skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“why does this company not just exist as a far simpler and leaner product?”

I'm sure there are bloated teams, but apart from those the argument against a very lean product is growth of the consumer base. You make a lean product, get some users. They love it. You do a little research into customer churn though, or followup on marketing efforts to people that didn't yield, and find out that feature X is a common thread: you don't have feature X. So you build feature X. You gain incremental customer & revenue growth as a result. Then the process begins again. The problem is that at some point you reach a point of diminishing returns, and if you don't recognize that point, you'll still go over the bloat line.
I'll take your bait

> what rights are being violated?

"Right of the people peaceably to assemble" - US Constitution - the highest law of the land.

It may be stupid to assemble now (which is why i am staying at home), but that in no way makes actually forbidding it constitutional.
No... calomel is a bunch of bad recommendations for FreeBSD.
Keep in mind:

* The total number of patients in the entire study was 20.

* The number of ICU patients was 13.

* The number of ICU patients younger than 75 years was 10.

It's interesting that 10 out of 10 patients in the ICU had low vitamin D, but it's not exactly a huge study.
Emails from my children’s school before 8:00AM during the Covid-19 crisis
They are mutually exclusive. Altria is the parent company. Like Alphabet and Google.
There are more ways to contact people than just calling them. Your comment stinks of why we can't get anything done these days - it starts with an assumption of failure, and argues for giving up based on it.
My favorite phrase to use in these situations is to use this as a compliment: It could be worse. It seems contrary to agree with as though the topic is horrible, but disagreement means the topic is the worst. It forces a moment of self reflection and then people suddenly become aware of the words spoken.
Being nice is great, being fake-nice is not, sometimes politeness is a facade to hide passive-aggressiveness and up-you-up-manship.

HN readership is as establishment and conventional as it goes, it is the "study hard for the SAT/GRE/GMAT" crowd.
I agree with the vast majority of this, but I have a bad reaction to “praise” and the idea that you should try to have one per review. I hate praise that feels forced, and it seems like this kind of practice would make it seem quite forced.

I feel you could just say something like “good idea” and it would be fine without the prefix. Especially if your review tool of choice has a concept of actionable vs non-actionable comments, like Gerrit and resolved/unresolved comments.
thanks for the reference. I'll taking a peek.
I don't pretend to bear credentials. I submitted a writeup asking for feedback from those who might disagree with my conclusions; i.e. people like you. I am encouraging you to poke holes in what I've written, and I can tell you straight up that there are holes.

So...do you have any feedback about the content here?
There is a brand new study that suggests vaping damages the heart just as much as smoking.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vaping-smoking-heart-car...

direct link to study: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.014570

"Our findings suggest that e‐cigarette use is not associated with a more favorable vascular profile..."
We are going backward. Newer 5G and fiber deployments where I live offer only IPv4 with carrier grade NAT. No IPv6, and no real IP unless you ask for one. (Not sure how long they will offer that to non-business subscribers.)
I work for Lyft and was part of this cut. I truly worked toward fixing things, and I don't want to sound salty here even though will, there's not much going on with Lyft or Uber to save in terms of tech. It's shoddy and useless. For the most part if Amazon got into the game now, and with their flywheel, they could eat Lyft alive and wait for Uber to bleed dry.
So from what you are saying the explanation for the paragraph from the article would be that a more severe infection would be more likely to have R0 < 1, so on aggregate viruses would "commonly" evolve this way. I understand this, but thank you for the reminder of the mechanism :)

However if the the R_0 of COVID-19 is between 1.4 and 5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number), how likely would it be that another mutation more lethal would appear and still be successful?, that is with R_0 > 1. I think that's a more relevant question than whether most successful mutations will be less lethal. Specially knowing that one of the characteristics of the virus is asymptomatic spread which could invalidate the point of a more lethal strain having much lower R_0.
Can the client run on a raspberry pi?
No it's not. The IFR of the flu is 0.1%. The CFR is higher. The Case Fatality Rate will always be higher than the Infection Fatality Rate. The people who present cases will be a strict subset of the people who are infected.

Early studies treated the Case Fatality Rate as the Infection Fatality Rate, by virtue of the fact that the only people getting tested were people with symptoms. Random testing in Germany has indicated that ~20% of the population was infected or has been infected, and the corresponding death rate yielded an IFR of 0.37%.
That does not mean that chevy is always wrong about ford.
The article mentions turning off the display to avoid ghosting and links to an article about screen burn in; it was my understanding that e-ink displays do not suffer burn in? I was under the impression that e-ink ghosting is simply due to an incomplete refresh of the display (since this causes a flash and is time consuming)?

EDIT: Interestingly the datasheet for the component used does indeed mention this; does anyone have any insight here?
> It will take time to feel the 2nd and 3rd order impacts.

