skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alright, that's just silly. People, very serious policy people, are arguing about that stuff as we speak.

> Who is "they"? Who says this? That sounds like a strawman to me.

I can't find a single quote from Doug Ford or Justin Trudeau indicating what they think an acceptable infection/death rate is that would allow a partial re-open.

I can find plenty saying the opposite (although I understand, you can't necessarily take these quotes literally):

"I understand the actions we are taking are affecting the lives and livelihoods of people across the province, but these are extraordinary times and we need to do whatever we can to keep individuals and families safe and stop the spread of this terrible virus" - Premier of Ontario

(https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2020/04/ontario-takes-further...)
Ida Tarbell's father was an oilman who was ruined by Rockefeller and Standard Oil while she was a girl, which is important to keep in mind when contextualizing her work. She lived her life in part as a crusade against Standard Oil and Rockefeller. Obviously she was heavily biased, this being instilled in her early on.

For a less biased look at the history of the American oil industry by way of Rockefeller and Standard Oil, I strongly recommend Titan by Ron Chernow - author of Hamilton - which is an excellent account of Rockefeller and Standard Oil, both the good and the bad.
NextJS is another alternative. To talk to a (django) API you need to go through getStaticProps and getServerSideProps which, depending on the location of your API server, can be a little slow, but you get pre-rendered HTML and page based routing so again no global state management required.

The problem with this approach is that you will need to manage another server process(nodejs) besides django for server-side rendering with nextjs.
> WHOIS records show the same Florida resident who registered this North Carolina site also registered one for New York — reopenny.com — just a few minutes later."

At this point it is so easy to anonymously set up these websites and protest groups that a bored high-school student can do it.

Instead of putting blame on this or that country, efforts should be focused on creating some kind of a online reputation system so that any content posted would contain a signature that ties it to the author.

The person selling shirts isn't doing it anonymously if whois records reflect that person's ownership of sites targeting different states.

I don't see how a reputation system helps much, if Florida man hits a chord with people, his site is going to have high reputation, regardless of any facts or not. Unless you're suggesting a centralized arbiter of truthiness, but that has myriad problems too.

Unfortunately, I don't think people are going to realize trusting random people until they experience the poor results for themselves. This is a slow process.
> I was about to say there are no such queries

There are very clearly many queries with no advertising revenue, because there are many queries that show no ads. Trying some searches off the top of my head that I expected wouldn't have ads, I don't get any ads on [cabbage], [who is the president], [3+5], or [why is the sky blue]. On the other hand, if I search for a highly commercial query like [mesothelioma] the first four results are ads.

> A decade ago I use to be able to find truly exotic articles, I could find every obscure blog posting on every blog with 3 readers

My model of what happened is that SEO got a lot better. When Google first came out it was amazing because Page Rank was able to identify implicit ranking information in pages. Once it's valuable to have lots of backlinks, though, this gets heavily gamed. Staying ahead of efforts to game the algorithm is really hard, and I think a lot of times people's experience of a better search engine comes from a time when SEO was much less sophisticated.

> The most convincing in this is typing first name + last name queries in imagines and getting celebrities who only have the first or the last name.

This hasn't been my experience, so I tried an image search for [tom cruise], curious if I would get other Toms. The first 45 responses were all of the celebrity, and image 46 was of Glen Powell in https://helenair.com/people/tom-cruise-helps-glen-powell-lea... which is a different kind of mistake. Do you remember what query you were seeing this on?
Covid-19 is not like the seasonal flu.

Or, yeah, maybe it is just like the flu, except
(1) covid-19 is more contagious,
(2) Covid-19 is much more likely to kill you if you get infected, and
(3) much of the population has immunity so seasonal flu, while almost nobody has immunity to Covid-19,so it would run roughshod over a population if people didn't social distance (unless testing/contact tracing infrastructure was in place to keep it in check).

Take a good read through this article and tell me why you want to continue comparing Covid-19 to the flu:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/not-like-the-flu...
I'm disappointed that this article is more about job loss in tech at large, rather than a look at what Sherwood Partners actually does.

How does one wind down or sell off the assets of a technology company? What percentage of tech companies even have assets in the traditional sense? I can see the value of selling off inventory, machinery, owned facilities, and IP, but I'm guessing that a small percentage of Silicon Valley companies have any of these things in meaningful quantities.

Does Sherwood Partners buyout the company for cheap and then make a profit by selling individual pieces? I'm very curious. If anyone knows some of the answers, I'd love to hear!
And then there are those who are able to say things that [intentionally] have different meaning to different audience members.
Depends on where you come from. From C, it's basically what you did with C with bells and whistles (multiple return types instead of OUT parameters for instance).

