skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father-in-law doesn't believe in evolution. He also believes in a ton of other crazy conspiracy theories.

Now, every time he talks about something political, I make it clear his opinions are not welcome in this family and that until he can stop spreading disinformation he's sitting at the intellectual kids table.

The evidence for evolution is overwhelming. If he can't get this basic scientific fact correct then he's almost certainly wrong about everything else. At best everything he argues should be held with a massive red flag.

If you're scientifically illiterate you don't get to participate in society.
It gives them the feeling someone cares about their lifes
Note that this is still beta, but this is written by Tristan Gingold, the guy who wrote and maintains GHDL [1], a fast, high quality VHDL simulator.

It's really worth checking out, Tristan has produced very high quality work with GHDL over the years.

This extension of yosys is actually integrating ghdl as a VHDL front-end.

[1] http://ghdl.free.fr/
This is why these last few weeks on the market have been wonderful. If you can predict (including accounting for the supposed irrationality) then you make money. Otherwise you lose money.

If you had a prediction of how things would get hit w/ virus, there was so much money to be made. I watched but my timing was a bit off and I did not commit the majority of my wealth. That's a pity and speaks to my true estimate of the danger whereas a friend of mine pulled out completely of all long-term holdings in mid Feb so we know he believed.
I had two cofounders, and this is possibly the best description of how we operated... each with a different timeline and focus. Although I can't say that it ended well between us
Martin Sprenger (advisor to .at health ministry) on Covid-19
True, although the term cronyism and old boys club focus on the exclusivity of those "elite" circles, rather than the impact of their decisions, which looks a lot like conspiracy from outside.

Some people end up coming up with conspiracy theories based on their outsider observations.
DeSpeak: Practice at public speaking
True. But they'd also have to raise their tax rates to American rates, for the taxes to have any effect.
SRE was born of putting software engineers to work building operational software and automation tailored to an organization and application. In contrast, no matter what anyone says, DevOps was objectively born of replacing the operations discipline and career track with a poorly-understood tool economy and ongoing opex to a cloud provider. As you say, typical JavaScript engineers can’t be bothered to understand network capacity planning yet feel they are more qualified to take their application to production by deferring all decisions to cloud providers. Who all employ SREs/PEs, not DevOps Engineers, by the way, and there is a big distinction.

We have people who can handle the operational stuff. They’re called systems administrators, network engineers, yes, even SREs, and other folks who are really good at understanding how computers and the Internet actually work, and a webdev bootcamp gives zero context into exactly what they do. None. Then, your ten-head startup suddenly scales to needing a physical footprint because it will literally save 80% of opex, and all your DevOps Engineers say “but why? There’s AWS,” and you’re in Medium hell for weeks arguing about it.

Apropos, if I interview you and find you have written a thoughtpiece on Medium about how “sysadmin is evolving” and it’s “time for the gray beards to learn code,” you do not get a call back. That has actually happened, and no, sysadmin is not evolving. I know staff-level “full stack engineers” who can’t tell me what an ASN is. The motions in the industry have merely made those people more in demand at a few companies and served to cement their position as “where computing gets done”.

Expect serious, existential operational threats and breaches to rise dramatically as DevOps continues to “win,” and consider it a smart strategic move to avoid DevOps culture in the long term. If you write a req called “DevOps Engineer,” I don’t even know what to say to you.
I assume you use Linux for your operating system then? Both Apple and Microsoft do business with the military.
Agree.

Either (or both) sides can walk away. That's negotiation.
Curious to know what others are doing to build COVID related application
After botched test flight, Boeing will refly its Starliner spacecraft for NASA
It comes from Impressum, essentially a form of identification for publishers, but imprint is the English word used for the German legal requirement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum

https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-en/the-imprint-requir...
>Part to fix my cloths washing machine?

Appliances are apparently "non-essential", according to several governmental orders. Local news here in Denver made a big deal about the city putting a padlock on the doors of an appliance retailer.
VR: Build and explore your colony on Mars
The plus operator here is "and/or" not "and", but I presume you must have understood this. The GP's point is that flu+pnumonia = (flu) U (non-flu pneumonia). Nobody is denying that flu with pneumonia is flu.
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python, HTML&CSS, JavaScript, Photoshop, Wordpress, Flask, Tensorflow, Tableau, Node.js, SQL

Email: t.hock.ng@gmail.com

There are links in my resume that you can click on to see the websites that I've built.
But we don't know the actual amount of people which were infected in Italy, because some of these (a sizable percentage) only reported fevers, and perhaps didn't even think about having SARS-CoV-2 in their bodies.

