skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One should not infinitely demonize one side and picture the other as innocent/fighter of freedom when there was such a prolonged conflict and both sides committed selective mass murders against civilians (you can however argue that a side was even more evil than the other, but that's not the topic of today).

When a side is superior to the other the conflict is solved in a few weeks/months at most. The national side didn't do the war alone, and the war almost stagnated during long periods of time because at times there was no easy conclusion on the horizon and no side wanted to give up.

Everything else is propaganda and ideology I believe, prove me wrong otherwise.
Not according to the John Hopkins dashboard. Maybe that's why they're now starting to take action?
Greater male variance in humans has nothing to do with the article, or general discussion about the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction, because what's true of some categories of animal, like mammals, is not true of birds and other animals (whose sex chromosomes work differently -- female birds have greater variance, last I checked).
It's the Bank of Japan who decide the borrowing rates, so, not problem in that regard.
> One quirk that got me the last time I touched R was that functions and variables live in different namespaces, so you could assign 4 to foo and then call it.

Either I'm greatly misunderstanding or this is just plain wrong - assigning something to the same name as an existing function will just overwrite the function.
Yes, a web-based solution is going to be better for some use cases. But if you have a load of sensitive data files to wrangle then a desktop app is hard to beat.
it doesn't save us from inflation, it just changes the path it takes. Rich people buy stuff too, which employee us peasants. But by the time us peasants see the money, its already inflated so we don't get the benefits.
It didn't work for me. Instead it said I'm in private mode and said I should subscribe to keep reading.

I'm using Firefox FWIW.
- No store needed

- Crossplatform (in use and development)

- No store/developer fees to pay

- CSS and HTML are capable of things native can only dream of like real reusable responsive UIs across many types of devices.

https://medium.com/missive-app/our-dirty-little-secret-cross...

- Until SwiftUI web front end was way more advanced in terms of reactive programming of UIs
I think having video off entirely is much nicer. That's how we've done it for the last ~2 years or so, aside from some rare proposal meetings.

> But it doesn’t work with separate webcams

You can basically look at a webcam if you can put the meeting window right under it. With zoom's minimal mode this is pretty easy, and when sharing screen.
IBM may or may not be a good example, but I think the overall critique holds here.

Stock buy backs weren't a thing until a SEC rule change in the 80's, this is a relatively new phenomenon and not intrinsic to a functioning market.

Home Depot could have given their employees massive raises with the amount they've spent on buybacks (15 billion in buybacks in February 2019 alone). With ~400,000 employees, that could be a $37,500 bonus to every employee for the year...

The scale of that is breathtaking - and instead of spreading the love around, it goes to the shareholders and C level alone.
> got his ashes put in an oversized moka pot

basket or collecting chamber? I hope they didn't brew it afterwards...
Sexual reproduction is not about injecting a DNA (or RNA) into a host cell for one's own sake.
> So a lot of the stuff he says is off the cuff and colloquial which is dangerous and unpresidential.

Is there actually a codified set of instructions on what is "presidential" and what is not? Otherwise we descend into the domain of things being verboten and the retort of "well it's common sense" and so forth.
> at least Trump knew what they were

There is zero evidence that Trump has any clue UIB exists.
Ask HN: Stategies for teaching when the primary goal is to hold interest?
I am casually teaching some friends and family members how to program, but I wanted to leave this question more broad.

I feel as if most traditional courses give little thought to making courses interesting, luckily, those courses have grades and potential wasted tuition money looming over you so they hold your attention for ransom. Me teaching something casually does not have this benefit, so I have to rely more on making what I teach interesting, how do I do this?
I had the same experience. I read it in 2007, and have been thinking about it ever since. One of my top 5 books ever, maybe to 3.
Here's a great (and growing) list of free or freemium board games online that a friend shared with me!

Document version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iOD7Wy_YU4NmkPU7ZH7YTrq...

Spreadsheet version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FnsE0E3p_qVugf2Tu6dj...
You can't really think of R as a programming language in the sense of how we normally thing of programing languages. I see it as more of a computational scripting language. It is great at what it does.
> Before the pandemic, lenders were falling over each other to welcome jumbo borrowers, who generated fat profits even though they were the least likely to default.

Even though? Implying loans that default are normally the most profitable? Am I misreading this?
I'm not sure that's fair. I've only seen anger from the same set of people who write angry rants about how everyone wants to kill grandma. Most opinions range from curiosity how conventional wisdom can be so different in Sweden to quiet resignation that the rest of us might have made the problem significantly worse.
I think overall size of a population and population density have to be the contributing factors. More people means more people have traveled there from other places to spread the virus. More density means a higher R value.

