skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really a "smartphone" yet if it cant't make phone calls or use the cell modem if your battery is empty ? lol
> an exit strategy

Widespread vaccinations. Yes, I understand how far away that is likely to be. Yes, the economic ramifications are relatively terrifying.
Meaning one can see the road, chiefly.
Interesting. I think I've seen those things, but I've never bought one. I was expecting this tech would be built into microwaves, ovens, and cars by now.
Such videos don't get published just because. They're either looking for more funding or for an acquisition. Which is it?
DNSSEC does nothing to protect queries on the wire on their way to resolving servers (it collapses down to a single bit in the header), unlike DoH, which does protect those queries. Those queries are the most likely attack vector against DNS. Meanwhile, however many resolvers are validating queries to your own domains, virtually none of the most important (ie, well-trafficked) domains on the Internet are signed, or likely ever to be signed. At the same time, browsers have removed DNSSEC code. DNSSEC is moribund. DoH has already protected more people in the brief time that it has existed.
“Out of Western world countries, the United States is among the most conservative (as one of the most downwards-located countries), together with highly conservative Catholic countries such as Ireland and Poland.”

Abortion is now legal in Ireland[1a] – it is illegal in Poland still[1b]. (Yes, abortion was only recently legalised in Ireland but that's because it required a constitutional amendment to change the law and those sorts of votes only come round once a generation, attitudes had long since shifted.)

in 2015 Ireland became the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote[2a] – Poland does not legally recognize same-sex unions[2b], either in the form of marriage or civil unions.

Ireland ranks 3rd in the world in the Human Development Index[3], 6th in the world in the Democracy Index[4], and 15th in the Press Freedom Index[5] – Poland ranks (32nd, 57th, and 59th) and the USA ranks (15th, 25th, and 48th)

The view that Ireland is a highly conservative Catholic[6] country is, I would argue, a very outdated view. It's a stereotype that needs to wither on the vine, along with other crude stereotypes of the place. Of course there remain conservative pockets, but the same could be said for any place.

My point being, if the chart (and article) are that off base about a country I know about how can I trust it is correct about other countries I am less familiar with? It all seems hopelessly reductive, almost a stereotyped distortion of reality.

[1a] https://www2.hse.ie/abortion/

[1b] https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/08/poland-is-trying-to-mak...

[2a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Repub...

[2b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

[6] https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp8iter/p...

( Though 78% self-report as Catholic only 35% attend Church on a weekly basis which I would argue is a truer measure of religiosity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Republic_of_Ir... )
In the context of

> Pip/Poetry/VirtualEnv

"packaging" refers to the way the language manages dependencies during the build and import process, not how you distribute programs you have built.

Python has a deservedly poor reputation here, having churned through dozen major overlapping different-but-not-really tools in my decade and a half using it. And even the most recent one is only about a year into wide adoption, so I wouldn't count on this being over.

Go tried to ignore modules entirely, using the incredibly idiosyncratic GOPATH approach, got (I think) four major competing implementations within half as long, finally started converging, then Google blew a huge amount of political capital countermanding the community's decision. My experience with Go modules has been mostly positive, but there's no really major new idea in it that needed a decade to stew nor the amount of emotional energy. (MVS is nice but an incremental improvement over lockfiles, especially as go.sum ends up morally a lockfile anyway.)
It's interesting to think what the world would look like if Netscape had decided to put Lisp in the browser instead of inventing Javascript.
Docker-like syntax isn't exactly good choice either. Most Dockerfiles I've seen desperately call for HERE documents.
The science, the actual hard number for mortality rate, is very low. It is the anecdotal evidence that is terrifying everyone (the terrible way in which it kills when it does kill, and the rate at which it spreads).

I am personally not afraid of it, I wear a mask out of courtesy and not wanting to spread it if I happen to be one of the silent carriers.

I've best seen it described by a mathametician as follows (wish I could find the link) - COVID-19 has comparable mortality to the flu, but you are 300 times more likely to contract it.

For something with such a low mortality rate I do not support mandatory contact tracking or testing. I certainly would if the number starts sharply going in the other direction.

I can't say for sure what will be pointed out specifically about socialized medicine in the UK, France, and Italy, but our numbers for the United States outside of NYC appear to be much better than those countries and I suspect that is where the right wing will come out and say our private system outperformed the public systems (i.e., cherry picking the countries with the highest mortalities for comparison with the US).

They will point out that Italy had to triage beds and favored treating younger patients with higher chances of survival, allowing some older patients to die. It was the rational thing to do, but also unimaginable here in the US where you would be sued to high heaven.

Can't you imagine the situation in Italy turned into a campaign add in Florida? "The Democrats want a health care system that lets seniors die" or some such with some pictures of overwhelmed Italian hospitals and a sad looking old man not being treated, but coughing and wheezing.

