skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of them to play with - https://github.com/pinceladasdaweb/Static-Site-Generators. I'm not sure which ones you've tried but one of the pitfalls of switching to a static site generator is that there's no easy way (other than trying them) to compare features. I'd still advise picking one that's based on a language you know (or want to learn). I'm using Hugo and find that I can make it do what I want ... it's also blazing fast.
In the gatekeepers' perspective, it was to postpone discussions on policies that would be extremely difficult to implement well. If the Republicans had done their job as well like usual, we wouldn't end up in this awkward situation of having an unpresidential president, but here we are. Freedom has a funny way of getting what it wants, like water flowing downhill.
Yes and no.

The house is on fire. Thats a fact. That doesn't mean its okay to throw more fuel on it.

Privacy was dead but GDPR and CCPA are turning that around and gaining more traction in states and countries.
> but that would mean ending the middle eastern wars

Do you want the terrorists to win? >:|

It is a remarkable bellweather of US politics that despite being a relatively peaceful polity the voting public have been unable to drag the country out of a permanent state of expensive and wasteful war. I think both Trump and Obama campaigned as pro-peace candidates so it is a presumably a popular position with voters.

US foreign policy is almost inexplicable when it comes to war. The death, destruction and raising a generation Middle Easterners with excellent motivation to hate America seems like a foolish long term strategy. It also doesn't look profitable.
I don't think we are going to settle the debate utilitarianism vs kantianism in this thread but I'll try at least to defend one side.

I didn't use the term "economic casualties". An economic crisis causes a huge amount of human suffering on massive scale, hardship on tens if not hundreds of millions of people. And this itself may have its own health consequences, but I think human suffering in all of its forms needs to be considered.

But even if we assigned zero weight to that human suffering, if we go the route of pure "death minimisation", it is not even clear that the economic collapse route is less lethal.

For two reasons: the first is that it is unclear what additional mortality the virus would cause vs a regular year. The median age of a covid19 victim seems to be in the 80s, and almost always (99% based on Italian figures) with some co-morbidity. It is not clear how many would have died within 18 months of something else. The other thing is that economic collapse does cause deaths also, for instance through political unstability. I think it is fair to say that the arab spring was triggered by the economic hardship caused by the 2008 crisis. And I don't know that we would have had a WW2 without the 1929 depression.
Astute + useless = pedantic.
I hear your point, but I was interested precisely in Google/FB employees' feelings about their own company, not in objectively defining "evil".

Not sure I see the point you want to make with COVID-19 though... You mean there is "worse" evil going on somewhere else?
Or at that point, just torrent the movie?
- You owe somebody money and a court declares that you pay up and uses a legal warrant to take your car as collateral.

What use is your internet token now?

The problem with tokens which merely proxy ownership of something else is that this link can be undone by humans in the real world, and then the ledger does not map to reality. If you need the ledger to map to reality, you need somebody who has the authority to adjust the ledger without having every other user of the ledger sign off such modifications. Inevitably: the ledger ends up being controlled by a single authority - at which point you figure that the blockchain was actually a waste of time because the central authority could've done it cheaper with MySQL.

It only makes sense that the internet token represents ownership of the token itself. If it is a proxy for ownership of something else, it is no better than a penned signature on paper. It's not the paper that is valuable, but the car.

However, with Bitcoin, it is the bitcoin itself which is valuable. The bitcoin isn't a proxy for some other wealth, but the token encapsulates the wealth. Given that we have a token which can encapsulate wealth, what purpose are there for N other tokens which purport to do the same thing?
I agree with you.

Maybe the main point I wanted to bring across is that blockchain will not live in the present, it will live in the future.

The polaroid picture in my email comparison it really nice in that sense. Nobody was taking digital photo's. For a long time it was even unclear if digital photography would ever surpass traditional. (and some companies made some painful decisions here).

Nothing important is in the blockchain yet, so what can you really accomplish with smart contracts now anyway?

But I agree with you that it is unclear if it will take of or not in the future. But you cannot dismiss a technology because it is not viable in the present.
Typically, in this context, 'aerosolized' means that the virus is persistent in the air. Droplet is different, it doesn't persist.

Also, much of the point of the article is to bring attention to the circumstantial evidence.
flag. flag. flag.

This post is a better recipe for a political flame war than a productive meaningful conversation.
I think if anyone has benefited from the coming of AlphaGo and Leela, it's Magnus himself. 2019 was such a renaissance for him partly because all these intuitive positional lines with pawn sacrifices opened up, and I felt in the years previous to that that his love for the game seemed slightly on the wane as he regularly became mired in others' Stockfish prep (while still being able to mostly pull it out due to endgame technique).
Most of the people that spent time in the room didn't get infected.
This is, at best, mindless ego stroking. But then again, I did not really expect better from pg.

