skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? The GP is still allowed to think it's crazy that those people spend that amount of money. The GP is surely aware, like everyone is, that you can make food for less than you can buy premade stuff for. As are the people buying coffee at the coffee shop, who will go on spending it no matter how many people reply to his comment.

So unless people are trying to get the GP to join in their addiction (but cheaper!), there's no point in telling him all this. Nothing is being refuted.
Look for a good kava bar for a similar experience.
Hosting workshops, personal appearances, giving lectures, being paid to write more material.
Is community spread of zero a worthwhile goal? SF still has thousands of people (maybe tens of thousands) coming in and out of the city every day to deliver things, see family, return home, etc. As long as this is still happening (there is no way for SF to prevent this) what is the point of fixating on zero new cases.

Consider two cases:

- On May 15 SF has had no new cases since May 1st. It decides to reopen.

- On May 15 SF has had 150 new cases (ten a day) since May 1st. It decides to reopen.

By June 15th, is the total number of cases any different under these scenarios? In either case, has the city been able to function without having to reclose?

I'm not sure the answer to these - but my instinct is that the situations would be virtually the same.
it's so much easier to use a platform for scheduling

And who cares how much of a cut Rover/Wag takes from the service provider, as they are all interchangeable and easily disposable, right?
>You may try to cherry pick anything, but the facts are the facts.

I enjoy the irony of criticizing someone for cherry-picking, while using NY as a proxy for how the whole of the US is doing.

Perhaps you could've picked the state that is most directly comparable to Spain in population and land size, California: 1/10th as many people dead per million. (But that too would be cherry-picking)
Yes, more data would obviously change the discussion. And that more data could show all sorts of things.
You still need a sufficient number of people willing to buy. Demand volume has to be greater than the current sell volume. When you hit this sort of economic crisis some people pull out of the market, others shift to less risky investments. Why invest in LUV when you can buy NAT? Especially when issuing new shares reduces the dividend and EPS, making it less attractive.
I still wonder why people defend Ioannidis so much, given the amount of crap he has done lately.

As someone said last week, maybe he just likes being a contrarian too much, and cannot look past the urge to contradict just to gain more notoriety.
There is so much entertainment on planes that I stopped bringing any device, maybe 5 years ago.

Granted, your use case isn't entertainment, for the most part.
> But is anyone seriously advocating keeping a $600/week around after the quarantine?

Yes. Or something close to it:

https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-would-receive-2000...

"The Emergency Money for the People Act, introduced by Reps. Tim Ryan and Ro Khanna, would give $2,000 a month to Americans over the age of 16 who make less than $130,000 a year."

"The payments would continue for at least six months and would last until unemployment falls to pre-coronavirus levels."

That would probably only cost a few trillion dollars. It'll take a decade to get back to pre-virus unemployment levels, and they know that. It took nearly a decade to get to those super low unemployment levels after the great recession, which was not nearly so bad as this situation.
Disposable time would be the big one.
Even in large parts of the US, you could get away with $200/mo with roommates.
Thank you for this perfect example of the slippery slope fallacy.
The virus is tanking the economy, not the lockdown. Air travel is down 97% even though they are no laws against flying places. You can lift the lockdown if you want, but if people are too afraid to board planes and go to restaurants and bars, you are not going to magically bounce back to 4% unemployment and 2% GDP growth overnight.

> If you want to take people’s livelihoods away from them, you have to justify the seizure, not the other way around.

Conversely, you could argue that if you want to take actions that risk killing hundreds of thousands of people, then the onus is on you to prove that your actions won't cost hundreds of thousands of lives. You can't claim that enacting a lockdown requires scientific proof but lifting one does not, when the potential consequences for the latter are even higher than the former.
Apple / Google already have control of your phone in this regard to begin with. So why is the contact tracing framework such an issue?
My local schools have already called off the rest of the school year. At least for us, that horse has already left the barn.
#JuneThe4th
Instead of a coffee shop, consider starting a kava bar. Kava is a great social lubricant without the intoxicating effects of alcohol.
Correction 15 years.

I was using it to an extent in 2009. (I'm sure I was using it before that.) At which point it had only been 9 years in development.

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You can have it fast, good, or cheap. Pick at most 2.

Since Perl 6 was entirely volunteer driven it was always going to be cheap. So the only real choice was between fast and good.

I'm glad the choice was to make it good rather than fast.

We could have gone the Python route where they chose fast. Only they didn't really even manage to do that much better than Perl6.

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And what did Python get, a language that is only slightly better in a handful of ways. (Every one that I've heard of is reminiscent of one that Perl5 has dealt with over the years without breaking backwards compatibility.)

