skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree, and we need to hold all sides accountable, not just the favorite bugbear.

Thing is, there are credible voices taking a counter perspective, and they should be heard and given blame (and praise) for their accuracy in prediction.
I see, thank you
> They sure as hell didn't wait until Tuesday when this news broke to "seize up territorial claims" whatever that means.

Similarly, USA had no need to specially wait for provocation to back their allies in the region.

Countries in the region were looking with scepticism on US "security guarantee" for decades. And the last few years gave them even more reasons to move away from USA.

For example, both Philippines and Malaysia were at some moments seriously committed to conduct action on Spratleys, both times it was US who exerted extreme diplomatic pressure on them to not to do so.

They have all reasons to ask questions why do they have to spend diplomatic efforts on maintaining US security guarantee, if US is not willing to defend their land.

CPC's think tanks have long found that the best way to put pressure on countries in the region is through pressuring the US.

They make it look to US government that their relationship with a given country have "too high of a price," and raise risks, and stakes for the US.

Then they come to Washington, and say "hey, let's deescalate, and go back to making money. Just make one small concession on that island." Of course, in the end it will be not USA making concessions, but their vital allies.
Schwab? I've been using them for about 2 years and have no complaints now.
This is widespread unfortunately. Developers changed to „users” and no longer pursue the details of solutions. Im not gonna say its the dominant behaviour in the field right now, but I see it more and more often on various experience levels.
The more academic form of trolling?
Thanks, this was very helpful! I was scanning the prose on the Codeberg website looking to see if Codeberg itself was open source, but all it said was that it was "free" and "non-profit."

Now I see that Gitea is the software (basically a clone of GitHub that is visually almost div-for-div, released with an MIT license, that you can host yourself), and Codeberg is central hosting (a "hub") running Gitea, operated as a non-profit.
I still use it and I'm well over 30. I can't speak to your friends, but I like the history of where I've been. I love driving and finding new places -- at least, back when things were open, remember when there were cafés and stuff? -- and, on the flip side, I (used to) go out to eat for most meals and could fall into regular patterns, and sometimes checking Swarm to remind me that, yes, I had been to such-and-such place twice already this month could kick me into trying something new.

Making the coins utterly useless irritates me, though, and I'm kind of surprised they dropped the whole notion of partnering with businesses to offer specials to regular customers they had in the pre-Swarm days. While I presume they pivoted into selling location data because the partnerships just didn't make them enough money, I'd hope the partnerships weren't losing them money, and I think they really drove usage.
It's amazing many of these cool ideas died in favor of datamining and profits. I wonder what lead them to do these changes. I've read stories of people traveling in buses to diferent locations in USA just to check-in. I wish I had that strong community.
I like how all our problems get tied to global warming these days. Certainly boosts the theory's credibility.
Lots of creative things could be done for that use case, the challenge is getting (and maintaining) a usable/affordable database of places.
I don’t blame turnstile jumping, just see it as a symptom of the broader issues facing the MTA.
Have you tried syncing to/from the iCloud Drive directory directly? (Backup your data first!)

~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/
Science isn’t consensus! Proof isn’t determined by “very nearly 100% of scientists agree”. Just ask Copernicus.

We don’t vote on scientific proof. Yes evidence leads us to believe climate change is happening, but why and predicting it’s trajectory and effect should be met with scientific standards not scaremongering and “CLIMATE DENIER” hyperbole.

If the pursuit of scientific rigour and fact has taught us anything over our history it’s that skepticism and challenging the status quo is
necessary and should be welcomed. In today’s climate debate it it’s nothing but derided.
The lack of productive discussion around a potential treatment tells us more about our bad decision-making under anxiety conditions than it does about the efficacy or not of the medical proposal. Although I posted a preprint of the French micro-study to HN a few weeks ago when this first became a topic of discussion, I now regret doing so due to the subsequent public confusion and imho very irresponsible promotion of it as a harm-free prophylactic by Trump.
It’s not slowing down naturally - we are all on lockdown in order to slow it.
The exact numbers? Of course not. Especially early on, they were suppressing information in addition to just not having complete information themselves. The cat's out of the bag at this point though, with WHO observers and foreign reporters on the ground. Even if there's some fudging and incompleteness, the overall trajectory of the infection curve is likely about right.
That's not what they were referring to. Android alerts you when an app tries to access location data in the background and allows you to disable it.

There's a system-wide setting to disable app access to BT and wifi location data.
I haven't use it, but if you lower your expectations a bit, there's sublimetext, emacs and vim.
Hum... The GP seems to be talking about Global Warming denialists, and the dynamics of how they communicate with people. This one is the same.

