skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2% (2 orders of magnitude above 0.02%) of 8 million (approximately the population of NYC) is 160,000 people. So that's clearly wrong being more than 3 times the entire US deaths.

The numbers you've seen are probably deaths of infected people not the entire population.
As maintainer of https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs

Every needs to be incredibly careful of being phished of their WhatsApp web logins.

Also, WhatsApp does not respect message integrity regardless of e2e encryption. They WILL mutate your message if required.
I wonder what will be the accepted count months from now.

I say that from the media-frustrated view of an American within America, who regularly reads German and Scandinavian news online (and UK too) just for external perspective.

I reflexively think two two things:
(1) title sensationalism possible, and
(2) or it could be far lower than reported, but that's not sensational, and only time will tell.
I think there's substantial value in replacing expensive system components with free alternatives. Things like FusionAuth / https://fusionauth.io/ for user identity (full disclosure, I'm an employee) and Pentaho Kettle https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle for ETL and data transformations can help.

It is important to recognize the value of developer time too, though. There's a cost in dev time for setting up a "free" project.

That's why I think that any open source project that gets too popular will have to have a cloud vendor strategy, otherwise they'll get done to them what AWS did to Elastic Search.

I also thought it was interesting that the author mentioned support for the various application libraries. I know that there have been several "tip" type applications (gittip, gitcoin.co) that try to align incentives and allow open source developers to make a living.
Hell, I'm a software developer and don't even have a CS degree. Did I feel like the bar was higher for me than it may have been if I did have one? Sure, but I was still able to overcome it. Granted I'm not in an environment like the Valley (out of choice as much as anything), but I am an actual, real software dev.

On the other hand, in my past life I was a lawyer. I worked my ass off in high school to get into a top journalism school, worked hard in college and studied my ass off for the LSAT to get into a top-20 law school, and that STILL wasn't enough for me to get anywhere close to a high powered legal job.

The worlds are very much different. I obviously prefer the more merit-based environment that's still found in tech, where "can you do the job" still trumps most things. But things are much much different in other environments.
That's the job.

A business software developer's job is to help the people you described overcome those problems.

Some have more money than others. Some are smarter than others. Some are better people than others. But ultimately, that's the job.
The handling at Three Mile Island was pathetic.

The handling at Windscale was even worse. Even before the 1957 fire, the neighboring villages and countryside were getting contaminated daily without any authority doing anything about it.

But I think it's also well documented now that the Ukrainian communist local authorities could have handled the evacuation much better and much sooner. If only for having the tendency to wait for higher ranks from Moscow to take the difficult decisions for them.
Many web based tutorials are structured as well. Programming in particular is much better learned from a web format rather than PDF. The best tutorials I have seen have embedded placed to see and test code. Quickly jump back and forth to sections describing fundamentals, etc. A PDF is a substandard way to learn about coding imo.
No, I do not wish to assign that meaning, that meaning was already assigned a long time ago. And you don't need to be a prescriptivist to want a language that is capable of communicating our thoughts with each other.
So technically correct is the best kind of correct? The feasibility of succeeding makes the point moot, and frankly makes it sound like puerile moralizing. You might as well say, in the wake of a murder, "well your society could stop murder altogether if they decided not to kill each other".

Especially considering that we've already passed the largest economic bailout/safety net measures in world history in a matter of 3 weeks, and it looks like more is on the way. It would seem that "society" is doing its best over here given the realities of the situation, theoretical Kumbaya ideals aside.
I can’t say I’ve got this impression from reading her books. Opposed to the state perhaps, but not the people. Her books are all about the mistreatment of people.

I’d particularly recommend The Unwomanly Face of War which is about women in the Soviet army in WW2, and Boys in Zinc which is about the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Edit: egao1980 is some sort of troll/propaganda account.
Make an app that texts a contractor those questions and lets them drop a pin on a map. Then bill 250,000 a year for the contractor and call it software as a service.
He didn't say it, that's the point.
Quantum Mechanics, and why we need interpretations of it.
And what does the headline say?
Am I right that this has nothing with FOSS per se but just about "X is cheaper than Y" kind of reasoning?
Hey Walter, I should've phrased that differently.

With less time used taking classes like Psych 101 (which is generally a waste of time for engineering and science majors) you have more time to study and complete assignments in your core classes. The university says it wants you to take these classes to be "well rounded", but honestly, they just want more money from students.

