skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only 12 percent of Americans over age 20 are considered metabolically healthy — that is, with optimal measures for waist circumference, blood sugar, blood pressure and lipids, and not taking drugs to control these risk factors.

If only we can reward/incentivize people for having control over things that are 100% in our control, like waist circumference.
I think if someone gets laid off from their job they should feel free to tell whoever they want about that. Don't you think so?
It's what had to be done, but it's a real shame it got cancelled this year. Although, since it's all bots anyway I wonder how it would be if all the teams sent just their robots and competed.
> No company should prepare for its business model to be made illegal.

Yes. When you have a business in an industry that is in the political or regulatory eye, you should prepare. This is historical prudence.

> this is a teachable moment
> No its not.

I would treat it as such and that's the problem, isn't it? The model didn't become illegal, it became impractical for an extended duration of inactivity. This isn't an unexpected natural disaster, it's a rather regular event. Something something The Ant and The Grasshopper. Maybe another incarnation will show better judgement by holding more reserves and point backward.

The inability to consider history is a trend of the USA, politically and commercially now.
True, that one is a little wild but there is also another angle as to why 5g is "bad": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
I really believe so too! I just hope that goes downstream to the undergrads in the fields too.
"with the added features of less control from the developers"

Given that this is an additional option for developers, this is pretty tenuous logic. You seem to be arguing against developers having this option by claiming that it restricts their options.

"and locked to just one platform"

I'm fairly sure making one of these apps doesn't suddenly restrict every other option. You can make Android and Web Apps and J2EE (if it still exists) to your hearts content!

This is actually a convenient conversation because I just spent thirty minutes thinking about how much of an absolute piece of shit the Steam app is, courtesy of all of the elements that are a thin wrapper around a web app. And this has pretty much always been the experience: we're all just waiting for the magic web app that's going to prove everyone wrong and light the path.

Still hasn't come.

But until then, I'd rather developers actually have options, including high performance, native, platform-suitable solutions. My only knee-jerk opposition to these Instant App style solutions (the Android version, not sure what the Apple one will be called) is the thought of a big, fat binary coming down just to view what you think is a web page...and then I remember how absolutely monstrous the overwhelming majority of web apps are now. Full native apps are absolute svelte in comparison.
One of the early sysadmins at Google was, quite literally, a brain surgeon.
I think what the person meant in spirit is aligned with what happened in practice — GM’s shareholders were wiped out and the government (through chapter 11 restructuring and investment) ensured it was a going concern and had a subsequent IPO (privitization) ..
Here is a paper which suggests they found a different strain: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987222v1....

“In this report we describe the first major evolutionary event of the SARS-CoV-2 virus following its emergence into the human population. Although the biological consequences of this deletion remain unknown, the alteration of the N gene transcription would suggest this may have an impact on virus phenotype.“

However they don’t speculate on whether that strain is more likely to spread (it clearly is a viable mutation).
Sounds like you've got a pretty good routine established. Have also noticed runs becoming a highlight as well.
You are very seriously underestimating the effect of lead in the environment. If this is the sort of thing that gets people upset at the EU bureaucrats then I'm all for it. ROHS free products have longevity on par with what was delivered before, yes, there have been some minor issues but in spite of the 'sky is falling' initial response that simply didn't happen.
> As for your second sentence, RFCs are almost always accepted before they are implemented.

That's fine when
* RFCs are not controversial
* RFCs does not change much before stabilisation

> The syntax had been proposed long before then

Let me rephrase it this way. It was only a couple of weeks when syntax became available in nightly before the final decision was made.
The new deal extended the great depression and it's mishandling is extremely well known. Destroying goods to drive up prices, centrazlied price fixing, the blue eagle program, wage controls, the reason healthcare is tied to employment.

The new deal was a failure and caused long lasting damage to the USA.
> I love artists and design, and am shocked this has not happened yet, so Im rooting for you.

I really appreciate it! And I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your questions.

One aspect is that we're not business people looking at this problem in a cold, analytic light: we care about the wellbeing of artists and the joy that people get from having art in their homes. I know from my experience as an artist that most artists are suspicious of new businesses – but we've found a way to work with artists where they really trust us. We do more for our artists than just provide a self-service tool for them to list commodities and get some sales – we coach them on selling; we help them build community with other artists; we're building new features to fit their workflows; and we'll even hop on the phone with them and let them vent to us about life as an artist, haha.

Artsy seems like a great platform, but we're mostly targeting a different type of buyer than they seem to be. We're also working with artists directly, rather than through their galleries. So, despite both being online art marketplaces, I think it's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison between us and them.

