new comments, I've seen another solution on one of the news site forums that I quite liked: messages are folding individually (i.e. only content is hidden but not the children), and when you enter the thread through the "new" link, only new messages are shown in an unfolded state.
Sounds like we shouldn't be blowing our nose, shooting more bacteria than in necessary into our nasal cavities.
So some fxxers flagged this thread? Again showing why HN sucks in any emergency situation. There will always be two people who strongly disagree. (It seems like two flags is enough to kill any post.)
Sure, I agree with the balancing act. There just shouldn't be any monetary problem going on, as testing is so cheap compared to the effects of not putting sick people on quarantine.

I'm just fustrated of the whole western thinking while Asia shows us that fighting the virus is just a logistical problem, we have all the needed technology (masks, testing, quarantine, hygiene, temperature checking everywhere).
Agree with all posted before.

Adding Clifford Stoll, Cuckoo's Egg; white it's not so much a history of computing as a personal history of a geek astronomer catching a hacker, it represents a lot of early computing culture, and I enjoyed it a lot.
The elephant in the room is that we can’t accurately measure job performance by any objective metric either.

Many things would be simpler if we could: performance reviews, promotions, incentives, salary equality, recruitment etc.
https://openpcr.org/
except virus != ill != death
Despite the name, unsafePerformIO isn't automatically akin to undefined behavior in C. It can cause undefined behavior if misused, the most obvious example being the creation of polymorphic I/O reference objects which act like unsafeCoerce—but that would be affecting the outcome of the computation. If the value returned from unsafePerformIO is a pure function of the inputs then the only remaining risk is that any side effects may occur more than once or not at all depending on how the pure code is evaluated. As long as you're okay with that there isn't really any issue with using something like Debug.Trace for its intended purpose, debugging.

There are better ways to handle logging, of course—you generally want your log entries to be deterministic, and the ability to produce log entries (as opposed to arbitrary I/O actions) should be reflected in the types.
Sure, but if you inhale 30% of that from your hand into your mouth, and exhale 30% to your hand, it loses more than just not touching your face.
Ask HN: Can vacuum bag material be used to create N95 masks
Vacuum bags with HEPA level filtering. Can they be used to make masks?
This is really useful if you want to use your distro's maintained gnome package for a desktop, but cast longing glances towards the ergonomics of tiling WMs. It's a gnome shell extension that adds its own particular flavour of keyboard shortcut driven window tiling.

The scrolling mechanic is odd, but I'm finding it very usable so far.

Submitted before, but I hadn't come across it, so hope it might be useful to others.
Honest question [not trying to act controversial], especially with all the US-China spat.

Zoom's engineering team is based in China - the product is primarily built out of there. [1]

What guarantee is there that the CCP is not intercepting/backdooring all video communications? Especially in current situations, where so much sensitive information is being discussed via Zoom?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
Yeah, I see that now. Makes total sense.
This is not the EU doing something. It's the tiny country of the Netherlands being a desperate cowboy and Roche being aware of Brazil once having survived a WTO dispute regarding the access to a certain anti AIDS medicament.
Proteins killing proteins at the macro and micro level
Oh no, I don't think so in this case. Putin and SA are the primary belligerents, in which case they may have other geopolitical motivations for playing this game.
My understanding is that even the disaster loans will still require collateral and personal guarantees. Unsure if they're waiving or changing those rules or plan to.

Disaster loans have been around long before COVID-19.

Again, this is different than the Paycheck Protection section of the CARES Act which covers 2.5X of the average monthly payroll from 2019 that is subject to loan forgiveness and does not require personal guarantees or collateral.
Mind linking to the research between Sjogrens and antibiotics?
Sure, a place that continues to adapt and engage with in a rapidly changing world (not just tech, but in general) is a great thing, and difficult to do depending on the userbase. For a general forum (i.e. not split into specific subreddits), HN does a really good job of providing both "classic" and new/current discussion topics. I never doubt that there won't be at least one or two every interesting things on the front page on any day, and that's an obvious incentive to (habitually) visit and participate in discussions.

