skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unlike the USA, China does not have a lot of natural gas.

China doesn't need a lot of natural gas within its borders. It's neighbors with Russia, which can supply via pipeline all the natural gas that China can take. The issue is it remains cheaper to do coal domestically in China than to buy natural gas from Russia, so they overwhelmingly prefer to do that still. It's also of course expedient for China to use coal, whereas pipelines and energy deals can take a decade.

Their 2014 deal was a $400 billion arrangement involving an 8,000 km pipeline. China has greater access to natural gas thanks to bordering Russia, than nearly all of the world's largest natural gas producers have access to natural gas in their own backyards.
> Even strategies like parallel rsyncs had their limits.

They don't really go into detail as to what limitations they hit by pushing code to servers instead of pulling. Does anyone have any ideas as to what those might be? I can't think of any bottlenecks that wouldn't apply in both directions, and pushing is much simpler in my experience, but I've also never been involved with deployments at this scale.
I hope we can stop and appreciate for a moment how clear and well-understood this direction is at a tech company. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to explain to a school or other company that they can use the web app but not the desktop app.
I’ve always assumed it was a reference to Anton LaVey (seemed appropriate for Gilfoyle to name his server after the founder of the church of satan). It would be interesting to know which theory is correct.
I assume you're counting the cost of pollution and carbon into your price of coal electricity, right?
Lifeguards are expensive. Basic typing is damn near free. More languages should adopt dependent typing, but for the moment there are languages that lack it and offer enough advantages to make up for that. I don't think you can say the same thing for languages without a true type system (one in which unsoundness is the exception rather than the rule) - there are too many good alternatives for it to be worth compromising on that.
Even an idiot is right twice a day?
According to WHO and China, there is no Covid-19
They're still fussing with the preferred error handling syntax?

Most of the hacks for not having exceptions seem to end up being worse than exceptions.
And if you don't want to disable JS, every time you reach the article limit, in Chrome you can go to the Application tab in DevTools and "Clear site data".
Fair enough, only reason I noticed is because I was actually going to post this link yesterday but did a search to make sure sure I wasn't reposting.

Plus they didn't get much traction anyway, so I wrongly assumed there wasn't interest.

Know for the future now!
Don't forget their "market moving bonuses" https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/12/the-bloomberg-m...
This seems a bit odd. If it was my job to estimate R₀ for the coronavirus, I'd look at Singapore, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and so on, where there are thousands of patients, and almost all of them know when they caught it and who they caught it from. Why would you choose to study a place where people don't know those things?
Last I checked they use a service worker or local storage, so you have to clear all data, not just cookies. I didn't investigate in detail though.
You can also sell eggs. It's a new concept.
TunSafe also works on iOS, Android, Linux and Windows. Not just on macOS!
Covid-19 sim by artificial life pioneer illustrates value of social distancing
Yep. I do think there will be some major changes out of this experience that will change how the FDA and the whole medical system works. Things that were “impossible” before like telemedicine were suddenly able to be implemented.
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>there is an ongoing battle ... between those who understand the country desperately needs to get off of fossil fuels as soon as possible, and those who want to stay on coal forever.

Sounds like a certain other major country.
It's interesting to see a mention of the ability "to correlate all your different identities" as a feature, which probably illustrates fundamental conceptual differences in different legal/social systems.

In European continental civil law (as opposing to common law e.g. USA and UK, as far as I understand UK law) there's no such legal concept as "different identities" or legal aliases - you have one identity, and that's it. You must have an official identity (it's a crime for adults to not have that official ID registered/issued) and you can't have more than one. There's no right to assume or use a different identity, doing so for any benefit is fraud or forgery. If you change your name, then that must be published so that it's trivial for anyone to link these "identities", or, more accurately, know that the same identity used a different name until a particular day.

That has some disadvantages (e.g. lack of pseudonymity - either you're not identified at all, or you're fully identified) and some advantages e.g. in commerce it's generally useful to have a strong identification of your counterpart rather than a weak one; and it eliminates a whole class of "identity confusion" for people with matching names and other features - there's a single "source of truth" for identity, and it can reliably distinguish all the different John Smiths.