Regarding the rest of the startup graveyard, when we talk to our users on the buyer side of our marketplace, they haven't heard of things like Saatchi, or even Artsy, in many cases. So I think that, to a significant degree, the mental category of "place to buy art online" is still open, at least for people who aren't already experienced art collectors.

So I think in our case the answer is timing + obsessive attention to our users.
Here's a video explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0

Magnetism affects moving charges, but not stationary charges. A magnetic field in your reference frame is really just an electric field in the moving charge's reference frame.
The Verge is painting this approach as crazy but it is actually not. The idea is that healthy and young people are at relatively low risk for serious health issues, and can therefore build up immunity and help reduce subsequent spreading of the virus. The Verge paints the length of immunity as an 'unknown' to paint the suggestion as absurd, but in reality there is no reason to doubt that immunity would be durable like it usually is.

Twitter was also wrong to lock the Federalist's account. Per the article you linked, Twitter bans coronavirus-related content that “goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.” But this reliance on authority is clearly a bad idea in a world where authoritative sources are regularly wrong. The WHO lied about human-to-human transmission, presumably in a bid to align to Beijing's propaganda. They lied about the effectiveness of travel restrictions, likely for the same reasons. They were wrong about airborne transmission. They lied about the effectiveness of masks.

Why should these digital platforms prevent any ideas to enter the sphere of public discussions except for those from limited sources that have a bad track record? This is exactly the risk of censorship and suppressing information and is exactly why Twitter, Facebook, and the rest should not be in the business of serving as editors or censors.
<pedantic> Shouldnt we replace "lines of code" with "statements" since with most compilers line breaks are optional <\pedantic>
Then why are they powerful and rich?
You're free to make web pages if you like but despite your complaints, you yourself admit that its not a better experience and its not for lack of effort.
hey nice work. I did the same thing but for Brightbox: https://github.com/brightbox/deploy-jitsi

realised I've not licensed it properly though! will sort that out tomorrow.

blogged about it here: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/03/30/how-to-install-jit...

took me a while to sort out the fqdn config change, did you get that working?
We love it too. We hope to have some more ways for you to visualize the art in the near future that provide more context.
(It was posted a couple months ago and we invited a repost because it didn't seem to have been discussed on HN before.)
>Good for Paul

Followed by:

>zero-sum approach to competition

>bad temper

>Oracle-style tactics

Sounds like what's good for Paul is going to be bad for a lot of employees and customers.
And when they don't accept your contributions and lock your thread when you explain why you neeed it, what then?
Actuaries do a pretty good job predicting things at a population level, where many factors average.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251586
TTS aside, there's a Braille display integrator from Google called BrailleBack that could be used. Then again, many Braille devices have input support too. I'm sighted but I've considered getting one to play around with and learn to read in the dark when I want to rest my eyes but still want to read fast.
This is a ton of emotionally charged verbiage about community interactions here, but at any point does this person say what they were using Elm to do? That seems like a pretty important point. Is this somebody who was just using the language recreationally, for their own amusement? And if so, did they have some expectation for the language community to be a source of (online) social interactions and connections with people?

Because if so, that really changes the significance of the accusations, in the sense that it makes them almost meaningless. "I wanted Elm to be my new life and my new friends and I wanted to shape it myself as a personal milestone but that stuff didn't happen and now I'm mad and I'm leaving" is a heck of a lot less meaningful to me than, "this language doesn't work well for the problems I'm trying to solve, and the maintainers aren't interested in adapting it to my problem domain, so I'm going to move on to some other language for this thing I'm working on".

I really don't care if someone is pissed that a language development community didn't make someone feel like they belonged to a social club or otherwise interacted with him in a way that satisfied some void inside of him. But if there was some actual purpose to his language noodling, as opposed to being purely recreational, it would be infinitely more interesting to know about how it fell short of the purpose, why the language fell short, why the maintainers didn't want to evolve it in that direction, and what language the author is moving to for their project that does a better job, and why they chose that language. That's meaningful. Anything related to whether or not they felt listened to or if they felt like they were on the inside or the outside is just utterly meaningless, it's like when people complain about news articles that don't have anonymous comment sections.

