skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also see: rent seeking
Until I have security/privacy and encryption down. I am actually not storing any data. All the data is stored locally on your machine.
https://github.com/foundObjects/pve-nag-buster
Ask HN: What SaaS platforms are crucial and which have you/would you stop using?
I'm doing a survey of what SaaS platforms are core to businesses and what platforms are the first to go when recessions hit ahead of my company's platform launch.

Would you answer a few questions? I'll put your credits and link to your site in the published report (if you want) and of course, share the data from other responses with you :D

https://forms.gle/HEMVWUK6pqMTJ7pV6
Sherwood is not very good. But they are the only real choice you have if you're a tech startup. There is definitely a startup to be built in just helping businesses close properly.
Combining Multiple CompletableFutures
I really hope the State Department continues issuing extensions and renewals.

I left the US in December 2019. Had I stayed, my non-immigrant visa would have expired in June 2020. In order to continue living in the US I would have had to apply for an extension to that visa or for an entirely new visa. Based on the reporting around this it seems possible that neither of those applications would have been approved and I would have been forced to leave the US in June 2020 at the latest.

If you know someone currently on a non-immigrant visa[0] you may want to reach out and make sure they're OK. I personally know a few people who set up their lives in the US with little consideration for what would happen if they lost their visas. I feel for them right now.

[0] That is: not a Green Card.
That’s fair. I find their COVID-19-related reporting to be fairly current, at least.
Yes. This would also make me consider moving from a Mac.
Interesting. Maybe something to do with corporate vs local? Surely the local people get it? Now's the time to "deal".
Meetings are exhausting, Zoom or no Zoom. I’ve noticed no difference and I’m on at least 3/day.
Python was roughly # 20 when “P3K” came out.

Python is now roughly #1.

Let the data tell the story, and not the other way around.
I am missing something. Do you mean you feel there is a hostility toward those who fit the "white christian male" bill?
> Most people sensibly realize that a lock-down in the face of a pandemic is not a regression in our fundamental rights as US citizens, but just a temporary measure to save lives.

But that's not what we're talking about here. Facebook isn't going to an event and shutting it down, they're preventing people from discussing having an event.

There is also a bit of a different trouble with the government shutting down the event itself:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

Going to a public event right now is dumb. But some of the things people have a right to do are dumb and they still have a right to do them.

And this is unusually problematic when the purpose of the event is to discuss the lockdown. It's like saying you can't have a public debate on something because the thing you're debating has already been decided against you before you get a chance to make your case. How are you supposed to organize the movement against that decision then?

Maybe they have a point and the only reason we don't agree is that they haven't been able to organize into a group that can effectively convey their message.

> The role of our government is not to provide data but then otherwise let people do whatever.

They should try it sometime. Most of the evils they aim to prevent come from people not having the right information to make a good decision. Just having a strong record of making good recommendations that people can trust would cause nearly everyone to follow them, since people would learn that following them is easier and leads to better outcomes than not. Whereas if they have a record of making bad decisions then how is it better for those bad decisions to have the force of law?

> The government stepped in with license requirements, manufacturing requirements, etc.

There is some evidence that this has caused the rate of improvement of vehicle safety to slow because they basically hard-coded a lot of 1970s-era technology which is now required even if incompatible with something better, and license plates have turned out to be a mass location privacy violation as a result of ALPR.

Now compare this to the alternative where they don't mandate anything but still publish vehicle safety ratings so that customers know which vehicles do the best in crashes and making a safe car is thereby something manufacturers have to compete on to win customers.
What's interesting is that the information the NY officials conveyed may not have been accurate for NY, but fairly accurately described SF Bay Area.

Though it looks like SF Bay Area started to get corona in December from connections in China, and it spread quietly through the population.

Calif. had too many ventilators, so donated 500 to other cities.

SF also has a busy subway system, no mention of NY-style issues here though.
From what I can tell, Causal's models only run forwards, with no inference (ie, they can generate predictions from priors, but they can't update those priors from observations).