I never said these were good arguments, I just know that they will say it, I've been following politics for a very long time.

The only crises that bring both parties together are ones that hit everyone. Technically a virus hits everyone (does not discriminate as you say), but in fact it does discriminate. It spreads faster where population is denser and where there is mass transit.

So just like everything in the US, this crisis is divided between urban and fly over. The urban people are literally worried for their lives, and the fly over people are worried about their jobs. This is a super broad generalization, but I am trying to make the point that the virus is not affecting all people the same way and it happens to be right down party lines.
Why would they support a dead OS? Windows 7 is months past end-of-life, receiving no security patches and hence unsafe to use.

And by the way they actually explicit mention it on the homepage - it says .NET 4.8 right under the download button.
I mean, it's a great technical achievement... we'll see when it hits full support.
In Australia there are no uncontrolled intersections (that I am aware of). Every single junction clearly marks who must give way and we don't have any 4-way stops, instead using roundabouts in these situations.

It's possible that for self driving to work road systems will have to be more formalised to remove the ambiguous situations you've described. I can't imagine it working well in China or Indonesia where traffic flows much more like water in a stream and lanes are merely just suggestions.
While I'm pro nuclear power, at what point do we say that nuclear isn't the way to go? The cost of solar panels and batteries are declining every year, and you don't have to deal with the terrible stigma that nuclear power has. Sure, new reactors are "zero emission", but will people actually want them to be built?
My argument boils down to "don't call it stand-up." And I think this basic argument still jives with your counters.

What's the title? "Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home"

What's the domain name? comedyfromhome.com

If years ago you were to call this "TikTok" and the idea is that people would do funny videos from home, I would be all for it.

Come up with a name and a marketing angle which isn't trying to tell me that this is stand-up comedy, but from home. Make it a bit more open-ended. Give me some room to work within your platform. Don't box me in by telling everyone this is "stand up comedy, but from home." IMO, the service would be crippling me. People don't understand how much effort is involved in coming up with even a 5 minute solid set. That's the launching point of a career.

If you're going to put the effort into writing a book, you're going to put in the effort to find the right publishing path. Anything else would be a major risk to the success of that effort.

This is not the platform you're looking for. </jedi mind trick>
The independent findings have been published but no one had put them into a cohesive whole "formula".

All the technologies Tesla uses existed but no one had created a Tesla :)
I use brave as my browser on an android mobile and I find that this has the perfect balance.

I hate reaching to the top of my phone to create a new tab.
interesting! I'll be sure to watch it then!
I've been using mysql workbench for a few years now. Is free, works well, is cross platform and open source.
Viruses cant hide inside of receptors or the like. When a virus goes latent (the term you are looking for is viral latency), the genetic material of the virus finds a way to hide out inside a cell. The genetic material either floats around inside a protected area of the cell (episomal, think herpes) or actually integrates and becomes a part of your own dna (proviral, think HIV).

I don't know of any conclusive evidence yet that any coronavirus establish an HIV/herpes style latent infection. Of it turns out they do, then, to put it mildly, that is a very very very very big deal and a very very bad problem to have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_latency
Something we are looking into.
Build those too!
Question for you. If you were profoundly gifted and had kids who were also profoundly gifted, what kinds of things would you do with them and resources would you provide to them to ensure they were adaquetly challenged?

My situation: I'm in my 30's, I take IQ tests every 3-4 years and always score somewhere around 155-165. I come from a multi-generational complex trauma family, my mother has an ACE store of 9, I have an 8, my father is with what I know about him around a 9 and going back generations on either side of the family it seems to be the case on both sides. High ACE scores reduce your IQ and academic performance quite a bit. My Sister scored 167 on a MENSA exam once unadusted for dyslexia and dyscalculia which they mentioned would put her in the 180's.

I can't even begin to describe the kind of perceptual maze I've had to navigate overcoming my own issues; cognitive restructuring is a powerful tool I used well before I learned about complex trauma and in the last few years that has been a real renissance for me. I feel in a lot of ways I was raised more by the internet and BBS than my own parents.

Decided a long time ago to be celibate because I just assumed my kids are going to go through the same lot in life I did and I wouldn't want to do that to anyone even by accident. Any kind of technique or program to help those kids avoid that outcome would be useful to me. If I have kids I want them to be who they are supposed to be in life.

BTW, thank you for posting this.
> In order for the lender to be able to expect real interest on average, there must be growth.

Why?

