skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It highlights that even with the police commissioner there, people can kill you for a rumour. So what is government enforcing if mob can take you apart for any reason they want?

If mob gets triggered by you criticising their cows or government (idk why blind patriotism is so widespread here), what would you do about your free speech if you get killed in the process with no enforcement against those who killed you or imagine a family member?

Honestly I am confused about free speech as well. Is the argument that government didn't stop you from criticising itself, just that the mob happens to kill you for it in public in the presence of the government make sense? Is that free speech?
It’s based off your email, so student@apple.com will get a response. CTO@randomTechStartup.com will not though.

I did a project where I looked at the accounts we didn’t support and found their revenue would not be worth the effort. Biggest account I worked on was $70MM/yr with a team of 10ish. Small accounts were probably <$250k/yr and 1 or two people would have like 100 of those.
What does shooting out the radio mean?
Low Code/NoCode SQL Alternatives
I was curious to know if today there are any good alternatives to SQL for non-technical folks. I noticed that frequently product manager/bus-ops or marketing folks rely too much on the data science team for help? What good alternatives exist in the market?
Went to #548 from elementary to middle, tried to transfer to #57 but failed interviews (I think I went up to round 8), spent one year at #1523 and then successfully got into #57 the next year.

I think that I was very lucky to get in and it was the most valuable part of my overall education. It taught me many things. That there are other people who are much smarter than me and it's OK (and may be I'm not smart enough to do math as a science for a living). A lot of mathematical intuition, about very non-mathematical things, all the way to poetry. How to structure your thought, attack your own arguments and prove something - or discover that the proposition you were trying to prove was false to begin with. (Apart from state-mandated math program, we had our own, with special lessons, where we wouldn't need to calculate or find anything. The only activity was to try and prove theorems and lemmas that you didn't know the proofs of.) That despite years of experience of being a weirdo and a nerd I can finally find a social circle where I can feel normal and accepted. In fact, 15 years after graduation we still have an active Discord server where 8 people were streaming some video games and chilled in voice chat just last night.

So, I think that when you filter kids not only by some "IQ-by-proxy" tests but also by what later get the name "culture fit", and let them coexist together for a few years, it can be a very powerful and life-changing thing. Not everyone such a good experience, of course - but a lot of us did.
Marshall Islands to Launch CBDC on Algorand
Are you registering your login item helper application with Launch Services?
40 years ago is 1980, so that seems consistent with his comment. Also consistent is that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, which has been ranked #1 and is generally in the top ten US high schools, was founded in 1985.
For people who don't care about privacy, what would be the motivation for making the switch?

Chrome is good enough. The interface is still streamlined.
Microsoft didn't just lose interest in IE, but it became bloated with the toolbar. The UI wasn't well proportioned in general.

Web development wise, it was a struggle to be compatible with IE. Chrome may be setting the web standard for better or worst, but atleast developers are more comfortable developing and testing Chrome. The sentiment is that writing code to work I.E. would be exceptional, whereas now writing code for non-Chrome browsers would be the exceptional case. In fact, developers sometimes only test Chrome. Some popular E2E JavaScript testing frameworks only work with Chrome.

Also, I don’t know if there are examples of Chrome implementing non-standard behavior that rivals IE having an event bubbling system that was inverted from every other browser.
If this is true, can the title be changed? Dang?
Ghost is open source under MIT license [0], so I think there are no issues. There are others hosting Ghost; some are active on the Ghost forums. I am not aware of any licenses from their GhostPro hosting platform.
Hope this helps

[0]https://ghost.org/license/
They’ve made ~100M over the last 4 years according to Wikipedia (quoted as saying they’ve paid out $400M since they started in 2016 and they keep 20% of payments).

Still an insanely good number for a 1(ish) person operation.
Same here ; I devour books and am far more productive (and fitter; newsflash, it seems meetings don’t work so well on my energy levels).

Never been more focused; helps that it is finally quiet (no cars, airplanes, people here).

Think this might become permanent for me.
Well Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $50 billion, is the son of Dirubhai Ambani. Like father son too has all political parties in his pockets, be it the congress or BJP or other parties in India.
Word is since Modi didnt coorperate in something with Mukesh, he literally sabotaged an alliance they had in the state of Maharashtra, to screw Modi's party over and stiched up an alliance of political rivals.
> And California has an extremely low corona mortality rate, with most of the population exposed to it since Dec.

