skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"[..] being a recessive inherited disorder"

Is it fair to call it a disorder? It seems like people that have it are fully functional. To me, it looks more like a difference in brain processing styles.

I can't avoid to think what other differences are we missing, just because we all assume that the other people process the world like us.
So this got 3 downvotes, and I don't care about the karma, but I'd be quite curious to hear about opposing experiences scaling up Clojure programs since there seems to be some disagreement.

If you started to struggle with fitting everything in one node due to CPU or memory constraints, but still felt like you were writing Clojure in a half way idiomatic style when moving to a cluster, I'd love to hear from you.
At my current workplace (we're 100% remote these days), we've instituted daily non-compulsory coffee meetings on Zoom, for the purpose of talking about something other than work and fostering random conversations.

It's not perfect, but it's something.
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When i was in 9th grade preparing for a bio paper my friend told me to just visualize diagrams with your eyes closed, i just couldn't and found out this was not normal. I stumbled on Blake Ross's note* on this and realized i was not the only one. When i showed this to my younger brother, he told me that he had the same condition, while our parents don't.

*Link to the note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
Being easier to work with than Java isn't a very high bar to clear though. So you discovered your local maximum. That doesn't say absolutely anything about the usability and easiness-to-work-with of JS.
COVID-19 is very likely only marginally spread by aerosols (I take this from Robert Koch Institute, Germany information [1]), approximately 10% by contact spread and mainly by direct transmission of droplets.

Faceshield therefore protects from the main transmission vector. It's not impossible to get infected otherwise, simply much less likely. Your main enemy are getting coughed/sneezed/talked at in close proximity.

Surface spread is likely also extremely limited (source: Prof. Hendrik Streecke who continues to study COVID-19 in the German epicenter of Heinsberg [2]). Money quote from source:

> "Wir waren in einem Haushalt, wo viele hochinfektiöse Menschen gelebt haben, und trotzdem haben wir kein lebendes Virus von irgendeiner Oberfläche bekommen.“

English: "We have studied a household where highly infectious individuals resided and have still been unable to find any living virus on any surface."

All virus residues found have been dead virus material.

[1, German] https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

[2, German] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/covid-19-wie-lange-sich-das-c...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/04/five-year-ol...
It is not that it is USED by a country. It is that it is an INTEGRAL PART of the country's economic policy. The country can, as part of managing its economy, also manage the currency.

Bitcoin is not managed this way. It has rules set in stone it follows entirely on its own, without external input. This means it exists in isolation, unaffected by whatever economic activity takes place around it. This is entirely unlike a national currency.
I think this is an attempt at underpromise-overdeliver in uncertain times.

They don't know if they will lose all their delivery drivers or if their warehouses will have anything inbound with shipping stopped...
> won’t affect other people

Except what the article is about; because all sites are on the same domain and origin all sites security affects all other sites security. A page on one site has the right to manipulate all pages on another site.

> Even the web server is centrally managed and the user only provides static HTML

In other news php has suddenly ceased to exist and javascript is no longer a thing. Sorry, handwaving the problem away does not work.
> This is ludicrous. Nobody has the data to back this up, and there is plenty of data contradicting it.

The data on this are so clear I don't really know where to start if you don't believe it. I feel your opposition on this issue is ideological, and there's no data that will change your mind.

> If we're going to spend trillions of dollars on something, let's at least spend it on something that benefits everybody

Given I think there's no arguing data with you, I'll try some arguments that might be more in line with what I guess your beliefs are.

Switching from fossil fuels brings huge benefits. Solar, wind, hydro, small nuclear plants etc. are much better for society.

Energy security increases if energy is produced locally. Democracies have less pressure to prop up dictatorships. Smaller countries are less at risk of getting bullied by larger countries.

Decentralisation of energy production makes the world more stable, less fragile. Energy policy can be set locally rather than centrally. Regions, communities, even individuals, can decide for themselves how to source their power. You can do that with e.g. solar power, but you can't do that with huge gas- or oil-powered plants.

Renewables are actually getting more cost-effective to use than fossil fuels. Government subsidies, direct and indirect, are distorting the market. End government support for fossil fuels and let the market free. There are huge opportunities for private enterprise in switching society to use the better technologies.

Air pollution is a huge killer. A study I saw yesterday showed dramatic increases in death from COVID-19 where air pollution was worse. Even in normal times, life expectancy and health quality is adversely affected by air pollution.