The death rate per capita in Sweden is not much higher than the US. At ~33x the population the US has ~25x the deaths. Given the US had only double the total cases on March 6 as Sweden that seems like a positive indicator for Sweden's approach. It's like saying it doesn't really matter what you do so you might as well stay open. The timeline of when you started taking things seriously is also a big factor of course. I think it's way too early to declare anything yet, but I think it's good there are different approaches being taken to learn from.
Funnily enough, the other topic on the front page (Xubuntu 20.04) has the top voted comment discussing the state of external displays.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22963765

To be fair, as I've mentioned in another comment, I was not strictly talking about hotplugging alone. Detection of external displays hasn't been the issue, usability in some form or another has.
It's not likely going to be over until a vaccine comes. The US and Sweden are handling it equally well.
The value of Design Patterns is the shared vocabulary. Abuse of words, grammar drives me nuts too.

But older me now understands every generation goes thru a phase where they think they newly discovered sex.

When I asked my then teenaged son the difference between "emo" and "goth", he informed me that "goth" is for old people.
Shanghai is using UV light to "disinfect" buses:

https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3075171/shanghai-introduces...
Transforming PostgreSQL into a Distributed SQL Database
> While that might turn out to be true short-term, it ignores the lesson of history, which is that pandemics have always resulted in labor unrest--often to the point of armed insurrection.

The pandemics (except for the 1918 flu) listed actually caused demographic collapse. It took over a hundred years for the populations to recover. I don’t think anyone thinks COVID-19 will cause anything like that. In addition, those pandemics killed a lot of young, previously healthy people, whereas with COVID-19, the mortality rate among young, previously healthy people is really low.

These pandemics in the past caused a labor shortage by killing a large percentage of people in their prime. Again with the exception of 1918, the economy of the day depended heavily on manual labor, hence the labor shortage was felt more acutely. This is not the case now.

I think the article is making superficial comparisons to reach a conclusion that is unwarranted.
Just shipped this in the last few days - please give it a try. There are lots of print and mail APIs out there (including Lob, Click2Mail, Clicksend, Letterstream, and others). We're integrated into lots of these.

They all assume that you want to take on the work to handle payments, validation and everything else.

We're extending them by one step - handling the last mile, so all you need to do is hand us a document. Think of it like the Stripe Checkout, built on top of Stripe's APIs.

questions, comments and feedback are welcome.
Investors buy The DiPP as accelerators go virtual
Neat, thanks for the write up
Step 1 reminds me of one of my favorites from the Onion:

According to a Gallup report published Tuesday, over 95 percent of the nation’s grandfathers began their careers by walking straight into a place of business, saying “I’m the man for the job,” and receiving a position right there on the spot.

https://www.theonion.com/report-95-of-grandfathers-got-job-b...
I'd call something an engine if it were reasonably general and could be repurposed. In the same way I can take the engine out of one car and plumb it into another. I'd also say an engine has to provide a relatively complete set of functionality otherwise you're building a library or framework. SDL as a classic example of that.

I also think it's fine to think in terms of the game you're making between "game stuff" and "engine stuff" where the "engine stuff" is essentially things that could reasonably be repurposed.

In the example of The Witness I'd not call it anything as it doesn't exist separately to it as far as I'm aware. I'd still understand someone who referred to it as the game engine though.

The main point IMO is that making an engine implies more than just making the tech needed to power a game.
> Why are the feds able to inject so much money into the system these days without much push back? While during the 2008 Crisis Hank Paulson had such difficulty with getting 700 billion injected?

Hank Paulson was the Secretary of the Treasury. Both the Fed and the Treasury have the power to create money, but in different ways (and the side-effects of each method are different).
I prefer Ubuntu. If I buy one of these models, does it mean that there are drivers/support for all hardware in Ubuntu as well? Are some of the divers proprietary or Fedora-specific?
As long as "much higher" is 2x the national average, Bay Area residents still come out ahead, especially on gross cash basis.

Median household in SJ earns ~120k.
Median for USA is ~$60k.

Even if the SJ resident spend 40% on housing, they come out WAY ahead of the median household spending 25% on housing.
It didn't crash the first time. Let's do it again /s
> because Swedes are so much better than the rest of world at voluntary compliance"

I haven't heard a single swedish person utter this nonsense IRL. Sounds like a clickbait headline from Vice or something similar.
> The beans are the most important part - you should get them roasted within the last few weeks.

That's the key. When I buy mid-range beans (usually what I do—the good stuff's expensive) my pourovers are really just manual drip coffee. Fine, but just... coffee. When I use really good beans, though? It's a whole different drink. All kinds of nuance and delicate flavors.

