skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this might be related to Superhuman but it seems not :)
> If you accept the Ukrainian expert’s estimation as at least plausible, then it would take 100 years for ladder deaths to equal his estimated Chernobyl death toll

How many years do you hear when someone says "several generations"? I hear 120 years, 40 years a generation after overlaps. I suppose he might mean several generations all alive at the time of the accident, but we're talking timespans of 20-40 years.

Maybe we can agree Chernobyl was much worse than I thought, and is potentially 2-10x more deadly than persistent use of ladders?

It doesn't make as much sense to talk about it being one incident when it is in context of what would happen if, eg, they had used coal for those 40 years. Coal is much worse than ladders too.
Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research
Google Search Operators:

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
The need to dress up any idea in colourful vocabulary serves only to distract from the lack of substance and to impress other BS vendors.

The linked diatribe could be distilled to a 100 word paragraph and nothing would be lost.
A study of the Spanish Flu pandemic indicates that an early severe lockdown actually minimises the long term economic impact.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/pandemic-economy-less...
U.S. May Face 18 Months of Rolling Shutdowns
It comes from the fact there's a Wuhan Center for Disease Control that's across the river from the Institute for Virology and much closer to the wet market. Which is mentioned in the fine Daily Mail article, which gets a whole lot of basic facts correct, or nearly so (it differs in the distance it claims between the Center and the wet market, and the number of days that it took for the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center to be closed by the Chinese Communist Party for "rectification" after they broke the embargo on publishing genome sequences; would that any Western researchers show as much courage as those did).

And that Wuhan CDC has BSL-3 labs, although the Daily Mail passes on the entirely plausible rumor that bat coronavirus research was being done at both locations in BSL-2 labs. Lots of scientists all over the world do research in labs that aren't really at the level that should be used for what they're doing, the higher the level, the more obnoxious and difficult it is to do anything. A security/convenience trade-off we should be all to familiar with.
> You wrap it around the top of your head (forehead level), so it sticks to itself. You keeps the bottom part loose, so it doesn't restrict breathing. It works.

Sorry, does your version of HN not display the comments you've previously written? Or does your dictionary have different definitions for the words "it" and "works"?

I don't like arguing with strangers on the internet, so I think we should probably just end this conversation, but in the future I hope you'll be more considerate before advocating for harmful techniques. Hope you're staying safe and doing alright in these strange times.
Excel's Power Query just saved my countless hours last week in cleaning up and merging two huge csv databases.

Learning the YouTube APIs saved me thousands of hours on editing video metadata, organizing playlists, etc (https://github.com/cgranier/pytube).

Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) is a wonderful file search tool for Windows.

Thanks for all the links and ideas... new things to try this week.
`ls` is an alias on windows systems. I dont remember what the command maps to, but it maps to something. Same thing with a lot of others (e.g. cat is an alias for Get-Content)
You're living in a place that you couldn't afford on your own or won't buy for economic reasons (wanting to move, temporary job). That's value.
Yeah, a simple Lisp like Scheme is basically the lambda calculus.

