skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well spotted, thank you.
Are gender equality laws prohibited by the Constitution? Title IX shows no.
> The shelter-in-place has not only had this effect, it's been too effective. Hospital utilization in the bay area is at around 10% when you count surge capacity that has been added [1].

This matters if the end game is herd immunity, but not if the end game is to wait out a vaccine, or a sophisticated testing infrastructure. Unfortunately, I don’t think we know what the end game is going to look like now.
Fortunately on hackernews we have downvoting and flagging for dealing with opposite views!
Thank you! I live in Boston and am a frequent visitor to the Museum of Science, which has a Foucault pendulum. I never truly grasped the explanation until reading your post.
I think that's mostly because today there are so many bright minds they don't fit in a coffee house.

Go to the cafeteria of any large business or university and you'll probably find more highly educated people than you found in all of Vienna 150 years ago.

I think what you're yearning for is really the bourgeois culture of high-minded intellectuals participating in exclusive clubs rather than facilitating good discourse between intelligent people. Access to the latter nowadays is thankfully much easier than it was in the past.
What phone do you have? iOS and Android have QR readers in their camera apps.
I can’t quite agree that the annotations are ‘required reading’ for competent representation of a litigant. Some state’s official printings of statute are pretty bare (Louisiana in particular), but Georgia’s official documents are quite thorough. The area of law, the type of arguments, etc are all facets of what types of references make good arguments. I’m not aging the annotations aren’t a good reference, but that some commenters seem to be placing a lot of emphasis on them, instead of other sources.
I have a AO Smith hybrid water heater for the last year and half. Seems to work. Made sense in my case because I wanted to move water heater from the house to the garage. Using a hybrid unit meant I didn't need to plumb gas and figure out how to install a vent.

My suggestion is when you get your solar system installed have the electricians run a 30 amp circuit and disconnect to the water heater location. That way you'll be ready to go. Otherwise you can get stuck if you current water heater dies. You'll be basically forced to replace it with a new gas heater.

Also I saw a youtube video by a off grid nut talking about installing a heat pump water heater. It worked, the only problem it had was the AO Smith unit he was using would test it's heating elements on startup. Which would overload his inverter. I think he fixed that by getting higher resistance heating elements. Otherwise the current draw in heat pump only mode was 300 Watts.
Social media shaming of individual doctors who permit this at their clinics could be effective. People are pissed about pandemic profiteers already, but the perception is that most of them are distant mega corps. If they find out it's happening in their immediate community and know the parties responsible, it probably has a good chance of being shared.
> the current iteration of cafes is but a pale imitation of what they were in the past.
>Revolutions were plotted, art movements invented, and history made in places like Cafe Central in Vienna.

That was simply out of necessity. Revolutions are plotted, art movements invented, and history is made on the internet now. If these things are your metric, cafe's will never again return to the glory days.
> even without LTO, the compiler knows what malloc and free do at a semantic level.

int *a = ...;
int b = *a;
malloc(42);
b = *a;
printf(b);

If malloc is an opaque function, can the compiler nonetheless eliminate the second `b = *a` load as dead because it "knows what malloc does"? Certainly not, right?
Null can mean whatever you want it to mean. It can mean not dead yet if you want. And the logic of NULL works in that case too—two people who haven’t died yet don’t have equal dates of death.

The problem with having a value called “none” is that it would be tempting to make none = none return true, which is madness.

(I do agree it would be nice if we could have multiple kinds of null instead of just one. But I would want them all to have the same equality properties as NULL.)
That's not fair, though, because it really depends on how often the fast path gets hit. In good dynamic language runtimes, for example, the fast path is extremely optimized and hit very often, so even though the slow path can be thousands or millions of times slower the application performance might track the fast path rather than the slow one.
<Foo bar="baz"/> = React.createElement(Foo, { bar: "baz" })
Find one near you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Foucault_pendulums
This cocktail is called Excedrin in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine).
I'm a Redux maintainer, and yes, I keep trying to tell people that 95% of Redux apps don't need sagas. They're a great power tool for those cases when you have truly complex async workflows, but they're complete overkill for basic data fetching behavior.

I wrote about why I chose thunks as the default in our Redux Toolkit package:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/02/blogged-answers-wh...

and our Style Guide docs page specifically recommends using thunks as a default:

https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-thunks-for-...
Right, but without understanding this one doesn't really understand arrow functions either.
I don't see it mentioned, but I thought I'd chime in. Even if your crypto algorithm is perfect and works infinitely fast, there's still the problem of implementation. And that's usually not perfect and often leads to practical gaps that can be exploited. During WWII, the German Enigma machines were broken in part due to design errors (like letters wouldn't be encoded to themselves) and user error (like sending messages that start/end the same way). Even if crypto is some day perfect in a sense, it may still be used in imperfect ways that allow one to break it or circumvent it entirely.
I do eat beans all the time, its a staple food here. G

I just make them with meat, pork, sausage and the whole party
That's exactly what Perl has been doing since 1987.

