skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A snapshot of our thoughts, feelings, and actions during Covid
Bugs are the responsibility of the process that brought them there. In most cases it is shared responsibility.

Why doesn't your dentist mess up 1 out of 5 interventions? They have gone through years of strict training and there are giant liabilities in place.

In development? A lot of self-taught developers, who can always jump to a next gig because of never-ending demand. This sets up the scene for a totally different scenario - never-ending stream of bugs.

If you want your team to have less bugs, then as a manager make sure you have a process in place that optimizes for that. Start with your hiring process and add requirements for code quality practices. Then build a process that includes strict commit guidelines, documentation, code reviews and QA process. Most importantly, add time to estimates that ensures all of the above is checked properly. After all that is in place, define in a clear way some sort of liability for bugs.

Your dentist goes through all of that, why not your developers doing arguably equally important work?
> Okay, what number do you think is the worst possible case? Is there a reason to believe that there's a nearly 100% chance that people will get infected?

Based on the number of people testing positive for the antibodies ([0] something like ~21% of random tests in New York), and given that the average estimated R0 is really high, I think ~100% of people being infected by this time next year is a pretty reasonable assumption. This also indicates that the death rate we previously estimated is much lower in reality. Infecting a few more young, healthy people and supervising their health seems a pretty good deal for the world at large.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/covid-antibody-test-results-new-...
> your mortgage isn't secured by the government. It's actually owned by the government, Fannie Mae.

I'm confused what type of mortgages does this apply to? Is a conventional 20% down mortgages owned by the government somehow?
I use packed dry yeast but I have always let my dough do a slow rise in the refrigerator for a minimum of 3 days up to 6 days. I use 00 flour and cook the pizza's using my Roccbox pizza oven or a custom Baking Steel 23x19 3/8" steel in the oven.

Also if you want a good guide for NY style pizza then this is a good read.

http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm
I've been working on a WebGL toy for building board games. You can share your hash URL and play with someone else.

https://beta.probability.nz/
I can't help thinking that this may have been the subject of the rambling, inarticulate speech recently given by POTUS? When I hear these crazy headlines, I think that he didn't come up with this stuff on his own, so did he hear this from a sane advisor or some kook on his staff? After he went to the mat for hydroxychloroquine, it's pretty natural for everyone to be skeptical, though.
Got link?
I can't see anything positive about this at all. Not one thing.
That's from the pre-antibiotics era, to be clear.

It's likely there's good reason antibiotics supplanted it.
I still can't figure out why you replied to a comment about the filibuster with a question about SFBA housing policy. The article doesn't make a direct causal link between the two. In fact, the article explicitly states that the filibuster isn't responsible for housing crises.

The first sentence of the article's section on state and local housing makes it very clear that the author does not blame the senate filibuster for the housing crisis:

If paralysis ended once you walked out of the Capitol, we wouldn’t have a housing crisis. We’d have better social insurance infrastructure. We’d have better infrastructure, period. But it doesn’t.

I.e., if we had a senate filibuster but state and local governments didn't have other forms of vetocracies, then we wouldn't have a housing crisis.

No one here thinks the filibuster is responsible for SFBA's housing issues. Not me, and certainly not the article.

If you can't understand from the above quoted sentence that the author doesn't believe that getting rid of the senate filibuster would fix housing issues, then I'm not really sure how to help. Other than to suggest brushing up on your reading comprehension skills.
To read the article, just put a period (.) at the end of the domain. Eg. domain.com/article --> domain.com./article
Dominion would indeed work with webcam, because everyone only shuffles their own cards, but you can only play with the cards that everyone has (if one player has an expansion and the others don't, you can't use it).

If all of your players already know how to play, I strongly recommend the official Dominion Online [0]! The base game is free, and the expansions are very affordable too ($1.95 for a month with half the expansions [the older ones], or $3.90 for all, no recurring charges, and only one player at the table needs to have bought them). Unfortunately it's not very intuitive as an introduction to the game because you don't get a good feel of where cards are coming from and going to, but once you know the game it's arguably better (because of the instant setup and shuffling, and automatic tracking of effects).

[0] https://dominion.games/
> Now, since you're making a utilitarian argument here - what is the point of becoming a sommelier when all it does is make you so sensitive to the taste of wine that you need to spend hundreds of dollars for "a really good one"?

Because not everything is about maximizing economic transactions?
Who is anyone to say what anyone else "should" do?
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> Step 1: Move to SV.

What about...

- I don't want to move to SV, I'm not that young anymore.