Ask people at Sun how relying on the .com economy worked out for the company, as one example.
Sunlight is bad for you in high doses without sunscreen.

Moderate exposure is healthy, and may decrease the risk of many other cancers and heart disease.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260247#3

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/07/dose-sunshine-ex...

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-some-sun-exposure-will-p...

Another way to look at it is that we evolved with the sun over millions of years, and that wouldn't have happened if it were too bad for us...
And there are hundreds of strains and types of viruses that cause colds. Immunity to a rhinovirus serotype will not help with other serotypes of rhinovirus, let alone all the coronavirus strains and influenza viruses.
Butterfield hasn't graduated to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons yet? About time.
That's a fair characterization; the 3D league is meant to incorporate physical constraints, and learning "through" those to the higher level aspects of the game is challenging.
That's what the 2D league exists for though.

The Google simulator lets you learn from pixels if you want to, but the agent that you're controlling only has 8 actions [1] available to it, so the learning problem here really has no bearing on a robotics application or anything in the real world that I can think of.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.11180.pdf
Carnival did not get a bailout:
https://thepointsguy.com/news/carnival-did-not-receive-bailo...
Not NAT. Firewalls. You don't need NAT to have a firewall.
It's a setting that's exposed on the website ("Feedback to Zoom"), but, at least for my licence, it's locked. Incidentally, I am able to close the box, rather than just waiting for it to go away, in case that's better.
South Korea was extraordinarily well prepared, and it is yet to see if they'll be able to keep this up with international travel resumed.

I am extremely pessimistic about any country's ability to usefully maintain low infection rates while opening up international travel again. Sweden isn't close to being able to do this in terms of tech infrastructure or cultural mindset.

(That being said, if anyone is going to do it successfully long term, it's going to be south korea)
Neither is caffeine, but no one is up an arms about teens blowing their part time wages on $6 lattes and ruining their teeth. Maybe because SBUX is publicly traded?
The other thing I've always heard is that taking more than the recommended amount is pointless, because your kidneys filter it out. I definitely wouldn't take the time to adjust to an even higher dose. I was mainly only taking the dose I was because I didn't want to try and subdivide the little packets.
Ask HN: How do you quickly find websites you've visited a year or more ago?
For example, you vaguely recall a visiting a blog last year. You remember it had really good content, and you remember roughly what it looked like. You know the blog was mostly about business and productivity. You search your bookmarks and history for these, but you have too much stuff to search through.

What do you do?
Yes, you can cultivate the right human cells and infect them. I suspect this kind of thing would be restricted to the highest security laboratories, because you’d be actually multiplying the virus in its infectious state.
Interesting approach. Usually logo use is negotiated at purchase time. I'd be interested to see whether you suffer any consequences for playing fast and loose with logos. Might be a profitable way to break the rules like Uber, Facebook, etc.
That's actually extraordinarily rare.

Companies just say "ours is better".

That doesn't get you sued in an expensive, drawn out libel case.
We had enough (more than enough, actually) sun this past winter here. The lock down happened after the virus hit us hard so your comment doesn't make much sense.

Anyway, we have VDI too even with our sunny weather. Not everybody likes sunbathing and the use of sunscreen with a high SPF is common.
they could also need longer to recover,
> The whole point is to get to know a language.

When you're actually starting up (you set the context to "someone starting to learn rust"), there will be some unknown things in any language. You'll get there, but you don't need to understand it from the beginning. If you do want to understand it, then you should get it from the official guide. Errors, dyn, box, lifetimes and send are covered.

"Value on the heap, which implements the error interface, is available forever, and can be shared between threads" is... not that complicated.

> Now you put it in production and it breaks.

If you're still learning the language and don't understand the boilerplate, you don't put your app in production.

> Why would I pass in a mutable reference when all I need is a global static immutable value?

You missed the context. The fragment was about a mutable global. If you just need an initialised, but immutable config, you pass a non-mutable reference.
>>The Food and Drug Administration on Monday came out swinging at e-cigarette giant Juul over a variety of its unproven safety claims and startling marketing practices—most notably saying without evidence that its products are safer than smoking traditional cigarettes and giving presentations directly to kids in schools—in at least one alleged case, without teachers present or parental consent.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/juul-gave-presentati...

The were speaking directly to students inside schools. Kids. They were telling them that their products were safe. You don't see toy companies doing that.
Alcohol is legislatively regulated.

Here's a study on Caffeine. I haven't read it all the way yet, but so far the effects are not nearly what nicotine is. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445139/

As for sugar, that's an interesting debate. Sugar is pretty bad for you. The short answer seems to be that sugar kills more people than tobacco and nicotine and lots of other things. But sugar comes in many forms and is hard to regulate, I guess. It's a tough one for sure.
I live in Europe, in a more or less decent country, and thankfully, a fair chunk of us don't have to worry a lot about job security/income.