An acquaintance's partner suspects having got it, because after two days (two days, not weeks) of very mild fever (~37.5C) he was hit by anosmia. An ex-coworker also mentioned "a horribly strong fever" with respiratory difficulties which lasted just a few days. Yes, anecdata, but shows that you can easily miss a large part of the infected cases if you only test those hospitalized.
This was super helpful, thanks! It looks like anyone can apply through Fundera, even if they're not Azlo customers.
No, because no one has ever explained how it's hard. They just keep repeating that refrain, and to date I haven't heard it from someone who spent more than a day with the language or gave it any serious consideration.

If people can enumerate the problems with the language (like I've seen or done for other languages), then I'll entertain the complaint.

So far the closest thing to a real complaint has been about variables-not-being-variables (in the C, anything can change, sense). But this is 2020, mutable-by-default is a known bad idea so this is hardly novel or a challenge.

The other reason I've heard is the lack of loops. If a professional programmer can't handle recursion, they need to go back to basics. I'm not trying to be mean with that one, but recursion is pretty easy.
Like a local delivery-only costco, perhaps?
But is he the richest man in history?

Don't forget that Rome was the largest empire of its times but also the most powerful military entity by a large margin.

Is India comparable?
Good point, actually. How do you disable a poster on a wall which is rendered as part of a texture inside a 3D game?
Animation: What happens when you get the Coronavirus
Show HN: Online Hobby Exchange
After the successful "What are you learning" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786287), I thought that we can use the fact that most of us stuck at home with more free time to build a community that we can teach each other hobbies and new things.
so if you want to learn something new, and you have something you can teach others and want to share it, sign up and we will arrange the knowledge sharing for you :)
VC3 is not for profit - it's a place to discuss questions like these, not the answer to that question. Think of it as similar to a virtual "think-tank."
Especially when you never see the subject matter translated anyway, which would be the case with Git. There aren’t any conventional translations of words like “repo” or “pull request” in most languages, and when you try you risk making it incomprehensible, or comical.

For example, take their Swedish translation of “pull request”: “Pull-förfrågning”. They had to leave “pull” untranslated, probably because it would be impossible to understand if you actually were to translate it word by word; unfortunately “pulla” is a sexual slang word in Swedish [1], so the whole translation sounds like a request for sexual assistance.

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulla#Swedish
Red Hat's press release: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-names...
> TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE

This has always stuck with me. I’m not well enough read to know if he borrowed it from somewhere, but I’m not sure Terry Pratchett ever wrote finer words than those. Beautifully concise and apt summary of the human condition.
> This "everyone is bad" is really off-the-mark.

It's the worst take because it defeats the ability to find a solution in the future, if nothing can be trusted nothing can be implemented.
Exactly - I'm not sure how anyone can say with a straight face that the Dijon-mustard-tan-suit-latte-salute network has ever been anything but the #1 producer of bullshit on TV.
Colonist.io
> I didn't personally undergo "two-column proof" education, and learned what the phrase means from Lockhart's Lament itself, but it sounds miserable; I say this as an MMath who specialised in set theory and logic, and who has been side-project formalising maths in Agda for the last two years.

As a professional mathematician who did go through two-column proof, you're not the only one who finds them miserable. Personally, abstract algebra was what won me over to the beauty of proof (probably that old standby, the irrationality of sqrt(2), was the first); but everyone will find a different experience.
Apple producing face shields for health workers, aims to make 1M weekly
Let me reply to the edited comment.

We're not testing the general population. Its testing of folks coming to a hospital? Folks who aren't having hospitalizing symptoms are not tested at all, and sent home to quarantine.

So if tests doubled that means that folks are feeling bad at an increased rate. Showing up at a hospital with alarming symptoms.

You can finagle the statistics both ways - by ignoring what the 'test sample' is and assuming its uniform for instance.
> grocery workers are not wearing masks at scale

I never said they were

> they are not calling out the 'get medical workers the N95s' policy

Why the hell would anyone call them out for wanting to get masks to medical workers? Medical workers should have masks, but that does not mean the public should not also have masks. People are rightfully calling them out for telling the average Joe to not wear a mask, but for some reason people like you are worried about the poor helpless corporations.

> This 'blame the rich' populism is irresponsible.

The only reason we can't produce enough masks domestically is because "the rich" have exported most of our production capabilities out of the country, so they can increase their margins and hoard more wealth. Bringing this to light is not irresponsible, the decisions that the wealthy in this country have made on its behalf is what's irresponsible, and there will be a reckoning.
You're looking at the impact of this virus AFTER we've already implemented shelter-in-place measures, banned certain international travel, tanked our global economy, attempted to prepare hospitals with additional supplies, and we've yet to hit the peak, right?

And you're also noting that the US currently has 9,616 recorded deaths from COVID-19? Whereas data puts the worst flu season since 2010-2011 at 61,000 (2017-2018) deaths over an entire year, right? Again, with various provisions to help slow this virus already in place?

And you're also noting that hospitalization rates would include the regular flu, typical hospital visits that require an ICU, AND hospital visits from COVID-19, right?

