skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given what evidence?

Well, one could just as well pose the same question to any dualist.

The evidence for minds being physical phenomena comes, at least in part, from the observation that minds appear to be the result of physical brains, which have evolved through a physical process from much simpler precursors, doing physical things. This is far from proof, and is only a hint of an explanation of how it all actually works, but it is as least as good evidence as anything offered by dualists, who do not seem to have anything to offer in the way of a constructive explanation of minds -- they seem to spend all their time arguing against materialism, rather than for a particular idea of how minds work.
This is not a new problem for the people who swears the Hippocratic oath (Primum non nocere [first, do no harm]). Been discussed in ethics circles since forever if doing nothing to prevent people from harming themselves fits within the hippocratic oath as well. Also regarding if doctors can participate in voluntary euthanasia as you'll end up killing the patient, on purpose.
A Notorious Spyware Vendor Wants to Track Coronavirus Spread
Seems cool! Your thing is specific to HN, though, right? I plan to integrate HN as a source in Treendly, too.
Here's a public spreadsheet of 150+ remote job opportunities in April 2020. Search by skills, area of work, location.

The sheet includes the best jobs from who is hiring thread.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RPk0Hc1jU83ynrpONcfU...

Please share to help others who are searching for jobs. Thanks.
Maybe even by 2030 if the coronavirus causes an expansion of research. Which it'll likely do.
CDC officials felt 'pressured' to draft new face mask recommendation guidelines
You are right, I'll give logged users the ability to see a little bit more trends =)

Thanks for the comment!
And many countries will hopefully reconsider the outsourcing of essential goods.
Pet peeve - line charts with many lines, yet legend in another place. Even worse, when the order of labels is not the same as the order of values. They take more cognitive power to parse than needed.

Compare and contrast with labels next to the lines, vide https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest (this example is already quoted in some other thread, and I find it a gold standard of coronavisualizations).
> with the EU collapsing

Are there real signs of the EU collapsing?
It’s been a bit since I’ve used JS (so I may have the latter syntax wrong), but I’d prefer the JSX style of

var elem = <a href="#test">Test</a>;

over

var elem = document.createElement("a");
elem.href = "#test";
elem.innerText = "Test";

jQuery allows one to do something similar to JSX (which is nice):

var elem = $("<a href='#test'>Test</a>");
To me it looks like Germany did this before the US even considered Covid-19 a real problem.

Germany Faces Backlash From Neighbors Over Mask Export Ban[1].

> Since January, Taiwan, India and Thailand, all of which also make face masks, have banned their export, although, to help China, India later temporarily revoked its restriction. South Korea also banned the export of masks, as will Indonesia soon.

Outside Asia, Russia, Germany and the Czech Republic also stopped exports in early March. So did Kenya, where the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on March 13.[2]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/germany-f...

[2] http://theconversation.com/the-global-effort-to-tackle-the-c...
According to the " Interest over time by search volume " graph over the last 5 years, interest/what-your-measuring seems to have decreased.

I'm my experience, but I'm probably in a bubble, more and more people are talking, interested in and using JavaScript, in the last 5 years, but again, probably biased as I'm a web developer.

Is the graph adjusted to the number of people on the planet or some other metric? Or why do you think it shows the data it's showing?
My contributions to elementary OS as a non-coder and how you can too
If your app can be DB agnostic, then what DB you use doesn't matter, so you will never need to switch it.

Also you don't need an "architect" and a "DBA" to know how to use databases properly.
Regression in AMD GPU drivers 2020: Fan noisy at idle
That is a cool idea too, found :https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-reuse-the-old-LCD-Sc... seems you need a driver that would cost around €30
I'm actually looking for headphones now. How would I know what headphones have actual noise canceling features?
Genomic data for most Bacteria and Virus.
- Including up to date COVID19 data tagged
- Genera, Genomes, Genes, Proteins, Domains, IPR, GO codes - all linked
The author writes well. Slightly off-topic compared to the iPad piece but the story about his time in a glider in the Yorkshire dales is a cracking read:

https://thinkfractional.blog/a-day-to-remember/
It may simply be the normal predator-prey dynamic. Even if the predator is infinitely more powerful than the prey it's not in their interest to wipe the prey out. They want to leave enough prey for tomorrow. And if there are defector predators that try to gain an edge by eating more than is sustainable, other predators will try to stop them from doing so.

Now, before you object: it's not always perfectly balanced like this. Sometimes the prey does go extinct.
I've read a small fraction of the comments here and just want to add my thoughts. Please bear in mind that I am ill educated, but well read, so have patchy knowledge at best.

The article stated that Reiki can have beneficial effects and has no harmful side effects, meaning that it can be useful as a supplement to conventional medicine. This seems reasonable to me.

