skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I myself enjoy eating meat and while I need the protein, I've also understood that the taste, is it the umami combined with protein and fat, is what makes meat so delicious. So while I have experimented with some veggie food, mostly just beans, I don't know how to get a similar tasting food as easily as just buying sausages or frying chicken on a pan. Then add some rice and a nice salad. There was a veggie restaurant I used to go who knew how to make really good tasting veggie food, I wonder was it just using a lot of umami replacements like stock pots.

On the other hand an excessive meat-eating without any exercise or other reason than "because it tastes good" I don't understand. You are just clogging up your arteries and really starving your body of important vitamins that you need from veggies.

So while the situation is unfortunate, I am curious what those who enjoy their daily steaks will do when the meat runs out. Buy canned meat? Or some low-meat products like sausages? I guess they'll mostly just switch to fatty foods instead, like burgers and french fries and whatnot.
Actually, the number one thing would be to use a mask whenever you are out. I suspect breathing in aerosolised virus particles is the main mode of infection now. Second would be not touching your face. Washing hands, as important as it is, comes third.

I laugh inwardly whenever I see stores requiring the use of hand sanitizer at their entrances; they should be handing out masks if they are serious. Of course that's much more expensive than doling out sanitizer.

I expected governments to organize mass production and distribution of re-usable face masks for their populations, but so far I see nothing of the sort. If we are going to be able to resume a somewhat normal life going forward, use of mask has to become the norm rather than the exception.
I feel like I could spend infinite amounts of time coding and recoding to make things easy to change ... and not get anywhere / add a lot of unneeded abstraction.

I've certainly run into plenty of hard coded narrow code that is brutal to change, but the changes I make are were probabbly not obvious to the guy who wrote the code in the first place.
Based on following the links in the video details, it looks like it's built around something called the OCTA metapixel [0][1][2].

Conceptually, I could see how once you have an "abstract programmable pixel" with mechanisms to change how they interact with each other, it becomes "straightforward", since you can abstract away the concept of a pixel and its interaction with neighbors.

[0] https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel

[1] https://otcametapixel.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-does-it-work....

[2] https://b3s23life.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
Sounds like you are trying to make ordering easier. Current problem seems to be that the stores are swamped and can't handle the order volume. At least here in the UK where I live, the grocery stores are asking people who can to buy in person, instead of online ordering.
To see if they are still awake?
I think you are missing the main point why so many prefer Payoneer. It's not about the fees, it's about having a card in a different country that your fiscal residency country.
Since you link to Stack Exchange, have you seen [4], and what do you think of the linked paper about possible nuclear jets [5] from there?

[4] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/502898/was-chern...?

[5] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
Yarvin's formative influence on this project will prevent it from ever achieving scale and that seems problematic for a decentralized system that relies upon an active network of peers.

His neo-reactionary thinking bled directly into the architecture of Urbit and I don't think there are very many "normies" out there who would support it, if they realized all of the long-term implications of a feudalistic social computing system.
HN shadow banning certain news links?
“Write a simple TCP listener in Python to read a stream of data and then reply to it? That's crazy talk!”

This has infected my company quite a bit. People get really nervous as soon as you write something that’s little novel. Writing everything from scratch is bad but you also need room for people to innovate.
The one suicide was the former chief engineer that was called in to be a witness in litigation directly related to the company's failure to produce the product and lies about it.

...so it's not some random data point.
As is, unless I am missing something painfully obvious, after looking at you HN profile and HN submissions - my guess is “Mike” is a typo for “Mine” — if so, suggest you edit your comment with a direct link to the one-person business you’re referring to with a quick pitch on its intended value/use too.

If I had to guess, the business is the “FastComments” SaaS mentioned a few times in your recent HN submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=winrid

https://fastcomments.com/
We won't lose the right, period. It cannot be lost. Only the power to exercise it can be lost.

It's true that people are increasingly eager to infringe the right to express oneself freely by using government to curtail the power to exercise that right. It is true that exercising the right responsibly is important -- because failing to do so involves infringing other rights.

In short, there is good reason to differentiate between rights and powers, even though they may apply to the same things. The right is a matter of ethics, and any system of universal ethics doesn't change because of how people behave. The power to exercise a right is subject to social order, and if that power is curtailed the social order is, in that respect, unethical -- but how people behave may change the likelihood of the social order to change in that manner.
Add ads to “gaia” - pseudo science video platform cashing in on people’s ignorance. Cant get rid of its ads.
the lead developer of the engine is continuing and has support on github to continue the development.
Yes, it's from a work called "The Living Series", see here:

https://www.lofty.com/products/jenny-holzer-the-living-serie...
> by all appearances our CDC still doesn't even know how many tests are performed per day much less how it's going to scale up testing so we can "reopen our economy".

