skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's sets an unreasonable barrier to entry.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing? When a big chunk of our world runs on computers, maybe it's not such a bad thing to have standards and take things seriously, like it is done in every single other engineering profession.
What do you mean by lifecycle and fallbacks? Also you just said that building in multimedia was the problem and when I point out libraries are easy to use and modular you say that C++ is the problem.

I think you are giving too much credit to people using electron. It really seems to be mostly people who haven't really looked at their options avoiding native languages at the expense of the user. If all someone knows is javascript and they don't really care about their users' lag or resources, then electron is any easy choice.
It was always higher performance than e.g. Pascal or Basic on any relevant platform (the cost was lack of error checking, e.g. array bounds).

And it was slower than FORTRAN on most 32-but platforms such as DEC, Sun and IBM Unix workstations, VAXen and mainframes - but it was still the speed king on the most prevalent platform of the time, 8086/80286 and friends.
A global pandemic is a pretty extraordinary event. All markets are going to react poorly. BTC is by its nature more volatile, so it has a tendency to experience more dramatic corrections

It acts as a hedge, because the dollar gets devalued every time the Fed expands its balance sheet. If nothing else happens, then the value of Bitcoin will increase relative to the dollar. This is the same reason why people buy gold. Only with Bitcoin the amount of the commodity that can exist is well known and finite. (i.e. there are not new discoveries of Bitcoin repositories that will suddenly increase the global supply)

Bitcoin is unlike most other cryptocurrency assets (except for maybe Ethereum?), because it has been around for more than 10 years and has become well integrated into the traditional economy. BTC crashing is pretty unlikely at this point. Maybe it gets replaced over the long term by some other asset, but that will take time and not be a sudden event.
You don't know how many cases your state has because we're doing a piss poor job of testing. Unless you're in Alaska, Wyoming, or North Dakota, your state has more than 300+ cases, and probably a magnitude more.

This idea that states with smaller populations aren't at risk is a foolish one. Sure you may not end up with death counts like NYC, but you'll still end up with some; hopefully you won't overtax your healthcare system.
Yes, that's exactly the "Catch" here, even though article presents it as if some random dude buying up expensive things for leisure.
When you’re singing loudly, full-throated, with deep breathing... that seems like an ideal scenario for a respiratory illness that might not mean much for the general population.
This feature predates scrollwheels multiplexed with middle buttons. You could source a scrollpoint mouse to split the behavior. The "modern" ones with the large saddle are a nicer experience than the laptop erasers.
Its relevance.
You can consider scalable packages offered by Jelastic, they provide standalone and clustered installations of WordPress (based on NGINX or LiteSpeed servers).

Standalone is much cheaper and totally suitable for medium size projects. The resources are scaled automatically and the price is based on actual consumption, so can be a good fit for you.

But of course it's better if you give more details about your requirements to understand what configuration will suit.
What about "parsimony in explaining the available data" indicates that it is irreducible though?
I quickly played with the demo. I'm more a note-taking kind of guy than a todoist. I love the UI but yeah, since everything is a list it's not for me. For my use, Google Tasks is enough for me.

I've tried Evernote, Boostnote, Simplenotes, Notion, even a bunch of markdown files inside a Github repo and so far nothing was 100% perfect for me. :)
How did you get rid of the excess ferretin? Just waiting it out?

I'm trying turmeric because something is making me not get rid of this thing and the excess ferretin it dumps in the blood seems plausible. I've had on/off fevers for weeks.
People who sell meatless "burgers" should be sued for false advertising.

The European Parliament should be disbanded regardless. They're making everything more expensive. Fire their asses.
This sums up my thoughts as well. Fossil breaks several flows:

- committing code at the end of the day

- making a temporary commit in order to checkout to another branch to work on things, etc

- committing code in order to pull onto another computer (admittedly a bit lazy, but I do this for small personal projects)

- fixing a commit that accidentally checked in binary files, secrets, etc. it happens!

I find myself checking out to different branches frequently to look at something for a colleague. I would much rather make a temporary commit to later rebase instead of using git stash.

Reading about fossil evokes a little bit of "you're holding the phone wrong", in my opinion. Git does lack things like issue trackers but I would rather not be limited by own tooling for little gain.
All indications are that COVID does not mutate like the flu, so preceding waves should be mild. Every flu season it’s one of many very different strains. Furthermore we have data from countries that have not locked down that show comparable mortality. This is an illness that needn’t shut down countries once the densely populated areas have their initial outbreaks. Hospitals outside of those areas are so slow hospitals are furloughing workers. The total deaths across the US are down year over year for the month of March.

