skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's time to build - but yet most of us are legally mandated to stay home and NOT build.

"I'm from the government, I'm here to help" - inspiring confidence in nobody since forever.

Regulatory capture is the biggest problem stifling innovation today. The government needs to get the hell out of our way and let us get back to work.
An open source emulator for Cloud Spanner
To add what was an essential follow-up for me when I discovered this: Once you’ve enabled mouse=a, use the alt key to select text in vim for your system clipboard, rather than vim’s visual mode.
Analysts Can’t Explain Why Liberty TripAdvisor Shares Jumped 944%
I did that calculation for a similar objection a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881103
How does it compare to Mastodon or Diaspora?
i'm saying that other western nations have welfare policies in place that prevent supposed economic hardship and suffering from a downturn/recession/depression while america does not. simple as that.
The truth of it all is still very much not known.

Early antibody studies have shown that prevalence is much, much higher than positive case count would indicate.

Potentially 50x - 85x more cases than positive tests based on the Santa Clara / Stanford study.

In Boston last week they mass tested at the Pine St homeless shelter and found 50% of them positive and 100% of those were asymptomatic.

If when the dust settles the reality is that the curve wasn’t flattened at all, most everyone was already exposed, and the true IFR was more like 0.25%.... then we flushed $6 trillion down the toilet.
Yeah I have a couple of suggestions that come before that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914598
Bets Against the Stock Market Rise to Highest Level in Years
One cool feature of Scuttlebot is that if you and your friend are already following each other, you only need a connection to each other P2P to be able to send messages to each other. So if you're on a train with ad-hoc WiFi connected to each other, you can still proceed as usual and sync stuff.

I don't think this feature exists in Usenet and BBS's where there is a central server who masterminds the sync that everyone is doing. Same with email, requires a server (local or remote) to send/receive stuff while in SSB both local and remote are usually the same machine.
CDC all deaths data is available. FWIIW; the overall death rate is inarguably going down last time I checked.
:) I wonder how good a random person from HN will be at chess. Let's figure it out - https://lichess.org/0wzDnVfy

update: better than me. lol

Created a hn tournament (finished): https://lichess.org/tournament/rWPYf1fK

Created a second tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/Wg6CHtmp
> People are notoriously ineffective at predicting their behavior under different conditions. In late December they spend thousands of dollars for gym memberships they abandon by February. They say they'll never smoke or drink again before quitting many times. Psychologists call the effect empathy gaps.

That's not so much ineffectiveness of prediction as it is living through hopes and ideals. And that's human.
We got started with logo (on DOS PCs) at the same age in my school. It took me a long time to even realize it had anything to do with programming, just seemed like a wierd and cumbersome drawing program (compared to PC Paintbrush for example).

A couple years later I started messing around with QBasic & that really pulled me in even tho it took me a long while to learn even the basics.

Computer classes in school (until high school at least) seemed to have been generally be taught by teachers slightly less computer-literate than more advanced pupils in their class.
Zoom doesn't have to do much computing while in a meeting – except for video encoding, which is usually handled by the GPU. That's why "GPU Time" is high (as shown in Activity Monitor) and why your MBP gets hot.
Can you resolve exceptions like in Sentry? Having to look at the list of all exceptions and figure out which ones are of interest wouldn’t be ideal. (In the demo I did notice the level/priorities filters, but nothing resembling an unresolved filter.)

Also, nitpick: it’s 2020, maybe update the front page screenshot to Python 3? My immediate reaction seeing that py27 screenshot: is this even maintained?
A lot of ignorant people who are unable to understand the layers and complexities of things tend to group things together that really shouldn’t be. I see this happening in the world with coronavirus and even on hacker news.

It’s simply ignorance that creates undeserved prejudice.
-Patchwork-

(Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Standalone, beginner-friendly social view of Scuttlebutt.

Recommended for first-timers.

-Patchbay-

(Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Bleeding-edge, tab-based interface with experimental features.

