skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump has been pushing chloroquine as a miracle cure on no evidence, so presumably for a certain sort of person, criticising chloroquine is tantamount to criticising Dear Leader himself.
Wow! I think why most people don't donate in India because they think their money doesn't make any impact.

https://open-data.karuna2020.org this is game changer. I wish more NGOs in India would do it.

And good luck!
Learn a musical instrument. Guitar, Piano or Piano Accordion.
You won't be able to do that last one if your currently in a relationship. YMMV.
Once you start, you'll really suck at it for a very long time but it's fun and it's a relaxing way to build a skill that is calming and quarantine friendly.

Programmers program, writers write, doctors doctor? No doctors work hard most of the week and a bit of the weekends but they do that so they can have other stuff.

My job is Software and IT. It's less about code and more about clear rational decision making. Not thinking about it all the time makes it easier to think about it when it's time to do that work.
how are you accomplishing that? Does Google sheets have a scheduler built into it? Long running timer?
No one is happy in this comment section about there being downsides to a treatment. The majority are dissatisfied that treatment is being used because of hearsay and not scientifically tested, which puts huge doubts on our healthcare system. Furthermore, no one mentioned Trump.
Except the American accent doesn’t say keht — maybe there’s a slight hint (cough accent) of it, but it’s very slight, while the German way sounds rather odd, I bet even to Americans.

The soccer thing is pretty funny though. :)
My day job is TypeScript all day long, so like all but one quintillionth of one percent of TypeScript developers, I use VS Code all day long, too.

I'm extremely happy with its development, too; I think the team behind it has done as good a job as I have personally ever seen of both a.) delivering consistent improvements that excite the daily users, and b.) running an open source project.

Still, I absolutely think we are all better off with a vendor-nonspecific, open-source focused competitor.

I mean, once upon a time Microsoft Internet Explorer was the best browser for the Mac, too. There's probably enough awesome in the VS Code project to keep it from being corrupted by Microsoft's corporate priorities — and competition will help keep it that way, in addition to providing a possible alternative if that doesn't happen.
You describe focusing on the solution. The inspiration to make your solution generally feels great, but doesn't endure. On the contrary, you'll get caught up in more and more solutions because you're mostly satisfying fleeting whims.

Focusing on the problem and the people who feel it will generally engage and inspire you longer. When you ask someone about what's missing in their lives or specifically what emotions they feel in the area you want to work in, they tell you, you offer possible solutions, and they say "when will you finish it, I want to buy it?", that inspiration lasts a long time.

Whom do you want to make your project for? What emotions do they feel that you want to address? Are they bored, frustrated, confused, misunderstood, lonely, etc? Each emotion is different and will lead to different solutions. Ask them so you hear in their words what they want. Ask them to clarify.

The inspiration to help others is deeper and creates meaning and purpose beyond just "I'm going to do something cool everyone will love."

I cover how to make this happen in my book, Initiative http://joshuaspodek.com/initiative based on project-based learning entrepreneurship courses I taught at NYU. If anyone is interested in doing the exercises after reading the reviews and watching the videos but cost is a problem, email me and we'll work something out. I suggest the book because of the results people get from doing the exercises.
Is there anyone working on advancing CitCs in the open source space? Having some work flow like that would really improve my productivity and the safety of my code/deployment scripts.
Your users should not be writing JSON or Python to begin with, so using Python is fine.
Not that I doubt you, but I think your experience is atypical. I've never seen rendering glitches on Windows, Linux or MacOS (I use all 3,although mostly Windows & MacOS), and I've been using it since forever. A totally scientific straw poll of colleagues finds the same.
My product Kosmi does exactly this, mentioned above.
Definitely overdoing it! :)

I’m a native (non-American) English speaker and the American pronunciation, to me, doesn’t sound like keht at all. (German was technically my first language, although English became my main language at an early age, so I’m quite used to German accents, so it’s definitely not caused by the native accents imho)

I once (when I was ~15 or so) had an argument with a kid who simply would not believe me that the letters C-A-T aren’t pronounced keht
> If by this you mean that you are wondering how often bugs in Haskell programs make it to production, the answer seems to be "at about the same rate as bugs in C or Java, as far as we can tell".

That seems surprising. What are the bugs that Haskell has but C and Java don't that replace all the null pointer exceptions?
Germany has an even lower death rate; have you considered that it might be better to treat people by hospitalising them near autobahns?

Correlation, as always, is not causation. I don't see any indication that it's in particularly widespread use in SK, btw. Looks like they definitely experimented with it around the time China was promoting it, but their figures were already good at that point.
Have you considered the possibility that you may have ADHD-inattentive-type?

