skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not qualified to say either way, but here's the relevant thread: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1244750382338719745

Also, for people who don't know, Trevor is arguably the single most expert person in the world to weigh in on this.

And here's the specific thread where he predicts it will take a few years for the virus to mutate enough to significantly hinder a vaccine: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1242628550563250176
I've got one really close to this:

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(refname:short) %(committerdate:short) %(upstream:remoteref)' | column -t
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Apologies, I thought that was a rather mild statement but I take your point.
We have something between 3 and 8 user profile services that you might interact with on a daily basis depending on where you sit. If they all had "good" names they'd all have roughly the same name. It's dumb for onboarding, but I have to say I see how "racoon" became a name.
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Buy carbon and store it somewhere.
> any company working "in favor" of the government but not "for it" could very well restrict free speech

I don't follow what you're trying to say here? A private company can do as it pleases because an employee's speech could conflict with its business interests. In some cases, other federal, state, or local laws offer additional protections to the employee (ex California provides very strong protections for employee political speech).

The idea is that the government isn't allowed to restrict your speech, but it also can't force you to interact with someone you don't want to. If you say things that offend people, the consequences are your problem to deal with.
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Depends on what they did to avert it. In many cases the answer is 'too little'.
> Sadly journalists seem even more in the pocket of big biz than scientists.

I think you may be suggesting that there have been journalists who push climate denialism at the behest of the oil industry? My apologies if I misunderstood, but I would agree emphatically.

There are also other jouranlists who push climate alarmism because alarmism sells.
Horses, not zebras.
So I'll throw out the argument that responsibilities of a service evolves as the product evolves. The fact that names like Galactus are blank slates can be a benefit so that you don't have to explain to some poor new grad:

"Well, you see, the identity service isn't actually the source of truth for identities anymore ever since the oauth service started taking that responsibility and the plan was to move all the endpoints into the other service but some other priorities came up, but that was five years ago..."

That is, if agility of architectural development is one of the goals of microservices, names that don't get out of date because they never meant anything except "name for this codebase" in the first place might have some benefit.

Does that overrule the benefit of a common lingo you can talk about without the domain knowledge of your system? Probably heavily depends on way many variables than even HN can hash out, but there's an argument to be made here for these naming conventions at least.
There's also the possibility of a treatment that dramatically lowers deaths. That would be a game changer. As will widespread serological testing that allows those with antibodies to move freely and return to non-essential work.
Likewise. Same with Shipt who are doing Target orders.
I have the reverse problem: Google would happily return me Polish-language results for everything, where I almost never want that. For the types of searches I do, there's almost never anything worthwhile in my native language. This, + their annoying attempt at detecting which country I'm in (so I would get German results when in Germany, and Chinese results when in China) led me one day to figuring out the magic URL incantation to force English results, and replacing the search in omnibar with that.
A variation of that quote is in a book by Robert Ardrey in 1961:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Ardrey
Well, Russia doesn't seem so happy about global warming. I gather that melting permafrost screws up gas production. So maybe they'd want to work with the US.
The best solution would be for corporations to not get special treatment like fucking babies.
The ironic part is that Ioannidis has been a hero on HN for a long time now - I imagine that's where you discovered him, as I did.

And it's not just him - his colleagues Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya, who are presently conducting the first large-scale antibody test have also had a more sober tone. And David Katz. And Frank Ulrich Montgomery. And Albert Ko.

I mean, I understand that somebody disagree with the matter of how to interpret a situation in which available data is thin, but throughout this thread, I'm seeing a lot of people denigrate anybody who is taking a more cautious approach instead of fanning the flames of panic.

Let's try to stay science-based here, if we can do that.
why is this needed..?
Well said, I have a similar stance. OOC do you agree with the need for militaries in general or are you strictly against?
Webpack 5's modules federation ;)
I really like this.

One suggestion is to add filtering by language because India has so many regional stars. So it’d be awesome to find the people that can speak the local language when sending a shout out
Your comment is very helpful, but starting it with "You didn't find it because you didn't look" is not very fair. Most native English speakers would not expect 'Imprint' to have that information.
There's no meaningful whitespace in your example. You have a syntax error in the first example.

To get the effect you wanted in the you needed a `.`:

1> 2 + 2
1> .
4

That is, if you really wanted it split over multiple lines.

The syntax error is indicated as being on line 2 (though not obviously on line 2) with the prefix to the error:

* <line number>: <syntax error information>

What you've essentially typed in your first example is (replacing the newline with a single space):

1> 2 + 2 2 + 2.

