skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that get sent by the mail system? At least here it's mostly minimum wage folks employed by marketing companies (not the postal service) going door to door to put leaflets in.

The postal service might add a flyer to your actual mail delivery, but only if they're delivering to your address anyway.
That's not a guarantee of anything. Reinfection or relapsing happens and is not explained yet.
I had this opinion when I first began working with Godot, which regardless of language I've just found incredibly intuitive.

I used C#, but kept getting frustrated cause the support isn't at 100% (this is currently expected, I think C# is still declared alpha?). It was pretty easy to fill in the gaps between gdscript documentation vs C#, but certain built in functionality was missing.

My main use case for C# was strong typing, and the community support it has either with libraries or just getting answers online.

Eventually I caved in and tried gdscript. I can develop MUCH faster, and am still able to use types. You can also still use C# in the project, since the languages can communicate.

I think once C# has feature parity with Godot I'll move back to that, but until then, GDscript is great, and really easy to pick up.
Does this plugin work? https://crates.io/crates/mdbook-latex

The features list looks like there's some gaps, but probably worth checking out.
> But I also looked at Rome's parser and it's not trivially small, and the README says it's made by the same people who made Babel

It is the same parser used in Babel, but modified to be faster and more user-friendly [1]. This is probably how the author got so much done in just a few years.

[1] https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1136426174265978882
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> Are you trying to find a viable alternative to JavaScript? That pays 6 figures? You could pivot your javascript skills into something like react-native... mobile app development.

I’m trying to find a slower alternative to JS. Il getting a bit tired of having to constantly learn this week’s JS fashion just to stay relevant. I was hoping to find something more niche and not as glamorous that would give me more time to do things I enjoy instead of work.

I was considering cobol because the spec probably is rather stable, and if it paid well and was in demand then it was a winning combination.

But from your comment and others, it doesn’t seem to be it because overseas sweatshops are already filling the demand.

I wonder where do these people who say cobol pays well and is in demand get their information from. There is no other evidence than “people say”
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Aka "You are in a helicopter."
Yes but the transfers between accounts can be fiddly. The options if I remember right are:

- All currencies: Top-up Revolut with the TransferWise debit card - this is free and IIRC works for all the currencies TransferWise supports receiving. However there are limits on both the TransferWise side (how much you can spend with the card) and the Revolut side (how much they permit you to top-up with a debit card). The latter limit increases as you use the card.

- EUR and GBP: Straight local bank transfer - costs ~$1 but only works for these two currencies.

- CHF: Local bank transfer as above - costs ~$1 but requires correctly entering the reference number.

- USD: SWIFT - costs ~$5 and takes around a week.

- AUD, NZD, PLN: Unsupported. Revolut only has a UK-based IBAN and TransferWise requires local account details for these currencies.
Yep hopefully antibody tests come soon
Absolutely. The earlier measures are put in place and the better they are observed, the less severe they need to be. However for a small country like Denmark luck definitely plays a part. Looking at the USA there’s no obvious reason why New York has been so severely affected compared to say Los Angeles or Chicago, it just depends how early the virus started getting traction. It seems a small number of very socially mobile people can give the virus a massive kick-start. There doesn’t seem to be any particular reason why what happened in Lombardy couldn’t have happened in Denmark.
I think my choice of words left me open to misinterpretation: the "you... and...." phrasing was meant as synonymous with "If you... then...", not as a categorical claim that I believe the UX is unsolvable.
Just a guess, but -

1. Good-faith efforts at contribution where a person happens to be wrong? (happens to the most conscientious of us)

2. Instances where the speaker has made their confidence level explicitly known? ("Just a guess...", "I am not a lawyer, but...", "I'm not certain, but my understanding is that..." etc)
or treat your effluent, or avoid it in the first place? Pretty sure it would cost less than shutting everything down...
Again, point is totally missed! Simple terms, and perhaps a better way of framing my point. Whichever way you choose to look at it, freedom of speech is a responsibility granted by society that is taken too lightly. Society needs to reframe it.

> Ethics and morals are totally arbitrary, and are the last thing I want governing free speech.

>The courts can decide if it falls under non-protected classes of speech like hate speech, etc.Ethics and morals are totally arbitrary, and are the last thing I want governing free speech. All we can do is let people exercise their free speech (or not), and decide whether or not to listen, etc. After all, it's only protection from the government, not from private businesses or individuals' reactions.

Laws come from societal ethics and morality and the judiciary is part of the state/government.
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> A belief in the understandability of software systems can very easily become a need to understand the systems you work with.

