skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he’s so vocal about the virus lockdown destroying lives, why was he never vocal about wars? Wars literally destroy lives and economies. Total destruction.

Gimme a break. He’s piping up because he bet on the Russell (which completely went against him earlier this year) and those companies will get punished disproportionately due to the lockdown.

There’s way too much emphasis on listening to financial figures when in fact they are just as clueless if not more. Money does not equate to intelligence and wisdom. Be wary of listening to people with a lot to lose.

By the way, his take on passive investing is only half right. There’s a reset every quarter. The way to play it is to short single name volatility at earnings.
Too much of a good thing?
Probably 'cause they're high energy kids who normally can let go of said energy on playgrounds, in kindergarten or at school, while now they're stuck in a home too small with no way to let out their energy, while their parents both still have to work from home and have no time / energy to do both work and childcare. At the same time, parents can't let go of their own frustration because no sport, driving around, or any other way of having time to cool down thanks to lockdowns.

Self isolation is pretty easy if you're single or with a partner with no kids, in an adequately sized home where there is enough space not to feel cramped, and with a garden. If one or more of these things is lacking, it gets ever harder and harder the longer the lockdowns are in place.
I don't have the magical answer, but there's some elements in place to allow companies to stop their activities for a short amount of time (like furlough with a pay, like it's done in some countries, not sure how it works in the USA).

Looking at how beneficial reducing trade and manufacturing has been for the environment, i can't help but think that we need to be able to take the same kind of action we've been taking for COVID-19 to address the other big challenges we're facing.
errorship is not using the datadog eventstream to send all logs to it. Rather, errorship just sends exceptions, their stack traces(and a few other metadata like hostname) to the eventstream.

> although not sure how DD would feel about that

The datadog documentation[1] says; "An event represents any record of activity noteworthy for engineers"[1].
We certainly believe that exceptions that occur in engineer's applications are noteworthy activities and as such belong to the eventstream.

1. https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/
I launched Ask HN: It's Time to Build[0], Basically they are concepts you'd build often with a deep level of thought.

You should publish high fidelity ideas that keep you up at night.

Make a list of "n" things you'd do if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22912293
I agree. But did not consider it as a solution. :)
You'd have to define "best":

* how much do you care about performance?

* how much do you care about safety?

The simplest and fastest would be to check for the "PDF" signature at the start of the file. Refer to the open PDF spec to ensure you are allowing anything that's acceptable (eg. do you care about FDF files?).

If you need to protect against malicious attempts, rather than user errors, it gets much harder quickly (and theoretically impossible, since you can construct files which will be both valid PDFs and something else).

To give another example, if you are aiming to protect yourself from being used as a media-sharing service, PDF allows embedding media as well, so allowing PDFs will not stop that — they are container formats as much as anything else.

The safest would be to reprocess and re-render only the subset you allow: but that's most expensive in terms of implementation and CPU time, and also somewhat limiting — you can't keep digital signatures, for instance.
I totally half arsed school for this reason. There's much more fun (and learned skill) in learning stuff how you want. Personally, I took the route of combining all my subjects (maths, physics, CS) and took the route of building a couple basic physics sims. Best education of my life.
Thanks for your reply, and sorry to hear you feel trapped in your company right now.

Do you feel like this feeling is common among Googlers?

Also, I'd be very interested in hearing what you think of the reasons from Googlers defending the company, since you probably hear them a lot by working at Google.
There were articles a while back about birds evolving shorter wings and larger brains to avoid cars: Wings: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/are-birds-evolving... Brains: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/03/30/...
The trouble is that the decoy option in particular can be legitimate—it can be a real plan that you do actually sell, and that does offer more than the usual one; it’s just not needed for most people.

Tell people they must list the plans from cheapest to most expensive, left to right or top to bottom? Well and good; compliance is easy.

Disallow such indication of “specials”? Yeah, that can be done, though marketers will grumble a lot at you.

But the decoy? There’s no sane way of banning that in general, though you could ban some forms of it.

The paradox of choice? Yeah, you could ban this (and doing so would be consistent with opt-in doctrine which is widely used in things like spam legislation), but marketers would definitely growl at you and test the boundaries.

Downthread someone’s mentioned “$9.99” as a form of anchoring. I wish that was banned, e.g. you can’t price within 1% below some notion of “round number”, so that $14,999 would have to go up to $15,000 or down to $14,850.
This announcement makes no sense.

You do not have 35 employees without some sort of stable budget. Seems very unlikely the budget changed so much in the past few months that you have to reduce your headcount by 40%!

