skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It‘s a really nice idea. But when reading it i came to the conclusion that web workers are a really genious idea which could be used for c-like software equally good:
Everything which should run on a different server is an extra executable, so this executable would be shipped to the destination, started and then the two processes can talk by message passing. This concept is so generic there could be dozens of „schedulers“ to start a process on a remote location, like ssh connect, start a cloud vm, ...
Wasting time about wasting time. So meta.
> If there is no vaccine, or if the vaccine isn't very good, social-distancing and contact-tracing is the only way to win.

I know I sound like a broken record every time I say this on HN... but why no one thinks of pharmacological treatment? The first wave of (small) trials will end this June.
macOS is still a quite an open platform.
The only fun I've ever had programming was making video games.

You don't have to be super smart to make games and I don't think you even have to like them. It's more the rich visual feedback that makes it fun. A game engine is like a giant virtual playground for your code.

And in video games there isn't really a "right way" to do anything. There are always weird problems to solve and hacky solutions are fun and even expected. It's the only programming where I've had some laugh out loud moments, like "why are the trees inside out and spinning around?"

There are some great game dev postmortems where you learn about the beautiful horrors going on behind the scenes to make a vision a reality. Game dev is forgiving like that. From the book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development: "If it looks right, it is right".
The causation is in his mind, both in deciding to purchase it and being uplifted by the cognitive spirit. What if's can't prove or disprove mind reading.

The entire point is that it doesn't motivate him or change his feelings, those are his to have on his own terms. It provides a direction (buy sneakers) and a comforting spirit to support his behaviour.

Here's the reverse to your thought experiment. A man sees a small boat and a big boat. The small yacht can take 4 people out frequently on small trips. The large yacht can take 100 people out on bigger trips deeper into the ocean. Both are holes in the ocean into which you pour money, which one is more performant? The bigger one has bigger engines, can fish more, can go further into the ocean and is unquestionably the better boat. It also burns money like the space program, just through maintenance time instead of fire.

What if the bigger boat doesn't deliver all the parties that was promised, or the fish have left the accessible sea around his port? What if he finds out people only like him for his boat and it sinks his self worth? What if he could support the payments up front but found out he couldn't support them over time, too late?

Would it be better if he spent money on shoes instead?
>> It’s a win-win because you get to gamble on quicker immunity.

Yes. I am very worried that countries are leaning towards "immunity passports". If we tell people that in order to work you must have gotten and recovered from this disease, everyone will suddenly seek to be infected. How many people will sign up for this simply because they feel they need to get this disease in order to return to work? The disease could become a valuable commodity to be sought, even purchased. If the choice is between getting the virus or remaining unemployed for the foreseeable future, I'll roll the dice.
In Canada health is constitutionally devolved to the provinces. Explicitly, since our constitution was actually written in the last 40 years so was written with the awareness that health care is a major government concern.

In so far as the federal government sets health policy, it does so through the carrot and stick of federal funding through equalization and other programs. I am reasonably certain that this is also an approach the US federal government has used in areas of devolved authority (particularly education).

And looking at the specific situation you're talking about, it appears the Ontario government requested military assistance, and it was granted, not the other way around.

The US federal government may not have explicit authority, but the idea that it is absolutely helpless to coordinate efforts among the states (aka interstate commerce) seems kind of blatantly absurd. Never mind that they seem to, in fact, have done quite a lot of diverting masks from where they were going to elsewhere already. Just you know, not in a helpful way.
Why the earth is a sphere.
You put a big tank with an overflow outlet. No impediment to downflow, smooth bursts and etc
Would you really have preferred the states to have less and the federal government to have more authority in this matter?

Yes, this is a global pandemic. But at the same time, I prefer a response that is fine-tuned to local circumstances and I’m glad the WHO does not have envy authority over the decision taking in my city. Corona does not strike every region equally and at the same time. Furthermore, diversity of regulation is very important for learning what works and what does not. For example, if the Swedish approach turns out to be successful, we can copy that in case of a second wave. There is a common misconception that a coordinated approach is necessary to make sure everyone does the optimal things. That’s wrong. Regions are free to copy each other if they see what works elsewhere. If there are local differences, there is often a good reason for it and you wouldn’t want a central authority to enforce a “one-size-fits-all” response.
Ranking alphabetical languages by entropy of letter distribution
Earth orbits != solar system diameters
This happened over the weekend so details are pretty vague and mostly available in German. I'd expect more to follow in the next few days, official statements didn't yet talk about who will take over implementation I believe.