I relate to this point especially, as this is how I often am as well. I do a lot of work with FPGAs and embedded systems, and the tools offered by the vendors in this space are often huge and complex in an attempt to create an easy "happy path" for hardware engineers who don't want to/can't learn software engineering and just want to get something working.

I, however, stubbornly chose to eschew these tools in favor of "doing it from scratch". In the end I think it was 100% worth it as this process deepened my understanding of the field and has left me with some valuable skills, but the end result was that it took me weeks to do something that another colleague could have done in a day or two, maybe less.

I understand the underlying system and implementation better, but that may or may not be considered valuable depending on the project and your company's culture.
OK. Did LA? Portland? Seattle? Seattle rebounded the fastest, what did they do? (Of course this is a pointless question, it was a completely different time and the data here is impossibly corrupt and old.)

Are there other variables involved? Were those different times? Grand Rapids had the lowest mortality rate and, if I'm reading the chart right, had no NPIs. Why?

People pushing these hysterical false dichotomies (coupled with a hefty amount virtue signalling) are going to be responsible for a huge amount of human suffering in the coming months and years.
Fear mongering?

Are service workers not dying for your convenience? Are they not working despite lacking PPE or hazard pay or the economic privilege of having the option to quit and/or work from home, as so many HN readers do?

If you don't think it's actually this bad, I recommend that you sign up for a part-time gig working at a grocery store and see how fun it is.
I don't think we'd accept population estimates for our cities as "anecdotal observation from random hotel employee" either though.
I experimented with a version of this: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles. It worked ok. Still had a few things I had to tweak, but if you have a few things you want to keep it's easy. I basically only use a brewfile + a shell script to set a few defaults and some configs for iterm + kitty that I keep in my personal repo. Makes the most repetitive bits a lot easier. The MAS homebrew stuff didn't work too well when I migrated machines so I still had to install some stuff by hand.
I don't know but it seems like a poor article. From what I know, every time you write an Idea, you should always conclude it with an example explaining your point.
Like for example, take your first guideline
* Once idea per sentence
At the end, you could add an example to explain your point.
>Both on a cultural and social level, there is no event before the COVID-19 outbreak that changed the world more.

Let's be serious here for a second. We had the collapse of the Soviet Union, the creation of the internet, the emancipation of women, the civil rights era, The Great Leap Foward etc. Everyone can name two dozen things over the last few decades that changed the world more than this.

Currently everyone is behaving like their college aged selves, sitting in their apartment playing Animal Crossing and ordering pizza for a few months. Humanity has endured greater change. I think some people need to turn the news off for a hot second and evaluate if they've gotten a little too soft over the years. Ask people in Africa if the world has changed, a continent with 25% of the world's disease burden and 1% of healthcare spending, this is just background noise over there
This has not been true in my experience. I run a Splunk server in production and at my data volumes it has been very performant. It's also much easier to setup and maintain than ELK clusters.

In the early days Splunk pricing was exorbitant (we evaluated Splunk 7 years ago and dismissed it), but licensing has changed in recent years and it is now priced by volume ingested (the pricing is transparent and listed on their website now). At low volumes, the pricing is similar to Sumologic, and is pretty accessible now to smaller dev shops. Open-source collectors like fluentd also help to intelligently reduce the ingest volume.

At high volumes, the TCO changes quite a bit.
Figuring out that stuff is the business.
It's possible you haven't encountered these data issues in practice as well, given the use case floated in healthcare discussions for FHE is as a replacement for the infrastructure required for something like differential privacy, tokenization, and the failures of data set de-identification.

While I am not an FHE or FE developer, as a probable end architect for solutions that will use it, the question of what makes this trustworthy is key.
How do you learn to work with the breath?
Authoritarians always argue that.

Starting with yourself, while making a negligible impact, makes an impact that is positive (according to you) and shows your commitment to enacting that policy.

Have integrity: do it first.
Oh sweet. I remember reading your post when you launched. I am glad to hear you are doing well.
a simple business is doing a paid newsletter. i see a lot of these going up... and it can be profitable fairly quickly.

also, doing anything in the education space is worth checking out... in other words, charging people for what you know is a well-worn strategy! an ecourse or online course isn't hard to put together... i did one literally with gumroad and notion docs!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548620
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Are the trader joes still not allowing the employees to wear masks & gloves / do you see any of the cashiers wearing them? When we talked to one cashier, before they started the lineup process, he said he wasn't allowed to wear a mask / gloves and it freaked him out, while he was liberally applying hand sanitizer to his hands.