Beyond that, we have all sorts of people making all sorts of claims about it in the comments here. The problem, as far as I'm concerned, is if you make a claim without a shred of evidence to back it up then you are practising religion, not science.

As far as I can tell, the best anyone can offer so far are flimsy hypotheses, with very few suggestions as to how to test them. And then they try to claim this as some actual truth.

Subtle energy? It may very well be, but you can't really offer a hypothesis and then claim it as fact.

I think people would be a little more open to these ideas if those proposing them were to be more honest and say "we have no actual idea how this works, but I'm working under the hypothesis that [x] and hope that someone can come up with some way to test if this is true at some point in the future".

There are some strong claims that patients that are given more "care" recover better than those who aren't. For example, I watched a really interesting program a while ago about using the placebo effect to help people with back problems. They took a large group of people who had ongoing back troubles and told them they were giving them a new medicine to help with back pain. Half were given the medicine and half were given the placebo, except they were all given the placebo because there was no new medicine. On top of that half out of each group were given very short, brusque, medical appointments (as we are normally used to these days) and half were given longer appointments with doctors that spent time talking to them and listening to them.

Despite everyone being given a placebo, some made really dramatic recoveries, and many made at least minor improvements. And those who were cared for more seemed to make better recoveries than those who were given short appointments.

There is so much about the placebo effect and how we can heal ourselves that we do not understand even in the slightest yet.

I could give you carrots mashed in rabbit urine and swear blind that it has been proven to cure headaches. If you reluctantly took it and your headache was gone half an hour later, well maybe it would have gone anyway, maybe it went because you believed me, and maybe I got lucky and carrots mashed in rabbit urine really does cure a headache. I know where my bet would be though. (Please don't try carrots mashed in rabbits urine, I'm not even sure it would be safe for human consumption.)
And the full blog post with more details:

http://lenkiefer.com/2020/04/03/us-labor-market-update-april...
Show HN: Dharmarelief.org – to help the medical supply shortage I built this
Warning issued as researchers reveal another potential treatment for coronavirus
Based on the current actions, it would appear that moving away from global trade results in piracy ( and likely other unilateral actions ). If this moment teaches us anything, it is that globalization ( I hate myself for using this argument already ) is actually a net good for us as a human kind.

So no, I believe your conclusion is incorrect. That trend should not be reversed as we need sufficiently interconnected world so that all interested parties think long and hard before they press the wrong button. MAD at its finest.
> you have to dial the number

It must have been at least a decade since I actually dialled into a video conference using a phone, on any conferencing platform - I always connect audio via my laptop or phone, which I use with a Bluetooth headset.

I was actually having this conversation with a bunch of colleagues the other day, and every person in the call said the same thing, only difference was some used a USB headset, rather than Bluetooth.
Disney fans recreate the magic at home as coronavirus forces parks to close
Best Footballers with ABS Pack
An Attempt to Pipe / Chain Functions in Python
Ask HN: How to become good at naming things in code?
I find myself so often staring at my screen, thinking of a name or names for various things, variables, files, functions etc.

I also am constantly changing names.

This seems to be a huge amount of time wasted, is there a way to become "good" at naming things in software?
If they run a lot of buses they have some traffic awareness built in to the system. I dare say not as good as Google but a knowing that a bus that is already on a segment that another bus is due to enter is delayed surely allows you to adjust the predicted arrival time of both buses.
To be fair to the FT, they have much better graphs than most other newspapers.

I especially like the small multiples by country with the gray lines for different countries (UK, Italy, Spain last I checked).

It's such a wonderful chart idea that I'm already planning on stealing it.
Only thing I can find is this http://prod-upp-image-read.ft.com/6f569c60-7045-11ea-89df-41...
Germany last month implemented export bans on medical equipment that applied to other EU nations as well. I believe many others have as well, but can't remember off the top of my head. Is any country a friend to any other?
It's available as a portable app as well: https://portableapps.com/apps/games/openttd_portable
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: status report [pdf]
Well, there is an argument to be made that the unity of the nation states was weakened somewhat with Brexit and rumblings of Polexit. So it is not really collapsing, but there is a nonzero chance of dissolving.

Personal opinion, not unlike with the internet, we seem to be intent on fracturing previously somewhat open fora, the global order from previous iteration to 'everyone for themselves' model, which served so well in the past.

edit: made last sentence clearer
Smoothing the Design Handoff with a Component Library
Nice article, short and to the point.

If anyone wants to take this idea to another level, I wrote a post showing how to do the same but in 10 times more lines of code: https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/
> I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this

Perspective from the other side of the table: I can't speak for every company, but we've worked day and night for weeks to figure out a plan that puts employees first and gives us a fighting chance to emerge from this crisis. It may not feel like it, but damn we fight for every single person's job. Paycuts w/o layoffs is a win.
"The CDC would not have gone this direction if not for the White House," the senior official told CNN. "We would have tried more to understand about asymptomatic transmission. We would have done more studies if we had more time."
If you only allow cured people to work, you could end up with poorer people trying to get the disease in the wish to cure from it and be able to work.

