skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People need to develop the ability to think critically for themselves and not rely on appeals to authority. This can't happen if people become lazy and simply trust whatever media is out there.

That's a nice normative statement, but that battle has been lost over a century ago with advent of cheap mass media that enshrined consumerism. Consumerism advocates that the optimal behavior isn't "what is optimal and fair here?" but "what do I want ?"

It erodes critical thinking at grassroots levels.

Not to mention that these days media companies have perverse incentives to generate outrage and polarizing viewpoints instead of just reporting the damn news
> The auto industry did this through high wages and very large pension plans, and got absolutely destroyed in '08 and also demonized by taxpayers for creating an undeserving "welfare class" of autoworkers that was too expensive to maintain.

I'm not sure I'd be making long term business decisions based on how reactionary people are to things after a crisis. I also don't think you're going to hear the argument that the reason the auto industry failed was because they were paying their rank and file workers too much...

No one said use it all either, this is a balancing act, just as using up most of your free cash to buy stock back probably isn't a good long term idea either.

> What if you feel like any further investment yields negative return? Why purposefully throw money into a black hole?

First, yielding negative return and throwing into a black hole are two very different things. A negative return can either create more jobs for people, perform a social good, or help in some other way beyond raw return. Businesses of the scale of having billions in cash siting around are not going to run out of ways to improve their business efficiency.
if you click the square button (when playing any level) you'll get a option to mute sound and music
https://www.thomasjost.com

Started this up about six months ago. I write about general topics, mostly software engineering and infosec. Kind of serves as a live journal as well (which probably doesn't help job prospects much).

Low traffic, seem to only get traffic from the monthly hiring threads here on HN and occasionally twitter. It's fun for me, though. Helps document ideas and helps a couple junior dev friends I mentor grasp concepts that otherwise take a while to wrap one's mind around. Might be of interest to other software devs looking into pivoting to appsec or security engineering as I'm documenting my journey towards the OSCP later this year.
was just thinking of curling up on the couch and watching Big Buck Bunny with 18 remote friends
> Just today, Medtronic CEO boasted that their ventilator uses 1 million lines of code. How much of this is the test code? Can requirements be traced to the code and code to the requirements?

I get that he's trying to make the point that the software is complex with his statement. But how much does that really matter? Code can be really complex in a single line. And if the line count does matter, how are they counting the lines of code? Lines used in dependencies and third party libraries would probably make up a good amount of the total code, which may or may not have been written by engineers at Medtronic.

Maybe this is a pointless comment, but these kind of metrics irk me and remind me of my days at a major bank when they measured productivity by number of commits.
Voxel51 Releases AI-Driven Social Distancing Trend Analysis Tool
Quickly reading through, I thought these are GraphQL APIs. Missed opportunity?
"Concise Guide to Software Engineering" and "Guide to Discrete Mathematics" respectively (for those who hate bare links with no info about what they refer to).
Isn’t this basically an ad hominem attack? I don’t know the guy, but you’re attacking him and not his argument. Isn’t the rule here to take the strongest part of an argument and go off that?

Edit: Downvoted on a site for pointing out the rules of the site. Maybes it’s just me, but since the Great Quarantine, some websites have been a little extra smug and “hide the wrong think” prone.
The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web
That's what the "double" in double-blind means
Convolution only works on data that is spatially related, meaning data points that are close to each other are more related than data points that are far apart. It doesn't give meaningful results on data like spreadsheets where columns or rows can be rearranged without corrupting the underlying information.

If by non-image data you mean something like audio, then yes it could probably work.
How Homeworld Almost Got Lost in 3D Space | War Stories | Ars Technica
Alternatively, the best (worst?) of both worlds:

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/ASCII_Keyboard_Controller
I mean, maybe technically, but not practically. Knowing how your computer works requires knowledge of semiconductors, p- and n-type doping, quantum physics, etc.

So yes, maybe you can enumerate the levels, but at some point they become not useful to discuss. The same way that discussing NPN gates is not really useful to discussing containers and VMs.
Sorry, my bad, I indeed confused STUN and TURN.
> Conspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.

> One falsely suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other falsely claims the virus is __somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.__

(__ emphasis mine)

W T Actual F people!

Facepalm.

If it were true it might be one of the greatest discoveries of all time ;)
Keep the Parks Open
My take Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C/C++ & Beyond (https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Computing-Systems-Gates-...)
This covid-19 debacle illustrated a big conflation with experts and authoritative bureaucracies.

Researchers, scientists, and people on the ground in China, Taiwan, and South Korea issued early warnings well ahead of the WHO, CDC, and FDA flip flopping on transmit-ability, masks, and testing.