Sure, I get the point of taking the flu more seriously, and I agree 100% with you. But to try to make the point that COVID-19 has been less bad than a bad year of flu is pretty pointless and also misleading. A more appropriate comparison would be to go back in time to Dec 2019 and have no countries put anything in place and let COVID-19 run wild. But at that point, you're sacrificing people just to make a dumb comparison that COVID-19 isn't much worse than a bad year of flu.

Also it's disingenuous to pick the worst season of flu. Let's compare COVID-19 to 2015-2016's 23,000 influenza deaths and see how, after all these provisions, we're already at 9,616 COVID-19 deaths in the US in April.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/jonas.nart#!/vizhome/COVI...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html?CDC_AA_refVa...
Out of my pure curiosity for the mind of some HN commenters, why in the world would you go through the effort of writing such a detailed and pedantic comment focusing on a small irrelevant detail like that, about an hospitalized man who is expecting a child?

In case it’s not clear, I am not being snarky in any way and respect you, I just find your comment so out of touch that I genuinely wanted to understand the reasons for you writing it.
>Being able to negotiate (or lobby, or coerce, or bribe -- pick your term) lower taxes does not justify lower taxes

Agree.

>Economies of scale create value when leveraged to, say, produce more goods with less effort, but they do not create value when they are leveraged in zero sum games against customers, workers, or society.

Both sides have to arrive at a value where it makes sense for them to move forward. Subjective value judgements have to occur.

>"Hey, I'm offering you your life in exchange for everything you own"

Sounds like a bad deal. Don't take it.
What a stupid list that is. Rust, Typescript, Elixir, Haskell, C not worth learning in 2019?

If you know zero languages, yeah, go learn Javascript, Python or (ugh) Java. If you know one or more language, the ones listed above are definitely worth your time.

You might find it a little hard to make a career out of knowing only Elm, but you might not grow very much professionally without widening your horizons a bit either.
Thanks. I had been calling these technological anachronisms “horseheads” (after the fake horse heads that were sometimes affixed to the hoods of early motor vehicles) but I didn't want to use my own word when there was a pre-existing one. I will go back to "horseheads" then.
If it meant a 1 in 7 chance of dying, then I'd say no.
I think it very much depends on the the country.

In Sweden, you can assume that pretty much everyone understands English, so if your website has an incomplete Swedish translation, might just be better to go with English one anyways.

But in Spain (outside the big cities), not that many people do understand English. In that case, it'll be better to serve a incomplete Spanish version instead of in English, as otherwise they'll be completely lost.

So as always, I'd say it really depends, and it's hard to generalize over all "international users".
Let's help get this in front of as many drivers as possible :)

FYI it works better on desktop right now - improving mobile & Safari compatability
Works beautifully in Common Lisp. Of course, it is not mainstream.

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It's even worse when you are trying to search in a language that is not English from a region that is English speaking.

I often look for recipes in French or German and it's impossible to find anything. I try to browse to google.de/fr, I try adding site:.fr but it will still try and give me the most English results. My Google search settings indicate I am happy with German and French results but it seems to have no affect...
At a high level, at least, anything in categories like "Groceries", "Health Care", "Personal Hygiene".
I actually find Erlangs syntax a breath of fresh air. Coming from Python, this may sound odd, but there's something soothing about it.

I much prefer Erlangs syntax to Go, for example. I also much prefer Erlangs syntax to Elixir; I never liked ruby either, so there's perhaps no surprise there.
1.3 million people a year killed by car crashes, biased moderately towards the young (around 3 to 1 is comparing a 30 year old and a 60 year old).

In contrast, COVID-19 has a fatality rate that looks roughly like the normal yearly death rate for the UK (so you'd expect as many people to die at least partially of COVID-19 as of every other cause combined this year)... Making it around 50 million people killed if everyone got it (many won't) and if the world age distribution matched the UK.

But the average person killed by COVID-19 is a lot closer to death. Even if you just go by age the actuarial tables put for remaining life years, those killed will average a fifth as many years as those killed by car accidents.

Hmm

Ok, maybe COVID-19 WILL cause more QALY loss after all. But it's certainly not entirely clearcut.

Particularly if Imperial is right about >15% of Spain having already been infected (which would imply a MUCH lower death rate than that commonly reported given that Spain has only recorded 13 thousand deaths and has already passed their peak), in which case cars last year might still "win".
CrowdStrike co-founder on what's right (and wrong) with US cyber policy
Of course, that’s what I was referring to. The consumer still has to subscribe to those data sets, keep them updated, and understand which lesser-known company names are “legit” telecom providers (as many large providers are non-household names and have VOIP offerings) vs whatever kind of VOIP provider he feels he needs to protect against.