From Scala/Java/C#, if you really like working with these languages, I don't think you'd enjoy Go.

And while Goroutines sound nice at first, they come with many issues that languages that had similar concepts (like ADA tasks) did not have.
Trump says he is suspending immigration over coronavirus, need to protect jobs
"People always think they are serving the greater good when they curtail someone’s rights."

always - really? Corporations lobbying government to curtail people's rights are driven by the desire for the greater good? Why am I in big doubt.
Constitutional rights are derived from natural law and therefore applies to anything that wishes to interact with human beings.
Should convert empty coal mines into oil storage unit, isn't it what recycling all about?
Not a link, but a video. A computer from 1959 (IBM 1401) at the Computer History Museum, compiling FORTRAN.

The Youtube user has a lot of good material on restoring historical hardware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ3sajIdaM

Also, be sure to read the email thread linked in the video comments. It's a conversation between the restoration team and the compiler's original authors (now in their 90s).

If you're in SF and you want to see the 1401 in action, the Computer History Museum used to show it to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Hopefully those demos will resume once the coronavirus situation's resolved.
I have had pfSense running on Proxmox for several months now.

Upgraded to the latest pfSense version a couple of days ago and the total downtime was in the order of minutes.

It's a bit too early to say whether it's a good idea or not; the main concern I have is that you have two points of failure instead of only one. Other than that worry it has been very smooth.
This is where the pyramid makes more sense than left/right. This is authoritarianism/centralization top of the pyramid, where people think they know what's best for other people and a top-down approach to "fixing stupid" is the best solution.

I personally think it's okay/normal for there to be idiots in society and trying to fix stupid by stopping them from protesting via opaque big tech companies moderation policies is a terrible way to go about it (or courts via government interference on public property, for that matter, but the constitution covers that already). I'd much rather have some stupid people protesting than have FB/outrage mobs driving what is okay to protest about.

That has little to do with being left/right leaning.

Weeding out astroturfing campaigns is also distinct from this, you can narrowly remove stuff that is atroturfed without being political about it. But just because some stuff is astroturfed shouldn't mean anything to do with it should then be shut down.
What would stop you from doing that with any unwanted garbage?
If “this laptop is the business” does that make it also a business laptop?
Google has for years put out puff pieces talking about high accuracy on image tagging. It’s only within the last few months that searching my Photos library for “cat” returned something other than pictures of my dog.

There’s a nuanced argument that practitioners know how ML is so dependent on training data and accuracy tails off sharply, but that nuance tends to removed from anything selling to potential customers — which has not been a great way to keep them in my experience.
> and the result was better Unicode support

Different Unicode support. And worse bytes support.

What could previously be done using python -c "..." is now long, horrible and ugly.
Immutability and Co/Contravariance
Another option: A bunch of people will die in a few weeks.
DDD and Data Modelling: How Do I Persist Aggregates?
If the whole situation wasn't so serious, it would be hilarious just how badly-timed the oil price war was!
It seems like the attribution problem is an English problem. The query doesn't have to be English.

https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-"stripes"
There's no way that the people supporting this aren't just bored contrarians too, 90% of these complaints are just false, I was expecting a twist from the first half until I realized it wasn't satire.
Actually with LP gas that's a pretty common storage method in Michigan.

https://www.mlive.com/news/2016/01/michigan_has_most_undergr...

Also there's some underground cave like structures East of Grand Rapids where they store fuel as well.
In my experience DeprecationWarnings get turned off so frequently because I'm not forking big library to fix all of it's Deprecated uses of their dependencies.

The warnings are useless if they're not from my code, so they get turned off once globally.
Where are you getting this idea that only the Republicans "pretended that the pandemic didn't exist"?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/as-vir...

Nancy Pelosi dismissing the threat and encouraging people to celebrate in large groups in Chinatown on Feb 24th:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/30/nancy-pelosi-d...

Here's a tweet, still live, by NYC Mayor Bill Deblasio on March 2 urging people to get out and socialize:

https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229

A piece by a reporter including a video that Trump made of media sources downplaying the Coronavirus threat:

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/19/unfit-to-print-trump-coro...

All left-wing media outlets spent their time downplaying it. Here's a few pictures:

https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1247505671672795137

I don't recall any statements from any Democrats criticizing them for their delayed reactions. Their reactions are instead to deny or ignore that they said those things, and try to blame Trump instead. Meanwhile, when Trump instituted a fairly moderate ban on travel from China, they screamed at the top of their lungs that it was racist. Now they're screaming that he didn't do more sooner. What is it with these people?
I don't see the scandal, not in this day and age of doxxing, shaming, and death threats.
When you think about it, that's the direction most lifeforms on the planet take. Instead of trying ensure the survival of their genetic information by being immortal, they make younger copies of themselves with less degradation before dying. Immortality = eventual decline as more and more parts fail and can't be repaired.
> Different Unicode support. And worse bytes support.