As for HN's civility, relative to many other places (twitter, reddit, news sites comment sections), I think that's a credit to the moderation policy and not something that would happen on its own. I see the effort in moderation as being cause+correlation of the community civility. And if civility were to noticeably decline, I'd take that as a sign that YC was less invested in maintaining and growing HN as a community and discussion forum.
I've seen them in the last year or two while driving through SF at night.
> given that Mac apps are less complex to write than iOS apps these days

Do you agree HN?
I never grasped why this is so hard, you don’t need an exponential blowup with some common sense heuristics. Just look at the AST and put the breaks as high up in the tree as possible.

For example: If I have a function application with several arguments one of which is a slightly longer lambda expression, don’t even try to break the lambda before putting the arguments (nicely aligned) on their own line.

I’m a big fan of the ergonomics of prettier, but some of its output is objectively ugly and seems the result of over-complicating their search space.
They do not, according to the dashboard, this issue merely affected connectivity between GCP and other cloud providers.

There was a different outage yesterday, which has nothing to do with the one discussed in this thread.
I feel like Zoom has a history of doing shady things under the vail of "ease of use" (referring to the uninstall complaints a few months ago).

I do think on macOS the average user doesn't understand DMG files, run apps from inside the DMG instead of copying them to /Applications and deleting the disk image. My guess is that most people install Zoom after a meeting has started and this was the quickest, fewest dialog method of getting it up and running.
> I'm going to make sure that I praise good ideas first

This is something I am trying to do in real life as well (although I don't always succeed). For some reason it's really easy for me to open my mouth to talk about weakenesses/problems with things, but it's not as natural to highlight the positive aspects. I also try to say aloud my positive thoughts about people when they pop in my head instead of keeping them to myself.
Woops sorry

I used the Ackermann Péter fucntion, still the same parameters (3, 6), on spidermoney (js engine for Firefox 74.0, windows 10, i7 8k)

Thanks for the link, I'll definitely dig down into that!
Invert zoning, say housing must be built with businesses, and it must be mixed together.
Microsoft to end investments in facial recognition firms after controversy
'bail out' - you mean making good on their blood debt?
The Coronavirus Isn’t Just a Blue State Problem
There is also an app/project out of MIT called 'Private Kit', which is primarily designed to address the privacy issue.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit-researchers-launch-location...

[2] https://safepaths.mit.edu/
That would honestly be preferable. It cuts down the noise, however Facebook-like reactions may seem.
>News reading is probably more of an iOS thing than a Mac thing in general

I think that is where the assumption gone wrong. News Reading /= RSS. I mostly consume Social Media on my Mobile. Or easy to read, digest, bite-size information. Easily hoping on and off in the timeline. My RSS feed is none of that, for me it tends to require more focus and longer time to digest. Hence I never do any RSS reading on mobile.
Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2’s Visit
If they want to be "responsible" they need to be preparing the public to 50-60K dead for the year, which would be a normal haul of a heavy flu season. With extraordinary measures already in place (and with selective lifting of the measures in locales where infection is moderate), it seems to me that's where we'll end up. IOW, people who would die of the flu complications, will die of COVID19 and lower respiratory problems instead. Trouble is, nobody pays any attention to how many people die of flu complications per year. That number for lower respiratory diseases, for instance, is 160K per year in the US, without any virus (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929#chronic-low...). So it is possible that _fewer_ people will die of lower respiratory stuff because all the stops are being pulled when caring for them.

As to making people take it seriously, I don't think that's their primary motivation at all. As of yesterday, Cuomo himself admitted that there is a lot of unused ventilator capacity in NY. Meanwhile the press is reporting that they're running out of beds and ventilators, possibly causing people to freak out and leave NY, dragging disease to where it has not yet proliferated. This is extremely irresponsible.
Hmmm nice questions. So when I was at Google before, I saw a lot of different kinds of datasets. But I also saw commonalities in terms of not just data types, but also data abstractions or the kind of stuff people like to do with that data. The goal (a difficult one for sure) is that can we automate a lot of that for any dataset so it's still unique and powerful enough for that particular dataset but at the same time can be done by anyone without writing code or ton of manual customization ?