Perl6 meanwhile is a large step that questions long held beliefs of what a programming language can even be. It calls into question what parsers can be, what regexes can be. It calls into question why language divides exist. Why can't a language be at both ends of the spectrum at the same time.

Even if Raku doesn't take off, it will likely be a source of inspiration for future language designers. (It already has to a small degree.)

Whereas Python3 is just a slightly nicer Python. One that not everyone has transitioned to yet. Some may never. (Some have even transitioned to Go instead, since it has very similar semantics.)

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There were also some health issues during the Perl6 project which held back the progress to a significant degree. We don't know how many years that added to the total.
Xcode is rumored to arrive on iPad this year.
We've moved on from amphetamines to modafinil
"Competitive" in the context of IP laws means competing to sell exactly the same thing (not 2 different books, or even 2 books from the same genre, but the exact same text). Copyright laws prohibit you from selling a thing I hold the copyright to, so they are by definition anti-competitive. We otherwise might be able to compete on price or availability, for instance.
The problems with the DRM route are ... well known. See the EFF (https://www.eff.org/issues/drm) and FSF (https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html) especially.

Among other matters:

- Your devices are no longer fully under your control, and don't answer to you.

- Even where DRM isn't itself directly. malware (Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...), it inevitably creates backdoors for APTs.

- The legal proscriptions on analysing and assessing ADRM mechanisms create both minefields for researchers and multiply the existing security threat risk.

But most critically, and pretty much fully torpedoing your voluntarism argument, device vendors may be contractually or legally prohibited from producing non-DRM-afflicted devices in their own relationships with DRM gatekeepers, meaning that there are no (or very crippled or expensive) DRM-free alternatives.

Witness ongoing efforts to plug the "anologue hole" (https://www.eff.org/issues/analog-hole) in various devices and software.

FWIW, my complete crap Chrome browser on my complete crap Samsung Android device refuses to allow me to screenshot this HN thread claiming it is a "DRM protected page".

I'd love to replace the device with something vaguely comparable. Between licensing restrictions, monopoly coercion, and market dynamics, there is literally nothing available.

Or more briefly: Your assertion is absolutely unsupported by empirical experience.
It looks like there may be something to this.

> About a hundred sixty years after Dr. Salter’s book was published, a review of studies was performed to see if coffee had any true impact on lung function and asthma. The authors wrote:

> “Caffeine is found in coffee, tea, cola drinks and cocoa. Caffeine is a drug that is very similar to theophylline. Theophylline is a bronchodilator drug that is taken to open up the airways in the lungs and therefore relieve the symptoms of asthma, such as wheezing, coughing and breathlessness. Scientists are interested in finding out whether caffeine has the same effect on the lungs as theophylline.”2

> And they concluded:

> “This review found that even small amounts of caffeine can improve lung function for up to four hours.”2

> Caffeine is a methylxanthine. It falls into the same family of medicine as theophylline, a strong bronchodilator that was a top-line asthma remedy during the 1970’s through the 1990’s. I was chronically dependent on theophylline from the mid 1970’s until 2007.

https://asthma.net/living/the-effects-of-coffee-on-asthma/
It's quite clear that billionaires don't care about this. They will part ways with their money in a way they see fit. If it means donations to non-profits they own, or off-shore companies to lessen the amount of taxes they have to pay, then they will do just that.

All this talk about inequality is for naught. You don't have to tell Bezos how big his slice of the pie is. He knows. And he will take more by any means necessary.
They still do. Some of these sorties / missions are 10 hours long. You bet the military will give them dexedrine to keep them alert, and not hungry.
Teams UX sucks so bad. It's *&£+ing infuriatingly hard to create a simple meeting link.
I don't actually know, honestly, what the point was/is exactly. Partly to affect long-term change in how personal data is viewed (less "gold mine, let's collect it all" and more "potentially toxic asset, let's collect as little as possible").

But also partly deletion and opt-out also of course, and that probably works well, for those who use it. But with the huge implementation cost (cited by PwC as upwards of 150 billion USD in the U.S alone [0]), I wonder what the price per delete request or opt-out is.

[0]: https://truthonthemarket.com/2019/05/24/gdpr-after-one-year-...
For even better efficiency use an Absorption Heat Pump, powered by natural gas.

But they are hard to find.
It's voluntary, and designed to be anonymous (apple/google proposal). You don't have to install it, but then you'd be a jerk buy putting the health of strangers and loved ones in further jeopardy. World-wide problems require world-wide responses. This isn't the time to bury your head in the sand and hope it goes away.
As usual, we can look at history for answers.