-Manyverse-

(Android)

Off-grid mobile app, currently in beta.

-Patchfox-

(Firefox Add-on)

A new way to access Scuttlebutt packaged as a Web Extension for Firefox. Needs you to run sbot, or have Patchwork/Patchbay running.

https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/
i really like to develop software on my MBP, i must be in the 1% then :\
> Big tech (even Facebook) has stepped up and filled the void created by a level of federal incompetence

And yet earlier in the same post he complains about FANGS being unregulated. Why would you want the incompetent to regulate the competent and what good could that possibly do?
Finite State Machines with Python Coroutines
Still, does it make a net improvement over TLC?

Explaining: there are 100% TLC drives high in the benchmarks, as long as you look at 1tb+ category.

You only need 3 times more chips with TLC than MLC, which was still easily doable, and there were no equivalent sized MLC chips anyways.

Read speeds weren't a problem with any flash technology, but QLC will give you harddrive level read speeds at sizes below 1tb.

QLC will only take off in SSD's sized 5TB+ if per-chip speed will not improve dramatically, like at least twofold.

QLC + huge cache is not good deal cost wise in comparison to pure TLC.
> statistically valid random testing

Believe you missed a word in there?

Random testing for surveillance purposes would absolutely require testing asymptomatic people.

Not because you care if they're sick (though that's useful information), but because you care if the community has a change in the Sars-CoV-2 infection rate.
The article has an update pointing at a BBC article with a video interview: "Time Out - The Guns of James Bond" https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/time-out--the-guns-of-james-bo...

The video above can't be played in my country (BBC restrictions), I found a copy of it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuEs3aMvOk
I think the quality of X doesn't determine what X is.

npm is a package manager, it manages packages for you. Hard to escape that fact. It's a bit rubbish, but it doesn't make it _not_ a package manager.

Same with the USA, might be a shitty country, doesn't mean it's barely a country
I haven't found much jobs which offer remote working as they mostly based in the US.
What “study”? Are we not talking about what the parent poster wrote anymore?

And to answer your question, you see, there are these people called reporters, and they get a lot of information from very different sources. They filter out what is interesting and broadcast it to their audience. Perhaps you've heard of them.
When I last looked at Diaspora (many years ago,) it came across as an open source social network that you could clone and run yourself, and then there was a network of networks.

So, you could run the Diaspora code on your own server and then your server was part of the network.

If someone has a better answer than me, please upvote them. It's been years...

In this case, one primary difference is that a lot of Scuttlebut logic runs in the client that you install on your computer. You just can't point a browser at someone's server running Scuttlebut

Edit: (The difference is kind of like downloading a file in a browser vs downloading a file with a Bittorrent client.)
>You just cannot escape this. Want 100T?

That's my point. I said I don't see myself needing HDDs again. Unfortunately hn read that as me saying nobody ever needs HDDs again :/

I've got about 3TB of SSD space and gigabit internet. That leaves me with very little need for massive NAS space, but others might.
> People talk about Maven, but it was an internal revolt--not external influence--that challenged the issues with the project.

The revolt started internally despite a lot of effort to conceal the project, even from engineers working on it. And Google management started to stepback only after the press got involved.
An Epiphanous Experience of Pure Religiosity
"And you can't be honest to your employees all the time if all your internal communication is going to be published on bloomberg"

Why can't a company be honest when their statements are shared with Bloomberg? In fact, can you trust what they're saying if they're afraid of it making it to Bloomberg?

Generally when companies keep secrets, like salaries, it's so it can get away with treating people unfairly or lying to one group or the other.
That was mostly about what it wasn't. This might be a bit more to the point:

* https://scuttlebutt.nz/about/

Added: I found this descriptive article that talks about how it works:

* https://boingboing.net/2017/04/07/bug-in-tech-for-antipreppe...
It’s interesting also to note that even hospitals are going bankrupt during all of this, as the vast majority of the money is made on “elective” procedures.