Where do you think the idea for `"use strict"` in JavaScript came from?

use v5.8;
use strict;
use warnings;
Part of the problem with the reporting on death rates and, to a lesser extent, many of the tests and treatments of COVID-19, is the almost nonexistent emphasis on uncertainty quantification. A view might only be ‘different’ in the sense that the mode of the belief is shifted significantly, which is to be expected if existing beliefs are quite diffuse (i.e., uncertain).
#1 would be useful for sure.
In practical terms both versions likely have zero chance of success. Sadly.

Although scientifically speaking, the rounding off error of your original formulation is bigger :)
From https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494892-barr-tell...

> Attorney General William Barr on Monday directed federal prosecutors to “be on the lookout” for public health measures put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic that might be running afoul of constitutional rights. In a two-page memorandum to the 93 U.S. attorneys, Barr cautioned that some state and local directives could be infringing on protected religious, speech and economic rights. “If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court,” Barr wrote.
Well up until now I was flying 100K a year and bringing my MacBook Air and my 11 iPad Pro. The laptop was for working on presentations, docs, doing demos and SSH. The iPad was for the airplane and the hotel room bed. If I can really be productive on the iPad+keyboard setup then that changes what I will be packing. After the Apple store open again I am looking forward to trying this out. One downside, no Steam games for the airplane flight. When is the iPad Pro Civ6 port coming?
I can't help myself: Wouldn't we need a third consensus algorithm to reach consensus? :D
In the absence of copyright, one supposes that authors would get large up-front fees for publishing, and that the fee for book 4, book 5 and so on for JK Rowling would have been quite large, so I suppose she would have done just fine. Think "Kickstarter, but for authors".
It's not hating, I wouldn't buy something expensive in Amazon either. Anything where I need some real backup in case of something going bad I buy somewhere physical that I trust. In case of consumer electronics and pc parts I use Pcbox and App Informática, two Spanish franchises. Most of the times the price difference is under 5€ but guess most people is not aware.

It has been this way for me for two years or so. I think I made the right choice. Research on the internet, go fnac, pcbox, appinformatica, cetronic, decathlon... I don't even live in a big city and there are good options for almost everything.

And I'm +30, it's not like I didn't adapt to the internet.
Yeah but this is like setting monetary policy without using interest rates or something. Or coming up with a government spending program and not even trying to do a quick analysis of how much it will cost. It's fucking insane.

Public policy requires metrics and stated goals, and requires that they not be secret. Without those it's not democracy.
It’s ok for people to eat plants != I’m taking away your right to eat meat

Please don’t make the rest of us meat eating conservatives look like morons.
I think what Wifi-over-Coax is trying to get around is having to coordinate multiple access points. Wifi breaks down particularly horribly when some of the stations and APs can't hear each other. By only having 1 AP, you avoid some of that problem. (Of course, stations can still interfere with each other. So I'm not sure how useful this is in practice.)
Twitter has degenerated into one of the least friendly things to build an app for. I've had a better dev experience with Gab, ffs.

Not only that, but also their community building and tending is abysmal too, so your app will end up used mostly by the kind of user that brings infinitesimal value with them.

Twitter isn't worth it.
And we have showdead to be able to hear those voices anyway.
Yeah, but your perspective can be just ignored. A story:

I was asked to write an invoicing system. I know a _lot_ about invoicing systems. The owners who employ me were very explicit: all figures this invoicing system displays must exclude gst/vat. That made sense to them, because gst/vat just confuses their profit figures.

However, the whole point point of an invoice is to communicate to the customer what they will be paying and why. The customers in this case are retail. They are interested in only one figure: what comes out of their bank account. That figure includes gst/vat of course.

As part of this I asked to see what they were doing now. The old system they were using did adhere to their edict: everything was ex gst/vat. As a consequence every person who customer facing (ie, the the vast majority of the employees) carried a calculator to convert the figures to what the customer wanted as they spoke with them. It looked difficult to me, but evidently madly stabbing calculator buttons while maintaining a smooth flow of conversation must be a skill most people can acquire.

