skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Fox and OAN” are not the same as “news stations”. If you got your news anywhere else this was reported accurately by the middle of January[1] and there were plenty of experts calling for social distancing by February. The decision to politicize medicine will go down in history’s list of bad calls but it’s a function of the right-wing propaganda network, not the news media or public health experts.

1. Yes, there was that dweeb with the NYT opinion piece saying it wasn’t worse than the flu. There’s a reason that ran in the opinion section.
Me too. People fail to grasp the difference between rendering the whole system unusable and just the OS.

On a PC pretty much the only thing that can brick the machine is a BIOS update.
This is true, though there are still often port limitations. For example, with residential connections here, port 25, 80, and 443 are filtered incoming, so you can't run a web server or SMTP server on a normal port. Also servers technically violate the AUP. Business connections have no such restrictions.
Not sure if this is local to just me (UK) but, when I try and load the site, it either 502s straight away or times out without loading.

Anyone else seeing the same?

edit: OK I see others are experiencing the same thing.
I hope that once color eInk displays starts to show up, advertisers will switch to it instead of printing large posters and drive the mass manufacturing costs down.

I can't wait to see a color eReader and see magazines and comic books in all their glory.
And then there's tabs vs spaces (you can't tell just by looking whether or not the syntax is correct), and the fact that a block expression can't be nested inside anything else, etc.
Ride-sharing app on Azure – an interactive walkthrough of a serverless back-end
In games the goal of the developer isn't necessarily to have intelligent agents, but to have agents that are fun to play against. Sometimes the goal is to have them be intelligent, but sometimes having them behave in "dumb" but predictable ways makes the game overall more fun.
What's over-simplified about that statement? That's a perfect summary of Buddhism - it encompasses the point completely without going into techniques.

The only part that's missing is "...with the goal of avoiding suffering".
Ask HN: How will the world change post pandemic?
What do HN members think will be the major short, medium and long term changes coming out of this? What are some good essays on the matter?
PowerShell Core should solve that problem, as you can ship it with its own .NET Core runtime.
Turning the exercise into software sounds like a great idea. Do you mind sharing your website? I have gone through the book and it might be beneficial
Turing complete configuration is a no-no.
Oxeye – Sapper Universal/Isomorphic Web Application Project Implementing AAA
Have you looked into DVC[1] for versioning the data and pipelines that generate them? I have set up a few versioned dataset repositories with it now and quite like it, especially the ability to simply `dvc import` the versioned data into projects and checkout different versions for testing with various models.

It operates on data at the same level as git but with features needed for large datasets and is totally language and framework agnostic like git.

[1]: https://dvc.org/
Whitespace is always significant. At least indentation is. If not for the program, than for the programmers.

Apple's infamous "goto fail" was in part caused by a mismatch between how the computer understand the block level and how the programmer did.
> If your human-writable format requires a serializer to avoid unexpected types, it's not human-writable.

That sounds like there are no human-writable formats.

> If your human-readable format requires special cases for certain keywords but treats others as strings, it's not human-readable.

That I can 100% support; sometimes needing to quote strings is a recipe for disaster.
Philosophical popularity waxes and wanes. At the level Monk describes, the brilliant Frank Ramsey -- with notable philosophical contributions in truth theory and probability, as well as in economic theory and mathematics -- seems similarly missing, though he died at a mere 26. Anyway, as Russell once wrote: "... since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment" (from his review of MacColl’s Symbolic Logic and Its Applications in Mind, 15, 1906], p. 260).
Sapper-kube – Sapper application to inspect Kubernetes cluster insights
He explained who she was, so it did not matter.
Legalize it!
You could sort of do it via Bernstein chaining. If we call this substitute command 'notcd' then you'd invoke it like `exec notcd /some/path sh` and then continue your work in the subshell.
Evidence for the impact of Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on reading literacy
Easter eggs in Spinnaker? Find out live on Thursday
F# uses significant whitespace? I didn't know that. What does it use it for?

SML and (I think) Ocaml don't, and I had assumed F# was like Ocaml, since its syntax is largely the same. In the tiny bit of F# I tried writing once I don't remember having had to pay any attention to whitespace.

Significant whitespace is one of the things I didn't enjoy about Haskell and Idris. Life's too short to indent code by hand.
Not being corporate-driven is a feature, not a bug.
Most people are still using Bootstrap (https://www.mockplus.com/blog/post/css-framework).

