skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be thinking of a different Conway ... John Horton Conway has no association with Y-Combinator that I know of.

I'd be happy to learn otherwise.
They're definitely more at-risk, but there's no playbook for covid-19, so doctors have been falling back to what's similar. There hasn't been much science on the effectiveness of ventilators on bad covid-19 cases, just bad survival rates (15-33%) compared to other respiratory issues (50%), so there's reason to question effectiveness of ventilators.
That's expected. I think there's suspicion because the death rate on ventilators is significantly higher than has been seen in the past with acute respiratory distress.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/194560

It may be that for some patients going on a ventilator is more dangerous than not because of community acquired infections and/or some other characteristic we don't have a good handle on.

This could also just be an unfortunately characteristic of COVID-19, but we should critically examine that assumption in case it isn't.
Kerguelen Islands
John Conway’s contributions to mathforum.org (1993-2004)
> That is not very common with Rust.

I never say it is. You guys are quite on defensive stance :)
What I have read is that unlike typical ARDS cases where the lungs are failing, full of fluid and the patient can’t breathe, that Covid 19 patients can often breathe fine, and don’t have a lot of obvious lung damage, but their oxygen levels are dropping to dangerous levels, perhaps because of something that covid 19 is doing to blood vessels in the lungs that prevents oxygen uptake. One doctor likened it to high altitude sickness.

What they are suggesting is to put patients on oxygen or low pressure ventilation first.
Keep in mind that in G-Suite you can also enable email routing which will enable you to create full backups of emails

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6297084?hl=en

> These options include rejecting, quarantining, or delivering email with modifications. For example, you can route mail to Gmail and an external server or set policies that vary by organizational unit.

That way Gmail becomes a single point of failure like any other service; you will only lose the mail which didn't arrive during the outage, which will then usually be resent at a later time. But you wouldn't care that much if they lock you out, since you then can change the MX records to point to the external server.
Nothing to do with digital holography. It's a digital lenticular.
Correct. OpenShift by default will start your container with a "random" UID (it's not technically random but to a user it will feel that way), so not only is root disallowed but you also can't anticipate being any specific user. This can feel annoying at times but has important implications for running on the host. you can read more here if interested: https://cookbook.openshift.org/users-and-role-based-access-c...

OpenShift also moves to CRI-O and rootless containers in later version, which further protects hosts.
You don't own your social media accounts. You need to build your own brand with your own domain and collect email addresses of your customers.
I made a different type of face shield
Ask HN: How can a solo founder find other founders?
Rome – A all-in-one JavaScript toolchain
Is it possible to play in coop mode with one or more geographically dispersed friends?

I am currently playing Original Sin (on Steam) with a friend who lives 6-700 km away, and I might involve more people if this is supported.
The societal issue with the epidemic appears to be the capacity of the healthcare system, so being "responsible" means, to many people, taking no "unnecessary" risks. Quotes to indicate that people can define these terms in different ways. But some things kind of stand out as egregious.

And even if you just break down and have to call for assistance, you're requiring other people to take risk as a result of your non-essential activities, which can be viewed as antisocial right now.
> The Pixelfed aggregator seems more useful than the Mastodon aggregator to me, because most of the Mastodon posts are in languages I can't read,

Yep, that's a good point. The next feature I am planning for mastodonia is to filter by language

> Are you going to release the source code?

Good question. Not sure yet. I am trying to figure out if commercialization is a good path for fediverse related projects. I think fediverse community is pretty anti VC and profit. On the one hand I kind of agree with them - VC money eventually ruins all community/social related startups (ex: digg, reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram etc). It's a cycle that's been repeating for about 20 years (maybe the market is about to realize it and change direction, hence the fediverse). On the other hand you can't maintain fediverse instances on charity alone. I think a good trade-off are non-profit corp structure.

I think we can learn a lot from high quality communities that have survived and remained high signal in the past 20 years.

Some examples:

Hackernews: Subsidized by YCombinator, to maintain an funnel of companies for their seed fund.

https://lobste.rs - Hosting seems to be based on benevolent charity from prgmr.com

somethingawful.com - a forum thats been around for a while and charges $10 to join.

My long term thoughts on aggregators for fediverses:

I think aggregation/curation sites (like pixelfed.club) can be a decentralized complement to the fediverse. The fediverse generates the content. Aggregators, can curate the content for specific topics and help new users discover content. Anyone can start a fediverse instance, and anyone can start a aggregation/curation instance.
Is there a particular challenge about flying a drone on Mars? Why not an already existing consumer drone?
The majority of people are probably also only using that e-mail to have somewhere for their Netflix receipts to go.
I remember 50 years ago my dad worked for TRW. He got a call after dinner. And for some reason took me with him to work. I know now that his NASTRAN job had died. But as a 7 year old had no idea.