I haven't been inside one since that day, which is why I'm asking.
Did the switch to Ohio change anything with regard to performance?
I disagree with the point made in that article:

> Every time you provide an option, you’re asking the user to make a decision.

The best-of-both-worlds is when you give users an option, and then you pick a sensible default for it. Some of the best options are the ones that 90% of people don't even know about, but the 10% that do can find when they need it. I can't tell you how many hidden "defaults" commands I have run that are not even exposed to the UI but make my life much, much nicer.
Let's not be negative, this period should definitely raise awareness. I find myself picking plastic litters on the road-side while cycling, because currently it's so silent, pure and beautiful, growing fast, with plenty flowers, insects.

People will take time to go back in dense public spaces, entertainments, with still that (irrational) fear of viruses
I talked to the franchise owner of a UPS store outside of Boston, and he reported a 50% dropoff in business, as well as a shift in the types of orders for people working from home as well as people shipping things like toilet paper.

The big issue for the post office is the amount commercial mail has fallen off a cliff and will likely continue to drop. Anecdotally, we have seen very little junk mail in the past month other than grocery fliers. I predict serial publications like regional magazines will fail, too -- running a magazine was already tough, but now it's even worse now that many advertisers have gone out of business or are cutting back on marketing costs. If they don't have enough subscribers to keep the presses running, it's game over.
Given that they are currently fighting that an API should be copyrightable, doesn't make me confident that they won't do this.
I agree that people would and do find such interfaces very useful in many of their programs and tools.

Those with nefarious purposes find them extremely useful too. It's a lot of work to secure those interfaces against abuse.
Can you be more specific? This article and the others I have seen from WP haven't been unduly sensational.

Perhaps you are talking about op eds rather than news articles? (I have often felt that newspapers should do op eds in a different font or color from regular articles, but that's another story.)
Ask HN: What would you pay a small amount of money for?
What would you be willing to pay a small amount of money for (digital product, service or subscription) - say $1-$5, which you cannot already find online or you can find, but for some reason, you think it's not worth it. Bonus points if it could be considered of actual "value to society" in some way. Not another organization, productivity, finance, conference, social, chat etc. The market is flooded with such generic products. I'm thinking more on the lines of a tool which might help someone in their profession.
This reminds me of a Rate My Professor hall of fame nomination I read years back. I've forgotten the phrasing so the below is heavily editorialized except the punchline:

> <Professor> could present everything there is to know about convection, thermal transfer through metals, phase changes in liquids, and at the end of the day you would still have absolutely no idea how to boil a pot of water.
Tallying of encrypted votes, allowing for secure voting over the internet.
Practicing what you preach demonstrates your sincerity.

Why should people believe you’re genuinely arguing that the thing is worth doing, rather than acting out selfish authoritarian impulses, if you’re not actually willing to do that thing?
> But it also meant you could walk in to an Apple store, connect a USB drive in your sleeve to a demo computer, drag, drop, and walk away with full versions of very expensive software

Security permissions/demo versions are the proper solution to this, aren't they?
Theoretically, FHE can perform any computation including training neural networks. Practically, it's still not viable because of the overhead.
I think passing in a static key (password) via a url fragment is what their demo is doing already. However, I get the impression the intention is to verify the keys of who's actually in the room, rather than just trusting a static key which will inevitably leak. They're presumably also planning to re-key via a ratchet to avoid a single leaked key compromising the whole conference recording.
We need no-contact home delivery.

To do it in a just way: full PPE protections, hazard pay, and eliminating the brutal economic exploitation forcing people to go to work in these conditions: give them other options.

If these are supposedly essential services, this is not too much to ask.
... reckons local hotel employee.
Obligatory emacs magit. If you like the git cli, then magit will help you do everything with single keypress actions (l is log, c is commit) and provide autocomplete and lists where relevant (like all branches on checkout)

https://magit.vc/

Visual walk through: https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/magit-walk-through/
How come the people who propose this strategy never put up their hands volunteering to make the required sacrifices?
Over a million techies in India braving coronavirus to keep the world running
It's not really a "don't scare people issue". (At least I know it's not in some cases.)

A lot of stores out there, when times were good, bought stylish new point of sale machines. These machines came with what were touted as "future proof" touch interfaces at the time. People have found that some of these devices don't actually work if you have gloves on. So at the store I'm familiar with, there is a complicated sanitizing and distancing procedure that everyone is supposed to go through when checking people out. Not surprisingly, strict adherence to a multistep process is not as consistent as just having everyone put on gloves.

