skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are using lay terminology, but it doesn’t matter for regulatory affairs: authorization, approval, and clearance are legally distinct and companies are fined for using the wrong word.
so your belief is that information about deaths from a current pandemic or terrorist attack is not newsworthy? what do you think news is?
sorry, I meant that it was an added bonus compared to keeping Bluetooth turned on and unpairing my device through the settings menu in my phone.
Those are incredibly optimistic numbers.

Remember, western countries are not testing sufficiently. Deaths are up by the thousands all over the place but they're not being recorded as COVID-19 cases because there was no testing.
True, and if you're in the US that might be a good choice. IBKR Lite is unfortunately US-only at the moment though.
I'm running Alchemist Camp, where I teach Elixir and the Phoenix Framework, primarily through screencasts. It was a labor of love for the first year but now it (mostly) pays the bills. https://alchemist.camp

In 2 days, I'll be launching a second product for a similar audience. https://phoenixigniter.com

Elixir is a tiny market compared to something like Ruby or even Rust, but it's my stack of choice and I love helping grow the ecosystem.
This is the big one for me. Just looking at the Create-React-App dependencies I can count 17 dependencies dedicated to interconnecting Webpack/Babel/ESLint/Jest/Terser/Typescript.

Plus there's the cost of having plugin-infrastructure and/or maintaining a public API inside the six tools themselves. Plus all of them have dependency on a parser.

Having it all in one single tool will tremendously reduce the amount of code necessary.
This is also hitting meat processors very hard. Fabrication (the processing of slaughter to produce cuts of meat ready to ship) is human labor intensive and must be done in refrigerated spaces, so the work is elbow to elbow in many places because space is at a premium.
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Ah of course, letters vs parcels etc.
The derogatory term "normies" hampers the explanation of Urbit. I can't help from commenting on that term, instead of helping to spread Urbit, which is the opposite of what Urbit wants. Whatever it is.
Instead of paying Pop Hurdle $4.99/month to remove other sites attempts to pay their bills, you could pay Scroll $4.99/month ($2.49 for the first six months) to remove all ads from Scroll's partner sites who then receive a cut of that $2.49 (minus Scroll's cut). This cut is reportedly more per-user than publishers typically get from ads per-user.

https://scroll.com/

Disclosure: Mozilla is partnering with Scroll to create a Scroll Firefox extension ("Firefox Better Web"): https://firstlook.firefox.com/betterweb/
Very sad to hear about Tim Brooke-Taylor this morning. I remember The Goodies fondly, and came across ‘I’m Sorry I Haven't a Clue’ a few years ago and have listened to series after series since. He’ll be missed.
> I don't trust people who ask for higher taxes.

Why?
I just forwarded your information and article to the producers for the top shows at Fox News. Let's see if they move on it and get in touch.

I've also done the same for CNN producers.

It'll be interesting to see who responds, if any. My standard advice still holds: Don't hold your breath. Sadly. All of these people are far more interested in ratings than things that matter.
Every time they post total numbers for the US, I divide by 3.3e8 and marvel at how small the numbers actually are (so far).
Paywalled.
https://outline.com/2SY4ks
Ah, my bad. So I saw a headline this morning that says:

"Amid coronavirus shutdown, Yosemite wildlife roams free"

And I read it as "wildfire". I saw it first on my phone, then tried searching for it on my computer and realized that I misread the headline.
Food-delivery services in many countries are overburdened even with the local supermarkets remaining open. There may be room for discussion about a universal food-delivery system for future lockdowns, but right now supermarkets are the only realistic way for the population to get their sustenance.
Back when I bought a 250cc motorcycle, my card was constantly getting flagged (lots of $1.50 gas stops ~50 miles from home). It took months for this to let up.
As do I! I remember sucking candy out of a plastic toilet from my first order.
These supply chains are well oiled machines compared to new and untested emergency methods of procuring and delivering food to an entire nation, but I'm willing to hear other suggestions out of interest
Maybe I'm ignorant of how this works, but some of those people are a) not notable, or b) only notable because they died from covid-19.

What is this list?
If you can see it while you are logged in, then yes.

Check ```twitter-dump auth``` for instructions on how to use your web cookies with the command.

When the command queries Twitter, it will look as if it is coming from you.
You could call life an entropy pump.
Similarly, I use the clipboard plugin for quicksilver.
I've used self checkout for years as a means to help manage my serious medical condition. The local grocery store recently upgraded its self checkout from four poorly designed machines to six better ones. It isn't perfect, but it's generally better than standing in line waiting on a cashier who will then lick their fingers or something.

The local Walmart is wiping down self checkout regularly at the moment.

