skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not all of the west.

Here in Aotearoa things are not going too badly. The state institutions seem to have functioned well and people cooperating.

I fear it is a fluke, but whatever, I'd rather be good, but I will take lucky.
This community is not "supposed to be of scientists" and it's certainly not a scientific forum. It's an internet watercooler. People speculate.

If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904356, that comment was flagged by users; rightly so since it broke the site guidelines. (You need to set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile to read dead comments.)
Can confirm, got a day job and a sidehustle. At some point a few years ago I just decided it’s easier to not have friends. Between the girlfriend, two jobs, and staying sane with workouts ... there’s simply no time left.

The toxic part of this cycle is that as an introvert I don’t even find myself missing having friends. For now. If I ever hit a rough patch in life hot damn is that gonna be bad.

But you know what? Friends can be remade. Relationships rekindled. All is not lost.

The grass is greener where you water it.
What Makes People Engage with Math – Grant Sanderson [video]
Would you even trust the current administration to not interfere and distribute with partisanship in mind? On the remote chance they chose anyone competent to manage it.

I sure as hell don't, we have our head of state literally saying governors need to be nice to him to get their states federal help and stirring up in-person quarantine protests against governors from the opposite party. Unfortunately in this vacuum of leadership states are all we have. I am glad the north east and west coast seem to be starting to coordinate on a larger level.
What's the downside to Trump of demanding the "liberation" of swing states (particularly those with Democrat governers)?

Tweets are official orders, they've got the legal standing of a sneeze.

Suppose the governors go along with Trump. Two scenarios:

1. "Liberating" the states works. Not that many more people get sick, their economy gets better. Trump wins! He ordered them to do something, and it worked! Trump's a Genius!

2. "Liberating" those states doesn't work. Many people get sick, some extra deaths occur. Big deal, Trump just tweeted. He tweets what ever's on his mind.

Suppose the governor's don't go along with Trump, they listen to epidemiologists.

Same two scenarios, in (1) Trump can just write off the tweet. It was hot garbage from his lie-hole. No biggie. In (2), Trump's a genius! They should have listened to him.

This whole twitter thing should be illegal for the same reason that the USA has records laws and sunshine laws. It's essentially corrupt influence.
You might not have been wearing it right. You might also want to get your lungs checked with a spirometry machine a standard test that is done to make sure peoples lungs are healthy before letting the wear a respirator.

https://www.healthline.com/health/spirometry
I'd assume it would degrade N95 masks. Ozone reacts at least somewhat with both polyethylene and polypropylene at relatively low temperatures and short timelines. This paper shows effects at 95F and 15-90 minute exposures: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1163/156856195X01012
I Turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo. Introducing: Furlexa (2017)
>> most people entrusted banks to do the right thing

This prevailing sentiment that banks/government/overlords will do the right thing has been mostly proven wrong time and time again. I don't agree with the top-level commenter's tone, but I understand the content.

Putting faith in large business or bureaucracy of any kind is a recipe for disaster.
> older than the maximum age where you can learn new things

WTF?

Some day, when you've grown up a bit, you might understand just how stupid that post was.
So what you're saying is that there's no way to discover it by visual inspection alone; and so my elderly family members could never discover it for fear of breaking something by pressing the wrong button. That's bad UI.
YouTube does that too, but on smaller screens. Still confused me to death in the first couple of times.
1099. Applications weren't open until April 10th for us.

My local credit union is not SBA. I applied through a few online brokers; got word a few days ago my application was approved and sent to the underwriter. Later that day it was announced all the funding was dry.
Just want to add a datapoint: I run a skincare brand (www.mendskin.co) for men. No discernible difference in traffic, but a significant drop in conversions. I've stopped all Ads because the click through rate actually increased, but the conversions plummeted.

I've been hearing over the past 2 weeks that online traffic and revenue has been soaring for others, but I'm skeptical. I think it's just traditional brick & mortar shops that never had the time nor the impetus to set up an online presence now doing so. Just my 2c.
Appeal to authority, much? The content can't stand on its own?
Haskell's an old language, pushing 30 years now... Rust is still a relatively young technology. There are lots of improvements that could be built but only a handful of people to build them.
Kids left some coco puffs in bathroom. Traveler freaked out.

Guess he thought they were bugs or turds.

Became zealots about cleaning after that.

Never had another issue
Concorde's first flight was 1969 and ran commercially until 2003. High end demoed.
>> but the way America responded to this was with blatant corruption

America is far too incompetent to plan for corruption in times like this. Just assume stupidity when it comes to bureaucracy. That was definitely the case here.
Yes, let's train users to type their passwords in with no visual indicator of where it's being input, and only faith that it will go well. Great idea. /s
I don't know why this was downvoted, it seems reasonable to me. A lot of people would have traveled for christmas, new years and chinese new year. Testing was almost non existent. I would bet that everyone by now at least knows someone who suspects they have already had it.
I recommend learning Rust first on the basis:

1. The learning materials are much better. The official Rust book is excellent. And it doesn't take long to do a first run through it.