Elective in this case doesn’t mean cosmetic, it means an appointment was booked at a certain time. The procedures are still necessary.

Hospitals are in fact mostly empty. It’s just the COVID units which were overwhelmed, and even there, most EDs across the US were never overwhelmed, and none of them across the country are currently overwhelmed.
That was insanely quiet. I’ve never heard a suppressor that quiet before!
While suppressors do not make the weapon quiet, the firearm could be outfitted with subsonic ammunition which by itself is very nearly silent[1] even with larger rifle calibers[2]. Though to be fair the ballistics on subsonic ammunition doesn't even compare to supersonic ammunition which is why they see little practical use. But for a 007 type character who normally engages in very close range that should make complete sense.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fb8CLXll9I

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdMr8tdL4I
Elif Batuman · Get a Real Degree · LRB
Developers are introverts. Domain-driven design can help to change it
He is. Carlsen is a unique player in many respects and he usually comes back even stronger from losses. To say that he is "losing out" to someone is a bit premature I would say.
Yes, the PP series were police guns, and the Gestapo were police.

It was also one of the first double-action semi-automatic pistol, making it popular with police forces the world over in the years after WWII, including (at least according to one source) the CIA

MAJ BOOTHROYD
Walther PPK. 7.65mm with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. Takes a Brausch silencer, with little reduction in muzzle velocity. The American CIA swear by them.
And honestly even the notion that the world during coronavirus should be that different is open to question. I agreed with taking action to delay the virus by a few months to buy time to both work out what was going on and figure out the most effective treatment strategies, but in Western countries people are seriously considering 12 month style lockdowns to protect potentially as low as 1% of the population who are well past the good years of their life.

In hindsight it may well be that the actuarial math didn't make sense - this isn't the first disease humanity has faced by a long stretch and we're potentially looking at severe self inflicted wounds for something that doesn't look like it is going to be the next Black Death or Ebola. The obvious historical precedent I remember is 9/11. Making any changes after 9/11 was a mistake the US never really recovered from. This would be a great moment to be a little hard-hearted and remember that everyone has to die of something.

We don't know what is going to happen from this economically. The economic forecasts are as flimsy and there is a lot of room for unpleasant surprises.
worth remembering, Lombardy alone has about the same population as Sweden (10M) and density 20 times higher (420/km2 vs 23/km2).

A no-lockdown policy may be reasonable for Sweden, Norway or Finland, while being completely unfeasible elsewhere.
"In what way does Scala have Python's convenience and Go's concurrency" - I think that is exactly what the book is trying to teach you. There are some pretty good examples in the free chapters
Where do the MBAs fall ?
Thank you! That's a great tip. (For me it's ⌘-Shift-E).
This isn't just a big business problem, there is plenty of regulatory capture on behalf of other interest groups (eg doctors keep the supply of new doctors low).

There is no enduring structural answer to this problem, it is fundamental to democracy.

The only answers are to struggle for our goals in the political and cultural arenas to hope to marginally improve the situation.
> The main benefit is that you do not have to context switch from datadog metrics/logs to go look at your exceptions in sentry.

Sentry lets you send exceptions to Datadog though?
Google Issues Warning for 2B Chrome Users
cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:K8ZviV...
Stripe keeps terminating my account
Hello everybody,

I am building an ecommerce platform allowing shops to sell their items through premade templates.I signed up on Stripe months ago and on 17/4/2020 i tried activating my account only to get an immediate rejection email stating that i was violating their ToS.

I sent my application on 03:38 AM and got rejected at 03:38AM.In their message they state that after a thorough review they decided that i was violating their ToS.After a back and forth with multiple support agents,they keep copy pasting the same message and saying that the decision is irreversible and basically kick rocks.

My business is not even launched how could i even violate their ToS?
I wish there was a way to leave a comment like

// todo(gravypod, techdebt): some description of the issue

and have that, when pushed up to a VCS, turn into an issue created, assigned to me, and labeled with tech debt. I know this exists in some of the walled gardens like Google's internal infrastructure but I think if this existed in the open world you'd see a lot more consistency between issues/comments and you'd enable more continual cleanup.

