skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, what makes me irritated about this blurt is that there are many "layers" of what people could reasonably call "crypto". There are the cryptographic primitives. There are higher-level crypto algorithms and functions that use those primitives. There are even higher-level cryptographic protocols, file formats etc. Then there's actually the application, applying crypto to a real-world problem.

Even in each of those, there are two "levels" of implementation: specifying an exact algorithm that implements a solution to problem x, and actually producing the code that implements the algorithm.

At some level, there is no ready-made solution to every problem. Even if the foundations are implemented by "somebody else", the line's blurry. At which level of (lack of) expertise and which level of "lowness" of the implementation should I start to worry?
You gotta find someone else who will take the bills. The coins you could probably sell to a scrap yard or someone who deals in precious metal.

Most Americans won't have to worry about this, as they usually have only enough bills to last them to next payday. Everyone else should have been smart enough to get their wealth into something else. I know I've been warning my rich relatives over the last year. I've also been telling HN to buy gold.

Will be interesting to see who all survives.
In case you're not aware, Brian Kernighan worked with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs. Brian wrote a lot of the Unix text processing utilities, and is the "k" in awk.

"In 1970, Brian Kernighan suggested the name "Unix", a pun on the name "Multics."

His family is from Canada. I had the opportunity to attend a small lecture at U. of Waterloo on "Little Languages" when he was in town in the mid 80's, with about 10 other students. One of my biggest influences.

Some context on the article link. There was a time when CS was a novel area of research. A lot of the experimentation into OS theory was made obsolete by Linux, since you could just tweak an Open Source kernel instead of doing a PhD-length project in schedulers, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
There are viral infections for which vaccines were never successfully developed, despite over a decade of research and trials. There is no guarantee a vaccine will be developed for SARS-CoV-2 in anything approaching a timely manner. People need to weigh the costs and risks of a near total freeze on economic activity against those of letting the virus run its course until herd immunity develops.
It's interesting to me that a corporation, which is inherently just a fake legal entity, has a multitude of ways to escape negative outcomes while individuals get fucked every time they lose their job or other negative outcome. Basically, we protect the fake legal entity a hundredfold times more than a living, breathing human.
I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I run this search once every few months: [has:attachment larger:5M]

That finds everything bigger than 5 megabytes. You can't sort by size, but at least you can find big stuff. If that search has too many results, just keep upping the number until you find the few really big messages.
We kinda do now know that remdesivir and chloroquine are useless. The trials are only continuing in a futile waste of research bandwidth to convince the sort of people that considers a wall in the desert more useful than a post office...

The rest is probably true, although maybe not as much now as in "normal" times? An intern with a clipboard and a quarter should currently be able to run a competent trial in NYC. I can't imagine approval being as difficult now as it usually is. Maybe there just aren't that many promising candidates? Maybe availability is a problem for more esoteric ideas?

From what I'm understanding, there is a lot of experimentation of various levels of rigour (non-mortis) going on for changes in treatment protocols, such as timing, duration, and setting for ventilation, proning, fluid management, etc.

For every debate the public engages in regarding on the pro and cons of bleach-drinking, the medical profession is engaging in twenty debates on the best management of potassium levels to protect liver functions in diabetic patients etc
Exactly. Lots of 'self-proclaimed senior field marshals and developers' sharing their programmer war-stories which often descends to language, library, editor or OS flamewars.

Not sure how it compares to hackernoon, but it seems they are competing well towards the nadir of technical decision making and advice.
Did you even watch the video in the article, he litreally shows distance to major districts and its not 1-2 hours
> HN just likes everyone saying good words all the time, i.e. stay politically positive

Are we reading the same HN? Because I would say being too critical and negative are HN's two biggest flaws.
help -l
And also turn into a bully themselves. Quebec isn't very nice to its First Nation minorities (who often have their own non-French languages), nor are they very nice to their native English speakers in the Eastern Townships.
As States Push to Reopen, Business Leaders Say Not So Fast
So from your perspective, what are the languages (besides iOS/Android) that you believe to be far more ideal when it comes to job prospects, quality of language and ecosystem, and developer happiness? I don't really disagree with most of what you said, but they feel like complaints that I'll hear about any language from its professionals (i.e. familiarity breeds contempt).

(I definitely agree with you about the disrespect JS gets from those who don't grok frontend work. And the fundamental annoyances baked in JS from the start)

I think most everyone agrees JS is an outlier when it comes to the speed of breaking changes and obsolescence, but IMHO that is nearly inextricable from JS being the most widely-adopted language, compatible with the widest variety of end-user devices and applications, reaching by far the most humans across the world. To put it another way, you could easily learn and become proficient in COBOL. There's currently a bigger demand than ever for young blood, and there's presumably great career rewards (if not in salary, in benefits, timeoff, and pension funds), and the language and end-user application is extremely stable.