Enjoy your jerk, hackers.
A generation or two ago, people just ignored their children. They told them to go play outside until the sun come down. Now expectations have changed. These expectations make it impossible to have a decent amount of "alone" time during this quarantine. This renders many people unhappy. We love our children, but we can't handle having them with us 100% of the time. This has never been "normal".
I watch a variety of games on Twitch, and I am fairly sure that no player would claim they play optimally while commentating themselves and explaining their thought processes.
I work almost entirely remote anyway so that aspect isn't all that much different. The differences (in addition to general stress level) are:

-- As you say, there aren't activities like theater to go to

-- I normally am doing 1/3 travel, which is where a lot of my in-person interaction happens. (And essentially all of my professional F2F.) If events are canceled well into the fall, assuming that society is otherwise reasonably opened back up, I'll have to come up with some sort of Plan B that involves taking some significant time off.
I feel so lucky that my elementary school, in the 80s, had a special-education coordinator who recognized gifted and talented as part of her job, co-equal with developmentally disabled. Not all special needs are remedial, after all.

As a result, my parents had an ally who knew the workings of the system, had resources and connections, and would go to bat for me/us when the rest of the administration had their heads in the sand.

The end result was that I had some time each day to work on my own projects, and my teachers were required to make accommodations. I ended up leaving the school anyway because of one perniciously evil teacher and I'm still in therapy for the sequelae, but there were definitely some bright spots.

I can't say everyone aims 'em right, but there are definitely hammers to swing against the traditional structure and the disservice it does to gifted and talented students. In recent years, I understand that the guidelines around individual accommodation plans have only strengthened. I'd imagine there must be folks out there equally adept at making them work. Some of them might just need a reminder that their job includes this function.
This is so far from my perception. I find half the leaders around me are introverts, the other half extroverts.
Regarding short/long commutes, the real problem is why people are having long commutes - it's because most jobs are concentrated in small districts far away from human settlements.

It's a very old school way of thinking, exacerbated and encouraged by urban planning schemes, tax deductions if you open an office in X instead of Y etc.

It might not be easy to fix in many cases, but we must start decentralization if we want a better world. The pinnacle of centralization is France, where virtually everything important and interesting happens in a few areas of Paris, and putting stuff in Paris is the default, no-brainer decision.
An introduction to modifying a Linux kernel module
Coronavirus requires droplets to spread. Those droplets can be very small, and carry a ways through the air (which is what this article is proposing, not that the virus was carried through the ducting), but they are orders of magnitude bigger than the virus itself, and would absolutely be caught by a typical filter.

There are viruses that can spread that way. Measles, for instance, is known for doing that. Coronavirus can't (as far as anyone knows, and we know quite a lot about that).
Maybe I should have been more precise in my post, but I was interested in people's subjective definition here, not in providing a definition myself (not feeling qualified for that).
Totally agree. When I'm on Mac, I go with Sequel Pro, but on Linux DBeaver is unfortunately the best. It's not bad, its just way too cluttered. I am liking the direction Table Plus Linux is going.
His name was Freeman Dyson
That's great if you are Napoleon and have the power to just force the matter. EU comes to mind... But I don't want your rules. I want my rules. There's plenty of world to take from in order to do just that, without trying to impose yourself on the rights of others. In the end, Lidl didn't respect Norwegian conditions. Moreover, they didn't respect Norwegian customers and so most were quite happy looking the other way once things started to go badly for them. In the end, that's on them. Because they wanted to impose their rules, instead of respecting ours. Outside of that, I think we can come to an agreement on petty things like which side of the road to drive on (the Right side, of course ;) ), and what kind of electrical plug to use (I've noticed that the British one could seem a little safer). Perhaps we could come to a compromise?
This is an argument for the ownership part, but doesn't dismiss the history part.

Ownership is indeed trickier, but nothing says that you have to undo previous entries, you can add a new entry tagged with the "official authority" certificate.

Central authority will remain a big problem in the car industry, also because cars go over country borders all the time.
Cite your sources.