2. You'll learn much quicker with Rust. With C++ it could take you years of experience to gain a full appreciation of the pitfalls because they're often not apparent when you first write the code, only when you actually run into the bug further down the line. With Rust, you'll get a compile error and enlightenment is quick google and a reading of a blog post away.

3. Some parts of Rust only seems to be difficult for C/C++ programmers who have learnt the C(++) way of doing things and expect that to translate into Rust. They get frustrated when Rust doesn't let you use certain patterns. However as C++ is generally less strict, if you learn the Rust way first, then you'll generally be able to translate that fairly directly into C++.
Maybe interfacing w an ml lib like pytorch or something?
I think it will take years of working in c++ to fully appreciate the nightmarish many-tentacled footgun monster it can be.

At the end of it you might even develop Stockholm syndrome and be one of those posting “if you just restrict yourself to these parts of the standard and run this 6 static analysers on your code then c++ is perfectly safe if you’re not an idiot”.

If you don’t want to learn c++ for its own sake, that’s time you could better spend learning a language that’s not actively trying to harm you.

Source: coded c++ for 20 years, now writing rust as much as possible.
I hosted a little file sharing utility at fy.lc that recently vanished from the internet. I guess I always suspected this was a possibility given the general jankiness of nic.lc but it's still pretty disappointing. Nobody should run anything serious on a ccTLD.
Masks are pretty damn cheap. You could 100x the price and regular people could still afford them.
GIMP has had no much powerful functionality while at the same time having an absolute awful UI going on 15 years or more now.

And it still hasn't been fixed.

I'm not a big believer in conspiracies, but if there's one I'd not dismiss out of hand, it's that Adobe or some other company has been ensuring that GIMP has never been improved or become a viable replacement for some PS users.

There is obviously a large potential market for a lower cost option for light users of Photoshop who don't want a monthly subscription to Creative Cloud.

Maybe they secretly paid off open source devs to obfuscate the code so much that any potential volunteers would have too much trouble finding a way to re-architect the UI without years of unpaid work.

When I see so many great improvements to complex software released to the community on GitHub, along with the potential for some startup to fork GIMP, fix its UI, and charge some sort of support fee like a lot of companies do with OSS, I just find it very strange that GIMP's UI is still in such bad shape, after two decades oconatant complaining by users.

It wouldn't surprise if Microsoft did or does something similar with the OpenOffice code base. So many compatibility and usability problems that just seem to langusish for decades, while you'd think some company could find a way to make money fixing some of the biggest issues keeping light users of Office 365 who don't want to pay subscriptions.
Amazon makes almost 50% of their annual revenue from online retail. Many billions of dollars. It's by far their biggest product category.

Yes, through accounting magic, they're making the majority of their profits via AWS, but that's part of Bezos's long-term strategy and could be changed on a dime (at the potential expense of the long-term growth he's targeting).

Top line, most of their business is from online retail, not AWS.

(edited because my original was a bit of a flame, and didn't clarify profit vs revenue distinction)
PH, reducing agents, radiation, heat have been tried. Would adding pressure do anything?
I only had a quick scan through the article, but could this be used to create an executable for some existing Python code?
That's exactly what I thought when I read the title. It's very frustrating how many landing pages, project readmes, blog posts, etc that don't answer the question "why?". I usually need to know that before going further when I come across something that I've never heard of before. If they don't have the "why?" somewhere easy to find I just close the tab.
We applied through BoA on the first day as well and never heard a word. All documents are still in Intralinks apparently untouched. Only two things we ever heard from them were the link to upload documents and a call a few days later verifying we were able to upload the documents. Radio silence since then.

I did read somewhere though that their system was looking for specific file names in Intralinks and if you did not have those your application fell through the system. After reading that, I went back yesterday and looked at our docs and one the we had renamed the addendum and template files to remove spaces. I also looked at their instructions (probably should have read them more clearly from the beginning) and it does say in there not to rename files and/or to use specific file names. I am now wondering if that was what caused our application with them to fall to the black hole.

Luckily we had applied through a local bank and received a SBA number. Waiting on final docs now from them.
Same here as one of the biggest pain in the ass after booking a hotel and airflight is what do you do at your destination? This helps a bunch.
Warp, Hyper, Rocket... Actix isn't the only game in town, or even the most popular one.
What would the point of that be versus wrapping it in a bash script? Obfuscation?
Historically I've stayed away, and view index funds as the way to go. I have no training in finance or stock valuation. It's easier for me to think about probabilities than what the pricing of Tesla means.