In summary, there is a fairly complex process towards making those decisions. Feel free to pm me at ash [at] polymersearch.com if you want to dig deeper.
That's the _only_ justification (and it's a extremely weak one) I can see for making it opt-out - it doesn't single you out as struggling, its the default.
hmmm....subliminal mind control
This oncoming economic recession is going to be deep and severe and we'll be living with the repercussions of shutting down the economy for many, many years. Lots of domino effects are in play.
Thanks, I've only read Racing the Beam but I've been meaning to check out some of the other ones. I'll start with that one.
> Being honest, I don't think there is any need for such alarmism.

Looks at JHU map... I think there is.

> If anything, this pandemic has demonstrated that a viral bioweapen could ensure MAD just as well as the nuclear variety.

A viral bioweapon is like trying to enact MAD by being the only ones with nukes and threatening to nuke everyone including yourself unless others do as you wish. It's a domain of mad men.

> You are implying that individuals could release a bioweapon upon the world - sorry, but again I think this is pure alarmism, and absolutely not what we need right now.

I'm implying that small groups could do it now, and individuals perhaps a decade for now. Biohacking has been a thing for a while now, and the main limiting factor is still that a) most people are sane, b) this is still difficult and you're more likely to give yourself diarrhea than weaponize a pathogen.

> I don't doubt that the WHO and experts from across the globe will be making plans to more rapidly contain future outbreaks. I'm certainly interested to learn more about such plans when they exist though.

Contact tracing seems like a no-brainer here. Great payoff for relatively little effort.
A few good ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

* "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems
" https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-360-and-early-370-system...

* "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35953464-broad-band

* "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427580.Fire_in_the_Vall...
The thing is, skepticism is often just pessimistic half-truths.
There's a different clock on there for unfunded liabilities at $132T. If that package is unfunded, it's not even a dent to the overall.
Brain-training games are BS
LA as well.
See the full list of which companies are freezing hiring: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes
While I agree with your overall point (and agree that it's unfair to characterize the hard work y'all have been doing as a "rushed job")...

> How much functionality would you need to implement to provide the correct behavior for a super-simple native GUI application? Probably just USER32, GDI32 and KERNEL32 would do. On MacOS, this is AppKit, QuartzCore, Foundation, CoreFoundation, libobjc and libSystem (which includes huge components such as libdispatch and emulating complex APIs such as kqueue).

I don't think "number of APIs" is the reasonable benchmark for how difficult it might be to get a GUI application up and running. It's totally possible that macOS might more eagerly split out functionality into different systems while Windows combines that same functionality into relatively few. I don't know how true that is, but it'd be interesting to compare based on the depth of those libraries rather than just the quantity.

And from what I understand about Wine, all three of those Windows libraries are incredibly complex and convoluted, and even to this day have gaps in their Wine equivalents. Assuming macOS' greater quantity of necessary libraries add up to the same degree of API surface to be reimplemented, what y'all are doing is impressive, to say the least (and sure, Wine's more usable right now, but Wine also had a decade or two of a head start).
That has been required by law for a long time now.

A lot of stoves don't have it actually installed even though they are supposed to.
I've sometimes thought it would be funny if someone wrote some kind of machine-learning algorithm that studied Hacker News comments and auto-completed threads when certain comments appeared. It would if nothing else make things more efficient.

Also - paywalls. If a site has a paywalls it's all but guaranteed that most of the thread will be consumed by complaints about it.
Its as if running an economy on margins this thin is unsustainable. Maybe we should pay the government a little more to put some extra money aside so we can avoid this in the future.
And then you end up with proposing hand-towels, bandanas and scarfs ...
Ask HN: Communication platforms for intermittent disaster relief?
Are there good platforms for disaster relief that work well with intermittent connectivity (i.e. spotty 3G/4G/WiFi/LoRa)?

How can major networks improve in terms of e.g. indicating message delivery status, most recent sync time, sync throttling status due to load, optionally downloading images/audio/video, referring people to local places and/or forms for help with basic needs, etc?