The tiers I've found are basically: truly bad coffee; a very large range of coffees that pretty much all just taste like "alright coffee" and for me this goes as low as Kirkland-brand ground coffee and as high as... well, the "nicest" whole-bean coffee Costco sells, differentiated mostly by bitterness levels or burntness; and then the good stuff that doesn't even really belong in the same category of product as the rest, purchased in small quantities, very freshly roasted.

It could well be that Italy's espresso beans are much higher quality at the same price than those in the US. That's the case for some other things in other countries—rich ones, even, not just places with much lower GDP/capita (I still don't get why we can't seem to bake a good loaf of bread at a reasonable price, which also has the effect that our sandwiches tend to either suck or be really expensive—see also, cheese).

> and a scale to exactly portion out your coffee.

You're gonna want a scale if you do much cooking, anyway. Especially baking.
And supplementation is a far safer approach than suntanning (and certainly than sunbed use; that's almost never advisable).
The argument wasn't that fewer people would die. It's that everyone who was going to die would do it sooner. The Swedish gamble is that this is an unstoppable disease that will go to completion in every country anyway.
There is a lot of variance in icu outcomes. My wife is a pulmonologist in Houston and just finished a week of virus icu. She had only 1 death, and even that person she could have kept going but patient was ready to quit and didn’t want any more heroic measures being 85.
Tiers of answers to half-baked questions
Try cycling in Delhi or Kathmandu without a mask and then tell me a face covering doesn’t do anything but a placebo effect. Yes, without a high-grade mask people are still breathing in dangerous fumes, but putting something, anything over your face will still block certain larger particulates that would otherwise leave you choking and angry at the whole experience.
Sadly that's a common problem with single-page apps and modern web front end.

It's trivial to implement but many devs don't pay attention to those things.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gas-gas-gas
> Yes, it was painful to develop applications using native UI elements but those apps provide a fantastic, consistent UI experience.

That you can't easily hack on (as in "customization"; userscripts and the like), aren't based on standards and have no sort of isolation or permission management.

Both ways have their up- and downsides but I think the web is an upgrade. It's not the best possible solution and "native" could be where the web is today but we have it and it's okay.

Also, I think the democratization of programming (whether it be UI frameworks or application development or whatever) is probably the best thing to happen to IT. I think we (as in, society) should make it possible for everyone to do whatever they want and a standards-driven (mostly) easy to understand programming model is a good way of providing that possibility for IT.
Interesting thought. Theres no way for that to work with DNA really, since information is included there in a chemical sequence rather than a shape necessarily. Though there are epigenetic aspects that could maybe work that way, but that's not in the spirit of what you proposed. Maybe an alien form of life with a different information storage mechanism.

Right here at home though, if you want a life-approximating thing that actually does reproduce that way, you're in luck. Prions are proteins (a type of biological molecule) that make more of themselves in pretty much that way. They arent alive and they arent cells, but they reproduce by bumping into normally shaped proteins and making them be shaped in the same way. They cause all sorts of terrible diseases like mad cow and tend to be incurable since, well, theres really not much to kill or stop, it's just a protein, making other proteins look the same way, very fascinating and very scary - there are hypothesis that suggest prion like processes could be involved in neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
I realized I replied to the wrong comment :) but I had some issue with the suggestion regarding server-sent events... anyway, thanks for answering, I really appreciate your work and it's nice to hear your input on this.
Red Hatter here. I have a Thinkpad T470s with Fedora as my daily driver and I have to admit it works pretty flawlessly
to ZeroTier.
https://www.zerotier.com/
The NY study does align fairly well with similar studies done in Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County in California, though. All three indicate a significantly lower IFR than previously expected.
Hence the need to find around something that when appropriately distorted by biased media will make some of Trump's statements (exposing Covid-19 patients to UV) appear more legit to the uninformed, so that the whole "inject disinfectants" thing can be conveniently buried.

The paper is old, let's see how many news sources will magically remember about it to turn it into a PR stunt.
With 1200 dead, that means on the order of 100k cases. Stockholm has about 1-2m people depending on how you count. It cannot grow exponentially for much longer, so the peak is close.

This is the most logical time to take measures, except for maybe the very beginning when it could possibly have been stopped.
Herd immunity without a vaccine isn’t a strategy. It’s just justifying doing nothing.
What engine does it use? Pixi / Phaser?
It seems like there are two possible outcomes:

1. We realize that the shutdown had a small effect, because a) the virus is already widespread due to easy transmission and b) the mortality rate is much lower than previously thought. Thus, we don't need to continue the shutdown.