A switch to electric transport improves air pollution massively. There are also technical advantages to electric vehicles, such as improved reliability.
I'll be happy if my office sounds like that! Find that one actually quite peaceful and relaxing.
It had never occurred to me that, during a shortage, the most expensive products would sell out last.

It makes sense now I've seen it happen, but I've always associated food shortages with austerity - instead I'm suddenly buying premium organic free range duck eggs.
Now is not the time to question whether Saddam has weapons of mass destruction.
The most spectacular thing about this is that no matter how people visualize things, everyone always assumes the rest of are the same. So for me it was completely mind blowing that others can truly _see_ things, while for them they couldn't understand that I couldn't. It's just not the kind of thing you discuss with people often, so we just instinctively generalize from one example. Typical mind fallacy.

I've since heard of a second instance of the generalization phenomena - Some people wipe their butt while still sitting, some stand up. Unscientific polling showed that the split is roughly 50/50 in a population. But no one had any idea of the other groups existence at all.
This isn't about nicknames, its about cultural differences.
Robin Hanson and other public intellectuals are engaged in ongoing debates about variolation, with several variations on that theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFnP5TK61aI

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/wh...

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/04/reply-to-cowen-on-vari...

I know your proposal is not exactly that, but it has some overlap with those ideas. I'd recommend joining those discussions on those blogs.

If yours significantly improved the safety of their proposals, it would be a welcome addition to those discussions.

Note though that it shares some obstacles with widespread vaccinations, in that safety and efficacy testing is the major delay, not the chemistry.

We could alternatively do low dose variolation on the young with technology today, with infectious strains administered through a cut on the shin to encourage lower severity progression. We might lack implementation capacity and social will to try very experimental approaches. If so, "found strain" vaccination will face similar capacity issues while also introducing new questions about safety and effectiveness and requiring significantly more research.

So I'm not sure it's a silver bullet, or how it fares against existing proposals, but seems an avenue worth exploring in parallel, and raising first with others generating policy ideas in this space.

N.b.- Tyler Cowen has a foundation that is actively providing grants or prizes for work on COVID-19, he's not Gates, but not just some random blogger either.
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You are correct, however I also enjoy the sounds of motor head but I wouldn't work well right next to them practicing.
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I always work with noise cancelling headphones and got so used to them that I now have to wear them at home as well as they help me to concentrate. Even though it's silent in here.
I'm a QuestDB dev, with regards to nano timestamps, we dont use a nanosecond timestamp because its not possible to be accurate to that resolution with current hardware. However, on a single host the nano second clocks are precise and monotonic, they would be useful to maintain order. I think they do make sense and we will have to look into providing timestamps to that resolution.
Surely there must still be a squat involved for the stand-up wipers, otherwise their butt cheeks would be compressed together. Or maybe they have different shaped butts? How would we know!?! Maybe its to do with the butt/seat ratio?

Im not sure if I could fit my hand in the hole the same time as sitting down. Definitely a squat guy, or generally a one cheek pivot, as im pretty lazy :D
Maseca. It's the same as they use in Mexico, and happens to be produced in Italy.

Get it at your local delicatessen, or your local Hyper Market.
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> As someone who does mostly backend work, within the past decade I've seen the rise of cloud services, non-relational databases, the Hadoop ecosystem, distributed storage systems, containers, the increased use of languages outside of C/C++/Java for systems programming (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Clojure, Scala), machine learning, and CUDA, among many other technologies that were either nonexistent or were in their infancy in 2010.

You've missed what is maybe the worst offender - kubernetes and microservices.
Ask HN: Best personal development forum/community/slack channel?
Due to isolation, I think social media has become kinda toxic. Do you have any recommendations on forum or slack channel that talks about personal development? I think we all need more positivity in our lives.

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Modern notation has contributed greatly to making Maxwell's equations more understandable. I dare you to have a look at Maxwell's original paper (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1865.000...) and try to understand it, I'd say even for a seasoned physicist it's not trivial. Compare that to the modern differential form of the equations (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations), which (IMHO) are really easy to understand even for second-year Physics students (given that you understand the underlying vector operators).

Personally, I found the "flow analogy" always the most intuitive, and there are some books that teach electrodynamics in that way. Typically one would start with electrostatic problems and work one's way to the more complicated stuff like magnetic fields.

I guess to derive a "complete" understanding of classical electrodynamics you need to understand the concept of relativity as well. Magnetism is a consequence of relativity and the finite speed of light, so if you accept that it becomes easier to understand (IMHO). Of course you then have to "understand" relativity, which just moves the problem to a different area. But then again, it's always like that in Physics :)
yeah but the throat cancer doesn't seem to have come out of some scam he was pulling. So he didn't really get his comeuppance from the throat cancer in the way people normally use the term.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to stockpile given the huge demand for them by medical professionals.

