skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> has enough money to escape to NZ in a private jet

Unless he's a citizen or permanent resident, he's going to be told be piss off, but you know, in a friendly way.

And if he's a citizen/PR, he'll get to spend 14 days in quarantine.
I don't agree that Uber's business model is fundamentally "rotten and antisocial". Short range point to point transport (cabs) was awful before Uber and Lyft. The rides are easier to get, the drivers are less likely to screw you over, and you know in advance just how much things will cost.

I'm glad they took on a legal gray area because cabs had completely used regulatory capture to get away with being a terrible service to the public.
How are you supposed to go around what schools provide and do MIT courses when you are required to sit in school all day and then waste even more time on the pointless busy work they make you do at home?
Installed on my ubuntu 19.10 laptop and it works great! Thanks !

As a suggestion, it would be great to go in a country details view (clicking enter on the country) to get further information like total case per millions and total deaths, ...

Or simply add new columns in the country lists with these information.
And I thought short time controls were Magnus' forte. I guess it may be the one where age related decline sets in the quickest.
Benefits over sentry?
Ask HN: What is the best way for validating files?
Users can upload files into my backend system. Other users can view those files in the client.

For example I only allow PDF files. What is the best way to validate that the file uploaded is indeed a PDF file. And not a otherfileformat.pdf? So the files uploaded will be rendered correctly. This is to prevent human errors.
We have a pause function, it is when governments issue public health and safety orders.

The people that push the pause button are elected governments,

There is a pausing fund, it is taxes and government borrowing through the national debt.
Where do you get that <0.5% fatality rate from?

It seems to have caused already the death of between 0.1% (lab-confirmed) and 0.2% (excess deaths) of the population of NYC.
My personal hypothesis is nearly all (ie. 99%) of infections are via aerosolised droplets, and none or nearly no infections via surfaces or lack of hand washing.

Looking at XRays of lung tissue showing clear infection hotspots suggesting the infection has been breathed in, rather than come via the bloodstream (which would typically cause the whole lung to get infected at roughly the same time).

The fact that disease transmission has been dramatically slowed in places implementing facemask requirements backs this up.

If only we could collect more reliable data confirming or denying the above hypothesis, and we managed to confirm it, then simply saying "you must wear a mask at all times outside your house" would probably allow lifting all other disease spread measures.
Visualizing technological inventions using text mining
For better or for worse...

A fair few parents I know miss the escape that work provides so they can come home refreshed to their kids.
That seems like a needlessly complex way to store datetime

Dark era starts in 10^106 years time, or about 10^157 plank times, so any time can be respresented in 20 bytes.

Just 44 bytes will allow encoding of any point in spacetime, and they are using far more than that to simply encode years.
Let’s be honest. None of us know all the data governments are using to make these decisions.

As an example, you only mention people dying from the virus. A large percentage need to be intubated, will still live, and will carry long term negative impacts from that process. That’s an “other consideration” health officials have made.
Why did you have kids if you hate being with them...?
Spending one hour in a small restaurant room without windows sitting next to a family who just escaped from Wuhan on January 24th is the reason for the contagion, not any AC issue. Bad title. Astute but useless study by the CDC.
Speaking of Saab 900 Turbo. I saw one the other day when re-watching the movie Heat (1995), visible during the infamous street battle. Well worth a watch, if not just for the Saab.
Nothing like sacrificing today's academically-elite kids of non-elite parents for yesterday's elites' actions. (Today's kids of elite parents will do fine either way, of course.)
I'm not familiar with the concept of "tin-pot shithole".

>have, can, and will always find some new "threat" with which to justify taking away civil liberties.

So slippery slope, is what you're arguing? "First they make a completely reasonable and temporary restriction of right of physical assembly, next we'll be off to the gulags." Isn't really an interesting argument, is it?
I personally just use the default Home app to controle HomeKit enabled devices. It's luckily an old iPad that still runs the latest iOS version.
This. I don't understand how the whole point of flattening the curve was already forgotten.

The whole point of the lockdown is not to act as a magic wand to make the pandemic vanish. The whole point is that, as it stands, emergency services are already operating beyond capacity. This means that your friends and loved ones risk needlessly dying for no reason just because they weren't able to have medical treatment, including from non-covid19 issues.
Bob was one step ahead of us all

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579...
I did not try VMWare Workstation, but I did try VMWare Player and VirtualBox to see if I can get away with running Fusion 360 on a plain VM, and both had extremely horrible performance.

I remember even SketchUp wouldn't start in VirtualBox. I was able to get SketchUp running in VMWare Player, but the performance was very bad.

edit: this was also about 1.5 years ago, not sure how much improvements VMWare and VirtualBox have made in that time in terms of virtualizing GPU calls.

