skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You likely haven't found 'that thing' yet. When people get passionate about things, they just do it. There isn't a reconciliation process between ones desires and ones actions, there just is action.

Keep searching.
>...and it has been done already for WhatsApp by many researchers...

Citation required...
Here Maps has nothing to do with Huawei..I don't see how a single nav app 'surprises millions of users' about Huawei's desire to be free from Google, and further, while I like Here Maps, it is most certainly not 'stunning'.
Not sure how it holds up, but Secrets of the Javascript Ninja was the book I read when I felt like that, and it significantly helped me understand a few concepts I had struggled with. By John Resig (created jQuery). But it's a few years old now, so likely won't cover much if any ES6+ stuff. But I'd bet the concept stuff is still very valid.

Also the You Don't Know JS series. And Elliot's Programming Javascript Applications.

I don't know you, so I don't know if this applies or not, but be careful not to fall into the "expert beginner" trap (i.e. Dunning Kruger). Your first sentence starts to feel that way, but the fact you're asking for more resources and aware there are things you don't know are good signs. Always keep learning, the rabbit hole goes ever deeper.
You could do that to an extent with filters. Just make sure to check apply to all existing conversations.
Man I'd love to have a two semester course where I could work on a project and get advice from Brian Kernighan. I hope all the Princeton CS students understand how lucky they are
Well, OP did say "even if it's impossible to understand" so if it is in fact in any way misleading, then my lawyers assure me that I may claim the full privileges of a contextual get-out-of-jail-free card for linking to it, and am hereby fully absolved of any intellectual harm caused to any and all individuals who may have viewed it.
That's because the flu isn't as contagious.
Registering in the Apple Development program costs $99 (per year) too
You can just Create a filter to delete such messages and check apply to all existing conversations.
>You can always go back the the scans, but what if the scanners themselves are compromised? [...]

I think what the parent poster meant by "scan" was "tabulate". ie. you fill out a paper ballot, you put it into a scanner which scans it and records the result, and the ballot itself drops into a ballot box. It's still possible to hack the scanner to give a fake result, but it's easily auditable/detected since you still have the original ballots. You can even have the tabulators be entirely offline (since all they do is spit out a number), and their results can be easily cross-checked by random sampling.
An Algorithm Drives Suppliers to Favor Amazon over Other Retailers
Appreciated! It happens.
Warren Spector dates back to Ultima, but the term has only been advertised since 2017.

Crysis 1 fits all the criteria of an 'immersive sim', believable world, consistent game rules, pick your own way through, apparently isn't an immersive sim. STALKER despite it's similarities to Crysis apparently is an immersive sim.

The king of open world RPGs, Elder scrolls is an immersive sim (apparently), Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Despite that being heavily scripted and containing mostly linear dungeons. Fallout 3 is an open world RPG on the list too.

Watch Dogs 'should' be on that list, why it isn't doesn't make any sense. I could argue Morrowind or GTA V should be on there, depending on where you draw the line on scripting. The term is a bunch of marketing fluff that isn't connected to sense.
Chkaloon asked a reasonable question. This response is in extremely poor taste.
Wouldn't the water back up and then you'd have to somehow contain a ton of water on your roof?
Since the recent (2019) mathematical discovery allowing elimination of spherical aberration[1], I've wondered if lenses will either be simplified, or redesigned for better optical performance.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792
I'm saying if you run all your apps in containers, there really isn't much left to configure on the OS. Using Ansible for those few things seems like an easier solution.
From my observational experience, and limited study on the issue, markets don't seem to be solving this optimally, at least in Melbourne, Australia.

Overall, the market for apartments seems to be supply constrained. The main factors:

1. Government approval is required to build large apartment buildings. In general, this seems to lag behind demand.

2. Large buildings take a long time to build

3. There have been a number of years of high immigration, especially in and around the CBD.

All of these factors combine to cause high prices. In a high price environment, many residents are stretched for cash. They essentially have to pick the lowest price apartment available. It's not uncommon to have multiple people sharing a room in order to decrease costs. This creates a high price floor. Mid range apartments don't tend to be much more expensive, simply because many residents are already super stretched financially and unable to afford the extra marginal cost.

As a property developer in a high floor, low marginal payoff environment your financial incentive is now to build as many low cost apartments as possible.

>> The majority of Victoria’s newest apartments are so small they would be considered unliveable in Sydney…More than three-quarters of new one-bedroom apartments built across the state are 50 square metres or less, which means they probably would have been illegal in Sydney, London and Adelaide. [1]

Making these apartments meet a reasonable minimum standard could only be less than 5% of the total cost [1]. To achieve this governments have tried to intervene by increasing minimum standards [2].