You'd expect an error from that since there is no operator between the second and third 2. Even placing a comma would've been enough:

1> 2 + 2
1> ,2 + 2. ;; this is weird to do, but valid
4

The shell expects a period terminating an expression before it parses it. This permits entering multi-line expressions without doing anything special (you don't need a special "I'm going to continue on to the next line please don't parse this one" backslash, for instance).
Even BestBuy has problems. I have an order waiting to ship I want to cancel/return (unopened) but they won't let me. Guess they'll have to go through the full return process rather than just let me cancel.

Meanwhile, Amazon can cancel items even after they ship most of the time.
The downvotes on your post demonstrate the left-leaning nature of this site. It's discouraging frankly. The thousands of conversations that occur daily on this site, without emotion or incident; but insult "the other side"'s politicians or news outlets as being biased? Downvote hell

Yes, CNN and the like are just as bad as Fox news. The sooner you folks recognize that, the sooner we can have decent conversations about emotional issues. Both sides are bad. Neither is better. No, they aren't. Stop it. Blame them BOTH for getting us to this point so that we can leave them in the dark past, and we all over here can talk like adults while they sit over there and bicker, mutually accusing each other of racism and Nazism or whatever today's 5 minute hate happens to be.

WE DO NOT NEED THEM! Either of them! There is a whole universe of conversation that is not occurring because BOTH SIDES are refusing to engage in it, because if you did, you would realize -- tada -- you don't need them. And they can't have that. Viewership and income would drop.

Neither is incentivized with your best interest. And the sooner we collectively start to see it the better.
Consumer confidence, unemployment rate and economy strength are all lagging indicators.

People need to be working, shopping, socialising and the media reports of death and despair completely over before everyone is going to feel happy about the world. If we ended COVID-19 today it would take months for the negative effects to wear off. Just look at what happened after 9-11.

There is a reason that the same right-wing commentators and Trump were so aggressively pushing the "get back to work" easter timeframe and are still talking mostly about jumpstarting the economy. Politics doesn't stop just because of COVID-19.
It would be more useful if you would explain what was mistaken about this article's criticisms of The Economist. Specifically, is it mistaken when it says the magazine is completely uncritical of the free market? Or or do you agree it is, but think that this is the proper view?
I'll go a step further on the interface. It's one of the best shopping experiences online. Ive noticed this about auto part stores POS systems, but rock auto especially, is something special.

You can use the search to REFINE as you search. Start by typing Toyota Camry YEAR and 2.4L if you want. It will keep making suggestions but you can click enter. Then you have a tree to select from OR you can use the new search box that appears to keep searching just in that tree. Then when you get to a category, a third search box appears you can use to filter the results. It's honestly amazing how fast you can search for things. There was another comment about having to scroll a lot, but that's the slow way to use the site.

Rock Auto is one of those sites that will never work as well if it became "mobile first." Like craigslist and photoshop, and the old facebook, its beauty is in its density and how quick you can navigate and drill.
So far there has never been a successful vaccine created for a coronavirus. So it's likely there is not going to one in the near future. Not even within the next couple of years. Possibly if there is a significant worldwide collaboration we can create one soon.
> The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added.

This is going to sound kind of grim, but a counterexample here is, e.g., a Southern plantation where children of slaves were also born into slavery, yielding a superlinear work capacity. With that said, even though I intuitively agree with the statement, I think other (more contemporary) counterexamples might exist.

> Coherence costs grow quadratically as new members are added.

I see the point here, but I'm not sure how I can reconcile it with the reality of modern-day armed forces: where millions of organizational members function extremely efficiently (possibly due to very rigid organizational structures -- which the article doesn't really touch on). It seems there's a ratio between dyads and "organizational strength" which probably yields "true" coherence.
Google Translate renders "formalny, standardowy brytyjski akcent RP" as "formal, standard British accent of the Republic of Poland", which was initially quite confusing. The machines still haven't mastered context.
LA doctor seeing success with hydroxychloroquine/Zinc to treat Covid-19
And if you pay attention you’ll notice Amazon already has their own freight logistics network and is setting up an air logistics network at exponential scale.

Just wait until prime members can overnight something from an Atlanta Whole Foods to an LA Whole Foods for 5 bucks. Then people will really forget how much it costs to ship things.
I will note that I have written the following in jest, due to the title of the post. I have not read your post, before writing the following statements: Arch biet Mach Frei - There was a man once, who believed as such. Although there were a great many more under him, who didn't much like what he had to say. Even though quite many simply went along with it, because it seemed easy, comforting, one might even contend that it was the right thing at the right time, while the others vehemently opposed such thinking and critique.
Try the search. Its phenomenal. And then when you click enter, the next search box that appears. And then the filter box. I dont ever have to scroll on the rock auto page.
There is no quantification of the predictive power of any of these models presented in the linked-to article.

