skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't see the point of crushing the curve in developing countries where it's not feasible to elevate substantially medical capacities. Where many people's ability to support themselves is a day by day process not paycheck to paycheck. It makes no sense to shut down hard other than political optics - all the rich countries are doing it therefore there's an expectation and pressure for leaders in these countries to as well, even though the outcomes will not be the same. Cure is worse than the disease territory. Developing countries with demographics that skew young might actually do better with herd immunity approach.
America Is Awakening to China
I don't think this is really a legitimate issue that needs to be enshrined in law - there are 100 senators so as long as there is a continuation of understanding around physical barriers to present yourself to a vote within the electronic realm it should work itself out. How different would a DDoS be from, for instance, one party hiring a mob of protestors to violently prevent law makers from submitting their votes in the statehouse - I'm not super familiar with the laws around this but I'd be surprised if there were no contingencies in place.

Additionally the Senate does recognize vote assignment as legitimate so it'd be reasonable to support pre-registration of voting or the allowance of a voting window.
The driver of a private motor vehicle is almost invariably the registered keeper. In most of the case where it is not then it is a family member.

Are you implying that the slightest doubt about the identity of the driver means that it is perfectly alright to collect the data? because if so that surely also applies to many other GDPR situations, where families share a single computer for instance.
There is also a user-valuable reason to not do hard deletes. Doing a soft delete prevents another malicious user from immediately reclaiming your now-available ID and pretending to be you.
The wordpress schema blows me away. < 20 tables to create an entire industry.
I did not know about Metamask. Thank you for the suggestion!
Or perhaps he’s trying to garner more funding with this news story shrugs
But what about the potential for fraud!
That is far from clear. Imagine that the famous vote on repealing Obamacare had been done remotely and someone had hacked John McCain's famous thumbs-down vote to be a vote in favor of repeal. Imagine further that before the matter could be clarified with McCain, he had become incapacitated and died. That is a plausible scenario. It only takes one hack at the margins to change the course of history.
I fail to follow from:

> USA has had [...]

to:

> The western Nations are doing [...]

Erasing the plural makes it better, though I have to wonder why wouldn't you just write "USA is doing" however you think it is.
> 1 - 0.999... = 0.000... proves that 0.999... = 1.

If people accept the former, and that the RHS of the former is in fact 0, they've already also accepted that 0.999…=1. I don't see what the discussion is at that point
Just the opposite -- commercial rates is where the consultant-grade fun pricing games happen that residential customers wouldn't tolerate the complexity of [1].

Besides more exposure to wholesale fluctuations and time-of-use, there's also things like demand charges, where there's a price component based on your maximum power draw rather than your consumption -- max kW in addition to sum kWh.

Demand charge management is a lot of what these commercial charging platforms do. It's fine when a single fleet vehicle comes up to charge, but when a couple show up to charge at the same time all with different times-to-departure, that's when you need to do some selective prioritization and optimization to not get ratcheted to your highest kW demand charge for the month.

Then, if you run any industrial-grade machines (or even elevator motors), that's when they start adding additional charges for things like uncorrected power factors -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

[1]: All these things are coming to resi, though... time-of-use rates are increasingly common (it's now the default new rate in CA), and two or three states are experimenting with resi demand charges.
Prior to the stay-home order my wife and I would go out line dancing three nights each week. Dancing in unison with dozens of other people is surprisingly invigorating. I miss it deeply.
In what way is this different than taking online courses at university :)
The original thing I was pushing against was your "What is so magical about the word essential?" comment.

I've been showing how, with limited exceptions, it's not just a magic word attached to activities.

I didn't think you were arguing in good faith because you brought up horrible counter examples (gardeners??) and started spewing conspiracy theories that the bay area has some nefarious reason to keep people from being productive other than public safety.
Your last point is bogus, the other are fine but you’re leaving out just how monopolized Amazon is. They have loads of shady and anti competitive practices, why anyone would overlook them is beyond me.
Having watched Jeff Gibbs/Michael Moore produced 'planet of the humans' last week I'm not enthusiastic about the way EV's are currently mass produced or the ways the energy they rely on is created.

https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE
as far as I understand this would only work for users who don't have access to "deleted" rows. Are access rules a good way to handle this? Serious question. My solution would be to have views as "guards" for every table.
Can you explain?

My recollection is that there was too much squabbling within the Democrat party to achieve it, with moderates wavering.

And with the Senate putting in a watered down public option, it killed any chance for the House to submit tgeir own.
The US has actually been testing more people per capita than South Korea (or, indeed, most countries) for a while now - if I remember rightly, for about a month in terms of testing rate and a week or so in terms of total tests done. South Korea is running at about 6,000 tests per day right now with a peak capacity of about 20,000 last used a month or two ago. If scaled up to the US population that would correspond to about 40,000-125,000 tests per day. The US was stuck around 130,000 tests per day for a while but has been at around 200,000 per day for the last few days.

