skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it’s strange to butter ACM that have been total jerks until last week, and would not have done anything if not for the pandemia (and will resume their behavior afterwards). Sci-hub on the contrary have provided a free service for years, more reliable technically and content-wise than any library service at any research institution I worked. They are the real heroes.
The difference is that preventing new planes from entering the market doesn't kill people.
Exploring yes. Extremely nice lib and syntax.

But for real work you should use a proper OR system and solver.

google ortools or COIN-OR for the C/C++ folks and horrible syntax, or any Prolog with solver backend or Picat are much better. Screamer with a proper solver backend would be really nice. Prolog solved it this way.
If a placebo works generally then it works. Isn't all psychotherapy in a way just a placebo?
Anecdotal if you're interested: I can't show it since it belongs to the company, but I just ran a grep in the app I architected and it has exactly 21 instances of the word "function"... some are comments, but most of the ones that aren't are inside a lodash debounce function. Total of 140000 non-blank/non-commented lines of code.

Btw, it's not banned, and I never really enforced it... but since I never use it myself, I guess the others devs picked it up?

It's in Vue.js, and in Vue you rarely see old-style functions anywhere, so there's that.
See a lot of criticism here. For a math new grad who wants to break in software development, what similar guide would HN recommend? I'm specially interested in backed.

I prefer the guide to be extensive like this one because it give me a sense of what I know and don't know.
Just wanted to comment and say thank you for your work :). The Jackbox games work flawlessly and even when they get into a weird state a refresh usually sorts things out. Thanks for covering whatever weird corner cases you had to cover to get it to work so consistently.

I'm actually a little surprised the Jackbox games aren't monetized differently. They cost so little up front and that CPU time can't be free.

Just today I set up my wife's laptop with Drawful 2 and Jackbox 6 so she can play with her coworkers tomorrow. Thanks!
Even with the merit, it's hard to train a professional Navy. Being a ship captain (or any other position, even the lowly deck seaman) is a mentally challenging task. There's a lot going on and it's expensive to get as much underway time as the well-financed Navies do. Most Navy ships in small countries sit in port a lot, not sure about Venezuela, but they can't have a ton of cash to waste on underway time.
yeah, he also doesn't steep, but I find that you need to steep for a few minutes unless you want to under extract your beans.

I also greatly prefer a metal filter over paper as it lets more flavor through, but people who don't like flavor call that "acidity" or "bitterness". ️
Pool testing of SARS-CoV-02 samples increases worldwide test capacities
Get off your high horse. It doesn't matter what it was originally intended for if hospitals are over capacity, and opening up the ship will save hundreds, maybe thousands.
I am not an expert on this topic, but isn't the distinction between BiPAP and ventilators mostly semantic?
Wow nice. I was just about to cancel my Photoshop subscription because 1) I hate subscription pricing models and 2) I'm using it mostly just to resize images.

Nice to see that you have the Photoshop UI there so I don't have to relearn anything.
Getting late to the discussion, but people tackle this for a long time in software engineering, it's called Software Rejuvenation, with models of repairing systems, Markovian assumptions, applications in JVM, etc. Interesting topic. It was used to analyse Patriot missiles that needed the same approach to replenish its internal variables each time.
I also live in the Ozarks. Pretty sure that the ticks that bear Lyme disease bacteria are practically non-existent in the Ozarks. They're more relegated to the North East.

Not to downplay the importance of tick checks and other prevention techniques.
At very least, reiki practitioners care (or pretend to care) about your well-being, which must be nice for people going through stressful things like cancer, especially if they don't have a good support system from family etc.

Astrologists and homeopaths might be equally effective in these cases.
Want to point out that this still slightly depends on what cell you are talking about - a mammalian cell is a thousand times larger than a bacterial cell, which in turn is a hundred or thousand times larger than a virus. An apt comparison is if you were a cell in your body, a bacteria is at best the size of a pea and a virus the size of an ant. Viruses are so small that you can sometimes just crystallize them to study their structure with crystallography as if the entire thing is a single molecule.
Coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing
IMO, it is better to educate the society not to trust the forwards people randomly send them. In fact, there should be consequences for the people who start the spread.

Blocking the internet is out right foolish and harmful.
So there's two kinds of problems here - not all security flaws are created equal.

One kind is missing something or unintended consequences. Making all URLs clickable opens a UNC attack due to some obscure Windows "feature", for example. Or having N digit numbers means they're technically iterable, but this is the same for cellphones, and there are workarounds.

The other kind is security holes caused by explicitly working to bypass security restrictions yourself. Installing a server with webcam permissions that you don't cleanup so reinstallation is easier for you (don't be surprised when other apps start telling it to switch on the webcam), impersonating the system root password dialog (don't act surprised when other apps steal the password from you), claiming end to end encryption without being clear about where and when it's on, and others.