If this were a raging pandemic this would not be the case.
This is kinda a side question. But how do we know the NSA doesn't already do this?
Thanks for the feedback. We're going to work on some quick fixes right now
I don't know how it is in J, but having fielded Lisp questions from students learning Lisp (usually 1/3 or 1/2 of a semester class on "Programming Languages" or "Functional Programming"), the assignments tend towards terrible questions, to the point where I don't think I could come up with questions that were better suited to making someone hate the language.

People come out of a class that used Common Lisp thinking that Common Lisp lacks any looping construct (it has several). It looks like the professor took a SICP (which uses scheme, not common lisp) based class as an undergrad, never looked at any language in the lisp family again, and then 20 years later made up a syllabus using the half-remembered information using Common Lisp because they remember SICP had something to do with Lisp and taught it without actually trying to do any of the exercises.
If anyone's looking for NumPy that works on distributed machines with GPUs, see also Legate, which is produced directly by NVIDIA:

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2019-11_Legate-NumPy...

https://developer.nvidia.com/legate-early-access

Disclaimer: I work on Legion, the runtime system that Legate sits on top of, but otherwise don't have anything to do with the Legate project.
A choir is literally a spit fest. I'm surprised it's not 60/60.
Equational Reasoning in Racket
8 and red. Most people don't invert the logic and realize that there is no claim that an odd number can't have a red back. I think confirmation bias accounts for missing the brown.
The government will like being able to track every citizen too much for that to happen.
Just wanted to give the information. The facts speak for themselves.
Thanks for letting us know. Just released a more optimized mobile site!
She kept getting called back to active duty, but to do that they had to promote her, otherwise she would have exceeded the time-in-grade requirements.

My one big regret in coming to work for what was then the Defense Communications Agency in September of 1989 was that I had missed meeting her wandering the halls of the basement of the Pentagon by just a few months. But I did work with some people who had known her personally.

I really wish I could have met her in person.
> In contrast, the “Mary’s room” scenario tells us nothing useful and has no connection to the real world, because it’s not actually about the physics or physiology of colour at all.

But it could be. One materialist response to Mary's room actually disputes the physicality of the entire arrangement. Consider that in order for Mary to be able to answer any question about the optical system of the human brain, she would have to be able to answer nearly every question possible; it requires ungodly amounts of data and computing power from the quantum level and up.

That amount of information in a finite space would collapse into a black hole, per the Bekenstein Bound, so Mary's room is actually incoherent at its core. You can see shade's of this in Dennett's response to Mary's room.
One thing about case reporting is that they tend to ignore the denominator, the number of tests.

I've been tracking DPH reports in our state since they started, and one thing I've noticed is that although the case counts have gone up, the probability of testing positive has remained roughly constant. It's increased slightly here in the last week or so but not a lot.

One thing this suggests to me is that at least here, the virus was present in significant numbers before they started testing, or at least in similar numbers.

If you combine that with consistent reports of substantial fractions of asymptomatic carriers, it seems very plausible to me that the virus was circulating before authorities in the US started tracking it.
We've already banned or severely restricted the right to assemble in like 40+ states, and there's not much reason to believe that won't survive court challenges.
Sure but what does it have to do with encouraging travel during a pandemic?
I don't, know the website went away really fast. :-)

I could see legitimate use for un-networked computers.
By the sake of god, please stop to put C and C++ in the same basket when talking about security.

It just show you do not know what you are talking about.

Most security problems affecting C program DO NOT affect C++ programs.

Stack smash, vla abuse, string null termination problems, goto error control, double free corruption do NOT affect C++, they are C specific.
France, Germany, etc all have their own armies but are part of the EU, and United Nations.

The states could be more like that.. a loose federation that only comes together in times of war but other than that the state decides their own constitutions, etc..and have their own presidents/etc..
One study of one family does not a public health policy make, was my point.

Again, we know that this virus can be transmitted to surfaces by the infected. We know that it lives there for days and can be cultured. We do not know the fraction of real-world infections that take a fomite route vs. inhalation, and this study seems like evidence (albeit somewhat limited) that the number is very low.

No one should be interpreting this as "you can't get sick from touching things". We don't know that. Even given this one study, that's not an appropriately conservative way to understand the disease, given the known stakes.

Wash your hands.
What's the alternative? Let the virus rage, totally overwhelm the medical system and kill a whole bunch of people? Stay on lockdown for years until a vaccine's ready?
That seems consistent with GP's claim. I'd classify 2.5 hours of choir practice in the same risk category as a ski party, considering that the choir members are standing next to each other, constantly ejecting virus particles, and taking deep breaths.
Zulip is still the best solution to the problem that I have encountered. I used it for my startup for a year or so. Not currently using it unfortunately.