Unfortunately the average person can’t tell the difference between a researched investigative journalism piece in the New York Times and an opinion column in the New York Times. Most people can’t tell the difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times. Many people can’t tell the difference between the Chicago Tribune and a random website that stole the Chicago Tribune’s layout.

All these differences matter an enormous amount. They don’t matter subtlety like missing the freeway exit and taking the next one. They matter like chopping your hand off instead of keeping it.
So muzzle and suppress anyone who doesn't agree with your personal worldview?
Just use webcamoid and get it done and over with. It is less hack.
https://dillonshook.com/

I've been mostly posting game dev related things lately but try to add posts whenever I come across something that would be helpful to many people.
or, we could look at it as the greatest opportunity to teach critical thinking that has ever existed.
Here is what the CDC said in your reference:

> Although the CDC considers this coronavirus (whose scientific name is 2019-nCoV) to be a serious public-health concern, the agency said in a statement Friday that "the immediate health risk from 2019-nCoV to the general American public is considered low at this time."

Your paraphrasing of them is dramatically misrepresenting what they said, which I think is the real problem. "Experts" tend to hedge and use inconclusive language, because that is correct. Then journalists come along and confuse/misinterpret things a bit, but the real damage comes from people like you come on social media. The vast majority of people seem to only ever read these misunderstandings and misrepresentations from other social media users.
You be very careful please, if it has been going for that long and you are still not getting better then you may have a secondary infection going (further down, in your lungs) and you may not be getting enough O2. Please make sure you sleep front down so that your lungs can work better (the bulk of the active surface of your lungs is on your back), fluid will drain to the bottom and you may be able to get some more needed oxygen. Also, if possible, get tested, that way at least you are confirmed which might speed things up a bit by the time you need it. Be sure to tell your doctor about it (GP, assuming you have one) and to call EMS when you feel you are losing it. Calling EMS too late is in many cases a contributing cause for really bad cases or fatalities, there is no 'toughing this out' if your body can't cope.

Best of luck!
> Why would the Chinese govt react so strongly

They react to all kinds of irrelevant bullshit strongly all the time. It's a gigantic unimaginative bureaucracy. It could very well be some peon 18 levels down doing something done 200 times prior, in response to some news article some other peon has classified as western propaganda.

Are they going to come out and admit that?
Most platforms don’t really like censorship themselves because it effectiveness is limited, costs them money to implement and acknowledges liability for stuff contributed to their platform. However COVID-19 poses a unique challenge in that misinformation can have a death toll. At least other conspiracy theories and extremist content is either (relatively) harmless or requires the viewer to step far beyond the boundaries of common sense.
I second this, since I switched to wayland, I noticed many weird graphical issues with Firefox, hoping this release will fix them.
And if you can polyfill, that is good way to drop support for ie11. Personally instead of support ie11 out of the box, have have create custom build or expect them to do polyfilling themselves. This way they can optimize for the remaining browsers.
> They might not know they are, but that’s besides the point.

I actually thought that was exactly the point here...
Yeah what I keep not being sure of with this whole debate is: are people mad about companies using buybacks instead of dividends because of the tax avoidance angle, or are they mad at the entire idea of companies giving back money to shareholders either way? It seems like buybacks are the boogeyman, but that an argument like "if they had kept their $45B over the past few years, they wouldn't need $50B now" applies just as well to dividends.
Key paragraph:

> Collectively, we probably still use the same amount of toilet paper as we did before the pandemic, but suddenly, we’re expected to use more of our own supply. Most people are no longer eating out at restaurants or going to work or school — places where we conveniently use the restroom and the available toilet paper. Georgia-Pacific estimates that the average American household will use about 40 percent more toilet paper than usual if people spend all their time at home.

So the main culprit now isn't hoarding -- it's that consumer demand is legitimately way up, while commercial demand is way down. And they're different types of toilet paper.
> Youtube should be under no obligation to provide a platform for him on their private service, either.

And that’s TOTALLY FINE. But the issue surrounding the whole “should these monopolies be the free speech overlords?” Is that if they say this guy can’t be allowed speech, they should have to take responsibility for the speech they do allow. Publisher vs Platform.
Sorry, but you are not entitled to your opinion (2016)
What a delightful blog! I love the small details in the long-form articles. Bookmarking this for further reading.
With Poloniex LaunchBase, can Tron’s price mimic BNB’s in 2019?
https://wisdomcurated.com
Curating the wisdom of the internets about various things
A correlation between economic status and disease does not mean that most of the lower class is depressed.
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/03/want-to-pump-yo...