I spent years at Google. The trajectory was obvious even a decade ago. There were many reasons to leave and many of us did. I didn't have to wait for a line in the sand because we knew what was on the horizon and leaving was easy. (I did not have a family then, which is a consideration and why I left one of my last startups. Baby on the way, acquired by a big corp and knew it would be easy to become chained to that desk.)
Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems
In the U.S., it's pretty broadly assumed that in hot-spots like NYC, the death rate is also being under-counted. Apparently, those who die in their apartments are not added to the official death-toll. Another method for finding these excess deaths is to compare January or February to the rate in the same month of 2019 and then extrapolate the expected death rate for April 2020. This number will obviously be lower than the actual death rate so the difference should be considered COVID-19 related. Note that even this is probably low since other factors like deaths from car accidents (which I would expect to be down this year) aren't considered. Since we're burying many of the dead without testing, I think the best numbers we're going to get will come from statisticians/actuaries.
Unfortunately for me, I was a remote worker already (worked there for a month shy of 6 years). Hopefully, my position (React/Node FS Dev) is in high enough demand after all this to resume working remotely with a comfortable salary. I've already had offers for remote but they require me to relocate after the pandemic is over, which is really clogging up the job boards.
A few years ago I was considering applying for a job at FB. The very first stage was linking your FB account. No thanks.
The ribbon bar was when I started noticing this mess. I liked the extended tab concept but the UI was inconsistent because some things were accessible through the tabs but others you had to go through the button, in a way that has never made sense to me.

I do blame monopolies for this in part. When some single thing dominates (office suite, web browser, whatever it is) the comparator shifts. It's no longer "how do these 6 things compare", it's "is what's new here entertaining enough and not too much of an inconvenience to cause me the pain of abandoning an entrenched tool?" So then users convince themselves the improvements are progress because it's always implicitly compared to the alternative of struggling against the lack of choice of other products.

That's not all of it by any means, but I do think it created a context for what's deemed acceptable ux-wise.

MacOS isn't all it's cracked up to be though and is maybe another historical source of this mess. I use osx daily and it's much, much, much too easy to lose track of open windows. Dialogs open and you don't even know they're there, and you find windows open that you thought were closed weeks ago.

This doesn't happen with a lot of other OSs, or at least used to not happen.

My favorite UX has always been through KDE, although I haven't had the opportunity to as much as I used to because of work reasons.
I have moved to helixteamhub.cloud . Anyone else who still prefers mercurial to git have a preference for hosting?
> It's not 'a lot of evidence' either way.

It presents 22 verifiable and relevant references. It unequivocally presents information which makes a 'wet-market' theory stand on a weak foundation.

I keep asking the same question to these accounts that question the validity of this 'lab accident' theory:

Can you provide verifiable evidence for the widely accepted 'wet-market' theory?
Being in quarantine with your kids is very different from being with your kids under normal circumstances. My 5 year old is going stir crazy and we can't really go places. My wife is on maternity leave with our 3 month old, which is already hard. Meanwhile I'm trying to work and help out with the kids as much as I can, cook, do laundry, while trying to stay sane. We're hanging on by a thread.
Not discussed in this, but important in understanding Free Cultural Works: how does the person who creates a Free Cultural Work pay their bills while doing it?
Something that only understandable by the group of 50s scifi freaks that make this website, I think. Barely has any real meaning.
I had also noticed the lack of mention in the docs, so I reached out to datadog sometime last year. Their response was that it doesn't have any limits or quota
A breath of fresh air-How air quality has improved during the coronavirus crisis
The history can be managed by having every log entry be hashed and each new entry refer to the previous hash. Each time the log is updated, the new hash is reported to the vehicle authority, which can prevent modifications to the history.

No blockchain needed.

Of course, this can be sidestepped by having work done on the vehicle and not updating the log. How do you prevent that?
In the new series, at the beginning of Casino Royale Bond literally 'earns' his 00 by killing 2 people.

He's not a spy, he's a thug, and the movies aren't really confused about that.
Indeed donations are far, far from enough.

GPS, GSM, fiber optics, Internet, touchscreens, semiconductors, satellites, most of chemistry and aviation - all were researched and developed using taxpayer money.

And it took billions.

Now all public R&D is being destroyed and yet FLOSS fits exactly in the category.

We desperately need large, global, R&D funding not some people throwing some bucks at patreon.
Being smart means you're bored a lot. Being bored means you find other things to occupy your time. Being poor means you have fewer good options, and are more likely to settle on the bad ones.

I think being smart and being poor multiply each other's effects. Most of the troublemakers were really smart, and got into shit because they had nothing better to do. Outsmarting the teachers was fun, making jokes meant you had to know exactly what was going on in order to skewer it, sneaking around was a thrill and a show of skill.

Anecdotally, one of the most brilliant kids I went to school with was also a teen mom, because yeah, gotta keep busy somehow. And that was in one of the most affluent and highest-rated districts in the state if not the country. I can only imagine it's much worse where there are fewer resources.
Is that right?

My understanding is that given someone else's daily key, it can tell you whether you were in contact with that specific key.