What concerns me the most is the longer term impacts. When demand drops off (as covid is pointing to), you have a massive supply of low quality apartments. Is the end result of this many vacancies and people living in shoe boxes when they could've been somewhere nicer?

There are a few long bows there, but as someone who lives in a relatively sunny but not quite sunny enough apartment that is my take.

[1] - https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2015/05/18/apartment... (great blog for planning issues)

[2] - https://architectureau.com/articles/victorias-draft-apartmen...
This article supports OP's thesis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22992348
This seems to be from 2013:

> Sat May 11 18:00:52 EDT 2013
> It's also great for some company tax reductions, so it's appreciated!

Can you explain what you mean by company tax reductions? I'm confused how that relates with keeping a worklog.
Are there easy ways to write GUIs without Electron that still can use HTML+CSS for layout and design that allow you to have an identical experience on Windows/MacOS/Linux? I think this is the main thing webdev-land people like (myself included). Also, there are so many npm libraries to handle stuff for you that staying within that ecosystem is enticing.
> I really think NixOS and GuixSD are the next generation Linux distributions and want to use it.

I was in a similar boat for a long time and finally started dipping my toes in. FWIW, #guix on freenode is one of the best experiences I've had with friendly online communitities. The channel is fully of friendly and knowledgeable people.

The `info` docs for guix are also pretty darn good for getting you up to speed; however, if you start wanting you write your own packages, I've found that you really do need to consult the sources.

FWIW, I got a Guix System running as a Google Cloud instance. As far as I am aware, it's the first time this has been done. Feel free to email me if you want some details; I don't mind helping you set up an instance for you to play around with.
I think they have an understandable reason for that (too much harmful misinformation about covid going around, they don't have enough eyes to sort it out, and at their scale it's probably net harm reduction to put a simple wordfilter on it for now), but I'm a lot more sympathetic to arguments along these lines in particular. I could believe that moderation is more effective on smaller userbase-scales because it reduces the need to adopt blanket policies like this. I don't think it does the issue justice to reduce the problem down to just that there's too much/little censorship as the earlier post did.
> Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT)

Another problem with this standard is its overuse of plosives, which are themselves dangerous when disease is spread by droplets.
Did you ever experience any times when a part passed the math model, but didn't "look right"?
Randu
Government aside, it’s an extremely standard CTF format to have an online qualifier, and is (more or less) how the normal DEFCON CTF itself works.
This is an age-old domain of thought known as philosophy of science [0]. Although, by prepending your post as "meta", perhaps you are already aware of it.

I should add: As a human being, it is probably impossible to separate the scientist from the philosophy in which they explore, proceed with, and promote their work. In some cases, it might not be something they are even aware of. Instead, the scientific system (as a sort of world institution) should itself be designed to always seek out and protect truth, regardless of prevailing contemporary knowledge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
> Now, no one likes thinking about this, but is another 32K deaths worth fully re-opening NYC and getting rid of social distancing? I think it is arguable to say yes, just as it is arguable to say no.

Would you hold the same position if you knew you would be one of those deaths? Or if you knew your mother or father or child would be?

Are you personally willing to die to reopen NYC?
> And then have 0 people read your blog because it’s on your random domain.

Then you have to gasp tell someone about it.

The idea that if you build something people will automatically know about it is a delightful fantasy that has never actually been true - regardless of whatever distribution promises Apple, Medium, or Twitter will make you.
Hey! I wrote this article. There is literally a description of the basic mechanics of the app starting at word 48 of the piece. I have no clue how you missed this!

> "After we exchanged pleasantries, Paul explained how the app works. There’s one global “room,” and when you join you start off on mute, but anyone can unmute themselves. When you open the app, it sends push notifications to everyone on the app, so they can join you and chat if they’re free."

I'm curious why this didn't work for you and what you would have wanted instead?
For job prospects, top 10 tech companies would make it hard to get in as a javascript developer

The most ideal languages at a certain time is based on what is most in demand, relative to the supply company needs

Right now mobile developer demand > supply, for top tech companies at least relative to JS developers
That is an absurd article. Yeah, turnout isn't 100% when voting by mail either... so what?

I'd be a lot more concerned if large numbers of ballots didn't "go missing".
I'm not sure exactly what they were doing. It doesn't sound like anything novel. (Also doesn't sound like master/slave, which typically refers to a replication setup) Sounds like they had some tables in one database and some tables in another.

If they were using MySQL's built-in capabilities to do such a thing, and wanted to combine things at the database level there is already a specific term for that: federation. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/federated-create-ser...