Things like Bulma and Material offer less features, though bring some conveniences.
Even assuming a gestation period of 28 days, the virus had all the free run to do its thing from January to March 20th in India, so why it didn't? That's a mystery. If most people were asymptomatic back then, then why did the virus specifically choose the time of March end to start showing symptoms in its hosts across the world (not just in India)?
That's pretty recent for ARM, as they face growing pressure from companies switching to RISC-V for their internal MCUs.
From a business point of view I think that creating a family plan would likely decrease their revenue (in the short term), as lot of small businesses/professional users would abuse this
Yeah, local non-imported cases in Singapore look like they've been increasing exponentially since at least the start of March, as does the number of cases completely unlinked to any previous travel or known case. That last one is particularly worrying because it's likely to be a very laggy indicator of a much bigger pool of undetected cases - because Singapore traces contacts backwards aggressively, the disease has to have been circulating undetected for quite a while beforehand in order to cause this, and since unlinked cases are much harder to detect they're probably not finding most of them. I don't think this is just restricted to foreign worker dorms either, though those are a big problem right now; this seems to go back well before they found all those case in dorms.
I can also recommend "What the Buddha Taught" by Walpola Rahula. It is from a Theravada perspective, but I think it is a good start to get to know the core of Buddhism based on the Pali cannon.
isn't that basically the starting state of a network install?
It matters, but not at the cost of polluted groundwater, people getting sick, and triggering earthquakes. There are other ways; nuclear, solar, and wind are among them.
> That sounds like there are no human-writable formats.

I'm not sure why it sounds that way. There are formats where types are explicit, either by stating them or by their delimiters or by their contents.
Covid-19 or not, it's time to formally divorce the hallway track from the rest. We should have more event's whose explicit purpose is to discuss and collaborate, rather than it be hiding other some measurable rat-race ritual.
> I've had people argue that this is containment
> rather than flattening the curve, but I think it's
> both, it's containment, which is roughly
> the limit condition for flattening the curve.

I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

But using the "hammer and the dance" metaphor, if you start the dance (containment) early enough, there is no need to bring the hammer (because no big spike to flatten). https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...
Coronavirus in San Francisco: How City Flattened the Curve
ES2020: Summary of new features with examples (JavaScript)
Ugh. My 2018 i9 has been freezing randomly recently. I actually rushed to install the most recent update hoping it would fix the freezing. It hasn’t and now I gotta worry about this. I regret upgrading to Catalina. Nothing but problems since.
Maybe they could reserve one alphanumerical character for this purpose.
It is structurally very different, because it attacks the problem by attempting to eliminate the concept of bulk mail.

* http://jdebp.uk./Proposals/IM2000/anti-ubm.html

You are using a pull-style electronic communication system right now.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405864
For a version of GitHut that goes beyond 2014: https://madnight.github.io/githut/
Evolve – The Game of Insanity – A minimal simulation game
Sure thing. It's at

https://www.feelhappy.win

Unfortunately since I made it for personal use there isn't a lot of documentation. But most of it would be easy to use if you're read the book
I have been a Hackintosh user since 2010 and I’ve never had a system break in point release. If you set it up right, it’s not that common.

Major version upgrades are an entirely different matter, although even they sometimes just work with Clover.
its hilarious that comments to this effect have been posted multiple times, when the actual content of the article specifically quotes/supports ideas by people like Terry Eagleton, a marxist (/religious) thinker who specifically oppose postmodernism
The Definition of Natural Wine
There are so many errors in his bash code, it makes you doubt the author's basic bash competence. None of his examples use fully correct bash syntax.
I’m astonished the National Socialist experiment in Germany is being ignored by this commenter. Indeed your premise is antithetical to Western tradition, which is presumably good because of its endowments to humanity. See: the death of Socrates and the death of Jesus.
Usually they read a lot, have a general idea of how things might be organized and where vulnerabilities might lie, and then they try a bunch of things to see what works.
Public transport in African cities and the spread of Covid-19
and 100% of international infections 4 months ago came from Chinese flights.
I'm skeptical of claims that insider trading is prevalent among those that are not professional traders. I recently analyzed the trading activity of Senators [0], and found the evidence that rampant insider trading to be unconvincing.

In its simplest form, insider trading consists of someone knowing something about performance or similar relative measures that would affect a stock price. But as Matt Levine points out, knowing the future isn't that helpful [1]. Research found that even when it has been proven that professional investors had and acted on insider information, their track record was still spotty.

I even made an app [2] where you can get a companies past and future performance numbers, and you try and guess which of two opposite paths the stock took. I call it the insider trading game, and its a lot harder than it looks.

[edit] Just reminded of the Jim Cramer still showing two headlines: "More than 16M Americans have lost jobs in 3 week, dow's best week since 1938" [3]. I'm skeptical a non-professional trader would be able to somehow deduce strong stock market performance from early access to something like 16mm Americans having lost their jobs in 3 weeks.

[0] https://medium.com/ml-everything/analyzing-us-senators-stock...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/knowin...