On the plus side, learning more about it has helped me wrap my head around the sort of things that will inform successful post covid design.
I don't know if self checkout would necessarily be a good thing in it's current form, there is a lot of common touch points with the screen. A cashier in a sealed box would be better or a different self checkout process (app based?) would be better so you don't have to touch / breathe on common equipment.
I mean, the subheadline is, in large bold text:

> Emergency use authorization granted for new biomaterial collection approach

They're not hiding anything here, as far as I can tell.
Imagine a table of numbers, the xml would be 90% repeated header names and structure. Now multiply that by hundreds of little Ajax requests, it added up.
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Is there a list like this for total deaths, year over year for notable people? I imagine, just looking at notable deaths would avoid some of the extrapolation and estimation issues of looking at normal deaths while still providing a large enough sample to be somewhat representative of the population. Would like to see if the number of deaths this year is out of the ordinary, or if this is like any other year (keeping in mind life expectancy has been decreasing for the past few years.)
Does not contain any references that show that the individual in question in fact died from COVID.
Uninsured folks treated for covid-19 will be covered according to one of the recent briefings. There is also an enrollment period triggered for those who lose their jobs
Just close up shop entirely and go to deliveries / curbside pickup with full PPE protections, hazard pay, and economic protections for those who don't want to risk their lives for your oreos.
You know, one of the things I found most amazing about interviews and the hiring process was that to a large degree, the things that a person says in an hour session determine whether they will get hired.

Yes, not their references or resume (at a certain stage) or what they're able to prove that they coded, but the things that they are able to come up with to say. Doesn't that strike you as sometimes amazing?

Now, that may be a crazy notion and flawed in many ways, but I came to realize the following. The reason that that is often acceptable is that it frequently is a good proxy for weeding out the unqualified. In this sense:

If someone doesn't even know to say that something is important, or that they solved a problem a certain way (regardless of whether you have proof the actually did it), they probably have never even thought about those things being important.

If someone tells you (just offhandedly) that they solved something by jumping right in to doing x,y,z at the detailed level and coming up with the technical solution (the algorithm), but not the project planning or scoping part of it -- they probably have no idea or experience about what's necessary to plan out a project. They may not be good at estimating or communicating. They may be someone who gets lost in the details. If they have no pitfalls to warn against, probably they haven't even seen how a project has gone wrong before. They are probably not a good candidate for a senior developer role.

Whereas, if someone knows to say that they had to do some top level estimating or quick pass of which solutions would be the best from a cost/resource standpoint, consider the timelines to implement and risk of doing so, how to decide who on the team would be put on the project and in what sequence, etc... Then I know that they at least realize these things are important.

(Yes of course you should probe deeper. And I know that this applies to some kinds of roles and not others, but since the article is about interviewing for non-technical people and is often about hiring for a role requiring a higher-level hiring decision)
So why does not nobody post a list of last year's notable flu deaths then? Of more from two years ago, as the flu hits every two years. So far the numbers don't persuade anybody that this should a world crisis.

http://euromomo.eu/
> Empathy and creative thinking tend to get enhanced by psilocybin, not critical thinking and logic skills

Is this based on evidence of some kind (clinical peer-reviewed studies, personal experiences, anecdotal reading, other)?

The only studies I'm aware of that even approach something of the kind are linked in the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solvin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solvin...

Noteworthy:

> This experiment was a pilot that was to be followed by control studies as part of exploratory studies on uses for psychedelic drugs, that were interrupted early in 1966 when the Food and Drug Administration declared a moratorium on research with human subjects, as a strategy in combating illicit use.

Considering the complexity of this space, forming and asserting specific conclusions (ie: the ability to deceive yourself into believing something) seems a bit premature.

EDIT: I too am interesting in the meaning behind the smiley.
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Is it unethical to sell a cure for a disease that another company is profiting off of by selling a side-effect suppressing medicine?

Or to sell a wide-range solution to a problem, for which previously only peacemeal solutions were available on the market?

I believe these questions are no different from yours, and that all of those are ethical; if the site needs to keep track of some balance that I would have on that site, they should make me create an account before ever showing an article.

Note that I'm not advocating for piracy / circumvention of DRM, but against the 'you have read your 3 free articles this month, please create an account'-pattern. If you offer free articles without an explicit user account, you should not be suprised that the anonymous user expects those articles to be free and uses workarounds to get past the toll gates.
PPE and other temporary solutions make a lot more sense than major construction projects. This pandemic will end and we will need to go back to being a society that regularly gets sick and has correspondingly effective immune systems.

Otherwise, we will be vastly worse off the next time we face a novel disease.
Right, so the accuracy of that observation is a separate problem.