skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it's important to find a community which would offer quality real-time help. I've seen some, and the really good one was not in English so I can't recommend it, I guess. Freenode emacs chat is said to be filled with offtopic; that's not my cup of tea but you might find it useful.

Members of said lovely community thoroughly recommended Mastering Emacs to newcomers as a number one introductory text which I since do as well—mostly because they did. I also recommend built-in tutorial.

As for packages,

• helm or some other fuzzy completion thing; make sure your M-x, C-h f, C-h v do offer fuzzy completion, it improves discoverability greatly. Recent (27?) Emacsen may have something like this out of the box.

• avy: jump to positions on screen

• there are several packages that offer insert/command mode including the famous evil-mode but it's a good idea to get used to defaults. “Mastering Emacs” has something on this. I've heard macOS supports default Emacs keys everywhere (not true for other systems)

• which-key can display keys and commands available at the moment, quite helpful from the start. You can actually find some of this information with context menu but it is less convenient. The issue with which-key is, you need to configure it to actually see its stuff. A config for it may be found in the link below

• https://github.com/a13/emacs.d/blob/master/README.org is a cleanly written init file; if you want a starter config for package x, try searching there for (use-package x ..) expression, copy it to your init file, press C-M-x and it's applied (note: it will often download the package, too). Many popular packages and built-in features are covered. Tweak some parameters, C-M-x, observe the changes immediately.

• last but not least, to make use of many existing configurations out there, you will need use-package. So install it early and learn to load it on startup (see the very config above as a reference)
Harvesting food is terrible work. How do we motivate people to do it when we aren't making any stuff for them to buy?
>hitting the middle-upper class super hard

What are you talking about? White collars are working from home, by and large. None of my engineer friends have lost their jobs yet (one is getting furloughed for a week though)
The demoscene did motivate me in the '90s to start to create real-time video effects that I could synchronize to the music.

It led me to create my own company and it's still there 25 years later.

While I was never part of it because I had an Apple II and then a Macintosh that was never used by the scene, the demos were for me a technological demo of where we can go with a tool to be used by artists or musicians.
Elon Musk Promised Ventilators. None Showed Up
Although this blog post is tagged "open source" I couldn't find the source for Sapienz. It's also short on details. Apparently Facebook has "acqui-hired" the three people of a startup called Majicke, where Ke Mao, the author of above blog post, was the CTO.

In other articles they mention tools such as SapFix or GetaFix https://engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-faceb... but I couldn't find any code, too - apart from a GitHub repo by Ke Mao that contains (the readme of) an obsolete prototype.
this comment is the epitome of how when it comes down to it environmentalists really just hate humanity. it's not about emissions, its not about clean air, its nihilism.
It's actually quite profitable to hoard apartments [1] and ventilators [2].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/upshot/when-the-empty-apa...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
Maybe Google will start charging for their services. $5/mo for Gmail, $5/mo for Drive, etc.
It’s supposed to be forward looking, yes, but I’d argue if it is at 2019 levels that it’s basically pricing in a full V shaped recovery. Nothing indicates to me that unemployment and consumer demand will just revert back to historical lows and highs as soon as a lockdown is lifted and we return to some level of normalcy.
Flipping a coin if the vote is close seems to solve the voting dilemma... What am I missing?
Please apply: Cloudflare.com/careers
Editors like ed. Vi was waaayyy post teletype.
The icons or the physical item?
> most of Asia continues to call it Wuhan Virus

Do you have a source for this?
I'm 33 also.

I'm starting to form a theory that it could be dopamine depletion. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791340/
Why single out programs? Cause it’s a website about programming.
Ahead of the curve: S. Korea's evolving strategy to prevent Covid-19 resurgence
Open to discussion, but it's not clear what you would like to discuss - there's a lot of apparent questions posed in your response?
It's similar n some way, but totally rethinking the problem.

Ansible or saltstack are essentially programs that configure your system in specific way. Ansible takes more of a list of things what to change and how, while saltstack tries to be declarative.

NixOS is essentially a Linux system described using Nix language. Whenever you make change and run nixos-rebuild, as name suggests it actually rebuilds your entire system from scratch, it is just smart enough to not do work that was already done.

Benefits of it is that you will always get to the same state no matter what. Another benefit that is quite annoying with saltstack/ansible if you remove specific application/service/whatever once you rebuild the system, it is gone, like it was never there.

You also get Nix benefits, nix never leaves anything in half state changes are atomic, either they are applied successfully or not, if a change broke something, you can easily rollback. Things like for example changing KDE to Gnome or replacing Xorg with Wayland is no harder than replacing emacs with vim (or vim with emacs, if I upset you).

The way how Nix works allows different packages using even conflicting libraries. For example you can have two applications using different openssl version etc.