But w.r.t. the Robert protocol, that's the PEPP-PT one that was pushed against. Differences between Robert and the proposal for Germany were minimal. While there are a few at the moment I expect the solution to work with DP3T / integration of the Gapple APIs. Future travel in mind it wouldn't make much sense to develop something else at this point imho.
There is no famine. Nor is there going to be a famine. (Edit: In the US, which was the context of the news story, the comment, and my response.) We're discussing news of 2M chickens being killed and not processed into meat, which while unfortunate, is in the context of the over 20M+ other chickens eaten every day in the US.

The sheer disconnect in scale between the news story at hand and your paranoid comments is mind boggling.
I’m a pretty successful Silicon Valley SWE. I enthusiastically use psychedelics, but I’m not going to mention them to my coworkers.
I find the joke actually hilarious. While being funny in a Ricky Gervais way, it is critical of stereotypical thinking at the same time.
AmE definitely uses both. "I got sick" or "I've gotten sick" are both understandable.
Things You Should Never Do in Your Marriage or Relationship
I'm surprised that there's no entry for "Is Finland part of Scandinavia?". Always leads to heated debates with lots of technicalities.
Percentages in CSS vertical margin are calculated using the parent's width
Learn how to do systems admin in the cloud your current employer/industry favors - as a longtime Microsoft platform admin who picked up PowerShell over the past decade to do AD/Exchange/Lync (Skype), Azure was easiest to slide into. Learn how that cloud’s networking works, especially with existing on-prem stuff, and do so in its command line interface. Learn how to do those things in Terraform and Ansible.

Be a sysadmin for developers. Help those bright young kids who are network-blind figure out why their stuff isn’t talking to other stuff. Help them when they can’t work out how to deal with the corporate web proxy or why their cloud bills are so high (did they check how many cores their database instance really needed? Did they pick a good VM size, or should they have gone with something with a higher RAM/CPU ratio?)
Also note that Robinhood (and possibly other apps) sell your trading data to HFT firms (in real-time), so market trades are not going to be in your favor
>I’ve never known a mac repair shop to do anything other than replace the whole bosrd.

I'm definitely firing my marketing guy...
Debugging Distributed Systems
Why is there so much code? Both python and bash. What are the edge cases that it is handling? What niceties does it introduce that you might otherwise miss out on?

I combined ~10 repos last year use a few one liners and loops.
She was asking for it by wearing that eh?
The creator of lz4 is blogging constantly on compression algorithms, maybe you could start with this as it is a lot easier to understand.
Estimating and comparing entropy across written natural lan with PPM compression [pdf]
BlackHoles - where does the 'extra' mass/gravity come from?

I've been watching a lot of documentaries lately, and I can't figure out how a star that _radiates_ light, collapses and suddenly light can't escape? Doesn't that mean the blackhole has more mass/gravity then the star that created it?
The Entropy of Language
Yes they are. But the "deathcount-by-COVID" will be more accurate that "positive cases". The metric I am using and will be releasing once this thing blows over is "Deaths by COVID per million of population" (as measured in the latest census)(for each country)

I'll have it like (imagine spreadsheet columns):
-Country name
-County population (latest census)
-Deaths by COVID
-Deaths per 1 million (e.g. 100 deaths / 10m pop = 10)
-Date of first death
-Source of population data
-Source of COVID death count

I am curious to see how countries that are "too big to fail" will perform (UK, USA) in comparison to other (Harari mentioned Greece on an interview).

I was checking and so far Greece has a ~13 Vs the UK which has ~320 ("ratios").

So congrats Boris Johnson!! You just killed x24 people!! (Great choice UK voters - keep up the wise choices!!!)

This isn't about BJ specifically, this is more to show how each country treated this situation and respecting its people (these are not just numbers, these are dead people, parents, grandparents, and some very few children). It would also be useful to then process these numbers and categorise the results (I am curious to see the ratios in the Triad USA, UK, Brazil Vs other similar sized countries with different-style leaders).

I also do not expect the truth from some countries (e.g. Russia, China, any Arab peninsula countries, NK etc.) or some African countries that are torn by civil wars or other conflicts. But I believe there will be a solid baseline and the outliers (below) will be easily pointed out as ineffective measured.
The scenario you described is a classic one and I really don't think it's as problematic as you may think. I had to reread it because it sounded too trivial. How about just throwing an error when the async function fails to write to the db?

