skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I was introduced to Factorio by a friend who setup a multiplayer server for us and a couple of others. The teamwork held my interest for a bit longer than other games, but even there I eventually just spent my time clearing out enemy nests rather than working on the factory. I’m a programmer, I already spend most of my day wiring things together endlessly.
But it is? Putting aside the morality.

They’re no longer paying tax, they’ll free up housing when they go, and probably leave inheritances.

We just can’t talk about it, but there are benefits to cleaning house.
A repurposed cruise ship.
But 9/11 as ugly as it was, was US only. It did not have any financial repercussions in my circles outside of USA.

This thing is impacting worldwide
The tally is not properly done yet.

There is still great difference in how deaths are counted between countries. For instance, Italy mostly counted dead at hospitals. In Sweden, if someone dies, it's up to the doctor in charge to call for a post mortem test or not. There has been quite a lot testing in homes for the elderly.

What all of this means, is that it's very difficult to compare between countries. I think it will be much clearer in retrospect, but maybe not even then.

And this mild lockdown is the point - no tracking of citizens with apps, no quarantine orders, no Police and Military (Finland!!) or closed roads. People are changing their behaviour without all of that. The politicians in charge are worried that a hard lockdown will create fatigue - and they want us to be able to keep up mitigations for a long time, because the virus may be with us for a long time.
Yes. If I had the energy and time to do a proper researched data set I would have a bot search through the top 100 common words associated with either warmth (sociability and morality) or competence, and then use a facial recognition system go through the first 100 images of each to determine the distribution of gender, age and skin color.

Following the stereotype content model theory I would likely get a pretty decent prediction of what kind of culture and group perspective produced the data. You could also rerun the experiment in different locations to see if it differ.
CloudFlare has ESNI enabled (and so do websites hosted by it, like medium.com) so it's not as if no one is doing it.
Really just buy a place with two extra rooms (assuming a couple ) that not at all practicable
I gave up on Zeit when Now v2 came out because, besides it being more complex and a pain to migrate to, they went back on their promises about no vendor lock-in. Up until late 2018, their site had a very different philosophy that they abruptly abandoned. [1] [2]

Fool me once...

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20181107092845/https://zeit.co/n...

2: https://web.archive.org/web/20181107092845/https://zeit.co/n...
Singapore is probably going to have a worse time of it than most, in the post-globalisation future we’re hurtling towards.
I use an Apple Wireless Keyboard (3rd gen) that has proper inverted T arrow keys with my iPad Pro (10.5) and a Mac mini (Late 2012) spare computer. The subsequent one was and Magic Keyboards are poorly-designed and unusable.

To be fair, the Logitech Slim Combo Keyboard Folio is awful. In the first week, the left arrow key cap leapt off the keyboard over the right side and committed suicide. Furthermore, the keyboard doesn't always work on wake, so it negates its entire purpose for being. I took it off to gather dust somewhere and only use the kickstand back case, which pointlessly blocks the SIM tray that I use. (I'm going to Dremel it as soon as my Hazard Fraught order arrives.) I'd send it back, but I still need a case.

The Mac mini has:

- wired WASD V3 blank caps keyboard for voluminous typing

- Logitech MX Revolution (RF) in always free-scroll mode for conventional mousing (recently replaced battery, which is still made by third-parties)

- Wireless Keyboard for remote control

- Magic Trackpad 1 for multi gestures and remote control
0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 returns false in all the interpreters I have installed locally (Ruby, Python, NodeJS and Haskell), and you can't with a straight face pretend that Haskells type system is not strict enough.

Because I was curious, I tested it out with C# on repl.it and behold, 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 returns false in C# as well: https://repl.it/repls/AdoredValidVirtualmachines. Not very surprising of course, since that "error" is a result of the IEEE floating point spec and not of any language.
Also more here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-20/softbank-...
No hinting?

Isn't that bound to be ugly? I read some stuff from Behdad Esfahbod [0], author of Harfbuzz and thus one direct layer above Freetype. One article [1] illustrates well how ugly "iiiiiiiiiiii" will look without hinting on LowDPI. For HiDPI it says you need subpixel-positioned text which would be the job of the layer above libschrift, I guess.

[0] http://behdad.org/
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wpzgGMqXgit6FBVaO76epnnF...
It's not my project, you can probably talk about it with its creator: https://twitter.com/flybayer
That's also the objective of Kretes [1], a programming environment for TypeScript & Node.js (soon Deno) with built-in support for plain SQL and GraphQL

[1]: https://kretes.dev/
Antibody Treatments May Be the Best Hope Against the Virus Until a Vaccine
We've compiled the information in this article: https://medium.com/getamis/introduction-to-hierarchical-thre...
DForce hacker returns $25m in 'stolen' crypto-currencies
I saw it but title did not justice it.
Nobody is estimating that 100% of New York has already been (or even will be) infected, so something is off by much more than 20%.

