skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this little theory where in some ancient cultures children would be weaned around age six and the mothers would only become fertile again after that. I'm not sure how established the mechanicas are, but the theory says that hormonal pathways where breastfeeding causes infertility are activated by scant nutrition. It sounds like an effective way to adjust births to the available resources.
Find some Republicans on Facebook the day after NYC updated their estimate of COVID-19 deaths to include unconfirmed cases.
Just my own perspective, but claims of over-counting appear to be getting more common. There were several demonstrations (granted, over-covered in the media) over the weekend in the US about opening the country up again, and accusations of inflating death toll numbers.
To what end do we put the onus of an individuals poor decisions on “policy measures”. Should we put a tax on minutes playing video games? Should we reinstate prohibition?

It’s dangerous to equate someone choosing to “get fries with that” in the same vein as a chemical addiction to drugs.
Is there a strong, real world correlation between heavy use of dynamic languages, and a poor user experience (versus competitors, for example)?

The theory that it would makes sense to me, but I suspect other factors outshadow any effect it might have.

For example, I haven't heard that Facebook, Instacart, Booking.com, WordPress.com, etc, have stability or experience issues worse than their competitors.
Uber only did it because their investors really believed they could capture the market.

Most situations are not like that.
Revolvers may look simple, but they have lots of small internal parts. More than a typical semi-auto.

And they are not reliable in practice. Especially considering that most semi-auto malfunctions can be cleared in a second with tap-rack, but revolver malfunction tend to lock it up for good.
> Yeah, until github is unreachable and the entire Go universe grinds to an immediate halt because nothing will build.

that's what vendoring is for and the proxy cache. this problem hasn't existed since like go 1.8 and is completely resolved in go1.14.
Do you know where one can get up-to-date, raw mortality numbers? CDC doesn't publish anything until they've had time to categorize them, but CDC's processes are seriously in question right now.
Key to their strategy was actually providing the public with something most people actually wanted, regardless of legality. Very few lawmakers want to aggressively go against public sentiment just because the law says they should.
I believe it depends on the specifics of the merger, but my understanding is the reason black holes that orbit each other merge at all is because they bleed energy to gravitational waves. While they are at a reasonable distance, that's a very small amount of energy. I think some of these systems would be stable for billions of years.
It's 80 - 90% govt. And 10 - 20 % private
Advanced C++ Concepts You Should Know
> in Western countries people are seriously considering 12 month style lockdowns to protect potentially as low as 1% of the population who are well past the good years of their life.

Other than being completely calloused, this argument also isn't true. We don't know the exact mortality rates because we haven't seen proper data for it yet. Depending on when you get your numbers, Italy has had up to 34% of their infected die.

Furthermore, this isn't just a Boomer and Silent Generation killer. Asthmatics, immuno-comprimised, and otherwise healthy people without access to decent health care for socioeconomic reasons are at risk.

I'm not arguing for or against such a long quarantine time. I'm only stating that we aren't just trying to save the last holdouts from the 40s.
This is very cool, I love the idea. How does the book handle Scala 3?
If we look at the per-capita deaths, many affected countries seem to be moving towards surpassing the leading cause of death in the US, heart desease. At that magnitude, seems unlikely we are saving net lives.

See https://twitter.com/javierluraschi/status/125160533393750016...
> Having to look at the list of all exceptions and figure out which ones are of interest wouldn’t be ideal.

You can filter for exceptions by tags. You can also use full text search to filter for exceptions. ie all the functionality provided[1] by the datadog eventstream[1] is available for your errors.

> Also, nitpick: it’s 2020, maybe update the front page screenshot to Python 3: is this even maintained?

errorship is compatible with both python2 and python3. Yes it is maintained. We have a testsuite that is ran in CI under both python2 and python3. Some of our customers during early trials still had some python2 applications that they had yet to port over.

1. https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/#event-stream
This "airstream" study is really interesting as it could change much of the response and protection put in place in the next few months.

Another thing interesting to study would be how it spread on the cruise ships.
If we consider the pandemic an exceptional event... Why should we optimize for exceptional events and ignore the cost on a normal day? We should destroy our own health and the health of our planet so that you can feel good about not catching once-in-a-century infectious disease?

Density has many upsides. Economists have shown that denser cities are correlated with productivity gains at a rate surpassing the density increases.

The lack of it has many costs, and not just the economic ones or less efficient use of resources. Increased motor vehicles on a personal scale leads to obesity, stress.

On a global scale, it is harmful to the planet. Note the news reports of clearer skies from a very cease in this activity.
YMMV. Some features of Scala 2.x have been dropped in Scala 3 (ETA late 2020), others added.