Most Californians have not been exposed to it. Claiming otherwise is wishful thinking that doesn't fit the hospitalizations curve or the deaths curve.
That's the opposite of peer review. Peer review means experts in the field review articles, not the unwashed masses.
So Facebook paid 5.7 billion dollar to buy "influence" in India. The biggest influencer of India is Mukesh Ambani who has strong influence in Indian politics. Now it will be a matter of months and WhatsApp payments will get regulatory approval to go ahead to launch WhatsApp payments in India. That is the boss move here IMO. Jio is just a way to solve for regulatory hurdles in India.
Ask HN: Fess up. What have you mangled for brevity?
We've all butchered a line or two to keep a commit message under 50 characters or keep from having to wrap a comment in code. Nobody wants to put in a carriage return for just one word. So... we shrtn stf. Show us your worst.
Our leader is not an extremist nationalist. Next.
That’s fascinating... and somewhat terrifying. Because it seems clear to me that it won’t require communism or totalitarianism to achieve that kind of endgame (or at least, to get really close to it).

Perhaps the communist/totalitarian/power-hungry nations of the world are sitting back and waiting for us in western nations to build such a system (think AWS, but 30 years from now). All they have to do is get complete control of it by one method or another, and then they’ve won.

One would think a proper national defense-in-depth mindset dictates carefully considering and planning for such a future.
Forth and Lisp are distorted reflections of each other: Forth intends to make it easy to write programs with minimal abstractions, whereas Lisp intends to make it easy to write programs with any abstraction you want. They both, therefore, converged on the notion of having minimal syntax for opposite reasons: Forth eschews most syntax because syntax is an abstraction, Lisp because it isn't necessarily that specific programmer's abstraction.

Python, OTOH, is a single, "frozen" M-synax for a Scheme-like Lisp descendant; if Lisp is a pantry of ingredients and a kitchen, Python is fast food, or a microwave dinner, albeit a relatively good example of such.
If the author is here, this is perfect except for 'space' not being able to click a button
Actually, they were an industry researcher coming in as a guest lecturer.
This may just be my personal experience, but my Roomba does a pretty mediocre job vacuuming my house. As a result, I have to run Roomba 3-4x per week the get the equivalent cleanliness of using a traditional vacuum cleaner once per week.
Sounds a bit like NetPBM.
Hate to break it to
you but most people’s mental models do not work this way, and would predict strong coupling between infection rate and death rate with zero to two days lag. Even if we know better, the experience model builds our expectations.
1. Buy cheap debt.

2. Call debtors and offer to teach them to code.

3. Walk them through interviews, etc.

4. Collect!

I don't know if that particular path is viable, but I am somewhat taken by the idea of making money by/while helping people out.
Not anymore for chrome & edge

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/03/updates-to-form-controls-a...

All part of Google's master plan to commoditize desktop OSs. Everyone outside the US already uses Android, soon your computer will be a Chrome box instead of a Windows/Mac/Linux box.

First they did the browser title bar & tab bar integration/styling & removed the normal OS title bar, then they made Chrome OS, now they are removing the last traces of OS-specific styling for those who haven't already switched to Chrome OS.

And Gmail, Gdocs, and Chromebooks are huge in kids schools. The kids don't know anything outside the non-Google universe. Most of the kids I know think MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint are lame (not that I'm a fan, but you have to admit MS Office is unrivaled in its abilities).

20 years from now they will have a gigantic monopoly over a huge range of computing.
For those who don't know - Mukesh Ambani is the 3rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $60B.
Show HN: Netlify for PHP
One workaround is to manually add an entry to your hosts file such as:

37.1.202.102 archive.is
Are you suggesting that we shouldn't have private companies?
Facebook takes $5.7B stake in Indian internet giant Jio
Too good to be true: how TMS damaged my brain
This is not a way to respond on HN. Please be respectful.
Some of the modern web pages are so obscure you have no idea what to click.
The key to reconciling is seeing that "due to financial hardships" is a dependent clause. When patrons leave, they are asked to give a reason why. The % of those leaving who give "financial hardships" as a reason, is increasing. However, as also noted, the total churn rate (people leaving for any reason) is stable.

They're not saying that more people are leaving than usual. They are saying that of the people leaving, more are offering financial hardship as a reason for leaving, than usual.

A corollary would be that the % of people leaving for reasons other than financial hardship has decreased.
So there's a morbid silver lining here. If this continues, as I expect since we probably won't release inmates in most places in the US, this will be a good test to see what percentage of recoveries acquire immunity and possibly whether reinfection is possible and deadly because of antibody dependent enhancement[1], a property which is shared by SARS and MERS.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...

P.S. looks like that article has been modified since I last read it, based on the new literature I'm pretty convinced that COVID19 is likely to be deadlier the second time around. This is really, really bad. Vaccine is unlikely for this reason as well. Our only real hope it seems is to find or develop a prophylactic and/or treatment and stay in some form of isolation until then.