People with antibodies could even temporarily earn more than others, since they'd be able to work without restrictions.
We are calling all traditions of Buddhism to come together to make a difference.

Compassionate action lies at the heart of Buddhist practice.
As you know, healthcare workers are the front-line fighters against the COVID-19 pandemic. With the critical shortage of medical supplies in hospitals nationwide, and the time lag before the US manufacturers can meet the demands of this shortage, we encourage all Buddhists to come together in an effort to generate the resources to help our healthcare workers. This is the first concrete step for all Buddhists to make a difference.

I met Guo Gu (Jimmy Yu, PhD) at a retreat in December. We had a 'karmic connection' and he reached out to me a week ago to design a logo, build the site, be the technical lead and creative director. I worked all weekend to design a brand and build the site. A week ago the domain was purchased and on Tuesday the site went live. Our initial goal was $100k, we met that within 36 hours of going live. We raised it to $500k and are already halfway there!
Using Deep Learning for End to End Multiclass Text Classification
Ahh I see now, thank you for teaching me. My mistake!

Do you happen to know of any great learning resources, basically more posts like you've written that go into lots of details and explain why things are done?

Thanks again!
The problem with the lack of winds is that the pollution precipitate on the ground and ends up polluting groundwaters

Rain can sometimes dilute them and winds disperse them

Another problem with the perception of reduced pollution is that people think that cars running are the major source of air pollution, while home warming is, so the reduction is also due to the warm season coming.

Cars running major effect is picking up fine dust with their tyres and disperse them into the air

Which increases air pollution but also makes it less persistent

When on the ground it becomes more dangerous in the long term
Why is the Apple Calendar so broken? [video]
The majority can be above average
> Europe spread the virus to the rest of the world, acting as the seed infection for half the planet. This was because of their incompetent and slow response time, poor crisis preparation

Well why didn't the US* demonstrate competence by showing fast response times, strong crisis management (including the President in the US declaring there was nothing to worry about in March, stating that they were well prepared)?

- The US could have stopped travel earlier before even getting its first case.

- The US could have prepared by procuring ventilators and masks before they needed them.

- The US could have cautioned people about the virus rather than stating there is nothing to worry about (even when it had already spread to the US).

In fact some of the European countries took strong measures as soon as shit hit the fan in Italy, whereas there are still states which are not asking people to stay at home.

* I did not mention any other countries since you did not name them.
Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping?
Hello HN!

As part of my learning in data science, I need/want to gather data. One relatively easy way to do that is web scraping.

However I'd like to do that in a respectful way. Here are three things I can think of:

1. Identify my bot with a user agent/info URL, and provide a way to contact me
2. Don't DoS websites with tons of request.
3. Respect the robots.txt

What else would be considered good practice when it comes to web scraping?
Thanks for the links. I had not noticed dexador before. I have it on my schedule this morning to re-work my network access libraries for an Azure web service, and also access to Wikidata and DBPedia. I have been using old code of mine that needs reworking. I will definitely try dexador.
The splash-screen (in arabic) says "all rights reserved" with a copyright logo.

And under it lists "the Saudi health council" and "national council for health information".

So my understanding is that they're claiming copyright on this app?

https://imgur.com/a/y6EW8CB
arrays start at 0?
US Labor Market Update
I can't imagine what was going through the Venezuelan captain's head trying to do this.

These regimes see threats behind every curtain and under every plant pot. It’s possible he really believed, or had convinced himself at least, that as the article says it was full of mercenaries planning to overthrow the regime.
All kinds of logic is hierarchical. Some use cases are mutually exclusive, which translates to them being nested under different states.
An at-home fingerprick blood test may help detect your exposure to coronavirus
Goodstuff Mike, thanks for making and showing Treendly!

"Proudly built nomading." i love it.
> The current administration speaks for the country right now, but doesn't set an eternal policy that determines the United States' thinking towards its partners or erases the decades of strong alliances from the past.

I'm curious how that works, though. On the one hand, I can imagine that other countries might look back on all this (Trump) as a momentary 'lapse' in sanity, but honestly I suspect country-level memory lasts longer than that. If this kind of thing happens once, it can happen again, no? It might say something about the quality and stability of a country's 'institutional continuity', or whatever proper term one might use for it.

Can anyone here who knows more about these topics chime in, perhaps? I know very little, but have been thinking about this quite a bit. How does one 'bad administration' (regardless of whether Trump's is or isn't) affect ongoing relationships between countries? How far back does a country's memory go? Is there any kind of pattern to it, or does it depend entirely on the particulars of said country?
My pleasure, and thank you for checking it out!
These graphs give a bit of an indication, but you cannot really trust them.