There are online tests based on DSM criteria that can show you if it’s worth looking deeper into, such as this one:

https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/adhd-quiz/
"Over time, every living thing on the planet has absorbed this extra Carbon-14 which still persists."

Is that as consistent in absorption? More so animals that feed upon different levels and maybe more so - do plankton absorb more or less and any animal feeding upon them would see a higher rate perhaps. I'm still looking into these aspects - fun google time. #1

Another train of thought I have from reading this is:
We may well read in the future about plastic pollution being used to measure metrics in life forms.
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#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-14

It is naturally formed by cosmic rays, it has also been measured as highers in area's that atomic testing happened (so near Australia) and with that, Southern hemisphere.
Given that, one would expect, any life form that was located near area's near the poles or southern oceans would be more exposed to the natural and atomic unnatural sources and whilst the unnatural sources would dissipate - anything exposed during the early times would also have higher levels than such a lifeform in those same area's today due to decay and dispersion.
Make a list of things you want to do but don’t start it. Remove them when you lose interest. If anything stays it might be a goer. You will never have time to do everything.

Also, think about what you really want to achieve. When you think “I’ll make a roguelike in X!” do you actually want to make something you or other people want to play? Or do you really want to just have a cursory understanding of how a roguelike works? Or to get a slight familiarity with language X? Do the initial research without committing too much to it and see if you maintain interest.
We’ll see :). The chat is jitsi’s hosted service. The chess is chessbase’s embedded app. So all server work is 3rd parties who are used to some load. The site itself is just a client side webpage hosted at glitch.me. Could put a CDN in front if it took off.
> I know Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a textbook, but I'd argue that having a more accessible first paragraph or summary section on every topic could help all uses

I'm curious how you would rewrite that first paragraph then:

"In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of translating the evaluation of a function that takes multiple arguments into evaluating a sequence of functions, each with a single argument. For example, a function that takes two arguments, one from X and one from Y, and produces outputs in Z, by currying is translated into a function that takes a single argument from X and produces as outputs functions from Y to Z. Currying is related to, but not the same as, partial application."

BTW I don't like that paragraph, it looks to me that it completely "misses the point" because as far as I understand currying is not about the sets but about the arguments. If it would be about the sets it would be just "a rewrite to a function that accepts the subset of the previous input set" and it's not about that.
Excerpt: "...In our experience, too many people who speak of “disruption” have not read a serious book or article on the subject. Too frequently, they use the term loosely to invoke the concept of innovation in support of whatever it is they wish to do. Many researchers, writers, and consultants use “disruptive innovation” to describe any situation in which an industry is shaken up and previously successful incumbents stumble. But that’s much too broad a usage..."
It is hardly reliable, given how great of a percentage of people have drift issues, as well as obvious oversights in the joycon build: overly long flat cables that have to be bent 180deg and end up breaking, use of a plastic that is clearly not meant for continuous direct handling since it quickly stains with sweat/skin oiliness.
As well as the dock being literally too tight, causing the screen to scratch due to the support beams.

I don't even mind it not feeling "premium" whatever that means, but those are reasonably basic things to consider in material choice. I don't mind that when the joycon is attached, I can sort of flex the connection bar, or that the screen plastic itself is very soft to be scratched, as long as the hardware doesn't essentially try to kill itself.
I really don't like JSON for configuration. I prefer TOML or YAML for config file definition. But I would also make sure my config item names are descriptive enough to where I know units from the name, e.g. maxAttachmentSizeBytes. Any other comments I usually prefer to put in my code that loads the config files into my program.
How do you see the mindset being different?
Zoom has account & ip information and most of these people aren't going to be using a real vpn. It's probably easier to track them than swatting calls going to voice services.
sure, but how do you deal with work, closed schools and small kids all together?
Or, for that matter, a positive influence assuming it has one?

The masks thing is a great example - simple enough to tell the public to leave professionally made masks for the professionals and post good advice on how to make a functional one at home. When the public looks like a screaming mob of idiots, why wouldn't you mistrust their ability to act selflessly and carefully.
FWIW, Safari Reader Mode will automatically stitch together multiple pages
It’s just an embedded board from chessbase. I just dropped their embed in and didn’t write that part. If it looks like there’s interest I may write my own that is more mobile friendly.
Which one potentially benefits others the most? That’s the easiest one to stick with.
The three African countries free of coronavirus
> it didn't "feel real" in the beginning

Plus, a lot of the interventions don't really make much sense if you're the only one doing them.

For example, imagine I'm not worried about my own safety, but I am for the safety of others. Staying home and self-isolating will help with this if almost everyone else does it - but if I start a month early, doing it on my own? Negligible benefit.