Edit: there is nothing factually incorrect about what I'm saying and all of these bits and pieces have been floating around for months.

The fact that a virologist hasn't connected these particular dots on live TV yet doesn't preclude us from speculating. We all have access to the same literature.
Yet, here you are, a non-politician according to your HN profile, engaging in political speech. To be fair, you're not breaking the law or even a social norm... but it's not consistent with your position.

All of the sorts of reasons that motivated you to have an opinion enough to post here are reasons why this wouldn't work. Moreover, where do you draw the line between "layperson" and politician? How does one make the transition?

I understand the desire, and appreciate that you see the unreality of the idea... all I can really say in conclusion is... well... nice try.
It's factually incorrect.
County of Santa Clara Identifies Two Early Covid-19 Deaths at Home Feb 6 and 17
It's a reference to a scene from Star Wars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FSV8w1UoZA
Yes, its a payment play, but not using Bitcoin. WhatsApp is trying to roll out a UPI based payment solution in India for 2 years now.

Google, on the other hand, rolled out Google Pay (Previously Tez) based on UPI platform by teaming up with major banks. Its really popular these days.
I honestly don't think it's that simple, and in fact I suspect it gets harder the bigger the company. They could have every intention, even a plan and an working implementation today to keep any data they collect out of the hands of a buyer or the government, and still have a very hard time ensuring it when the time comes. It does sound like @pc is actively committed to it though.

I don't think anyone's playing dumb. I am completely speculating, yet absolutely certain, that they have actually considered future scenarios for collected data, and I believe that there are legitimate reasons to still need to discuss this and other scenarios that come up with a legal team every time. If it's not clear why this can happen, it will become clear if/when you run a company.

It's true that not collecting any data is a foolproof way to guarantee it doesn't get into the wrong hands, but that's tying both arms behind your back in the online world, and it would mean in this case choosing to not train any fraud detecting neural networks. There could be an even bigger mob if Stripe knew how to prevent certain kinds of fraud and chose not to for ambiguous privacy reasons.
B.C. doctor's fairly simple invention curbs the spread of Covid-19 in hospitals
key graf

"The Medical Examiner-Coroner performed autopsies on two individuals who died at home on February 6, 2020 and February 17, 2020. Samples from the two individuals were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, the Medical Examiner-Coroner received confirmation from the CDC that tissue samples from both cases are positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19)."
I have no idea about the financials of Patreon but their site leaves so much room for improvement. It's actually pretty awful.

There are lots of independent artists running Pateron accounts with 200-5000 patrons. Fans sign up to support them but also to get access to their library of content.

Patreon provides a piss-poor UX for getting to this content. There is no list of content. There just "here's the stream of posts by the artist". The stream is JavaScript driven so if you want to go 100 posts back you have to page through multiple pages of posts. If you want to do it again tomorrow, or if the site crashes which it does, you have to start over at post 1 and page through again.

It's telling that so many artists use google drive, dropbox, mediafire, or mega to distribute their works. This seems like money Pateron is leaving on the table if they'd provide for a similar service at similar prices. They do provide a way to upload media but the UX is awful compared to Mega which has arguably the superior UX of those 5 options.

Worse, because these artists are using these separate services there is no way to limit who accesses them. In other words a bad user can share the links with others where as if they did this through patreon you'd have to log in to access the media. Of course bad users can still share the media they downloaded in other ways.

Further, and I don't know if this has been fixed, but I know what one time they only billed once month so bad users would sign up in the middle of the month, download everything, then cancel their patronage and avoid having to pay at all.

I can certainly imagine a service that's significantly better Patreon for this use case.

Let me also add discoverabilty is horrible. Maybe this is mostly on the artists but the #1 way I find one is off of patreon. Compare to say youtube where the #1 way I find anyone is on youtube itself.
Well, it depends who you ask.
My original post is slightly provocative, I admit, but I think there is a real debate regarding this issue.

To me, it seems to validate the need for citizens to be well armed, preferably before it's too late.
There aren't any subscribers, so network load. Lol once you have users start popping we will see how BSNL will hold on.
Why is this on an IBM site? Are they one of the major contributors?
All the petitions regarding wrongdoings in the deal were dismissed by the Supreme Court. The reason cited was that it was not the government who was responsible to choose an Indian partner for the “offset clause” of the deal, it was Dassault who entered into a JV with Anil Ambani’s company.
I moved to Romania three years ago, and was surprised to find the same kind of specialist/vocational high school paths have been in use a long time in this country. Once you hit teen years you might find yourself, if you worked hard enough, in one of the more prestigious specialized high school institutions for one of many subjects, such as architecture, medicine, physics or the arts.