I'm not looking for perfect. I'm just telling you that I've been managing my life for nearly two decades since my diagnosis and 1. Cashiers who do nonsense like lick their fingers are a huge problem for me and 2. Self checkout is much, much better.
Revolut is not available to non-European and non-US citizens. I haven't tried it.
You are lucky. Now I got Raccoons and Skunks. Where there were none before.
I’ve seen gloves regularly but not masks. No plexiglass dividers either. As the state guidance is now to wear masks when out (with stores free to turn away non masked customers) I hope they let employees use what they want (and supply it).
You get a phone number number to which you send SMS that is tied to your billing and destination. You can share the number for others to send photos as well. This is an incredibly thoughtful and simple UX.
I don't agree with that. Some people will never understand anything about their phones, and that's fine, but I don't think the message "Disconnecting Bluetooth Devices Until Tomorrow" is at all misleading about the fact that it's only disconnecting devices, and not shutting down Bluetooth.
Does DarwinMail[1] count?

I'm a one man[2] team and have been since the beginning. I built it with PHP, LESS, JS, and good old HTML. I love answering all support emails because DM's users are so helpful and often have tremendously kind things to say. I guess it's because I took on the task of replacing Google Inbox.

DarwinMail is not as successful as some other companies run by solo-founders making 10k+ MRR however I feel really happy with what we (the users and I) have accomplished so far.

It's been almost two years since I wrote the first line of code and I very much enjoy working on DarwinMail each and every day of the week (even during dinner sometimes).

[1] https://www.darwinmail.app
[2] https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous
Can anyone speak to the difference between Urbit and Holochain, or any other comparable efforts in this space?
Ironically, restaurants are by far the largest tip-stealers.

For example, in DC, where minimum wage is $14.00 per hour, wait staff need only be paid a wage of $4.55 per hour on the basis that their tips will make up the difference.

I believe this applies to any job where gratuities are expected to make up a significant fraction of income, hence delivery service drivers also.
Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
>so your belief is that information about deaths from a current pandemic or terrorist attack is not newsworthy?

You misrepresent the parent comment. In no way did they imply that information about deaths is not newsworthy. We have more choices here than two extremes.
More people = more chance of exposure.

You could easily deduce how many people in your office would probably get it if you all were still headed into work based on how many people get the flu or sick each year.

I work in an office of over 100 people. We have a cleaning crew that comes in each day. Weird things happen to everything when you work in an office: human dirt and dust somehow manage to get everywhere.

Every flu season, I manage to avoid getting sick thank goodness because I generally avoid people and I have always made it a rule of my own NEVER EVER touch door knobs, handles, or high trafficed surfaces, for which I use a sleeve instead. And because I've lived like that, my chances of getting sick have been reduced. But others don't seem to be too lucky, and I'd say around 25-30 people or so get flu-like symptoms each year as it gets passed around the office.

However, when I think back on over 100 people in the office, it's generally like you all pass it amongst each other. Where does it come from? Some of those people send their children off to school who then get exposed to other children and their germs, who then bring it back to their parents, who then bring it into the office, so they can share with everyone.

COVID-19 is no different than other pandemics or even the flu that we've had. It is a deadly virus that can kill the most vulnerable in society, but it still highlights just how immune to most diseases we are each day, or at least, the fact that our bodies have been very quick to adapt to a lot of changes each day. There are millions of different bacteria that humans come into contact each day, and then they touch their faces, food, and others, and spread it. And yet... at worst, we will get sick. However, many of us might only experience none to mild symptoms, meaning we might get a sore throat for a few hours or an outright cold for a few days.

While I cannot speak for the tech community, I will say that my direct team -- not the 100 people in the office, but my deparment, which consists of about 12 people are pretty much all introverts and keep to themselves. I've actually tried to hang out with a few people in the past, I think one accepted an offer and we went hiking, and it never happened again. So for my team specifically, I highly doubt anyone is going to get the virus. Also for my state, the numbers are a bit lower, as soon as the first case hit here, our state pretty much got locked down. I believe we are now in a full month of quarantine since it started and we were told to work at home indefinitely until the news changed.

Many tools will show you what the average is of how many people get it. My state has about less than 1,500 cases, and about 60 people are getting COVID-19 per 100,000. In New York, the highest cases, about 1,000 people will have COVID-19 for every 100,000 people. Chances of living in a city will boost your chances of coming into contact with someone who is infected.
Covid-19 is now the leading daily cause of death in the US. It's novel, people care about it, and it's more immediately preventable through collective action than other leading causes of death (2nd and 3rd are heart disease and cancer). I don't see how media attention is unreasonable.
According to their visitor stats [1], April is busier than the five months preceding it, so I suppose it's relative.

1: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/visitation.htm
I believe that the author is a she.
The wildlife is trying to enter all the time. This isn't sudden, like you said the population hasn't quadrupled in this time, the wildlife tens of miles outside the populated areas aren't suddenly aware of the reduced tourist population these last few weeks.