The rebound does seem like early overconfidence, but could be a bet on the fact that public corporations are more likely to get bailouts than not. I hope the markets are right that it's more than that. But markets seem to do a lot of dumb things over the short and medium term.
If imports worked I could see it being very useful for making graphs. I've heard of people serializing data in other languages and then using Python to plot it.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. The League of Nations failed, and then disbanded. The UN fails constantly, but has decided to simply become more irrelevant overtime rather than disbanding. I can’t see why a fresh world war would convince them to change tack.
It is currently private but I will be reopening it once I tidy it up.
I may have gotten things the wrong way around. You definitely want whatever conic has the foci in the right spots.
With only 1% of the population infected? Nope. It’s definitely a lot more than that. You know where the claim that up to 80% of people can be asymptomatic came from? It was when they tested all pregnant women for delivery at a hospital in New York. I recall that they found 15% were infected.
Struggling with NPM? I made a terminal UI for it!
nope. small biz checking, that's it.
I used them quite frequent and overall never had an issue.
How does the A6 compare with Model 3?
Not all programmers are intuitives; there are a great many who are sensors who lack a mental model of how their device operates or how the software they're interfacing with at a DSL or API level operates.

They have a mental map of commands and structures for everything they make, and make "new" things by following examples of new maps. Ie, copying code from SO.
With all due respect, I think you're missing the point. It's not about whether one is, or should be, tough enough, or is overly sensitive. As with technical debt, there's necessarily going to be a certain amount of emotion that needs to be discharged; and as with technical debt (or financial debt), there's nothing wrong with incurring it and paying it off, if that's part of your plan to succeed.

The only mistake is not recognizing that you're incurring debt, and not having a plan or means to deal with it. Unacknowledged debt of any kind compounds and eventually destroys.

I would guess that your pilot example was less about nerves of steel than about someone who had learned to handle (i.e., process) a lot of stress effectively--which is just a way of saying that nerves of steel is more about efficiently incurring and discharging debt than about withstanding cumulative effects.
Great post! Reminded me of ‘The art of game design - A book of lenses’
The first lens, author talks about is ‘lens of emotions’ and mentions that — while designing games emotions like ‘frustration’ and ‘fear’ play an important role in defining a users’ experience.
Or maybe they actually know what they are talking about and are just sharing their best information as responsible humans concerned with people doing stupid stuff during a pandemic in the name of saving a few bucks.
> Sure. Step 1: lose the speculative cryptocurrency.

The step seemed like it lacked any understanding of the mechanism design of handshake, and I realized it's because we skipped a step here. I like to start my count with 0:

Step 0: Please read the design notes document. Let's be constructive here.

Later:

In all seriousness, though, I urge you to read and understand how Handshake works and how different it is from these other 'cryptocurrency' projects that I am (and I'm sure many in the hn community) on the exact same page as you about. I trust you'll see why the community is moving in this direction.

Later 2:

Just incase you don't read the paper, the coin, and auction process, helps prevent sybil attacks among other things.
In the days before power strips were ubiquitous, my VCR got unplugged whenever I played the Sega. There was no way anyone was setting the clock daily.
Ethics flow from the top down, and we have a serious lack of interest in ethics from our political and business leaders.
Ubuntu does support fingerprint login if you have supported hardware.
In the past 3 weeks, we have helped over 150 brick and mortar retail stores (our customer base) open Shopify stores. They are not only opening stores, but doing meaningful revenue.

Shopify has not be helpful as an organization, and their processes and red tape have been a challenge. But, it's apparently working for them.
About half way through article: “The new lock screen is easier to use, no longer requiting you to ‘slide up’ to reveal the password field (which now sits atop a blurred version of your desktop wallpaper):”

Great! That UI was horrific. Hitting a key like spacebar didn’t unlock.

Aside: I completely broke the Ubuntu login screen yesterday. I did `apt remove evolution*`. Unfortunately the login screen depends on evolution-data-server, so I couldn’t login from lock screen, and after reboot it dropped me to TTY!! Gnome is just getting crazy - it would be like Windows login depending on MS Outlook! Gnome is a big ball of interdependencies, becoming more like Windows. I get it, but I don’t like it. Edit: FYI: fixed in TTY3 (ctrl-alt-F3) by `apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop` from memory.
This is one of the rare times that I obviously should have done just that, but usually it's hard (for me at least) to really think of ways to carry some forecast over into the stock markets.
Better to account for gravity first, no?
Facebook also has all of this, though I conceed that it doesn't have a built in user to user payments solution... Yet.
I was a child during the heyday of VCR, but I don't think any of my family was aware of timed recording. The whole concept just didn't exist in our lives until Tivo. Non-obvious features plus buying things second hand just meant you never learned everything your stuff did back before you could find manuals online.
You know, that might not be unintentional. They might want those who don't see the value to just close the tab and move on. That way only those who see the value keep reading. I imagine it helps avoid having to engage in (often endless) arguments about the validity of the use case.
Sometimes performance matters. At my previous company we settled on a Rust solution for one component (ingesting analytics data) after cycling through python and node prototypes that were just too slow (we had 100+ GB of data to process, and the node.js app was taking 15 minutes to process one 500mb file).