Regarding Calculus and Chemistry (all important to physics of course);There were several students I knew that clipped out of all of the freshman/sophomore chemistry and calculus classes and just started with organic chemistry and differential equations. This meant freshman year was a little rougher, but they were done with all of their non-major courses by sophomore year, so they were able to take a lower course load in their next three years and better absorb the core classes. I majored in electrical engineering, and still really struggled with all my calculus classes despite taking AP Calculus in high school. So instead of just focusing on circuits, coding, control systems...etc, I had to split my time with stuff like chemistry/calculus/random classes like Psych, so there was a lot less time to use for homework, projects, and harder subjects (assembly and microprocessors aren't too bad by themselves, but when you're mentally sharing that same space with a bunch of other classes it is brutal). Of course, most colleges are like this, but I think I'd rather have less required subjects, but time to go into them in additional depth.
Good stuff, cheers!
I agree these things should not be what "people in the country with the largest economy in the world ought to be worrying about".

But Socialism is not the answer.

As Churchill said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

Socialism is great in concept. In class, which deals with the theoretical, it sounds great. For teachers, who can teach concepts and don't need to deal with the pesky nastiness of the real world, it is the thing to teach.

But in real life, Socialism, and partial socialism, and partial social by other names, are all TERRIBLE for the average dude.

Study history, for real. Look at the countries which have had all the "ism's". Democracy (and in many cases, even autocracy - which is also REALLY bad) are better.

I am not at all wealthy, live simply (no car, no smartphone, no whatever). I moved from the States to a socialy democratic country with an excellent public Medicaire system.

Even so, if I could make it more democratic and less socialistic, I would, and so would anyone else I know. A massive amount of my neighbors have moved to the States or are waiting for papers to do so. Everyone who can afford it has supplemental insurance.

It would be a shame if the States lost what they have right.
Whomever wrote this, how about a CV of your software projects?
That's "Sita Sings the Blues". And I highly recommend it.
Exactly! I worship at the altar of Steve. I've got a shrine in my house. That quote is kind of at the heart of what I wrote.

It's why I said:

> The user a lot of times doesn't know what they want or need until they see it, so it comes down to us, the designers to empathize and guide the user.

Users do not want complexity, they want to be empowered. There is a subtle but important difference there and it's easy to disguise the latter as the former.

Is that a quibble over semantics? It might be. But to call the post "nonsense" is just as much of a quibble, because there's real truth there, the success and adoption of the Mac etc is proof of it.
This describes me to a certain degree, and it's perfectly doable. I'm sure a lot of people do this, and I think a lot of the "find something you love" kind of posts are idealistic and unrealistic. I used to love software when I was younger and it was fresh and I still thought I might be a genius who could do something amazing, but then I went it to the real world and discovered that I was fairly average in what I did and, much importantly, anything you do for 40 hours a week becomes boring and a drag. That's why I keep my real interests and hobbies to my spare time where they're limited in time so they can't get boring. But at the same time this means I will never get that good at anything.

There are a small percentage of folk who are really good at programming and are at the bleeding edge making really cool stuff but for the vast majority it's just brick laying for a wage, which I think is fine but programming is exhausting so it's hard to find comfort and not burn out. I manage by having found cool guys to work with so it's a good laugh. I do wonder what I'll do when I finally just don't have the mental resilience to write code anymore and have to find another job.
WhatsApp does not respect message integrity
Quibi Interview with Jeffrey Katzenberg
I have somewhat strong opinions on this. I uploaded a similar set of symbols here: https://imgur.com/a/gKJ3KO2

I’ve added notes in red, some baselines in blue and some lines at x-height in yellow.

I want to point out a few things:

1. OP misses out the need for script and blackboard bold letters and various symbols. You want them to not be confused with letters. In particular U and set union, epsilon and set membership, and oplus and capital theta.

I think OP’s eta looks wrong. Too much like an m.

One trick to use is that letters can have ascenders and descenders. Numbers can too but I don’t use that. I also incorrectly write a rho as a letter with an ascender and no descender to help to distinguish it from a p. I also try to impart a big curve at the top so you won’t think there could be the top of a straight line hidden in there.

I draw the top of a tau just below x-height while the bar on a t is somewhat above it. This and the rest of the t being higher helps to disambiguate.

Never use an o (“oh”) or omicron and probably not upsilon either (I missed out capital upsilon because OP did too and I didn’t notice). An exception is big/little O notation but I don’t really like it.

I don’t like OP’s q. It looks too much like a double bowled g. I prefer a tick to a loop.

I tend to not have issues with 2 vs z but I do with nu vs v. I kinda dislike using nu because of it. In print I have trouble with v vs u.

I often use variant letters for some Greek letters (in particular my epsilon is what TEX calls varepsilon because it is more like handwriting and less like a print font. Similarly for theta kappa, and phi. I don’t use varpi which looks too much like an omega, cardigan which is only really to go on the end of a word in Greek, varrho because I don’t like it, and I don’t write capital omega the modern Greek way (a horizontal line with a circle above it).

Other tricky symbols are:
Angle brackets vs lt/gr. Usually context suffices. Angle brackets vs parens: just don’t rely on this distinction.