The first is normal security work, the second is sleazy. We all forgive the first, but we shouldn't let sleaziness slide.
German can be expressed on ascii just fine - ae oe ue ss are commonly used and understood when the non-ascii characters are unavailable or just hard to find. So for this purpose would be fine, except possibly introducing ambiguity in some words or names that already use the ascii version.
> I once started learning some chinese martial arts, and the instructor was a true believer in more than the fighting techniques, but the spirituality that comes with it. Very easily debunked by modern fact based science.

What kind of spirituality are you talking about, and how was this easily debunked? Honestly curious. I don't have any 'proper' spiritual beliefs myself, but I've found that a lot of them are dismissed not because they're debunked, but rather because of lacking rigorous study and evidence for/against them. I'd say that's an important distinction/nuance.
Blitz App Architecture
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If you believe them.
Do you mean rewrite? You're acting as though refactoring is a process that involves destroying bad code and rewriting it from scratch. It's not.

Refactoring is usually the modification of existing code while maintaining existing functionality in order to make the code easier to maintain and reason about for future developers.

Furthermore, if you're given points for refactoring (as you should be) your velocity is very unlikely to go down in my opinion. I will say that many teams and managers do not do this, but that's because they're poor managers.

If you have tests in place you will cause fewer bugs by refactoring. If you don't you will still create a few bugs as you refactor. But imo, fixing the bugs created by refactoring is just... part of refactoring. If that means the task requires an even higher number of points, so be it.

As a manager, there's no point in forcing the team to accept a reality they know isn't possible. It's not beneficial for anyone.
Don't mention Elon on this website unless you want a horde of incels bringing up their misdirected anger
Do you want oils removed?
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21206497/iphone-se-9-name-..., which points to this.
As much as I hate most things onthere I have to applaud the overview.

Now for the jokes since I cant help myself:

1 - I feel the map needs pictures of sea monsters and mermaids.

2 - Imagine how much more useful this would be printed on paper.

3 - View the source of the page and "woah!" with me, all that to display an <img>?

4 - Which one of all these tools makes such wonderful flowcharts?

5 - Why cant html make such beautiful pages?

6 - I tried clicking on one of the many boxes expecting a tutorial. Having to look up the entries on a different page is really not-done in IT.

7 - I tried copying the text but it is an image. (see 4th & 5th item on the right)

8 - "Find the detailed version of this roadmap on..." wait.. I'm already on roadmap.sh? You could put a div with a white background-color over the image to cover up this [extra] bit of confusion (Even I don't know if I'm joking anymore)

9 - At the end above "keep learning" it should say: "static html"

10 - Where do I buy the T shirt?

Conclusion: Well done! Ill be visiting this page many times! Thanks for making it!
Probably for the same reason twilio don't allow you to set your CNAM entries. Banks and PayPal use it for KYC and such...
Maybe that’s what we’ll evolve to look like in a few hundred thousand years since cars are so prevalent in our environment!
There is a comment in this thread that has a link to the same map, but for back end.
> You now have no excuse for wasting time while waiting for the pandemic to resolve

I have to say, for anyone feeling bad, you have PLENTY of excuse for wasting time. It's hard to be stuck inside with all this death and financial ruin, and while some people are comforted by working and reading things like this, some people are comforted by being lazy and unproductive.

Do what you want, read a bunch of classic CS works from ACM or play Borderlands3 non-stop for 2 months, either is fine!
Yes, those are the ones that most desperately need treatment.
Poll Findings: The Impact of Coronavirus on Life in America
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whatever dude, I'm done here.

Have a nice day!
Now all we need is a version for T.V.
> It may just work in the sense that you can immediately use it, but if even 20% of the time you use it the call quality sucks, then it's a crap product IMO.

"it just works" doesn't mean "its a superior product". I use Zoom over hangouts whenever I'm on a call with more than ~3 people, but automatic gcal integration + being fully functional from a browser means that hangouts makes more sense sometimes.

(I also don't have nearly the amount of issues you do with hangouts. The biggest problem for me is how much worse they handle crosstalk, which isn't an issue when there are only a couple of people on a call.
On this topic, check out the recent PBS Nova: Polar Extremes which discusses the climatic history of the earth and findings such as this one.
An autonomous universal tool carrier platform but for minimal/no till farming systems.

Last year, an 110 acre farm closed...farmer leased it from the park system..we can make it farmland again to grow local food but to be able to hire locally and teach people from scratch, the platform should learn as well as teach new farmers.

We educate everyone now. This isn’t 1920s. How to attract them ..an educated workforce..back to farming?