So anonymity relies on not knowing who had that key. But the (as yet unspecified) authority collecting "infected" keys will certainly know who submitted what, so you are relying on their secrecy.
Now that we start doing anti-body tests, there seems to be multiple studies surfacing all pointing to a much higher than anticipated number of people infected. A few sources pointing in that direction:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/124944656101010637...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/124902067755179622...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LG-so-8qwg
The fact is, they post their numbers every year. You can download their annual audit reports. They just did not state those numbers on this article.

And this layoff is not because the budget changed now, it’s to prepare for that.

Don’t demand to be spoonfed, just pay attention little more.
I don't hate my kids, but I can either work from home or do childcare at home, not both at the same time. Trying to do both well is impossible (at least for me), and extreme annoyance is an inevitable result.

Taking care of kids for the day while parents are busy working is one of the many key functions of modern education institutions, and they're not fulfilling that function right now - this gap needs to be filled somehow, and it's not an easy gap to fill without major changes of how millions of people work. E.g. going back to a situation where one spouse is a dedicated housekeeper and is pretty much forced not to work is technically a solution but I'm not sure if we as a society really want to go there. And the usual alternative solutions e.g. using extended family/grandparents for childcare, or cooperating/sharing childcare in a community tend to be explicitly prohibited by the social distancing measures.
Trying to undo your downvote brigade. People don’t want to hear it, but it’s the truth. Density without serious mitigation efforts results in massive spread, see New York.
> What they will see is this

That is not at all what consumers see where I am (Austria). The news of Apple/Google doing contract tracing or supporting it has been very badly received here. People would rather trust a centralized system run by PEPP-PT than a decentralized system aided by Google/Apple.
You're the second person who says they can't take walks, and I'm quite surprised. Here walks are definitively allowed, as long as it's near the house and people keep their distance, and yet our infections curve has already peaked.
Trump’s hype for state lockdown protests puts Twitter and Facebook’s new
> unique environment that reduces replication rate

Scandinavia.

Low population density together with a population that finds one metre separation to be less than usual and two metres perfectly manageable.

Saw a joke recently, not sure where now: Swedes were alarmed to be told to stay one metre apart as that was rather closer than they were used to.
Googler here.

I don't consider the company evil. In fact, I think it's leading the way that we talk about ethics in computing. People talk about Maven, but it was an internal revolt--not external influence--that challenged the issues with the project.

Secondly, there's a lot of criticism about supposed violations of "Don't Be Evil". As a multi-national company, it's almost impossible these days to avoid morally complex issues. Microsoft, on the other hand, has recently been seeing in much better light due to Nadella's leadership in the post Ballmer-era. But Microsoft never had the "Don't Be Evil" and isn't getting criticism for its, e.g. defense contracts. I don't consider Microsoft to be an immoral company either.

Concerns about privacy and data handling are warranted. There should be stronger consumer protections in there area, and legislation like GDPR is good, and should be more widespread. I honestly don't think Google is the company to worry about here (or at least the biggest threat). It's companies who aren't as closely watched that are the highest risk to you. Google is pushing the state-of-the-art here, with efforts like differential privacy. From what I can see, Google respects your PII and has more advanced internal mechanisms for handling it than any other company I know about.

IMHO, Google tried to be as transparent as possible in this area. Concerned about data collection? Review your activity on myactivity.google.com. Want to move all of your data out, or back it up? takeout.google.com Location data? Google literally regularly emails you a report on your location summary so you know what's going on.

Is it perfect? No. Is there valid criticism? Sure. Could it do a lot better in many different areas? Absolutely.

Is it evil? I honestly just don't see it. Feel free to ask about individual issues if you disagree.
Conway's Game of Life in Google's JAX
This.

Single folks without children have no gauge on reality during a lockdown, especially if they still have jobs and are working from home.
The problem here is overwhelmed hospitals.
For nations like the US, this is true.

For somewhere like Australia? If it became truly necessary, that’s a small enough market to write off if necessary.
Why did u have them in the 1st place in that case?
What Do Corona and Chinese People Have in Common?
You haven't explained how blockchain is both useful and necessary in finance. The useful part you asserted without elaborating, the necessary part I don't see.
The way cities are talked about like utilities in NA seems utterly bizarre to me.
America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure. What Happens Next?
TracePrivately – open-source sample app using Apple's contact tracing framework
Actually, in all the Bond movies, I don't recall him ever having a mission to spy per your definition. Spies are typically used in situations between countries and many of Bonds foes clearly weren't countries, e.g., Goldfinger, Dr. No, Drax. They were just super criminals without allegiance to any country. The closest classic spy movie I recall was From Russia With Love but even that involved SPECTRE more than Russian.