Is adding inference on the roadmap?
Principles of Programming Languages [JHU Textbook] [PDF]
Maybe I should have said "Americans my age." Fred Smith got a lot of news coverage in the 80s. He used to be a case study in business schools.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith
Do not feel this. I have a wireless headset so I'll occasionally mute my mic and do a couple of dumb-bell curls or go get some water while thinking. Feels fine, honestly. I like being present for the social comfort I get from physical proximity to people but the Zoom thing just has that absent, so I don't get that extra bonus but I still don't feel tired.
dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931290
John Oliver bought peoples debt and released it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUAntt1z2c
There was no need to delay social distancing on account scientific uncertainty over the practice. We already knew social distancing was an effective method of preventing spread. Heck, we've known it since the 1918 spanish flu, since quarantines themselves begam. (and still, it was delayed, still is delayed in some places)

The point is that there is a resource bottleneck on "action". There are limited resources. You qualified your own statement as necessary action. How do you know what is necessary? Options must be weighed, the most promising chosen, as many, but not all paths can be pursued. I'm not saying "do nothing", I'm saying that we can't do everything. And then, yes, in areas of great uncertainty, where wrong action can cause more harm than choosing to wait, then we should not take action merely for the sake of "we can't do nothing!!!" emotional response to the crisis.
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HI,

I am new here, I am currently looking for someone to help me with an app I am trying to develop. I have the prototype finished. I also would like a ball park of the cost. I am trying to create a MVP that won't cause me to go broke, it will be a free to use app.
Step 1: Deflect.
That study is really not very good and doesn’t tell you anything.

Sure, mutations happen all the time, however since the virus has error correction those are rare and very unlikely to have any effect on the phenotype.
This is completely inaccurate, and nowhere in the linked document is there supporting evidence to your claim that the flu has a higher fatality rate for under 35, nor the same for 35-44.

And this report relies on figures that diverge dramatically from the COVID death tolls. It lists the current total report as around 15k, when we're close to 3x.
What typically is happening is that a wheel package was missing. When that happens python tries to compile the package, to do that it requires extra dependencies, such as compiler, python-devel, and other *-devel packages, because they weren't available it failed. This is very common when a new major version is released, it requires authors of the C based packages to build wheels to make installation easier and not requiring extra dependencies.

Looks like Pillow has wheel for 3.8 now since April 2nd, so might work now (no compilation is needed). I don't know other packages so can't check them. Psycopg2 would probably be another one with this issue (also fixed on April 6th).

[1] https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/#files look for cp38 wheel files.
This is the associated course: https://pl.cs.jhu.edu/pl/index.shtml

This is Part II of the course: https://pl.cs.jhu.edu/pl2/index.shtml
I think it's disinformation at this point, not misinformation.
> It's also extremely addictive to engineers.

Quite the understatement. Pretty much every engineer that I've introduced to the game has played for at least 40 hours.
I am still on Python 2 due to complex vendor reasons. Probably will be for a couple more years. I wish folks were a little more understanding that edge business cases exist that they might not have considered; it isn't all greenfield development.
Landlines were so fast and so "direct" in their latency (where distance correlates very directly with time, due to a lack of "hops") that local phone calls were faster than the speed of sound across a table, and for a bit after they came out--before people generally got used to seemingly random latency--local calls felt "intimate", like as if you were talking to someone in bed with their head right next to you; I also have heard stories of negotiators who had gotten really tuned to analyzing people's wait times while thinking that long distance calls were confusing and threw them off their game. But no: cell phones haven't become as fast as landlines and likely never can due to fundamental contrast of compressed packetized routed audio vs. the speed of an analog signal propagating over a circuit-switched wired connection.
...and apparently I was wrong about the rags part.
For the longest time I thought these were the same companies
> Declaring a hypothesis publicly and then gathering data to see if it’s supported or not is good science

Not for something like this. This study isn’t about running an experiment to see if treatment A or B is better. This is an observational study that is supposed to determine the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population. There is no hypothesis here - That is to say, there shouldn’t be anything to prove. Whatever answer you measure, you measure (ignoring any other data collection issues).

But if you declare “I think the rate of infection is X”, and you end up with a rate of X, then no one knows if you’ve really found the rate to be X or if you put your thumb on the scales.

This should have been a fact finding mission to establish some of the basic numbers that will be needed to design the next wave of experiments or to guide policy.
You do curls on video?
Not likely. This could actually be one person/team who was out of balance on their book.

Back in 2008 when oil hit $150, it was due to a single trader. Needless to say, everyone in the industry was pissed at him afterwards.
To be clear, they have closed high schools and universities, and kept open junior schools under the theory that many children would need childcare anyway (over 80% of families have two working parents). Enough parents are keeping their kids home anyway that they are sending out warnings. 50% of the workforce is now working from home, under government orders for employers to support it where possible. People who have higher than normal vulnerability can stay home even if they can't work from home and they will receive unemployment benefits. Employers can furlough employees for three months at half pay, and the government will cover the other 50%. 70% of Swedes say they have reduced social activities, cell phone data shows 90% reduction in Easter holiday congregation. I haven't seen it measured but it's plausible that the amount of in-person contact between Swedish people is lower than the UK or US.

