skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of shark biting at cable, etc. Remember these cables just sit on top of the ocean floor.
> It's also a really convenient place to get news, because since all news sources are government approved then there's no fake news to worry about. (and by fake news I mean sensationalist stuff, not anything serious relating to politics. I obviously understand the shortcomings with such a system when it relates to criticism of the government)

It's also really nice because you don't have pseudo-science crap on your feed (since sharing that stuff is a fineable offense).

Every single word of that reads like exactly the reasons any media company that wants to maintain their own reputation should pull out of Vietnam and anywhere else that they have to compromise their content.

And post a list of countries that have made requests to remove any content specific to that country.
Not only that, it's precisely the 21st of April, Rome's birthday just went by :)
Just what I needed! (I read French, but not science ;)

Thank you so much.
If you really believe "Communist revolutions" are the path of least death, I have a Great Leap Forward to sell you.
Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought
This also is the same in English. Colloquially it just means you're not at the beginning or the end. "I'm in the middle of the forest" doesn't mean you're at the centre.
Whether the virus is permeating is the point. If the virus has broadly spread across society, and it sounds like we're agreed that it has, then you have to normalize by population to get useful numbers.
Isn't it pretty much established science, not confirmation bias, that smoking is indeed universally bad? I mean, even if a handful of good things may come from it, it's still overwhelmingly bad for overall health. To be clear, I'm talking about the act of inhaling a combusted substance, smoke, not vapor.
easytiger has multiple comments here attacking the same parent(s):

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easytiger

You may need to enable your "showdead" option to see some of them. I'm not sure how I've said anything more uncivil and aggressive than calling people "incels", lingo that is more suited for Reddit and 4chan than HN.

I'm just baffled at how some people get so angry at someone for saying maybe we shouldn't be killing something.
The U.S. Air Force Wants Flying Cars
Anyone want to guess how long it takes for an issue to be made for rclone to support it ;-)

Seriously though I couldn't see a public API - can anyone see it?

(Rclone author)
It seems to work like this with most programs that aim to help the little guy: the big guys will take their share. It always happens with tax cuts and it was to be expected with the coronavirus relief. And without doing that any bill will be lobbied to death.
Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees
Well, yes, but until we fix something at a societal level which takes decades some poor people on a given street struggle because all the new buildings increase people and car density but not parking space. Which means, it makes sense to apply the rule first, and then fix society and then we can turn that excess parking space in gardens if need be.
With a $2 trillion bailout, it's inevitable that some of the money gets misdirected. Even with the best oversight (and Trump fired the person in charge of oversight), at this scale, significant amounts of money will be mis-allocated and needless to say, the press will report on it, which will make it more difficult to do future bailouts, even if they are necessary.

I wonder if we would have been better off just sending every American a check and calling it a day. Rather than supporting companies who indirectly support workers, you just support workers directly (sure... make a few case-by-case exceptions for "cannot fail" businesses).
Wildlife, not wildfire!

Things like a whale getting entangled in it, and then using all its strength to get free, breaking the cable.
This leaves out nomadic populations that have had continuous populations for thousands of years. E.g. in Canada, 14,000 years. Because they can't put a pin in a map. So some really old, continuously inhabited areas in the world. Blows away the named ones.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-oldest-north-a...

{edit} wow who knew there were so many militant amateur archaeologists, or that the mere mention of nomads would create such a passionate backlash! Folks are getting really owly in their isolation I guess.
On your final point about the drinking age:

The minimum purchasing/public drinking age is 18 (other than a single pint with a meal), but there's no practical restriction on parents letting their kids drink in private. My parents encouraged me once I was around 16 to join in with the adults whilst they had drinks. This led to me getting silly drunk a couple of times but with proper supervision. Same thing with going to some college house parties with 6th form friends - their parents knew that at the end of the night all the kids we're being picked up by their family.

The problem is if parents don't consider this and just ban drinking for kids up until they leave the house and aren't under their control any more. That's what causes people to go out of control at Uni since it might be literally their first experience with alcohol, or at least more than "1 glass with a meal" etc.
What does an art museum's art receipt 'termination clause' look like?

When one lodges their collection with a museum "in perpetuity" I'd expect the museum to have a disposal clause that lets them dump non-profitable works?

Works gifted to nations seem to get sold off occasionally, I'd guess that's by virtue of renovation clauses that allow the receiver a veritable carte blanch?
Incessantly death in Kano state got all Nigerians worried after 190 people were
I have done exactly this and found it to be a frustrating and thoroughly thankless exercise. No stakeholder for development teams care about any of this, and your allocation of shared resources plummets as people realize they can dump problems on your team and instead focus their attention on the ones who do not care.
> Spillville and Protivin were so Czech even when I was in school that I had bilingual classmates, because their grandparents spoke mostly Czech, still.