A few weeks ago, IIRC, the CDC said that since the states were providing all the numbers, it wasn't going to bother doing any collation.

It strongly looks to me that the federal government has given up trying to help, being led by someone who is utterly incompetent to the task demanded of him. The response at this point is largely being driven by the 50 state governments + various territories + DC, with the president hoping to steal all the credit and avoid any blame whatsoever. And the rest of the federal government seems to be unwilling or unable to take charge of the response.
The lack of any evidence or potential mechanism to the contrary. You can't prove a negative, but after a long enough while of no evidence, nobody will take it seriously anymore.
Fantastic images. Love the SM shot—you can even see the details on the fuel cells (the things at the top of the bay).
Pretty useful websites.

Also impressive what you've accomplished with them as a solo dev.

Congrats, Pietz!
How Can I Read Better?
I tend to design software in what I call a "layer cake" fashion.

Lots of layers, with clearly defined domains, strict APIs, and each with its own project lifecycle.

I also tend to "design with SDKs." I treat each module asn an SDK, which means that I pretend I don't know exactly how it will be used, and I use my "S.Q.U.I.D." methodology on it.

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/bluetooth/itcb-04/#s...
The traditional Mongolian script is notable for being written vertically, which breaks a lot of assumptions usually made in UI design. The Mongolian president's personal website is an example of designing around vertical text: https://president.mn/mng/
I think you pretty much don't - but what you can do is shift the burden of healthcare off of an employment expense so that when someone is in this terrible situation they can move to a location where they can receive better care without being concerned that they will be unable to continue receiving insurance from their employer.

The poster above is between a rock and a hard place, it's a really terrible situation to be in no matter what safety nets are in place. But the US tends to go out of its way to make things just that little extra bit terrible.
Cloudflare drops Google's reCAPTCHA due to privacy concerns
You're both right, _and_ wrong, because people, firms, and their respective behaviors vary a ton. Some marketing teams are great at measuring the effect of their ad spend. Some are not. It depends on the specific circumstances and the specific humans involved.

I'd be interested in an argument over whether more marketers are competent versus not, but any argument that presupposes uniformity among marketers is just silly.
Iceland finds that half its citizens with coronavirus have shown no symptoms
Not as much as the other two by a long shot, but a tiny bit, yes. I've hidden the purchase flow on the website a while ago so I can retire the paid version sometime soon.
You might be underestimating the number of companies who absolutely don’t know what they are doing budget-wise yet they manage to stay in business, and threw a lot of dollars in ads/marketing without deeply analyzing its effectiveness, just because raising money at stellar valuations was free until a month ago.

Anecdotally, I happen to work for a 300 people saas company who just started drastically cutting expenses with the goal of reducing burn rate and delaying the need for another round of financing in this terrible environment: ads were one of the first few things to be dramatically cut (the second one was some super inefficient AWS spending).

The ads budget shrank from 6 figures a year to near 0 overnight, and it’s unlikely to return to its former level any time soon. Also, half of the marketing team was laid off. Having 30 people in marketing for such a small company was definitely way too much (just like engineering, sales, ...), and it anecdotally proves GP’s argument. All consequences of the fact that money was free.
> Existing grocery delivery services are already way overburdened, and desperately scaling up[1].

Not exactly. They're unwilling to increase pay and working conditions in order to scale up. With millions rapidly unemployed, they should have no real trouble hiring if they actually pay for it. You should never, ever trust Amazon's rhetoric when it comes to hiring low-wage workers.

This also doesn't address curbside pickup. Several stores in my area are doing it and it limits contact.

> You can't possibly think that going to the grocery store is so frivolous and unnecessary, as this statement would imply. Or do you?

I know people who still go to the grocery store 2-3 times a week and buy snacks, yes. I'm not saying that groceries are non-essential, I'm saying that the system should be reworked to protect the most vulnerable and exploited at no impact to you other than convenience / not changing your routine. Those are the elements we're weighing: how much is their suffering worth compared to what "consumers" are doing? Should there be oreos on the shelf at all? Shouldn't we, at the bare minimum, be limiting access to necessary items if in-person contact is required?
I've worked in the field and have been closely involved in online advertising spending and you're way overstating this. Confusion, misdirection, dodgy attribution, questionable ROI calculations and outright fraud are rampant.