Brainfuck is useless because the operations are useless. But if you give the user a few more things, like addressing memory, basic arithmetic and a way to define variables and functions, then you have something way more useful very quickly.
technical merits, can be plenty. however how does freeBSD integrate with the rest of the I wanna get things done ecosystem of people n software. Can I easily install it on a laptop such as a thinkpad and have a plug and play experience. Can I easily update and find packages | software I need. if Open source software approached things from the usability view, we wouldn't be beholden to corporate interests. I personally, use KDE on a thinkpad
You're thinking of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Space elevator economics
While it is not mentioned explicitly, the comment you're replying to seems to be talking specifically in regards to coronavirus news.
Hazel... File organization.
Bitbar... Menubar status of everything.
Amethyst... Window manager.
Cloud9 IDE... Cloud based Dev and deployment.
Integromat... Blows the doors off zapier.
Mixmax... Gmail enhancements incant live without.
Hellosign.
Maximising economic opportunities for lucky survivors is not the goal here.
Thanks for this comment, this stuff is super confusing. The effect must have been dominated by age distribution then. A lot of the older folks take ACE inhibitors, so it could be that they fared worse just because they're older.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.07.20056788v... seems to support your assertion.
The article pointed out that a significant portion of renters spend over half their income on their rent. If they are not working, they will not be able to ever make up the difference.
Does `ConvertTo-Json` and `ConvertFrom-Json` not handle what you want?
Shelter is valuable.
IBM used all sorts of non-standard terminology of their own. You'd hear their folks seriously talking about PELs instead of Pixels ("Picture Elements"); and DASDs (pronounced "dah-z-dee") instead of disks ("Direct Access Storage Device"). Not clear if it was intentionally designed to be alienating to outsiders, but it sure seemed cultish.
Your first two paragraphs are an interesting point. If I were laid off (or just hours reduced to zero for the duration), I wouldn't be paying bills that I didn't have to pay. I'll save my money for groceries; the rent can wait. Either I get a check from Uncle Sam, or the renter cuts me some slack, or I go live in my car, but I still have to eat.
Would it be correct to say that, under intuitionist thinking, actually constructing 1/3 = 0.333... (on paper, in a computer, whatever) would take infinite information (not to mention energy and space)?

Though if I understand correctly, intuitionist math would also hold that true infinite 0.3333.... also cannot be constructed?
It’s not that simple, unfortunately. US businesses and governments have heavily relied on Chinese capital for various economic initiatives, from transit to manufacturing.[0]

Barring one of our largest financial partners (and largest creditors) would certainly have a devastating effect on our economy.

0: https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/congress-ex....
I wrote a prime number finding function in coffee script and python just for fun. Saved me a lot of time, factoring numbers is hard. I’d also like to mention javascript again, I can say I’ve played millions of hands of video poker. Without those programming environments I’d still be shuffling cards or dividing numbers.
Rents will have to come down or be waived.

Almost by definition "rent" is simply extracting value from the productive economy through ownership.

If the productive economy takes a dive or disappears, the amount you can extract must do likewise.
And for those who don't know, youtube-dl supports many, many other sites besides YouTube, including Vimeo, TikTok, Dailymotion, Twitch, YouKu, LiveLeak, Streamable and more.

Full list: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
I don't understand how people can think it's safe to eat food prepared by someone else, as long as you don't go near them. You know food is a transmission vector, right? If the cook or the waiter are sick, chances are they're infecting their patrons.
Oh gosh this looks way better than I thought it would be, but that's Winston for you. I dearly miss him, and am not a fan of the new MIT Data Science classes. (I work as a Data Scientist.) It feels like the philosophy and fun has been dried out into a terse brick of knowledge, making modern MIT more like the universities that copy it, instead of something fun and exciting.

I'm seeing if I can create an ad hock study group where we'll read the published articles and come up with our own conclusions. Sadly, it will not be the same, but I'm a big fan of Hofstadter and exploration of human consciousness, so I'll do my best to filling the shoes of a giant.
So 31% of people are living above their means and/or don't have a rainy day fund. The US is a nation of four year olds.
freely choosing

I'm as skeptical of neo-Georgism as anyone, but this is a pretty standard fallacy. I seriously doubt that most people who rent their homes and business properties have viable alternatives to renting.
Are you fucking serious? I was semi-joking with my comment (wypipo thing), but dog licks can cause life-threatening illness: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/health/amputation-dog-lick-oh...
Apple Glasses: VR and AR Are Coming
Yes, I copy-pasted that comment because this is my tenth time commenting on guzey's critiques, and I'm tired of writing new ones.