This is just the natural response of the local ecosystem from having reduced numbers of competitors for resources.
Not mine but Pinboard and Stratechery are both 1 person shops which are wildly successful.
I think the userbase of Linux software on Windows is much bigger than that of MacOS
I came back to Godot this week, after tying an earlier 2.x build. I've had a 3D game I've wanted to develop for years, and gave it a shot awhile back. Unfortunately, the tools capable of building what I wanted had too steep of a learning curve for my free time. Godot, while incredibly intuitive, wasn't performant enough to make what I wanted.

I built 3.2, including a fork of the runtime for raspberry pi (frt on github). About 3 hours of youtube videos later, 3 hours of sweat, and I had a functional 3D tech demo of the idea I had.

It's well worth a look, and per geokon's comment, I too was against the team implementing a new language, but have since come to love it. It's Python, with the correct changes for the use case, and it works well.
What I assume the parent was talking about was the ability to literally just open a new terminal window with a keyboard shortcut (e.x. Mod-Enter in i3wm). If that's the case then yes.

While using i3, you can also place a terminal in the scratchpad, which works more similarly to Yakuake.
Starting with growth of population. Ultimately consumption is a function of population.
Isn't this exactly what adbock's white-listed ads are, except you are going to physically collect on one side and distribute on the other side? The adblock business model is rightfully hated garbage but at least it's efficient...
Color me awed.
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Perhaps it's a matter of perspective, but I don't see it as derogatory. Rather I see it as a reflection of the way which questions about Urbit are typically asked. I.e. "Can someone explain what Urbit is and why it's relevant to a normal person like myself?"
Urbit is a prank.
Teaching my girlfriend Japanese inadvertently lead to the creation of a whole new curriculum and style of language teaching which I have been embodying in https://japanesecomplete.com/

Originally the idea was to create a new textbook, but I found it easier to pair lessons with browser-based multiple choice quizzes that would hit the material home. Given the success of the first student, I thought it might be something people would be willing to pay for.

Since then, we have been adding a steady stream of helpful learning tools in addition to the textbook/curriculum that we are rolling out. There are dialogues with audio recordings so you can listen along. The entire curriculum is frequency based, so you are learning the most frequent terms first, which has proven invaluable with our students.

The recent shutdown has definitely affected our subscription rates, and I suspect the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until 2021 did not do much for the enthusiasm for learning Japanese this year, but you never know. On the brightside, it gives people more time to prepare.

Learning a new language is an investment in yourself and your brain health for life. Language learning is building a bridge where there is a chasm.
And the author clearly knows that, because the first n paragraphs are talking about being a normie instead of... explaining Urbit.
Every old culture with a history of dense populations in relatively large cities has certain cultural things in common, such as bowing instead of shaking hands and consuming very spicy foods (which help kill microbes).

I think you are flat out wrong. With 7 billion people on the planet, we need to quit sharing our germs like we all live in some tiny little village with the same 100 or so people and never travel. The fact that we persist with practices that worked okay in such settings is a large part of why we are seeing this pandemic.

It absolutely doesn't have to be this way.
> We’d love the luxury of lots of coffee shops, start-ups, self-employed fringe service gigs, but at a moment’s notice you can take all that away and it’s fine. Those weren’t ever really real jobs, just floating “good times” jobs already not factored in much to stock market speculation or core economic growth and productivity.

If I were the devil, I wouldn't want you for an advocate.

I'm also pretty sure you don't mean to sound like a fool or a wretch, but here it is: in the UK, SME's (under 50 employees, ie the businesses most likely to die during the lockdown/ consequent upfuckery) make up fully three fifths of the employment base, and around half of turnover in the private sector. Not real jobs? Not core? FFS.

https://www.fsb.org.uk/uk-small-business-statistics.html
That's an awesome idea, great work! I'm curious, any legal/copyright issues with making replacement products for existing IP?
step 0: maybe don't use "normies" on your official project page.

I've peripherally know about urbit for, at this point, multiple years, and have not the first clue what it really is or does or attempts to solve.
As someone who loves NixOS and runs it on my daily-driver laptop -

I can't see running NixOS in production.

We're running 100% Kubernetes, including for databases and other stateful workloads. Kubernetes implements the author's pattern just fine - any OS state is defined within the container image, and any application state is defined within a Persistent Volume. Unfortunately, NixOS doesn't have a good story yet for service management (Disnix isn't nearly as featureful as the Kubernetes scheduler and doesn't see nearly the same activity / community buy-in as Nix / NixOS) let alone ensuring that networked storage is re-attached to the particular node that runs the service in the same reliable manner that Kubernetes offers.