Or perhaps they took a more service-oriented approach, in which the databases don't talk directly to each other but instead expose their data via some application layer. In which case there's a term for that: a service-oriented architecture.
This comment of mine going from +20 upvotes to -1 upvotes in 1 hour is surprising

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The answer to this is really easy. Go to any mental institution and get to know the patients. An institution where they are allowed out, but are still in an enclosed area. A majority of the patients will have had some sort of heavy drug use in their past. Sure, whats causation and whats correlation, but its pretty clear that drugs cause mental breaks.

How do I know this?

I have mental illness in my family and have spent considerable amounts of time at those facilities.
This is very cool. I don't suppose Linux is supported?
> Faced with this, authors are forced to either simplify their ideas or spread them out across tweets.

Or not use Twitter at all.
> Are Canadians allowed to participate? How about Russians? What about crypto-anarchists who will never pass a military-type background check?

Yes. As long as there's at least one US citizen or permanent resident on your team, and you're not a specially designated national, you're allowed to participate.
>Figured that tapping the drainage flow of water from a whole area combined would work better and for that need a organised drainage system all connected and yes you do get those.

If I'm not mistaken, the technical term for these broad-area drainage systems is "river"
Your comment got 5 upvotes and 8 downvotes so far. The maximum score it reached was 2. It might seem odd how 2 turned into 20 in your mind, but actually it's not unusual at all. Perceptions of other people are routinely off by an order of magnitude on HN (and, I assume, elsewhere on the internet). That's the main reason why moderating a forum like this is so hard.

Posting like this breaks the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
It’s just a photoshop composite of some picture of the andromeda scaled to match the size of the moon, not a well principled simulation of a wide field survey telescope with otherworldly dynamic range. Don’t worry about it.
Detection is much more gnarly than you give it credit. A pretty likely scenario is that one side will claim that fraud was detected, and the other side will deny it. And both side will try to suppress and deplatform each other.

Youtube, twitter, facebook will pick a side. And whoever loses will fume with resentment. Maybe they pick up weapons. If they are right that the election was stolen and that fact is suppressed, they will certainly be justified. If they are right - which is a big hypothetical. Because the detection will be drowned in noise.
I think there’s some funny context here given his ... fraught relationship with Steve Jobs, who was — famously — a fan of LSD.
Do some surgical implants do more harm than good?
Except that the users themselves aren't permitted by Apple in all their benevolence to grant an app the necessary permissions on a device which they supposedly own!

Of course users willingly made the choice to purchase such a device in the first place, though I'm not at all convinced that most understood the tradeoffs they were making. To say that my feelings about the current situation are conflicted would be an understatement.
The React docs are excellent. But many (if not most) other projects have woefully under-developed docs that offer confusion more than clarity. I wouldn't blame anyone for assuming that the docs are not the place to start for learning something new.
"People thinking contact tracing is the silver bullet are just delusional or outright dangerous."

Your ad-hominems are inappropriate, especially since you are misreading the point and inventing your own interpretation.

Nobody is indicating that 'contact tracing' is a 'silver bullet' and nobody is indicating that 'people won't' die - obviously, dangers exist.

However, here are the results of the 'contact tracing' policy here: [1] are extremely effective.

There are less than 250 deaths in South Korea a population of 24 Million - and they do not have 'shelter in place' orders.

This is very clear scientific evidence of an outstandingly effective solution against COVID, by far the best approach for those nations that cannot hope to eradicate it / keep it out like Taiwan.

America has 10's of thousands dead and an economy that is hurling towards death with millions unemployed, trillions in bailouts, the worst existential calamity since WW2, and everyone is locked in their homes.

The Koreans have very effectively dealt with the problem, kept harm way down their economy is mostly functional.

Privacy is obviously a concern but it's nowhere near the threshold for contemplating existential collapse.

Given the choice between 'stay at home' and 'contact tracing' - over 99% of people would choose 'contact tracing'.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
You're correct!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18302773/what-are-horizo...

https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/in-depth-understand-of-verti...
Why is it that the smartest people in various fields constantly need reference materials, but medical doctors never look anything up?
fair enough, i see,
left side points, right side comments
Any web sites that provide reviews of companies regarding the Coronavirus?
I am interested to know of any website that is tracking how companies are working to help and/or survive the epidemic.

For example, those companies that are helping out others through services/support are companies that I want to do business with in the future.