I feel like you're the first person I've seen on the planet to echo my sentiments on these. I expect a lot of people will jump here to tell you you're wrong like they have to me, so just wanted to let you know I've felt exactly these pains and agree with you.
Why travel bans and border control will not stop coronavirus
It's been a while since I used PyPy, but JITs in general warm up over time. If you have hot loops with heavy arithmetic and no branches, that's usually best case scenario for JITs. If you have branchy non-uniform control flow, that's the worse scenario. So it really depends on your usage - you may be paying the JIT overhead costs with little benefit.
There isn't any clarity on the order. Is it suspension of immigration visas or work visas or both? Anyone have any ideas?
The one I used was worse. Latency and bandwidth issues.

It'd be nice if it worked, though.
> their lockdown activity

Since Sweden doesn't have a lockdown, this statement is meaningless. A major objection to lockdowns is their involuntary nature. In general, there is a big difference between choosing to stay home, and being coerced (with the threat of force) to do so. One is "choosing to do what you believe is best", the other is "prison".
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored underground, surely they could build a similar reservoir
Hololens and Magic Leap are worse than Google Lens in the "looking dorky" and "looking like a strange android" sense.
Sorta the opposite of YC... probably has quite an extensive network of people to buy everything from the people to the chairs...
If you look at human history, that what tends to happen. Empires rise, go through a golden age, fall, and are overtaken by newer empires built on the carcasses of old ones.
The US President, who governs by parroting the later bit of Fox News commentary, is instructing people to hoard and waste life-saving medication critically needed by lupus patients, based on fake research fake published by a
fake researcher and cryptocurrency huckster.

He did this after cancelling pandemic prepardness programs and blatantly lying about every basic fact about the pandemic for months.

Tell me which administration is the one that needs to be held feet to the fire.

The protests are fund by the Koch brothers, profiteers who inherited their wealth from their father who built oil refineries for Stalin and Hitler.

A super-majority of the public support the lockdown and fear ending it too soon. Everyone living in population centers is seeing friends or family members die, and less dense areas are likely to follow.
What? You upgrade your dependencies when there's a feature or improvement you need. Not because they don't have some warnings. Who cares?

The old version you implicitly claim is better isn't, it just doesn't have the warnings from their dependencies in place yet.
> Only looking back do I notice the slow change. We have become a people who believe everything they see on the internet.

These days, if something is NOT on the internet, it is suspect. Even if the evidence is in a well-researched book, if people can't find a URL for it, they immediately dismiss arguments out of hand. You see it all the time on this forum as well.
Urgent and Timeless Direct-to-Consumer Tips from the “Father of Gore” Films
Sending one email each week changed my life
Looking forward to this if we are accepted, I think on the company's end, a lot of us worry about transmission of covid 19 and this just provides a safer environment.

This crisis is a test of a company's flexibility, since the lockdown started we had to do a hard pivot from onsite to remote services and we're just getting traction.

Remote work is here to stay and so is remote services. It's a new frontier/market to explore.
I'm glad your hello world is still functional.
> I thought the Supreme Court has already shown that there are limits to speech

Yes correct, freedom of speech is not absolute, there are a lot of limitations in the U.S.: “libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitations

The problem in this case is it can be reasonably argued that quarantine is damaging to some people, and not quarantining is damaging to other people. Even if it really is a bad idea to protest, it might be really difficult to establish clearly and legally that protesting is causing unnecessary harm, and greater harm than not protesting.

I’ve read the Wikipedia page on Freedom of Speech before, but I just noticed for the first time the interesting criteria called “Imminent lawless action”. I’m not a lawyer, but it seems possible this could apply even if harm can’t be demonstrated.

“Under the imminent lawless action test, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if the speaker intends to incite a violation of the law that is both imminent and likely.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
Dear god. Reading the comments and tweets under that makes one thing clear. Twitter is toxic as all hell. Is there any way to do social networking that promotes healthy discourse and surfaces fact based information? Or are we doomed to this kind of thing everywhere being our future?
Yes, spreadsheets use relative references and transform them to absolute references as a display format.
Minecraft creative mode. I love building out huge glass towers full of water, long roads made of sea lanterns just under the ocean connecting the landmasses, hollowing out trees putting beacons in the center, etc. None of that involves scores or defeating opponents and it’s one of my all time favorite gaming experiences.
I totally hoped this would be about whoever the real person that "The Carver" from HBO's Silicon Valley is based on: https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_Carver