I realize that to a lot of people, the recreational community aspects of open source development are literally the only thing they care about. But I also realize that to some of those people, they don't understand that this is not the primary purpose of hardly any of the projects they care about, language projects probably least of all. Open source maintainers are not obligated to anybody to create a fun community for recreational users, with a well-lined pathway to becoming a recreational core developer. But that is clearly all that this person cared about, hence all of the emotional stuff which I just don't get. I'm not saying it's invalid, I just don't personally relate to that perspective at all.
No literate scientifically minded person disputes your point, but it doesn't address my point. My point is this- qualia as a phenomena exists. Even if I think a red thing is blue, I am still experiencing some color and the experiencing itself- aside from its accuracy- is what needs explaining.

So experience, aka qualia as a phenomena unto itself is in need of explaining, not any particular qualia and not the presence of absence of any correlation between the qualia and objective reality, i.e. the "truthfullness" or "accuracy" of the qualia.
The fact that your quote starts with the word "some" should tell you everything you need to know.
Cryptography I by Dan Boneh: https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto

It's a great introduction to fundamental concepts. After you finish, I'd recommend reading this book he co-authored, which goes into more detail and covers more advanced concepts: https://toc.cryptobook.us/book.pdf
latitudes should be numeric(7,5)...
Additionally, the Fed is sticking to its mission: support the currency within a reasonable inflation band while also supporting a target unemployment rate. Debasing the currency right now is exactly the right thing to do. Later, the Fed will unwind these supports as it did long after the great recession ended.
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll definitely add it to our considerations. Just curious, were you on computer or mobile device?
> It has, let’s say, not aged gracefully.

It's aged wonderfully. The Europeans proved its premise in spades between 1914 and 1945.
Feinstein, one of the co-sponsors of this bill, has a pretty good track record of going against anything which could give power to the people rather than the government, including guns. Now, that didn't stop her from being one of the only people in San Francisco with a concealed carry permit (up until 2012)... laws for thee, but not for me.
I personally found this to be a great one.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/psychological-first-aid

Having even passing familiarity with a way to think about helping people in crisis is extremely useful when you're in the moment.
When the bond matures it's either paid back or rolled over to a new bond or the debtor defaults. There is no fourth option.
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1367/
Posting this update half way through the 3-week period. We are now at 16,510 deaths total(1) on April 9th.

I'm not suggesting COVID-19 isn't bad, it just isn't 20x flu bad with the mitigation we have in place.

We won't really understand the statistics on this until a year or more out when analysis of all the death certificates come in and we can look at how 2020 is different, i.e. for each COVID-19 how many fewer flu deaths did we have? etc.

(1) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Gold prices soar to 7.5-yr. high as Fed drops “atomic bomb”
> may never come back

This is absolutely bonkers. People still eat. People wil eat in the future. There will be corporate locations and events that will need catering in the future.

> Doesn't matter how much capital you have, it won't help.

If you have enough capital you could weather it for years. At some point, people are going to have conventions again.
Not really. E2EE imposes severe limitations on user experience:

Want a fast server-side archive search? Forget it, you're using e2ee.

Want to add a new device and load all your chat history? Forget it, you're using e2ee.
> Netflix is not good at creating content.

The difference is that the others don't have to be good at creating content. Amazon, Google, and Apple have a bunch of other businesses to prop up their streaming services. And Disney doesn't have to be good at creating new content because they've got so much enviable OLD content.

But if NetFlix can't keep people coming back, then the company goes under. NetFlix can't just run their streaming service at a loss until everybody else dies like Amazon, they can't rely in pure brand recognition like Disney, they can't rely on sheer volume like YouTube Premium, and they can't just charge more because they're not Apple.
It is neither. A nation is a social construct, and the federal government is just that: a federation (of states). Saying California is a nation-state is perfectly legal and a reasonable position to have.
It’s just, in the case of this pandemic, one side is actively getting people killed and the other is trying to avoid that. Somehow that became political.
My understanding is C#'s behavior around structs is identical, except it is not called "copy-on-write". From what I see this behavior is identical to copy-always from language spec standpoint of view. If an actual copy is created is down to the code generator, but semantics is the same.
https://madeitfor.fun/?data=eNrtWVlv3MgR%2FiuEgo3WiIbqi30YEI...
I (luckily) only implemented a few smaller projects in elm around the time of 0.18 release.