I have heard some people have difficulty getting people to use topics properly (i.e. not putting everything in one topic), although we didn't have that problem. Possibly its an uncanny valley issue - it's too close to Slack/WhatsApp and so people just slip into that habit. I could see that something like Braid which feels very different could force new behaviours to be created.
Four Basic Data Science Lessons Illustrated by Covid-19 Data
Wouldn't the same social distancing measures that keep the dangerous strain at bay keep the "good" one from spreading? And vice versa.
> How are you handling it?

What do you mean?
Ever heard of Eurodollars? That’s exactly what the original article is talking about. There are foreign banks that loan dollars—fractionally—outside of the US banking system. Dollars are needed to settle those debts, and they exist fully outside of the US.
Indeed. Be careful, though, many people find they can’t go back to the level of verbosity they used to write (and which is often expected in a team)
To have an honest comparison, don't compare imperative code in an imperative language with functional code in an imperative language. Compare with functional code in a functional language, e.g. ocaml:

let list_min l =
reduce min l

I find this crushingly simple to write and to reason about, much more than the convoluted and inefficient imperative code.

EDIT: for completeness, here's the definition of `reduce` and `min`:

let reduce op l =
match l with
| [] -> invalid_arg "reduce: empty list"
| [x] -> x
| hd::tl -> op (hd) (reduce op tl)

let min a b =
if a < b then a else b
The problem with “getting it over with instead of stretching it out” is that the healthcare system will be overwhelmed and more will die as a result. This is careless and irresponsible to suggest and I don’t know why it keeps being brought up.
are you a fellow Canadian?
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Ok cool, so how do companies adjust their hiring processes and be able to objectively measure what makes you a qualified candidate?
If you don't get it, read the page
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron#features

Just one example: the Jitsi Meet Electron app e.g., allows you to remote control a screen, if screen owner allows. This makes it a replacement for e.g. TeamViewer, VNC or so...
A properly functioning stock market is predicting the next ~15 years of companies' profits by weighing the prior ~15 years of companies' profits combined with their current growth. Even a 12 month period of $0 profits should decrease the NPV of a firm's future earnings by 10%, not 50%.

As scary as the next 12 months appear to be, we will eventually return to a new normal, just as we did in 2010, 2004, 1990, etc.
yep, it's a very fun course and very well organized, including code reviews for homework. i fixed some issues found in mine and enjoyed reviewing others' work. i do wish there were programming assignments for sml's module system though. that part felt a bit tacked on.

i still need to go back and finish the ruby section. at that point in the course, i got distracted with other things.
I thinks it's just way too much liquidity sloshing around. I'm guessing we're going to see a more volatility in prices in future. A tip in any direction of an asset class will cause money sloshing into it and out again at the first sign of trouble.

That's just a guess. I think the text book answer of equivalent of this is just hyperinflation (except that's when the money starts flowing into real price of goods and services)
But ArialMinaei there's not that much more they could have done. It still would have had 20x the mortality rate of the usual flu strain and it still would have had an RO of 3 or 4. Once something that fits those parameters is loosed on the world, the rest is a fait accompli- we're going into social distancing, lockdown, whatever it's being called.

Yes respirators and masks, I know, but the previous administration had gone through the same thing on a smaller scale and stockpiles were not replenished possibly because experts said it won't happen again for a while (I am giving the previous administration the benefit of the doubt here.. I don't know why they didn't replace those items).

The point here is, there's not that much that even had all information been available, and masks, and respirators, the world could have done. It's literally a force of nature that humans have a limited ability to deal with instantly.

I am not defending any political or public policy department past or present. I am just stating the obvious. Everything else is 20/20 hindsight aimed at the margins of effectiveness, so why go there ?
When would bringing up the topic be acceptable for you?
Top Gun used a lot of planes, including -18 and F-16. There was a F-16N for awhile. Navy aggressor squadrons also fly F-5s and just bought some from the Swiss.
An alternative take is that they did not believe that the screenings were going to have a meaningful impact on the spread to the US and were always a PR move.

Even in January there were case reports of an up to 14 day incubation period, cases without fever, and asymptomatic transmission.
Why 15 years?
I’m skeptical there’s 8 weeks worth of food for every person on earth just lying around, let alone that could be transported to them.
This is also a great way to keep several squadrons of reasonably capable fighters maintained and in operation. In a time of national emergency they (and their pilots) could be drawn on.
"Waiting for a vaccine" is mostly a strawman. We're being asked to wait 2-3 months for the outbreaks to reach a size where they can be contained by testing, tracing and quarantine. But that only works if people take this seriously and honor the lockdowns.
Every theory posits some axioms. These are irreducible by definition.