If we're looking at the risk of compromise, it's worth noting that the whole concept of 'identity theft' is widespread in countries with weak ID systems like USA and not widespread in places with strong centralized IDs like continental Europe. A chain is as strong as its weakest point; if it's plausible that you might be using some weak form of ID (or even just 'something you know' like social security number/mother's maiden name/etc), then someone else can pretend to be you using that weak form of ID.
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And does anyone happen to know these two individuals well enough to be able to introduce the idea to them? The whole problem is like getting a warm intro to a VC.
I always thought the largest camp was neither of those, but: "independent contractors are a real thing, but Uber drivers are not that"

Uber's rules do not stack up too well against these guidelines unless you have some creative interpretation:

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
How about using a sous vide on the powder vacuum sealed eggs after it’s dried?

A long enough period at a lower temperature should kill any salmonella no?
My aunt made the best scrambled eggs ever. Many years later, I learned that her secret was the addition of a small amount of Cheez Wiz to the mix: about 1 Tbsp to four eggs. That right there is a game-changer.
This is why we need strong open source or liberally licensed components to build with. Small companies need to work together to keep up with the complexity of modern systems
Perhaps, but it’s hard to see China ever wanting to become too dependent on imported natural gas. They like coal not only because it’s cheap (which, increasingly, it isn’t), but because it’s domestic.
No GPDR allows for opting-in into tracking. Of course most websites conveniently seem to forget that.
Thanks ! Those are some classy shortcuts !
Read one chapter, put it to work, repeat.
This explains how their web installer which is essentially glorified malware was made and not reported on some bay area dev's blog or leaked to the press immediately. I was always surprised that a US software team could make something like that in a consumer project in a prominent company and it not be talked about for so long.
It would help if you could point users to a Prolog implementation that is compatible with your examples. I couldn't find any in the book, but going up to your home page I found a couple of references to SWI-Prolog, and installed that, but the first two examples in the book resulted in syntax errors regarding the "#>" and "#=" operators.
The level of detail you are seeking would be practically impossible to find for any matter of "expert".

Even if you were provided a list of their projects and their involvement, how would you know their competence without reading code and understanding implementation details?

Further still, can you even trust yourself to provide a competent assessment of their designs and implementation?

A single security breach should not invalidate ones credentials more than a single lost patient should invalidate a Dr's medical license, with the exception being cases of gross negligence or malfeasance.
More likely a decision made to strengthen Facebook's case to antitrust regulators. The "by facebook" branding suggests a deeper integration between different apps and therefore makes it seemingly harder to break up Facebook's app family.
30 days ago many HN posters were saying this. I guess they were all idiots too.
They don't say it much any more, though... why get downvoted? The fact that this has already spread through the US will become self-evident soon enough. ("The peak is coming in CA any day now! Just wait...")
Calling gRPC endpoints from the browser isn't something that works very well today.
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The same government that added the Second Amendment to the Constitution put down Shay's Rebellion, and when Thomas Jefferson wrote that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure" in reference to that rebellion, he wasn't being complementary.

The founding fathers believed in government, they weren't anarchists, they believed that government could be good and do good, not that government is inherently and irreconcilably hostile to liberty. They also believed in society and the concept of the greater good, not that individual liberty and freedom matter above all else.

Indeed, when Benjamin Franklin said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," he was arguing (in a very specific context[0]) against the "temporary safety" of individual liberty versus the "essential liberty" guaranteed by the state.

I wouldn't assume that the founding fathers would side with the people purposely undermining quarantine efforts in this case. They'd probably have such people hanged.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...
What’s so atrociously terrible about your macbook camera?
Seems promising! I really hope it's a couple days though and not weeks like the usual coronavirus testing I've been hearing about.
Like most kinds of gated security, many solutions are borne out of inspecting the payload instead of who's sending it.

Captchas prevent bots from submitting spam, but they don't prevent humans from submitting spam. In 99% of cases, your problem is the spam, not who is submitting it. The non-lazy solution is to look at the content itself and directly determine whether it's spam, instead of relying on a related heuristic (e.g. who submitted it) to make an informed guess.
A second is that the measles vaccine fails more often than many others. The combination drives the necessary vaccination rate quite high, and the risk isn't just the unvaccinated kids, it's a % of the ones who thought they were fully vaccinated.
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Interesting, I know some people consider a Truck a semi but your pick up truck isn't really a truck according to others. So confusing with all the different definitions.
Higher R0 should reduce the effectiveness of measures like social distancing, shelter-in-place, etc too though - those work by reducing the number of people each infected person interacts with, but if those interactions are more likely to spread the disease than previously estimated the eventual R you end up with is going to be higher than expected too.
Oh. I love the way your site is designed. Did you do that yourself?
Wolves should return to their natural range. Times Square. Downtown LA. Union Square. No reason for only country dwellers to have to fear for their children’s safety while playing outside.
"but we're consistently lowering our death projections every day?"