The US media has just carefully worked to convince people of the opposite without technically saying as much, probably for stupid partisan political reasons. South Korea's positive test rate is low because they have few detected cases, and it's not actually clear why - social distancing definitely played a major part, since they had to impose stricter social distancing rules to actually get the number of confirmed cases to drop to the point they are now, but they've dropped those now and even outright lockdowns haven't had the same level of effect elsewhere.
india doesnt have mass graves not because 'they are doing it right' or they are 'hiding the bodies', but because ITS WARM AND HUMID AND YOUNG. people are acting like idiots when it comes to this virus.

take this article: "...others talk about the possibilities of the presence of a less virulent strain of the virus in India, along with the possibility that its hot weather was diminishing the contagion. Both these claims are not backed by any evidence."

they have such a hard-lined stance, which is odd because: ""To be totally frank, I don't know and the world doesn't know the answer,""

there IS evidence warm weather makes a difference. droplet virus last longer in the air colder / dryer climates, its why we have a flu season. This has been tested. you pair that with outcomes of countries based on climate, you see a trend that matches expectation.

so "Both these claims are not backed by any evidence.", literally the opposite is true. you could argue that maybe cv19 is different than other cv, but so far that isn't true. Not to mention India is younger than most nations on the planet, you have a recipe for a low risk nation.

And for a nation that initiated its lock down 5 days after New York City and to be attributing all their low effects from the virus from their actions? thats laughable. If anything, India is probably doing worse to itself
When it comes to the police force surveillance, prejudicial bias is more a problem than a red herring. It's true that mass surveillance is an issue but how it is implemented can be an issue as well.

I'm curious - how does a wealthy person retain their privacy from this type of mass surveillance but the working class does not?
Ask HN: What are issues that people have with Google Search?
I think it is safe to assume we are all experts on search engines by now. What are features or processes on Google (or Search Engines in general) that cause you grief or frustration with every use?
Interesting, thanks! I thought I saw it get faster when I turned up the cycles but maybe I'm misremembering or it's some other effect/artifact.
Try to walk through a public place with one of the medical masks (if you can source them). Practically everybody moved as far as they possibly could.

But yeah there has been lots of stories about medical personnel who where thrown out of their rented places because of the fear of the virus.
Curated lists can't be Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Obviously your app itself could be, but that's not this thread.

Also, could you please change the name of the Hacker News one? As commenters have pointed out, it's misleading.
Or

1 - 9/10 - 9/100 - ...

or

1 - ( 9/10 + 9/100 + ... )

So it becomes circular:

0.00...1 = 1 - 0.999...

(In math a series is a sum:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_(mathematics)
In my company's open office, I can whisper into my Pebble and it'll still pick it up†. On e.g. the subway there would be way too much background noise, but I can imagine a future where AI filters that out.

And, society can adapt. People used to talk on the phone in public constantly (and still do to a large extent, just less). This would be far less intrusive.

† For what it's worth, this is Google's AI. Rebble, the community-run service that lets Pebble's operate post-shutdown, chose Google for voice dictation, and as a result its more accurate now than it was originally.
not in applied capitalism, no. ever wonder why there are three gas stations at a four-way intersection? Because someone saw two gas stations there, and said to themselves, "I want a piece of that action."

There isn't a strict motive to make something better than someone else .... there's only a motive to make something that someone will buy instead of something else. Big difference.
> For myself, I care solely on privacy and price,

For you yes. It's perfectly fine to not care about the camera but

> I don’t get it, it’s a phone, with a camera. The camera just needs to be good enough, and for most people it’s been good enough for years.

Can you see how some people really do care about the camera on their phone? I personally don't make my phone buying decisions based on the camera either but I heard a parent make a comment a while back when discussing if they wished the phone had a better battery or better camera and they said camera, easy. When pressed they said something to the effect of "In 5 years I'm not going to wish that I got another hour of battery life 5 years ago but I am going wish my pictures from 5 years ago were better".

Yes I know that "if you really care about photos you should get a real camera" but I think we can all agree that the best camera is the one you have with you and personally I'm not interested enough to carry a big DSLR with me. But that's just me.
WebP has been around for 10 years, but Chrome didn't even support it for the first four, according to Can I Use.
Peepeepoopoo democrats do so much politics peepeepoopoo

shut the fuck up.
I think the Pixel Buds look like someone shoved bright colored play-dough in your ear.
>×The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), founded by the former prime minister, says it could offer an "escape route" from the crisis.