The Canadian move is, unsurprisingly, more forward-thinking than the usual US sleight of hand thing.
But I wonder, in these conditions, with minimal incentive to come out, isn't the CERB inflating $CAD?
Maybe but I doubt it, I feel like it would be all or nothing in regards to vehicles but who knows, would probably vary a lot. My understanding of the motivation is that it is only partially due to pollution and more to do with livability, comfort, health and that sort of thing.

BYD did just get the largest electric bus order in history from LA https://t.co/YaWN2ZKtBs?amp=1 as part of a green new deal, so you may not be far off in regards to cities moving towards focusing on accommodating electric vehicles.
Exactly. I can still use jQuery too, but the whole selling point of React is its heavy reliance on JSX.
Tesla's way of counting cash is . . . quite imaginative to say the least.

If you used conventional metrics their cash is more like $2 BB, and a bunch of that is stuck in China (as in their agreement for Tesla Shanghai stipulates that cash cannot leave the country).

There is a real liquidity problem in there, but the people buying Tesla shares are not exactly the sharpest knives, or they're investing on the Tesla story, not financials.
Freedom of movement too while we're at it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit...
Are we done with games yet? I thought it’s been well shown that you can beat any computer game using RL. Would like to see people move on from these types of things and engage more with the difficulty of solving real world problems with AI.

At this point, I’m not really sure that the progress in playing games is carrying over to much in terms of solving real world problems, but curious to see if anyone has good counterexamples.
Serious question: I am confused as to why do we see so many comments lamenting, what is essentially freedom of speech of EM? I mean, it's not like he is conclusively wrong about "Free America Now" comment. He may be proven wrong over time or even right.
There are plenty of kids who vape who would have never smoked because of the smell it has on your clothes. Now they're addicted to nicotine anyway and who knows how they're going to deal with the long-term repercussions of inhaling a bunch of hot PG and other crap.
I love when people post the first paper they find on google that supports their claims. That's not how science works.

That article is a review of a bunch of cell line data and animal tests that are suggestive of "adverse effects".

It says nothing about the magnitude of the effects or actually shows data from human trials.
It's always a good conversation when nimbius turns up.
Ask HN: What will the far future of programming be like?
I recently watched the 2003 Bezos TED talk about "the internet is currently in the 1906 of electricity". I think current programmers are still designing factories around the water wheel + drive shaft paradigm, but with newer technology + innovations (cloud/distributed computing, CICD, neural nets), we should start to redesign the "factory" of software around these industry changing technologies. Elon Musk likes to say that there is more design and engineering that goes into the factory than the things made by the factory.

What do you think the far future of programming will be like (on say a 50 year timeline)?

Examples:

- How will we enter requirements/specs?
- How will we write documentation?
- What classes of tools are we missing now that are yet to be developed?
- What new Human Interface devices will become common for programmers?
- What business processes will have to change to get us there?
- How will we tame increasing the complexity of computing systems?
- How will we hack our bodies/minds?

My prediction:
I tend to think programmers will define a strategy (class/function interfaces, types, unit tests) and a new generation of IDE/compiler will generatively write the code which fulfills these requirements. This is already available for AutoCAD (they call it Generative Design).
You're basically claiming that if somebody made a well-organized lawsuit, they could bring this to the supreme court and the SC would say "yes, in the case of emergency/pandemic, people can continue to assemble against direct orders from the executive office of the state/federal government". I think instead, the SC would find that the first amendment has limitations in the case of large-scale health situations.

It's not even remotely productive to start from the "I have absolute rights due to the constitution" arguments.
You can actually make your own e juice pretty easily. Lots of guides and a huge community online.
Larger excerpt.

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...
But vaping is not smoking.
In the US, it's recommended for everyone who's not allergic or under 6 months old.
Which is horrific. It should export an event/intent for the user to to route.
No one has the hospital capacity for COVID19 getting out of control. That's the fundamental reason for the quarantines everywhere.
Alcohol is legislatively regulated by requiring labels on the box and limiting age of consumption. Tobacco has legislation of the same, as well as advertisements.

Should nicotine be _more_ regulated than that?
It is my understanding with some viruses that one doesn't become infected with a single virus particle, but rather with a population. That's because the viruses mutate enough that no single virus has all the machinery necessary for replication. Only when a cell gets hit a few times to get all the parts does replication kick in.

I don't think the mutation rate of this particular virus is very high, though, so this situation doesn't seem as likely here.
A conditional right is no right at all.

And for the sake of us all, i hope that if the case were to be brought in front of SCOTUS, they'd correctly write that "yes pandemics suck and compliance is important, but constitution is more so. Local gvmnts are free to find other ways to do this, but a virus is no excuse for constitutional transgressions"

The first amendment has no limitations, except those outlined in it itself or in caselaw. None that applies to this situation, so for now, luckily, you are wrong.