>maybe there is an error which makes it never do its job

You can throw an error regardless of the reason why it failed to do its job. If the write to the db does not success, you can throw an error.
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I imagine that's a joke, but for reference the official policy is that minor regional differences dont get their own lang wikipedia - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy#Req... . Some languages do get semi-automated translation like chinese (simplified vs traditional) or serbian (latin vs cyrillic).

Of course, its always hard to draw distinct lines. There are some lang codes with wikipedias that are similar to english like sco, jam and ang. (Not to mention https://simple.wikipedia.org but that is a bit of a special case)
> Shopify, Amzn, Zoom. WTF! Their charts seem hyped. Or may be I’m just plain wrong and don’t understand the fundamentals.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, demand for the kind of services offered by those 3 Internet businesses have in fact skyrocketed. Increasing demand imply those businesses still have room to grow revenue. Shopify [1] for instance is now seeing huge Black Friday-like traffic during the shelter-in-place and a lot of these small businesses are first-timers on their platform who will likely stick around after the pandemic.

1: https://mobile.twitter.com/jmwind/status/1250816681024331777
They could have a minimap at the start of the store to alleviate it too.

Perhaps they simply don't mind customers having to wander or ask though.
OK, I had to search for the edits themselves, they're at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels_%26_Airwav...

Here's a sample:

23:37, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - FOR THE LAST TIME, STOP AND DON'T COME BACK! undo

23:35, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - TYKELL, CAN YOU DO ME A FAVOR? DIE! undo

23:34, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - crying PLEASE STOP, PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU crying undo

23:33, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - I HAVE A GUN, I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU NOW! shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot undo

23:31, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - YOU REALLY HAVE TO STOP, FOR THE VERY LAST TIME, STOP OR I'LL KILL YOU! undo

23:30, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO STOP, BUT YOU HAVE TO STOP undo
Nah man, he's not referring to food. He's referring to that delicious crack. So moreish.

Supplies are limited now though, so we're gonna have a crack famine the likes this world has never seen!
“But why don't we just display the numbers differently?”, A funny mail chain
I have stayed in chain hotels in the UK, complained sometimes and gotten a full refund. Been welcomed back again with no problems.
Meant to type watt-hours for that last sentence. Thanks for catching it.
An oscilloscope is a waste here besides for teaching purposes where a visual representation of what you're trying to get across eases understanding. Logic analyzer is over the top too. It's one of those things where by the time you understand the output of your logic analyzer, you already have enough of a brain to solve the problem without it

I can give someone who doesn't know how to fix a board in an oscilloscope and they will see strange little vibrations show up when they poke the probe in different parts of the board, but then what?
This fact is used to great comedic effect in a Futurama episode. (S01E12)
Flight. How can a plane fly when it's thrust to weight ratio is less than one? It's like, if you can produce 10 pounds of thrust, who would look at that and say "ah ha, we can use this to keep a 100 pound machine miles in the air indefinitely"?

I understand flight from a mathematical point of view. I've actually read a few books on the subject, and I could explain how flight works to someone. However, I'm still fishing for an explanation that "feels" more satisfying though. Per the question, I still want it explained better.

EDIT: There's already a thread about flight. I asked the same question there, but phrased a bit differently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993460
Biology and political orientation
do you make the same requirement of all software you are using? If not, why would this particular one be differently treated?

Location tracking is indeed a dangerous piece of information. But in the short time that the gov't had to face the issue, the best option is to do this tracking to re-enable the economy. Until proven otherwise, it would be wise to not assume there's already malware. I'm not saying there isn't, but given the probabilities, it's unlikely, while the health and economic benefits are high.

And the source code is going to be released. It's easy (for a professional software engineer) to track down changes to the original code if they released a bad/altered version of the source that doesn't match the released version. And there'd be a track record, and it will be plainly obvious.

I would be much more scared of the unknown apps from dodgy shops that offer their apps for free in exchange for all your contacts, file and camera access.
A quaternion is a (more-commonly known?) type of spinor which is often used in 3d graphics in matrix form to perform rotations.

