skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first met with Al about this project, I was quick to point out that linguists would disagree with about a third of the "advice" he's giving out. His immediate reply was "WELL THEY'RE WRONG"--really loudly in the "Weird Al" character voice.

In my mind the joke is that the song's narrator is a know-it-all character that shouldn't be taken entirely seriously. But on the other hand, a lot of educators have contacted me to tell me they use the song as a learning tool.
One of these days Alice, bang! zoom! straight to the moon!
One problem with not changing at all for a long time is that everybody forgets what it means to change. Teams stop planning for it, developers get too used for things being they way they got to know over the years.

Then you get huge pills like Java 8 which took forever to be adopted in large corporations.

I have witnessed most of Java history play out, starting with Java 1.3 in 2000.

Looking back, I wish we had regular change cadence where new features are being slowly added at a regular pace so the versions don't feel like a completely new language and developers have time to digest the new possibilities.

It is interesting when you spend multiple years on various projects, each being in a state of migrating from 1.6 to 8. Or coming to interviews and the first question being asked is "Which version of Java are you working on right now?".
Nope. I was looking at that thing thinking I could knock that out in a weekend, with the most expensive thing being materials. (the wood/drywall version anyway)
As I noted at the start of the post, I updated it literally yesterday with some additional information and links and then tweeted about it, which is why someone else apparently decided to submit it today.
Buying bonds on the open market absolutely helps companies that issue them because new issues are priced off secondary market. Are you going to buy a new issue bond at 5% yield when a similar secondary bond from the same company is at 10%?
Much, much less than half. Contagiousness affects the exponential spread.
They do belong in Rust, but they don't belong in a minor version release. There was Rust 2015, and then there was Rust 2018, we can put them in Rust 2021 (assuming 3 year cycle). Don't put major new forward compatibility breaking features in a minor release.
Exposing the Cracks
Pandemics and asymmetric shocks
That's true, but at the same time, it shows the need for a global government to coordinate responses to global problems like this pandemic.
This is true. We don't use that feature for this reason.
The CCP don't have a great track record of giving a shit about people at home. What makes you think they care for anything but the opportunity/ability to project more power abroad?
> What heating and cooling unit is used?

> You have several options when it comes to temperature control. Depending on your climate needs, you can save money by using a floor fan or go with a AC unit. Since the mini-office is...mini...it is a lot easier to heat and cool a small space.

For the price, you'd think it would come with a central A/C and a mini beer fridge.
Have morals that aren't a function of geographic location, presumably.
Please show me a single time in history when the Fed has implemented a fiscal stimulus. I'll wait.

I, personally, believe we need a stimulus for working families, and that we should significantly increase taxes on capital owners, etc. If you believe in that too, then you should be directing your energy towards getting the government to pass a stimulus, not towards trying to get the Fed to do it (they can't).

BTW, even in a socialist utopia, presuming that there are still markets and currency, we will probably still need an independent central bank.
> China will have more incidents of pandemics for sure, because they haven't learned from the last one, and they won't learn from this one.

I disagree. They took many months to report SARS to WHO, yes. But this time, reporting to WHO took ~5 days. It was discovered by dr Zhang Jixian on Dec 26, then reported to WHO on Dec 31. Then it took them about another week to sequence the genome and share it with the world. Plus the whole lockdown shows that they obviously made plans beforehand. The difference is huge.

Take a look at this timeline by the American Medical Association: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130

We've now been able to trace the earliest case back to November, but nobody knew about it until late December, so that doesn't count as cover-up.

It wasn't good enough, that's true. And before human-to-human transmission was confirmed, they should have been a bit faster, though I would argue they couldn't have been much more faster than about a week or two.

Mistakes definitely have been made, and it still isn't good enough, but "they haven't learned and they won't learn" is quite simply not true, and is more based on prejudice than fact.
But you've also got a 20% chance of landing it twice and a 7% chance of landing it three times and a 2% chance of landing it four times and so, on average, you'll land it every 333 days.
You're right! Edited my comment.
Looks like Google is now validating the TLS certificate received from the mailserver. So the hostname of the SMTP server provided in the GMail settings has to match the certificate provided by the server. I just updated the hostname in GMail and the problem is fixed now!
these kinds of solutions always assume there isn't enough slack in the system to give more than the minimum when it's clearly not the case because all of the fed models have slippage factored in. but no when it's welfare absolutely every penny has to be accounted for.

>some extra conditional $600 checks

conditional on what? literacy? drug tests? skin color? why conditional at all?
Thank you for the kind words, Don.
The Fed's mandate is to keep the value of money steady. Suddenly deviating from that mandate wouldn't be 'free market'; it would just be stupid. The Fed's actions here are exactly what they promised.