That is why I decided to end up setting up a VM with GPU passthru. It works extremely well for my usecase. I was able to score a cheap GPU for my Linux host (since I do not do anything graphically intensive on Linux, just need to drive 3 monitors), and was able to passthru my more expensive GPU over to the Windows VM. I would assume if you have integrated graphics on your CPU, you could use that for your host OS and get away with having only a single GPU.
> You’d also be surprised how hard it is to escape to Mew Zealand right now.

Yep, closed to all but citizens and permanent residents - so unless you pulled off a Peter Thiel[1] (sigh), you're shit outta luck at the moment.

[1]: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-...
It is all very fun to chat about but I am going to be boring and say that in 10 years the Corona-crisis will be just a blip in the distant pasts.

In 10 years the world will be more concentrated around the big cities. People will travel more. Things will be more international, more global. The people will rely more on services, eat out more. IT will play an even bigger role.

Basically a continuation of the globalisation process that has been in full force for the past many years.

(Though I do think Germans finally will stop on using cash payments for everything.)
Interestingly, Apple apparently builds Linux for their chips for hardware bringup.
I'm pretty sure I read this exact same article around the height of popularity of Second Life - even more so than with Fortnite, since people actually ran their businesses inside Second Life, sold property, held concerts and performances.....and yet we didn't all shift into "cyberspace". I think as successful as Fortnite is, it will eventually fade away like everything else.
I hate my open office plan. It wouldn’t be bad if it didn’t include sales and customer support managers who are always on calls.

I’m using this time to accelerate my push to work for either Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure) in a mostly remote role (with lots of travel) in their consulting division.

I would have been happy working as an FTE for a smaller local consulting company, but I suspect that most of the small consulting companies are going to go bust. I don’t see too many companies wanting to start new initiatives. Microsoft
and Amazon have enough capital to both weather the recession that we are going to be in, enough large customers, and are always looking to keep their bench warm.
Bond was more of an assassin AND spy. A spassassin.
My understanding from the article: if the tracing functionality is in the OS, it can be enabled in the future without user consent.
The fact that currently we need to opt-in with an app does not really matter; in the future the government can decide to use it directly for whatever purposes.
Yeah.

But also, errorship will still capture(and send to datadog) any exceptions that you may have forgot to capture or log.
Fine. Assume all ventilators used for non covid19 patients. The maths stay the same.
13000 dead people tends to make headlines.
Yeah but it's neither encouraged nor fundamental. Whereas most common lisp code heavily emphasized loops and methods in an impure way.
CL is a systems programming language, while clojure always feels like a tool for tought, in the APL sense.
Is there any legitimate study regarding Chloroquine by now? Last thing I heard was that it is useless. Michael Burry sounds like any other right winger by now.
> but today next to nobody really thinks or talks about it.

How much that is similar on how Linux evangelization is also harder to find? Linux won the battle, Cloud computing is mainly an unchallenged Linux realm.

I see many institutions adopting Creative Commons and similar permissive licenses. So, there is no need to pontificate about Creative Commons anymore. From teacher to newspapers use Wikipedia as a reliable source. Even The British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org/terms-use/copyright-and-permis...) uses Creative Commons licenses.

For me it seems that Creative Commons is the status quo and the focus rather changes towards the content itself and what can be produced.
Yeah but you also wouldn't try to return in the middle of function argument declarations. I know it's a little weird, but just treat it as a declaration block and you won't have any problems, what you're proposing is impossible with react architecture as a whole anyways (because the next component would get wrong state cells, it's a stack).
Disorderly conduct is a pathetic law corrupt police use for everything they do not like. They do not care because they can shoot innocent people and get a played vacation as a thank you. They never have to pay, people always sue the state and the taxpayers pay for mistakes the corrupt cops do regularly. The worst thing that can happen to a corrupt cop is they get fired but immediately rehired in the next town. I saw many cases of this. The US police loves criminals because they are a criminal gang.
I'm 31 and still remember spending every weeknight doing 1 to 2 hours of long division problems in 5th grade. It was mind nimbingly boring.
You just misconstrued my saying "personal" and clearly meaning "personal criticism" as meaning personal things in general and then criticized me on that straw man. I don't hold that opinion at all.

You also went to "Orwellian discourse", which has a specific meaning, from a text by Orwell I mentioned. It seems to me like you got personally offended, interpreted my comment in the most uncharitable way, and chose to lash out at me instead, and I'm not sure why. I wasn't even talking about anyone specifically.
> Where is the need for more planning coming from? The amount of planning in my day did not changed at all.