It seemed to me a huge pressure to put on such young shoulders, to commit to a career path so early, but that's the aptitude-based system that dominated under communism. Since the schools are so prestigious, much of that system still remains.
It means he is "literally" the government of India. What part was unclear? This is HN, where JavaScript framework enthusiasts and css programmers philosophise and are experts on everything. Don't try to make too much sense
In socialist Hungary the experience was more nuanced.

There were programs after hours for gifted students but for the first eight years normal hours you were locked in with the other animals there wasn't anything special and it was living hell. Don't think I call my young peers animals for nothing, I do not only carry the emotional scars but also the physical: more than thirty years later it's visible where one of them has bitten my shoulder at the age of 13. I ran away from the school very early once and my father practically dragged me back and I was contemplating suicide when I was 9.

Doing a lot of those after hour programs and an ungodly amount of luck and goodwill made me pass the admittance exam of the best special maths high school class in Hungary. You know those question where they ask what you would do differently in your life if you could do it again? Well, I would tell 13.5 yrs old me to do the goddamned homework for the preparation course! One of the homework questions was the entrance exam and I mostly fubbed it and as I learned much later one of the two teachers didn't want to admit me while the other saw something... It makes me shudder to think of my life if I hadn't gotten in that class...
Great post. Also thanks for the write.as introdiction. Introduction to, I mean. Great post anyways. Upvoted.
Is this your degree or your sons?
Why is education affected negatively by COVID? It is the last sector I would expect. I'm sure many are doing fine but IIRC Ryan Florence had to lay off his React teachers as well.
> However, another interesting point. Microsoft choosing an open-source, community supported application in favour of a tried and tested, Microsoft-built alternative. Exciting times.

> This is not your Grandfather’s Microsoft, or even your Father’s Microsoft. There has been huge change in the last few years in the development category of Microsoft applications, with a real move towards open-source first. It’s really interesting to see this move permeate out to the rest of the organisation and start to manifest itself in other areas like Productivity Applications such as this one.

Another point here: It actually works reasonably well on Linux. For young people here, given the history of Microsoft this was not something that would have happened only a few years ago.

Back then it would have been as unusual as if Google had suddenly turned around and started testing their web sites in other browsers except Chrome ;-)
Is following along and learning / practicing math directly from a textbook still the most effective way to learn math?

Now that we have devices in our pockets and on our desktops with more and more capabilities that have educational use cases such as interactivity and AR, how would a calculus lesson be made in 2020? Could we just go down the street, aim our devices at cars passing by, or cars speeding up from a stop sign, and see how speed, acceleration, and position relate to each other in real-time? Or aim it at a pool table, bounce a cue ball off another ball and see how vector summation can work in real life? Or input the weight of a cue ball, the type of surface (felt?) and then see how the applied force can be estimated based on how fast the cue ball moves when you hit it? Interactive bits like this as examples and practice mixed in with the text?
Are you sure he doesn't employ the same tactics instead of actual research? (I am generally suspicious of anyone who voluntary pursues academia)
The article says: "may crash due to a NULL pointer dereference". But in C, dereferencing a null pointer is undefined behavior. Crashing is only one possible outcome, and arguably the best outcome.

The compiler and optimizer is entitled to elide certain checks or simplify code under the assumption that a pointer being dereferenced should not be null, and this could lead to dangerous things.

Here's an artificial example:

int x = 0;
int *p;
if (...some condition...)
p = &x;
else
p = NULL;
print(*p);

The compiler is allowed to simplify the code to:

int x = 0;
int *p;
p = &x;
print(*p);

It's because the 'else' branch must cause a null pointer dereference, so that case can be legally ignored.
That's the opposite of what I've seen in California. There used to be a big focus on tracking, gifted programs and "accelerated math", but it is now perceived as inequitable. Gifted programs were cancelled, tracks eliminated, and accelerated math discouraged (you can skip a year if you study outside school, but it is discouraged). The focus is getting everyone to some minimal level, and no attention on the high performers.
What about those of us who are qualified in multiple disciplines?

Do you know how students learn when they get graduate degrees? They read papers as primary and almost exclusive sources. Even coming from other backgrounds. And the nature of literature is such that after a time a capable person is able to gain mastery in this manner.

Literature for COVID19 has been around since january. Some of us have been following it obsessively. And this isn't some esoteric theory that requires a deep understanding like mathematics or physics. You don't need breadth in such a field to drill down on a specific problem - you don't need to understand anything about c++ or Scala to write an algorithm in python, to put it in programmer terms.

It's perfectly plausible that many of the autodidacts that tend to be attracted to HN can actually contribute meaningfully through comment.

Edit: doctors and medical scientists also come here.