- I don't want to move outside my country, or

- specifically to the US and SV, which are not a particularly good place to live in anyway, or

- even if I wanted it, entry to the US is stressful and not that easy, or

- I have friends/family ties where I live, and those are important to me

There's plenty of reasons why your step 1 is bad advice for a lot of people.
Your comment is at the top now for me... So you might want to be more specific about your complaint.
No, still just an idiot considering COVID is not drug-resistant bacterial sepsis
Hn is a moderated community, and it's value partially comes from it's moderation. It's restricted to a set of topics, and if things get too out of hand whether it's a personal attack or just insanity, the comment is going to get removed.

Except you can view the dead comments. You can still see the removed stories. You have to opt-in to that, but it's just a checkbox in your profile. HN is moderated, but there is no censorship.

The issue with censorship is that it has to grow. You can't defend taking down say, videos about the Israel BDS movement, and not also take down videos about Free HK. Either the platform openly admits that it's biased or it has to keep growing what can't be discussed and inevitably that's going to start including content that everyone feels shouldn't be censored.
I have an entire blog about this. 150+ posts, including from other perspectives (recent boot camp grad, hiring manager, CTO).

The short answer is I'd learn to focus on people and communication. Tech is really important, but so is being able to work as a team and achieve company goals (which might not be served by the shiniest new tech).

A lot more here: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/
Denmark is also a capitalist country. Social democracy (having a free market while also having nationalized healthcare and a strong social safety net) isn't the same thing as socialism (where the state is run by the proletariat and exists to eradicate the bourgeoisie). Right now, there isn't a single socialist government in the world.
New tsunami risk identified in Indonesia
One thing I started doing differently is using a .ksajrc file. I then simply add that to the last line of .bashrc. The reason is that all too often the .bashrc that comes "stock" with a major OS update/upgrade requires changes that get clobbered if you overwrite the default .bashrc all the time. This means I don't miss out on the OS changes, but I also have all my creature comforts.

For example, instead of specifying my full path in .ksajrc, I simply prepend my ~/bin if it is not already included in the pre-.ksajrc $PATH variable. Doing that means I don't suddenly lose new dist-added /opt directories in the path, as one example of many possible.

I also keep a list of what packages I need installed so I can just run that script after installation of the new OS. I do this mainly because I install a lot of stuff that doesn't normally get included in a stock setup. (examples include sbcl, gaze, htop, etc)

I haven't reflected that in my github dotfiles repository yet, but I should get on top of that.
If you look at how Trump talks you can see a pattern where he likes to repeat ideas that he's heard about and then hype them.

My hunch is that he heard about this as a potential treatment from some doctor/advisor and then put his usual spin on it. This could work, it could be great, it's very promising, why don't we try it?
Oh please, the "is cloudflare safe" site is peak cynicism. Not sure how you can look past that point and then call everyone else a cynic.
Yeah, clear. Reading your other comment made me realize there's of course the important distinction between viral and bacterial disease to be made, too...
Self employed and re-if’d 6 months ago. The 4 brokers I worked with all said they never checked again after closing. So maybe that has changed, but I doubt it)

(Also, unless you have your savings with the mortgage lender, I don’t think the bank can legally check your balances without a some sort of soft credit pull)
The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago
> It does note that "only 5–7% of blood volume needs to be treated with UV to produce the optimum benefit", so you'd be left with enough functional blood.

The context leading up to that phrase puts the treatment in a different light (forgive the pun): "However the use of UBI (Ultraviolet blood irradiation) to treat septicemia cannot be solely due to UV-mediated killing of bacteria in the blood-stream, ...".

And UBI of course needs a machine hooked up to your arteries. It's not shining light in your body.
I spent a good portion of my day searching for this yesterday (everything looks very shady). What i really want is a self hosted option but i have not found anything yet.
so I'm even more sure the 'they died because they were afraid to go to the hospital' is bullshit

Do these graphs change your mind?

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

This is attendances at emergency rooms in the UK.

Admissions to ER have halved. It breaks it down by reason for admittence to quite a granular level. Especially worrying: cardiac admissions halved at the lowest point. Fortunately it seems the messaging about how hospitals aren't overwhelmed and never were is getting through and they've started going up again. They're still far below normal for this time of year.

Unless you think people routinely go to ER with cardiac problems unnecessarily, it's hard to see how this won't translate into excess deaths that aren't COVID related. The UK sees about half of all excess death certificates right now not mention COVID, which makes sense.

Other crazy things about those graphs: pneumonia and other breathing related problems have also all collapsed. Not only are hospitals not overwhelmed but you can't even really see an uptick in admissions for COVID related problems, unless there's some odd data collection error like those cases not showing up in any of the graphs at all.
Who cares! How much slower can they be? Anyone who needs performance most certainly didn't buy those drives.
If we end up in a post-antibiotics period, perhaps this will be attractive again.
I appreciate what you're saying, but I think you might be mixing modalities. Considering that free will may be a pleasant deception doesn't necessarily lead to blaming externalities instead of changing a bad situation.