Then they even mention that they expect Tor to be even more relevant in the coming period. Well, now would be a good time to keep the people, work on the product and show how relevant it is.

Very little specific detail considering they are a non-profit. Why not post the numbers?
This depends on where you live (i.e. for which legal system that assertion is intended) and what type of identity/signing process you're using, as that timestamping is usually not a separate, isolated service but as an extra add-on to the ordinary digital signing/verification of e-documents.

For signing e-documents as an individual with the gov't ID chipcard I get the timestamping services for free (there's probably some limit to quantity, but it's large enough). But that, of course, depends on the national infrastructure - so it's simple and cheap for me, but I have no idea if you can do it right now easily - there are a bunch of companies that offer digital timestamping for something like $10 per a bundle of signatures, but I have no particular recommendations as I haven't tried them.

For larger companies the general practice seems to be that providers of document flow/recordkeeping management software also bundle the digital signature process, integrating the timestamping services there along with other stuff such as verification of digital signatures on incoming documents, and charge some trivial monthly fee for that integration; I believe my employer is paying something like 50 eur/month for that, which is a bunch of money for an individual (but it's free for individuals) but it's tiny compared to, for example, the cost of drafting and filing a court document explaining how you made and published your document hash in some unconventional way. In any case, that means that the company has a pre-existing solution that works reasonably well and has no obvious benefit that a change to blockchain might bring.

And to preempt a suggestion that this nation-specificness is a failure of centralized solutions and a decentralized solution can be global, this is not really the case - since the key purpose of e-signatures (and timestamps) is to integrate with national legal systems, a decentralized solution with no integrations doesn't work anywhere. E.g. here's a EU list of trusted providers https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/tl-browser/#/ - it's decentralized in some manner (there are many providers providing very different services in very different ways), but it's centralized in the sense that the law acts as a gatekeeper of what signing providers are considered trustworthy. You can have a "we'll put this stuff on the blockchain" signing provider, but doing the exact same thing yourself won't be as trusted, you'll need to (expensively) demonstrate how you're doing that and prove that it's actually the exact same thing.
I think this question is a bit like asking "Are there any substantial examples of real problems solved by incorporating companies and turning them into publicly-traded corporations?"

This question may also have been baffling to most people when corporations had just been legalized.

The answer is; it solves problems for participants and creates problems for non-participants. That's why it will definitely succeed as an economic instrument.
> However, all that said, there's absolutely nothing that suggests to me that Fortnite is—or ever could become—the (a?) metaverse. My view for now is that it is, frankly, very much a fad.

Fortnite, the battle royal game - most certainly not. But a certain "always on" Fortnite mode, where I can meet with with friends, talk, jump, dance, shoot, or maybe watch an episode of Friends while sitting in a car in Risky Reels sounds like, hmmm, fun (disclaimer - due to covid I've been staying mostly at home for over a month now).
Did you read the article? "He told Bloomberg News last month that he placed a “significant bearish market bet that is working out for now,” without providing details except to say it was a trade of a “good size” against indexes."
> forcing each entry to be written to a log file

When I last needed it ~2011, there was a small and simple tool called libsnoopy for that.

Emphasis on "log file" though, the "history file" is a different use case, fundamentally unfit for forensics.
Track and control. Obey. Obey. Obey.
I'm submitting this because there are people on HN who think we're over-counting deaths to Covid-19.

This article shows that in some countries we're under-counting covid-19 deaths by thousands.

In the UK we have two counts. There's the daily count from PHE. That's the number used for sources like Worldometers. It only counts people who died in hospital who were tested positive for covid-19. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

We also have the ONS numbers. These are based on death certification and then coding by statisticians. There's some lag involved. Here's the most recent version, issued on 3rd April. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
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How about a bit better title? - "COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with airlines and public transportation to Restaurant(s)"
Gotta wonder at who the specialists are who deal with this sort of thing and where they come from. They'd need a complicated background of medicine crossed with physics or engineering. It seems like an obviously useful thing to specialise in so they must have a few in-house experts but it seems unlikely that a medical background would prepare people for modeling the motion of small water droplets in air. That sort of thing isn't necessarily hard but it also isn't trivial.
Ah, okay. If I had said "any remotely personal criticism", like I meant, you'd have an entirely different conclusion, but I guess that doesn't matter when you just want to jump to conclusions.

This shows from the fact that you're saying "criticize" like it's a bad thing.
Hi.

> If your server is down, my application would crash too.

The errorship library is written in such a way that it fails open. If our servers are down(or any other failure), it does not affect your application and your application continues to work okay.
Time for a non google platform non apple phone platform.
Two slower frequencies can interfere and produce a much higher frequency in a phenomenon known as beating
Blockchain for reliable car history:

- Garages log maintenace + mileage.