'The first casualty if war is the Truth'.

Whatever the government tells you during a time of crisis is a form of propaganda, 'for your own good' so to speak.

Even if individuals are intelligent, crowds are not.

Whatever they say is very calculated and controlled, as if to achieve a specific outcome. So imagine a very cynical view of political messaging in normal times, but now tilt that towards a more truly civic situation wherein maybe it doesn't seem quite so cynical because, well, there is actually a crisis.

The 'numbers' projected a few weeks ago will have been constrained by a) what people could handle without panicking, b) what kind of numbers might get them to actually behave properly, c) what will save every political leaders skin (i.e. give bad news then everything after that seems like good news), d) how much we can bend reality without hurting their own credibility by being perceived as lying.

It's extremely hard and politically risky to 'shut down a country' and get millions of individual actors to 'buy-in' to behave as we want especially if it means annoyance or personal hardship. Political leaders are used to acting in a very populist way, and basically right now they are doing the extreme opposite. Every day, politicians have to act against their best populist instincts. It's hard to overstate what a sensitive time this is, it could go sour very quickly.

So take everything with a grain of salt, knowing that whatever is being said is calculated and 'all projections' are filtered somewhat. Ostensibly 'for our own good'.

I think there are often more qualified numbers published out there, but you have to go right to the source, if available.

Edit: the 'masks' PR and policy is probably the best example of that. In reality, there's not much harm, and likely a little bit of good that can come from masks. But the strategy was to get PPE to the front-line health workers who have a greater need and were in a real crisis, so, the public messaging was 'no masks'. But the 'truth' of masks started to creep to the fore, more were asking questions, moreover, the PPE situation started to stabilize a little bit and 'poof' all of a sudden 'masks are good'. Now they are telling us? The Canadian Chief Medical Officer literally did a 180 on that, sounding a lot like Donald Trump in his total about turns. The communications strategy early on was fairly clear and it made sense, but it's a little uncomfortable to see your so-called leaders only make decisions 'after everyone else' so as to avoid taking and risky or blame (Canada wouldn't budget on it until most other countries did first). If you read the fairly confident communications about masks from several weeks ago and compare them to the messaging now - you see a problem that very only makes sense in the context of "purposeful misdirection for the 'public good' ". Masks did not 'get safer' and nor did our understanding of them change. What changed was who ostensibly needed them the most.
If you are unaware, you can work with JSON objects in a strongly typed way using JSON attributes on POCOs e.g.

https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/SerializationAttri...

I would avoid using dynamic (I believe underneath it is basically the same as the Dictionary<T, U> anyway, howeve r I don't really care to look it up).

Also regarding var. It is best IMO to use var when evident i.e. If the var right hand side is obvious what the type is use var, if it isn't use the Type name.

e.g.

When you should use var (it is evident from the right hand side)

var name = "Joe Bloggs";

vs when it isn't evident:

var myVariables = _service.SomeMethod();

It allows the code to be better read without the IDE. However obviously it is up to you.
The 787 has to be rebooted every 51 days or it shows faulty data to pilots:

https://www-theregister-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.the...
Russia has shown to be willing to use natural gas as a geopolitical weapon. There is no chance China will become dependant on natural gas from outside their border.
High pay is great, but doesn't make better software.

Do Googlers get time to fix things?
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I'd say that ads on Instagram are garbage. 99 out of 100 are not even tangentially related to my interest or who I follow.
I'm kind of surprised they don't have a branch-based staging. Every place I've worked at has evolved in the direction of needing the ability to spin up an isolated staging environment that was based on specific tags or branches.
- when guests book a stay, the cancellation policy is very transparent. If they booked a property with a strict policy, they chose to do so, which influences how listings are priced, etc.
- While health organizations made recommendations about travel, the choice to cancel is wholly the guests in most cases (given that a few may have had flights cancelled that couldn't be replaced).
- trip insurance is a thing and it exists.

Everyone needs to share some responsibility here, so using the term "theft" and saying hosts are "trying to profit off a pandemic" is absurd.
"Facebook: The Inside Story" by Steven Levy. The access he got to FB executives is beyond anything else.
If a story is found to be false and moves Bloomberg stock down, does that still qualify for a bonus?
I agree that people make that point, and I agree that it's a good one. But it's irrelevant to this sub-thread, which started with me attempting to convince smt88 that they were misrepresenting the opinion of the people they were laughing at.
Sure, I think the “Uber drivers should be W2’s” an extension of “1099’s should receive the same benefits as W2’s” camp.