And of course there are plenty of disadvantages (higher chance of landing somewhere that is not SF or NY, if those cities happen to be your home). Do the benefits of COBOL, especially the ones that line up with Javascript's weakness, hypothetically meet your ideal of a developer job?
This is very cool, over the years I've been using different apps - iSSH back in 2010/2011 and Terminus lately - to connect to servers over ssh/mosh but having a local working terminal would be great. Is there any way this can update Apple Notes?

And

> "A text-based user interface for a screen-based platform"

Is that a play on "Limitless paper in paperless world" from a Dunder-Mifflin ad?[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIUSPM7xjAk
Patreon is a great comparison and, I think, supports my position. Only $35 million in annual revenue after 6 years.

Not a bad business but they've taken $160 million in finding to get there.

Actually, my bigger point was just that the tech industry is full of businesses that were hot & sexy in their early years and then people got disappointed when they tried to start being a real business in year 7 or 8 or 9.

Instead of jumping from the Medium hype train to the Substack hype train....it is probably safer just to get off all the hype trains and assume any given startup will eventually try to become profitable and screw over old time customers in the process. You're going to be about 90% right with that as your default assumption.
Why are archaeologists so unwilling to consider that the people living in that time and place might not have been nomads or hunter-gatherers? What’s the counter-evidence to the possibility of permanent (or perhaps even impermanent half-year) settlements that long ago?
Haskell's Monads
Its debatable. Not everyone going to agree with your definition of decent.
Terminus is excellent for iOS. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/termius-ssh-client/id549039908
Yes, China and the US, which are both substantially larger in population. Japan also outperforms most countries that outsize it in terms of population.

>Besides, it's super easy to avoid that GDP / population confusion by looking at GDP per capita.

Not so much. A high GDP per capita is a poor measure of the average person's economic wellbeing on its own. Looking at it within the context of measures of economic inequality helps to mitigate the misconceptions that could otherwise arise.

For example, according to this Wikipedia article and its cited sources [1], Japan's rich/poor 10% average income ratio is 4.5. Compare to America, whose 18.5 is much closer to China's 21.6, and far away from France's 9.1 and Germany's 6.9.

What this means is that America's GDP per capita is substantially more affected by the high incomes of the highest earners than Japan's. In other words, the average American sees less of the benefits of that high GDP per capita than the average Japanese sees of their somewhat lower GDP per capita.

That's just income. Japan's wealth GINI indicates substantially more equality in that regard than for America. [2]

>At the end of 2019, real US wages (both median and average) were at new all-time highs, according to the Federal Reserve.

I'd like to see that citation. It's well-known that most wages for Americans, indexed against GDP, have fallen or remained flat since the 70s. The vast majority of the income gains have accumulated in the hands of the upper 2 quintiles.
This is especially troublesome for Americans as (re: the subject of this comment section) the housing situation in Japan differs greatly from America's skyrocketing housing values in major metro areas; medical insurance and care in America is substantially more expensive; and the cost and quality of education is higher and less stable, respectively, in America than in Japan. This is today, after our respective economic histories over the past few decades.

What your numbers suggest is that Japan was very wealthy for a limited period of time and is now regressing towards the mean that would be suggested by their population size and level of development. However, the character of their economic and institutional policy is making this decline smoother and more comfortable than anything we're likely to see. I continue to hold that this is preferable.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...
I've always liked the detail that the space shuttle maximum thrust is rated at 104% because after some flights, they learned that the RS-25 could be run harder than the specs required, and it was simpler/less chance for error to just set max at 104% of rated thrust, rather than recalculating everything and changing all the documentation.
So, what’s the ancient wisdom?
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IANAL, but if your log was introduced in evidence in your suit, you would be attesting under oath it was correct to the best of your knowledge. If it later turned out you faked the data, that would be perjury. So it's the threat of punishment for perjury that motivates honesty in court.
humble opinion: N years of using any language won't make you an expert.

There's knowledge about how to express certain patterns in a given language, more like an application design expertise. There's knowledge and familiarity with the APIs. And then there's the deep language knowledge, the one that pretty much only someone implementing a language VM, parser, compiler and other tools may acquire with time. Also, there are a lot of specifics about every particular JS implementation.

Also, Dunning–Kruger :-)

On the internals of VMs, https://mrale.ph/ has a lot of blog posts on internals/optimizations on V8. https://www.wingolog.org/tags/javascript also has deep JS articles very freqently.
On mobile, the column of text goes off the screen on each side and I cannot zoom out or scroll to see it, so I literally cannot read the page. I'm on Firefox on Android, if that helps. Also, this page takes about 3 seconds to load, it's pretty bad.
This isn’t medical advice, but cliff notes for a self help/philosophy book. Why so aggro?
Decent family houses in Tokyo are definitely more expensive than this, but not hugely (also Kyoto surprisingly). There's some interesting things about the Japanese housing market, for example, many homes become "worthless" after the end of the mortgage -- so they depreciate and are more like buying cars.