If you have one application and you need to apply a custom patch to it or maybe even use a different version. In traditional OS good sysadmins would create a custom RPM package an install it. In Nix you just override the definition, and if a cached build is not available, Nix will be smart enough to compile the code (this means no need for artifactory and uploading custom packages there, though to prevent recompiling every time, you should set up a caching server (there's also caching as a service option if you don't want to manage it) or you can even use S3 bucket.

Basically Nix and NixOS is rethinking how building/deploying/packaging does it offers many benefits, CMS like ansible/saltstack/chef/puppet/cfengine etc are no longer needed. It can be used for having comon developement environment, can be used for building, ci/cd etc.
Call it the CCP Virus then.
Fingers crossed for the end of surveillance capitalism.
Trump says U.S. investigating whether virus came from Wuhan lab
God I hate this argument. It pops up in every thread about climate change. Yes, yes, we know. The "Earth" is a rock, space, mater, existentialism, George Carlin thinks the earth wants plastic, blah, blah, blah. We're talking about our got damn descendants.
And maybe pigs will fly?
> No one is sitting on a pile of apartments, or ventilators, or college spots, or food distribution capacity.

The large number of empty apartments being rented 3-4 nights a month on AirBnb in most large cities seems to indicate otherwise.

The CPAP machine "jailbreak" posted here yesterday seems to indicate otherwise.

The large quantity of food going to the trash every day seems to indicate otherwise.

I agree that there is a "fixed" amount of stuff out there, but it's far from allocated efficiently. I think it's time we recognized that.
Dengue fever vaccine is probably the best example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22511832 :

> "The story of dengue vaccine development is a cautionary tale. The first time you get dengue is usually not too bad, but it can be deadly if you get it again. Part of that is hypothesized to be driven by your own immune system, which, once immunized against one strain, produces antibodies against it in the next infection. However, if it's a slightly different strain of dengue the second time around, the antibodies meant to neutralize the disease are believed to make the disease more virulent instead (antibody-dependent enhancement). The immune system makes it worse. So when a dengue vaccine that didn't fully immunize against all strains was developed (not deliberately, people tried to immunize against all strains but this is a case where less efficacy than expected made things worse), it didn't make things better. It ended up priming people to get dengue."
Chernobyl wildfires and radiation risk
A short essay on whether the Chernobyl wildfires represent any widespread radiation risk considering the strongest anticyclone ever recorded in Western Europe.
It's a decision she made that proved to be great, so she's proud of it. Strange how you targeted the only vaguely feminist achievement in the whole list.
We’re talking in the context of a recession. Continued social distancing will happen for a significant portion of the population until there’s a vaccine. A vaccine is far from a sure thing, especially anytime soon.
Source seems to be https://games.sina.cn/cyfw/cyxw/2020-04-13/detail-iirczymi60...

Google Translated:

> 4. It is not allowed to promote the "Global Service" function in the game. If there is any, you should go offline and delete the relevant function in time;

Not sure how accurate the source is or how accurate the translation is. The word Promote is in there, so maybe it's related to marketing (including box art, etc)?
I don’t think Lee ever toiled. He was a “maker” in the best sense of the word. And, to this day, when he expresses himself in the limited ways he still does, he searches Google or YouTube for “Cloudflare.”
It's more difficult to wrap our heads around, but stocks face "value inflation" much like currencies do. You can think of stocks similar to a currency exchange to the extent that as money gets pumped into one side (in this case, the securities market, via liquidity injections) the price represented by the other side (USD) goes up, but the value of the asset may actually be declining.

Many of the securities that are at their December 2019 valuations are in a much worse state today than they were then. Stores are closed, manufacturing faces significant delays. Employees are let go or furloughed.

This means the "item" that you're paying for today with the same USD that you may have spent in December is of considerably lower "quality" compared to then.

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That said, it's an interesting situation as drastic financial crisis typically come with some short term deflation, which we're likely seeing the beginnings of now. Many stores are running discount sales to boost purchasing, effectively lowering consumer goods prices (as a whole). This is a prime example, if it continues, of currency deflation.

However, once all is said and done, depending on how the market moves from here, we may very well see the asset inflation turn into currency inflation and bloom for a bit before more drastic financial policies are needed to curve it.
Surely you understand the fact that Theranos was a fraudulent company, that was able to receive funding from investors, means the same thing could happen again. I'm sure there are dozens or hundreds of better examples of companies we've never heard of that simply went under because they were not profitable.