Features we know Scala 3 will have https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/

A comparison of features across Scala 2.x and Scala 3 is the migration guide https://github.com/scalacenter/scala-3-migration-guide
> and now possibly NZ + AUS follow similar progressions

Where are you getting this from? All reports I have read show that NZ and Aus governments/people have acted quickly and effectively, and new infections are low in both countries.
I think the single biggest roadblock to building new things is regulation. How do we eliminate most regulations, and simplify the rest to fight off regulatory capture?

What if we had a github for laws and required that anybody who worked on a law use their real name and if they were paid by a company they had to list how much?
yes you just vendor your dependencies.

go has support for a proxy system, tooling is still immature though.
I should do this for my 76,259 bookmarks.

I'd be very pleased with a 70% retention that i could send off to an archival service.
On the other hand you may like Kotlin.

It has a lot of what makes Scala good with less of the bits that make it bad.
You mean >>the swamp<<? :D
Don't do it. Simple as that. Looks like a toxic beginning either way
Which vehicle authority are you talking about? There is no such thing as a vehicle authority.

You buy the second hand car with history, not the one without.
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no have no idea what you're talking about. these problems don't exist anymore since godep and now go modules which is builtin to standard go tooling.
You can't really tell volume from a youtube video for obvious reasons.
Because "person beats Magnus Carlsen" isn't nearly as interesting a headline as "really young person beats Magnus Carlsen" - the latter gives us a sense that we should be surprised. I think you're seeing racism where there is none.
Help me understand this a bit.

You're saying that if someone takes in the virus via a droplet on their finger it leads to a less severe infection than if they breathe it in.

You then say that people should wear masks to help prevent them breathing infected droplets.

But if I have a less severe infection, and I'm wearing a mask, I am shedding the virus into my breath and when I breath out droplets are held in my mask - held in front of my nose and mouth. And then when I breath in I'm breathing these droplets.

> The fact that disease transmission has been dramatically slowed in places implementing facemask requirements backs this up.

That feels a bit premature.

https://apnews.com/9140ddd7283d534d8464778d9c4bd92a
Critical 'starbleed' vulnerability in FPGA chips identified
Agreed 100%. If you're the editor thinking up this headline, you've got a choice between a) crediting established chess powerhouse Firouzja with a well-deserved victory over Magnus; or b) downplaying his accomplishments in order to make it seem like the reigning champion lost to a random high schooler.
That was trivial to disprove

https://i.imgur.com/tfL5u0i.png
> Ball, the VC, claims Disney should be the power player in this, with games as extensions of the movie franchises.

This is how Vader Immortal[0] felt to me. It’s an interactive experience rather than a game, and while the graphics are good it still seems like early days for the tech, but it’s so much more immersive than a 2D non-interactive film. The immersion is difficult to describe, but you get to do things like wander around your personal ship, talk to your droid assistant, and of course wield a lightsaber.

There’s three episodes, and I’ve only done the first so far but plan to complete the other two soon. I have no idea how long I spent in the first one, probably a little over an hour. They’re $10 each, which might seem on the steep side for something shorter than a movie, but there’s a little replayability (there’s lightsaber trainer to practice) and I’ll gladly replay the mission a couple times even though I expect the same story.

[0] https://www.starwars.com/interactive/virtual-reality
You appear unable to read to the end, in which I copy/paste a conclusion of the researchers you cite.

> Can you provide verifiable evidence for the widely accepted 'wet-market' theory?

Can you provide evidence that it's not. Onus is on you as you claim otherwise. And I've already quoted a conclusion which you seem to be struggling with.

There is not enough evidence to conclude anything yet. There may never be.
I understand what scuttlebutt does. What I don't understand is why. What kind of information benefits from decentralization? The only answer I can think of is child porn.
(Here's an analysis of the Green New Deal published in Energy Research & Social Science):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962...
Well the old fairytale about the „greater good“ again?
Road to hell is paved with good intentions (as history has proven)
Well, the costs are once per every build, which can take many hours, as the author describes it, even be only available on the next day. Static typechecking is a valuable tool, but it shouldn't be as the solution for all correctness problems. Testing is another. And when the build times become too large, testing suffers. Finally, it is absoultely possible to have dynamic languages with type declarations which can be automatically checked.
In the near future, I plan on purchasing one of the chairs https://www.komfortchair.com/ . But for now, I am using this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0167NBDYU/
Nothing wrong with pointing out that he's young. But he still has a name, and you've got to wonder about the significance of him being Iranian.
https://archive.is/5vltM
thank you, _Why Nations Fail_ is partisan hackery.
Chess fans won't have to wait long to see a rematch between the pair, as they face off once again on April 20 in the $250,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational. The competition, hosted by Carlsen, will pit eight of the world's best players against each other for the record prize.

Anyone knows if this can be watched Live?
It might be because tech companies had been trying so hard to look like "the good guys" in the past 20 years. So it might just have something to do with that.