In fact, if we did have a system with a private money supply then those issuers would also be printing money right now.
The death rate is ludicrously overestimated.
or the ones that never give up
I disagree. Many of the jobs that left Japan and the United States in the 80's and 90's are not coming back - they've already been replaced by robots. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Cashiers, accountants and drivers are all being replaced by robots and automated systems. These jobs are going away and aren't going to be replaced by a comparable entry-level job. This automation is picking up pace now and will only continue.
Re installation manifest: I did point out you can lsbom to get the list of installed files from a package (well, unless you use a trick like discussed here; you can do anything in postinstall scripts too on Linux, at least with apt). But programs generate config, state, and data, and those need to removed if you want to “completely uninstall” a program.

Linux certainly does not make clean removal (/etc, /var, dotfiles/directories) easy.

Oh, and the “separate tool” can be pre-bundled, whether you have to download it separately is orthogonal. Pretty much every Windows program has a separate uninstaller, because on Windows you simply can’t uninstall yourself.

https://ss64.com/osx/lsbom.html
Sorry, trying not to nitpick, but you mean Globalisation, not globalism.
"So what do you do? Do you lay off your employees because they can apply for unemployment right away? Or do you hold out and hope that the third bank you apply to for a loan will be a success? What if it's not?"

That's a case by case judgement call that only the owners/operators can answer given their situations and values. There is not universal or general advice answer here.

"It's very easy for Congress to say "We are giving out money. The businesses are saved!" It's quite another in the implementation of that, and to some degree I feel they were so eager to pass something that they didn't think these things through fully."

I fully agree and my comment above was to suggest their intent.
Feels like an easy pivot to quarantariums where you can keep family and friends safely contained for 2 weeks before allowing them into your home while being able to keep an eye on them.
There is an option to add AC and/or a fan.
Considering this is an English site, most of the participants here are probably from the Anglosphere which, being led by the US, would tend to mistrust China. It's interesting how you mention that as Dutch and European, you don't have the same level of mistrust. Without a measure of how China is viewed, not just in the Anglosphere, but in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Islamic world, Central Asia, and other cultural and linguistic spheres that a typical native English speaker wouldn't be able to communicate with, it's really hard to tell how effective China's soft power moves are.
nano or nothin'!
I've always enjoyed this article - I lived in the Yukon for 4 years and we would go on ~10 day moose hunting trips in the fall where we wouldn't see a person, or even signs of people (roads, power lines, fire pits) the whole time. It would be below freezing overnight, and sometimes chunks of ice would come down the river.

We always wondered if we could survive a winter with just what we had.

Anyway, but biggest questions from this article are how did they light fire, and how did they boil water? I assume steel pots, but what would they have done once those were damaged?
ref: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/war-stories-how-princ...

Very much worth watching.
That's good to know. And I suppose there are other cases where "special language features" can be hooked into via the (wonderful) traits system, like Drop, so I guess that does go some way toward relieving the sting of having magical syntaxes.
> It's interesting to me that you find this surprising or view it as bad behavior.

It's not surprising in the sense that it fits the definition of a "nation state".

It's surprising because one would think that in XXI century, people understood that global problems require global coordination; competition of selfish actors fails spectacularly in such cases.
Similar to the md-100 (but much more expensive). ReadyMade Magazine did a piece on it.

Plans: http://redcoverstudios.com/MD100/MD100-plans.pdf
> Going directly to people does not maintain jobs for people to return to.

Every one of the 16 million people who've lost jobs in the last month has some combination of rent, mortgage, food, insurance, and other expenses that they spend money on. Receiving that money is how many companies need to stay in business. Giving the money to the companies doesn't necessarily provide people with their material needs. Money given to people gets spent in to the real economy. Money given to companies might trickle down in to the real economy, but it also winds up just pumping up the financial economy, inflating balance sheets and asset prices, not necessarily providing anything anyone needs.
Somehow the 'Hello World' example reminds me of

$ printf 'Hello World' | awk '{print $2}' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | wc -w | cat

Just kidding ;-)
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Well yes that is likely, but maybe not a good suggestion as that is a place where folks point out people who posted the wrong thing in the wrong sub or conversation ;)
> You're not understanding that many people are buying nice NEW cars for the purpose of driving them for rideshare

You don't buy a new car unless you have money to burn. Even if you need a "new" car, you buy a three or four year old car, which is still plenty new but lets the other guy take the lion's share of the depreciation. Half the difference is from having less time on the factory warranty which you would exceed on miles before that anyway.