My guess is, in some less healthy organizations, tech debt comments get cleaned up more frequently than tech debt issues. Issues probably don't get assigned (a practice I have experienced at many companies) but comments are "right there" and can be rolled into other tickets in an attempt to always leave it cleaner than you've found it.
So to pick up on my specific arguments (politics, privacy)...

You could make this argument about any revolution in tech/communications: The printing press certainly had similar concerns (politics + propaganda), same with the telephone ("people are listening in"). Powerful shady people have always been in charge of giant telecoms networks - I'm not saying if that's good or bad, just how it's always been.

The biggest difference I can see is that the web (and the networks big tech maintain) are far more open and free. That comes with downsides like even easier spreading fake news, but I don't see this as an issue with big tech, but with people. We've always been like this, but the internet just makes it easier.
I can hit bullseyes at 25m with mine fairly reliably. The first trigger pull is a bit hard (if it isn't cocked), but after that it is smooth. Reliable way to safely lower the trigger is also a bonus. Quality and finish are as good as any of my pythons. Field stripping is super easy, the trigger guard is a lever which lets you just pull the slide right off.

What's not to love?
Agree. It’s a bag of knives. Used scala for many years at Twitter and other places and There’s always a massive combination of tooling and code reviews that eventually hammer the devs into shape.
Yes, you're right : my "culture of sleep deprivation" comment, even if it would happen to be true, is based on no significant evidence, sorry about that.
This may work, but the problem is, that'll encourage internet made of content creators whose goal is to get a revenue out of the websites.

There are certainly a lot of those, but they are not nearly the whole internet. A lot of interesting sites would not want to be on the "pay as you go model" at all!

For example, we are on the news.ycombinator.com in the thread discussing datprotocol.com, and you are pointing me to siasky.net. Right now, the top 5 HN pages are adecentralizedworld.com, handsonscala.com, arxiv.org, a16z.net, and torproject.com. None of those websites make money from webpage ads. None of them are likely to move to pay-as-you-go internet -- because they care about their audience and not website revenue.

I suspect that Sia's decentralized pay-as-you-go world will be much worse (productivity-wise and information-wise) than the current internet -- all the interesting technical/science blogs and docs would be missing; while buzzfeed clones will be plentiful. There might be occasional high-quality journalism website, but most of those are getting paywalls anyway, so will they justify all new protocol?
Citation on iOS not disabling Bluetooth (both classic and LE) when turned off in Settings (not the Control Center)?
and on top of it go is performant enough that 90% of the time you don't need them to begin with.
I didn't read the article or any of the comments. I think simple logic like this is what is lacking nowadays. If a build takes 4 hours, run it every 4 hours. Yes.

I didn't read the article or any of the comments. I don't care about the article, and certainly not about the comments. But if a build takes 4 hours, run it every 4 hours...that speaks to me.
I do something similar, but I print uptime instead of wall-clock time.

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/prompt....
Ok. If we take the observed data (0.15% mortality rate in the overall population) we can make hypothesis like “infection rate is 30%” and “infection fatality rate is 0.5%”. But being consistent and plausible doesn’t make them true. 15% and 1% are also plausible, as far as I know.
Why is Alireza Firouzja being referred to as "Iranian teen"? He's an international top player. I doubt that Carlsen was referred to as "Norwegian teen" when he was ranking in the top 25.