Or vs v can and union vs U can usually be solved by context and spacing (you have a bigger space between a term and an operator than between factors or arguments in a term)

A final note is that I tend to write mathematics more upright than my normal handwriting. This helps distinguish inline mathematics from the rest of a sentence.

I looked through some random old notes to see if I could still read my writing and I can. The only thing I struggled with was the script C for conjugate classes because I was missing the context and struggling to guess what ccl stood for. At first I thought it was a script G.

Having written this, I realise I omitted forall, exists, nabla/del, integral sign, partial sign, therefore dots, infinity, approxequal and hbar.

A final note is that spoken names matter to o. “Twiddle” is a much better name than “tilde” because it is more naturally made into a verb. You can say “define the relation twiddle on the naturals such that a twiddles b if ...” and then you can easily use that verb when talking through a proof of eg transitivity.
Show HN: Hack your tastebuds to make eating healthy easy
Hi HN!

My name is Daniel and I'm the founder of Miracle Nutrition. We make eating healthy easy and enjoyable by enhancing the taste of nutritious foods.

Junk foods have been weaponized to taste amazing and be addictive. This has led to an obesity epidemic with 39.8% of American adults afflicted. Although 63% of Americans say they try to eat healthy most or all of the time, 85% admit they give in to over half of their cravings for indulgent foods. Diets suck and often fail because people are unable to find changes that they enjoy and can incorporate into their lifestyle.

I’ve created a next generation sweetener. It doesn’t just sweeten food, it removes the unpleasant tartness and bitterness that makes a food an acquired taste, allowing you to discover the natural flavors that were previously masked. Its unique mechanism provides it advantages over any other sweetener: 1) It has no bitter/chemical aftertaste 2) It requires only a single serving irregardless of the quantity of food in your meal 3) There is a uniform effect- no stirring necessary 4) It gives you the power to target the individual, not the food for everyone at the dinner table.

Check out this incredible behavioral transformation: <https://youtu.be/fLmeCbotvYI>

I started working on this when a fun experiment with my nephew revealed interesting implications. We started off with lemons and strawberries but when offered Greek Yogurt he replied, “I refuse to eat Greek yogurt. It makes me gag.” As the yogurt hit his lips, he patted his belly with delight and exclaimed, “Wow this tastes like a milkshake! More please!” From that moment, I realized that this compound could be harnessed to create lasting behavior changes in a way that positively benefits one’s health.

HN, I’d love to hear all of your feedback and advice. What are some interesting use cases you can think of? Do you know anyone who would benefit from trying out my MVP? What’s the best way to get it out there into people’s hands?
There's not much to be done here except resort to office politics. Lean on throwing out their architecture and ideas when they say "just figure it out". Lack of direction from them is where you have to assert authority of your expertise - this is where they're giving up control. You essentially need to turn them into a source of simple problem explanation rather than having them give you ideas, unless they can produce code themselves. Determine if dealing with their technical misunderstandings is worth the time invested (few are actually interested in learning technology, but try not to assume).
What I'd be interested in are some graphs that compare deaths of January, February, March and April for 2018, 2019 and 2020. To see the expected trend from 2018/19 and the reality of 2020.
> Thanks for the insight. How might someone in a position to spin up services for this be able to think about capturing this sort of a market?

Obligatory (from 2014) "Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source":
https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-wa...
Like.... why are sub-atomic phenomena important in general?
>Whenever our American boss comes to visit this side of the pond, this drives me so nuts. Like, if things suck, just say so ffs. We royally fucked something up? We've had challenges. Some new thing is good but not mindblowingly amazing? Excellent.

> Your language has a range of expression, please use it :'D

It's a bit of a stereotype, but be glad you don't have an anglophone boss from your side of the pond.
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How can metric expansion of space redshift light? Doesn't that violate conservation of momentum, since the redder light has lower momentum?

And adding on to that: Will light inside a box redshift? If I weigh the box (i.e. weigh the light inside the box), then wait a bit for the light to redshift, then weigh the box again?
They have the charts in the article
Digitizing Company in the UK
Have there been any new revelations in the past 8 years regarding Stonehenge?

Also, if anyone finds themselves in southwest England, I would recommend against visiting Stonehenge. Getting a sense of scale of the stones that these neolithic people moved hundreds of miles to the site is great, but the sheer mass of people surrounding you while you look at these stones is too much to bear. And then there's that highway that runs about 200' from the site, which certainly doesn't add to the ambience.
Nope, too nerdy. Not even on my radar.
> They just happened to work hard at school too

There you go.

> But no, it's because they're rowdy kids doing 'bad things'.

Did your friends rape girls at parties and steal cars?
>how can you definitely say he was not suggesting to drink bleach?