I started looking into how to get WebCrypto working, and was scared away by how they treated outside contributors. I liked Elm as a language, and Evan made a very good design. But to the core team, I got the message that they intend to work at their own pace, at their own leisure and will probably not take much input from outside contributors. This makes it very hard to expand the community and the usefulness of the language. They still have not afaik released anything for WebCrypto or WebWorkers. It is fine they are committed to the 100% pure language for frontend idea, but it makes it very hard to use if the Gods in the core team does not think it's fun/worthy to solve.
This is why something serverless is needed. Then there is nobody to sue.
This is brilliant - I'm amazed how humble you are in calling it a stupid website. I've always wanted to do "something" with video development, just because it's always been a massive black hole for me. Any tips?
Great question. We have an application process for a few reasons:

1. Because curation is important to us

2. So we can learn about the artist and how best to help them

3. So we can take time to help onboard artists and show them how best to make use of Art in Res

We built Art in Res so that anyone can apply, and we take our time to consider every application.
I have been hoping to find a multiplayer coding game to play with my FIRST students during this time. Googling "multiplayer coding game" yields many results, but none of the ones I have tried so far have been satisfactory. Ideally it would be more of a sandbox than a game, with little robots you can control.

Would appreciate any recommendations.
>Would be great if everyone (mainly Apple, Microsoft and Google) could align themselves behind one platform and work together.

So you want mediocre, resource hog, lowest-commmon-denominator apps? Because that's how you get mediocre, resource hog, lowest-commmon-denominator apps.
There's a difference between a company that has always been junk and a company that is only rated junk because of the current crisis?
Both money and value would be lost. The former due to write-offs (one persons debt is another’s person’s income) and the latter due to disorganization / entropy / chaos. The FDIC fund is not able to cover all deposits currently and would require massive government spending and distribution.
"Apple’s dominant position in portable devices, particularly the high end."

Is this person unfamiliar with technology specs because their products are average devices but cost excessive for what you get?

It seriously sounds like they fell for the marketing.
Fair enough. That's why there's the push in modern C++ for compile-time static dispatch :)
This is a good time to learn to practice meditation.

I recommend the Waking Up app by Sam Harris. It's a good guide for someone trying to learn.
Hmmmmmm... I wonder exactly what sort of coaching we’re talking about here.

If those people are better off going to places where their career still can grow (perhaps large companies), the right thing to do is encourage them to make that move. Are we talking about that?

Is that talented engineer really best served by a pep talk about grit? Or do you just need them to stick around?
> The Verge paints the length of immunity as an 'unknown' to paint the suggestion as absurd, but in reality there is no reason to doubt that immunity would be durable like it usually is.

Incorrect. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/coronavir...

"The coronavirus may be “reactivating” in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 51 patients classed as having been cured in South Korea have tested positive again, the CDC said in a briefing on Monday. Rather than being infected again, the virus may have been reactivated in these people, given they tested positive again shortly after being released from quarantine, said Jeong Eun-kyeong, director-general of the Korean CDC."

> The WHO lied about human-to-human transmission

No, the WHO correctly noted at the time that they didn't have sufficient evidence to conclude it was occurring. (China may have been concealing it, certainly.)

> They lied about the effectiveness of travel restrictions

They were likely correct, given recent analysis showing it quietly spreading in NYC back in January.

> They were wrong about airborne transmission

No, you're wrong about what "airborne" versus "droplet" transmission means in epidemiology.

> They lied about the effectiveness of masks

Now this, I can agree with, and if you look at my submission/posting history you'll see plenty of criticism of that approach. It seems likely to have been intended to preserve supplies for healthcare workers, but it backfired.

> limited sources that have a bad track record

This perfectly describes The Federalist.
I don't have a lot of experience with it, but Copperspice looks promising, and doesn't need the MOC. Does anyone else have experience with any critical differences between Qt and Copperspice?
> So calling [1] an optical illusion warrants skepticism because it's attempting to dismiss the challenge of having to explain how water can physically break and magically reconstitute pencils? Don't you see the problem with this sort of argument?

Yeah, but that's a bit of a straw man.

The kinds of claims-of-illusion that warrant particular skepticism are the ones that deny fundamental observations in defense of some particular (usually sectarian, for lack of a better word) philosophical perspective.
I find it fascinating that the author is leaving one fringe language with a small community for another fringe language with a small community- in this case Bucklescript.

I've never found the productivity benefits of these JS alternatives worth the risk and cost. There is an understandable desire to move away from the messy reality of JS and it's browser friends, I get it. Having written many thousands of lines of CoffeeScript, experiments with ClojureScript and Elm, I see the appeal.

But you can easily find yourself stranded. Following the herd is important if you want to hire and maintain projects for the long term.
Since it was all written by Google it probably has only the packages they need...though in the interest of adoption perhaps not. You can just check in the repo on github.

OTOH you may not need some of those tools as the point of this project was actually as an environment supporting differentiable programming, so some of that slicing and dicing is approached automatically, at a higher level.
This is what the internet needs more of