p.s: As always: responses > downvotes.
Small kids are a full time job 24 hours a day with no time off. Under lockdown, you can't even go out on date night or play dates (aka teamwork with other parents). They are also by nature incapable of being quiet for 8 hours.
I assert there are comparatively more ordered mental states, comparatively more correct patterns of thought, and comparatively healthier logical reasoning. None of that is black and white, and no one is perfect, but some do more harm, and some do more good. To claim otherwise is to abandon reason and hope when confronted with suffering. You have not done so; if not, why type at the internet?
The interesting question is how much physical effort was required to forage and hunt, and did that necessitate rest due to the lack of nutritional value offered by said food. Reading Guns, Germs, and Steel right now. The value of agriculture would have been that it allowed food to scale so that other members of society could specialize in something, develop knowledge, and use it, including metalwork, soldiering, scholarship, etc. That type of specialization was not possible when everyone was focused on being a hunter gatherer to survive, especially given that nutrition options were poor in most parts of the world compared to where agriculture did take off.
If it helps to hear you aren’t alone, let me tell you my situation. First I note that kids lost access to schools, daycare, friends, grandparents, cousins, playgrounds, and have their parents actively ignoring them through the day.

They also lost ice cream stores, toy stores, cinemas, etc if they were doing that as well.

They don’t have any control. Their natural instinct is to continue to play if they can and push the boundaries if they can. And when kids get depressed they often act out more paradoxically.

This leads to chaos if you’re also trying to work from home.

I feel for my kids. So I don’t apologize to others if they intrude on my work; they are people too and going through the crisis too. But yes it is extremely stressful some portion of every day.

I try myself to not blame them or myself for putting up with the situation, because that leads to frustration and anger and more stress; my wife and I are trying to create more and more capability in my home for the kids to self-entertain every day. We have a new daily structure. Goal charts. School time. Online learning games. Outdoor time. Messenger kids. Etc.

It’s not painless. My wife and I are taking shifts during daylight hours so I work well past midnight every night to catch up. That also is impacting my ability to stay positive.

But every day is a new day. Good luck and don’t be hard on yourself.
I wonder if there are languages where this question doesn't make much sense, because, say, both invention and discovery translate to the same word just meaning "creation".
One of the things I find most fascinating about this application and protocol is that information can be exchanged and updated without the Internet over USB[0] and the protocol is designed where it could be implemented to pass information over devices like goTenna.[1]

[0] https://boingboing.net/2017/04/07/bug-in-tech-for-antipreppe...
[1] https://community.gotennamesh.com/t/using-gotenna-for-scuttl...
cheers for the most original analysis of a domain (PL) using a farflung framework (psychoanalysis) i've seen in a long time. really good job! have you tried to publish in a journal?

incidentally you might enjoy this paper

https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~plotnits/PDFs/ap%20lacan%20and%2...
> Neither Go nor Python are appropriate choices for highly parallel intercomunicating code.

thats an extraordinary claim which needs evidence.
I think NYC is already at the "hospital collapse" level tho.

The quoted figure would be for a situation with hospitals in perfect operational state.

So the Sweden reasoning is: we will stay within normal capacity even at peak, and everything will be ok.

If infection rate is actually slow, that may work, but it's not obvious this is true.
How to Be a Libertarian in a Pandemic
I get most of work through networking. Otherwise, I've found Reddit and Facebook to be extremely helpful. Far more than LinkedIn or dedicated job boards.

How do I go about?

I introduce myself, mention relevant experience, list references. And, mind you, I'm not a dedicated opensource contributor. Hell, even my public GitHub repo is dated and not that rich. Again, my target market are not tech companies per se. I prefer being the tech guy in a non-tech company.

Mis dos centavos.
Show HN: I made a CLI with Rust to optimize and download assets from Figma
Extensible Dev Tools for Monorepos
The syntax definitely hurts adoption but I don’t think it’s due to google unfriendliness. The whole language is very small, so the usual need to google for documentation doesn’t seem to apply.

The real barrier to adoption is likely the same with most non-mainstream languages: unpopularity is a vicious cycle, just as popularity is a virtuous one.
The Ozone Layer Explained
Thanks for replying.

2 questions:

- what's the most negative in Google's actions in your opinion?
- do you have examples of routine critiques of Google that you feel are unjustified?
Sounds like academia.