I didn't. I said he did not say to drink bleach. If you want to believe that those words "suggest" drinking bleach, that is an entirely different argument.

>You're claiming that any attempt to clarify the incoherence is 'lying',

They are not trying to clarify. Read the transcript, a reported specifically did ask for clarification, and was given it. So no, there is no question he did not say to drink bleach, every reporter there knows this because of the one reporter that actually asked for clarification. They are not trying to clarify, they are trying to misrepresent. That's called lying.
Fair enough. Let's define hacking as js-level patching of 3rd generation games :)

Deleting my account now, this is getting ridiculous.
Ask HN: New professionals in America, how was establishing credit?
Hey everyone,

Im Canadian and was a software engineer in the Bay Area with no American credit history. I couldn't be approved for a credit card and had a hard time building credit effectively for a long time.

I was wondering if other people had similar experiences and what they did to overcome them?

Disclaimer: I'm also working on solving this issue and would love to hear your experiences!

Thank you!
The NYT has been doing this.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
that quote is way more (personal) branding than operational imperative. yes, jobs trusted his intuition and had purposeful influence, but he had thousands of people around him that also performed and integrated market research in honing their products for good UX. it was never just one guy magically making perfect choices to the delight of the masses.
Par2deep – Produce, verify and repair par2 files recursively
It's certainly very disappointing.

On the other hand, Bill Gates is not law enforcement, is not the criminal justice system. Speaking abstractly, if someone is convicted of a crime, goes to prison, and is let out... At what point does a prominent individual need to say they'll never talk to that person under any circumstances? In some cases that would be too extreme and in the abstract, repentant ex-convicts may deserve forgiveness.

In hindsight it's easy to say Epstein wasn't that. But we don't know how he may have misrepresented himself to Gates and others. We know from the press that there was some sketchy business involved in his relatively short prison stay, which I presume Gates did not know. My guess is it's not always an easy call to make, whether or not to show forgiveness to an ex-con, whether or not you can trust them as reformed, etc. The article you cite says he regrets making the wrong call.
https://pushever.app , read a lot on how pkcs container works and some cryptography algorithm
Excellent pedagogy, distilled into sensible bullet points. Applicable far beyond computer-use, which is really just an example.
Certainly the criminals doesn't agree don't you think ? One side just happen to have more power to forced the other side to comply. There is no agreement. The more powerfull one get to decide what the law is.
I would rather just sit back, focus on nice code (even if it is not useful) and let my company bill.

I work for a contractor that does government agency work so the longer we can't figure it out, the longer I get paid an absurd amount.
I wasn't sure what WP stood for. My mind jumped to WordPress but that obviously wouldn't make sense.

Turns out it stands for Weakest Precondition.
Oh, I didn't know it. I'll try, and if it's good I'll gladly pay for it :)
Ah thanks, I've got the bad habit of not opening articles anymore since most of them prevent ad blockers or demand tracking rights with obnoxious page filling popups, nowadays.
> If I npm install is-promise I'll get something like "^1.2.1" in my package.json not the exact "1.2.1". This means that the next time someone installs my CLI I don't know exactly what code they're getting (unless I shrinkwrap which is uncommon).

Yes, this is by design. If this weren't the case, the ecosystem would be an absolute minefield of non-updated transitive dependencies with unpatched security issues.
Texas mayor apologizes after violating stay-at-home order to go to nail salon
If you want a good intro to Panfrost, try this blog article:

https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2019/10/03/alyssa-rosenzw...
Thank you fellow Taleb reader.

Also: Scott Adams, in his book "How to fail..." has a chapter on increasing one's luck. Worth a skim if you haven't checked it out before.
I implemented something similar ten years ago for a class project: https://youtu.be/0am-5noTrWk
>So they have no legal obligation to help the police prosecute people without a warrant.

FTFY. They may not have a legal obligation to help prevent or prosecute crimes, but there is definitely a moral obligation to not knowingly allow your product to become an easy accessory to crime. Lots of tech companies abdicate that moral responsibility.
Yup. The account with my good bank is about 25 years old. Some time in the 2010s they sent me a letter. Basic thrust was: You have six months to provide us with documents to meet current KYC regulations or ask for more time, and if you ask for more time we'll give you another six months, and then finally we'll just cut you a cheque and close the account because we don't want to do business with you if you can't meet those regulations.

And they were clearly sending these out in waves, I wouldn't be surprised if the project took 3-5 years from "Oops, we aren't doing enough KYC and our parent bank just got hit with another multi-billion dollar fine" to completion.
I had an issue while running any command of vue-cli.. and then I even created an issue for it thinking that it might be a bug in the Vue CLI v4.3.1 But I think the truth has shown itself!
The first sentence is:

>The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries.

The article is about reported deaths, not predicted.
I doubt many countries are reporting artificially high counts.