Also, the moral problems arising from having a military force have been studied for centuries, so nothing new here. It doesn't mean we cannot be critical of the military at the same time (and it's not all bad either btw).

Finally, the tech industry has a huge power on us. This power is rising every day, and has been invisible to most until recently. So questioning its morals, intentions and agenda today matters.
How to write WASM filters for Envoy and deploy it with Istio
You're getting downvoted because your doubts are easily falsified by a search.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/norwegian-teen-top...
In those cases I prefer using Xpra, configured to use the regular Xorg server operating on the GPU.

It would be nice if there was a X11 "media" extension to transport encoded image streams (aka video) with server side decoding into Pixmaps, Xv or SHM buffers.
“Iranian teen” makes it a better headline, anonymizing him makes it more of an out-of-nowhere sports story. Stop looking for racism in everything, you’re looking to stir something up when there’s nothing there. (And I see you’ve edited your comment to remove the “this is racist” rant)
A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs
I don't know yet (my child is still far too young for logo) that said I grew up in an era spanning from frogger and handheld lcd tennis to all the BBC games to lemmings and Super Mario, any of which had better graphics than I could make in logo, but they lacked the thrill of creating things for myself that I got from the latter.
It can help with bandwidth usage, but not latency.
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Scala has a very wide surface area, and it can be as simple or complex as you want it to be.

Written in a certain way, it's that different from writing Python 3 with PEP-484 type annotations. You can easily write Python-like code and just get things done. :)

Concurrency-wise, you can implement any concurrency model you want on top of it, and, personally, I find immutability + Task-like implementations (Monix, ZIO, IO, etc.) easier to understand than CSP, but that's just me. There's also actors & channels & threads & anything else you could want.

What's cool, though, IMO, is that once you need more power than just Pythonic Scala gives you, it has one of the most powerful type systems in the world; you can verify as much as you need to, and refine things over time. It's not a language that hamstrings you once you do need more power.

Scala gets its bad reputation from that huge surface area and flexibility, though. There was a period (2009ish, maybe) where the Scala community was having a field day with its flexibility via custom operators like '<<++>>' and implicit conversions and untyped actors that made it impossible to figure out what was going on. It was like using the worst of Erlang with the worst of Haskell with the worst of Java. I'd say they've matured past that entirely, though; in 2020, it's one of the nicer and more practical languages, ecosystem, & communities IMO. Scala is made for getting things done.
Please could you link some of the papers you mention on the scale of the coronavirus problem? I'm not doubting they exist, I'd just be interested to have a read.
Forecasting s-curves is hard
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it
Interesting. Is there some disincentive that discourages it? Is it hard (or costly) to query, for example...compared to paying specifically for logging?

Seems like a big loophole.
Perhaps, depends on your circles too I guess. That said, I think it's partly because it succeeded in many ways. It has become an established and accepted concept which we don't often stop to appreciate.
Article published here:

Energy Research & Social Science
Volume 67, September 2020, 101529
But what if people died _because_ of the drugs??

https://www.nicematin.com/sante/coronavirus-nous-avons-deja-...
This is not a proof that he was commonly referred to as "Norwegian teen". The internet is vast and a proof of existence has little weight. But any data is better than not data, so +1 to you.
I’m a big fan of anything that will bring effective legal access to everyone. Technology will definitely play a role, but so will legal deregulation. Lots of jurisdictions are experimenting with opening up certain areas of legal practice to people who aren’t lawyers. And they’re rebuilding systems (alongside technology) to make them easier to access without attorneys.

The troubling part is that at some point, we need to tackle electoral reform. Even if we tackle the legal system and provide effective legal access to everyone, we’ll still be a long ways from tackling mass disillusionment. Hell, in lots of cases, disillusionment and/or disenfranchisement are logical results of history!

Anyways, good comment!
I've read a collection of his essays and outside of programming/startups, they are really mundane/black & white/binary division. I.e., the world is divided into nerds who are good, and bullies who are bad.

I guess it's halo effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Mastodon and Diaspora are federated softwares, which means there is still a server/client model, but many servers (a more well known example of federated decentralization is smtp).

ssb (common short for secure-scuttlebutt) is fully decentralized, which means that there is no server/client anymore, everyone is a node (like the initial idea of bitcoin).

I'm biased in favor of full decentralization, but here are the main differences I can think of :

* federation tends to lead to centralization again, because everyone use the same server (like gmail for smtp)

* full decentralization makes it easier to build custom software (you have access to the whole data, without being constrained by an api). But this is not true for ssb, because it's harder than it should to build software on top of it.

* it's easier to change software with full decentralization, because you don't have an "account" owned by a given server (think: it's hard to migrate from a mail address to an other)

* onboarding is more difficult with full decentralization, because you have no easy entrypoint like a server is
Right off the bat, the concept that the response to the pandemic is "largely state-powered" is mistaken.