I just remember walking in to the deserted windowless TRW building and my dad flipping on the IBM vector display, running a batch of cards and suddenly the Game of Life on the display. I was mesmerized.
Which among them are not factual assertions?
No. If those French citizens don't voluntarily establish a TCP/IP connection to google.com, they will have no dealings with Google. (Well, that's not entirely true, but it is an entirely separate debate.)

If the French government has a beef with anyone, it's with their own people, who stubbornly refuse to use Videotex or whatever the homegrown French alternative is these days.

You don't want to go down this path, believe me. It will destroy the Internet in mind, body, and spirit.
anyone familiar with current node/npm/front end web dev would have very little trouble dismantling the false notions of implicit chronological progress belying this argument.
Thanks. And you're right, that is very true. I'm just not very familiar myself with how to terminate local/remote graphical sessions via an SSH shell connection to juggle the limitations of xrdp on Ubuntu at the moment. Something for me to explore on a test box at some point I suppose.
Are you really expecting any sane person to take you seriously when you say shit like that.
Covid-19: African Traditionalists Should Be Given the Chance to Produce Vaccine
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-...

^ This article from a few days ago is a more detailed look at what is possibly going on here.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22814760
It has to survive the trip there, be mostly autonomous, and most importantly operate in the low atmosphere and harsh environment of Mars. All things no off the shelf design will get you.

Here are some highlights: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/472/10-things-mars-helicop...
That is very important. Because, personnally, I never rely on one source of information. Problem is, as illustrated, what a good source beside the official doc ?

Adding insult to injury, not that it is specific to Rust, there are so many bloggers out there that don't put a date and/or give version of the software they're talking about that you just can't know if the info is correct or obsolete.
How does the ventilator not just fill up with the virus over time?
What is your proposed alternative for a hiring process that doesn’t involve credentials? (And have you actually tried it?) How do you demonstrate merit in a practical amount of time? What is a strong signal of merit? What does “merit” actually mean to you?

When I hire people, I care about potential and attitude more than merit. I don’t care as much about what someone has accomplished as I do about whether someone wants to learn, is smart and eager to be part of a team. I’ve seen with my own eyes people that come with a lot of accomplishment and a ton of skill, people who have a lot of merit by any definition, and who are terrible people to hire who cause real damage on teams. I don’t believe that “merit” is a particularly strong signal for job performance.

What are you referring to about credentials being gained illicitly? How often does this happen? Are you talking about degrees? I’ve never met someone with an illicitly gained degree, and it would be stupid to try that; you’d get caught immediately. It’s not as easy as just lying. If you’re talking about degrees, I serious doubt that happens “often”, but feel free to provide some evidence that it’s more than statistical noise or anecdotes. If not degrees, what are you talking about?

Lastly, and maybe most importantly, the meta point here is that “actual ability” is to some degree a socially unjust metric. IQ correlates with family income. Why? Because people with more money get better nutrition, more training, better schools, stronger business networks. The advantages in life are, statistically, a major component of what leads to “ability” in the first place.
I've tried Migadu and I much prefer FastMail: https://www.fastmail.com

They have full DNS capabilities and very nice UI (minimal JS, loads super fast).
How true is this stuff for the majority of people? Outside bubbles like HN? I don’t know at all. I do know most of the time, behaviors and actions described in HN comments aren’t connected much to how the world generally is. Easy low hanging examples would be how FB and increasingly anything Google is seen on here. Or feelings on self hosting or SaaS/subscriptions.
Crises are far, far more often NOT used by despots to seize power.
> Copyright © 2016 AdVite GmbH

This sounds like an advertising company. A person's inbox is the holy grail of info about them.

I don't think I want to use this company for my email. Change my mind?
SCSI is 8 (data) bits wide plus 9 control signals at 10 MHz, so if the RPi can latch 17 GPIOs at 10 MHz I guess that's good enough.
Seems closed-minded and judgemental to ascribe negative traits to people who use things differently than you.

For example, I prefer tabs over bookmarks because I never revisit bookmarks. With tabs, I will eventually get around to them. And I'm in no rush to minimize them. I may want to pick my brain from weeks ago and looking at the tabset I had open then is exactly what I want to do, like that one time I was deep-diving on Crusader King 2 strategies.

It's not like poor hygiene or a dirty house because it's completely digital. What is the actual difference between having a minimized browser with 100 tabs and 100 "to-do" bookmarks and 100 tabs saved to OneTab? Just your arbitrary prejudices.
I am working on that now.
Can you comment on Heme and the reported heart distress associated with Covid19?
how does this display work? The website shows a large glass lens block in front of the display and claims 45 different angles. Is it somehow sending the light of 1/45 pixels in different directions?
> it's a single point of failure

If Google blocked your Recaptchas, deleted your Gmail account, and disabled you Android phone...wow.
Super confused by this question... Most successful businesses are created by solo founders.

