skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol. just lol. yes i’m sure they lied to the doctors one on one and were able to hide the coughing. maybe a little less intellectual curiosity would help you.
USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia. These are all successful left-authoritarian power consolidations from the 20th century.

Other than the WW2 Axis powers, there aren't many major successful right-authoritarian consolidations from last century.

Many parts of the right are fundamentally opposed to government power, which makes creating a united right-wing front to consolidate totalitarian power really difficult.

Unlike the American left, which works practically in lock-step, the right is a fractured, fractious mess that can hardly agree on anything, except maybe that the other side is bad sometimes.

Even when the Republicans controlled all branches of government from 2016-2018, they couldn't accomplish anything, because unlike in the Democratic party, there's just no unity.

As far as narratives go, I know well the power of the narrative. That's how we got where we are: the left owns the narrative. They invested three generations in controlling all avenues of knowledge and information dissemination, and it has completely paid off.

I didn't start from any particular assumptions. Well, I'm sure I did, because you can't not, but I'm just taking people at their word and going by what they say.

The left in America is fundamentally opposed to free enterprise and capitalism (see: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Buttigeg, Yang, and every single Democrat candidate. see Obama, "The Squad", Pelosi and Maxine Waters.)

There is a unified drumbeat message that free enterprise, capitalism, profit, capital itself, and, ultimately the freedom of people to make their own lives and choices are anathema.

There is crystal clear, unified messaging from every powerful corner on the left that freedom needs to end, and that, with the help of the Covid crisis, it is ending now.

I'm just taking them at their word.
One? There was a something new that left you in awe and wonder pretty regularly.

- Message forums run on pbpbb that taught users to not to feed the trolls

- AltaVista's search parameters
Search that wasn't for presenting ads on 80% of the screen.

- Friendster as a way to interact beyond IM

- Digg as original reddit frontpage.. Slashdot too.

- Napster as the first internet disruption to an established industry.
Please note that European cities are moving away from traditional public transportation (buses, underground, etc.) in favour of personal transportation such as bikes and scooters.
Anyone curious should go read Slashdot posts from that time.
All evidence points to (i.e. implies) but does not prove conclusively yet because studies are under way. Is there some disconnect in your reading of this? This is absolutely how science works. You identify something likely to happen due to a preponderance of evidence then you attempt to prove or disprove it by study. This is called inductive reasoning, and it's the basis for what's known as a hypothesis. An experiment or study is then conducted to prove or disprove your hypothesis.

You have not brought any evidence to the table. If there is a study that says SARS-COV-2, unlike the majority of (all?) viruses and all coronaviruses that results in immune response sufficient to clear the disease that then immediately dissipates, I'll certainly accept the premise.

Until then, a preponderance of evidence points (or suggests without proving conclusively) otherwise.

> That's crystal clear, but it doesn't align with your opinion that this is just like the flu in seriousness.

That is not my opinion. My opinion is that it's milder than the flu for young people (it is) [1], and much worse than the flu for older folks (it is) -- no citation needed, I assume. To suggest otherwise would be to ignore the evidence you claim to hold sacrosanct.

[1] https://time.com/5816239/children-coronavirus/
I think many people have that issue; they cannot actually stay at home doing what they want. It is a restricting factor actually creating the commuting issue you mention. Many people need to go to the office. I think it would be better to educate the kids to not have that mental hangup. Personally I never had that feeling (and never worked in an office for 25+ years; I am at my kitchen table and so is my wife); I was expecting to hear either of a) I have no other choice, because job/money b) I need space between work & home. Over the years I had business partners trying the same thing and getting divorced (like now with the virus; people simply cannot sit at home or endure their spouse and kids); maybe it wasn't too solid to begin with?
I just skimmed the abstract and had an impression that this looks more similar to Borg, rather than Google's autopilot which solves a very particular problem of machine resource utilization within Borg. And yes, Borg has been there more than 15 years.
> Around half of SF

Yeah, that doesn't work. If 50% of SF had been infected and 22 died the fatality rate would be 22 / (0.5 * 800,000) = 0.0055%.

With that fatality rate, 11,500 / 0.0055% = 209 million need to be infected in New York City to explain their death count, or about 25 times the population.

More intuitively, because you seem to prefer arguments without actual numbers: if half of the population in SF have been infected, that limits the worst case at double what SF is experiencing. But it is entirely obvious that many regions all over the world are doing far worse, disproving that notion.

So here's your question:

- how do you make these numbers work?