> In a report, the Institute argues the public must accept a level of intrusion that would normally "be out of the question in liberal democracies".

It appears that, as expected, the UK government is now trying to use COVID-19 to their advantage, and fairly brazenly at that.

And seriously, who the hell would trust anything with Tony Blair's name attached to it?!
> In some systems, division by ∞ is not defined at all (forbidden), in other it defined as 0, in another systems it defined as non zero.

Fine by me. Define whatever notion you're using. You can't just throw out non-standard things and expect people to know what you mean.
set to 0 to delete them

then I have a step in there that I will have to remove in a subsequent commit. The process as you describe it for a list of set of instances is:

1. commit a change that sets to 0

2. deploy change.

3. Make a new commit removing the step.

In Terraform it's just

1. Commit a change removing the resource.

2. Deploy

No cleanups that might be forgotten. No double commits for something that should just be 1.

Terraform doesn't "lose track" of an identifier. It's state file management is pretty robust and it has built in locking for the shared use case.
Usually the concept of a limit, which assigns a meaning to 0.999..., isn't studied until calculus.

There are approaches to mathematics that avoid infinite constructions, and a "strict finitist" would not assign 0.999... a meaning.

The stunning success of limit based mathematics makes finitism a fringe philosophy.

Remember, class, for every epsilon there is a delta.
Fedora is now a hybrid, some packages that are security sensitive are rolling, like kernel, web browsers, etc. And the ones that don’t need updates all the time are updated at releases. So it is the best of both worlds, things that matter are always updated while keeping overall system stability
Same here, I have a Pixel 2 and it has held up very well. I run GrapheneOS on it. I had issues with the back glass on the OG Pixel being extremely fragile, but no such issues with this iteration of the device.

I'm tempted to upgrade to a Pixel 4 for the wireless charging but it's not worth a grand. I will probably wait to do so until GrapheneOS no longer supports the 2.
If your mousetrap's very easy to copy maybe your mousetrap isn't good to begin with.

Patents, design patents, trademarks, and trade dress are all completely reasonable ways to protect your product. Failing the ability of any of those methods to product your product, I'd argue copying is fair game.
Sometimes better is defined as [more colors|more available|lower price|supports my phone].

So it is competition, for sure!
Yes, exactly, .666...7 means a number that has 6 at each decimal position and 7 for index k, where k is greater than any natural number. This exactly is .666... (just as parent commenter explained).
Pascal is better, because it has an actual string type that can store \0 characters, and a boolean type, and reference-counted dynamic arrays, and set types, and ranges in case statements (that makes it less verbose!), and a for loop that can go to MAXINT without overflow
This is basically how we were taught to convert decimal fractions with periodic decimal expansions to regular fractions in school. You can even do that without that lining up of zeroes and nines, just multiply by the period: if x = 0.090909..., then 100x = 09.090909... (we shift the decimal point by two positions), and since the stuff after the point is the same, after subtracting it cancels out: 100x - x = 9.0, and so 99x = 9, from which we obtain x = 1/11.
He was being farcical to make a point.
The left doesn't support that because it disproportionately disenfranchises minority voters. Which is the same reason why the right DOES support it.
Voter ID laws make it easy for certain classes of people to get one and hard for others. It's a tool for voter suppression. Also, we have incredibly low rates of voter fraud thanks to measures that already exist.
Because IDs aren't necessarily easy to get and cost money, disenfranchising the poor and those without any other reason to get one.

I don't know, does it takes a lot of effort to look up the talking points of the people you disagree with? It implies your viewpoint was achieved without ever having come in contact with an alternative, which is concerning.
I've never heard of STAR, but I'm not immediately convinced it's the best option. It would be interesting to see actual data comparing it to other voting methods (e.g. [1], not the table on the STAR website).

I'm partial to ranked choice voting for most local elections and House elections, because you can do some interesting things with proportional representation.

[1] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

[2] https://www.fairvote.org/fair_rep_in_congress#what_does_the_...
I would maybe not go there on a day where the administration yanked a bat-to-human coronavirus grant because it doesn't "fit with current NIH priorities."
assuming that that person self-quarantined, it seems reasonable they informed the building but didn't do anything other than maybe wiping down the mailroom and door handles to mollify the paranoid. just having someone in the building doesn't pose appreciable added risk. would you rather they didn't tell you?
You say "no, dates are harder than that", but it sounds like you agree with me exactly based on the rest of your post. Time is hard because human representations of it are varied, complicated, and often arbitrary--not because there's anything fundamentally hard about the math of time (again, relativity notwithstanding). Contrast that with numbers which are inherently difficult to intuit about apart from issues of representation.
Yes, but the HN audience skews toward kids using javascript to 'engineer' 'scalable' 'technology' without learning unix. The comments currently include a tangent to the ease of installing ffmpeg on a Raspberry Pi (wrong target hardware for this sort of application, simplified user experience as focus), apparent mentions of online services, ideas for mass psychological manipulation through algorithm assembly, hand-wavey characterizations of Youtube monetization algorithms, and almost no tangible discussion of limitations, ethics, etc.
Firefox for Android, and I'm having the same issue. I do have uBlock Origin installed, but I'm not going to disable it for this.
Things quickly fall apart if you rely on your intuition.