What are some tools that app developers can use to simulate intermittent connectivity when running tests?
I hate DOS as much as the next UNIX person but in filesystems it pays to be nuanced. We need to be able to swap data across OS and read/write enabled FS support for >4GB partitions with sensible names not 8.3 and with ACLS and even being able to boot from them would be nice. I wouldn't choose to live in exVFAT but I would welcome integration of support.
Ask HN: Which platform allows kids to create 3D games collaboratively?
So a few months ago I saw a trailer for a new game-creation platform that allowed real-time collab game making using simple WYSIWYG controls. 0 coding.

it showed kids creating not only characters and levels.. but also rules and character powers.

did this actually launch? or is it still in the works?

*This wasn't Minecraft. It looked more high quality, like Fortnight.
All of your concerns are alleviated with a simple return policy. (A customer-focused benefit.)
Here’s one that’s a hit or miss depending on your interests: The Design And Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup himself.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/...
I write both: iOS during the day and macOS at night. iOS is significantly less buggy and has less legacy baggage than macOS. iOS has some features that macOS doesn't, so there is more to learn. I spend a lot less time working around platform brokenness on iOS than on macOS. macOS lets you do a lot more than iOS in ways that are unmaintainable (e.g., private APIs), which helps you create accidental complexity for yourself.

Both platforms have a long tail of little-known behaviors (such as accessibility features) that make it hard to create well behaved applications. But iOS mostly just works (once you know which features are toxic and avoid them), while macOS's brokenness has completely metastasized.
For software projects a viable alternative to a separate web app is to use the repo, eg with a commandline app like Nat Pryce's https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools
Ask HN: What's the Equivalent of 'Hello, World' for a Quantum Computer?
The 'Hello,World' program is one of the simplest programs to demonstrate how to go about writing a program in a new programming language.

What is an equivalent simple program which demonstrates how to write a very simple program for a quantum computer?

I have tried (and failed) to imagine such a program. Can somebody who has actually used a quantum computer show us an actual quantum computer program?
I guess i misunderstood surpression. Thought surpression is the early stages and not when you have been thouroughly infected already.

"meaningful supply" was in the context of avoiding a lockdown and hence i don't undrestand your answer. if you don't have the equipment now, how do you avoid the lockdown and make the levels go down without large quantities of dead people?
This is what I suspect most people will miss. Worldwide I think alcohol poisoning is adulteration of spirits with industrial alcohol but the heads and tails are not just methanol, it can have metal and chemical residues as well.
How can people find local, legitimate sources for information if they're not already following local disaster relief authorities?
Show HN: Stay In. Reach Out
Wow, hackernews is a cesspool of self-serving "intellectuals". We're in the middle of a pandemic, which already killed 27 thousands people. And the #1 post is privacy act? Can't you guys admit that you didn't come up with video calling company worth 37 Billion dollars. Maybe it's worth talking the positive impact on Zoom during this crisis.
I am also confused about why zoom is the de-facto conference tool now. I have been working remotely for 6 years and haven't really noticed it being significantly better than other tools like Lifesize or Bluejeans. Also, the inability to draw on the presenter's screen is a big negative in my opinion. Trying to pair lately over Zoom always ends in a bunch of stammering like "erase that dot over there.. no... over there... no, up left..."
Dr. Robert Rowen: Treating Ebola and Ozone Therapy
The fickle world of software development
I remember an article early in the outbreak that Chinese doctors found the most reliable diagnosis comes from CT scans. Test was merely the first filter. They tuned the settings to increase scan speed at the cost of resolution and setup a process to scan up to 200 patients a day per scanner. I wonder if this is still best practice that other countries aren't adopting. On the other hand I expect tests to have improved since the early days. There's also the consideration China simply had more CT scanners that could be mobilized to Wuhan which makes this less practical elsewhere.
There is no right to fly. There was a right to privacy (at least as argued before the supreme court) and I think it could be said that is revoked because of the three-letter-agencies data collection that was justified by 9/11.