I still don't think that trimming a graph in a way that doesn't even change the conclusion of the sentence that refers to it (having less than 8 hours of sleep increases injury risk, and it's still true upon included the omitted bar, which barely even changes the average) is worth trashing an entire 300 page book. Academia isn't about following a set of rigid rules, as if it were some endless high school project. It's about finding the truth, and I've seen no evidence that this was harmed at all here.
FreeBSD marketing:

- FreeBSD is like Linux but <>
- It is more <> than Linux
- It is less <> than Linux
- It has more <> than Linux
- It has less <> than Linux
- Linux LINUX Linux LINUX LINUX

OpenBSD marketing:

Look, cute fish.
I am excited for more open-source video-calling tools, but I am also confused by how this "provides video quality and latency simply not available with traditional technology."

A quick glance at the readme suggests that this negotiates peer-to-peer connections using Twilio. But it's not just that it's p2p, right? Since there are a ton of p2p video-calling tools out there, most memorably to me the original Skype before Microsoft bought it.
I imagine eating hamburgers and fries with a knife and fork is quite rare among people born, raised, and living in the US.
> This is not the way forwards - not paying rent will have a large knock-on effect for landlords (which, despite some sentiment, isn't necessarily the 1%).

Maybe this is the time for them to pick up some useful skills. Maybe learning to code? I hear that's good.
IrfanView for converting images.

https://www.irfanview.com/
I run Ubuntu as my daily driver primarily for its broad 3rd party application support. As such I tend to run Ubuntu on servers as well, so I'm usually in familiar territory. I have a smart friend who extols the benefits of FreeBSD, but I haven't ever given it a serious go. Is there a canonical/non-hacky way to run debian packages on FreeBSD? Like can I run Slack and Zoom? Steam?
Half of the European population died during the Black Plague, it’s simply not acceptable to use that case as a reference for economic growth.

Governments have a responsibility to all their citizens, not just stockholders.
IIRC V8 can now provide deterministic JIT+heap images in addition to preparsed bytecode images.

EDIT: worth noting that other JS VMs like JSC have these APIs for bytecode too, but i can’t remember off hand whether they can do generated code too.
Does the economy exist to serve the needs of the people, or do the people exist to serve the needs of the economy?
Correct url:

https://www.morozkoforge.com/post/the-curve-is-already-flat
> Food is not inhaled

Right, but you know you breath and eat through the same hole, right? So if you swallow, then inhale, you could be inhaling whatever you just ate...
Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors
It might make no impact on calculations (I'm not really qualified to say that) but it seems like it would make a big impact on epistemology and determinism. I think?
Artificial Intelligence in Vehicles Explained
Seems about par for the average New Yorker. Folks in NYC seem especially gullible to spend more than half their paychecks on rent, something even folks in SF would hesitate. This is not for lack of options - my colleagues who make the same as me would rather pay $1000 more a month to stay in Manhattan instead of (a very comfortable still) place in Brooklyn. The commute is still very tolerable by any modern city standard, probably around 30 minutes (12 if you want to stay in downtown Brooklyn), but apparently thats too long?
> They always promise it will be safe but it usually isn't.

What is "it" here? Fukushima for example was built in the 70s with a design which was even older. That seem like a very strange bar for "always promise it will be safe".

What nuclear plant designed in this century has ever been shown to not be safe? Are we always going to stay stuck on false promises made half a century ago?
I am glad to see a reference to Moltex Energy. They[1] IMHO have far too little name recognition and mindshare in threads like these.

Burn uranium, thorium, or existing waste. Walk-away safe. Uses existing materials. Projected cost competitive with coal.

[1] moltexenergy.com
id rather see this on openbsd
Just a yellow box for me, not functional. Chrome Mac OS.
TeX and Emacs.
I mean, extremely unsurprising. The vast majority of white caller workers I know are working from home. Of course, those who are in industries that are getting slaughtered (travel, non-emergency medicine, local business services, etc.) are having a tough time, but wouldn't expect those delinquencies to show up until May or later.

Where I live, there is a huge service economy (restaurants, bars, gyms, etc.) and most of those service workers were laid off extremely fast, with very little savings to get through extended unemployment.
Practical reasons to choose linux over freebsd

1. People use linux more than freebsd

Nothing's more important than this.
Kind of like memchached, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached
The discussion there mostly replicates what was discussed here on HN a few days ago. There were some pretty good rejoinders to the negative posts that show some people do understand what I am proposing.