Let's imagine all the odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, etc.
Now imagine all the even numbers: 2, 4, 6, etc.

Can we agree that there is an "infinite" amount of numbers in each of those groups?

Now imagine all the odd numbers and even numbers together. That's also infinite right?

Would you say there are more "all numbers" than just "all odd numbers", or would you say that there are an equal number of them? (hint: the answer is equal).
> The left doesn't support that, why?

Because it's a transparent attempt to reduce the ability of some groups of people to vote. The right pushes for voter ID while simultaneously doing everything possible to reduce the availability of ID.

Put the Federal Election Commission in charge of voter ID, make the cards free and make it the mission of the FEC to track down and ensure every qualified citizen has one. Then I support voter ID.
I might add the ffmpeg-static npm package, then no need for system ffmpeg. But that package does not work on raspberry pi, so yeah.. Downloading and installing static ffmpeg builds from ffmpeg.org is pretty easy these days
Amazon Seller Account Under Attack by Fake Buyers
Republicans can't win a fair election. Just like the founding fathers imagined.
> Sounds like they could have had the same things with a much easier language like Nim. Unless they are using a lot of Rust exclusive features?

We didn't consider Nim in our language eval (https://bionic.fullstory.com/rust-at-fullstory-part-1/), but you could insert it into the scoring sheet to see how it might fare if we were evaluating it (https://language-compare.glitch.me/). I would be very interested in seeing the result.

I will also caveat that we are building code that ships in other company's apps, so our requirements will be different from others.

> How true is this?

Ballparking some of our internal issue counts here, so please forgive major rounding.

Out of all the crasher bugs on our team (our most serious category obviously), none have been in the Rust code itself. In a handful of cases Rust has caused the platform glue to crash via timing issues (shutting down platform glue in the wrong order/bad assumptions).

Out of all the general bugs (fidelity, wedging, performance, etc), ~90%ish are in our platform glue code -- ObjC/Android -- and the remainder of Rust bugs are again mostly timing/bad assumptions in async code.

It's been really amazing how confident Rust has made us. Code that compiles generally works.
> Not a lockdown, sealed.

How does this work with essentials like food and medical care? Does the government bring supplies to people since they can't go to the store?
Isn't that called weak typing? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing#Definit...)
You were. Satire marketed as news.
Decimals are easier to compare than fractions. I can't easily work out in my head which one is bigger, 457/790 or 580/924, but I can easily see that (approximately) 0.57848 is smaller than (approximately) 0.62771.

Since the fundamental thing most people want to do with numbers is see which one is bigger, they favour decimal expansions. And since decimals worked so well for fractions, why not use them for everything else?
The senate dropped the public option under threat of a Joe Lieberman (independent former democrat who caucused with the democrats) filibuster: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/why-lie...

I don’t recall if the public option was ever included in the house bill. Do you?
How was $1000/month for anyone over age 18 supposed to be funded?

Without exact details answering such, do voters believe this is more than seeking voter-attention. Are there actual plans of implementation whose economics/numbers work?

I see people discuss such but never see answers.
Won three times, definitely didn't hurt my career.
In addition to the point raised by wool_gather, why do you need a paper trail with non-anonymous voting? The votes never need to be re-counted, as far as I know. A senator would surely notice if a "yea" appeared next to her "nay" vote.
This is not completely correct

Article 1 Section 4 of the Constitution:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing [sic] Senators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...

"Manner of Elections" certainly sounds like it would allow Congress to pass a law mandating the elections must be vote by mail, specifically for Senators and Representatives.

This does not apply to the President due to states having the jurisdiction to decide how electoral college electors are chosen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...

So Congress has partial authority, the question is if Congress passed a vote by mail law for Senators and Representatives, would states have other ballot measures or positions (Such as the President) that would not be vote by mail in the same election.
Scroll-jacking is notoriously bad for accessibility. Can't tab through the sequences and maintain proper focus, using the down arrow key moves the screen 1px per tap it feels like.

From my abled point of view, it's a terrible implementation; if I scroll using mouse wheel it should not be so slow. I would rather see each flick of mousewheel anchor the next or previous slide in place rather than having to do all the scrolling to get there. And that's really what this is, a vertical PowerPoint.