The challenge is choosing which axiomatic basis we ought to prefer given our incomplete information. This is answered by induction [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...
> Officials likely get told about many potential crises, but only a small percentage of those pan out.

Probably very true, but it's literally their job to identify which ones are important and which aren't.

> Can we really hold officials accountable for when the crisis actually happens?

Absolutely. The behavior of the administration verges on criminal. They had experts they ignored over and over. Why did 3M ramp up mask production in January but the administration did nothing until March really (And no, the partial ban on flying from China doesn't count). Why does a private company have more foresight than the government?

> If we locked down society or accepted draconian measures at every single instance of a possible crisis, we would always be living in crisis because there are always potential crisis of some kind that could happen soon.

Is it draconian to start working on test for COVID-19? Is it draconian to ramp up PPE production/procurement? Is it draconian to do some basic screening at airports?
Into random places to put, commas I quite like!
Swing and a miss.

My problem with IDA Pro isn’t even the license cost. It’s the licensing unfairness. Costs get multiplied a bunch of times if you want to work across multiple host OSes or want both 32 bit and 64 bit decompilation for an architecture.

I’m sure they know this stuff drives away home users, hence IDA Home. Where they miss, is what home users do. Home users do everything. I’ve seen people using Ghidra with 8-bit processors.

I don’t imagine things will continue to work out well with this strategy if Ghidra gets support for debugging and continues to receive improvements for its decompiler. Ghidra is already immensely useful today.
En L'An 2000: 19th century vision of the year 2000
It might also be beneficial to have a training combatant, who is not in the same chain of command as the trainees. Gives external perspective, and reduces the chance of collusion to show "good results" if done right.
I pay ~$300 a month for a small application. gcp & K8s is great services but it is not good for your bottom line or startups.

Kurian is focusing on enterprise customers
> I seem to recall that there are countries with unusable fighter jets, because the U.S. will no longer supply parts and expertise for maintenance.

Fighter jets are heavily dependent on spares and expertise, but Iranian F-14 Tomcats managed to score something like 50 or 60 kills during the Iran-Iraq war, which happened after the US stopped playing nice with them. They're still flying a few of them today.

If this makes you wonder how they're doing this if everyone is playing by the export rules involving selling arms to Iran, you wouldn't be the first. They have some native production capacity, but...
Ask HN: How do you plan and track the books you want to read?
Hey,

I think I have a problem. My want-to-read list on Goodreads currently has more than 2100 books. I probably have more than 50 online classes that I want to take.

I constantly find new things that I want to learn about. I have multiple lists on Goodreads with titles of "Urgent reads" and "The most urgent reads". Things get reprioritized so often that I don't actually end up reading or learning much.

I recently started building syllabuses around different topics for myself to put together relevant things together and then I try to force myself to focus on a single syllabus at a time.

I am experimenting with another system for books. I have a table of books, where when I get excited about a book, I upvote a book. Only after a book is upvoted more than 3 times, I download a sample of the book (if available on Kindle). Only after I read a book, I buy the book. This helped a little, but not enough. Now, I have 10 books that I started reading.

I am curious about how others approach this. What is your framework? How do you self-discipline? Are there any good tools?
Close all browser tabs. Heck close all applications.
If you must read news, choose the most informative news sources and minimize number of open tabs. Be selective, but keeping the same sources makes you able to skip many duplicate stories from different places.
Go outside, be with closest family, pet your dog, do something new every day, preferably non-comp related.
If you picked mongodb and you are using joins, you've picked a wrong tool for a job.
A lot of people will say that earnings expectations are higher than the current price projected and they bought. I think it is more likely that after the first up day, a lot of people saw that they could have made $4 / share (hypothetically) and started buying.

Personally, I am waiting to see what 1Q earnings are and what 2Q projections look like for a few names I like.

My 401k hasn’t changed through all of this, just any spare change I have for my fidelity account.

Even fertility, dermatology and orthopedic doctors are all closed still.
Especially manga since it's mostly black and white! I am shocked that not even a Japanese company has even given it a try
> Rust's day-1 error handling story was significantly worse than that of most recent languages (e.g. Swift, Typescript, Kotlin, Dart, just going down Wikipedia's list of significant languages). And it's not clear what Rust gains from that...

Not sure I understand... All these other recent languages you mentioned were released after Rust, so Rust couldn’t have benefited from them on day 1. The opposite happened: most of these other languages took design lessons from the languages that preceded them, including Rust.
Paywall. Flagged
Even there, much better options exist. For the same money you can get a 55" Samsung Frame with color, excellent contrast, and that also doubles as a quite good TV - it can be the living-room centerpiece.