And of course, much easier to get to work from home at an otherwise-non-WFH company once your boss and their boss are thinking the same way as you, and they've heard Google and Apple are doing the same...
Maybe work on personal discipline, also I’ve noticed with myself that sometimes a lack of motivation can be confused with a lack of understanding. The more you practice your tools the longer you’ll go before you get badly blocked and give up, eventually you’ll have projects that you can hack on for years.

Here’s what worked for me:

1) pick a language (it doesn’t matter, C, python, ocaml) and just start writing small things in it. Do this so much that your inner monologue starts speaking the language, that you have an uncontrollable urge to sit down on Saturday and barf our thousands of lines of bad code in it the way you might write a rambling post on tumblr.

2) understand problem decomposition: practice OOP for the broader application (you don’t need an OO language just use it to break the problem down, write UML if it’s your first couple times) and FP for smaller problems.

3) practice discipline. Clean your room, do your laundry, make your bed, wake up at the same time every morning, go for a walk every day, keep a house plant alive. It’s almost unbelievable how much this discipline with small things can make you more focused and less compulsive.
First, a quick recap of the idea: “Disruption” describes a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses. Specifically, as incumbents focus on improving their products and services for their most demanding (and usually most profitable) customers, they exceed the needs of some segments and ignore the needs of others. Entrants that prove disruptive begin by successfully targeting those overlooked segments, gaining a foothold by delivering more-suitable functionality—frequently at a lower price. Incumbents, chasing higher profitability in more-demanding segments, tend not to respond vigorously. Entrants then move upmarket, delivering the performance that incumbents’ mainstream customers require, while preserving the advantages that drove their early success. When mainstream customers start adopting the entrants’ offerings in volume, disruption has occurred.
hopefully, full working remotely, but with kids properly at school
Rclone saves my work life to upload many GBs to sharepoint. It resolves many sharepoint typical uploading issues.
Keep your configs small, but write them in real programming languages.

You're dismissing a viable solution that works extremely well. Take Elixir for example, which is configured using Elixir

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Config.html

Its simple, powerful, and allows you to make it as complicated or not, as you want.
Focus on solving a problem. Find something you actually care about and need to make instead of something that you think sounds cool or that you think might make money. Let those things happen organically. If you actually solve a problem people will tell you that it's cool, and they might pay you for the solution.
Do you have any statistics on "actual phone" usage? I'd imagine it's very low these days.
Reader view in FF did the trick (in EU)
This article's contents do not match the headline, they give no indication as to what these "serious" side effects even are. There seems to be a massive political fight taking place over the official treatment of this disease and it sickens me. Tell me, why is it that India has this so under control and are using Chloroquine almost exclusively for the treatment?
> Did they try to work with the team at Microsoft to improve VS Code before forking it?

As an open source project maintainer, I don't think it's necessary or easy to do that. Project teams and maintainers have different goals and sometimes it's much easier to fork and evolve without stepping on each other's toes. I'd even say that's the strength of open sourcing software under the right license.
Nothing wrong with your situation, you're just experimenting and learning. Keep doing what interests you most, you'll eventually settle on something for longer period of time.
Unfortunately not on the user level, but on the software level, it should generate a random 128-bit (or whatever) key, store that on the server and encrypt it with your KDF-strengthened password.

That way, you can change the password by just re-encrypting that file, though you can't do much in case the attacker got that decrypted key. You'd have to re-upload all the data for that.
Yes, AFAIK it does.
Do not conflate Pokémon with Nintendo. The situation is way more complex. Game Freak, the actual developers of Pokémon, are a laughably small team for what is the biggest franchise in the world, and they refuse to get bigger or change the formula. Pokémon is the epitome of Japanese conservatism.
Online grocery shopping in the age of Covid-19
Apple is designing and shipping face shields for medical workers
I think you are: read https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=7
this thing looks so similar to (and dare I say, a blantant rip off of) visual studio code that to me there is no reason to use this over visual studio code. plus, may i state, that the second i saw eclipse i vomited in my mouth a little. i've had such bad experiences in the past with the entire eclipse family of editors that i just cringe when i even hear the word eclipse, which is disheartening when lunar cycles are aligned.
Is Uber a Disruptive Innovation?

...Uber is clearly transforming the taxi business in the United States. But is it disrupting the taxi business?

According to the theory, the answer is no. Uber’s financial and strategic achievements do not qualify the company as genuinely disruptive—although the company is almost always described that way.

Here are two reasons why the label doesn’t fit.