I also can’t imagine a situation where you can order and wait for a shield but don’t have the time or resources to get a surgical mask or cloth.

And obviously the shield alone isn’t going to protect you from particles. And it might not help slow the spread if you’re infected yourself.

But again I’m speculating. If the health professionals say they need them and the public doesn’t, I’ll defer to them. I’m not an expert in their field and I don’t want to pretend to be or cause anyone to think I am.
Dude with the cough? Oh, my!
What's the point of wearing a face mask if you're going to leave your eyes unprotected?
Because notary is Europe has different status then in US.

European notary is responsible for veryfing authenticity of all documents provided by his clients. And he is liable in case he makes a mistake.

http://www.notaries-of-europe.eu//index.php?pageID=191

https://www.mdpryke-notary.com/2010/03/uk-notaries-public-%E...
I personally likes dailystoic and schooloflife for their content. What do you think?
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Yeah but then, do you want "whimsy" in sensible articles like political/religious/ethical related ones? Then would one expect wikipedia editors to enforce this policy on top of the work they already do? And using what criteria?
>think you're just taking a word that already has a definition and redefining it.

Everybody does that all of the time, your definition for words are based on your own experiences.

>And assuming theft unless otherwise proven?

No, assuming theft. More things are called theft.

>How on earth is assuming someone committed theft limiting judgement?

You still think that a thief is a bad person. I assume basically everyone has committed theft, so withhold judgment until I have more information.
I am not a doctor... I am just a regular person who doesn’t understand why articles and posts similar to this including videos on YouTube, Facebook and other places are being removed.

I found this to be an interesting article and true or false Doesn’t it fall under the Freedom of Speech... I sent this link to several people I know that are in the medical industry one of which is a brilliant doctor on the front lines saving lives at NCH hospital in Naples Florida... but before she sees it it is no longer available...

I track this to this thread and see everyone debating everything from politics to science... yet why was this removed I. The first place? I’m sorry but when my mother raised me she was adamant about the point that we could say anything we wanted to anyone that we wanted and as long as it didn’t hurt anybody we were free to do so… Now I’m finding it very disturbing situation where information that I felt was important and needed to be looked at by people that I needed to trust to tell me if it was correct or not etc. etc. now it’s gone and I come to this group debating… And thank goodness I found out about this.
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The developer of the game has the responsibility for it. It's very simple: He/she can just release the code and game assets. That will make sure that the game lives on forever. Anyone interested in it will pick it up and port it over to new platforms.

Even if the developer does not do this, it's still possible. Some people will get the game assets and reverse engineer the game. There are countless examples for this. Unfortunately sharing the game assets will be illegal (at least for a while, until the copyright ends), so this will make it harder for the game to survive.

Also, there will be emulators at some later point, where you can play the original game binaries.
Well, I agree. The idea of a UAV with a 2m wingspan landing somewhere near my house to deliver a 5kg package sounds like it could cause a lot of injuries. The delivery vehicle has to be much larger than the package and it has to land near a spot that is accessible to humans so they can pick the package up. As soon as you have flying drones they will have to get near other humans. Ground robots have a huge advantage in that they are less dangerous to humans. Do you really think something that is designed to constantly cooperate with humans is going to fare worse than something that will be near one for a minute? It's very likely that the UAV companies don't test their landing programs sufficiently.
> If that happened to me would my medical team have told me?

I don't know where you are. In England healthcare professionals and their organisations have a statutory "Duty of Candour". They have to tell you when something went wrong, why it went wrong, what they're going to try to do to fix it for you, and what they're doing to prevent it happening again in future.

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/Duty-of-Candour-2...
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Eastwood proceeded to state that he never truly anticipated that things should get this enormous and that few studios and backers were incensed that he was separating his time. Actually, relations with certain studios developed so tense that they wound up giving him a final proposal - acting or his health line.
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It does do that. Maybe it changed since the link was posted but if you click the shapes/people they make noise. And the constant hum in the background is partly computers, partly AC ducts.
This reminds me of the recent article where not everyone has an inner monologue

https://insidemymind.me/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-...
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Thank you for your argument... Seems we are losing our freedom of speech and expression...
Test Doubles
I wrote a blog post about the different types of Test Doubles with examples demonstrating their use.

https://principal-it.eu/2020/04/test-doubles/
I don't think any of those things are true.