In fact it appears highly misleading, since they directly contrast (a) data from 1970-2017, with (b) a model written in 1973 predicting out to 2016, and (c) a model written in 2013 that can be compared to the data up until 2017.

So for this "pretty consistently on the mark" model, it only encompasses predictions for the years 2014-2017, based on observations from 2013. Many ARMA-type regression models do that well, since on average each year is mostly similar to the previous one.

In short, this doesn't support the credibility of this body of work.
Communications of the ACM (https://dl.acm.org/magazine/cacm) also has some "must-reads" for anyone in computer science or software engineering.
Asia is having a 2nd wave because of students and people working in the West returning to Asia due to fear of lockdown or the spread of the virus. I don't think the opposite migration will be of similar magnitude since it hit Asia first and the Asia->West migration already happened in Feb.
couldn't agree with this more!
> Why would your beliefs about the "media environment" influence your view of the reports from scientific bodies?

If the media present bold predictions intended to reflect the views of scientific bodies, and those predictions fail to come to pass, then we have reason to doubt at least one node in the flow of information. It could be that the media incorrectly portrayed scientific results, or it could be that the scientific model upon which the prediction was based was flawed.

For instance, when the NYT says in 1978:

> An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.

Clearly the statement has been proven false. But why was this false statement made? Is the problem with the NYT, or the international team of specialists?

That's the problem with the media environment, because it's not always clear (certainly not to the lay person) when the media is representing their sources faithfully.

> The claims of catastrophic consequences are coming straight from the literature.

There are a few things one needs to sort out:

1. What are the actual expected range of consequences stated in the literature?

2. What is the confidence with which the literature expects these consequences?

3. What are the necessary interventions to prevent these consequences (if they can be prevented)?

4. How do the costs of the interventions compare with the consequences?

It's actually quite hard for a lay-person to sort out. The IPCC reports are a good place to start, but still very dense for most people. Also, every seemingly erudite critic of those reports is viciously attacked as a bad faith actor.
Of course, though, you can distribute your own app stores on Android via sideloading a la F-Droid and Epic Games. Perhaps in 2011, it just didn’t seem as doable, or maybe sideloading was disabled by more vendors... not sure.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. You don't have to constantly perform glory kills or chainsaw attacks and there's not a single instance in the game where you have to kill an enemy with an alternate firing mode to a specific region. I think you're exaggerating for effect, and that's fine, but I don't feel like you'd need to do that if your argument had any meat to it. You're right that it's not the same game (because that would be boring) but to say that it's not "Doomy" because of reasons that aren't even accurate makes your whole argument fall apart.

Case in point, there's already a pistol-only playthrough of DooM (2016) and I know people are already working on shotgun-only playthroughs of Eternal.
Two differences that I see:

A union is designed to protect your rights, forced arbitration is designed to limit your rights.

Arbitration clauses are so ubiquitous that it would be almost impossible to operate in modern society while refusing to sign them.
Nobody knew how this would play out

Yes they did, because most of the people we're talking about had real time examples going on while they were denying there was a problem. In Italy, they could have looked at what happened in China, but chose not to. You could perhaps forgive that, possibly they thought that population density, smoking rates or other demographics made a huge difference. But Spain has no excuse at all because they literally had an example of an (for all intents an purposes) identical country right on their doorstep and still chose to ignore it. My wife is Spanish so I followed a lot of the reactions there and they were flat out ridiculous. Similarly with the e.g. the US - did they really think the virus was going to act differently there than in other parts of the world?
Almost. It's a gated D latch, which is level sensitive and behaves asynchronously, as opposed to a D flip flop, which is an edge sensitive primitive.
Being rational? Yes. This is not smallpox. This isn’t even MERS from a mortality perspective. It’s real, rapid-spreading, and terrifying in how it kills those few who succumb, but people need balanced perspective. All they are getting is impending doom reported on television 24/7 and it’s nothing but.

The future is bright. The 1918 Spanish Flu was followed by the roaring 20s!
Why not? Because what evil puppet-master settles for "probably ok" when a slight extra effort buys certainty.
Ask HN: What tech work do P.E and hedge funds use consultants/freelancers for?
> everybody has a layer of abstraction they do not peek under

Reminds of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/

The beauty of programming is abstraction - you write a function to do one thing, do it well, and then you can abstract that concept away and reuse that abstraction. Although it's only an abstraction - a container is "like" a lightweight VM, and you can use it like that until it doesn't act like a lightweight VM. In which case, you have to dabble one layer deeper just to understand enough to know why the abstraction of your layer isn't a perfect analogy.