Spinors are difficult to describe in an HN post since they require a good amount of linear algebra, but my favorite explanation is probably here: http://www.weylmann.com/spinor.pdf
The saddest part about this page are the warnings and the fact that they felt these needed to exist:

“This section is intended as humor. It is not, has never been, nor will ever be, a Wikipedia policy or guideline.
Rather, it illustrates standards or conduct that are generally not accepted by the Wikipedia community.”
> absolutely never have friends over to your house or apartment

Absolute statements like that are just clearly not true. I've been to Japanese friends' apartments, even visited friends' family barbecue or wine tasting night.

Less common doesn't mean it never happens.
At scale all radio is absorbed by something... mostly not your recipient's antenna.
And now on the HN front page:

> In the mid-twentieth century, courts applying the antitrust laws held that such persuasive advertising is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was unable to pursue an antitrust campaign against persuasive advertising for fear of de-priving consumers of advertising’s information value. Now that the information function of most advertising is obsolete, the FTC should renew its campaign against persuasive advertising by treating all advertising beyond the minimum required to ensure that product information is available to online searchers as monopolization in violation of section 2 of the Sherman Act.

~ "The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age" https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-obsolescence-of-a... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991286
OpenCL 3.0 Bringing Greater Flexibility, Async DMA Extensions
> Unless there's something I've missed entirely in the regulation, there's nothing that says the data loses its restrictions once it moved.

It isn't explicitly stated, which is the point. We only have the data defined two ways: In the Data Store, and on a phone. Once downloaded from the Data Store, it is outside the definitions used within the bill.

This statement is the big one:

> However, it does not include information obtained, from a source other than the National COVIDSafe Data Store, in the course of undertaking contact tracing by a person employed by, or in the service of, a State or Territory health authority.

If the data was at one time obtained from the Data Store, but this new location is used as a source, it is no longer under the definitions of the bill.
The bane of evidenced-based science is prudence, or more generally reasoning under uncertainty with asymmetrical outcomes.

Unsurprising the WSJ publishes an opinion piece carrying water for this unfortunate perspective.
Google Doodle – Coding
I would like the photos on a phobia page to be blurred or to have a button that hides by default. I have thalassophobia and gigantophobia. It's a weird cross section of giant statues and depths. So I have a huge fear of bigass statues partially or fully submerged.
So needless to day, most of the posts on /r/thalassophobia make me so scared. What if I want to reach out to that subreddit for help and support in overcoming my fear?
It's extremely scary.
The distros can be sure without full reproducibility, since they built it. The users are still required to trust the distros built what they said they would though.
How do you batch the incoming emails into a few drops a day?
Salt: cheapest own-brand. Shampoo: read the labels for something without too many nasties. Car: check lots of reviews, test drive some candidate models.

More broadly, the question isn’t whether advertising works, but whether it has positive or negative social value. If it largely just reallocates spending, then everyone (including the firms currently engaged advertising arms races with other firms) would be better off if it were abolished.
For me React docs look really great, but I don't get a lot from them, even though I'd say I understand JS. OTOH Python docs usually look like crap, but I get a sense of understanding.
It would be nice if it verified stack usage or microsoft mitigated known garbage kernel modules, I spent a good part of a day setting up debug symbols and tearing out drivers without debug info till finding out a Sophos kernel driver was blue screening about 50 or so workstations with 50 or so angry people.. what fun.
Four ways to make yourself a good bet for investors
There is absolutely going to be a famine: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-...

It won't seriously hurt Americans (we have money, surplus, and net food production), but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The point isn't that this is a catastrophic amount of chicken right here, but that it's indicative of a general degradation of supply chains that will predominantly hurt the global poor, and lives will definitely be lost.
Yes, and Scotty will use the crisis to lower company tax and regulations, whilst thousands of poor souls line up at Centrelink.
It's sad.
The app is poorly conceived and probably useless.
This is how we sleepwalk into a surveillance dystopia.
But if it tracks politicians' illicit dalliances and time with lobyists, property developers and tax haven financiers, that could be useful. Just need a bureaucrat to do a copy and paste, then send to Wikileaks.
> moving to a world of mass surveillance and digital dictatorships.

that has already happened if you use any website that has google analytics or facebook. Ad for digital dictatorship - is it any different if the dictatorship has a friendly name like google?

I think you're conflating many different issues together: inequality of income, and societal injustice, with the actions needed to return economic activity back to a semblance of normalcy. It's as though you're asking for economic reforms as part of the economic life-line.
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