Shields have fairly promising results without fans. I cited some research to that effect above. The problem with the shield is that air flows around it, and that might be mitigated by fans blowing filtered air.

Social distancing is, axiomatically, not better for people coughing near me. If someone is coughing near me then social distancing has already failed. If I need to go to a grocery store, why shouldn't I consider wearing a shield?

Shields are made out of a sheet of plastic, which is not in short supply. If I needed to buy any it would not "increase the mortality for hospital workers".

Regarding mild discomfort being a small price to pay, you've misunderstood. The choice is not between mild discomfort and infecting people, but between mild discomfort and comfort. Obviously the latter is preferable, hence my curiosity about the shield and fans.
That test doesn't work, at least for me. I can't visualise at all, but I can think about my house and remember how many windows are in each room. The difference is I remember them abstractly, not visually.
Nice you are now a Cyborg. I wonder how many others are dependant on similar ear augmentation devices.
It just has a faster start. Here in Portugal people have been printing 3D face shield for 2 weeks (or more probably) and delivering them to those who need it.

In the meantime injection mold factories started creating the mold, fine tuning it and are now producing in large quantities.

But you see, for 2 weeks (or more) the big factories had 0 face shields coming out, which matters a lot.

People on the field don't need great and efficient solutions 2 weeks down the line, they need good enough solutions NOW.

I don't understand how the comment can have upvotes. "feels good"? Really? People with 3D printers are making a difference and actually helping those in the field. From health staff, to law enforcement to other areas. Shame on you.

And no I don't have a 3D printer. Unfortunately.
Ask HN: What is your typical applications to job ratio?
How many job applications do you send on averge per job offer? 100/1? 200/1? 500/1?
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> These let you build all sorts of language constructs that you couldn't build in other programming languages.

Many languages (e.g. Rust[0]) let you write procedural macros, even if their grammar is much more complex than that of a Lisp.

Is there some technical advantage to Lisp macros over macro processors in other languages (ignoring string-based ones like the CPP), or do all the benefits lie in the massively improved ergonomics of writing macros?

(Note that Rust also has simpler hygienic macros, but they're not expressive enough for many things.)

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/procedural-macros.html
I personally think the problems that autonomous delivery suffers from are the same that regular human drivers suffer from. You need a dedicated locker for packages. If you can place it near parking lots then you can double or triple the efficiency of a driver. Just think of all the packages that couldn't be delivered because nobody was at home or simply the act of walking toward the door. That is a lot of wasted time.
Don't we have equivalent problems with evildoer.example.com trying to get and set example.com cookies? Hence why Google and Github and other major sites use separate domain for user hosted content vs first party content.

Cookies are a terrible security model in general.
What I really need to complete the experience is olfactory.
> Almost every country in the world was taking advantage of the US pre-Trump

Sorry what? That sounds like the Trumpian logic "If you don't pay me money, I'll retract my troops". Of course the US pays for the troops and keeping a global world order led by the US - but it gets something in return: free markets to sell goods and services to, stability (i.e. the cost of stationing troops or foreign aid is smaller than the cost that would be incurred in a war) and political influence (when other countries need help, they turn to the US, and when there is something happening that requires guidance/coordination, the other countries will follow whatever the US does).

Especially the latter cannot be quantified in monetary value at all which is the reason why a pure "numbers comparison" supports what Trump and the right wing are saying is theoretically true, but has nothing to do with reality.

The result of the international relations being tanked are especially evident in current times - the rest of the world does their own stuff instead of mirroring what the US is doing. Not just in regard to coronavirus, but also in terms of Russia/China trade policy, Iran policy, climate protection... this is the real, tangible influence the US has lost over time. Something like Europe devising clever workaround schemes to continue trading with Iran to evade US sanctions would have been unthinkable during the Obama terms, or the US fighting out the trade war with China on their own without Europe assisting, or all other governments except Brazil and the US cooperating with each other on the Paris Accords, with Europe actually even recruiting US governors and mayors to the cause.

To add insult to injury: to fix this, to repair international relations where trust has been destroyed and eroded by Bush (lying about Iraq WMDs) and then Trump... this is going to cost a lot more money than the US could ever have saved.
Ever since I started losing hair, I bought a hair clipper to almost shave my head. Glad I did :)
Likely to be Grant Shapps

> In 2012, Google blacklisted 19 of the Shapps's business websites for violating rules on copyright infringement related to the web scraping-based TrafficPayMaster software sold by them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Shapps#Business_ventures