In any case, the blanket assertion that healthcare companies should be invested in and they are "good" is stupid and should be scoffed at. Saying otherwise is ridiculous.
Nice paradox, searching about it found another proposed solution:

http://steve-patterson.com/paradox-resolved-buridans-ass/

It says: "there’s no such thing as “identical options”. More specifically, there are no two separate things which are identical in every way. So when talking about choice, having “alternative” possibilities implies having “different” possibilities. We can not evaluate two things as both “identical and different”, as this would be a contradiction in terms. Therefore, any formulation of Buridan’s paradox which implies this contradiction runs into a basic framing error."

Seems wrong, in a lottery all options are “identical and different”. Identical since they have the same probability, different because only one has the price. The paradox undecidability is produced by the perfect balance of unknowns, the equilibrium must be broken to have a decision.

Buridan's can be combined with Xeno's as a 2D continous space/time paradox. So cool!

I'm working on a solution for Xeno's, that's why I find it interesting.
Ray Dalio gave a "TED Talk" a few days ago about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxYhv2O3wU. Worth watching. tl;dr He's pretty bearish and uses the depression term in conjunction with "years".
I was downvoted in another thread for pointing out that reporters have failed to do their jobs here.

Doctors knew about this back in November-December timeframe, maybe even earlier, and were asking people with cough and chest pains if they had been to Wuhan recently.
I'm curious. Before his disease got bad, when he was still working but maybe starting to show some of the first signs...

Did he ever express any concern? Or was it entirely other people who noticed his decline, but he was oblivious?
Speaking of... The NuGet registry in GitLab deserves an option to run without authentication from other builds and/or the "public" accessing it. Currently, it does not even handle the build job token and I have to cross connect builds using my personal access token (which then again is accessible to other maintainers of a repo).
The comment is against mass hunger and idling in cars. If you got 'humanity' from that I think you're projecting.
Before everyone starts painting bleak picture, reminder: Facebook's Sandberg announced last week or so that they are going to do accelerated hiring spree this year, opening massive 10,000 more positions! Google as well as Facebook both depend on ads so I'm wondering why one is tightening the belt and other is moving full speed on expansion.
> In 2020, the economy is shutting down because we shut it down.

“We” didn’t shut the economy down. Governments used (threats of) violence to shut it down.
Eh? People will harvest food to not starve. You don't even have to pay them.
If we're playing competitive nostalgia, I owned (and used) a 5-channel teletype (electromechanical, lots of oil). Not having lower case would have been sheer luxury.

Interesting perspective when you realize you're looking at a UART implemented in tin.
What the fuck is wrong with China?
I made https://dvd.js.org/ as a fun way to select standup order. If you add a ?names query, each time it hits a corner, a name is selected. Each time an edge is hit, the circularly linked list rotates individuals' names around the edges of the rectangle. Of course you don't want to wait ten days for all names to be selected, so the rectangle shrinks to expedite the process :). Example url: https://dvd.js.org/?names=chaz,tina,stacy,tiffany,rider
The new book “The Infinte Game” has an idea of ‘Just Causes’, an idea that means business, organizations, or individuals have a long term and often not totally achievable goal, that is to benefit customers and society.

I think that ProtonMail has the Just Cause of protecting privacy.
But they didn't. And there is zero guarantee it won't happen again to healthcare companies.

The whole point here is making some generic statement about an entire industry being a good investment is a simple-minded opinion. If this made any sense, the entire economy should be made of only healthcare companies, they're just so good, right?
I agree and I also subscribe to what I can.

The only problem for us is, like others are saying, I don’t think our subscriptions are enough money and I don’t think it’s feasible financially for enough people to do so at the level needed to keep enough quality newspapers and journalists in business.

(in the us) The New York Times is arguably the only non-business paper that makes enough money from subscriptions to make sense sticking it out alone. Maybe the Washington Post, LA Times and a few others (and maybe not, i hear the subscription rates are horrible) too, but for the vast majority bundling digital subscription as a single package is the only way I see for small papers to attract significant numbers of subscribers.

It would be really great to read papers from Las Vegas and Cincinnati, but I can’t see myself ever setting up and managing individual subscriptions to them if I am being honest.
I used NixOps myself as well. The way it was designed it's more like equivalent of Vagrant, and to me it was only useful to work locally for testing before deploying it properly.

I haven't tried it but perhaps the teraform plugins are more useful for actual deployment. I wish there was some kind of integration with CloudFormation.
Is it a joke?

In many industries it's not uncommon to subcontract a service by a subcontractor which himself subcontract the same service to another subcontractor (usually cheaper).

In the end it is only a question of money!

Actually top american tech companies don't have to go directly to India to get cheaper workers but instead they call american subcontractor to get cheaper workers anywhere in the world. Even more with restricted green cards thanks to Donald TRUMP. :-)
And companies didn't suddenly make trillions of dollars in profits in a week to recover from the bottom of the crash a couple weeks back. The market is only up right now because the sharks are feeding on the stimulus money created out of thin air. Automated trading systems are trying to make money right now, not six months or even a week from now.
And those who avoided biking in cities due to safety concerns no longer have so much traffic to dodge.
The Office was definitely art imitating life for this one.
I suppose you're referring to the NED funded CHRD article which has since become gospel?