In the 19th century in Germany, Germany had no copyright or patent laws. There was an explosion of creativity and technological progress, and Germany became the European leader economically and technologically.
It's trivial to spot with hooks.
I think you are right in the general case. Definitely padding bits are not preserved during copies, but I think that at least in some cases they might be preserved, at least I think that if you memset+memcpy, the memcpy is guaranteed to see the zeros (what if you want to end the lifetime of the object and simply reuse the storage as an array of chars?). But there is divergence between C and C++ and also an area quite in flux (the notion of lifetimes of objects and memory locations gets tweaked every standard in C++, not sure where we are at now).

edit: interestingly, Biriba is yet another game in the canasta family, my theory is that different groups were originally playing these differents variants, but when they gained knowledge of the more popular variant (burraco), they started playing it but kept calling it with the original name. I guess that up until the internet era, these games were mostly passed via oral knowledge in casual groups.

edit2: macchiavelli [1] is another very fun game of the same family, but a lot more puzzle solving oriented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavelli_(Italian_card_game...
Australia is already rolling it out. Maybe they would have used it if it was ready, but as it is this is effort from Apple/Google is too slow. Every week we let this virus live is costing the government (and eventually us) billions. Perhaps they will move to the Apple solution when it comes out as what they have for Apple is cumbersome. But they already have Android users.

I rather like the solution the Apple/Google have come up with because it solves a more general problem very nicely. The more general problem is "malware" for what of a better word (it's perhaps too harsh) - apps that lie or mislead about what they do and hide what their bluetooth proximity harvesting in the permission thicket (who here would automatically associate the "Fine Location" permission with bluetooth proximity harvesting).

But notice in this particular instance that's not what's happening. There is no attempt to deceive. The app is purely opt-in, and what you are opting into is very explicit. In this particular case there is almost no difference between what Apple/Google propose and TraceTogether. The difference amounts to when you give the government permission to know who you are. For TraceTogether it happens when you install the app. For the Apple/Google proposal, it's when you see your doctor when being notified you are infected. In both cases, no privacy is given up until you are infected, and assuming you installed the app in good faith and do get tested when notified the outcome is the same.

There is the minor problem the Australian government could surreptitiously change the app to something more sinister down the track. I'd be very confident they would not do it now, but 24 months later when attitudes reverted it's sadly entirely plausible. That could be fixed by changing release policies (such as publish source before deploying). But it looks like for whatever reason they won't be doing that, so perhaps Apple/Google forcing them deal with the citizens they govern honestly and transparently is a good thing, despite the delays it causes.
> Anything like that would not be something expected from country's best laywers. A judge given a quarter million USD salary must be the best of the best in performance, and not to deputise his most important duties.

$250k is what 4th year lawyers at big firms like Cravath make. Partners can make 10x or more, and a lot of the work of partners is done by associates. [0]

If an associate has clerked for a supreme court justice, they can expect bonus of $400k. [1]

I don't know of a justice who has gone back to private practice, but it doesn't take too much to imagine that their salary would be much, much more than a quarter million USD.

[0]: https://abovethelaw.com/2018/06/first-firm-matches-the-new-a...
[1]: https://abovethelaw.com/2018/11/400k-is-now-the-official-mar...
Battery life and instant-on. Many speakers/microphones for conferencing. Same apps as iPhone. Just Works. LumaFusion, Flipboard.
Edit: please boomer vote me down, I got points enough!!

Spot on, I remember my grandparents, the parents generation of boomers talk about the fact their generation should give the jobs to the next.

Every boomer with a job could buy a house every where in the world. But that wasn't enough boomers dumped their parents in concrete horror houses to let them rot away and still decided to not build enough real estate for the coming generations so every boomer could run maximum profit.

We have seen what the boomers did with companies, the amount of debt, our climate, the laws & regulations they conjured. Boomers have caused an amount of damage to the future that will cripple at least the next 5 generations. Boomers have to move over.

People mention the economic rebound in 1919 after the Spanish plague but that was possible because the dead toll was as high 100 million people. That was a major release of an enormous amount of money.

All of a sudden things like natural causes of dead running at a number lower than a million is reason enough to lockdown the whole world.
> It's true that people are discharged from the hospital eventually (one way or another), so there's a little extra room from that, but not much.

No, you need to account for that. We're at steady-state to decreasing hospitalization already (that is at r=1, increase = decrease).
"I'm entering my prime earning years I don't have to worry about child care or being around 24/7 the same way I did when my kids were babies. I also have less «free time» now than when I was in college"

Although not clear how much of that free time "less" means, I wish to point out that if you're a male (as I'd guess from your nickname), your contribution to the education of your descendants becomes the most useful after kid's childhood. Progressing as teenagers, they need less and less love and start needing more and more guidance and advice. That's the period where maternal inherent love and affection progressively looses its value. As time goes, when facing problems, the teenager would rather receive insight (which is something expected to be had from a father) instead of consolation. That may be your most needed paternal contribution of the entire offspring upbringing.
I also think it looks cool, and I can image how I could use it. But I think of many situations where I’d prefer to use it over my MacBook. My 13” MBP is already very portable. I’ve never struggled to work in a cafe or on a plane with it, and it’s not too heavy to worry about lugging around.
> Particularly in a place like San Francisco, where there have been 1,400 cases total and 23 deaths. It’s simply irrational now, and a lot closer to virtue signaling than anything with a scientific basis.