[2] https://insider-trading-game.netlify.com/

[3] https://i.redd.it/rrnajxjdb6s41.jpg
>The idea that your IP address should be kept secret and that you should only interact with the rest of the internet through corporate third parties for protection is both obscene and absurd.

If I want to publish a web page with some anonymity and I'd prefer that readers not know whether it's in Kansas vs New York, then my home ip address is one less piece of information readers don't need to know about. It's totally reasonable for my particular preferences. Of course, the ip privacy is not absolute but relative -- and that can be good enough. Github/Youtube/HN will know my home ip address but everybody else interacting with those sites don't need to.

I'm not going to give up some privacy of my ip address just to fulfill your ideals of "decentralization". That's not a good enough reason. And looking at your webpsite, your self-report of 20-years of no DDOS attacks is irrelevant to what I might want to publish. Maybe I want to write essays on more controversial topics than what you chose to write about.

I find it interesting that you posted a previous comment about not wanting "trackers":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22835625 : >I have never carried a cell phone (smart of otherwise) in my life. I leave my dumb phone at home or take the battery out. I hope that these tracking bracelets which others voluntarily carry will not be forced and required in the future.
The "stealth archer" build in skyrim is overpowered since the enemy AI can't usually know where the arrow came from, and they tend to aggro, look around their immediate area, then go back to the idle state allowing the player to shoot them again from a safe, hidden spot. Rinse and repeat, and almost any encounter in the game with hiding spots is trivial.
If that were true, then Google can’t start any new information service businesses.

Is that what you are saying?
It makes me grumpy. Even the self-ironic name "Yet ANOTHER mark-up lanuguage" is a set-up for disappointment.

My personal belief is that XML was "good-enough" having been engineered for many use-cases and easy to comprehend for what it provides.

It's a tragedy that XML was abused so vigorously in the early naughts. People got so sick of it because they were compelled to edit XML manually in a text-editor with shitty to none schema support. It didn't help that the worst monstrosities of that era (soap and ws-* crap) heavily invested in turgid, badly designed XML.

I think that if there had been some more effort on tooling and good-practices, XML could have remained popular and we would not have had jason, yaml, and whatever awful thing is next.
That’s like saying I should never believe the labels on food.

This container says honey. I expect it to be honey. If it is thickened sugar water, then shame on me for buying it, even if I’m not a chemist.

If you are part of the government, it is your duty to lead the best course of action for the population at large.

If you are a registered news organization, you should be sued every time you are caught fear-mongering. News entertainment companies should be banned. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it needs to be a duck.

This of course is unlikely happen.
This is the only reason I'm not on fastmail.

While I'll easily pay $5 for myself and a few more I'm basically forcing all emails on my domains to go through fastmail. And if I want to lend the domain name for relatives to use for email it seems like a rip-off to expect them to pay 5*$5 a month for a family with three kids.

It really annoys me that you can not use the Basic account (which regardless is very restricted) with a domain. By all means, require that the account that manages the domain at the Standard level but as it is now there is no sensible way to allow add some low-volume mail accounts for relatives or family members that aren't tech-savvy.
I wish I could back up to PUNCHED CARD still ;-)
The argument posted in your link seems best summarized as: "China had virologists and biologists studying coronaviruses and that is suspicious." It even admits in the first paragraph it has no evidence of a causal relationship. We'd expect a country that is appropriately prioritizing domestic viral threats to be profiling things like coronaviruses in animals, so it seems odd to count this as evidence.

Unless I missed some key evidence in the text, it seems like the entire animus of this argument was that the Chinese government would be inclined to lie if the virus did escape from a lab, and since they said it didn't happen, that must be true.

Doesn't that make it a simple conspiracy theory? I get that Americans are inclined to believe governments lie about these things, (after all, the US covered up its H1N1 strain outbreak by calling it "Spanish") but if we're trying to evaluate things in terms of evidence and probability, this argument seems contrived.
The opening sentence is incorrect.

yaml.load is now a wrapper around yaml.safe_load that negates the risks he highlights
It's no vast surprise to see the National Review pushing a conspiracy theory; that's been the primary play for neoconservatives since the Iraq war started with one. Maybe don't be so uncritical about what you take seriously, especially when it's based on a Youtube rando's misunderstanding
of how biological research works.
They do. Since Microsoft already puts all the effort into maintaining this branch, why the heck isn’t it available to normal consumers who want it? Heck, why do they keep telling enterprises to pretty pretty please not use it?

Is Microsoft concerned users would like it too much? Maybe that’s a sign that their constant feature updates aren’t actually desirable and they should back off.
Are you saying you were using "__proto__" as a key?

Suggesting that you were using a function as a map and "prototype" as the key seems even more made up.
It works for senior people at small scale. I attend one event in particular that has presentations on a pretty varied set of topics. But, while they tend to be very good, they're really just there to give the event a little structure and there's lots of time set aside for more informal interactions.

