skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered what happened to .prop() which looked like it had a lot of potential. Looks like that potential was (at least partially?) realized as it evolved into a "stream" library [1], which basically acts like cells in a spreadsheet. This seems like a really useful concept which could be used to create more kinds of UI frameworks than just declarative React style ones.

[1]: https://mithril.js.org/stream.html
Blame them for something that isn't happening. Completely fair criticism.
You don't even need any mods for that really. Sure after a while it spices things up, but that's basically how I played that game ever since. Build the most awesome network ever and optimize it more and more.

Sure it would be a lot easier to distribute your ore to different steel mills, but it's much more fun to optimize the crap out of that one huge station at a single mill. Same for factories. And the slowly connect every town in the game to the same network until complete chaos ensues.
so, i absolutely agree. i do find it odd that no one has mentioned pg_hint_plan[1]. we use it, and it is great.

[1]: https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html
Nim might be great. But how can a great language get traction if nobody big is behind it?

Java and Python are being pushed by Silicon Valley and universities, Go is being pushed by Google, Kotlin is being pushed by Google, C# is backed by Microsoft and some big companies.

Who can help Nim, or Crystal, or Rust or other new language?

I look at many of them from time to time, see interesting developments, see exciting things but I refuse to learn the languages, their ecosystem and frameworks from the fear I have I will lose lots of valuable time since I might not be able to earn my living using them.
So this is a bit like https://explodingtopics.com but with a different angle to find the categories and trends? I see no "world/global" option, is that on purpose?

I do like how the data is presented in the details page. In exploding topics you have to leave the site to see the same on gtrends.
Great improvements! It’s comforting that Apple is still prioritizing the browser. Though I’d wish they’d focus even more resources on it. Given all they spend on iOS native it would be sound if a slice of that could be towards Safari.

The new hint values for the soft key enter is a small but very useful addition!
Here's a collection of the shortest finish in many games: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/mathmagic/1112.html
>”Despite the slightness of difference between the two coronaviruses, the antibody binds much less tightly to SARS-CoV-2 than it does to the SARS virus, and cannot neutralize SARS-CoV-2 in lab dish tests as it does SARS-CoV.”

Oh.
Yep! These were Little Ice Age prevention measures, or maybe Roman Warm Period investments.

Still expenses. State should have been involved, economic incentives, campaigns like "Burn the coal - stay Huns home" Everyone knew it, but then as now too little to late

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period
This must be a cultural difference because to most Americans these would be essentially the same thing. Your argument is akin to saying "We didn't divert the product, we barred the already completed product from export!" Both actions are denials of access and quibling over semantics serves nobody except politicians who want to save face.
Not all applications have a requirement around "necessary optimizations". Sometimes if the application is simple enough, something like this submission could be good enough.

Or the constraints could be different where the bundle size vs performance implications could be worth trading.

Depends on context :)
That go me too, but to be honest the title says it like it really is.
All of these need to be normalized per capita. Otherwise you don't see the true extent of the problem. Also from looking at the stats recently, here's what I find more useful than the raw number of "cases":

- Number of deaths per capita

- Number of "severe" cases per capita (good indicator of the future number of deaths)

- Number of tests per capita (good indicator for whether or not "number of cases" means anything at all)
Programmable matter. Now we are getting closer to the future we were promised.
I believe when people are talking about 3D anime they mostly refer to the characters being done in 3D or it dominating the show in some other way. Props, cars, indoor environments, mecha and so on have often been done in CG for quite some time now. Of course context matters, a mecha fan may care more whether they're CG or handdrawn. If anything AoT is a bad example here because it makes it obvious rather than going unnoticed.
It's unclear what that graph is supposed to show. It can't be cumulative cases (because there are days with decreases), but the scales are completely off if they're supposed to show daily increases/diffs (Spain certainly did not see daily increases anywhere near 100k in the past few days).
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Some people do, such as how often right-wing vs left-wing guests appear on various shows. I’m not sure how useful these stats are though.

For e.g Nigel Farage moaned that the BBC and Question Time is too left wing, when ironically at the same time he was invited on the show more than any guest in its recent history.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nigel-farage-set-record-question-t...
It would nice for the era of multicore to be able to do this on PC. Run Windows on 4 cores and Linux on 4 cores while being able to share the rest of the hardware.

It probably would be impossible but nice.
There are 2 types of a person that falls for a scam: the one who does not know how things work and the one that ignores the red flags.