And once the data processing code was in Rust, it made sense to have the endpoint that collected the data in Rust too. It would probably have been possible to optimise the node/python versions. But it was easier to write it in Rust that is designed for these high-performance scenarios.

An unexpected bonus was just how reliable our Rust code turned out to be. I'd definitely consider Rust for non-performance critical code on that basis.
I'm not saying the person is not part of an elite. I'm saying his problem is quite common, and has little to do with him being part of an elite. Yes, he could realize that he is in a good position, and it's not a big deal if his startup fails, and he can always get a decent paying job.

But he may well have the same problems in that job (not always as severe, but sometimes it can be). He may well have the same problems in a crappy job. That's why it's not a first world problem. It's convenient to believe that he causes his own problems by chasing wealth, but it's a flawed to think he would avoid them had he not gone that path. Not processing emotions well is not something unique to people who are in the elite. And not trying to get filthy rich will not cure your problem.

I view it very similar to physical ailments. It's a problem, and one needs a cure/salve. I don't couple it with one's behavior/motives/aspirations.
> Note that I said working life. Although your comment generally is incorrect too (this isn't even worth disproving tbh, just look at survey data).

How obtuse are you? Of course I'm talking about working life. Survey data just reflects peoples' indoctrination anyway and getting anything through a dense American's head is nearly impossible if it involves imaginary 'freedom'. Makes sense when you fuck the whole world with imperialism, gotta justify it somehow.

> as opposed to just believing what you feel.

I've spent plenty of time reading 'serious' academics across all kinds of ideological lines. Esping-Andersen is not an absolute authority. America is still pathetic and broken no matter how you twist it. And yes, Europe is bad and we should off their billionaires too, not sure what you expect from me there.

> I love HN. I don't think there is any other place on the internet that has so many people who are both totally ignorant but believe they understand almost everything very very well. Classic engineer mindset.

And you're a bootlicking shit that is throating a combination of right-wing immigration policy and neoliberalism, so?
My hunch is that Shopify is seeing surges in some areas because Amazon has been picked over for many items and can no longer adequately stock what consumers are looking for in some cases.

Many small Shopify retailers have pivoted quickly and are stocking some items that Amazon is having trouble keeping in stock.
Ah yes, I forgot that "socialism doesn't work with human nature". Good point, never considered it.
Amazon makes substantially more from AWS than its retail segment. Retail revenue is higher but revenue does not equal profit. For instance last quarter AWS revenue was 13% compares to retail but it contributed 52% of operating income.
What do you call what Ivy Mike did to Elugelab?
It does, but that mode has its share of other issues. I accidentally lose the draft I’m working on, every time I use it.
Were they allowed to do that under the terms of the contract or something like that? If not, it sounds like fraud. If so, it sounds like a way to never make any significant payouts...
rust-analyzer is stable enough to use, and it's _awesome_.

I wish I had something this slick for Scheme, C, C++ and even C#. Omnisharp is good, but not this good.
I enjoyed reading this blog post, and the perspective that the author brings. The notion that a cache is a big ask is novel to me, but I think it is a good point that it does complicate things more for simpler cases.

However, I would like to hear the author's thoughts on Concurrent Mode in general, and how Crank.js addresses the same issues. There's no mention here of time slicing, which is what Concurrent Mode really unlocks. IIUC Suspense was discovered, not invented, after implementing React Fiber and exploring the knock-on effects of being able to restart rendering from a place in the component tree.

React's insistence on rendering being "pure" is not dogma; it is an attribute that unlocks the ability to pause and resume rendering at any node in the component tree... like if an important update from a keyboard press comes in that you need to handle right now. This means that when CPU is scarce, jank can be alleviated by prioritizing user input and other high priority updates.

There's a tweet out there by sebmarkbage that gives a slightly cryptic response to using generators, but the gist that I remember is that because generators are mutable, you don't get the properties you need to arbitrarily pause and resume a component just like it was when you paused rendering it.

The author claims that this is just dogma, but I believe (and the React team believes too) that time slicing provides a measurable benefit to the user experience. This point is contentious still; Rich Harris of Svelte fame claims that _doing less work_ is more important than prioritizing it. But the author here doesn't address this at all, instead claiming architectural simplicity is its own goal.

I'm excited to see alternatives to React come out and generate excitement, and I'm very interested to see where Crank.js continues to evolve. My hope is that in 5 years we'll know way more about all of these questions than we do now, and we'll be able to put those into practice in better frameworks, delivering better applications.