- Accidents are logged.

- Spare part replacements are logged.

- Government logs changes of owners (maybe privacy concern here?).

You sell or buy a second hand car? You verify the blockchain history if everything checks out.

This is a nice use case since multiple parties come into contact with a car, and so a central entity is hard to create.

And as an added bonus, the transaction of changing car ownership can be done with a smart contract to atomically transfer both money and ownership. Less shady things.
Yep. As long as you have control over the system, you can use any physical phenomenon to communicate: blink the LEDs, beep with the speaker, tap it out with robot arm etc. Not very groundbreaking per se.
> Those people protesting don't go to protest parties every weekend.

Those who only think of themselves tend to pull this sort of stunt every time they feel personally affected.

Thus those people might not typically go to protest parties because a pandemic is not typical. That's about it.

> They'd rather take what they consider an indefinite but small risk of dying

That's precisely the narcissist and egotistical attitude that's being criticised.

They feel that as the disease does not affect them personally then they should just not be inconvenienced in any way. But that misses the whole point, doesn't it? The point is not about you. The point is that your wreckless behavior puts everyone around you at risk, including those who covid19 threatens their lives. You might not die of covid19, but if you catch it and pass it to your grandma or some random old man from your neighborhood then they might die. That's why you need to get your add back home and wait.
> errorship is not using the datadog eventstream to send all logs to it.

Yep, noted that, and I like how you preserve syntax highlighting in the stack traces :)

Out of curiosity, I've only ever dabbled in Datadog, is there any limit on event stream size or retention? I couldn't find anything mentioned in the docs.
9/11 killed 2,977 people, mostly in NYC. COVID has (at the time of this writing, 2020-04-19 5:40AM PDT) killed 13,157 people in NYC alone. If you scroll through the list of counties in the US sorted by COVID death toll, the majority of the places at the top of the list are within spitting distance of NYC. Of the top ten, two of them are places I don't associate with NYC. (Detroit and Chicago) (to be fair, one of the top ten is "Unassociated New York" which may include all sorts of stuff in upstate) These 8 areas total to 18,742 deaths, which is 48% of the total number of deaths in the United States, 11% of the total deaths in the world.

It's nothing to do with the media. It's the pile of dead bodies.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

Edit: There are 13,157 deaths, and 135,527 cases, which is about 10%. Los Angeles county has 577 deaths and 12,051 cases, which is less than half the fatality rate. Suffice to say it's overwhelmed the healthcare system there.
As a counterexample, look at how sure people and companies were that AI would take off and solve most problems in the 80s. Historically, you can find plenty of examples for both over- and underhyped technologies. It's a complex world, and trying to project these historical events onto new technologies is useless. It's like saying, "well, look at what the stock market did 20 years ago, it has to go up today!" - You may be right or you may be wrong, but unless you have huge leverage and build the future yourself you're just tossing a coin here.
An open-source DAW and live environment, built in SuperCollider (2016)
true, but there is the possibility of making the correct decision for the wrong reason.
I had to read Table 1 like 10 times to understand what it says. It's an horrible way to present the data.

The Figure 2 is strange. It's a graph of the error in the forecast for 1 day and the error in the forecast for 2 days. It´s not surprising that is is correlated. I´m not sure if it's clear why it is so linear, but perhaps it is necesary to read the underlaying model to undestand that. Anyway, if it is so linear, perhaps it may be useful to use as a empiric correction.

I should undust my probability books, but IIRC the number of cases should follow a Poisson distribution, with a different lambda each day. In that case the 95% interval should be huge, like from almost 0 to 3lambda. It looks difficut to miss an interval that is so huge.
Was it not perl that introduced the documentation feature to regexp (the extended "x" flag)?
I agree, I doubt there can be much difference between Fortune 500's company A and Fortune 500's company B, in the long run.

I thought, though, that "being evil" (whatever that means) came from some kind of instinct of survival experienced when facing the threat of bankruptcy, or at least very strong market pressures. And and it didn't seem to me that Google had been facing these yet.
I think the argument here is that it's a very different game when you have to make the majority of your moves by intuition as opposed to systematic thought, and then decide which moves deserve an extra bit of thought.