Tokyo is also an absolutely enormous city with even more massive metro area. There's very few examples on the planet that come close. Tokyo is sometimes called "the infinite city" for good reason. This means that yes, you can pay huge money for a coffin in some areas, and little money for an entire house elsewhere in the same city. New York is kind of the same way in that respect, but is actually still smaller and less diverse.

I could write a ton more, but I think this series from "Life Where I'm From" which is pointed out in the article is a fantastic overview of housing for a nuclear family in Tokyo.

How an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New Home - https://youtu.be/iGbC5j4pG9w

Brand New Japanese House Tour - https://youtu.be/Jv6SbFlZMbU

Are Japanese Homes Really Worthless After 30 Years? - https://youtu.be/1SiPGP_BDS4

Old Japanese Apartment vs. New House - https://youtu.be/SI3_PJoAa04

What a Very Old Japanese House is Like - https://youtu.be/r8zECc4JM1Y

Living in Traditional Japanese Townhouses: Kyo-machiya - https://youtu.be/NljSnaZ2WiY

Checking Out New Japanese House Design and Technology - https://youtu.be/5AiLSyNhEXg

I'd also point out this young couple who are expecting their first child (Paolo from Tokyo)

What a Japanese Moving Company in Tokyo is like - https://youtu.be/q0RX59G2jaA

$1500 Japanese Apartment Tour in Tokyo Shibuya - https://youtu.be/Qtc_zrpRIs8

Average Daily Living Cost in Tokyo Japan - https://youtu.be/xrgrBJc-64c
The app is open source now: https://github.com/BluezoneGlobal/bluezone-app.
The id generation code is in this library: https://github.com/BluezoneGlobal/react-native-bluetooth-sca...
it's 2020

paper ballots, really?

when I can apply for a mortgage, car loan, credit card, and all kinds of other financial legally binding contracts online in complete security?

I enter my SSN, my credit report is pulled.

Why can't I enter my SSN, it gets validated in a database on whether I'm alive/have already voted/am currently a legal citizen eligible to vote, and vote?

We have achieved problems way, way, way harder than "securely identify a person based on their SSN and allow them to vote A, B, or C on a subject"
Given that last election was actually decided in just a few states, by a low margin, voter ID attack sounds feasible, given well founded and determined adversary.

Of course cyber hacking is likely easier, but it’s not fair to fully dismiss even possibility of other attacks.
> Japanese houses decrease in value, generally quite severely

And why shouldn't they? What keeps housing prices high in the U.S. is artificial scarcity. It's the land that's valuable, not the out-of-date structures that exist on it. And the land is so valuable because it's illegal to build enough housing to meet demand in most places.
One party is fixated on getting less people to vote, by any means necessary (including illegal means).

The other party is fixated on getting more people to vote.

Any other framing of this issue is a distraction.
For anyone interested in Japanese house architecture, the book Jutaku, published by Phaidon, is fantastic: https://au.phaidon.com/store/architecture/jutaku-japanese-ho...
In perfect proportion to the idiot/intelligent person ratio.

The early internet wasn't so much idealistic, as it was only highly educated people having access to it.

It takes having lived pre-internet pre-google to appreciate that in the past, most dinner conversations revolved around arguing shit we can now google in 2 seconds. There is much good information - is there much freedom/resource to take advantage of it is another question.
Facebook claims NSO Group used US servers when hacking WhatsApp accounts
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It's basically required for doing business in Brazil, or at least it feels that way.
Does the file have to be generated on the fly, or does it last for a reasonable amount of time? In the latter case wouldn't a printed copy work, or just setting your lock screen background to a screenshot of the document zoomed in on the barcode.

Alternatively, on iOS, "Guided Access" can be used to lock the phone to a particular app (let's say the browser) and even prevent certain parts of the UI from being tappable.

You can bring up the document, activated Guided Access (it has its own separate passcode to disable) and then hand the phone over. From there they can either remain in the constrained app, or if they restart the device they'll get the standard system passcode before they can proceed further so it's fairly safe to prevent the device from being misused.
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan
Right. So a day after you make your comment implying lots of young people are experiencing long-term organ damage, the WaPo discusses an as-yet-unpublished paper discussing a small number of stroke victims who may or may not have been influenced by this virus.

If this is the best you can do, you're grasping at straws.
Don't they have camera's?
It's the introductory chapter of a book.
> The cultural differences make this comparison less meaningful than you’d expect

If these cultural differences are so strong, then surely a market that allows new construction in the U.S. will tend toward creating housing that meets those needs. If it doesn't, it's probably because people place more value on other things (e.g. proximity, price, etc).