But yes, Global Warming has the bad quality that it is completely not obvious how to solve it. There is an entirely different dynamic at the side that accepts it for settling on a solution... and what is more disturbing, R&D and science are mostly neglected there too, even by the academics so prone on applying science to predict the problem.
That's funny, considering:

>“It’s a fruity pop song written for children. It just is what it is”, Michael Stipe told the BBC’s Andrew Marr in 2016.
And there I thought the silver lining of corona was air bnb would finally be seen as a large part of our current housing crisis.
Not to harp on about medications, but there are “non-stimulant” medications used to successfully treat ADHD as well, such as Strattera.

On the non-medicine side, techniques like bullet journaling are useful, also having “accountability partners” — friends or groups you report in with each week to check on each other’s progress; things like that.
>Make non-compliance painful enough, and the defectors will fall in line.

Maybe they don't, or maybe in the end that's all too little too late, which is why I'd suggest adding adaptation initiatives to your list.
I don't think your scenario is as different as you think.

Depending on what we mean by "back to life", a trick is in fact much more likely than something thought to be biologically impossible.

If we eliminated the possibility of a trick -- that is, proved beyond a doubt that 11 people were dead, and then alive -- I would absolutely not be ready to attribute it to some new treatment. Natural law is being violated here! I would instead start checking for other possibilities, like:

- Are other people spontaneously reanimating around the world, or just in this study?

- Did these 11 people have anything else in common? Extraterrestrial origin, perhaps? Unusual religious beliefs?

- Hang on, let's double (triple, quadruple, etc.) check that they were really dead. And then go back and check again.

- And by all means, start a proper clinical trial of the new treatment while we're trying to understand how resurrection is even possible.
I've experienced the same in northern NJ. No available delivery/pick-up slots from any providers.
Nobody is going to point out that of the 11 patients, "8 had significant comorbidities associated with poor outcomes (obesity: 2; solid cancer: 3; hematological cancer: 2; HIV-infection: 1)"?

I don't even understand what the point of this study was except as a rebuttal to the prior study. I mean, if people thought the prior study was cherry picking results. I don't even know what I'd call this...

There's _some_ anecdotal evidence that it _may_ work if treated early. Hopefully there are some real studies that are being done on that.
> as a higher percentage of people have or have had the virus, the growth rate decreases because there are less people available to infect

That is what you would call "herd immunity" and no, current numbers of recovered patients are not even close to have it. It doesn't happen like magic like some politician wants to make people believe, and current estimations for COVID _herd immunity threshold_ are 29%-74% of the community [1]. Make a count of that on the US population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics
They all fit that description. If you're rich.

Put a few hundred thousand in the bank and you'll get all that stuff for free!
At the bi-weekly RKI press-conference[0], the head of the RKI mentioned almost in passing that R0[1] has been brought down to 1. Talk about burying the lede! So out of the exponential phase, and now trying to get R0 below 1 as well as optimising other figures.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0gIhKRy04&feature=youtu.be...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
People love to bring this up, but if Linux did have first-class containers, how would the developer's experience be different?
Google does this too when you sign in from "unknown" locations, if you don't have 2FA configured. I think the purpose is to slow down bots. If you try reusing the same number in quick succession on different accounts, Google won't let you.

I'm so glad I'm out of the family tech support "business"; if only firing real customers were so easy...
ah ok. I never saw those captcha things as work per say, but yeah I guess they are. Free work for some model data somewhere.
Another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22783645 recommended Verified Functional Programming in Agda (https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/2841316). I was just thrilled to notice that the HOPL proceedings (https://dl.acm.org/conference/hopl) are there!

EDIT 1: HOPL was pointed out earlier by spdegabrielle (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795488).

EDIT 2: I was just downloading, and got my IP address blocked. Nothing crazy or automated, just manually clicking through to all the articles in HOPLs I–III. Hopefully it'll clear up eventually, but just a warning to anyone else trying to build a library in a day.
Anybody else remember when you could search for a phone number and find legitimate web pages that contained the phone number?

We lost that a long time ago.
> if I as lay person am going to be getting my information from sources like NYT and National Geographic

If you'd like to have better understanding of any topic you have to learn to improve your critical thinking capabilities. The media simply print different "opinions" and "statements" and even mark them as such. You have to learn that the media never reflect the truth, the way they are used to cover almost any topic. They are simply the reflections of the power of those who do the influence. Big corporations (or organizations having immense funding) have big influence even when it is not obvious to the "lay person".