Private voluntary action is the primary basis of the response, the state has largely been involved (aside from the economic stimulus) to prevent people who are doing the right thing from being punished (this aside from the petty tyranny on the part of some police officers and departments).
You never benefited from a torrent? Never used popcorn time?
One alternative that seems to work decently well is a cooperative society with a piece of paper where you share your phone number when needed. That's what Taiwan is doing and it works pretty well. But it only works because there is a base level of trust that the information is not misused. There is no such trust in the US and other places.
https://www.magnuscarlsen.com/en/invitational
> If it fails it raises an Exception... If your server is down, my application would crash too

So first off, let me just say that I completely agree. If this were the case, that'd be fucking atrocious and would definitely be a blocker for using it.

But I'm curious how you came to that conclusion.

It took me < 2 minutes of looking at the source code[0] to determine that your claim was incorrect. Not only does it appear to gracefully handle the server being unavailable, the developer literally commented that code explaining that they wanted to ensure users could continue uninterrupted if the errorship server is unavailable.

> We give people the benefit of doubt.

> We only consider people to be not authorized if the backend comes back with an authoritative answer to that effect.

> Else, any errors or any other outcome; we assume authorization is there and also assume they belong to the highest pricing plan: Enterprise

> # failure of errorship should not lead to people been unable to ship exceptions

And it took even less time than that to run a new Python Docker container, install the library, run the sample code, and validate my assumptions[1] (the first attempt fails because the key is invalid, I disabled Internet access for the second attempt and it succeeded).

So I'm legitimately curious - did I miss something? Is there another failure case I didn't catch or test for? Or did you just make an assumption and not bother to verify it? And if it's the latter, why? What was the point? Like, to be frank, if this was a news piece I could understand the (possibly inaccurate) commentary. But why take the time and energy to write your comment and tear down someone's personal project with seemingly inaccurate claims?

(To be clear, no affiliation with errorship, I'm not even a DataDog user. Just a random dev browsing HN).

[0] https://gitlab.com/errorship/errorship_python/-/blob/master/...

[1] https://gist.github.com/citruspi/16d359ac2dafef6fc876e2dd101...
Having a ui that adapts to screen width is important to me because I do a lot of things at once, the window manager on Mac is the worst for this
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The facile answer is, "have an educated public who can make those decisions themselves". But it seems clear to me that the "educated public" approach has failed. The spread of memetic hazards has risen to the level where a significant segment of the public have been robbed of their ability to think critically, and the post-Enlightenment consensus that objective reality exists is under attack.

Beyond fighting a Fabian struggle in favor of critical thinking and quality information flows (which are lacking all across our society, even if that lack is particularly obvious with a certain political group) I'm by no means certain what a good, useful, and just response ought to be.

I am confident that the danger is real and needs to be acknowledged. We need to find paths forward if we're to have any hope of keeping our civilization. And that means talking (and doing something) about the "propaganda, misinformation, and outright lies". Sticking our heads in the sand and screaming "Free Speech!" while the tidal wave informational sewage rolls over us isn't going to be sufficient.
:) It's great to get feedback. I wish you a splendid weekend.
It seems donotpay can get you into a legal engagement easily, but the other party can tie you up in more legal battles that donotpay doesn't yet handle and then you are screwed if you can't hire and pay expensive lawyers.
It's handy that this is followed by 420, a comfortable come-down.
This, the Academia SE, and the Workplace SE are wonderful repositories full of shining examples of how many pedantic, bureaucratic sociopaths walk among us.
"Use GitHub for lawmaking" is something I've had in mind for a long time. However, not sure how this could work in practice.

I've heard from a friend of mine who used to work for Deloitte (or similar kind of company) that on practical level, lawmaking often happens in those private consulting/lawyer's offices - it's not like a MPs sits down and write stuff down themselves. So the git commit would say "John Smith the lawyer" which tells you nothing.

There's probably also so many patches and reverts and rewrites going on that history would be really bloated. Or if you want nice history, you lose all those important nuances you wanted in first place ("who exactly put this comma here which changes the whole meaning?").

It would also probably horrendously slow down the law making process. (which might actually be a good thing in many scenarios!)
They've nailed the formula for addictive social media apps. I discourage people from using TikTok, but I've played with it and it hits all the notes and delivers small hits of dopamine effectively.

What they're doing with social apps reminds me of what happened to pop music:

https://nypost.com/2015/10/04/your-favorite-song-on-the-radi...

Once you nail the addictive formula and get it to drive network effects, the rest is pretty easy. Warehousing vast amounts of data at scale and doing analytics on it is no longer hard, unlike back in the early oughts when Facebook started. The addictive formula and network effect is the only thing you have to master. The rest can be rented from cloud companies.