Sure Y/C recommends having cofounders but if you have a good business (or idea) just build it... don't wait for someone else to come around and ruin what you're doing. If you need some adult supervision grab a mentor...
COBOL in 100 Seconds
And sadly all three authors of "Winning Ways" have now passed away within almost exactly a year: Berlekamp died on Apr 9 last year, and Richard Guy died in March (he was 103!).
> should always be suspect.

Suspect of what? What bias? I am just talking about science. Bu this is why I am here, to get away from all the credential posturing in academia. You are an MD, are you telling me you cannot commiserate with me on that point?

I stopped looking at credentials the first time I was awed by a new student. It was less about what he knew and more about how he thought. I will treat you with the same respect. I do not care if you have an MD.

This is the last time I will respond to this topic of credentials. If I was saying something stupid you would be attacking me on the science, but instead you are looking to qualify credentials, and that is my problem with health sciences and why there has been such poor progress in the field over the last 30 years.
Everyone keeps replying to tell you they were forbidden from doing that, but they weren't. They ran with that option PLUS sending out contracts to get the newspapers to license the photos and snippet content for free. It's the second part that the courts objected to.
Just to confirm, ipfs.io is a centralized gateway, and none of these browsers actually embeds an IPFS client. Correct?
This post came at a very opportune time as I was having some issues recently with my email provider and was looking for alternatives. I own my main email address but I do have a few other domains which I would like to have mailboxes for.

Anyways, after some consideration I went with fastmail for my primary email but I will definitely check out purelymail for my other low-traffic domains!

Of course - this also led me into the rabbit hole of realizing that my email is not backed up anywhere :)
What makes the js Date implementation unusable in your view? IMO it works pretty okay for most needs.
So there are 2 things that are happening. The image I ingest for the aggregator is the preview image (slightly lower quality than the original image). I also resize the image (using CSS) on the site to have higher content density.

You can see the original quality image by clicking on the post. It will take you to the actual post on the actual pixelfed instance.
I used a slightly modified version of Stephen Covey's time management matrix (urgent vs non-urgent, important vs non–important). My modification is that things that fall into the not-urgent/not-important bucket get retained if they're educational, otherwise I discard them.
I saw a lot of myself in your article. Came to scala in 2014 via spark, wrote a lot of OOP code and then slowly moved into the FP space. These days I find myself writing python a lot (for machine learning) but just miss the type safety net I get with scala
Which is just a fancy way of saying favor composition over inheritance.
At least in Brave it doesn't seem like a "proper" decentralized implementation as it simply redirects to gateway.ipfs.io which is gateways run by the IPFS organization/Protocol Labs.

So while it works, the browser is neither natively resolving the content nor help sharing it further.

The demonstration from the video/GIF says "Support for ENS+IPFS in Firefox via the MetaMask extension" but it's also clearly using the public gateways instead of fetching the content via IPFS in the browser. Seems weird that they are using that as an example. They could have used the IPFS Companion extension and at least it would have seemed to work in the demonstration.

So while it seems to be getting there (at least the domain resolve seems to work via _something_), the implementation of IPFS in both Brave and MetaMask doesn't go the full way and enable off-internet content fetching or offline caching as a better integration would get.
Yes, the source is not citable by Wikipedia's standard, but it appears that Mulcahy is considered an established personality in the recreational mathematics community, and his source was private communication from the close associates of John Conway, which by itself is backed up by Colin Wright, an established personality on Hacker News. [0][1] So it's certain to say the information is true.

By the way, I once said that Twitter is now the center of gravity of the web these days, and someone didn't believe me and argued against it with some user statistics, which missed the point. This is another example on how Twitter is the center of gravity, it is, in the sense of its network effect - that it has a group of active and influential people, which makes it the place where the latest news and rumors break out. Not different from the early blogosphere, the Usenet, or even Hacker News posts about Silicon Valley.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843577

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844444
I had so much fun with Turbo Pascal in the early 90's, I used it to create everything from GUI frameworks to ANSI bulletin board systems and keyloggers. Definitely the most creative environment I've come across.

Then came C++, and I wasted A LOT of time trying to wrap my head around it while creating nothing of value before giving it up entirely.

My Pascal experience also landed me my first job after university, which was to help write/maintain a system developed in Delphi.
What interviewer isn't going to dig into their concerns anyway? I mean, if you can read the person and they seem like they'd be down for "let's get down to brass tacks" kinda talk, go for it. Maybe it makes you seem like a serious person to certain kinds of people.

It might be a little uncomfortable for someone like me. I'd rather you ask, "what are your favorite qualities in your best employees" and then respond to that.