My grandparents were from southeastern Iowa, and I understand that their town was mainly German-speaking. It was pretty established, too: they grew up speaking it as third-generation Americans.

It stopped with their generation though, their town was harassed quite a bit during WWI, and that pushed people to assimilate.

It really interesting how much linguistic diversity America had that's only gone extinct within living memory.
The USS Roosevelt data would be an amazing sample set-- vape and snuff use is very prevalent among sailors.
This. Programming isn't difficult, you can teach it to an adult in a one-week course and I've taught the fundamentals (if statements, functions, loops) in a two hour session with multiple adolescent friends, the core concepts are mostly intuitive for anyone with a simple grasp of logic. What is difficult is using those systems to understand larger systems, and all of the other crap that comes in programming.

In the last week I have a deal with a friend of mine -- I didn't feel comfortable accepting a gift from him in return for nothing, so I offered to teach him programming. So far, two one-hour sessions later he has a grasp of a lot of the concepts, but the two main things he struggles with are: the environment (i.e. stuff like the command line, etc.), and syntax. I'm teaching him python, in the first one-hour session we learned about variables includings lists and integers, if statements, statements/expressions, and function syntax. We used the second session to refamiliarize some of the syntax for those things, including stuff like telling him about leading whitespace, putting brackets around array indices, and the rest of the time just getting a python file into a folder and getting there in the command line so he could run the file.

He's a very smart person, but his lack of familiarity with the symbol keys on the keyboard, along with the lack of the ability for the command line to cope with spaces in filenames, made it difficult for him.

His main problems aren't knowing how to use the concepts -- he knows what he wants to do -- but the syntax and grammar of the environment constantly get in his way.
Kids definitely can grasp this on a very tangible level. I just explained function input and output to my 8yr old and she immediately said "Oh so like food is input and poop is output!" Yes we are all functions!
No it tells me I was looking to get a really smart HN comment by somebody more competent than I in the relevant subject that would explain to me patiently why I was wrong - don't worry though - I shall continue to look.

on edit: I see some other people have replied with more cogent explanations as to why my worries are probably wrong.
To back this up with some data, this article has information about tests per capita: https://www.thelocal.se/20200414/understanding-swedens-figur...

If Sweeden had been testing at the rate of Norway or Germany, they would not be in the middle of that cases per capita graph. This is despite Sweeden's infection growth being ~15 days behind Italy's, e.g. enough time for a lockdown to have almost entirely prevented it.

So it seems clear that Sweeden's policies have made infections worse. The questions that remain are:
1) Will their peak infection rate go over hospital capacity?
2) Will they have economic benefits from having population immunity faster?
> Education is a series of increasingly smaller lies

Could you be swayed to the more optimistic "Education is a series of decreasingly incomplete truths"? I'm a math professor, and we do tend to be able to tell our students the truth, nothing but the truth, but very much not the whole truth, at least in every part of the curriculum that I've seen.

(That we're able to do so doesn't mean no math teachers lie, but it's not as integral—ha!—a part of the curriculum as in physics, say.)
The big difference is also that German high school students are split into three different schools with the top school (Gymnasium) being much harder than US high schools.

In US high schools, students are not split and obviously they can't advance as fast.
There’s plenty of pop and pop-adjacent music out there that has depth, complexity, and holds up well to repeat intense listening. Radiohead, Flaming Lips, most of El-P’s work.

What I think is completely missing in today’s music is the prevalence of covers. If you want, you can spend a lifetime listening to Bach sonatas, by any amount of different performers, but if there’s a specific Radiohead song you like, there’s only one and that’s all you get.
This XKCD reminds me of how far we got. Identifying objects on a picture quite easy nowadays. This conversation would be something like: I need 100000 pictures with birds and 100000 without birds.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. I can confirm that Redux will be around for a very long time, and it's easier to use it now than ever before.

Please see my post "Redux - Not Dead Yet!" [0] for information on how Redux compares to other options like context in today's React ecosystem.

Also, note that you should be using our new official Redux Toolkit package [1] to write your Redux logic, our "Style Guide" docs page [2] provides guidance on recommended patterns and best practices, and our Redux templates for Create-React-App [3] come with RTK and React-Redux hooks set up out of the box.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet...

[1] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[2] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide

[3] https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux
> This is where my credulity was stretched. It's interesting and exciting when you first learn about it only if it breaks a rule you've long had in your mind and enables you to do more interesting things.