In which case, if you're looking for an expert in layer n, then basic knowledge of layer n - 1 might be a decent proxy for expertise
Building a home HIIT workout trainer in quarantine
I think the time I’ve been most astonished recently by an api was asp.net. They map http parameters onto function parameters by name, using reflection. One of the first things you’ll read in any introductory programming textbook is that function parameter names don’t matter; only the type and order matters. When the light went off and I figured out what they had done, I swore out loud at my desk..
Also just started using them, great so far!

fyi they are about to close for a week because of passover
Well, flip-flops can be edge-triggered or level-triggered. They're both flip-flops.
TLDR: This is a library providing logical connections over UDP with in-order delivery, packet loss tolerance via erasure-encoding, and encryption.

This would be useful for real-time mobile apps. Do mobile connections even support UDP?
Building your private home with union labor is a completely different thing than unionized work forces in companies.

When building your home, you have the option of hiring non-union workers. Workers have the option of not joining the union. The union essentially acts as a service provider to the independent workers. These individuals charge quite a bit more than non-union workers, but often have astounding levels of competence, productivity, and workmanship.

When a company is unionized, none of those things are true. Instead of the union being a de facto endorsement of a particular worker, it acts to protect its own power over the workers. Instead of the company having a choice about who to hire for a particular role, it is forced into one choice. Instead of workers joining a union for their own benefit, they are forced to join because of legal coercion. The union is highly motivated to control and limit its members--freedom for the members means destruction of the union.
> Keep the work parallel, the groups small, and the resources local.

That how the military gets things done, by having a trained officer corps which can think on a local level and the higher up give general guidelines for how to proceed in different situations.
Yes, but that's different.

A simple capacitor does not require an external power supply to store the state, but the state decays in time.

A flip-flop requires an external supply to store the state, but the state is stable indefinitely.
I found the video to be worthwhile overall. For anyone looking for the Kayfabe-specific part, though, it starts at about 23:40: https://youtu.be/bsgWSPWX-6A?t=1420
This book give a broad overview of the problem space:

https://pragprog.com/book/pb7con/seven-concurrency-models-in...

Also because I have it, here’s a distributed systems meta-reading-list. It’s old and thus I’m sure there are some broken links, but it’s a deep rabbit hole if you’re interested in distributed systems, which is basically concurrency on steroids.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368
My approach is to include one or two news sources from the "other team" in my daily news diet.

It adds a nice grain of salt for when I read "my team's" news.
Super interesting concept. I don't live in India. How did you validate the market for this? Prices are not low... particularly not for Indian standards.
Ask HN: What's up with sites that don't allow any cookies to be disabled?
I'm sure most of us have seen websites using "One Trust" or other services to give a standard cookie disclosure and even allow visitors to enable or disable certain cookie "classes".

I've been reading MIT Tech Review's coronavirus coverage, and clicked on the "Cookie Information" link in their page banner, and was dismayed to see that all cookie classes, even the "targeting" (aka tracking) cookies are shown as "Always Active", without the ability to disable them. (Granted, I have several browser extensions that should be blocking these regardless.)

Out of the sites I've visited that use this sort of cookie disclosure style, this is the first one I've noticed that doesn't allow any cookies to be disabled at all. I'm a bit dismayed that a publication put out by an institution like MIT is engaging in a practice like this.

How common is this? Are there many other sites that do this that people have seen? Is there any avenue where we can evangelize to orgs that they shouldn't do this?

(Example article page: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615436/the-coronavirus-test-that-might-exempt-you-from-social-distancingif-you-pass/)
It is something ive started now.
> To put forth a more substantive argument, everybody has a layer of abstraction they do not peek under.

Sure. Though it's reasonable to want your level N developers to have some idea of what goes on at levels N-1 and perhaps N-2, cf. Law of Leaky Abstractions etc. It's similar to wanting your developers to be aware of their users' needs, which are level N+1 concerns.
When my mother was a school teacher, the union had mandatory fees which went to partisan political campaigns against her ideology and self interest. I think this was eventually challenged and overturned in court, but it left a terrible impression.
Straight to the photos. They are beautiful!
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What kind of anti-abuse mechanisms do you have in play?

As soon as the API is figured out, it'll be used for mass spam signups. I've done one of these before, and pretty much if you allow any form of being able to retrieve a code or URL or number from the body/subject, it'll be used for millions of spam signups.