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...

Imagine if the Chinese army could materialize new media realities.
> Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance.

Nothing will be the breaking point short of political revolution. The CCP has gladly murdered its' own citizens by the thousands before and they will gladly do so again to maintain power. That's how authoritarian regimes work. Combined with the fact that they are powerful enough geopolitically that no other nation will do anything about it, China is set on its' dystopian nightmare future.
A lot,for me now is almost 0, I made 0.89 cents in 2 weeks on https://www.colorsandfonts.com with doigital ads

I am using codefund...
Congratulations, you just invented G Suite.
I guess that's one of those decisions that made sense at the time. iirc the organisation part was an afterthought after people started using it for these use cases, they now seem to have account switching in their app that would cater to the more modern use case.

In theory I actually prefer this data model, one identity (because that's the physical reality) and a sane perspective model on who owns what data this identity has access to. But sadly nobody seems to have time to get that right in a mixed B2C/B2B product.
The method of manufacture is part of the FDA approval
Airwallex gets $160M Series D to launch more cross-border financial
I can't tell if it would amuse or piss of George Carlin to learn that one of his bits had been turned into memetic spin that causes people to espouse ideas that are against their own self interests.
Consider that for many of us, our phones are now quite literally painful to use one-handed, and we have no alternatives - for devices that most of us use for at least an hour or two a day and is often our primary tech device when not actually at a desk.

My Pixel 3 at the time I bought it was one of the smallest decent quality phones that wasn't iOS, and even after a year and a half I still notice how much my hand has to contort for basic usage.
Lots of "I" right in the first paragraph. If only Wolfram would hire some editors so that we could enjoy his ideas without all the distraction...
Here is an explanation of why the graph used by Tao on his blog is highly misleading:
https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-dea...

A few days after Joshua Bach posted the above critique, the original "flatten the curve" blogger, Thomas Pueyo, basically echoed Bach's points and called it "the hammer and the dance."

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...

The damage and confusion done by Pueyo's original graph is moot at this point, but it's been interesting to see how the FTC phrase has lived on.

https://miro.medium.com/max/1340/1*PZesaMfoPxgYJBoQVtpmjQ.gi...
Apparently it does support Linux as well. At least according to some of other comments here.
To avoid starvation, people only have to harvest enough food for themselves. They don't have to harvest food for millions of other people who aren't harvesting food themselves. But there's no way for all those millions of other people to go and harvest their own food. That's just not the way food production is set up. Nor should it be, if we want to have anything more than a bare subsistence standard of living.
That's fair enough, but I think the conflation of self-interest with rationality is so ubiquitous (and like most official ideologies, dangerously mistaken) that it's worth challenging when it arises. Or at least to the extent permitted by one's energies and everyone's good humour.

(I don't btw agree that values are entirely arbitrary, but that's a discussion for another day).
This is exactly what our paid product does: https://zynq.io :)
Exactly. And they still refuse to acknowledge that treating public names, like a file path, as binary only is a wellknown security issue. Names are identifiers and must be recognizable.

With utf8 it is trivial to create similar looking names and fool the user to think it is a valid name. You know this concept from domain names, using punicode as escape mechanism. But both the kernel and the various libc's are too lazy to treat confusables with escapes, to normalize unicode or to use proper unicode security mechanisms for identifiers. Like mixing scripts, right to left and such.

Eg searching a file path needs to follow unicode rules, as we are dealing with identifiers. I believe my libc, the safeclib, is the only one even offering such functionality.

Likewise the presentation layer on the UI (shell, windows) doesn't present confusables as such, but happily takes i18n seriously. Convenience first, security last.

Apple's previous HFS+ normalized names, the new one is insecure again.
Still definitely has some influence though even if it was post teletype
To add on this,many will allocate a much smaller prefix. If you are being tracked by IP, the whois of your v6 address will contain what prefix is delegated,but even if they don't use whois they can simply track "subnets" (prefixes) as a data point, if a cookie or browser fingerprint is seen on multiple addresses, the address part will help pin point a specific user.

With v4 you have NAT and CGNAT now that obscures your public address a bit, you lose that with v6. For privacy, you need your address to be shared by many other users. This is one reason VPNs are useful, your public IP is shared by many. It's the same problem with browser fingerprinting, the more you try to prevent it, the more trackable data points you create (e.g.: one more extension or one less default setting that makes you a few steps more unique than everyone else).
Office has most of the market share but there are still millions of employees using G suite to book meetings so it is a significant initial target for us. We will expand to outlook in the future