It's still a new way of using a new idea. People (including children) pick up all kinds of assumptions along with the information that they obtain. If you describe something with certain examples, and then do something that isn't seen as possible or covered in those examples, that can be very surprising.

Different children are different people and therefore have different expectations and blindspots.
As it happens it was also possible (although not really practical :-) to run two VGA cards in the same machine. The secondary card was left uninitialised by the boot process (since it would have conflicted with the primary), but it was possible to download the ROM, call into the initialisation routine (thus firing up the card and making it the primary), and thereafter switch which card was the one currently mapped into the PC address space to control which display you were writing to.

Source: I managed to achieve it once, although only with a great deal of help from people on Usenet...
I think the welding takes more than a year. The lubricant settling probably depends on the quality of the drive and the ambient temperature. And I guess the ball bearings would be pretty tolerant (since you only have to move them a little to get the lubricant on them again), it's more likely that the heads would stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction#Hard_disk_drives
Apologies. I gave the wrong link. This is the better link for your situation.

https://www.selfauthoring.com/
Voting doesn't do sh.. if the system is inherently broken.
So you have to charge $1000 + ($40 % of users who return + cushion) for the product. That means non-Stripe businesses can start to out-compete you on cost.*

If you charge your customers more you will still end up paying more. The $40 was based on a 4% fee. (I'd like to make a correction, as in my case it is actually 3.5%)

What makes it so that Stripe has such a unique position and can impact your costs and competitiveness to such a large degree?

Stripe and PayPal are the biggest players in this space. There are others but they are either built on top of these two or do not have the easy API's and/or integration with other 3rd party services. PayPal was the first to start keeping the fees for refunds, and then Stripe followed.

Stripe is a great company otherwise, and I will continue being a customer but that doesn't mean that I can't get upset over such an blatant money grab.
Those hospitalized tend to be elderly. How many frequent smokers live to be elderly?
The Pandas DataFrame: Make Working with Data Delightful
My girlfriend and I vape and caught the bug in March. I had no idea the phat cloudz were what saved us. Honestly, neither of us much felt like vaping when the fever was bad. But I had to read this paper twice to make sure it wasn't saying the opposite. This is interesting because the news and politicians have been reporting that smokers and vapers are at risk. I never say any information to back that up, especially vaping. I think I saw one study recently where they concluded that vaping had basically no effect on outcome. I should take a look at that study again if I can find it.
This is really nice, buying it right now. Would like for an option to take a screenshot from this app itself, as opposed to Mac OS X's native screenshot taker.

i.e. if I have a power point presentation open up that I'm "drawing" on top of, would like an option to screenshot/record my screen, so I can save whatever annotations I have made.

Also would like to be able to add text boxes and type (as an addition).
It's the same every year: learn and completely understand the basics - the rest will follow.

If you know how latest react works you don't need redux or rxjs as hooks can solve most problems in a reusable way.

Example: https://github.com/oldboyxx/jira_clone
To be fair at least one of those three you posted is still a conspiracy theory, unless you have a source about the virus being man made - I don't think there's any evidence outside of coincidence.
What face masks do against coronavirus – Vox
Nomads, practically by definition, do not continuously inhabit cities for long periods.
Making your code so simple (and well documented!) that it can be understood by programmers with much less experience than you, while not compromising speed or functionality.

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

-Albert Einstein
oh neat, thank you!
On the other hand, I find it hard to imagine you can make a multiple year degree out of just programming. Hence why the best courses will have a mix of both practical and theory.
I've always thought of smoking as a tradeoff:

Pros:

* Bumming/offering a cigarette is a low-key entrance into social groups, which is a big deal for people with social anxiety like me.

* Productivity: nicotine is absolutely the most effective nootripic I've found, and doesn't seem to lose this effect with time like coffee.

Cons:

* Health: even just nicotine from the patch is associated with heart and vascular issues--other methods of administration have worse effects (snuff seems to be actually the worst, as mouth cancer sets in faster/earlier than lung/throat cancer does from smoking, with similar mortality rates).

* Cost.

* Addiction.

The tradeoff never seemed worth it to me so I've never smoked beyond a cigarette/cigar here and there, but I can totally see why people do it.
Fun work! Thanks for sharing.

I was somewhat reminded of Wt [1], and I still wish that were open source. Also reminded a bit of Blazor [2].

[1] https://www.webtoolkit.eu/widgets/layout/

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/?view=as...
I remember reading about the Soviet physicist Landau and I believe they made the argument that the difference between the US and the USSR is the US tried to bring every student to as high a level in math as they could, whereas the USSR was more interested in just selecting the best math students and didn't worry so much about the rest.
Patreon is at stage 3: https://www.kyefox.com/2020/04/09/patreons-future/

Everyone but the people at the top are getting tired of all its problems and the uncertainty, but where else do you go? So far, no one has an integrated replacement. You can build a Patreon in pieces connected by APIs, but Patreon is (unfortunately) the only place you can get everything in one place for the price.