And one extra:

- Do you see the irony of complaining about a lack of scientific rigour in a post that is almost completely emotional? I. e. "sheeple", "Fox News", "basically empty"...
it's been long enough you may not even see this, but i appreciated the fair, well-reasoned response so i figured i would respond (paragraph-by-paragraph correspondence to your comment above):

- fair enough point, i agree that it is debatable whether Microsoft was "particularly deserving" of this reputation because of the limited scope and interest of the justice dept., etc., though on balance i still _personally_ find it most likely that they stood out in their bad-actor-ness in some way

- wtf is a "global standard in justice"? the existence of that is news to me. unless it is rather just "whatever court makes the kinds of judgments i agree with"? if the EU judicial process (to determine whether the EU should fine some exogenous bag of money an enormous amount of money) is so impartial, then why was their biggest upshot to put Margrethe Vestager, a maximally-ambitious politician, on the map? i know you're just trying to suggest an alternate judicial authority, but come on: you picked one that is even less likely to have been a "global standard in justice", whatever that is. and that all is to apparently exonerate Microsoft because a couple other companies, that grew up in Microsoft's shadow, used the same playbook later on?

- though i appreciate the argumentative tone / parallelism thing going on here, i think it's a biit of a stretch in this case-- i don't really feel like i'm conflating them at all. the valence of my comment is definitely that "Microsoft deserves to stand out here", not that they are uniquely guilty of this by any measure.

and, re bias: ultimately, insofar as i am "biased" (an affliction that actually affects everyone, regardless of opinion :^) it is because they (Microsoft) hurt my feelings by doing a bunch of mean things to technologically-related stuff that i loved during my techno-formative years. so, yeah--their abuses of market power stood out more to me than they may have to others, and are clearly grounded in a personal, subjective value judgment. the world still revolved then, and still continues to revolve-- there are more important abuses of power to be truly exercised about in the world, etc., etc.
There is already plenty of product placement on Netflix.

The smoking is notorious, for example. They cram in cigarettes wherever they can, often to the detriment of the scene.

I really wish there were laws mandating a very obvious " this scene was sponsored by X" overlay.
Now we have gone from macOS drivers are garbage to macOS has the worst driver support. Which is a completely different statement. Also it's one that is hard to disagree with -- macOS is only made to run on Macs.
And a culture that has less respect for private property, for better or for worse. 4 states ban billboards fwiw
I always suspected governments desperately seek 2% inflation because they are long term borrowers.
In a way OSS did become the future.. Linux powering Android.. Bsd powering macos and ios.

Ubuntu 20.04 also looks to be an extremely usable desktop that just works.
Or they just raise prices like they have done multiple times now.
Note that the data is from cubeiq - featured in a rogues’ gallery of firms in the long tail of firms monetizing personal information

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca...

We need this data now, but let’s also not forget this area needs regulation (that among other things will give teeth to violations of “but it’s all encrypted/anonymized!” claims)
Maybe the slowness is more due to poor high level design for the problem (& if you want an highly optimized result)? E.g. AoS everywhere instead of SoA if needed. I don't know I have not checked the source code, but it is a possibility.
Walking or biking does not always imply high density! On the other hand, public transportation can easily get crowded. That is one reason why European cities are moving away from public transportation in favour of bikes, scooters and so on. Finally, I agree that it would be better to encourage car usage during a pandemic. One reasonable reason not to do so is that parking spots are limited.
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HN should have matured with its original audience, and created a space for new community members to become productive citizens.

Instead, Clay Shirkys essay on a group being it's own worst enemy appears to be acting out in yet another online forum.

http://reddragdiva.co.uk/lj/group_enemy.html
That demo looks like the sort of attempt to be helpful that really irritates me on web sites.
Except it is Google and Microsoft that are driving the show in regards to PWAs and their OS integration.
You, sir, seem to have a xkcd catalogued in your head much better than I do.

Thank you sensei ! Well met indeed :)
For the map itself, Numbeo is not the primary source, that would be the WHO data, which is weighted 3 times more than the data coming from Numbeo to put an emphasis on a more reliable data source.

The cost-saving from not drinking bottled water is not necessarily dependent if the water is drinkable or not, as water filters are widely available and can offer substantial savings -> https://home.howstuffworks.com/save-money-with-water-filter1... The prices are taken from Numbeo and are the average prices for 1.5L bottles. I am aware this is not a perfect calculation method, I am planning to add a cost-saving calculator soon which will offer more flexibility.