I live in a state with a very low number of cases and deaths, much less than SF. We began the process of reopening today. Which would be fine if our borders were sealed, if quarantine for travelers was enforced, if our systems for contact tracing and testing were adequate. However, none of these requirements have been met. It is only a matter of time before this state, which relies heavily on tourism, sees a rebound of cases and we are once back in the situation we were in a month ago.
Contact tracing is a known strategy for dealing with epidemics, and has demonstrated effectiveness not only in past epidemics, but is working very well today (manually) in South Korea. This helps it scale and makes it possible to know about exposures to strangers.
Actually, the rules say that Show HN is for things that “other people can play with”. You can’t exactly play with an app that is paid, and you also can’t “try it out, ask questions, and then give feedback”.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.
Perhaps badly worded on my part. Limited != none. Clearly SIP has bent the curve. But new cases that are being reported now were transmitted well after SIP came into effect, i.e. are happening despite SIP. And absent other policy changes, we should continue to expect to see more of them. What changes we do see are in the other direction - more traffic, more outside activity, etc.

Practically, increase (or non-decrease) in weekly number of cases in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties suggests as much[1].

[1] https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/
Try mailspring...it’s an impressive piece of oss. Free version & pro features(paid)

https://getmailspring.com
Isn't 4G a lower frequency than Wi-Fi? So if it works for Wi-Fi, it would definitely work for cellular.
Why are you afraid of non-scientific ideas? Science is a light to illuminate the truth. What's the point of having a light if you are hiding ideas? There is no line to draw except against this kind of censorship. We ought to teach others tools for thought, not indoctrinate based off of our own biases, lest the next generation progress no further than us.
That process of finding the relevant and irrelevant differences is how some people think. I can go farther astray by saying "This copy and paste is immoral and dangerous because DRY" than "This copy and paste seems lazy, but would I object to it if it were generated code?" The analogy gets me abstracting features of the original problem and helps me see what parts of my reaction were attached to my framing of the original scenario.

What doesn't work so well is analogizing to things that are more emotionally intense. It comes from wanting your words to match the intensity of your emotions when the real thing is really not that bad.
I have a hard requirement before I can pull the trigger on a keyboard for my iPad: I need the same amount of control over keyboard layout that I get with Karabiner.

Specifically, I have caps lock mapped to backspace, and "delete" mapped to actual delete. This is deep in my muscle memory and I'm not interested in changing it.

I'm keeping an eye on things, and when I see that this affordance exists I'll probably get one. There are times when having a touchscreen laptop with a built-in cellular modem is just what I want.
The reason for this: the hardware is many years ahead of the software.

The potential of the physical device is far ahead of its software capabilities, but you can't install your own OS or run your own applications.
I think that a few terms appeared that describe superstitious beliefs. These terms are (not a complete list):

* tracking app

* social distancing

* self quarantine

* lockdown

Life is not a video game. There are no game designers able to decide that tracking apps somehow work, for instance.
Can you please not downvote my post?
Today we play with the official Italian rules, but even before, we actually had only very small divergence (you were not allowed to clean dirty plays, you could play a tris of deuces and you could discard a decue as your last card); also we used to play to 2000 points instead of three games.

More interesting is that we actually called the game canasta, which actually is a different but related game.
I just picked up an iPad Pro and the regular keyboard folio, and I'm really torn. Don't know if I like it or not. I find it's a hassle to flip the keyboard back around to close (when I've been holding it like a tablet) without inadvertently detaching the whole folio from the ipad.

I may have fat fingers. Or maybe I'm just used to folios I have used in the past that actually latched physically around the ipad.

But I'm completely with you, either way, on the value of the trackpad. Not worth $300 to me.
It depends.

Some places list patients who died as a coronavirus death if they have the symptoms. Some of this was prior to the increase in available tests. Some of this is to conserve the limited numer of gears for use by the living. It doesn't hurt them to list it a coronavirus death since they can get additional funding for coronavirus patients.
Here it is: exclusivity. That’s what it is going to take in the new world of 2020. It could be as simple as an app that you schedule cafe time for with participating small cafes by yourself or for your friends, so that the table is waiting and ready for you. You can add all sorts of perks, from music control or silence for your block of time, to being able to choose the types of patrons that join you and your friends. Perhaps you are all musicians and you want to schedule a block of time with other musicians. The app would match you together and book the time.