WordPress is a common alternative for membership sites, but it comes with expenses that scale up in proportion to how little you want or are able to do yourself. All the plugins for WordPress that do membership and file access control are in the $100-300/year range. Then there's the cost of hosting: cheap if you don't mind running everything yourself, more than the plugins if you get managed hosting. It's worth it, but you need the money to start, and you lose the ease of everyone already having a Patreon account.
What does the product look like, how does it work, features, etc.?

I see from the live donation list that people are throwing money at it. Am I missing something, has someone trusted/influential tweeted this out?
At the shotgun start, BoA’s position was that priority would go to clients with BoA loans, not just deposits.

In other words, they were focused on transferring their slop loans to the government.

They relented after a couple of days, but of course, small depository customers had already been handicapped.
From my naive perspective, if the CC or other provider validate the customer's credentials all is good and you get paid. Integration of a payment method seems fairly simple and straightforward (I'm not a web dev).

I don't really know about the types of fraud that are possible and what a Saas should be prepared for.

Question: what are the typical fraudulent activities and their symptoms?
Splitting these by continent is somewhat disingenuous since many of the oldest civilizations and settlements are at the intersection of Africa, Asia and Europe.
It also doesn't help those businesses today. Voting won't happen in time to effect the emergency measures needed today.
I don't think you understand how these routing algorithms work. Contraction Hierarchies, Customizable Route Planning, Transit Node Routing, etc are all guaranteed to give you the same result as a Dijkstra search. They just exploit properties of road networks to do so much faster. The secret sauce of routing is not in the algorithms (those are publicly known), it's computing the edge weights (including things like turn costs). Effectively, the edge weight has to be the desirability of driving/riding/walking along that particular stretch of road. A big factor of this is obviously travel time. This whole discussion is centered around the observation that whatever metric Google uses for bicycle routing, it doesn't result in routes that users perceive as good.
A tradition at the iconic Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop (46th edition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic) was that Symbol was mentioned at least once during every Workshop. Mazor and others from the Symbol team were attendees in the good old days. While Symbol was not a commercial success, it was the motivation for much innovation including the DIP (Dual Inline Package).
I agree that doing something just so something is done about it is not a solution and it generally produces a worse outcome.

Ultimately I started questioning a lot of these rules and discovered in time what I said in the original post: a lot of people need to be forced with (new) rules because they will not think of anybody else or even actively try to workaround the rules.

And I'm not forgiving of rule makers: I think they are really bad at what they do, both in how they reach consensus and how they codify it in law, but I understand the general need they fill, so to say.
can you list out use cases where we can use this algorithm?
If you're suggesting that the 753 BC date is archaeological, you're incorrect. 753 BC is the legendary date. There's archaeological evidence of habitation on the hills of Rome earlier than that.
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I have this weird polarity in the work I enjoy.

I'm like you in that I enjoy just making things work, even when they're trivial. I particularly like doing it for other individuals.

On the other hand, I also enjoy harder research problems. Obsessing and learning new things quickly is probably the biggest joy I get out of work.

What I hate is the middle ground. I hate solving trivial problems, but in a high-pressure environment, for people I'm only circumstantially committed to.
Friend had Lymphoma over 10 years ago. Still going strong.

https://twocents.lifehacker.com/the-basics-of-fire-financial...
Preach, Brother :-)

>It's a generalization, of course

But there is a lot of truth to this.

One other thing that i have noticed, is that in "rich" countries, knowledge of trivial and basic stuff are celebrated in the name of "positive reinforcement". This gives students the false idea that they have "mastered" something while they have just started learning. IMO, this is extremely harmful to the student's psychology.
Alpaca: Airflow at JW Player
That's a good question but what's the point of all this if no one can use the app if they don't have a minimum of 8gb ram? My wife couldn't run Spotify, slack at the same time cause her machine started swapping.

The developer experience is vastly superior in electron and it's reach is massive. There's no denying. But the underlying problems are pretty serious and the people who complain are not just hating for random reasons.

I hope you get how insane it is when your cpu fan starts spinning because of an app that plays music in the background!

So far the pro electron arguments are concerned only about developer experience who generally have beefier specs in their machines.

The lowest common denominator in end user machines are very different and I request you please keep that in mind!

P.S: I'm a web developer and I fully understand how much valuable electron is for me.