The concept of blame as it is usually expressed depends on the belief in free will. The person whose free choices led to an outcome bears the greatest responsibility. Assigning blame to others is therefore accomplished by proving that the self didn't possess this freedom. When no choice exists, responsibility reverts to environmental circumstances.

The condition you're describing can only be coherent if a person believes they lack personal agency but that the framework of free will and the primary responsibility of those who have a choice remains in place. This is a real condition that many people suffer from, and many will disguise it as giving in to inevitable causes and effects, but the problem is not that they lack faith in free will, but that they have assigned freedom elsewhere.

If a person accepts the idea that free will is unattainable, the conventional concept of blame becomes incomprehensible. Every dependent choice is related to every other choice. There is no hierarchy of blame that defaults to the environment. A person can either accept no responsibility or all responsibility. Accepting all responsibility will appear impossible to a person holding on to the idea of free will, but to someone who fully abandons it and considers that they are part of a larger whole, personal responsibility for every outcome becomes a natural consequence.
I’d question the sanity of any advisor pushing a dodgy old Soviet antibacterial technique for a virus.

Also, this fails to explain the _disinfectant_.
Telegram Has Reached 400M Users
Which is what I said I'm doing. What I said is that I would to not have to do that. I just said I would love to be able to (explicitly) guarantee self- and/or sibling recursion, maybe using a compiler directive. I explicitly mentioned the tail in tail recursion in my post.

General TCO would be nice as well, say when writing a state machine/recursive descent parser, but that is a hassle, especially if you want C interop. Since many of the rust devs are old ocamlers, I doubt I need to explain the virtues of (tail) recursion to them. Which is also why I never bothered to bring it up: they probably have very good reasons for not supporting it. The reserved "become" keyword is testament to them at least giving it some thought.
This makes me want to sing and dance. Ding-dong, the stringsAsFactors witch is dead!
Loading times and responsiveness.

For example, Twitter’s native iOS app is about 115 MB, while their PWA is a tiny fraction of that, probably not more than a few MB. This unsurprisingly reflects on performance.
This is exactly my point though. If you look at averages, a jumbo home owner in the US is considered wealthy — but only if you ignore their local market. Like in the Bay Area where you could earn $100k a year and still be considered “low income”. These people may be huge earners compared to the average American. It doesn’t mean they’re living the lavish lifestyles of the rich and famous. A lot of them are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Markets are relative.

Similarly, the average American making over $40k a year will not consider themselves the 1%, but to the average citizen of the world they are.
How to get started with Parent-child pipelines
The "fire in a crowded theater" case was overturned: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

You have no idea what you're talking about.
It is amazing what circumstance can do for bonding, though. I still keep in occasional touch with a handful of people I’ve worked with, but the exception is the group from a company that spectacularly imploded: A couple of years after most of us left or were let go, we still talk all the time.
No, just a reckless idiot.
Not related - but tangential: this reminds me of blue light therapy for neonatal jaundice
Is this the HN equivalent of being a grammar nazi?
Maybe this as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_--_Annihilate%21
Our last attempt:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_TDukylKSj/

We made it in a regular home oven but on maximum temperature of 285°C (545°F) and broiler on. It takes no more than 2-3 minutes.

We followed this recipe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SJGQ2HLp8
Coronavirus detected on particles of air pollution
Next time please try to write a blog post with less emoji crap in it and I promise I'll try to read it.
Agreed. The notion of wealthy needs to be calibrated for local cost of living as do statistics like the CPI.
Conventional, FHA, and VA loans are owned by the government.

This came about after 2009 financial crisis, once regulators realized the banks were playing fast and loose with mortgage lending. Unlike TARP, they inherited that debt and have held onto ever since.
Existentialists have a reputation as sophists and phonies, pessimists write a bunch of subjective pessimistic crap, optimists write a bunch of subjective optimistic crap.
I think what I see around here is a great example of that. I have about two dozen or so apple trees that have self-propagated. They don't grow in any particular pattern and they're randomly separated so I assume no one deliberately planted more than one or two of them. The fruit is small: averages about 1 - 2" diameter. A few of them produce really delicious, sweet apples but the majority are very sour and unpleasant.

I've always been really surprised by how different the fruit on one tree is from the one right next to it.
Covid-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus, Chinese biotech reports
Our Chief Medical Officer here in Australia actually had to tell people not to inject disinfectant based on Trump's speech.