From the media side, how it typically work is that the "debate" and the "controversy" sell (more ads, more readers, more viewers). So very often they would give as much attention to one person representing the conclusion 95% of all world scientist as to another person representing a set of fringe "contrarians" financed by some NGO's which are actually financed by some corporations whose interest is to promote that view:

https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Ob...
Why not the best? Red Hat vet Paul Cormier takes over as CEO
The US was too little and too late with testing for contact tracing to work. It might become possible again if the number of cases gets low enough, though.
I wish Quake Live had never been killed off.
"Airbnb announced today that Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners will invest $1 billion in Airbnb in a combination of debt and equity securities."

What does this mean relative to a private stock purchase?
Yes that's good news. However when you say the curve is flattening, I believe you mean we have reached peak daily new cases, meaning the number of new cases we see is going to start declining from here.

Collectively many people seem to be referring to that as "curve flattening", but my understanding is that flattening the curve means slowing the growth rate overall, so that it takes us longer to reach peak daily new cases. It is not intended to indicate a particular point along the x axis. In fact if we are actually flattening the curve, it will take us LONGER to reach our peak. Also, its difficult to measure whether we have been successful or not, because the only thing we have to measure against would be hypothetical worse case scenarios.
Ask HN: How do you implement “user impersonation” support?
What are best practices for implementing a support system where support agents / engineers can see the app as the user sees it, including any bugs which may be occurring based on that user's data?

Do most companies build this themselves with role based access control, access logging, automatically blocking any sensitive customer data or PII? Or are there tools on the market that do this?
After hearing this opinion repeated with so much frequency, it would seem obvious to me that affordable housing must have been a non-issue before Airbnb existed 10 years ago. But of course, this isn't the case. As a matter of fact, cities that ban Airbnb don't seem to be doing better than those that have few or no regulations concerning the use of the platform. As far as I can detect, the ones that restrict its use seem to be doing worse than their counterparts, which would seem to imply that there exists no causal link between Airbnb and the lack of affordable housing.

The problem, like we all know but some refuse to admit, is that when supply is less than demand, prices increase. There is an extremely simple, remarkably achievable, but politically unpopular way to solve this. That solution of course, is to stop retarding new supply.

Until we come to terms with this, the problem will continue, and parties that are not responsible for it, (but are easy and politically tenable to hate) will continue to get the blame.
This could perhaps be illustrated well with a hard boiled egg. If you remove an egg at the 7 minute mark, the internal temperature is still around 100c, and it will continue to cook. To stop it cooking, dunk it in cold water.

Similarly with the pot pie, the filling retains a ton of heat, so it still is cooking for those few minutes, as the heat dissipates. If you left it in the oven five minutes longer (to 'finish') then put it in cold water (like the egg), you would have a pie in a similar, though wetter, condition.
We're working on that. In the meantime, happy to do a call to discuss.
Boeing to suspend 787 production in South Carolina ‘until further notice’
Really importantly, the behavior of poll/select/epoll on files is to always return "available." But a read from that file may still sleep waiting on disk — available does not mean the result is already in memory. They're only really effective primitives for networking sockets and artificial fds like signalfd().

Prior to io_uring, libraries that provide async file access in userspace (by necessity) use some kind of threadpool, with each thread processing an operation synchronously and providing an async result via self-pipe or other user-driven event.
Emacs is a great editor but it’s not that easy to set up and hardly has sane defaults. One can download VSCode and start using it straight ootb for modern development but performance is quite poor at scale.
Happens to me all the time. Your conscious experience is the product of you processing a staggering amount of information from the world, and you're not aware of most of that processing. I would say give therapy a try.

What you'll have to do is basically just science on yourself -- make a hypothesis, test it, interpret your findings, and repeat until you know how you work. Therapy is more or less learning how to do that for all the soft emotional stuff in your head and learning how to manage your personal stress.
The Asian Countries That Beat Covid-19 Have to Do It Again
It’s still web based?
I don’t think “real news” has ever died - it was always dead. The term “Yellow Journalism” has been around since the late 1800s.

I don’t think news that tries to push a narrative is useless. You just have to understand the viewpoint that they’re providing. By reading several different conflicting sources, and trying to understand each viewpoint and why they disagree, you can become informed on the issue.

The problem is, many people would rather take the easy route and treat every issue as if it were black and white. This opinion is right, that opinion is wrong. This news outlet is right, this news outlet is wrong.
In principle that would be a great thing to check but due to lack of clinical systems interoperability it's not at all trivial to check. Surescripts and the various pharmacy chains have data on who has been taking chloroquine but researchers will still have to get access, and then do a bunch of record linkage work to compare outcomes. In the hardest hit areas I suspect healthcare providers have also fallen behind on data entry so there's going to be a data quality problem.
> we should treat flu more seriously

Agreed (though in the US we do have a yearly nation-wide vaccination program, imperfect as it is, and largely staff and equip hospitals to handle the high-water mark of cases).