It's hard to do that at a big event where a lot of attendees really are there to learn the latest features of Product X. And furthermore, I imagine a lot of managers would look askance at a request to travel across the country and hang out for a few days.
Restrooms can be sealed and placards posted. It does assume a certain bladder capacity though.

Not sure how to deal with kids though. Video conference call in the car?

My friends gave walkie talkies to their kids' friends and they have a lot of fun just talking over that. The range of walkie talkies can be surprisingly large.
It depends on the language you are using. Sometimes it can be useful to see more than the first error message to understand the problem.

I find all the squiggly lines and annotations that Resharper adds to the code quite helpful. These are a kind of low key way of indicating minor issues with the code. I find that appropriate for things like coding style violations because they often aren't an immediate concern because I want to get things working first. But they are a good reminder of the open cleanup work once that is done.
Wish I.M.B. was still with us...
> that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school — when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself.

> These were Maxwell’s Equations of Software! This is the whole world of programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over.

Here's the whole (short) section, which culminates in the definition of eval.

"An Universal Lisp Function" http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rountev.1/6341/pdf/Manual.pdf...
How do you stop someone from memorizing the run? Better yet, how do you stop yourself from doing so?
I didn't think Haskell had significant whitespace; it doesn't have blocks really, and nested expressions can be wrapped in parentheses, right?
Interesting article thanks.
You have aerosol and droplet mixed up. Aerosol is much finer particles than droplets. Sneeze would be droplet (plus aerosol), breathing would be aerosol, likely not droplet. From what I've read it's not clear that aerosol would be limited to 2m, e.g., if it were allowed to build up in enclosed space.

But in any case it's all on a curve, the further away you get the less likely a person will be infected.
Sounds like that provides exactly what OP was looking for (unless he just wants to mess with the problem himself.)

The Dolt project seems poorly named to me. I know that someone always says that, and usually someone else points out that 'git' is a pejorative in British slang. Whatever.

They want you to curl something to install it. I browse w/ JS disabled so all I can get is:

sudo curl -L https://github.com/l

Thus ends my interest in this Dolt. YMMV
Here’s one in NC which id currently closed per the NC stay-at-home order.

http://www.raleighroaddrivein.com/

It was briefly donating its location for Sunday prayers:

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article2416043...
Doesn't look like it.

But searching for "spark + jmap" return interesting results, haha
Can you break that down? I am eager to learn about Buddhism, because to me, it has some "practical" aspects, but so far every book I have read has been a 100 pages of fluff and a salient point or two.

What makes this book good?

Just to be clear, I am genuinely interested, but I want to know more as to why you are recommending it.
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
I learned about a ton of useful CLIs, desktop apps, and SaaS products from this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887237).

But it was posted 3 years ago, and perhaps some useful stuff has emerged in the interim, hence my starting this thread.
"And now I'm offering the same gift to you."

At $15k, how does this constitute a "gift"?
Thanks rasengan. I've been using PowerShell for about 5 years now. I was trying to learn Bash, but I found too limiting -- it was like going backwards. So, I started learning Python.

You'll notice that the PowerShell and Python versions are very similar.
I do that too, but to a degree. For example, I avoid monad transformers, fully automatic derivations, pretty much anything that requires line long type signatures
Discussion with Edward Robertson on How to Rise from Failures
One of the most important and underserved aspects of actually doing machine learning is data collection and error analysis (and in software they are essentially the same thing).

Prodigy by Explosion AI (creators of spacy) is very good, great UX focused on making you extremely efficient. It's a paid product but I'm happy to help fund such a talented and impactful team.

That said we don't use any tool out there nearly as much as we could. One fundamental reason is that they don't cover all of our use cases. My team works with legal contracts, and oftentimes the flow has to be: scan through the entire document to find the region you're looking for and drag your cursor over it to highlight. I haven't seen any annotation tool that works for that, so we built our own.

In a similar vein, doing error analysis for those predicted highlights on large documents is also painful. Scrolling here is a chore. If anyone has seen LiquidText in action then you know the solution here.

There's so much left to do in this world. The exciting part is that the better the models start to work, the more interesting UX challenges you have to push efficiency even further. All ML projects largely have to look at the costs of building and analyzing their datasets, and making that cheaper with models in the loop and exceptional UX is super critical and super fun to think about.
First-ever LIVE view of our nearest STAR SYSTEM
With Catalina, I'm also not seeing any major benefit to upgrading. The features list is thin and no 32bit programs kills a lot of random stuff that I can't find a quick replacement for. This is the first time I'm not upgrading macOS in 15+ years.
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

sounds like the beginning of the game A Dark Room