Furthermore I'd say most people with deep knowledge of the field (assuming they don't have a vested interest in arguing otherwise) would agree in a heartbeat.
The new web-based Outlook 365 is a lot better, but still quite buggy and massively lacking compared to Fastmail.
When I read the concerns addressed here I cannot help but think of the end user (not a developer per say). There is an entire category of EUSE products that try to accommodate these concerns, however fall quite short. We need to rethink the entire paradigm of development, define sectors that need specialized product concerns (embedded vs games vs cloud) and build holistic ecosystems around them. There are startups doing this, yet how to categorize these types of tools is still not established; therefore hard to point at.
How did you go about getting treated for it at your age?
True enough, but the CDC discretionary budget was tiny. In order to establish a significant stockpile they would have needed a budget line item from Congress. So Congress certainly deserves a portion of the blame for lack of foresight.
The way I read it is as a somewhat ironic comment on how a lot of people, after doing something they shouldn't or avoiding something they should do, already know their mistake way before correcting it or suffering the consequences, and just don't act accordingly.

I'm not 100% sure on the "luxurious", but for me it reads as if saying "you know you've done wrong, you know it's going to come back to haunt you, but you're reveling in the inaction/avoidance in the meantime"
Well, we now know it's not going to get to normal for a while.

France has just announced extending the lockdown one full month. UK has just announced they won't end the lockdown in the coming weeks, with no dates formally given (it was expiring today).
Thank you! Glad you liked it. Yea, I've had similar, theater-like experiences in VR before but I thought it could be fun without a headset as well.
What do you think would be harder to implement in a fab on a budget in the future? A chip full of large gates that can handle 7 voltage levels stably, or a chip with 5x [1] as many of the smallest gates that physics and logistics allow one to build?

[1] If memory servers, adders and cache access and a bunch of other logic typically require O(nlog₂n) gates in binary, but O(nlog₃n) in ternary, Which means as the native integer size increases, bases greater than 2 scale better.
That's crazy. You can't hand-post your neighbours invitations to a party, for example?
> Pickup/delivery options are a total failure across the board at all grocery stores right now. They're all generally a week out, or you just can't get any delivery slot at all.

That's inconvenient, but I've known for over a week that it now needs to be scheduled a week in advance, and I had all the information to determine approximately what I'd need in one week's time (how much we have now and how much we eat), so, if you can get a spot one week out, it's only a minor failure.

If you try to order grocery pickup/delivery the day you run out of food, yes, it's a big problem, but the information that you have to plan at least a week ahead is widespread enough that it's an inconvenience, not a disaster.
ah but how do you really know if any of those numbers are causal? marketers need to account for multi-touch attribution, if a customer sees an ad on one platform and converts on another, or if they do it ten minutes outside of your conversion window.

there certainly are a lot of numbers in adtech and marketing. whether or not those actually relate to causal impact, across the industry, is not definitively answered. very few players (on the supply and demand side) have the scale and ability to properly do incrementality testing.

personally, i think people don't want to know the real results. if the numbers say it's not broken, why risk your job?
I've had the complete opposite experience to the author w.r.t. PiHole and WireGuard.

I run a PiHole on my home network and it's also my WireGuard "server". I will concede am lucky enough to have static IPv4/IPv6 addresses on my home connection.

On my iOS devices I have two connections set up: one for "access to home + DNS", and the other for all traffic.
When I'm on my home wifi the VPN connection is off, when I'm on cellular data the DNS is set to the PiHole, and when I'm on any other wifi I route all traffic via the VPN (all automatically via the WireGuard app).

For my other mobile devices... well, they're Linux, so I just set the DNS server correctly and leave WireGuard always connected. It's a UDP "connection" for crying out loud.

This all works flawlessly now to the point that my less technically-minded roommate has it set up on their phone, too: they can access the NAS all the time and ads are blocked in the web browser and in apps.
Then they'll still drive to work and pay the tax. If everyone does that, there will be more money in the fund and so the rebate will be higher too.

Now of course, if everyone just pays the tax and gets the rebate, there won't be much emissions impact. But over time, people will realize they can get ahead by buying smaller cars instead of SUVs, or carpooling, or lobbying their local governments for more public transit, or switching jobs.
Seeing Jenny Holzer on here was a pleasant surprise!

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

is probably one of my favorite of her truisms. On a similar note, her Inflammatory Essays (1979-1982) are a good read too [1].

Her more recent work Projections doesn't involve much of her own writing but it's interesting nonetheless (both the texts and the medium). She talks about it a bit in this video [2].

And I quite like her Redaction Paintings that were made from redacted military files [3].