If you don’t agree with that framing, then I would argue that the 2 camps are:
“Uber drivers are not independent contractors and should receive W2’s”

Vs

“Even if Uber drivers Are not independent contractors, they should be treated like employees AND employees should be functionally indistinguishable from contractors for the purposes of benefits”
Good point, and while SV does have a lot of obscure references, this one may be a bit too obscure. Happy coincidence perhaps.
I will repeat a question I would love an epidemiologist to reply to: Where is the random background testing? Not testing "I feel unwell" presentations at random, truly going into the field and testing the wider population at random, healthy (believed) or not?

You cannot model the IFR accurately from skewed samples and it feels like we aren't even doing skewed sampling.
Worth noting that it's possible to get a hellban if you get too many wrong guesses using extensions like Buster.
I think postfix would perform horrifically on EFS, which has absymal latency and is terrible for workloads with lots of random i/o.
You may enjoy this talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology
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It’s the slowest validator package.

Here I have a repo benchmarking (hopefully) all of the available runtime validation packages:

https://github.com/moltar/typescript-runtime-type-benchmarks
Herd immunity was a non-started way before this. Just based on death rate it's an insane strategy.

Even if the death rate is 1%, then in the USA, to have even 60% infected and recover, you need to have 192 million infected.

1% death rate = nearly 2 million dead.

But it would be way higher than 1% death rate with these sort of numbers because most of these people are not even getting a hospital bed, never mind ICU.
There are communities at different scales.

The employees in a company form a community.
The community of employees owns the company, aka worker owned company.
The profits of the company are distributed to the community.

This is a core idea in communism, everyone has a common stake.
I've heard tale that people have opted to be permanent cruise ship residents over living in assisted living facilities.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC526150/
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/ahoy-matey-more-folks-retiri...
Monaco has half the population of Walnut Creek, CA, a lot of them very affluent and not there much of the year.

Then there's the issue of

1. how was the testing done (IF AT ALL)
2. how accurate that test was (read up on PCR if you don't agree)
3. how the cause of death was determined.

I show you a CDC explanation for how to determine official cause of death from[1]:

""When reporting cause of death...use any information available, such as medical history, medical records, laboratory tests, an autopsy report, or other sources....best clinical judgement..."

In all cases variations of the flu are much worse and not worth crippling the US and global economy over.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask someone like Dr. Burry who is much more qualified than I, at least, to answer such questions.

[1] https://t.co/sr5CuouckM?amp=1
Gruber can write what he wants, but is there any evidence that Bloomberg's institutional credibility was impacted in anyway.

I see tons of articles from Bloomberg being posted on HN, where people care about that issue. Outside of this, no one cared and there are people on both camps as far as that story is concerned.
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Gems can be bought for cash, or you can have some mined by paying Stars. The mine yield is somewhat random and the dwarfs need frequent breaks, but it sometimes includes loot like stupid hats you can use in the video. You only get Stars by referring people, connecting social media accounts, signing up for mailing lists, etc.

Gotta go now -- I can hear the RCMP riding in and these maidens aren't going to just tie themselves to the railroad tracks. Let me know where to send the bill for consulting!
Because that is the definition of R0. Once people are aware and change their behavior R changes as well and is not readily translatable to a different setting.
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While I agree with the overall sentiment in regards to supporting end-user privacy, this article’s title is a bit sensational and the body fails to provide enough substance to support such a dramatic claim. It’s an overly idealistic solution to the problem and therefore is not of much use.
> Can anyone explain how the virus is twice as infectious as we thought, but we're consistently lowering our death projections everyday?

This article is talking about R0-- a measure of contagion without considering interventions like increasing mask wearing, quarantines, or physical distancing.

The higher the R0 the harder we have to work to push the effective R below 1, as is required to stop the spread... and the wider and faster the spread will be if we don't mitigate it.
Edit: why is this being downvoted? My point was that even the things listed as recent successes are not especially recent.

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Flights is from 2011, nine years ago. And they bought the logic at the core of it from ITA.

Google drive is a genuine success, but from 2012, eight years ago.

Even hangouts, which is a failure, is from 2013.

What became Tensorflow appears to have begun seeing internal use in 2009-11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Drive