With an optimistic, but at least plausible, estimate that 40% of NYC have been infected, then the IFR is around 0.4% which actually is within 20% of the 0.5% conservative guess that people have been making.
Surface Book uses Core i5/i7.

Surface Pro uses Core i3/i5/i7.

Surface Laptop uses Core i5/i7 or AMD Ryzen 5/7.

Surface Go uses Pentium Gold.

Surface Studio uses Core i7.
But what if this one specifically is a bad rebranding?
When you control the mint, it's basically the same thing. Doubly so when its the USD and the rest of the world has exactly the same problem you do, so you hardly need to worry about the depreciation vs other currencies.

(Even if you hardly needed to before just by sheer size.)
Once a machine gets old, I usually donate it to somebody who can use it further. In that regard, my Surface Book 2 is one purchase that I wholly regret. Once the battery dies there is no way it can be replaced - not even by Microsoft. They just send you a refurbished piece for $500.

This expensive machine contains high quality components. For the sake of the environment, it should be illegal. I will never buy Microsoft again.
As someone who has recently got back into games, Factorio is a ton of work—and I love strategy games like Civilization.

Playing Factorio is not unlike doing engineering work itself. Initially, I was hooked. After a while, the brainpower it takes to build and refactor large factories felt too demanding.

It began to feel more like work, than enjoyment.
Ask HN: In which areas did you push your comfort zone? How successful were you?
My CV reads like I am a Jack of all trades (and clearly master of none ;-), but I'm currently in a software developer role that I feel very comfortable in, except maybe that there could be more technical challenges.

My current company hired me two years ago with the idea and perspective of making me a team leader, and I am currently going through trainings and other activities that prepare me for an assessment center. Of course there is also a fair amount of proactiveness required.

What I am noticing lately is that I am feeling like I am pushing the boundaries of or even leaving my comfort zone in basically everything related to the team leader position,
but I cannot recall ever feeling that way when presented with a technical challenge (which could be an entire master in aerospace engineering or simply diving into an existing Angular codebase).

What's your experience? Have you pushed your comfort zone only within technical areas, or outside? How successful or unsuccessful were you in these areas later on?
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The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard
It seems unclear whether you approach it from a professional or an individual basis. You mention spamming the trending tags which sounds like a blackhat marketing tactic. Do you want to promote your product or to become more involved at a personal level?
You could fill a library about all the volumes that have been written about managing organizational culture but the gist of it is that once the group is too large for everyone to feel as thought actions of other parts of the organization reflect on them personally it takes a lot of constant "cultural maintenance" to prevent an organization from becoming a self serving sociopath at the expense of it's long term mission. This isn't limited to companies or organizations with a profit motive. You see this behavior with nonprofits, special interest groups, unions, religions, government departments, militaries, etc, etc.
The race to save the first draft of coronavirus history from internet oblivion
How do you define "authenticity"?
I think that was the whole point of fast.com, right? Speeds to known 'speedtest' servers were manipulated by ISPs, and this was bad for Netflix's business because customers would ostensibly have good speeds yet have slow Netflix, so fast.com was created as a way to measure the 'real' speed to Netflix's servers.
Literally just discovered Zeit, what I liked about it was the ability to choose different run-times, with a generous free tier, with none of the existential baggage of the other PAAS's options out there. Sigh, oh well.
How were the diagrams made?
Sounds crazy - even if it was something in the blood, if you are oxygen starved, how can it be worse to flush your lungs with pure oxygen than not?
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It was a great shame when Dr. Fauci was imprisoned and forced to read a confession on Fox News, apologizing for disturbing the public order by correcting Trump.
Leaker Claims Mobile Version of Xcode Coming to iPad
I grew up in a country where there's no jury system in place. There, the judge(s) are all that matter in deciding the outcome of the case and as you can imagine, a lot of corruption happens (it is easier to bribe 1-3 judges than to a dozen jury for example).

I am curious (a serious question) what better system you have in mind to replace juries.
I totally agree that the problem is lack of mechanical sympathy.

A big problem is simply that software development is too hyped, and there is too much money in the industry, so there are too many unexperienced developers bringing bad software. Also, projects are too ambitious, leading to compartmentalization of implementation, leading to slow and unreliable code. The problem often starts already with the things that people want to build.

And my guess is that the use of Java and other object languages is highly correlated with these developments.
Infant temperament predicts personality more than 20 years later
I do, but I haven't practised the skill much lately so it's not as vivid as it used to be.