Even with "newer" cars it's still not huge. A 2016 Camry with 60,000 miles is worth about $5000 more than a 2016 Camry with 500,000 miles, which is ~$.01/mile. But you don't sell a four year old car, you buy a four year old car.

> The typical rideshare car here in NYC is purpose-specific (needs different plates)

Who is to blame when cities pass rules that increase costs on drivers?

> It's absolutely correct to count the full cost of the depreciation of this vehicle as a rideshare expense.

It is absolutely incorrect when the owner is also using the vehicle as a personal vehicle, which they would need anyway, which makes the age-related component of the depreciation a sunk cost.

> And the average stats for cars in general in the US are irrelevant; what matters is what's being used for rideshare. You can't use old clunkers for that.

Which is why you stop using them for that when they're ten years old and not twenty or thirty. Notice also that this doesn't mean you're driving a ten year old car most of the time, it means you're driving a five or six year old car most of the time because when it's ten years old is when you stop driving it.
Why do you say that? Because of inflation?
what are those "superior terminology"?
> There are some good stories too, especially the sacrifice of the healthcare workers

What is good about that? They are terrified to come to work.

This heroism stuff is just bullshit so we can shame people who refuse to die.

After crisis is over, there will be no financial compensation (overtimes, hazardous environment, no protective equipment).
> $6T, which is too large for them to unwind.

Can I ask for a journal or study source/citation for this?
Show HN: Quibi Is Doomed Site with Reactive Charts
A Congressman made the same criticism: https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/12435656548814684...

> 2 trillion divided by 150 million workers is about $13,333.00 per person. That’s much more than the $1,200 per person check authorized by this bill.
Redux always had to much boilerplate for me to prefer it.

The last couple years I have been using the new Context API and spliting my app state out by creating a global context, and many domain specific contexts where the context contains both the data and functions used to work with that data. Typescript + state with data and functions created a great api per domain. I found this approach just as clean but with less boilerplate.

Though redux does have some performance and tooling benefits.
> True, but if your transcription was being handled by a professional typist...

I tend to think business users at the time had the fancy typewriters or word processors, while home/student users were limited to whatever correction tools they could afford.

As a student, prior to getting a dot matrix printer, I would use either liquid paper or those powdered correction sheets to fix typos.
Vue.js Internationalization: Building a Multi-Lingual App
Compared to conventional explosives, and especially compared to nukes, this is an ineffective and expensive way to flatten a target. A moon base of this type would only start to make sense if you assume that you want to completely flatten dozens of cities without resorting to nuclear weapons. It makes good sci-fi, but doesn't actually make sense.
I've been learning Svelte, and was annoyed at Quibi's business model, so I made a site! Hosted on firebase, it's got reactive charts, cloud functions and it should look great from mobile to mega.
FWIW the lactase gene is not a matter of life or death — people lived at high latitude for millennia before it evolved. When it happened though it clearly was selected for. Most genes don’t select Individually on a life-or-death basis, especially in long-living species as its time scale is wrong (slight exception: pinch points like pandemics). It merely adds a bit of evolutionary advantage aggregated with all others. Thus, for example, your sickle cell example: it’s pervasive but hardly universal among its carrier population even though that population was until very recently all exposed to the same (malarial) risk.

In any case my point was that mutations certainly do evolve and stabilize within the span of human civilization (however one might define that). Evolution is a big, parallel, path-dependent process indifferent to which particular kinds of selection (physical or social, endemic or peculiar) happen to favor reproduction.
That I cannot speak to... I've only really used it either via teams and/or web ui and/or dropbox...

What I do hate is that I can dump the wiki via onedrive, it's a goofy format, rather than simple markdown, and you can't update via onedrive (it doesn't go back to the wiki).

Again, I don't think it's the best at anything... just a pretty good combination of things.
The line I like - I decide to go to a job fair on campus, still feeling awful. - Don't do that with COVID19, you might end up killing the person who hired you, so when you show up for your first day, there might not be anyone to welcome you there.
The posted article is actually acemarke's

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22822655
I wonder if Google and Apple were directly involved in the campaign against Zoom.
Wait for the serosurveys before assuming how far it has already spread - would it be surprising if yet another estimate about this thing turned out to be way off base?
>Please show me a single time in history when the Fed has implemented a fiscal stimulus. I'll wait.

please show me a single time in history that the Fed has leant directly to businesses, states, and local governments; from the article

>and reached into unchartered territory to support American businesses, states and local governments.

so hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I don't think this is the right approach. Look at the airlines, for example. They own/lease super expensive machines that need to be in the air filled with paying customers to make the economics of being an airline viable. Travel is now essentially banned, so they can't do that. It is likely that when the pandemic is under control, people will again want to ride airplanes to far-away destinations. So it seems reasonable to me to provide some sort of financial help to the airlines alive during this once-in-a-century event. They didn't really mismanage their business by buying airliners and not planning for a global pandemic -- there was simply no way to run the business profitably with an allowance for "someday we will be unable to fly for 6 months in a row". It seems to me that if society wants air travel, which we do, we have to step up and at least provide a loan to cover for this essentially-unforeseeable event. There isn't a passenger airline in existence that planned for this event and is making a profit right now, it's simply not an environment that a passenger airline can be profitable in.