Since there is a shortage on tests, at some point countries might decide to only test people coming into the hospital.

Another thing about the deaths is also troubling: In the Netherlands doctors were complaining that deaths with symptoms of Corona were not counted as corona deaths, because they were not tested and found positive (again a problem with the shortage of tests).

So a bending of the curve might just be explained by a new strategy of who to test.

I think the best way to count is to look at total hospitalizations, and subtract the average of normal years. And with corona deaths the same way: subtract the total with the average in a normal year.
Stabbot is open source. It's written in Python and calls out to ffmpeg with vidstabdetect/transform: https://gitlab.com/juergens/stabbot

I don't think vidstab can do exactly what's being asked for here, I've never seen it rotating the frame completely to keep a rotating pen stabilized, or move the frame inside a larger canvas to keep a moving subject centered. I think you have to use video editing and do that manually.
> And if there are defector predators that try to gain an edge by eating more than is sustainable, other predators will try to stop them from doing so.

You're talking about a virus, you know... an inert molecule.
Biggest Misconceptions about Coding
Does 5G cause Covid-19 to spread? No. A biological virus, not computer a virus
Question 2: This is better left unanswered. We've been building superhuman AIs for at least 300 years which are exploiting reality to their advantage and have started out-competing humans for resources (including by changing laws in their favour). These things we've been building are called corporations, and they're certainly smarter than any individual, richer than any human can become and are now working hard to figure out how their humans can be replaced by more reliable components.
They aren't rampantly social.
I wonder if they could use simple rules to get emergent behaviour like this:
https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w
It remains to be seen whether such gestures are just PR though.
That is totally different. Of course you want to care first for your people. So if USA said, exporting of ventilators is forbidden, that is one thing. Another thing is intercepting a rightful order of a 3rd country and taking it as their own.
Common Lisp also has a good story for application bundling and deployment. It has almost always been my prototyping language (1) but is great for other purposes.

(1) started in around 1986 when I had to write a neural network product in C++ (SAIC ANSim). I did all my prototyping in Coral Common Lisp, and converted to C++ once I had Art2, Hopfield, Boltzmann, backdrop, recurrent networks, etc. figured out.
Thanks for reminding me, this is the perfect time to finally read that book.
(It was probably a lot more than that)
Considering that Trump wants to keep manufacturing in the US (big issue during the campaign, no comment on whether this is a good or bad policy), this seems rather unwise in the long run. Basically he's showing that the US is an unreliable partner. I know these are exceptional circumstances, but there may be other exceptional circumstances in a few years time. I would think twice before establishing my manufacturing plants in the US.
China is on the path to become a super power, maybe you could say they are already there. But they haven't seriously started flexing yet.
Just because two opposing sides claim to have the correct answer, doesn't mean there isn't a correct answer.
The reasons makes no difference to an end consumer. They just care about the services provided.
I remember how grateful I was when I received a 25% pay cut after the dot-com bubble burst and tried to take the small consultancy I worked for with it. Not everyone made it, there were some layoffs, but all survivors got a cut in pay.
Meanwhile, in Germany, 2 ministers (one acting, one former) have wiped their phones, including text messages, although there were ongoing investigations in misconduct.

These are the people who are now using Corona to gain access to our location data collected by our phones. One set of rules for the rich, one set of rules for the poor.
The BBC deserves our eternal gratitude for having broadcast Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Google's ToS says you're not allowed to do any computation on your own?

I mean, I'm not disputing it, I just hadn't realized we were already there.
> If you buy Cisco, Juniper, Ericsson, or Alcatel, and you find a backdoor... you just add it to the list of backdoors. But if you find a backdoor in Huawei, can you imagine the shitstorm that's gonna break loose?

There is a saying I ran across at some point:

* The newspapers lie. The government lies. But in a democracy they are not the same lies.

The "problem" with any Chinese company is that this distinction is often hard to make, whereas in Western countries there is much more independence (though not perfect, e.g., RSA and Dual_EC_DRBG).

So when there is a backdoor-like situation in a product from a Western company it is not unreasonable to assume that it is not for nefarious purposes.
Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?
I’m curious as to the tools or techniques people use to keep track of things like bookmarks, snippets of code or text, etc.?

I’ve used a variety of tools (simple browser bookmarks, Pinboard, Evernote, a text file, etc) but have never been very happy with any of the solutions.

Anyone have great tools or methods of storing bits of info for later access?

I’m thinking something that at a minimum has:

- Search

- Tagging

- Support for different content types (links, text, video embeds, photos, etc)

- Also would be nice to have mobile app, browser extension, API, Zappier integration, etc

Any suggestions?
Er, once you know how to use databases properly, you are a DBA.