It's more like a second virtual desktop than superimposed; it takes up the same coordinates, but there's a clear distinction between "real" and "imagined" objects (unless I'm particularly tired, but that's closer to "hallucinating" than "visualising").

I used to be able to visualise things in positions relative to real objects, but at the moment I can only manage floating in the air, such that focusing on the position of imagined objects de-focuses the background, either relative to my field of view (so it moves when I move my head) or in a defined position in space (so it doesn't move when I move my head – though obviously this is limited by my ability to instinctively judge positions and distances, so it often doesn't quite work right when things are moving in complex ways, or I'm moving fast).
You need to find your inner voice first, and your best fit? Each medium has its own population and style. Start from the one you like the most and be yourself.
It had global repercussions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_of_the_Sept...
>> making the article one long page.

On a desktop at least, let us please not :)

* Allow me to understand the structure and length of content I'm entering

* Allow me to jump quickly to what I need, now and in the future

* Allow me to load only what I want

All good things! :)
88% of CFR potentially not being COVID was from [1] referencing [2]. Specifically:

"The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.

"On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three," he says.

"Other experts have also expressed scepticism about the available data."

"Report from the Italian National Institute of Health: analysed 355 fatalities and found only three patients (0.8%) had no prior medical conditions. See Table 1 in the paper; (99% who died had one pre-existing health condition): 49% had three or more health conditions; 26% had two other ‘pathologies’, and 25% had one." [2]

(For what it's worth in my reply I called it out as "[4] from the parent post" which is [1] here -- sorry for the confusion -- all I meant was that the Italian data skews very high, both because it's the oldest region [Lombardy] in the oldest country in Europe [Italy] -- and because they were very generous in how they ascribed cause of death).

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...

[2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/12044372...
Java (the language) is not especially slow; back in the mid 2000s I was optimising a Java GUI to display hundreds of thousands of nodes for chip design clock trees.

Java (the culture) makes it hard to be performant. There's a great tendency to use all sorts of frameworks and elaborate object systems where much simpler code would give you at least 90% of the functionality for 10x the performance.

But if you get some programmers with experience beyond Java who care about performance and are rewarded for performance, it's certainly possible.

I briefly wondered whether the demoscene ever had a go at Java, and indeed they did: http://www.theparty.dk/wiki/Java_Demo_1999 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91HzuGqpTHo
With https://excalidraw.com/

Believe me: a whole new world will open once you've discovered it.
Yes, Rimworld is easier to get into for many. "Survive" is a way more obvious and natural goal.

But once I got more and more into the details, Rimworld was the one frustrating me. I probably just despise this kind of "Storyteller" aka Event choosen by Wealth & RNG. This ruined the fun for me and is probably the reason I played Factorio easily 10 times as long as Rimworld.

The closest Factory has to that is the pollution mechanic, but that doesn't feel nearly as contrived.
We just launched a new search engine that only includes company websites. (https://miner.byautomata.io) and on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/miner-by-automata

Find new companies in your space, perform market and competitive intelligence, or help your due diligence process before making an investment by seeing which other companies are doing similar thing.
If no clients support it, and you can't tell as a user if it is working, then effectively no one is using it.
Trolling is malicious, just normalized and give a cutesy name.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp188

Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
Check out the API docs at https://api-specs.byautomata.io and grab an API Key at https://api.byautomata.io
Great! If there is any doubt I would rather see innocent people freed even if it means a few guilty people walk.

Once the police like you for a crime they’ll likely find a way to make it stick. Even if it’s just circumstantial. Most people plea.

Lawyers are highly educated performance artists. Prosecutors are pretty persuasive.

Look at DA Larry Krasner in PA. He’s fighting corruption.
What you're suggesting probably will happen, just not right now. As people go back to work, most high-risk people will continue to stay home (hopefully with government support). But as OP points out, we don't even have a full understanding of who's high risk. Every day we lockdown we're buying time to figure it out. We're also buying time to develop medications, manufacture equipment, study immunity, ramp up testing, and so on. It can't go on forever, but these are valuable days.

Several European nations have already started to ease lockdowns. High risk people still stay home, but a lot of people get to go back to work. If the US gets it's shit together, that can happen here too.
> restarting our ruby development server is so excruciatingly slow

Is it running on Windows? (Honest question.)
I totally agree with you.
I hope we still have a chance to do it well with PyPy.
Eyes don’t have the visual acuity for 8K TV’s at normal sizes (sub 100in) to make any sense. On top of that, there is no content and given how little 4k content there is it will be years before there is a meaningful amount of content.