I doubt we will ever go back to where we were with food supply and production when shelter in place is lifted in may.

I can talk to the city and the park systems..but I need to be able to show that it is a jobs generator as well as a local food security solution.

We are not going to get farm labour back and they won’t be working in urban farms in expensive Bay Area.
I have discussed this exact analogy with a couple colleagues from a CS background. If someone said the genome is the source code that's very wrong. The more accurate analogy is that your genome is a compiled, highly compressed executable file (more or less 200 MB in size?) Where the optimizer blindly reuses variables and memory locations for multiple routines that may or may not be related. It probably is quite similar to oracle's DB2 codebase, where all this shit is in C, and you change some variable here and hell breaks loose somewhere else. For the most part though, if you don't tinker with it, it runs like a well oiled machine because a blind watchmaker programmer (with great intuition but no CS organization fundamentals) has debugged and patched it for billions of years, patch on top of patch millions of times over.
This looks potentially very interesting. I haven't been following leaks and the article doesn't mention: will this model sport a headphone jack?
Wisconsin farmers forced to dump milk as coronavirus slams fragile dairy economy
Just breathe through it, it's a phase.

Every good solution will be some kind of compromise, keeping it simple is more important than picking "perfect" tools.
Why not? They could use an algorithm that checks if the message looks important, and if it doesn't, asks the sender if it's urgent. They already do it for messages that are out of hours anyway.
I didn't read anything about 'drifting without paying attention to where you are' in the article

Drifting is a common tactic for vessels which don't need to be anywhere specific, and 13 miles offshore is not an unsafe place to be drifting. In this location the wind and current will be mostly from the east, so the vessel will be moving to the west at a low speed. You can see what is in the way and 'oh we will hit an island in 12 hours unless we do something' is not an emergency.
‘Dmesg’ Commands for Troubleshooting and Collecting Information of Linux Systems
I didn't see an exception for the browser calls being called out here: https://support.google.com/duo/answer/9280240?hl=en, so I am guessing it does support e2e encryption.
Western medicine is, IMHO, too averse to exploiting the very real, very powerful, placebo effect. To get a treatment approved you need to prove that it's not a placebo, which excludes, of course... effective placebos.

In India, for example, a lot of family doctors don't see their job as curing the disease, but as giving the patient a feeling of agency and control over their lives. Letting them feel like they're doing something. So when a patient comes to them, the feel that their job is to give them a pill, and a pill is what they will get. If they have a treatable condition they'll get a pill that treats the condition, otherwise they'll get a random herbal tincture or similar, something foul-tasting that gives the patient whatever relief the placebo effect can deliver.
I'm a bit ashamed of that but i guess im not the only one like this. At work we have a system which started crashing, and we could not figure out why. It runs normally, but restarts after some time and then again continues to function properly. So what did we do? Ran multiple instances behind a proxy and let instances crash. But cluster as a whole functions perfectly even when parts of it are restarting because of unknown error that we have no capacity to identify and fix.
Does relativity lie at the source of quantum exoticism?
American cars didn’t use to have seat belts. The thinking was, if your car is equipped with seat belts, it’s clearly not safe.
I had the same impression. They seem to have mandated structure that has bio, introduction, second introduction, introduction in each part and repeats the same thing over and over. And they make you sleep because they all talk so slow.

It is fine when you know absolutely nothing about the topic, but does not have good intermediate nor advanced topics.

Some (mostly java) videos did not seemed to have audience. For example, video is about setting up server and frontend with spring boot etc. And the video is explaining again and again how to make a class in eclipse. If someone cant make java class, they likely should not be learning spring framework just yet.
> Do you believe that a robot cannot have qualia?

We're getting stuck on semantics here. I do, but then I'd cease to see it as a robot, and more a sentient being. One criterion of consciousness that I've encountered is, 'there is something what it is like to be <x>' (Thomas Nagel). If there's something 'what it is like to be' a robot, a bat, a mosquito, an ameoba, a rock... then it is conscious.

> I believe that the question of "what is pain" and the question of "is pain a good criterion for deciding whether it is acceptable to do harm to something" are two totally different philosophical problems. They are connected only insofar as we have chosen pain as a proxy for harm. But that very relationship between pain and harm indicates that pain is not just some kind of soulful feeling, but rather a signal to help us evade harm now or in the future.

Qualia is more broad than just pain, of course. I just picked this particular phenomenon for it's poignance :)

If it is conscious, ethically speaking, we should consider how we treat it in a manner different to something that isn't. So if a rock isn't conscious, and some interconnected neural/silicon device is, we should at least have some way to query whether it is in an undesirable state or not.. if feasible/practical.