Regarding the reputable source of information, you are right. Country-level data can never be a good decision-tool to chose if you can drink tapwater somewhere or not. It has to happen on an area-basis and include scientific reports, which are hard to get as of 2020 as there is no single source/database/API for that, except for very few countries (including the US and Austria), I'm working on that and I'll try to improve the UI so it reflects that one should check the water quality in the area of interest rather than the country itself.
Yeah, I was disheartened that she didn’t mention what the fallout for them was. The one that was about to defend was probably the most affected out of anyone in this story. The author ended up keeping her grant and got tenure. What happened to the students?
Formal verification only verifies assumptions made by verifier about the system.
Reminds me of Dr. Evil’s monologue about his Father making ridiculous claims about inventing the question mark.
A browser extension would be the other option, but those are severely limited in what they can do and the regular browser model is not built with multiple panes in mind.

To do everything I want to do (like css media query breakpoint defection) I needed something more low-level.
This sounds most correct to me. A lot of landlords out here see their houses as ATMs and milk them for all its worth. You can't even "take your business elsewhere" because they're all janky and in bad need of a remodel.
Hi! I made the paragraph mentioning my previous article more prominent, do you think it's clearer now?
Thanks for the feedback, this is one of the reasons why I like sharing my articles on HN.
I've only really noticed the degradation in the last month or so, and it's taken maybe ~1 hour off of their initial battery life which doesn't bode well for their longevity :/ I'll look into bluetooth receivers for next time, thank you for the rec!
Selected sections from N4606, C++ Working Draft (2016) [video]
You can find an introduction post on my blog here:

https://iridakos.com/programming/2020/04/20/stup-cli-notes
We switched a service from 2.7 to 3.5 and saw an immediate 45% reduction in memory usage and 20% reduction in runtime. That's massive IMO. We saw further (but smaller) performances benefits upgrading to 3.6, again when upgrading to 3.7, and expect to see even more with 3.8.

https://youtu.be/0kXaLh8Fz3k?t=322
They're not selling ads, but they do run a 15-30 second spot before each episode advertising one of their own shows. That doesn't really bother me for now, but it seems like a slippery slope towards showing two spots, or three, or selling those spots to other advertisers.

Side note, with all of the streaming subscriptions I have, I'm probably not saving any money compared to when I had traditional cable, but there are fewer commercials and the content is so much better.
This has nothing to do with capitalism. Companies plan for contingencies in the normal course of business.

A major halt of economic activity in order combat a pandemic is not normal, and no different than similar drastic changes that have occured during world wars. Serving the people, especially in exigent circumstances, is the entire purpose of government. Keeping the commercial sector artificially afloat is in the best interests of everyone so that we have a quick recovery instead of a global depression.
Previous smartphone attempts like FreeMoko, Maemo, Moblin, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish.

If anything, it proves the point that GNU/Linux doesn't sell phones to make a sustainable business out of it.
Here is a thread with the author discussing implementation details.

Pretty interesting stuff!

https://community.haxe.org/t/webliero-a-game-made-with-haxe/...
Not when people's livelihoods are on the line. You would simply get people to not report.

What you are asking for is the equivalent of saying "firing programmers when a bug is found will result in better software"

In science it will result in much less interesting science being done, because this will desincentivize risk.

The big problem in science funding is that it already incentivizes low risk projects (you should have preliminary results that proof it works...) so let's not make it worse
there's some hip environment that handles xml quite badly compared to json and people with little cross experience think the problem is xml
Man, those were the times! I'm still crossing for fingers that we'll eventually see a W:ET remake with better graphics but the same game dynamics (and, most importantly, physics). Or that ET Legacy [1] or the inofficial ET2 [2] will pick up steam.

[1] https://www.etlegacy.com/
[2] https://www.crossfire.nu/journals/156955/et2-remake-new-upda...
This book isn't finished yet; there are still pieces missing. The authors have been publishing updated versions occasionally over the last decade as more of it is written.
yeah, I miss this too. Esp. Pool and Euchre.
Another good one was the now gone netbooks market, where each OEM had its own distribution.
> the state of this technology after being called 'too dangerous to release'

One trained model is not enough to judge transformers. Listed to this:

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/piano-transformer
For most things I prefer dark sky over classic wunderground. The one thing I do miss with wunderground is the nice graphics showing history high/low compared to the past days.
Show HN: News, calm. Read your news once per day
Hi everyone, this is my first "Show HN", so i apologize in advance if I'm messing something up!

I've recently released "News, calm", which is a way for you to follow any website and get an email once per day with the updates on each website (new articles, for example).

It's an overhaul of something I released in September of 2018, called Focusd at the time. That product/service was only focused (ha!) on being a daily digest for RSS feeds, and the main thing I learned from customers using it in this period was that they didn't really care about the technology powering it, and that many websites people like to follow didn't have any RSS feeds.