Interesting I haven’t had a single negative response to my idea which worries me a little. I have received plenty of negative responses to ideas I haven’t proposed, but none that actually address what I am proposing. The closest I have got is it might not work, but I haven’t ever suggested that it is certain to work. There is plenty of risk of failure, but the value of success is so high that I think it is worth trying.

Now if anyone knows how to solve the seemingly impossible task of getting experts in the area to look at this please get in contact with me - they might as well have all moved to Antarctica and cut all the satellite links.
I don't get why it's not ok to steal food from a grocery store but it is ok to not pay rent. Both are basic necessities and in both cases you hurt someone else by not paying for service (food/shelter).
I have dabbled in BSDs (mainly OpenBSD) but can't stick with any of them because Docker doesn't work without virtualizing Linux. If I have to have a separate setup for "real work" versus hobby work, then it's a non-starter for me; I don't have enough time or brain capacity.

I like the idea of BSDs as this self-contained system (like the polish of Apple's walled garden but without the tyranny), but it is too far behind the cutting edge.
Another reason is that by providing an identifier for this string literal, misspellings of it can be detected by the compiler whereas there is nothing tying separate string literals together.
Will AWS Lose Its Monopoly to Azure and Google Cloud?
I have to say I've never heard this argument before. Why would AGI be logically impossible? Didn't we humans evolve to possess AGI?
baseline.css
> Sometimes you have to have he self-awareness to ask yourself, here I am, an educated tech enthusiast, who's being presented with a decision and self-delusion I can't empathize with.

️I love this kind of nonsense dig.

Something that is too good to be true, that has to be done on secret should set off warning bells for EVERYONE.

But, yup, it must be the narrow experience of the commenter that causes them to be unable to empathize.

One can empathize while still calling out ridiculousness of the people and situation.

Jesus Christ.

Maybe you should check yourself.
My guess is the Chinese are eventually going to want something real when they ship us tons of real goods and we ship them paper.
This is basically the end game for China. Either they buy off everything while their economy is still running, or they face isolation. They fd us all way too hard this time
I have noticed the air smells cleaner lately ... its common knowledge transportation is a double digit energy consumption category ... I only wish this reduction in moving about becomes a permanent goal of everyone
The prompt is to allow use of your camera. Do you expect it to make you waffles?

What exactly do you think will happen other than _using your camera_?
A) Saying the "last three months" is intellectually disingenuous because the virus hadn't even been introduced to most states three months ago. I'm sure in some areas more people have died in the last three months from ski accidents but that is irrelevant. Name one state where you honestly believe the next three months will have comparable cases of food-borne deaths to Covid-19 deaths.

B) I'm not disagreeing with you.

C) People should not be at an in-person Easter Sunday. I realize a percentage of churches decided to not close. That being said, wanting to eat bats is not comparable to wanting to practice religion.
Or 1.000000..... for that matter. Which seems absurd on its face.
There's a name I haven't heard in a loooong time.
Your premise is flawed: you assume we already know what the targets are.

Quite often in science we do not know the targets beforehand. Quite often we just happen to study/research something and out falls something else with very practical use (after minor adjustments and a little bit of out of the box thinking) we did not imagine was there.
Ask HN: Most interesting tech people to follow on Twitter?
Twitter is slowly becoming my primary source of tech news outside of HN. I’m looking for suggestions on accounts to follow for tech/programming in general, entrepreneurship, web development, and indie hackers.
Build a moat around your business*

*as long as it's not real estate?
Vacation Management on Product Hunt
None of our instruments are infinite precision, nor are very many physical constants, so it sort of makes sense that tossing out real numbers doesn’t make any difference.
From what I understand, this was a question and was answered on other forums.