My point being that if he’s doing it right, he’s probably spending more time and money than it’s worth, and if he’s not, he’s banning legit users for the crime of not having a big-4 provider.
Your skepticism made me look through the library more carefully. I came across some limitations in comparison to what Go provides:

1. As you suggest, there's no equivalent to the `select` mechanism. To perform the equivalent, you must busy loop and call `csp_chan_try_pop`.

2. It appears you cannot nest coroutines.

3. The mutex implementation does not provide an RWMutex.

4. `csp_yield` seems somewhat necessary for practical applications.

Normally I would not use another language as a basis for comparison to a C library, but that's precisely what the author of Libcsp appears to be aiming for.

All that said, there's a really slick implementation of a lock free RB queue backing this library, and It's a neat project. I think it would stand on its own better than as a "go style in C" library.
Dozens of times per day. It's on my bookmark bar, and I click it routinely: https://www.amazon.com/afx/slotselection/
Home Depot is still open. Plumbers, electricians, AC guys, etc., are essential businesses. Your tax accountant can work with you over the phone.

Cancelled checkups and dentist appointments are an unfortunate consequence of living with this virus. Lifting the lockdown on them may well result in more net damage to people's health at this point - but maybe not. This is one of the first things we need to think about re-opening.

Haircuts are by no means essential, and I don't understand why you threw them into the list.

The problems that arise from this aren't exactly the apocalypse porn of "There will be no food, no running water, and people will be dying in the streets, as civilization falls apart around them."

> There will be a cost to all this - small business starts that fail across the board, loans and mortgages in default, cars repossessed, restaurants closing everywhere.

This kind of economic cost is going to be paid anyways, regardless of whether we take the road of "Tens of thousands of deaths, more lockdown" or "Millions of deaths, no lockdown". People just aren't going to consume as normal in the middle of a raging pandemic. Small businesses will be falling apart, as their owner-operators get sick, and/or die. Jobs will be lost, because not enough people are crazy enough to be booking a vacation in the middle of this.
Americas’ 500 Fastest Growing Companies (2020)
No one is arguing that Airbnb is solely responsibly for rent increases. It's one of many contributing factors, including limited supply as you point out.

Contrary to your intuition on this question, Airbnb almost certainly a contributing factor to rent increases. There are studies on this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3006832
That depends entirely where you live - around me, this is aboslutely not true for all intents and purposes (no delivery windows available, or no products available, or both).
Covid-19 is a type of virus that does not mutate much at all. It has error correction in replication.

Across all the variants found globally so far, there have only been changes to 20 base pairs - most of which (possibly all) do absolutely nothing.

Your immunity will likely make any re-infection much much lighter - even many years from now.

Interestingly, Coronaviruses generally, can still re-infect you even after you've developed immunity (or been vaccinated) - albeit to a much lesser extent. It's one advantage they have over influenza, and why they can get away with error correction.
Here's the only plan that exists in the US: get a viable vaccine out the door as fast as possible. Everything between now and that future point (likely next year) is a question mark. I simply can't see how "Test & trace" can even work logistically in a country as large and free of draconian government action as the US, especially given how many people here don't even take shelter in place seriously. So for now it's a game of watching the case count and asking how much economic damage we can take before things get really bad.
Note that this study is from Didier Raoult's group, the same doctor who brought out the (controversial, because not enough data at this point) claims on cloroquine - while I have no interest in defending or criticizing the work, some may want to keep this in mind.
previously, on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783790 https://archive.fo/xPtn5
Cool - it's amazing how much easier FPGA development has gotten in recent years thanks to efforts like YoSys and these sorts of frontend projects.

RISC-V has also been maturing over the same timeframe, which is bringing mainstream open-source efforts deeper into the stack of general-purpose computers.

We still don't have an open-source VLSI fab, but costs are always falling and Magic has been open-source for decades, so maybe it's only a matter of time until samizdat-style CPUs become possible :)
I'm astonished that a search of the comments here produces no hits for that master of modern Kayfabe... Trump.
The Performance, Protection, and Sterilization of N95 Face Mask Materials
Amazon is trying to shed all possible liability as a merchant and collect their 15% or whatever rent, since that’s where the margins are. That’s at odds with what I’m looking for as a buyer, which is a seller that will vet and stand behind their products.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22796906
Many now have an anchor directly to the recipe. I try to book mark those so I don't have to read about the author pontificating on the changing of the seasons or how an ingredient in the dish reminds them of childhood for the 800th time.
The point is, why is it doing this?

It's not even suggesting both God of War and Lord of War, for me all the results on the first page are about God of War.
Breadth. Make sure you are at least competent in at least 3 of these main areas: front-end, back-end, cloud, devops, SQL.
FWIW some video meeting apps have "raise hand" function (jit.si, and Zoom IIRC) that give an ordered list of who raised their hand - works well for turns at speaking.

I'd have thought Teams insistence on only allowing 4 feeds to show at a time would be deleterious for lectures.