Writing the story is good for the ones that don't know.
I'm always skeptical of when companies say they will "never" do something. How in the world do all your employees know to never do that thing? Are you constantly reminding people every day in your office of the list of things to never do? Even if you're one person that's an insanely strong promise to make to anyone about your future actions. How does a company have such confidence in the future? The only way I can imagine this working is if they make it impossible for themselves to do that thing, which itself is practically impossible in these cases.
Lets just enumerate the options:

1) Success is determined by luck. People will complain that one person being more successful than another is grossly unfair.

2) Success is determined by extrinsic deterministic factors or uncontrolled intrinsic factors. People will complain that people aren't doing anything to 'earn' their success - it was in some sense inevitable.

3) Success is determined entirely by intrinsic deterministic factors that are in the control of the individual. More morally palatable, but suggestive that any gradient of accomplishments is actually reflective of a sort of selfish 'technique hoarding' (I'm not quite sure what to call it) by successful people. They should really be forced to share their techniques until everyone is equal.

The underlying issue here in this thread isn't how success is achieved; it is the concept of different outcomes for people. Which is a good philosophical point but not practically useful - nobody can point to a system where equal outcomes have led to anything like the material comforts of a world where a gradient of different outcomes is encouraged. The world simply isn't very fair and we've all got to roll with that.
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I missed that story so it went completely over my head. Now I could read about it, thanks!
>The left’s critique of the BBC hasn’t been restricted to the undefinable question of bias.

I like the way that slipped in there. Is the question of bias undefinable? Or can we define it as "The person who was in charge of editing the BBC's 2010 news coverage went on to be the Director of Communications for Number 10". Or maybe "The presenter of the BBC's flagship toptical debate programme has a history of making factually inaccurate statements about the the Labour party", or "The BBC repeatedly appoints key Conservative journalists to flagship programmes".

I mean, this isn't undefinable, it's very easily definable. For those in the US who may not understand this, imagine you had a state broadcaster funded by taxes, and it had been putting on shows presented by Roger Ailes.

I mean it's really quite basic, people shouldn't be going back and forth from political positions to the independent state broadcast. The state broadcaster should have an open and accountable procedure to deal with factual issues. Neither of those are true, and these systemic issues don't have a neutral political outcome.
Okay, make the perfect the enemy of the good instead. Whatever.
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Sure, but now look at general HTTP API's and see how many set any kind of Cache header. I wouldn't be surprised if _many_ API's used by (Phone)Apps and a (Web)App do not do so and might leak private data into the cache, maybe even secret keys or one-time tokens like recovery codes.
This is to avoid having every app bundle the same runtime over and over again. Instead, the runtime is shipped as a separate package, and then apps written in languages that require that runtime depend on that package.
Old alliances are fragile and will be broken in times of desperation. To throw your allies under the bus like this will not be forgotten.

I hope that one consequence of these and similar action during this crisis will be an end to the global JIT production strategy and spur more decentralized and local production.

Why are we in Europe dependent on a US company with production in the far east, for critical medical supplies?
Hello there,

Yes, we both find rising trends but we differ in so many ways.

First and foremost, we give our users the ability to monitor a keyword/topic over time. As a user, you can receive daily, weekly and monthly email alerts.

Secondly, you can search a keyword/topic in any country and what you search stays private to you so that you can build your own private library of trends.

Thirdly, each trend has so many related topics that we find by querying Google, Amazon, YouTube, etc that you can dive into.

And finally, we have a beta feature where the tool forecasts how a trend will likely perform in the next 6 months.
"If your game takes more than about 45 minutes, you're playing it wrong."

Or different. What takes time to infinity (and is key part to us) are the trades and auction parts. Because everyone, also the ones not directly involved, tries to influence other members decision in their favors. Then you have temporary joint ventures and loans with interest, etc. etc.

Well, quite often the game ends dramatically with aborting, because some felt cheated and others could not take the pressure ...
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It's not about whether people are stupid or not. It's that donning and doffing PPE is difficult. We know that qualified, registered, trained, healthcare professionals struggle with it. Already in this thread we've seen someone post a link to a video about putting on and taking off a face mask and that video had incorrect, dangerous, procedure.

This video shows him using bare hands to touch the front of his mask to take it off. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22776002

Literature suggests that 80% of HCP infection is caused by incorrect doffing

https://twitter.com/drbencb/status/1236635924274057216?s=20

https://twitter.com/cmac_evans/status/1236689340123754496?s=...