There are no hard boundaries preventing your routine from changing into less-focused one over time. E.g. you may get away with a Netflix break in the middle of your work day now, because nobody is looking at what you're doing. And maybe you're susceptible to TV shows, and you'll soon find yourself watching TV shows when you should be working, and then trying to catch up with the work in the evenings or just having your conscience cause you distress. That's one example, maybe you're immune to that, but there could easily be others.

Also on my end, I'm stuck at home with my wife and 11 m.o. kid and, while my wife and I have an agreement that between ~10:00 and 18:00 I am in my office working, it's really hard to resist the urge to help with the kid (especially when she starts crying). It's taking an emotional toll on me. It wasn't that big of a problem before the pandemic, even though I've been WFH for the last ~3 years, because my wife would take the kid for a walk, or arrange playdates with her friend (who's also a mother of similarly-aged child and lives in the apartment building next to ours).
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To you and your parent comment, coming from outside of Google:

Anytime you get a large enough group of people, minimum size of one, evil will exist. That’s something we have to learn how to cope with, and sometimes we have to accept that we aren’t in control.

There’s sort of a rebel spirit in the USA where people see themselves as perpetuating evil if they’re not actively fighting it, boycotting this and that, throwing the tea in the Boston harbor.

On the flip side, I’d make the argument that one’s personal self-preservation is more important than “making a difference,” and that people have way less of a chance to make a difference than they give themselves credit for. As you said, quitting Google would not have much effect.

All of that said, I don’t see anything uniquely evil about Google compared to any other Fortune 500 or even much smaller mid-sized business. I think I could even make the argument that they are decidedly less evil than many much smaller businesses with approximately 200 employees.

And the upside of Google is tremendous. A lot of commercial products have an incredibly positive impact.

I just don’t think anyone has to feel bad for holding down a steady job, especially since we shouldn’t judge people on their employment prestige in the first place. Having the ability to choose employer based on moral compass is itself an indicator of privilege, so I wouldn’t want to look down on a cigarette company employee (especially individual contributors) for holding down that job, never mind a software company that makes a bunch of stuff that people largely like and benefit from.
I feel bad for the spiral here. We're now seeing the second-order of the depression spiral.

* First step was laying off people without jobs which could be done remotely.

* Second step is laying off people who could still be productive from home, but where there's less demand.

Unless we act with boldness and resoluteness, this will just continue to feed in on itself as the nation collapses.
> “Universal stay-at-home is the most devastating economic force in modern history"

Pursuing perpetual economic growth, combined with externalizing costs where possible, on a finite planet beats its devastation by far.

Among other things, that growth and externalizing costs led to factory farming and encroaching into wildlife territory that have caused pandemics to increase in recent decades. Not limiting that growth -- at least limiting the number of animals we pack together -- will create more pandemics. Limiting it won't solve everything but it will decrease a lot of problems, including pandemics.

Why pandemics will keep increasing: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...
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I see.

I have to say I'm slightly surprised, because I thought that top SWE like the ones working at "elite" companies such as Google were enjoying more freedom when choosing their employer.

Seems like it's hard for everyone then... (again, no judgement)
> Looking at XRays of lung tissue showing clear infection hotspots suggesting the infection has been breathed in, rather than come via the bloodstream (which would typically cause the whole lung to get infected at roughly the same time).

Poor argument, since most infected people are apparently asymptomatic, so what you see on X-ray are cherry-picked worst cases, not representative of the infection as a whole.

This being said, your hunch may be right, but so far there are still many things we don't understand clearly about how the infection occurs.
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You spelt wealth inequality incorrectly.
https://archive.is/7GeeQ
They're probably there for iTunes on Windows or similar.
The origins of lisp are that of a mathematical tool. Clojure is much closer to math with its referential transparency, immutable datatypes, deep proper object equality, and data first philosophy, than common lisp with its systems programming, lisp machine, need for speed approach.
You have a point, but 99.9% of consumers cannot follow your reasoning. What they will see is this:

"Apple and Google selflessly implement a new magic technology to save our lives. This involves a tiny little bit of contact analysis. Who would possibly resist!"

For these 99.9% the association "contact tracing good" has now been established. Companies will slowly go further and further in the future, because this event has established a precedence case.

Anchoring bad things to positive events and outcomes works. Advertising works, not for HN readers but for the general population.
You might also enjoy the works of Mariana Mazzucato: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/18/the-co...
We are drowning in platitudes while people lives are being lost.

People are having their lives stripped from them by economic policy choices that value unaccountable wealth accumulation combined with rent-seeking and corruption by a group of economic elites ever willing to promote the post-modern illusion that wealth and societal health is due to "job makers" and not the other way around.

If the economy and business cannot survive what is now only 2 months of interruption, then perhaps the economic system needs to be more robust and structurally sound. Deregulation has led to an unaccountable financial "industry" that produces nothing except churn in the name of "liquidity".