FreeBSD jails are supported by HashiCorp's Nomad [1], and their Consul + Vault are in FreeBSD ports

The tool mentioned in the article, Bastille, would be used to install popular software into jails.

Also ansible works well for pushing software into FreeBSD.
There is even an ansible role for nginx that works with FreeBSD that's maintained by nginx team.

FreeBSD jails do not insist to have 'one service per jail',
shell access is fine too.
A jail is pretty well functioning 'compartment' within an OS.

Jails work very well with ZFS, one elegant feature, is
that one can create a 'base jail', create a zfs snapshot with it, and then copy it over (using zfs) to any new jail created. Sort of like a base template. [2]
This makes spawning new jails with base software install rather quick.

I do not know if FreeBSD has some interesting Linux features like io uring.

On the other hand, Netflix is achieving an impressive 200 Gb/s serving video traffic [3] using FreeBSD

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Just wanted to mention, that OpenBSD is different than FreeBSD, different kernel, many different user space programs, different team, different primary goals, different hypervisors that they have built-in, etc.

Same statement for Dragonfly BSD, same for NetBSD.

With regards to issue with OpenBSD 'on a laptop once'

I am using 5G wifi running OpenBSD 6.6 on a laptop, not using USB adapter. The driver I am using is iwn0. Works great. Perhaps we have different laptops...

[1] https://nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/external/jail-task-driv...

[2] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-configure-a-freebsd-jai...

[3] https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf
By that logic feudalism has value?
The article may claim that, but NuScale itself does not.[1]
NuScale says they do not need additional water during cool-down. Not that they can shut down dry.

NuScale is interesting, but it's really just a medium-sized (60MW) pressurized-water reactor. Same size as Shippingport (1957), interestingly.

[1] https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits/safety-features
The FreeBSD answer to Docker is to not use it. Just go back to the old way of running services on bare metal or VMs. It's not a bad idea, but other people who worship refinement and perfection will get mad at you for it.
No one is saying that not paying rent is "okay". These people would continue to pay rent if they could.
I found the answers to most of your questions within 5 seconds of a Google query.

18F hiring page[1]

Civilian. Remote possible. No Security Clearance for most of their projects (not sure about all). 2 year temporary positions (with possible extensions) so probably doesn't lead to a federal pension, but there is a government version of a 401k[2].

There is always a non-zero risk of any office being defunded by any administration. Honestly speaking Obama's admin cut more public sector jobs than Trump did (but in 2009 due to lack of revenue, and in the 2011-203 budget sequestration). Trump and Kushner have both said good things about "high tech modernization projects", but like financial investment companies always warn "past performance is no guarantee of future results".

There are a number of current/former DSA / 18F / Code For America employees that rave about it. I think Matt Cutts[3] (of Google Search fame, recent US Digital Service Administrator) is one of the more recent ones in my mind.

[1] https://18f.gsa.gov/join/

[2] https://join.tts.gsa.gov/compensation-and-benefits/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts
>Almost by definition "rent" is simply extracting value from the productive economy through ownership.

What? Do you define any profit margin as such? Housing rent is not the same thing as the term 'economic rent'. Housing is as much a liability as an asset. There is risk with owning it. Rent payments are compensation for said risk. All profit is just compensation for risk.
Why did you clone in the beginning? Why couldn't you have just on developer app send requests from multiple communities to one endpoint for your app?
It's going to have to start at the top since it's still trickle down. Good luck convincing people with money to help people who don't have money
Because if every landlord took that approach now they would be sitting around in 3 months time saying they need loan abolishment and/or bailouts because they suddenly have next to no income.
APL is readable more or less like you'd read English, so it's not hard to decipher. You can find a lot of talks on the normal video-sharing sites from people like Aaron Hsu and Roger Hui demonstrating this. The modern Dyalog style of writing it is (in my opinion) a bit harder to decipher than other ways, though (at least, the style used in their public code repositories); it's much too long, and looks more or less like BASIC with symbols nowadays.

When you internalize the parsing model, it's downright trivial to read pretty much anything in it or its dialects.