This must have been what I was thinking of - I guess it didn't pass. I live in Washington but regularly journey down for Trail Blazers games.
What would the hardware requirements for such a stack be?

Last I read was that synapse requires a lot to memory and I guess that managing audio/video streams will be cpu intensive.
Emulating the Game Boy Color Infrared Port – Progress
All signatories of the Paris accord. All are nominally thought to be rapidly transforming their economies in response to an existential crisis.

"including high polluters such as China, the US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Indonesia and Mexico, which generate more than half the world's greenhouse gas emissions, will somehow drive down their carbon pollution voluntarily and assiduously without any binding enforcement mechanism"

What is the binding enforcement mechanism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement
I disagree completely. David Icke is responsible for the major conspiracy theory innovation that the Zionists controlling the world are actually shape-shifting Reptilians, effectively letting the Jews off the hook.

That means a set of people who could've otherwise ended up in classic Nazi conspiracy circles end up in something closer to a science fiction fanclub. Yet another set of people who dipped their toes into conspiracy theories might actually start to question whether it's all bullshit, upon finding that the Pope is supposedly a lizard.

The 5G thing on the other hand is something that a lot of people think is probably dangerous, whether they're conspiracy theorists or not. Of course conspiracy theorists picked it up, but if it wasn't 5G, it would be fluoride, or contrails, or literally anything else that might somehow be polluting water, ground or air.
Is this not what the likes of Consumer Reports is for? You pay them money, they tell you what to buy and then you don't have to evaluate everything yourself.

Naturally people don't want to pay for it, but it costs money to provide it, so what do you want?

The best thing the government could do is provide the same service for free.
First result on Google now. Well done!
Because this is not the time for conspiracy theories. People talking about the earth being flat doesn't really hurt anyone. People believing conspiracy theories about a global pandemic can be seriously dangerous.
Is the implication that wrt adoption curve: GraphQL > REST?
The Technology That Could Free America from Quarantine
Wow, what a charitable and good faith response!
Almost all major airlines in the world are receiving government bailouts: France, Germany, UK, Japan, Sweden, HongKong, UAE, Singapore. The airline industry is a notoriously cut-throat industry with lots of protectionism from nations, one can't just expect US airlines to sit on $50B cash and not put it to work.
> because for the majority of human beings, life is worth in and for itself

Do we really know this is true? What percentage of people are just going through the motions because they don't want to cause pain to their family/friends, and what percentage of people actually just don't see the point? If suicide was culturally acceptable, or even normal, how many people would participate? Can you say with certainty that number is less than 10%? Because if 1/10 people don't see the point in living, then it doesn't sound like a disease to me.

We live in a culture that promotes "positivity" and despises "negativity," so naturally we classify the lack of will to live as a disease, but I'm not so sure that it's that far outside of the norm.

> It has to do with BEING INFINITELY TIRED and UNABLE to COPE with ANYTHING

I'm no expert, but I'd imagine at some point you just get sick of putting on the act that stocking shelves at Walmart for 60 years is your life's true calling, or that writing code to track people around the internet to sell them more useless shit is really a valuable use of your life.

Eventually you realize you're going to spend more of your life doing pointless shit than actually doing the stuff you enjoy, and that there's no escape from the system, that you're just a nameless, faceless cog in the machine, and that you actually have no real agency. So the only difference between being depressed and being healthy is how much energy you have to put up with that bullshit.

Treating depression as a disease, and not as a rational reaction to the world we live in really feels like it serves only to benefit rich corporations, VCs, private equity, etc. because if the cogs stop turning, they stop making money. Then they would have to work a dayjob, and they would understand why depression is totally fucking normal.
Show HN: Embracing New Era after Covid-19
Good for Twitter; it is complete nonsense. This is not a made-up spook. "Normal" coronaviruses don't cause 3500 people in New York city to die over the course of a few weeks.
I'm not sure what the NCMEC partnership is about either. I'm just going to apply to the Spotlight position.
Conflict-of-interest is a human-invented notion that is rooted in the idea that the world is black and white, and it must be one or the other. That isn't the nature of how the rest of the universe operates.

All that is needed is a weighting factor between the two loss functions (in this case, obligations) to deal with cases like this, and to make the policy (in this case, term sheet) continuous and differentiable as well.
Microsoft (or a third party) needs to do this:

I. Rename IE11 something like "MS ActiveX Runtime For LOB Network Apps" (AXR for short) or something like "MS ActiveX Player".

II. Create an MMC console entitled "AXR Domain Manager" that identifies a list of domains that open in AXR instead of the default browser. This list is controllable via group policy and other MS management tools.