This doesn't sound obviously true to me. Imagine an economy in perpetual long-term stasis, with zero inflation. There's a company which has a factory which turns a profit, because it makes useful stuff. Every ten years, they need to replace the factory. So they take out a loan, and pay it off, with interest, over ten years. The lender earns interest with positive real value from this. Is there anything in this story which is impossible? Is there a theoretical reason a world like that couldn't exist?
This is really cool! I hope they get the GPU running. I would _love_ to run Ubuntu Touch or something on an iPhone. I wonder how much of the responsiveness of iOS is due to the hardware.
Spotlight by default sends queries to Apple Servers for suggestions. Personally I have that, Siri and Location Services switched off.

From the Spotlight System Preferences dialog window clicking 'Search & Privacy':

"In some cases, such as when you use Siri Suggestions in Spotlight, Look Up or Safari, generalised topics of interest that Siri has learned may be sent to Apple to make your searches more relevant. These topics of interest (for example, cooking or football) will help to give you more relevant search results, and we use privacy-friendly techniques to disassociate these topics of interest from you."

"In addition to these topics of interest, when you perform a search, your device sends your search queries, suggestions you have selected and related usage data to Apple to process your request. This information is not associated with you. Search results that show files and content on your device will not be sent."

"If you have Location Services on your device turned on, the location of your device will be sent to Apple to provide more relevant recommendations. To provide you with more relevant music and video suggestions, if your device can access music or video subscription services, then information such as the names of the subscription services and types of subscriptions may be sent to Apple. "
Challenge for all the anti-C people here: what other language (a) lets you set up this situation in the first place and (b) avoids the problem "optimally"? That is, generates performant assembler on x86 and doesn't crash on ARM?

(a) is a much harder criterion than it sounds!
But it says they have symptoms again
There may well be reasons to expect growth to continue forever. But i am asking if there are reasons to require it to continue forever.
> Does the newest version of dat handle large files well (10gb)?

I'd be curious if anyone wanted to try it ;) https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperdrive/blob/master/index.js...

> What is the command line support like for multi-writer?

There is an experimental multiwriter CLI using hyperdrive and kappa-db (github.com/kappa-db)

https://cobox.cloud
Or may be the infection is already so widespread as some studies suggest that any observed changes is just a noise and all the lockdowns/etc. don't affect it much. Sweden for example isn't that different despite different approach.

Without wide testing we don't really know and are just blindly drifting along the 5 stage model - denial, anger (that is lockdown), and now we're moving onto the negotiating with all that conditional reopening. It is pretty telling that anger to negotiating stages change is happening without improvement of the real situation.
SMR is like, 30MB/s write speed best-case scenario. PMR is 200MB/s write speed, easy.

We're talking about 700% difference in performance. In the case of RAID5, you have many, many physical writes per OS-level write. If you have 5-hard drives storing 100MBs, you'll need to actually write 120MBs to disk.
Oh, where are you from? It's (sadly) true that there is no significant movement of left-wing fraternities over here in Germany (at least none that I'm aware of). I never understood why, because it is part of a historic student culture - and leaving that culture (or any kind of culture) to the right wing seems kind of sad.
Why aren’t delivery drones taking off?
Nope. You have to active a full neutralizing antibody based response. Many/most mild infections will be fought off with passive defense measures which wont trigger your body to go through all the effort of generating antibodies against the virus. And even if you do gain immunity, that's only against a given antigen, so the virus can mutate or reshuffle its genome (e.g. hiv, influenza) and make permanent immunity difficult.
We are working on the look and feel but there is lots of great content.

What do you think of these mockups:

https://theconversionwizards-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/p/jasper/...

https://theconversionwizards-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/p/jasper/...
One can easily imagine it going at least two ways: in one, Lisp becomes as much a lingua franca as Javascript is; in the other, people don't flock to Lisp as they did to Javascript, and so the programmatic web never takes off (which may or may not be a bad thing).
In a parking lot the car would be starting from a position it can stay in, so requiring a person to intervene is one option. Also busy parking lots frequently don't stay busy forever and heavy rain doesn't last forever either.

A look at the local weather could see where a storm is and give an estimate of when it will be able to automate leaving and require a person otherwise. I think there are pragmatic answers to extreme situations.
His source data for California is almost certainly wrong. If you go look at it in the csv its got a bunch of repeats and obvious gorp.

The data assumptions in the model itself is questionable; as someone pointed out below, he's basically modeling the generating process involved in giving people tests (put a different way: the spread of test availability). Which is pretty useless. For myself I wouldn't have gone through the trouble he did to make it more sciencey looking; exponential smoothing and sqrt(n) would give you virtually the same picture.
"Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building? What are you building directly, or helping other people to build, or teaching other people to build, or taking care of people who are building?"

So, what are you building?
What's going on, is that WD has for years, sold a PMR 3TB drive called "3TB WD Red".