> I think making predictions on how many people "could have died" when we're doing extremely limited testing isn't helpful.

I disagree with that. The alternative to making imperfect predictions (predictions are imperfect by nature) is to not make predictions. Without predictions you can't make reasonable decisions to direct your future.

Of course, when your predictions are too far off you can't make good decisions to direct your future either, but that just suggests you should try to make the best predictions you can (hence the science and study of epidemiology), not that you shouldn't make predictions.

If you don't make predictions (or you make them based on hunches or by other low quality means) you're just throwing yourself randomly into the future and are unlikely to get good outcomes.
I think it is widespread because containers are (seemingly) marketed as being some kind of magic. The impression I get is that the benefit to containers is that you don't have to think about them. This may be more a product of Docker but I think containers and Docker have become synonymous.

I'm not sure this is a fair comparison but that is my impression. I could be in a bubble too.
This is true for many new waves of popular technologies.

1) A new technology or method becomes popular.
2) Developers find new advantages in using the technology.
3) Understanding of tech and original advantage is somewhat lost.

For example: containers are now widely used as part of a scriptable application build process, e.g. the Dockerfile. There are probably many developers out there who care about this and not about how containers are run and how they interact with the kernel. And for their use cases, that is probably the thing that matters most anyways.
check out https://openarena.live :)

it allows playing quake3 in-browser and even allows hosting your own server over webrtc
I think that's partly why some commenters think the article isn't all that valuable. IMO, it really does not at all apply to the Dems/Republicans fight. If you've spent any amount of time with people who actually work in politics, it's readily apparent there's no kind of mutual collusion between the parties. They can barely even "collude" internally to advance their agendas.

The whole thing is just a contest for who can get the most pithy soundbite for the day. It's horrible and ineffective and stupid but there's no "Republicans and democrats are working together to.... do exactly what?" conspiracy.
Other than the obvious application to the Democrat/Republican rivalry puppeteered by corporatists, the other application that came to mind is Youtube celebritydom.
Isn't USAA restricted to military or spouse/child of military?
Online Jamming for Muscians
Does my remote-work product idea suck?
I have this new idea and I can’t convince myself not to pursue it. Can you convince me it sucks?

I am working on a goal setting and tracking tool for remote teams.

It connects business objectives with individual goals. It improves organizational focus. It gives colleagues visibility into each others’ work. It makes the company a more understanding and open place to work in.

What problems led me to pursue this idea?
- Teams growing apart
- Misalignment on goals
- Lack of visibility of the work other teams do
- Lack of measurement of performance

Do you work in a remote team? If yes, can you convince me that this idea sucks?
How to prepare for economically challenging times as a web developer?
Given everything that's going on, and all the job losses, I wonder what kind of advice you guys have, articles etc...you could offer about how to cope. What should developers start doing right now if they fear they may lose their job now or soon? What do you say to those who already have? What do we do to stay competitive etc...

If anybody here made it through the 2008 financial crisis, would be especially awesome to hear from you as well...
> Their conclusion was that chloroquine could indeed allow zinc to enter the cell and then inhibit replication (and therefore that the treatment needed to be administered early).

Where does the "if it inhibits replication it needs to be administered early" line come from? I've seen it elsewhere too, but why wouldn't inhibit replication lead to => continually declining amounts in the body => easier recovery at any stage?
Sublimetext is a great example but not open source. So choice criterion will not be met.
New renewable energy capacity hit record levels in 2019
Fidelity does it through either SMS or Symantec’s Validation and ID Protection (VIP) Access app. I called and asked if they support another app and they said they don't. Why they couldn't use another (read: non-Symantec) 2FA is beyond me.
> All said, a 0.1% death rate is still pretty dangerous and catching the disease is something like raising your risk of death by 50% in a given year. Lockdowns are still justified under those numbers.

0.1% of the rest of my life is ~3 weeks. The lockdown has already cost me more of my life than a confirmed case of COVID-19 would (on average).

And the math doesn't get much better the older you get, an 85 year old has the same chance of dying of natural causes during a 12 month lockdown as he has from actually contracting COVID-19.
UCSF doctors alluded to the same thing.
>if there is anything that you could have learned from the last three years then it is that lying to the public carries no consequences at al

If you study history, you realize thats been a thing for much more than just 3 years...

https://youtu.be/VGdWIwiVMF4
Researchers record movement of light with breakthrough resolution and frame rate
Deniability.