III. Modify IE where if a website not in the aforementioned list is accessed, a popup saying "This site will be opened in your default browser" appears and the link opens up in the default browser.

It would make it so much easier to explain to non-technical people that IE11 is really a legacy app engine at this point and shouldn't be used for modern website usage.
I seem to recall that total profits for the (US) airline industry from 1960 to 2010 was $0 (dates may be incorrect, but the general timeframes are correct). It's all just bankruptcy, merger, restructuring, and repeat.
With COVID-19 here, I imagine in person training has been affected. Can you talk through some of possible solutions at hand for the environment we're in?
BipBuffer: A High-Performance, Lock-Free Ring Buffer Implementation
This article takes many random jabs at various groups.

I really don't understand why the author needed to force a men vs women angle into this article. It feels out of place.

I also don't like the assumption that only the wealthy benefit from a functioning economy. The "let some people die to save the economy" stance is far from a wealthy people perspective. I heard it from many working class people who are worried about their dependents.
Yeah, getting clear information is hard.

This bulletin on horses and horsepower from 1926 is pretty great, though it also doesn't answer the question very clearly: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&...

There's a bunch of load pull tests there, but they are only done on teams, never on a single horse.
I'm not sure how this will affect the current strategic balance. It's safe to say that China will recover faster, but they are so export-dependent that their economy will still be crippled by global lower demand.

However, I think this also shows that large-scale government intervention in the economy is necessary in the current world. Ostensibly free-market economies aren't free anyway, as the Fed continues to show.
> You haven't even come up with a basic taxonomy of depression and you're already applying your theory.

We have no choice but to apply these theories. The alternative would be to do nothing until they are perfected. That would be negligence.

Antidepressants do not have a 100% success rate. Nothing in medicine has. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be used.

> In physics this would be blasphemous.

Not really. Plenty of theories ended up being revised when humanity's understanding of the world improved. They still had real world applications: even though they were imperfect, they were good enough for a wide variety of uses.

We don't fully understand depression. We don't even fully understand how some medications work. However, we have studies showing that by taking these medications patients improve and mortality decreases. That's enough to justify their use.
I would expect more things (especially on typing and classes) to be ported to JS. That's what I meant.

At least, private/static fields, optional chaining & null coalescing (as you pointed out), default parameters are now in JS (almost). I'll add them to the article to make it more clear.
You have to hold private companies responsible for the content they syndicate. If freedom is free it has no value.

We ran into the same issues as mass communication started to appear in the 1920s and 1930s. The danger of giving everyone the megaphone is obvious then and now. Tight regulation limited the impact of extremists and crazy people in the United States and other places, it empowered fascists and dictators in other places.

Twitter and YouTube's promise was and remains amazing. The problem is people whose speciality is garnering attention will drown out rational voices. That why the POTUS is a demented game show host.
Sometimes the proof is in the pudding.

I’ve had similarly adverse reactions to the seemingly “unnecessary” complexity of many things: docker, webpack, autotools, react, AWS, just to name a few.

But I’ve found that, upon closer inspection, the software is usually complicated because the problem domain is complicated. Further, as an inviolable rule, the most popular tools for any problem are the ones that don’t make you rewrite all your code; popular tools build on top of the mess we already have. This can give the illusion that the tool is somehow responsible for all the preexisting complexity. Tools which attempt a “clean slate” approach are mostly doomed for obscurity.

In the case of docker-compose, I can say after years of resistance, I tried docker compose and was an immediate convert. Setting up, documenting, and sharing development environments has never been simpler.
As a follow up question, given the corona virus impact on proximity based business services & products, what local SEO niches & strategies are working best right now?
I highly recommend taking a walk outside if you can. It is really challenging to be stuck inside right now especially if you have kids.
It's also one of the issues with a bipartisan system designed to stay that way - one side eternally blames the other for being evil incarnate and how their side's excrement has no olfactory emission. It's conducive to this hyperpartisanship and I really agree with some of the founding fathers of the US that political parties should be forbidden because of the types of dramatic intrigue that result, which hurt people the most during times such as now. I just call them both the War Party now because that's what they are.
There's a huge difference between freedom of speech and actually hurting people. Organizing violence, for example, is already illegal even in many jurisdictions with strong protections for speech. "Information" that's not only going to get people killed but also is factually wrong is definitely fair game IMO.
I believe they (and the CDC) are switching their stance on masks because they didn't want people wearing masks to have a false sense of security. Now, it's getting bad enough that the benefits of people wearing masks and not infecting others are starting to outweigh the downsides.