Suddenly, without warning, the "3TB WD Red" is an SMR drive. Technically they changed the model number, but the marketing number (3 TB Red) remained the same.
It is interesting to see Marc Andreessen in 2020 to quote Mencius Moldbug from 2013 almost word to word.

To quote Mencius directly -- " One pathology of our age is a childlike credulity in the magical efficacy of complaint. Don’t complain, build. We have done well at complaining; so what? What have we built?", which is basically tl;dr of Marc's article.
Arcing is only present if there's a significant amount of current flowing, which there isn't in switches used for user input.
I don't know about California, but around me, not sure the social mixing is primarily outdoors. A decent number of people are still going over to friends' houses, taking kids on play dates, etc. Granted, far fewer than a month ago, but people aren't all staying in their own homes.
I just use JWTs whenever I have to pass signed messages.
Wouldn't a protocol like this be a killer feature in the next package manager to solve problems npm had? Then you've just got a discoverability issue without the whole infrastructure headache on top to maintain.
Another RPKI tool: https://rtrlib.rpki.net/ allows to fetch RPKI data from a cache server. using the rtrclient, which is part of the package, you can export ROAs to any format.
> A good critical comment teaches us something

Feel free to discard point number one of my post if you enjoy watching that kind of tripe.

Point number two of my post teaches us not to waste 30 minutes of our lives watching something that serves no practical purpose whatsoever.
NASA Joins California Team to Develop Covid-19 Solutions
For the Redhat family You don't really need TLP, tuned[1] is installed by default and it's pretty well integrated with the system (no need to mess with SE Linux)

1: https://github.com/redhat-performance/tuned
I don't really care if a drive is 150MB/s or 200MB/s. I understand that hard drive manufacturers change their technology on a regular basis (PMR, HAMR, etc. etc.). Adding platters, removing platters, increasing platter density, etc. etc. As hard drives change, so do their performance.

What makes this a sore spot, is that SMR drives have something like 1/8th the sustained write performance of PMR drives.

Think about how you went from HDD world into the SSD world a few years back. Except do that in reverse. SMR drives are great for archives, but they should never be sold as a mainstream solution, because their performance is so much worse than PMR.
Mr.doob relaunched his multiuser sketchpad
The police, by law, are allowed to create circumstances that non-police are not.

However, even if they weren't, it's irrelevant to my point, that people, including but not limited to the police, have powers that come from their membership in an abstract entity, and it's perfectly natural for them to have regulation of those privileges as well.
Python at least has if ... elif ... else to deal with it.
Mercury Switch
This is great. We are really playing the victim with this virus. I think we should be attacking it on all fronts.

Let’s spend the next ten years building a system that can produce a vaccine in three months. Maybe have a national reserve of people standing by to participate in vaccine trials during a crisis.

Don’t have some of the technology? Invent it! Rules don’t allow it? Change the rules!
Again, fair enough, but you are just one person with a strong opinion. Are you sure that your feelings about the word "standup" can be generalized to comedy fans as a whole? Maybe others will see it differently. It doesn't need to get 100% of live comedy fans to be a success.
It's not obvious that it will shoot back up, depending on how careful we all about the return. People talk a lot about the multiple waves of the Spanish Flu, but the logical consequence of that is that transmission of a respiratory disease can be sustainably reduced; otherwise there would have only been the one wave.
You are a billionare Marc. You are probably one of the top 1000 people with the capacity to build in North America.

So, how many of the things you list are you building?
him: one-to-many,
her: one-too-many

:|
Why wouldn't we build the more efficient one in terms of resources?
That's EOL, it's been deprecated since 2015, if you're a developer using it and can't see why people can't bother supporting it I don't know what to say other than should we support XP since random PCs in China still run it ?
I love nuclear power, I used to be a 'nuke' in the Navy, but it's not feasible at today's tech level. There's too great a risk of nuclear accident right now, even if it's very uncommon (risk = severity x probability, if severity is 10/10 then any probability is too high, IMO). Someday, if the financials are right (if profit margins are good enough), or if we need it more than ever (if profit margins don't matter), someone will come up with a guaranteed safe and reliable reactor design, much like Google invented a much better search algorithm or Uber came up with a way to overcome the taxi coalition (I don't support Uber or Google today, but their ideas were revolutionary). Once that 'revolutionary' new nuclear tech comes, if it does, then I'll back it. Today's reactor designs aren't proven, not tested, and cost too much, so for now I will support renewable energy, like geothermal, solar, wind, etc, combined with storage like batteries, dams, gravity potential energy solutions, etc.
This thread critiques this article in a way I find convincing: https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/125122527387113472...
People go with the VBScript support in Internet Explorer instead, and later Netscape implements support for that for compatibility and in 2020 we are all programming BASIC.
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