But, yeah, it's still chess.
The thing that has most surprised me during this pandemic, even more than the abysmal response of all Western governments, is how many people hate their kids (or are at least extremely annoyed by them).
What resources you used to learn elm? I'm looking for a good book on 0.19 elm that is written to folks who can already program (probably even in functional style and just want to learn the specific tricks of elm).
Not sure whether masks alone are sufficient to prevent spread of the virus, but they certainly do seem to help. At this point, all the other measures seem like an incredible amount of effort just to avoid mandating wearing of masks.
I've shot a Manurhin MR73 (not the 8" model featured, but a 4" one) and it's a really nice revolver. The action is smoother than a S&W but not as good as a Python. However the Manurhin will likely last longer than either.

So far as suppressing a revolver, the cylinder gap lets gases escape so it's not as quiet as it could be. An exception is the Nagant M1895 which another poster mentioned. It's ammunition will seal the gap to prevent the escape of gases. However it's truly horrendous trigger pull (12 lbs/5.5 kg for single action, 20 lbs/9.1 kg for double action) means that even James Bond would have difficulty in using it.

To give you an idea of how bad that is, find a 12 lb object in your house, suspend it from a string, then attempt to lift it by just curling your index finger.
I didn't see any code to deal with timeouts, which could be ambiguous around link health.

A weighted system, where things like timeout, NXDOMAIN, etc, have specific probabilities of a "dead link" seems like the right path to me.
Anand, Gelfand, Dreev and Ivanchuck are all 50 or older, unless you just mean blitz, in which case it's just Anand and Dreev.
I trace free licenses to the GNU General Public License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License, which is why I believe that in time Richard Stallman's influence will become greater than those of contemporaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
>I'm pretty sure most of that stuff is highly illegal.

We have or had in commercial use monorails, supersonic aircraft, and high speed trains. It's not the law holding them back.

Delivery drones and flying cars exist but arent economical viable and impractical. It's not the law holding them back.

The hyperloop is science fiction and the only laws holding it back are the laws of physics.
> I heard a few years back that a US health insurance startup had to provide on the order of 6000 pages of documentation to be approved. No wonder that there hadn't been another provider for twenty years or so.

I think the difficulty involved in spinning up an insurance company probably has literally nothing to do with those 6000 pages of documentation, but if I suspected otherwise, it would seem like what is actually on those pages is a lot more relevant than how many of them there are.
What about what I said isn't possible?

If you control the IRC server, there's nothing stopping you from modifying the events sent to every client in a way that lets you identify that client.
The entire concept of a Metaverse seems closer to existential horror than SciFi to me. An entire subset of your reality taken up by consumerist regurgitation of pop culture. Living your life as the Homonculus inside some Anime avatar. I hope a solar flare wipes out all electronics before we even come close to it.
No. I think you're jumping through a number of hoops to paint such a picture and discredit the post.

The larger point for me is: this is great and helpful but in doing this we undermine privacy in other less obvious ways.

These two quotes sum it all up for me:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
The post discusses this at length, maybe you should review those points about how to generalize the advice before commenting on it?

Also, salt healing doesn’t involve salts touch the virus in any way know to break them down.
No. So long as you're willing to take a build-dep on that code.

Either you're expecting the code from that repository to exist somewhere in the compilation-host system already, or you are vendoring the code by copying it into your own repository and taking on any potential maintenance, unportability, any necessary configuration integration to make sure, for instance, that you're compiling for the host rather than the target in a cross-compile setup (did you make sure?)—

Either way, if you use that code as part of your build process, you are taking a build-dep on that code. The fact that its only build-dep is a C compiler may play into making this a sensible choice as compared with something that has even more transitive dependencies, but it does not make it go away.
It's not like you can return a kid and ask for refund after you discover parenthood isn't like you thought it would be (it never is), or when life conditions change and what worked when everyone spent most of their days apart from each other doesn't work when everyone is stuck together in the same cramped space 24/7.
Another tip is to not be too smart in optimising your conditions either — I've once reviewed a branch with a complex if condition that made no sense, before realising that it was the result of applying De Morgan's rules.

So, express the intent, but do not mathematically simplify or evaluate it (let the compiler/interpreter do that, or if it is really a performance hotspot, describe the intent even though comments are supposed to be about whys and not whats).
I hate the double standards in our society. We have people who actually work in the "killing people" industry. We call it "the military", and whenever one of them says they identify as a member, we tell them "thanks for your service", not "hey, do you think your org is evil?". We honor them before sports events. We make the president the CEO of the killing people industry, FFS. And these people are unquestionably, explicitly in the "invading countries and killing people" industry.

So are you seriously asking people who work in tech companies that spread cat videos and enable video chats if their companies are "evil"? With a straight face? Come on.

This thinking betrays both that people in the industry take themselves far too seriously, and that we're so brainwashed to accept these kind of glaring double standards, we don't even stop for a second to question them.