2. The virus turns out to be as bad as feared, and things get much worse in Sweden (and elsewhere). The shutdown needs to continue indefinitely.

I'm leaning toward #1, but I think it's still too early to rule out #2. If we are living in the first scenario, I wonder how long it will take for the general public to realize that's the case.

I do think that a combination of political jockeying and mass hysteria have placed us into the position we're in now. If that's true, then the worst thing about this virus will certainly be the economic impact which has a number of far reaching effects.
My Thinkpad was very poorly supported by Debian Stale when I bought it. I guess it would've been roughly one-year-old at that point.
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Orders of magnitude harder? Get over yourself. You sit in a comfy climate controlled office with perks like free food and drinks, gyms, entertainment, etc. You make a mistake, and a program doesn't run correctly. The horror!!!! An electrician, plumber, or dentist makes a mistake and that could result in someone getting hurt or even someone to die.

A dentist doesn't get to run a dev/staging/prod environment before drilling into a tooth. A dentist can't roll back to a more stable previous version of the tooth they just cracked from a mistake that was made. There is no control-z in the real world outside of software devs.
This one is hard. Once you leave the company that's it; you'll probably never hear from them again. Can they still be considered friends if you're on their contacts list, but you haven't spoken/messaged them in years?
To expand on the unknown method of action. It could for example be removing other pathogens from the blood that lets the immune system focus on covid-19. Alternatively, random cellular damage could clause a useful immune response. Etc etc.

Medicine has often found treatments that works without any real understanding of why.
My precision 5520 pre installed with Ubuntu was riddled with issues, had garbage audio compared to the windows version (tried all kinds of eq programs and tweaks), and the battery life was terrible... Was not a good experience
Permanent restrictions, drastic social change, and large contact tracing infrastructure might keep it under the herd immunity threshold of ~60%. It might not, too.

But you can't let up at any point, because it'll still be endemic and ready to explode up to that herd immunity threshold.

I prefer approaches that get us to that 60% in an orderly fashion-- staying short of healthcare overload, and preventing as much infection in the vulnerable as possible.
The best ones I've played on are

https://www.pokernow.club/ - Poker

https://www.trickstercards.com/ - including Spades, Bridge, Hearts
For the last couple years I've had very good luck running linux on Dell laptops.
Something that more people need to do with remote calls is wait after asking a question- about a few seconds or so. Unmuting can take a second and one might wait just a bit to make sure no one else starts speaking.
That’s a very good point.
Do you have a link to the dashboard? The data I normally look at (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/) suggests they've been sitting at just under 800 (with fluctuations) since the beginning of the month.
> The US debt / GDP fraction is still relatively low compared to many other countries.

Is the relative ratio a good way to evaluate it? Does it mean anything to talk about the debt:GDP ratio in isolation?
Whatever JS a page loads it cannot steal all my contacts, browse my filesystem or track my location without me giving permission, so I consider web apps much better than native apps privacy-wise.

It's true that Apple does a better job at protecting the privacy of its users. I'm an Android user and privacy is terrible. I self-limit myself to use the least amount of native apps, using webapps and open-source apps as much as possible. For example right now I'm using Hacker News through it's web interface on my phone.
I guess everything is relative, but I'm not sure I would say the economic damage is minimal. Maybe in comparison with other countries, but I'm not sure how clear that is. Especially if other countries can go South Korean style and get back to full speed faster, Sweden could very well be left behind in terms of the economy as well.

Number of deaths so far is very high compared to the neighbouring countries, and there is still a long way to go before herd immunity.

In general, it seems to me quite insane that Sweden already in the beginning of March basically had decided to infect millions of people with a virus we only had a month of experience with or something like that.
Writing Web Servers from First Principles
I think it morphed, changed character, while the level is constant. For instance, racism is now more sorted along with partisanship.
The fingerprint reader is not yet supported on 6th gen X1.I never tried to get the LTE modem working. Funnily, I didn't even realize that the slot existed for almost a year after purchase.
If IBM invested the money into actual research and product development - that would mean the money still enters the economy via the workers doing the research and development. I feel like this point isn't emphasised well enough in the quote above - and I wonder if the "anti buyback crowd" would have anything to say against that.
Musician make money on sound cloud
> but don’t pretend that people deciding to spread covid19 around because they believe it’s caused from miasmas are only hurting themselves.

Indeed, asymptotic carriers (as well as healthy people that are going to become asymptotic carriers) following the political crackpot pseudoscience advice from WHO and end up not wearing masks do not harm only themselves but everyone around them as well.
This is inaccurate. According to

https://studylib.net/coronavirus#country-se

their case count is steadily climbing, as is their CFR.