After the Great Depression, in addition to the economic stimulus in the US of WW2, the market and banking reforms led to a more proper focus on Main St and not Wall St. That focus needs to return.
I'm an old man, so let me show you how to frame thinking about blockchain.

I experienced the 90's, so let me tell you why email will never take off, since we have a trustworthy postal service:

1. Almost nobody you know has an email address, but everyone has a real address.

2. People want to have something they can touch, a personal, perfumed handwritten letter. Not a cold virtual thing with printed letters.

3. You can enclose a polaroid picture in an envelope, this is impossible with email.

4. If you really want, you can send a VHS video tape with the post. This is impossible with email.

5. They say email is faster, but if you need someone urgently, you just call them.

So therefore, email will never become as popular as sending envelope mails. I rest my case.
fyi, he is also the son of current Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
> It didn't take us 10+ years to find a useful purpose for smartphones or the internet.

It took decades before the internet and mobile phones had any significant market penetration, and then within the space of a few years there are fewer people without it than with it. Technology adoption typically follows a Gompertz function: initially slow, but then rapid adoption before declining as there's no larger audience to adopt it.

Bitcoin presents a fundamental shift in how we treat money which can have a knock on effect on every other industry, just as the internet did. If you think it's time to call it off after 10 years (despite continued new interest over that time), this is a bit short-sighted.

The issue with "cryptocurrency," is unlike Bitcoin, they don't actually provide us with any new innovation. They are scams designed to enrich their creators, who pretend that changing a few variables in a codebase can replicate the invention of Bitcoin. All "cryptocurrency" are useless because they don't have the permanent fix for inflation that Bitcoin has. They introduce inflation by design - they are fiat money made digital. Bitcoin's key innovation is the fix for inflation, which is now impossible to replicate because Bitcoin already exists.
But for the screwed policies/priorities of Politicians, #Covid19 could have been prevented in Rest of the World if ALL International Passengers were screened in Airports from January 22 https://archive.vn/mlTxn http://archive.vn/Z0pzQ
The main benefit is that you do not have to context switch from datadog metrics/logs to go look at your exceptions in sentry.

With errorship, all these are made available in one place; in your datadog account.

You also do not need to maintain two services. If you are already using datadog(maybe their APM and their logging and metrics service) then you might as well use them for error tracking instead of maintaining an additional account with sentry.

However, it is not a must that you give up sentry to use errorship. errorship will work just as fine, if you choose to continue with sentry.
Coronavirus: Care home deaths 'far higher' than official figures
This post shows how textual information about technological inventions can be used to visualize those inventions (what they can do, how they are related etc.)

It is based on an app that I am working on (see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22847429)
> Most users are not your typical HN reader.

Which doesn't necessarily mean that the typical HN reader is right and most users are wrong. Many users will be prepared to sacrifice a bit of a "freedom" that HN users prize highly; that doesn't mean they're wrong to do so, just that their priorities differ.
I agree with your comment, but how does "astute and useless" go together?
Ooof
> In 02004, futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that food consumption would be on the wane, as “billions of tiny nanobots in the digestive tract and bloodstream could intelligently extract the precise nutrients we require.”

Love the fact that Kurzweil is still somewhat taken seriously considering how poor his track record has been.
That probably works better at the elementary and middle-school-age ranges (I'm thinking pre-calculus, pre-high-school work). Once you get to traditional high-school level, I think even the 2 years older "merely gifted" kids will be holding back the younger truly exceptional.

100% agree that it's way, way better than the current state of the art which seems to me to basically be "as long as they aren't causing trouble, we're happy to have them bored in class and pulling up our standardized testing results..."
You were the one associating discussing remotely personal stuff with criticising others, and if that was not bad enough your personal take was that you felt the need to keep criticising others but resorting to subtlety just to keep shoveling criticism without sparking the reactions you're getting for doing the thing you want to do to others.

I repeat, your problem is not language. Your problem is that you manifest a need to criticize others. That problem is all on you.
A small question on ER diagram standards
So by using a dynamic language, you trade the cost of a long build time with possible runtime errors that would have easily been caught by the build system? Instead of paying the cost once per build you are now inflicting runtime errors on your customers.
The library calls back home to validate the key (URL: https://errorship.com/api/?errorshipLicensekey={errorship_li...). If it fails it raises an Exception. I don't think that this is the correct way to do this.

If your server is down, my application would crash too. Just cut the license validation out of the library. If I wanted to use the library without an license I could do so anyway.

edit: as noted by the author below, this is not the case :). If the server is not available, it won't raise an exception. I did miss that part somehow.
Your entire premise is that a UI switch does what you think it does. Thats pretty fucking naive.