If that's the case, then the question is not "did we really need to reduce activity that much" but "could other countries have achieved the same low social contact rates without enforcing it?"
And those are least worrying, once they publish their thesis, they don't give a damn about their code anymore and it just dies natural death ;)
I really want to play this game. I've put it on my wishlist 2 years ago, but I swear, I've never seen it on sale! I wonder if it's because technically it is still Early Access.
Sure, but when you take a real qualitative jump---melting down silver coins for use in photography or photovoltaics---quality matters again.
With sshfs, what is the point? It seems to me that an editor shouldn't be dealing with the particularities of on what machine a file resides, that should be handled by the kernel or a userspace module. Like if Intellij had a feature that could allow it to access NFS drives people would decry it as unnecessary, but for some reason ssh is different.
Virtual office space using Mumble positional audio
The other thing to keep in mind with death counts, especially in NY and NJ, is that all deaths of likely-infected people are being counted as COVID deaths regardless of cause of death.

This has included a couple lf suicides of folks who had respiratory illness prior to death, and one person who got in an auto accident and died of head trauma -- but he had tested COVID-positive.

Yes, most people right now who get a respiratory illness and then die probably did have COVID -- and it is possible that some folks are dying of COVID and being uncounted to offset some of the overcounting -- but with death numbers counted so loosely, it is hard to know the real story, and impossible to do simple maths using rates from one place at one time to compute rates at other times or other places.

I tend to think that NYC must be approaching saturation, and that the true new-case numbers must be falling there, but it's impossible to answer with certainty using only the numbers we have here on the internets.
The developers have said that they're not considering doing sales.

From their FAQ [0]:

> Are you planning to participate in Steam sales or Bundles?

> No. The price we ask is what we consider a fair price for the game.

[0] https://factorio.com/faq
Trump Plans to Suspend Immigration to U.S.
>now requires "swiping up" with the mouse to get the password box.

oh, that has to be some ultra clownish way. i would punch through the display within a week.
who proposed this, who reviewed & approved this, and on what fundamental ?
is there no easy option to get rid of that irritant ? if none, I have to stay with 16.04 for lots more time.
Everyone lies, but some lie more than others and some lies are worse. I'm not arguing with you, though, because you're clearly someone who doesn't understand nuance or scale.
Congratulations! It's working. As to when and how it is appropriate to reopen without spiking the curve and killing millions - many of whom would die from easily treatable and unrelated conditions because they wouldn't be getting the attention they need - I think we should defer to the experts.
Interesting. I used to play video games but now I mostly 3D print stuff and design robots for fun. I don’t think video games are a bad use of time generally, but I feel so good about doing actual engineering for fun that I’m always a little surprised with games that are supposed to be fun for engineer types. I kind of wonder why actually doing engineering for fun isn’t more popular?
If we're not going to allow Outline we shouldn't allow paywalled articles on this forum.
As someone that stopped playing games in university, I've found it weirdly hard to get back into games many years later.

Factorio seems like the type of game I would've liked as a teenager, but now it just feels like work to me.

As do most interesting games. It seems like there's a learning curve to games that I don't want to spend the time dealing with anymore.
that slide up thing has to be some ultra clownish way.
who proposed this, who reviewed & approved this, and on what fundamental ?
it there no easy option to get rid of that irritant ?
Pffft, my code docs have artist-mode figs in them.
I am tired of this pandemic being described as a “black swan”. Scenarios with decades of warning, billions spent on plans and agencies to react to them, and several real-world near-misses are not black swans!
Should the government be obligated to offer you support for that choice? That would probably mean at minimum money to replace your work income, something like a new category of 'being high risk' a qualification for unemployment. Or should your choice be limited to self isolate and starve, or keep working?
They are still important. Because even if dependency has this warning, it will still break your code.
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totally agree with this. there is a constant 'discovery' thing in these days UI/UX
Unfortunately I have no idea how to help you. There really should be an Upwork competitor with only high-quality employers (agree to certain policies, like no screen monitoring) and contractors. Perhaps there is one and I just don't know about it.
It is generally not illegal to impersonate someone. You will only be fined or arrested if there is an actual crime involved, like fraud.
I think at this point they should jump to perl7 and resume normal versioning
So, almost 200 for sale. That is interesting.
Probably a stupid question, but what does the rule mean by "title"?