This was insanity of course: we could save the bulk of the organisation time and considerable fustraton by just giving these people the figures they needed. So I very explicitly ignored their direct instructions. Note: I had to ignore it, as I had already lost the argument. In due course it was rolled out for testing. I went down a month or two later. The calculators were gone, people were expressing their gratitude. Not a word was said by my managers, and I duly been rewarded every year with raises.

I am an professional. I am hired very explicitly because I know far more about computer systems than the people who hire me. Like a doctor who refuses to prescribe opioid's, I view as my duty to steer them them in the right direction even when they don't want to be steered. If that requires putting my balls on the line and refusing to budge, so be it. They can always fire me if I've made a grave error.
cries of "judicial activism" only ever arise when it's a ruling against a conservative position

I saw a counterexample just this morning. An editorial was arguing that the Court's "interference" in the Michigan election threatens democracy, and the only solution is to pack the court.
Well, then you use progressive rendering, or you use chunks, or you use something else. Sure, there might be specific mitigations that someone might have or have not set up, but that is not the point. The point is that assuming your system is safe is a bad position, and ignoring easy to use systems and processes to thwart complete classes of abuse is bad when you use a shared medium like the internet.
No it wouldn't. You ignored his point entirely, which is that even if we did manage to further lock down our borders, it does nothing to stop community transmissions. Those countries you listed weren't able to control the virus through strong border control, they did so through strong controls over community transmission.

Which should've been obvious, considering the initial transmissions in South Korea came from a cult.
Okay. So using the J.K. Rowling example: provide a plausible way that she could make money off of her writing, and particularly her first risky book, in the absence of copyright.
I can assure you there's companies that spend a millions on ads with no idea what they are doing. In-fact there are products within business units, within large enterprises that spend >$1M per quarter, where the segment itself may spend $5M+/Quarter, easily.

The agency that runs the programs the the only people that win - after they pocket their 5+% commission.

Source: past roles where I saw a lot of people who do not know wtf they are doing with ads (yet they themselves are making 6 figures)
The ordering question is literally just about how you call them within a single specific component. That component can then be used as many times as you want, in as many apps as you want.

In other words, this is not legal:

const [stateA, setStateA] = useState(false);

if(stateA) {
const [stateB, setStateB] = useState(42);
}

Call as many hooks as you want, in whatever sequence you want. Just make sure all the calls are at the top level of that function component, and that you don't somehow change the sequence of those from one render pass to the next.

As for how they work, React already has metadata that describes each component in the tree. There's a specific field in those metadata objects that gets used for tracking internal component state, and for function components, that field stores an array / linked list of the hook calls you've made and their last saved results.

See these resources for more explanations on how hooks are implemented:

https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
When is the iPad Pro Civ6 port coming?

You mean this? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/id1...
I am speaking specifically scanning without a camera.
Any worries about over-expansion of the public domain on legislature-produced works seem very strange to me. Why does anything that lawmakers produce deserve to be copyrighted? They are elected public servants.
I like how you bagged on him for telling the truth.
What would happen if I patented "left pad" in a bunch of languages?
That's actually one of the general issues with heatpumps - because they aren't literally lighting something on fire (or using resistive heating which just lights money on fire) they have smaller temperature deltas when designed properly as you mention. This leads to things like oversized air conditioners in hot places because people will cycle the AC creating a high peak demand and if it isn't 'blowing cold' they think it isn't working.

Heat pumps (assuming they can vary their output, which most new ones can) work much better to keep a constant temperature whether hot or cold and actually create a really nice indoor environment if a) designed or sized correctly and 2) have good thermostat placement. There's plenty of software, standards, and guides out there to hit both of those and then you just have to educate the users to set a temperature and then forget about it other than monthly filter cleaning. This is hard coming from 100% or 0% duty cycle systems like most fossil-fuel heat and old-style air conditioners so some think heat pumps are 'wimpy' and don't work. Placement is also part of that - you shouldn't be sitting in the output of the unit (which tend to be lower velocity than forced hot air etc) because the unit should be placed so it can cool the entire space.
Since my wife is on my health insurance plan, COBRA is going to be very expensive.

Instead of COBRA, can you get on an Obamacare ACA plan? That might be much cheaper.
Yeah but at the same place?

Imagine Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Satoshi Nakamoto, Putin, Xi Jinping, Jeff Bezos, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk and Geoff Hinton sitting in the same cafe in the early 2000s.
I agree on the free coffee front. I find coffee is one of those few products where quality mostly decreases with price. The other case of this--very similar--is generic medicine, where expired patents mean nobody is making a buck on a huge sales show to promote a crappy medicine, so you get better results if you select the cheapest alternative.
Why would you not agree? It’s simple math. In most states, your weekly unemployment is half your salary, up to a cap. Under the CARES Act, you then add $600/week. So if that extra $600 is more than half your weekly paycheck, you earn more on unemployment. It works out to everyone earning less than about $62,000, which is more than half of people in most of the country.