"The Carver" takes bankrupt startups and "moves the carcass to the cloud." Sadly disappointed.
I have been to 4 Go conferences (two gophercons). Despite being first generation mediterranean-descent (my father is the exact immigrant story touted in many circles), because I fit the 'white christian male' bill, I have felt anything but welcome in the Go community. Actually, many times, I feel like it is actively hostile towards me. I remember one of the closing keynotes, a man stood up on the stage and said "Come take a picture with me out back if you look like me, you know who you are" which left me with my jaw dropped.
Agreed. It was so less painful to add and remove for debugging. Which is it's only real use-case.
PySINDy: Python Package for Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics in Data
The position is collateralized, all this does is lose you money.
Italy also appears to have suffered from tragic public health errors. Apparently they moved covid-19 infected patients around. First to other hospitals that had not yet had outbreaks and then into empty beds at long-term care facilities.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/covid-19/italy-covid-19-outbreak-les...
Yes (e.g., if you buy CL futures, delivery is in Oklahoma).

QL coal doesn't trade anymore (all the active coal futures I can find now are cash-settled) but delivery seems to have historically been at the discretion of the parties, so the story is at least plausible.
At internet scale though you can get pretty far and if a new huckster is born every minute then it’s a revolving door of trolling. State sponsored money can’t hurt either.
There, that's your reason. May be do a google search next time.
https://www.thelocal.ch/20200324/explained-why-does-switzerl...

Crippling economic depression? What's the proof this is going to cause crippling economic depression. If you are so concerned about crippling economic depression, what were you doing when the stock market crashed from 17,000 down to 6 some thousand back in 08? Did you go out and protest and made sure the companies need to be held responsible and punished?

And Churchill? Seriously? This is the guy who considered Indians and Persians and other colored people less than human and who literally caused hundreds thousands of deaths in either nation, believed in racial hierarchy and social darwinism. I don't give a flying fudge what Churchill thinks of me.
Any FAANG workers here worried about the possibility of layoffs?
Facebook is performing an editorial function on the information they distribute by removing content that is not illegal. They're a publisher, it's as clear as day. By stepping into this role they should forfeit any exemption from liability[0] for the content that they publish. I'm sure that they pay a bunch of lobbyists to distract lawmakers from this fact, but they won't be able to escape it forever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
Yep, people really want to feel like they’re doing their part when they’re really as much a part of the problem as the people they look down on.

I’ve never lived in an apartment bigger than 600 square feet, have never driven a car, don’t fly, eat a plant based diet, and will never have kids. We’re about a generation or two from a total disaster and everybody wants to think tiny insignificant changes are enough. Glad I’ll be be long dead by then.
Interesting, I learned this technique of having a third, synchronization intermediary with offlineimap and this helpful blog post: http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/08/how-offlineimap-works/
We do this as well. Many companies do.
It's interesting (although morbid) to speculate about which types of companies will be hit the hardest.

1 Anything focusing on AI/ML that isn't directly revenue generating such as sales leads/conversion optimization

2 Blockchain

3 Consumer non-essentials. Think Tesla and Subscription boxes

Industries that should be ok.

1 Gov/DoD contractors

2 Consumer 'essentials' (Netflix, online commerce, food delivery

3 Biotech? (I don't have a good insight into this sector)
Trump to temporarily suspend all immigration into the US
I find 90% of downvotes are douchebags who disagree on HN. Maybe 99% on sites like reddit. It leads to an echo chamber effect. People with different points of view feel unwelcome.

I create throw-away accounts (one per device, until I clear cookies, and then a new one). I have one where literally everything I post gets a pile of downvotes. I'm assuming someone's stalking that one and using an army of bots to downvote everything I post, presumably because I offended them at some point.

I think the fix is for a downvote to require a rationale -- you need to state why you're downvoting. Poster learns what not to do. Downvoter needs to do it for a quasi-rational reason.
And what about China's incompetent response?
Paid to take on the futures contract obligation. If you happened to need or want physical oil delivered in Oklahoma a month from today, you got a good deal as futures traders unloaded their contracts.
I've voted in three states. In California, permanent absentee registration is simple (now, it wasn't 30 years ago), and the state mandates time off to vote. In Washington state, all voting is vote by mail. I don't remember what voting in Wisconsin was like (at the time, I did same day registration, but I think they went back and forth). In the US, voting is a state issue, for better or worse, and there are plenty of examples of states where voting is reasonable.
What about the kids you pop out? Better offset those, too.
I can understand the impulse, and absent any middlemen it would make perfect sense to have the government step in to buy excess production during a crisis to fill national reserves.

But we have speculators who sold us the idea that their profits brought stability to the market, so make them keep playing by their own rules.