Regular cinema is 2k or 4k. There is very little reason to move beyond 4k, especially in the living room. HDR on the other hand has plenty of room for improvement.
Fauci has been a bureaucrat longer than most people on HN have been alive. And he's been in charge of a department of the US government that hasn't been responsible for anything before the current event. Perhaps he's being lionized a bit much.
> It seems the craftsmanship aspect of computer programming is getting lost, and all that remains is the large leverage that one can use to drive profits with software.

Too many lazy/greedy developers fighting against users and operating systems (coughelectroncough)
I Built an App to Accompany Questlove’s DJ Set in 20 Minutes
I just launched HELO – a desktop app to debug your local application mails
Fan vibrations can be used to transmit data from air-gapped machines
I've been trying lemon, ginger and honey tea. at least it keeps me hydrated.
Also see Hero Patterns: http://www.heropatterns.com by Steve Schoger.
Sweden is still too early to call but my money is on the pandemic.
The stimulus is also technically a loan against your 2020 tax refund. As someone who's overseas and pays no US tax right now, the stimulus looks like a liability in my account, rather than a help.
I think sqldba's post was sarcasm. As in, once you open Slack, Gmail and a few Chrome tabs, poof there goes 10GB of RAM.
"This has led to a widespread unease and distrust among their voters, and a subsequent weakening of their governmental controls and regulations."

Yet, somehow, living in one of such "western" governed places, I don't feel that there is less governmental control than before. To give you two examples, I remember a time when digital fingerprinting of civilians was mandated only in a criminal context, but now one has to be fingerprinted just to get an ID (passport). Not long ago one could make easy anonymous calls (think of whistleblowing or whatnot). Not anymore, as the public phones aren't around any more and since not so long ago getting a cell phone number requires revealing one's identity. These may be anecdotal, but still.
Yep I agree. Java isn't slow if you build a trivial application. Or an HTTP server. Or something for batch processing. Or if you're a masochist working around performance issues until you reach about ~C level of performance and performance "robustness".

The problem is what Java encourages you to do. And I didn't want to single out a language; Java is just one that I revisit from time to time and I'm always astonished how awkwardly hard it is to do the simplest things in a straightforward (and CPU-efficient) way.

And yes, there are a lot of slow C++ programs, and even slow C programs. There's just a clear tendency for C programs to be faster and more responsive.
That was exactly my point: not everyone cares about that.

For many (most?) people the main factor in life is happiness. If you like your job, and it pays good enough, then why invest all the work into a future job that may pay better?

Also, there are many factors that come into play during interviews. How well you are able to combine complex Vim commands to shave 10 seconds of a particular task is probably very, very low down the list of competences the interviewer is looking for.
Thank you, I'm so sick of this being used as an example of why JavaScript is bad...
Lots of panicky people are on HN and reddit, every day, calling for extensions of these lockdowns “because people are dying!”, even though the original pretense was quite different (“flattening the curve” doesn’t change the area under the curve).

How was it different? One of the main points of flattening the curve was to minimise the risk of overwhelming (particularly) health services by ensuring that pressure was spread out over time. Overwhelmed health services = people dying, and not just because of the virus.

Now you may think that argument is wrong, but if so it would be better to understand the reasoning (or if you understand it then at least respond to it, rather than misrepresenting it) before dismissing people who argue it as "panicky".
> Let's find a way to reduce or eliminate the need for personal hygiene while we're at it.

Definitely. It's another maintenance time waster, another upkeep you have to pay. What's worse, only a fraction of it is needed for survival, the rest is just an elaborate social signalling game with almost unbounded costs in time and money.

> We could theoretically still have sex virtually, too.

Only if it offers improvement over status quo :).
Everything you liked about ZEIT is present in Vercel! You can read more about it in our rebrand field book: https://www.notion.so/Vercel-Launch-1cab2369ab1c4d8db1987b68...
It's a matter of perspective. When one witnessed it from times of Pong until now, it is maybe much easier to appreciate the whole journey.
I still find myself trying to save bandwidth on my internet connection that was very scarce resource not-that-long-ago. When I see people listening to music via youtube, unnecessarily transfering all that video content that nobody really watch, I want to cry :). Same with programming - going from ZX to where we are now, you can easily feel the luxury of having almost infinite memory and CPU power. And of course, games now are hardly comparable to what we had on ZX.
Great thing is to step back and try to program things like Arduino or ESP8266/ESP32 where you, again, have to think twice about resources.
Their approach seems to be achieving better than average results.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...
How to Ask Better Questions To combat our own biases in the design process
I think you’re mystifying a lot of people in this thread! Can you add to your explanation why it’s hard for ML to associate the negation with “stripes”? It seems easy: language => English, in English “without” modifies following phrase, not preceding.
If this is true, the iPad is about to get way more useful!