Consider this story: https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17486110/metabolism-diet-fast-w...

The HTML <title> is "Metabolism and weight loss: debunking myths in the metabolic chamber - Vox".

The big bold <h1> text at the start of the article is "What I learned about weight loss from spending a day inside a metabolic chamber".

Is one of those preferred, or is either acceptable?
Why no long walks? I haven't heard of that being prevented anywhere in the US.
Look up Satisfactory
I'm wondering who cares what age are you?
Create your own Nginx cheatsheet that you can use while using SSH
This is the thread I was pulling on.

Have you ever stopped to really ponder the literal awesome nature of dreaming? A relatively simple function we all practice, even our dogs.

When you're in a lucid dream, you have the ability to construct your reality with nothing more than intention. It's a higher fidelity experience for every sense than any virtual reality gear known to Silicon Valley could provide. The nature of lucid dreaming combined with a deeply introspective nature have certainly led me to believe there is a deep well of discovery when it comes to studying consciousness. Is it an emergent phenomenon? Is it something else entirely? Are we all just deterministic robotic meat-sacks? Are we truly just in a simulation?

> Western science is not the only valid way to understand reality.

"Dreams represent just one type of illusion. The whole universe arises and dissolves like a mirage. Everything about us, even the most enlightened qualities, are also dreamlike phenomena. There's nothing that is not encompassed within the dream of illusory being; so in going to sleep, you're just passing from one dream state to another."
Relative to all the other stuff that happens, this is pretty close to a black swan. Most business contracts did not explicitly account for this risk, but rather mostly just covered it in a force majeure clause.
They should do a pandemic version where you make masks.
> There's so much whining, when they gave over 5 years to do the migration.

You make it sound so generous of the Python maintainers to "give over five years" before breaking backwards compatibility--something that C, Java, JavaScript, C++, and probably most other languages haven't done for decades, or in some cases ever. Programming languages are serious basic infrastructure, programmer time is valuable, and Python's installed base is large enough that many man-centuries were probably wasted on this migration.

If the Python maintainers had not given as much time as they did, I doubt the Python community or ecosystem would have transitioned any more quickly than they did. More likely would have been some fork or alternate implementation of Python 2 becoming the new standard.
The text of the Sixth Amendment,

> In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Left me wondering where the right to unanimous juries comes from, since it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the actual amendment, and the article doesn't really tell me. Even SCOTUS blog, unless I missed it, doesn't say.

Thankfully, there's Wikipedia[1]:

> Originally, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial indicated a right to "a trial by jury as understood and applied at common law, and includes all the essential elements as they were recognized in this country and England when the Constitution was adopted." Therefore, it was held that juries had to be composed of twelve persons and that verdicts had to be unanimous, as was customary in England.

The next paragraph was a bit odd in light of my question:

> When, under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court extended the right to a trial by jury to defendants in state courts, it re-examined some of the standards. It has been held that twelve came to be the number of jurors by "historical accident," and that a jury of six would be sufficient, but anything less would deprive the defendant of a right to trial by jury.

Sure, but what prevents us from calling unanimity a historical accident as well? (Still, personally, I think having to have 12 — or maybe just 6 — people come to agreement on a conviction is for the better. I'd rather let a few guilty people go free than convict an innocent one.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
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I just learned that Facebook censors gifs from Team America World Police, so I’m not sure that it should be relied on for a conversation about anything critical.
I develop on multiple machines and have just been through this exact thing with both VS Code and Pycharm. I was surprised at how different the implementations are. The VS Code SSH extensions work great - I would almost say "seamlessly", actually - whereas the Pycharm approach feels like a real kludge.

For starters, there seems to be more than one way to do it - one of the responses below refers to remote-mounting the filesystem using SSHFS, but another way to do it is through the Tools -> Deployment menu. The SSHFS approach is presumably the better one if your particular problem is trying to write code across several machines; the Tools -> Deployment avenue seems much better suited an actual deployment (it is, after all, in the name).

It's got me wondering whether I could get away with doing all my Python development in VS Code but obviously everyone has different constraints.
Where do you get the dramatically more poor from?
3 million years for Mercury, by my calculations and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsidal_precession#Calculation
Way worse, today.
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