(1) Disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds; and

(2) Disruptive innovations don’t catch on with mainstream customers until quality catches up to their standards.
Of Chloroquine and Covid-19
I have not worked in software for long (a year, a while ago) but my experience with agile at that time was that even if you realize that you can and should fix something, you still have do political representation to the scrum master, team lead and product manager so that an issue (sorry, user story) is created and gets prioritized (over features and other bugs) in a future sprint.

Going rogue and spending an afternoon fixing stuff without an approved US (to charge time on) was not seen well.
I do something similar. Borg does incremental backups and snapshots.

Makes a snapshot so you can see how things where at X moment. The only new data are changes made since.

Then rclone copies that new data over
Definitely not an expert in this but I have found that the bigger the aim, greater the tendency to nope out of it (for me).

So one way of going around this is keeping short, simple, achievable-today goals.

Example Target: I need to develop a CMS.

New target: Need to create that one method which will do X and return boolean value.

Once that is done, on to next.
I am revisiting my notes and re-watching lectures about basic machine learning algorithms like linear regression and logistic regression.

I am implementing these algorithms, so I need to understand a lot of the details. Here are some notes, which are work in progress: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/machine-learning-notes/... I try to write it in a way, that does not leave open questions and will be accessible to me and hopefully others years later.
Here in India a Doctor has already died after taking this and having a cardiac issue (which is one of the potential complications): https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/coronavirus-in-india-g...

I think people responding to Trump's advocacy of this drug are making a mistake by saying things like "there are no randomized controlled trials for this application" and "patients with other ailments need this, so don't hoard it".

What really needs to be said is the plain facts: while doctors are trying out this medicine, there is no miracle cure. This disease causes different conditions in people that need to be addressed with different interventions.

As a layman I found this chart very enlightening about how the disease has various dynamics (inflammation, etc): https://imgur.com/a/seG2KFS
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Right. Conspiracies happen all the time because there are plans, which if understood by those upon whom the planners wish to enact them, would be rejected by their targets.

That describes most plans people have.

So the planners deceive and dissemble. That is how the world has always worked.

What's more, it's instinctive knowledge that this is happening all the time. Suspicion of those in power is a human instinct which, like all instincts, optimizes our survival chances under the conditions for which it evolved. WRT to political conspiracies, those conditions still hold today.

The way to think about conspiracy theories is the same way you think about inventors and inventions.

Nature produces inventors (conspiracy minded individuals) many of whom produce only harebrained inventions ("conspiracy theories" so called) some more who produce hit and miss inventions and a few which produce inventions which are overwhelming important and matter to survival ("Hitler is going to kills us all, we must flee right now!" - spoken by a Jew in 1933 Munich).

What this mapping between domains, inventions and conspiracies, also implies is that just because someone was wrong about one conspiracy doesn't mean they are wrong about all conspiracies and their credibility should not be automatically bankrupted if they believe one or two false conspiracy theories.

I do read some conspiracy theory sites and like to hear plausible (non-alien/ lizard people) ones because I want my mind to at least entertain the idea. It's like panning for gold. Most of it is nothing. Once in a while, maybe a little taste of something and I retain it dimly awaiting future possible supporting evidence.

For example, the "desperate labor shortage" and "Americans don't like STEM" meme is a clear conspiracy amongst employers and attorneys and their clients to control engineering wages and have more of the profits go to business owners. I used to not know about that "conspiracy theory" then I heard it and wondered if it could be true then over time the evidence for it became incontravertible.

Just to give one example.
which visual studio code all have so way use this in the first place?
Do it with someone else. You're then not just accountable to yourself.
Alternatively your reasoned answer wasn't as good as you think it was.
See also: https://coder.com/
I think many people are missing the point that this doesn't appear to be a finished product ready for developers to use. It looks like Eclipse's goal is to make a foundation that others can customize for their purposes, building off of what VSCode has already done.

That's not to say this is a good idea or not, but I think all the comments asking "Why would anyone switch to this from VSCode" are missing the point.
Nice. That confused some users. Will definitely be doing that. Thanks!
India has not reported many cases at all (4000 confirmed cases, compared to over 300,000 in the USA) so pointing to HCQ/Chloroquine as that reason doesn’t make sense unless you are saying their reported case numbers are fake.

Someone still gets counted in the case numbers even if they are treated and recover.

I believe HCQ/CQ is also being used in Spain, France, and Italy, but there are still many deaths and a high CFR. It’s not a magic drug (there may or may not be some good effects from using it, and studies are ongoing), but some political leaders are touting it in desperation, while medical leaders are pointing out that scientific trials are ongoing to determine if it’s really working or not.