Companies that are taking advantage of the situation (such as Harvard, Ruth Chris, Shake Shack, private equity shakedowns to grab funding) are ones that I want to avoid in the future.

for reference, this NY TImes article has a number of examples: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/business/coronavirus-small-business-loans-large-companies.html

Companies that have treated their employees well vs those that don't. etc

Companies that have shifted residence to other countries to avoid taxes while trying to get government money are another set of companies I want to avoid.
The ideal amount of help then clearly rests somewhere between "too many" and "many" :)

Though maybe the proverbs are not exactly opposites. One is about the quality of the outcome, the other is the speed in getting there. Perhaps that's the lesson.
At least as far as jobs go, there are plenty of jobs you can do ok with ... and not actually be interested in it.

Programming is just a really hard one to do if you're not interested, possibly only because of the number of people who ARE interested (or at least some point were and they got to the point they could actually just surf along).
If you're at all interested in useless research (and not necessarily anything to do with ecology or the environment) I strongly urge you to check out the podcast "Improbable Research"[1]. I'm a long time lurker, but this felt so perfectly relevant I had to make an account and chime in.

It was started awhile back, then stopped. Recently a dear friend of mine [2] became involved in re-editing the episodes and releasing them again. I know they'd appreciate the support from like-minded individuals. Hope to see more submissions like this one. It's a great thought experiment.

[1]: https://www.improbable.com/category/the-weekly-improbable-re...

[2]: https://sethgliksman.wordpress.com/

EDIT: formatting.
Recipes for people who hate cooking
This is a great point too. There is always two sides to this story and often the other side is the budgeting office.

Its difficult to see all perspectives in organizations and operations as complex as this.

That's generally why management gets paid what it does. Although they're not any more immune to this exact problem...
71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their March unemployment benefit
I'm in the Canadian prairies, and one of the things that jumps out at me about the discussion about energy-vs-electricity is that that's a really big deal here, because we spend a significant portion of the year heating our homes.

So far, we don't have a "green" way to heat our homes. Currently my house is heated with natural gas. I did some math to work out how much it would likely cost in electricity at our current rates, using heat pumps with a generous CoP of 2.0 at our coldest point, and my December and January electricity bills would be approximately $750/month. A solar array for the house that would be net-zero over the span of a year would cost about $43,000 to cover just heating, and for a system with enough capacity to handle the peak heat demand in the winter (with the sun low in the sky) would cost about $134,000. Those, compared to NG, have payoff periods of approximately 30 and 91 years, respectively.

In the research I was doing, I was surprised to discover that the local (government-owned) power company currently gets 5% of its generation capacity from wind! The overall make-up is 20% hydro, 34% coal, 40% natural gas, 5% wind, and 1% "other". The gas company simply provides natural gas. As far as overall energy goes, the gas company provides approximately 2x the energy that the power company does (we really do need a lot of energy to heat our homes...)

For the sake of curiosity, I also looked at biomass, just to see. Cost-wise, burning trees is actually somewhat viable here! Depending on where it's sourced from, I came up with -$656 to +$2,010 annual difference burning trees instead of natural gas here... but that does come with CO2 problems, just like fossil fuels. I didn't look at Agricultural biomass.

On the storage front, batteries are terrible still, both in their overall capacity and in the chemistry that goes into making them. And for pumped hydro... we live in the prairies, and hills, let alone mountains, are very hard to come by.

The overall conclusion I came to was basically, at the current state of tech: solar doesn't really seem particularly viable here; wind might have potential, although there would need to be some kind of storage if it were a significant fraction of our total generation capacity; biomass is an ugly but maybe selectively useful source of energy here; and the big elephant in the room: there was no mention of nuclear in the documentary at all!

I sketched out nuclear for the province using numbers from SMR marketing material, enough nuclear generating capacity to cover the province's entire current load would cost, over 20 years, about $800M/yr. The electric company currently spends about $710M/yr on fuel ($2.5B/yr gross revenue). That seems, by far, the easiest way to get to low-carbon power generation. Expanding that to provide enough energy to also heat our homes would get expensive (not to mention retrofitting the entire province to use heat pumps). The gas company currently purchases $396M of natural gas/yr; nuclear for replacing the gas company would be a pretty hard sell.

I don't really like any of these conclusions!
Many people have and will die because NYC is closed. As the potential and projected harm of COVID diminishes dramatically, the harms of shutdown and isolation only continue to compound.

A lot of cancer patients have missed chemo. A lot of brain surgeries rescheduled. A lot of stokes and heart attacks went untreated. And so on...

Here’s an excellent summary from a Stanford doctor;

https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/science-says-its-time-to-start...

Even though it should have been obvious from the beginning, now that it has become increasingly obvious that only those at the highest risk should self isolate, the vast majority of people should get back to work, life, and their regular medical treatments.