Truly extraordinary times we live in.
I've been working on a free and open-source online implementation of the board game "A Game of Thrones (Second edition)":
https://swordsandravens.net/

The game can be daunting and long (~4 hours), but the gameplay is very cool!
Ah, but as pointed out else-thread, it's not killing the bacteria. From the Conclusions section:

"Many people therefore assume that UBI must act by killing pathogens (bacteria, viruses or other microorganisms) circulating in the bloodstream. However there is no evidence that this is actually the case."

The benefits are then ascribed to homesis, much like how low-dose ionizing radiation actually seems to benefit the immune system.
Assuming that this works (which I will do for the point of this conversation, not that I believe it):

1. You'd have to create a bunch of hemo-irradiators (which don't currently exist).

2. You'd have to train perfusionists or nurses to use them.

3. You'd have to place large-bore dialysis-style catheters into patients for the purpose of using these devices.

4. You'd have to have 1:1 RN staffing to use these machines (just like we do for continuous veno-venous hemofiltration devices for renal failure patients in the ICU).

Lots of downstream things to think about beyond just whether the concept is feasible.
No, he remains an idiot-idiot. This is not an antiviral.
A stock buyback is theoretically the same as a dividend, in that it should reduce market cap by roughly the amount of the buyback.

I do agree with your sentiment though. I feel like the wealthy in this country have developed the perfect scheme for leeching the wealth from this country. We will only know how bad it was after the postmortem, at which point, we will be (figuratively) dead.
I think it’s bound to happen with how the world is. But a removable wristband seems better than tracking phones or even the rumored chip implants.
It helps on the margins, just like masks and hand-washing. The more low-impact methods we can implement to reduce the transmission rate, the fewer high-impact methods are necessary.
That is true, but there's a flip side problem with this way of thinking: it can lead to a race to the bottom mentality in which improvements are argued against by comparison to those worse off.

"Workers in America don't need better pay or benefits, they're already wealthy by world standards!"

"Workers in China don't need basic safety protections and sane work hours, they're already better off than workers in sub-Saharan Africa!"
How do you find life there?

From some acquaintances who moved there to work in tech I heard integration/dating/making friends is very difficult as a foreigner especially if you come from $UNCOOL_COUNTRY and the real estate market is terrible, with cramped and expensive apartments in a poor state and buying is even more difficult if you're not a swiss citizen which is a difficult citizenship to get.
Proactive design, not reactive response, is the future of cybersecurity
It will take $1B to protect one small Louisiana town from climate change
Wow that feels like a personal attach. Digging up something I posted 44 days ago. 44 days ago, tons of people, on all sides of the political spectrum, thought this was overblown:

https://battlepenguin.com/images/politics/covid19-media-flu....

Almost all of those news sites have removed or changed those original headlines.

And that link was to Psychology Today. You can question how they editorialize sure, but it's hardly Breibart or a tabloid site. Some people get things wrong. A lot of people got it wrong then. People are still getting it wrong now.
I highly recommend people check out Dominion. Having played many years ago on isotropic and then less so when goko/makingfun took over, this implementation is pretty light and quick.

The games themselves go pretty fast, and there's enough expansions that every game shouldn't devolve into a solved format. (I say this as a casual player learning the new expansions). You get access to the base game for free, and the pricing model for the expansions is pretty fair in my opinion (~$5/month for all thirteen, ~$2.50/month for half). There's a matchmaker and custom games. Even bots for those who want to play solo.
As already written by others, the article does not go very deep and is missing many essentials. What I was mostly missing is more about keeping configuration parameters as simple as possible. A much more detailed best practices can be found here: https://www.libelektra.org/ftp/elektra/slides/cm/
IF I understand correctly, the borrow checker comes with some pretty severe compilation costs, since it requires a pretty wide level of code analysis, and might be single threaded.
> Software developers: [this is left blank as an exercise for the reader]

In fact, there's a (very popular) school of though that the more credentials you have, the less qualified you are to develop software: https://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-compu...
I think there is a big difference between content moderation (based on published and reasonably objective rules) and an outright ban on contradicting the stance of an organisation that is highly political.

If this rule was implemented earlier, you’d be banned for saying there is human-to-human transmission, proposing flight restrictions, or advocating for the general public to use masks. The W.H.O. has explicitly advised against each of those measures, despite significant disagreement on every one of those claims. It’s absurd that dissenting against the W.H.O. has been banned, although it’s predictable of course.
> I can't help thinking that this may have been the subject of the rambling, inarticulate speech recently given by POTUS?

Given his mention of disinfectants at the same time, it's far more likely they just told him how they disinfect surfaces like doorknobs and countertops and he ran with it.
Scientists are trying to take the colonialism out of genetics