[1] https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/holzer-inflammatory-ess...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOOFKzQxS0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Cidvahl6c
Because it's apparently hard for the people writing the lockdown orders to differentiate between a solo lawn guy or gardener, and a four-dudes-in-one-pickup lawn crew.
> rather the probability of a random physical constant having a leading digit of 1, 2, or 3 is approximately 60%, and of course the leading digits of 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 occur in total only about 40% of the time

This is a part of the arguments used both pro/con of Tau over Pi. Constants that start with 6 are "weird" because they are uncommon. They are uncommon because "we" like to just halve them and use constants that start with 3 and lots of factors of two when working with them. It's a weirdness entirely of mathematics' own creation. Neither is more "fundamental", people just likes 3s sometimes too much.
Not the parent, but I could take a stab at what I think they mean. I think we all agree that the situation for these workers right now must be terrible. They are certainly put at higher risk, and it must be very stressful. I don't blame many of them for being scared. I think about it every time I seem them when I shop.

But I can see how this is perceived as sensational starting with the headline. Things like "War Zone", and "As more of the die" really set the tone a certain way up front. OK, so how many have died. Forty one? Not sure how they compiled that number, but sure. Is that a lot? Well, I don't know. Can't say I have a frame of reference. How many deaths should we expect from a give occupational group, especially one that is at higher risk?

Well, let's keep reading, surely we'll get some hard analysis of the stats. Nope. Just a bunch of anecdotes and heart wrenching quotes from the interviews. Well, they do present some numbers from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, maybe that's where they got the 41 dead number. So 1500 plus confirmed infected, 3000 plus not working from hospitalization, quarantine, et-cetera.

Again, is that a lot? I'm not sure, the author give us no frame of reference. Seems like they want us to think it is a lot though. I mean if the the thesis holds true, then these numbers should be well above average, considering the increased risk these workers have.

This topic is clearly relevant, and something we should all be sensitive of when we go out to shop. These folks are under an incredible stress right now. But I can see how articles like this could be seen as 'fear mongering' or sensational. It should be the reporters responsibility to do the leg work, and be able to frame the data, and the thesis, in a reasonable way.

We don't really get that analysis here, just sad stories and quotes, that just leave us feeling bad or scared at the end. We are left with a 'feeling' that grocery store workers are dying at some 'astronomical' rate, and the inside of every store is chaos.
We've seen economies bounce back from near total destruction of cities (e.g. Japan after WWII, Korea after the Korean War). That was worse than this.

Our current situation is bad, but the underlying structure of the economy was fine before the virus hit. That gives us a much better starting point for rebuilding the economy than we had after previous disasters or recessions.
The Critical Authority Threshold: Why Patience Pays in SEO
Close, but not quite. Most states have a statute which says "rates shall not be inadequate or excessive". Pretty much all rate filings I've seen include a return on equity (ROE) in their analysis, and states review that in light of above statute.

States have pretty broad powers and I could see them forcing a disgorgement if they felt so inclined.

Source: I was a state insurance regulator for the Alaska Division of Insurance for a few years
>I want to hear the plan about ramping up testing so we can actual get a sense of the real level of danger of the disease. I want to understand how that testing can inform who can go back to work and under what conditions. I want to hear the plans related to scaling up how we deal with the sick.

I would throw my support behind literally any candidate that laid out any of these things clearly. Any candidate at any level. Because not one of them, nationally, at the state level, or locally, are even attempting this. It's like they're just hoping a month long lock-down will cure the problem. Poof, magic.

> I am increasingly thinking that the time we're buying is being squandered by policy makers that simply aren't up to the task

I 100% agree with this. The lock down for my state has been in effect for a while now. And it seems like not one thing has changed, except for the rhetoric is becoming more and more wishful, instead of hopeful. There seems to be zero plan about how to come out of this without another massive spike in cases.

No talk of testing. No talk of what services will open with priority. No talk of anything but 'stay home'. That's well and good (and I do love it), but what about next month?

What happens when we have done nothing and have another spike in cases because we wished ourselves into doing nothing?
Perhaps it would be more illuminating to say that E2EE is mostly pointless if you don't verify keys. Then all you have to do is encrypt on the network links to get the same level of security for a lot of these things that claim E2EE as they have the power to do trivial MITM.
Not entirely sure what I’m looking at in the pic. Could you give a bit of detail in a comment?
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And? Nothing inherently insulting about that, especially when us "normies"[0] sometimes use that to refer to ourselves.

[0]speaking as someone who is not an urbit user.
Thanks for changing the title. When I checked, the top comment pretty clearly interpreted the title's claim literally, so I think people were genuinely confused. Thank you for your faith in us, but it seems it was perhaps misplaced this time. :)
A couple of things that might be of interest:

1) pandoc is awesome.
2) There are integrated development environments that allow you to write in markdown and output to pdf, html, and word with the flick of a switch. Rstudio with knitr, bookdown, and markdown has some nice functionality. Plus you can do graphs and drawings and embed them in the the rmd (r markdown) text.
3) There is an earlier post in HN from Gilles Castel on how to speedily write text through the ultisnips package. Very much a game changer on how I use vim to work with anything text related.

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/

Nice post!