Because it's so hard we see healthcare settings strongly encouraging "dofficers" / "spotters" -- a second person to watch you taking off your PPE to make sure you're doing it right.

https://twitter.com/heatherevansmd/status/124443236962241741...

https://twitter.com/Dolores_McKeen/status/124432789143070720...
“The bbc” is a large organisation with many reporters and editors.

Those reporters and editors put out biased content from the left and right.

There are good arguments that the BBC do not criticise the current government and some people take that to mean that they support the government. That is exacerbated by the fact that David Cameron appointed prominent Conservatives to directorial roles in the BBC.[0]

But yes, the news they put out is not unbiased- it’s just that they have bias in all directions depending on who is writing and editing.

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/7ba884c2-176d-11e6-b197-a4af20d55...
Yeah, the same McDonalds are obviously not using the lids as the lids are only there for putting a straw in and you cannot drink from the cup with the lid on, so they are also served without lids.

Guess the next step is to replace the paper/plastic (not sure what material it is, guessing a mix) cups with actual glasses that gets washed instead of thrown.
What do you think about that ?
We have to define what success is. Not all become millionaires, but most have build a good life for themselves in the upper middle class.
Your parents had some say in the matter, both in whether to have children at all, with whom, how many, when (IOW, under what financial circumstances), and what level of pre-birth testing for catastrophic birth defects they were comfortable with.

From an individual person, looking at what they had agency over, it’s 100% luck. From a multi-generational family or societal view, it’s not 100% luck.

(I also hold the view that some of what is often described as innate talent is also malleable depending on early childhood nurturing, nutrition, and education. That’s luck from the child point of view but not purely so from the family/society.)
When I actively played this with a couple friends and colleagues a few years back we eventually wanted a slow version of this, where you could log in to the game a few times a day and build a little or fix problems and then leave it running again. So that it would be less of a real time game and that sessions can last days to weeks, without you risking to go bankrupt because you didn't immediately see that your network deadlocked.

As it is now, the one who spends the most time right after the game starts wins by a huge margin.

Slowing down the tick rate works but looks silly. Making everything cost less and yield less, as well as increasing the ticks per day works until a certain point where things get too cheap for integers, eg buses not making any money any more.

I think a 15x slowdown was feasible, but not yet enough for our taste.
That is not ironic.

How many other right wing guests did they invite?

This is typical la-di-da lefty nonsense, thinking you can deflect from your negative behaviour by presenting shallow statistics.

Hey, guys! isnt like so funny cuz...look at the number!

The BBC routinely imposes their favoured races onto representations of British history and culture. I suppose that is "right wing". Is that what you are getting at?
I'm not sure I agree. The article is very opinionated on how to trivialize and downplay the death wave created by the covid19 outbreak.

Comparing covid19 deaths with car accident fatalities does nothing to address the fact that close to a thousand patients are dying daily on countries like Italy or Spain who otherwise would not die.

Trying to water down death rates of older people by reporting deaths as "loss of potential life" is also highly questionable.

It's also mind boggling how they casually shove the infuriating "sure people die but the economy" talking point under the guise of "all facts".

I understand that people are desperate for good news, but twisting numbers and statistics to provide a false sense of relief is something that solves nothing nor helps anyone.
Sure but exchange is a more important part of it. Even a predator offers protection services.
That's the one line that kept me reading 'til the end (and never appeared, even though other approaches were dismissed on accuracy grounds)
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There are plenty of GUI apps written in Python running on Linux using PyGtk or PySide. There's no reason why there couldn't be Python apps running on WinRT, especially since it can be projected very nicely onto Python.
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I believe there's another way to look at it. More from the consumer's POV and less as pure technology per se.

First, is the fuild ETA absolutely necessary? Surely the bus has a schedule. Is it on time, or not. If not how late might it be? That's not the same as ETA. Certainly, they've collected and keep collecting enough data to infer such things. That is, 2 mins late to Stop B translates to what at Stop F and stop N.

The consumer doesn't need ETA per se. They need to know if they're going to be on time to their destination or not.

Like putting mirror next to an elevator to shorten the perceived wait; there might be other opportunities to solve this problem.

If you're interested in such things, this book from a year or so ago was intriguing.

Rory Sutherland

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

4.6 out of 5 stars

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Curious-Science-Creating-Busi...
No. Incorrect doffing isn't merely going from "best" to "good", it's going from "best" to "actively harmful".
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Brown ones? Installments? No one has any idea what you're talking about.
Sometimes I log into a machine and would like to ssh-clone a git repository there using the private key I've got on my local machine. Is there a way around forwarding my ssh-agent in this case?
It is ironic, the person whose views are most represented on the programme is complaining his views are under-represented? That's ironic.