This concept is something I've been using for years (even before I converted it from a few lambda functions into an actual product) that has helped me tremendously to stop from spending too much time on news.

To read HN I use the app's API and HN's API to get the top 3 stories per day, instead of everything new. It's OK to miss stuff.

The URL is https://news.calm.sh/ and there's a free trial for 14 days without any limitation, so I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on things I could improve on this.

Thank you for your kindness and attention!
Blogs. Lots of them. And RSS readers. It was a special point in time from 2002-2007 when blogging was dominated by individuals and personality. There was no access to restrict sine anyone willing to post could have a voice. And the internet wasn't so huge, so individual voices could easily amplify with compelling writing.

Then Twitter happened and it all changed.
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And also make sure to distinguish between your pi's and your n's! I can't count the number of times I've mixed the two up while finding Fourier coefficients.
You say those things. Please show me an example of a real world, general purpose, non toy sized program or routine that is hand optimized and shown to perform better than the optimizing compiler.
Was hoping someone here mentioned flipcode. I was in the irc channel daily.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439615
Are these tests covid-19 specific or are they based on IgM/IgG?

> The results of the tests for IgG, IgA, and IgM levels are usually evaluated together. Abnormal test results typically indicate that there is something affecting the immune system and suggest the need for further testing. Immunoglobulins testing is not diagnostic but can be a strong indicator of a disease or condition. There are a number of conditions that are associated with increased and decreased immunoglobulins.
No, it was not given a Promise. It was given a foreign object from another window. If you want to inspect another window you should not be reusing code that is designed for single threaded operations. Instead, have a layer that translates, serializes, or explicitly defines an interface that the objects we are dealing with are foreign and need to be transformed. Then the abstraction implementation details of dealing with multiple windows become a concern of a single layer and not your entire codebase. Implicitly and magically treating a foreign window as this window, will fail in many subtle and unknown ways. The "brokenness" you mention is not in that implementation, it is correctly breaking, telling you that what you are doing is wrong, then you try to bypass the error instead of fixing your approach.
I have used it, and it is quite flexible. However, it inevitably fell behind when newer instructions came out, and it is not very well maintained. I have submitted two issues (#398, #407) that have been open for a year with no comment...
That's a false equivalence. Landlords have huge equity advantages that the renters do not.

That said, I agree, we should be deferring mortgages and canceling rents.
Tokyo can get pretty crammed, but I always feel more like cattle on a crowded highway than I do on a crowded train.
A security crazy person also cannot make use of feature phones as they are already smart enough with networking capabilities.

So it is back to rotary phones and public booth.
But not negligible. The USD wouldn't be where it is without the US economy.
My preferred tool.

A few of the biggest selling points (for me):

- It feels like writing code instead of writing yaml.

- To the above you can define your own parameter object types in Terraform. To create a list parameter in cloudformation requires `CommaDelimitedList` which can only contain strings.

- To the above two points, your Terraform stacks can be DRY'd up a bit which makes them easier to read than a massive 1000 line cloudformation file.

- Terraform is run completely in your console which is faster and improves the developer experience.

- Resources are never "conditionally" replaced. They either are or are not. Don't know if this is still a thing in Cloudformation land but the resources change diff Terraform gives you is completely clear.

That all said I don't mind writing Cloudformation, but (again in my opinion) Terraform is vastly more powerful.
But she did not sell NIH a product with guarantees, that's not how science works. If she you make definite promises about the outcomes of your research I argue you are not doing science.

Apart from that many great discoveries were made based on initial mistakes.
Bikes and scooters cannot replace public transportation though.

I live at the very edge of a large city. Fortunately, I don't work in the city, but if I were, it would be a 30 minute train ride. Sure, I could also do that by bike, but it would take me ~90 minutes. That's not a realistic alternative. Scooters are fine if they are to replace buses that you'd take for two or three stops, e.g. a kilometer or two.

And we still occasionally get bad weather. I predict that scooter and bike usage will drop extremely fast once it rains for a week or two, or, god forbid, we get a real winter once again, with snow and sub-zero temperatures. People want comfort, and riding a bike in bad weather, even if it's an ebike, isn't comfortable.
check www.erowid.org
and my friend's site, www.highexistence.com

Maybe not as good as days of old, but you may enjoy it :)
Lang=C is broken if you have non-ascii unicode filenames (or many other things, but those are the most obvious). That's not pythons fault, it's your bad encoding.

Python trusts the system, and the system lies. It's your fault for lying to python. Configure your system correctly, don't lie to your tools and then blame them.

Lang=C is the realm of English only 70s crap programs. You shouldn't use it. Use a modern encoding that supports modern characters.