The government paying for Coronavirus also provides a financial incentive to not fuck it up so badly next time. We ignored the warning signs and decided to do nothing -- now it's costing us. Next time, we'll know that mismanaging the early days of a pandemic is going to cost trillions of dollars, so we'll probably do a better job. (Or rather, vote for people that will do a better job.)

(Here's how I think we should have handled the early days of Coronavirus. Ban travel and buy back the tickets/reservations for all travellers. People were still taking vacations even when Coronavirus was widespread. I'm guessing they did that because they sunk $2000 into non-refundable reservations, and didn't want to be the ones to subsidize the airlines. So they took their trip, got Coronavirus, infected 3 other people, and now tens of thousands of people are dead.)
> You are no longer "otherwise-strong" if you have been impacted by COVID economically. The economy pre-pandemic no longer exists. It will not magically exist again in the future.

Citation needed for this. The 1920s would seem to differ.
Not just China but the WHO, who recommended no international travel restrictions very late into this crisis (https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/who-advice-for...), then ignored Taiwan’s requests in favor of Beijing propaganda and claimed the virus does not transmit between humans (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-05/taiwan...), and has repeated failures seen in their response to other health crises (https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-china-in...).
Hi all! I just wanted to say thanks for the awesome questions. I can't say I have the answers to these questions, but I can lay out some of my intuition and would love to work together with anyone that also finds these questions interesting!

1. Will this scale?
Blockchains vary from the order of ~10^0 tps (PoW) to ~10^4 tps (PoS).
https://decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2019-06-23-what-is-t...

Wikipedia sees 50K HTTP requests/second and 80K SQL queries/second.
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/data-center-provi...

But it is also read-heavy. Let's say if 10% of the workload includes writes (probably too conservative), we barely squeak by... I'm willing to guess the number is way lower than that. They saw 10M page edits for the entire month of Dec 2018.
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseEdits.htm

My guess is, this might be doable :-D

2. Who runs this? and who pays?
Great question. The blog completely skips the question about incentives which in my opinion will vary depending on the app. For creating an censorship-resistant Wikipedia, it'll be different than a communications app. Some apps might be better off permissioned (e.g. enterprise settings)

Wikipedia is 43GB of text and 23TB of rich media (images and video).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

If we limit ourselves to just Wikipedia text, it might be reasonable to do this permissionless!

Hoping to write a blog post about that soon after we get more built to show.
I think it's still an open question whether you truly need an ensemble of long simulations (versus many shorter ones that can be generated in embarassingly parallel mode on GPUs).

Nonetheless, I'm thankful for both DESMOND and Anton, which helped push the MD community out of its moribund state in the early 2000s. I still don't think MD simulations produce anything that exceeds the opportunity value of the power they consume, and it seems unclear that they ever will, although I still would love to know the answer to the question: "could sophisticated classic forcefields with reasonable O(nlogn) scaling every be truly valuable as a virtual screening feature generator/evaluation mechanism".
Interesting! I didn't know about that subreddit. Which text did you try? :)
To be honest, I don't understand what efficiency gains this kind of globalization was supposed to bring anyways... A factory in China is just as efficient as a factory in Spain or USA.

Obviously, cheaper workers work for less, but that's not exactly efficiency, (1) more a question of fairness, (2) can be done domestically (low-cost immigrant workers) and (3) there's plenty of cheap workers worldwide, not just in China.

Another potential advantage could be, factories are closer to natural resources, but it seems to me that that's not as much a question of efficiency, as it is of lax (enforcement of) environmental standards. Which I personally don't see as a net gain, even if it results in cheaper production.

The only real advantage I can see is concentration of skill - e.g. people say that you basically have to develop electronics in Shenzhen, there's simply not enough talent in the US and EU - but I wonder if the efficiency gains are offset by innovation losses. Again, IMO it would be better to have a local high-skilled population of engineers & entrepreneurs.
> Plus the whole lockdown shows that they obviously made plans beforehand.

And the hospitals. Not even China can just one day decide, out of the blue, to build two large-scale specialized hospitals in 10 days. Having that capability requires recognizing the need for it and preparing beforehand - which is another thing they've learned from the past pandemics.