Pointing out that this creates a disincentive to return to work isn’t accusing anyone of “living high in the benefits hog.” It’s not that we’re talking about a ton of money. It’s that we do need most of the country to return to work eventually. And if even white collar workers making $60,000 a year are getting paid more in unemployment, that is a pickle we’re going to have to resolve at some point.
Where is Spain and Italy in your Options?
State's usually have laws to the tune of "if X happens then the emergency is extra super legit and the governor's orders carry the force of law" where X may or may not include a legislature vote and these laws have been exercised sparingly and in good enough taste (i.e. in actual emergencies) that they haven't been challenged much so they live in the same constitutional gray area that many obvious affronts to the text of the constitution live in.
States should have let the feds make this decision. The states who hate the feds (california, washington, new york) are also the ones who have the trickiest political decision to make, as reopening in dense cities is always going to be a tradeoff.

The states who like the feds (middle america, texas) have the easiest decision as their states aren't dense.

Now Democrat politicians, who prefer to make intersectional, empathetic decisions have to make the toughest political choice imaginable.
There was a lot of discussion in the Crank thread. Essentially, concurrent mode is the primary goal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903967
This reminds me of a quote going around a few weeks ago: "If we have done a good job, everyone will say we over-reacted."

As a counter point, NYC did _not_ do a good job and at it's peak COVID-19 killed more people than heart disease and cancer during the month of March [1].

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-becomes-number-one-caus... (This is a national number but its even worse when you consider the vast majority of cases are in NYC/NYS)
I think a lot of iOS developers would switch to this setup if Apple would just port Xcode.
Actually, as Russian i know that most of classic Russian literature (before revolution of 1917) is highly depressing. I was attending a school while USSR was still alive, and even with relatively small number of classic russian books passed thru Soviet censorship, it was always like this: sad and depressing. Tolstoy, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov - no difference.
This is true. In a previous job the amount of legal text we needed to include depended on whether we had been sued for something related previously.
> The problem is worshiping code brevity instead of understanding what their code does. No, that's not a new problem, but it doesn't mean that it becomes the language's problem that you have to actually understand what you're telling something to do.

Good language design means accepting that programmers are human and writing for use by programmers as they actually exist, not for some imaginary perfect programmer.

> It should be really difficult to include a buffer overflow, or a dereference a null pointer. In practice, languages that do that have a cost overhead. You still had to write that extra code, the compiler or library just did it for you.

This is a dangerous myth. Most of the problems with C - and SQL - are just deadweight losses. You actually can just use languages that don't have those problems.

> Either you understand what your application is doing and you understand what your query is doing, or you don't understand either of those things. I'm sorry, there isn't a middle ground, and there never will be regardless of what data store you choose, what language you use, etc. The guy at the keyboard still has to know what he's doing.

Languages are tools for understanding. There are good and bad languages, and it's easier to make better languages than make smarter programmers.

> Then set the column to have a NOT NULL constraint and now it's impossible to store a null value. You'll get an error just like trying to store a character value into an integer field.

Right, but there's no way to distinguish that at the point of querying, and no practical way to have NOT NULL constraints on your intermediate variables in the middle of a query.
Reddit. My state's subreddit has a massive discussion about how the unemployment system is failing, completely unable to handle the enormous number of people trying to file claims. There's a lot of desperation in those threads.
or how about a crowd is wise but a herd is not?
What would the fee mechanism be for her very first book? Who would pay it? Remember, this book was so risky that she was rejected by quite a number of publishers.

Copyright is also the tool of open source code licensing. How exactly would a viral license operate when, lacking copyright, the authors have nothing to license?
> Questioning things is good.

HN could indeed use more epistemic uncertainty and gray (vs black-and-white) thinking.
I agree (though I am not aware of the Italian controversies), but it’s worth acknowledging that in the case of a pandemic, scientific opinions drive policy, and policy may have dramatic consequences, including the loss of lives. So it is understandable that conversations get heated, vs disagreeing about a pure academic topic. I am less worried about the heat than about deplatforming, ie suppressing the dissenting opinion.
I could be proven wrong, but I'm almost certain no assault on the status quo will be mounted from a mac book.
you don't have to pay for cobra until you need it though, so you could get out spending $0, iirc.
The first Harry Potter book was released in 1997 and the first movie was 2001. So to satisfy that the author be compensated would not require 70 years after her death.

I think most of us agree that copyright has value but its become excessive.
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