Maybe it's just my area of work but I can't imagine caring about previous experience, degree, or anything. I mean, the candidate has gotten past the resume screen already so you're just living up to that impression and other candidates at that point.
There is a lot of misinformation about COVID-19 lung disease. This article's title is alarming, but most of its content is mainstream. Lung protective ventilation - the standard approach for ARDS (which COVID-19 seems to cause) - avoids high pressure and high volume ventilation.

Broadly, I would suggest that interested people read Corey Hardin's response to the cacophony of voices saying that COVID-19 respiratory failure is not ARDS: https://mailchi.mp/e10a89ac5988/tz4idnzryr-4388986?e=96507de...
It's a typical failure of software developers to assume that if something is in writing (even if that writing is code) that it has been explained.

So the fact that there is a req open means that 'what they are looking for' has been explained, and thus if you have to ask it must be because you didn't even bother to remember what job you applied for.

If you were in the right frame of mind you might find this funny. Especially since that same person will happily commiserate with you later about the XY problem with management or customers. As if developers don't also suffer from the XY Problem in spades, just with slightly different symptoms.

I know what you asked for, now well me what you want.
exhaled air is exhausted to outdoors through filters, fresh air comes in. different tubes for different direction of air flow
I switched to posteo in 2015 and never looked back! https://posteo.de/en
Fantastic idea. This is the feature I'll work on next. Thanks a lot!
too bad casual.app is so tightly coupled to the google ecosystem, even enough to say it's optimized for chrome (terrible for privacy/confidentiality). we really need deeper and wider understanding of decision-making under risk and uncertainty (see over-reaction to covid by many, under-reaction by some). tooling like this can help.

it's hard to evaluate the modeling capabilities from a few pages and blog posts. how does it compare to crystal ball on excel, for example?
No. As of now, std does not contain any executors. Only the minimal machinery that the compiler needs to know about in order to translate async code into structs implementing the Future trait.

I think we will see an executor in std at some point, but seeing how executor design is still an ongoing area of research, it's really good that they didn't include an executor in std prematurely.
AFAIK the first "IDE" was the one in the original BASIC, or at least the first one to called that. It was command-line based (no fancy GUIs back then) but it allowed editing, debugging and compiling (despite BASIC dialects being commonly interpreted, the original BASIC was a compiler) from the same environment.
I doubt anybody ever bought a 16KB tape-only IBM 5150 to hook up to their TV, but it was indeed the entry level configuration. It probably just existed to make the machine's price look good - even today all articles quote that configuration's price of US$1,565 (equivalent to $4,401 in 2019) instead of the $3K or more a practical PC would cost.

The PC could only be expanded to 64KB on the motherboard. Anything beyond that required expansion cards, each adding at most 64KB initially (which opened the door for larger third party upgrades from AST and others). With only six slots and separate cards for the floppy disk controller, video, serial and parallel ports the largest practical configuration was initially only 192KB. Not that the software could take advantage of all that (in the case of .com stuff quickly ported from CP/M, things improved with .exe).

When most people try to remember the original IBM PC they normally think of the 1983 PC XT (IBM 5160) instead which had more slots and more memory.

Around 1989 I was asked to fix a Basic program that tested car shock absorbers. It took me less time to write a new version in Turbo Pascal than it would have taken for me to completely read the source of the original program. The IDE made a huge difference but the speed was also important since it allowed me to modify and try several times per minute.
I used migadu for a couple of years and they were great initially but over the past 4-5 months, I've experienced really degraded service when accessing email and setting tags, deleting etc.

Over the last month, I started getting login timeouts and that was the last straw. Recently I noticed that they put up an announcement saying that they are running at very high loads due to the COVID-19 situation. I'm not quite sure how people working from home affects normal email (I guess people are emailing a bit more?) but anyways once the announcement went away, I still kept experiencing issues so I migrated my primary email over to fastmail.
I tried to make user profiles as informative as possible (github links, projects, etc). But I know where you're coming from.
This article says though that in New York 80% of people put on a ventilator die; is that fact refuted by anyone? For a machine that's in short supply and quite invasive, a 20% survival probability seems extremely low.
This is the pertinent detail as to why some doctors are concerned:

Generally speaking, 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory distress die while on ventilators, experts say. But 80% or more of coronavirus patients placed on the machines in New York City have died, state and city officials say.
That is a very, _very_ dubious claim indeed considering that even stuff as trivial as `attr_reader`, `attr_writer` and `attr_accessor` go by a different name in Crystal.
One musician used a quarantine to become a legend
>If the French government has a beef with anyone, it's with their own people, who stubbornly refuse to use Videotex or whatever the homegrown French alternative is these days.

This isn't a gang war for turf, France does not "have a beef" with Google. They have made laws for their country, and are enforcing those laws. Google has the freedom to comply or GTFO, simple as that.