IMO the way forward for Nix / NixOS in production is to:

a) develop a container runtime that would allow a Kubernetes node to run pods that specify Nix expressions directly in the image field, instead of the current workaround of creating Docker containers from Nix expressions and dealing with the overhead of external registries

b) improve the experience of running Kubernetes on NixOS such that ease of installation more closely approaches that offered by managed Kubernetes providers.
Most of my mail is advertisement. Maybe a lot of the advertisers are closed so they can send less mail.
Click on a person's name, scroll down to the Cause of Death property.
> I think the higher density and massive reliance on public transport have been one of the big reasons why New York City has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the US and a much higher mortality rate than the rest of the country.

There is a trade-off. NYC is not a plague city, we are suffering a global pandemic. How many times have we had these? Once every few decades? So what about all the other times where things are normal?

Urban sprawl is inefficient and not sustainable in a world with 8 billion people (and growing fast).
I'm curious, how do gloves help protect you from Covid? It's not transmitted through the skin, and you will get just as sick if you touch your face with bare hands as with gloved hands.
Except we can't really call parks "public land" if we do that. The prices are not meant to be there to make a profit.
Then again, here's Kevin Drum @ Mother Jones asking what he got wrong here:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/04/working-in-a-...

RTLD: 41 cited deaths among 3M grocery workers is a lower death rate than the population as a whole ?
Everything will change forever after coronavirus won’t it?
tldr: guy compares stuff, says use transferwise.
I think to be in the list you need to have a Wikipedia page before your death, but some of them may not be in the English edition as I've checked
A lot goes through the mail system.

The Data and Marketing Association says American businesses sent 149 billion pieces of direct mail and nearly 10 billion catalogues in 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/how-to-stop-ju...

This is just a counter-anecdote, but for every flyer on the door I get (once or twice a week), I get scores of pieces of junk mail. I assume you don't own a home, because that alone is good for 10 a week.
Yes, most of it is delivered by USPS https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm
Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader
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I'll totally accept that "privelege" the wrong way of phrasing it. However, philosophically the difference between what should be an invoidable right and weilding that right is decided by the commons, or at least it is how it is at the moment. I'm trying, admittedly poorly, to reframe that. Free speech comes with great power. That power is open to abuse. The times in which we live see the responsibility of weilding that power because disgregarded because it is an inalienable right. I'm saying that we have freedom of speech becasue of the societal structure that the Western hemisphere has, but it is being abused by the commons, the press and the state. If all don't show it the respect it deserves were are going to lose it, an the power that comes with it, in its very name.
If it’s to meet user needs why can’t I opt to have real on/off in the control centre again?

Personally I think this is more “Maybe later” passive aggressive crap from Apple. You know, where they take the option to say no out of the UI.
Similar story over here. I started by offering shared hosting with supervision as added value, expanded into reselling VPS'es and eventually leased bare metal servers that I partitioned into VPS'es. I could have made a lot more money if I didn't treat every customer with utmost care and attention. Now I'm stuck with clients that can't afford to go elsewhere and clients with grossly outdated software that would be a nightmare to migrate. I kinda miss the passive income although there wasn't much. On average I had to fix something every few months and would get a major outage/bug once per year. I always hesitated that scaling up would result in more customer support work, more major outages and more everything that would take the "passive" out of passive income.
The basis for your argument is incorrect though (regardless of opinions after it). Its not only small shops, restaurants, etc who are losing jobs. High skill workers, highly paid tech employees, etc are losing jobs as well. You can't really make a claim as to when or if those jobs will return, as it could be years. Even if revenue is the same but 6 months set back, that could easily mean a 24 month delay in hiring while the company repays debts and recovers.
would be more interesting if if this was paired with a study of people expecting to have some profound experience vs not.

"
a considerable doubt on the assertion that mystical experiences catalyzed by drugs are in any way inferior to non-drug mystical experiences in both their immediate content and long-term effects
"

is as much a statement of scientific 'fact' as it is a theological position -

how does one define a 'mystical experience'?

how does one 'grade' these nebulous 'mystical experiences'?

in terms of quality? severity of experience? ethical content? uniqueness?
whether one hallucinated what they thought might be a divine presence or not?

These are all questions which ultimately stem from philosophical/theological beliefs. Of course if ones philosophical/spiritual belief is vague and relativistic, then anything goes, and these can all be conveniently 'meaningful' in some conveniently abstract and conveniently qualification-free sense.

The 'intellectuals choosing to consume spiritual experiences through specific quantities of purchased chemicals' shtick can just as easily be seen as an exercise in the narcissistic self-validation of ones own preconceived notions as a 'meaningful spiritual occurrence', if one chose to be so cynical - it all comes down to the theological context.

YMMV
The first 7-8 paragraphs are about the author (Hint: I don't care.), the next few are a technical description. As a "normie" I'm not reading 15 paragraphs in to see how it can help me

As a consumer, what benefit does it provide to me? "Normies" are going to bounce way before they see what the answer is. Drop the derogatory term and tell me how this helps me from the start.