The fact is that the market doesn't even get a chance to work itself out in the U.S. because cities encode a particular set of living preferences in law.
> mortgage, car loan, credit card

Notably, none of these things require the actual data to remain anonymous like voting does. That's where all complexity comes from.
I think I’ve been drinking the SQL kool aid for too long, only a couple at the end surprised me. The rest seem perfectly logical.

Was a lot of fun to read through them though.
One interesting aspect of Twitter is that the restriction on tweet length requires serialization of complex ideas. Faced with this, authors are forced to either simplify their ideas or spread them out across tweets. An emergent dynamic of the platform, as a result, is that ideas get misrepresented, nuance gets lost, and people get irritated. That irritation turns into argument and rebuttal. And since argument and constructive discourse show up as the same thing on the P&L of a social network, that dynamic of Twitter is tolerated, tacitly enabled, or even deliberately built upon.
It’s a proxy for low level radiation exposure over time.

It’s not great, but skin cancer is more closely tied to radiation exposure rather than everything that can cause lung cancer etc.
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Wow I haven't used that directly in a long time. Ideally you would wrap it to be in continuation passing style.

This would look something like:

function fetchUrl(url,done){

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
if (xhr.status === 0 || (xhr.status >= 200 && xhr.status < 400)) {
done(null,xhr.responseText);
}else{
done(new Error("something went wrong"))
}
}
}
xhr.open('GET', url, true);
xhr.send(null);
}

Then you could do:

let response=yield fetchUrl('http://example.com',next);

edit: In case this doesn't really answer the question: If you really don't want to wrap, it would work inline too. It would just be harder to read and follow:

var someFunction =casync(function*(url,next){

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
if (xhr.status === 0 || (xhr.status >= 200 && xhr.status < 400)) {
next(null,xhr.responseText);
}else{
next(new Error("something went wrong"))
}
}
}
xhr.open('GET', url, true);
var response = yield xhr.send(null);
...

});
and the people that had a delivery job.
Thank you the recommendation, it is written quite well and I'm really liking the tone.
That last point is wrong – section 6 of the determination says that “a person must not collect, use or disclose COVID app data“ unless it is for one of the whitelisted purposes in subsection (2). COVID app data includes data that “has been” stored on a phone.
Same thing can be set up at least with Pixel phones. If you reboot the phone it requires the PIN to unlock and finger prints or voice or face won't do it.
A multimeter (even a dollar-store one) a very good starting point to see which components have power and can detect issues like shorts on the board. In most of Louis Rossmann's videos he doesn't go further than multimeter + visual examination of the board to figure out which components are bad (or where to start at least).
Advertising online is extremely expensive, for big brands with small margins they likely wouldn't make money. It only makes sense for "scams" that make more money per sale then the ads cost, or startups that are willing to loose money per item for exposure and growth.

Big brands from what I've seen also try and build a following via content marketing. This has more upfront cost but no cost per view.
> I've tried to branch out into a number of different things, but nothing sticks. I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything.

I am doing my Masters in Statistics after doing my BS in Computer Science. It was overwhelming and like you, I felt I do not understand even the basic concepts and it takes longer to grasp the simpler concepts. But I realized I just have to spend more time on topics I do not understand and ask for help from my peers.

From my experience, in terms of learning new subject, I think what you are feeling/facing is expected and you just have to push through it.
According to the article,being global reserve currency is a the result, not cause, of having competitive advantages
Spectral: A glossy cross-platform Matrix client
90% of issues that would prevent it from powering on would be on the logic board - it's not like a MacBook has many discrete parts anyway, it's mostly one board plus a big battery.
Yes, generally impact with terrain is unacceptable ;-).
Yep, and speed of sound is lower than the average speed of individual molecules. But, I was aiming for an intuitive understanding rather than accuracy involving brownian motion etc.
"Use the $5 billion to build housing for homeless people."

Homeless people are outside the circle of social distance and, therefore, social sympathy. ⁣Just sayin' the way to lower the cost is to produce more and sell more reprints of the manual at scale.
This is the sort of unverified dangerous rumours that proliferates sites like Twitter and Facebook, however the bad actors using their platform are free to do it unfortunately.

Maybe you can try not believing everything you read or hear on the internet? I'm sure that is one of the greatest advice given from the early users of the internet which definitely applies to everyone, even beyond social media sites.

So I take almost all such content with a grain of salt.
You can follow Bob Wachter, chairman of the UCSF Department of Medicine

One of probably a dozen panel discussions on COVID19 he's hosted so far.

UCSF Experts on the Epidemiology, Science, & Clinical Manifestations of COVID-19, and UCSF Response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt-BzEve46Y