Maybe if trees/plants/rocks/ameobas are conscious, we can't be consulting their feelings when we harvest crops, or use disinfectant, mine for precious metals etc. We can make decisions to treat livestock better, and change how we utilize our environmental resources - so we ought to, and we are. But if we were to go out of our way to make new conscious entities, don't you think we should extend our historical shifts in attitude to slavery and our growing shifts in attitude to animal welfare also to these new entities?
Cambridge allowed everyone to access their library but then they changed it to "available online to students through their university library regardless of whether they were previously purchased"
https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/covid-19/
I just want a modern Google Wave to come back ... it was killed so quickly :/
> Take “flat earth” model of the world. It’s not right, but it’s precise enough for the purposes of living in a village. Nothing wrong with that, its when you want to venture out, then you have to find a more precise one.

I don’t think you have to have a more precise model. The modern world is incredibly tolerant of bad models.

Last year, I visited four continents. I don’t think a single thing would have been different if I believed the world was flat. It’s not like I was flying the plane. I just bought a ticket, showed up, and tried to fall asleep.
This was after Germany did the same with 3M distribution center.
The author in this article has put it very well.

>The body’s capacity to heal itself after receiving only the simulated experience of medication or therapy is well documented. But precisely because that capacity is so well documented, reflexive dismissal of the placebo effect as “fake medicine” demands scrutiny—and is now receiving it. In late 2018, The New York Times Magazine reported on a group of scientists whose research suggests that responsiveness to placebos, rather than a mere trick of the mind, can be traced to a complex series of measurable physiological reactions in the body; certain genetic makeups in patients even correlate with greater placebo response.

TLDR: Please do not use placebo effect as a catch all term and as a pretext for not scrutinizing the experiences of millions of patients.
Twilio really is a great provider. Sure they're expensive, and sure you have to pay to lease your number every month, but I've had so much fun with them.

For example I hooked I setup a simple "on-call" system by monitoring a specific Slack channel, and when emergency-messages were present, would dial and play a message to an engineer. Wonderfully reliable and worked really well.
The Mystery of the Missing STEMIs During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sun Small Programmable Object Technology Project (2007)
I'm not sure what article you read. The article I read made it pretty clear that they have failed utterly to the make Comfort any significant relief for its intended purpose.

> The Comfort was sent to New York to relieve pressure on city hospitals by treating people with ailments other than Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. . . .

> But the reality has been different. A tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles has prevented the Comfort from accepting many patients at all.

> On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.

> Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.

> At a morning briefing on Thursday, officials said three patients had been moved to the Comfort. After The New York Times published an article with that number, Elizabeth Baker, a spokeswoman for the Navy, said the number had increased to 20 by late in the day. “We’re bringing them on as fast as we can bring them on,” she said.

> Hospital leaders said they were exasperated by the delays.

Your criticisms of the article are baseless.
TLDR;

"The special theory of relativity is a coherent structure that allows for three mathematically correct types of solutions: a world of particles moving at subluminal velocities, a world of particles moving at the velocity of light and a world of particles moving at superluminal velocities. This third option has always been rejected as having nothing to do with reality.

...

Both theorists have also shown that after taking into account superluminal solutions, the motion of a particle on multiple trajectories simultaneously appears naturally, and a description of the course of events requires the introduction of a sum of combined amplitudes of probability that indicate the existence of superposition of states, a phenomenon thus far associated only with quantum mechanics."
There's a simple logical explanation why meditation works. A huge amount of suffering comes from people making value judgements about things they're thinking about: "X happened/is happening/will happen, X is bad, now I feel bad".

Meditation has two effects on this: firstly, it encourages non-thinking (or focusing on some specific thing like breathing), which means less time for random thoughts, which means less time for feeling bad because of random thoughts.

Secondly, it encourages people to reflect on the value judgements their thoughts are making, which makes them more likely to realise the subjectivity in their judgements (due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument), which makes them more likely to update their worldview into one in which fewer judgements are made. Fewer judgements means fewer thoughts cause unhappiness. This is expressed in a quote by Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "If you are distressed by something external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."; worldview has a huge effect on how much someone suffers, and meditation encourages reflection, and reflection encourages changes in worldview.
And even if none of that were the case, couldn't they just push out an update to the app or OS (just to the target, so other researchers debugging or watching traffic wouldn't know) which would cause the device to exfiltrate the cleartext anyway? Or always have had said feature?
> if one is careless?

That's assuming this was carelessness and not intentional. But then again, I guess whistleblowers usually don't keep their jobs long either.

> Fun fact: no one dies if they leak at Apple.

No one will die from this leak either, obviously, yet they might if they don't get an adequate response to the infection