> It's not even remotely productive to start from the "I have absolute rights due to the constitution" arguments.

WHAT? It saddens me to see views like these. Mostly I see them in people who never fought for their rights, and never lived in places lacking them. You may amend the constitution if you disagree with it, via a proper process, but discarding it as "not productive" is insulting
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Happy to see it is about "actual" football. I am embarrassed to say that football is one of my life-long passions, especially now that I am older than most players. But I would love to work in any area even tangentially related to it.
They "make sense", but they aren't really true. They are not such much "overcompressed" as subject to whatever interpretation makes them sensible, but as such, they are dependent more on the good sense of the person unpacking them than on their inherent virtue.

So, for example, the "Rule of 7" is a ludicrous exaggeration (by the time you actually go through a chain of 7 people you're talking to a random stranger and weeks have passed), but someone who had done some research might mentally fix this to a rule of 3 (which would be a pretty reasonable thing). However, a maxim that's on the face of it pretty dumb until you fix it up is Not Good.

Similarly, the one about "pros" vs "amateurs" is Just Plain Made Up - it's easy to conjure up situations where it seems clever, but in general it doesn't make a lick of sense.

I suppose I'm perennially annoyed - one might even say "triggered" - by these kind of wildly variable mixes of folksy wisdom, mild common sense and Just Plain Opinion. No-one has any business mixing fairly reasonable ideas about how to find a missing object or get a cable while traveling with Deep Wisdom About How To Live Your Life; the net effect is to anesthetize our critical facilities through sheer volume.

Putting your advice as to what constitutes a meaningful life on the same level as advice on how not to get into credit card debt is a serious category error; at worst it's banal, at best it's a way of smuggling a bunch of unexamined values in as universals.
This is (one of) the reasons why I am skeptical of arguments that are dismissive of all formal coursework in college that isn't directly applicable to the technical aspects of people whose majors are in STEM programs.

General education courses, required courses in history and humanities, they provide a different way of critically thinking about things, and their frequently heavy writing focus is excellent practice for a skill that will be extremely useful in life, even if it isn't directly tied to your STEM program.

Consider this: And enormous amount of your quality of life, your career advancement, and many other things are directly tied to your ability to convince other people of your way of thinking. And writing is a fundamental vehicle for that process.
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for SARS-Cov (the first one from 2003) there is some data and it's not pretty :/
There are usually clauses that you have to exercise your options within say a month of leaving the company or you lose them.
It’s not trivial to build google.com? No shit, Sherlock.
How do you manage and store your test accounts when testing your application?
The parent comment asked for a citation, so I added a citation which is peer reviewed and discusses some of the very points made in the grandparent comment. There are quite a few more peer reviewed papers on the topic.
Police, Fire Department, transit workers yes but the vast majority of public servants are not taking "unprecedented risks" when they are at work. They're inspectors, judges, teachers, budget analysts etc.
Everyone is, volumes are hugely up. The point about liquidity is during the sudden market shifts, not over a quarter!
Not the OP. I don't think his motivation is greed in a strictly financial sense but he's a complete narcissist. When a government guy comes and shuts his factory down due to a pandemic he apparently can't live with the fact that he's a non-essential business and needs to lay low for a while.

It's the same thing with the mini-submarine paedophile fiasco. Some regular dude who has experience in what he's actually talking about tells him to go away and he can't handle it because he thinks he's Tony Stark or something.

I don't think his eccentric behaviour really leaves much space for nuance, that's not really on anyone commenting here.
> Sorry about my reply. I’m so used to getting downvoted these days I’m trying out different writing styles. (Maybe this one is a fail)

No worries; I also missed that you're not the original author. COVID + policy is a perfect storm of temper-stoking conversational topics.
maybe all the permenant lung damage will pave way for stem cell researchers and well finally get something done
>You compare the recommendations in music/books/cinema between them and reddit and it is "People" vs "Cahiers du Cinema".

My point is there are affectations in both communities (4chan and HN) that are strange opposites of one another. Here, people often pretend to be more polite and erudite than they are, there, people often act more rudely than they normally would, because that's the culture, that's the mask you're expected to wear.

And on both sides there's a pretension which you're kind of displaying. You're talking about a site as vast and varied as Reddit as a whole as if it were a single forum, and dismissing it as qualitatively lesser than an anonymous imageboard that has shitposting as a central part of its identity. Find some well moderated subreddits for any particular genre and you'll find quality of conversation equal to anything on 4chan, or even HN.

Also, you know, 4chan has been around long enough at this point that a lot of "out of touch academics" and "journalist boomers" have probably been there.