As for how many other guests did they invite? Go and look it up, they have a publicly disclosed formula for which views gets represented and it's based on prior election performance and current polling during election cycles. Which is why it's so funny - it's just a nonsense to complain about the number of right wing guests.
First we'd need to establish a general frame of reference, a perspective, which could be a human one.

From that perspective, the lowest common denominator is that bad is what harms humanity, e.g. by disregarding human rights. Human rights then becomes the new frame of reference, meaning that something can't be good if it's not within that frame.
It would also make it harder to dial by phone, if you need to do so.
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At a cloud storage company i worked for we had the most cost-intensive part of our infrastructure, the object storage ready to be switched over from Azure to AWS, just in case.
You will be able to enter with only a link, the url looks like:

https://tenant.zoom.us/j/123123123?pwd=QlR0cXZkYXBDS0txYzJRR...

The password is an encoded version of the password set by the host.
These comments are so boring and predictable. Of course, Google makes their traffic data available to end-users too, in the Maps app and website. Yes, quite likely they're deriving it by aggregating driving data, but it's rather transparent as far as it goes. It's harder to say that about other Google services.
These numbers are effectively meaningless.

Definition of deaths varies widely, testing policy varies widely, no statistical extrapolation is being done in an attempt to avoid undermining public health policies that might be based on total fantasy.
"Paytm, which has raised more than $3 billion to date, reported a loss of $549 million in the financial year ending in March 2019."
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My understanding is that Google's does real time traffic reporting so well because it's constantly pinging the location of android devices. There have been several write ups on how to spoof it, but historical data is never going to be a match for a feed like that.
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Apparently the right way to do it is to show Daily Total deaths (ALL deaths not just covid) per local region Vs daily historic total deaths of that region - so some kind of Excess Death indicator.

And that shows pandemic effect rising and falling, because many cases either don't reach a hospital, get misclassified etc

But getting a daily ticker of total deaths (all deaths not just covid) in most parts of the world gets shutdown quick by politicians of all stripes.
And one thing that this article gets very wrong about Markdown: It was not designed to be a structured markup syntax of any sort. The syntax, in fact, was never actually designed as such.

Markdown originated as, basically, one guy's attempt to convert instances of unofficial text-formatting convention, commonly used in text-only communication such as emails and Usenet, into HTML that can be presented on the Web. In order to do that he had to enforce some standards, while still leaving some flexibility (which is why the top levels of headings have more than one forms; both were commonly used to designate the same thing).

It was only after companies like Stack Exchange and GitHub started using Markdown as, ironically, a markup language, that there were any attempts to enforce a standard. I clearly remember a whole online "war", for the lack of better term, arguing pros and cons of standardisation.
Oh! Thanks a lot for this report! I'll look into it right away.
Monopoly is there to mirror real life. In real life banks operating in their own denomination cannot run out of money either - not since 1971 when the dollar came off gold.
What about the rest of the organisation?
I was alluding to these concerns.

To be more explicit: it's a bit of an issue of definition.

I was going by the rule of thumb that whatever your homeopath or acupuncturists would also do, would count as placebo from the point of view of psychotherapy.

And, yes, those people employ many of the same common factors. And different people have different amount of skills in employing those. (Or creating different outcomes in general.)

If you want to call that placebo or not, is up to you.

There's also very interesting research into what makes effective placebos, and how eg cultural context influences that.

From what I've read (sham) surgery is more effective than an injection which is more effective than a pill. And more expensive placebos are more effective than cheaper ones.

If memory serves right, whether big or small pills have a bigger effect depended on country. (The hypothesis was that some cultures believed smaller pills are more highly concentrated, whereas others believed bigger is better.)
I wonder how well the event binding works. For me this is the main reason to use React because it avoids all the mess that can come from that. Apart from that, React performance is much better than any naive re-rendering solution, on the other hand it's worse than programmatic diffing with native APIs or jQuery...
It feels more like the tail end of 2001, when for a few months it felt like the world was going to change, utterly.
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> The primary reason why the flu takes tens of thousands of lives every year

This article and its analysis uses one method to count excess mortality to flu, and a different method to count excess mortality due to covid-19. The method used for flu is inclusive, and will count more death as a result of flu. The method used for covid-19 is exclusive, and will reduce the numbers attributed to covid-19.

Counting death is hard, but there's no acknowledgement of that in this submission.
I'm seeing lots of good ads for local business on instagram at the moment, e.g. local bars doing home delivery.