skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say less impressive? Many great things can be produced by teams of what are essentially grad students.

A single person churning out brilliant opinions over decades would be more impressive to me.
Do you want to work on one? I've got a secret searcher project I've been doing for about 12 years I'm finally ready to do something with. It works on about a 1.7TB corpus right now, returns results in a few seconds on a single 3rd generation i5. I'm thinking of putting real work and money behind it now

Contact me if interested.
They could contact the authors and ask them for permission explicitly instead of saying in a random tweet somewhere that a hashtag opts you in to agree to anything.
It is a huge issue, there have been plenty regimes that practically wished for this type of technology. What if Nazi Germany had access to all this tech? Perhaps this is a stereotypical example, I would agree, but what makes you so confident there will never be bad actors to abuse systems we put up?

You don't fail to see how it would keep researchers busy for years, but why would only researchers be interested?

Collective benefit over individual rights is not a novel discussion. I see people trying to make a case for individual rights be construed as anti-collective benefit. These people however are also just people, trying to speak for what they think is right, but often times get criticized for it. A lot of times people consider starkly different cost-balance calculations and arrive at different conclusions but this is rarely made explicit. What if you set the time scale a little differently? Corona might be ravaging the world today, but how about in 50 years? 15? Laws to combat terrorism passed during times of crisis that were supposed to be temporary are still here (not a US resident, I might be misinformed, but I hope my point is evident).
Personal responsibility must enter the equation; otherwise, you're consigning those of us who have made good decisions about our health to pay the price for those who haven't.
They’re not near being overwhelmed. That’s the point of we are currently living in success. But what we know from Italy and NYC is that the margin between situation-normal and patients-are-dying-in-hallways is less than a month.
> and I don't understand the relationship of Tokio and the language's async/await syntax.

One of the surprising things with rust here, is that it define only the syntax and some bare traits AND ALLOW TO PLUG ANY RUNTIME.

This mean you can "swap" runtime implementations and even build your own.

One recent example is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/g917ad/smol_stjepang_...

This is in contrast with Go/Erlang/.NET, etc where the runtime for it is made for you, but can't be changed. This is cool where things are mostly fine all the time, but rust being a SYSTEM lang allow this is neat (example: Embebed scenarios where a regular runtime is too heavy).

Note: This template show in other places, where for example you can swap the allocator or the (default) hash function.
In that scenario you actually have the legal obligation to return the letter to the post office. The law as written makes it a crime to throw it away or otherwise obstruct delivery. Being asked merely to delete it is a much lower obligation.

https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-the-federal-law...
You aren't wrong. In hindsight, we should have shipped 1.0 a year or so after v0.1. I don't think we can ship 2.0 now. v0.3 is going to happen soon to fix errors in v0.2. async/await in Rust is very new. We are still figuring things out.
Disney's tweets are better understood as a "heads up" to people, than creating any sort of right that Disney will actually try to defend.

There is zero chance Disney will try to argue about this content. If someone complains at all, Disney will just take their tweet down and replace it with another one. There are plenty more fans out there who would be psyched to see their tweet being promoted.
It would be neat to combine a heat pump (water heater or general heater) so that the outdoor coil (cooling down the air) is put to good use instead of being wasted cold. For example the cold coil could be cooling down a fridge or freezer.

I'm not sure how feasible it would be in practice. There is an advantage in having appliances that are independently serviceable and replaceable. But then again one heat pump system cooling the fridge and heating up water is simpler and less likely to break than two separate systems (one for the fridge, one for the water heater.) Price-wise, however, the labor costs of installing one physically larger integrated system are probably high than the labor costs of installing 2 smaller systems. So many tradeoffs...
We make a smart thermostat for minisplits using IR (flair.co/products/puck). We have solved for state problems but some brands were such a PITA!
I see here a lot of interesting assumptions as of why and whether differences exists between our days and the past but for any practical solution you don't need to go so far back to ponder the existence of PTSD, even today the rate of PTSD is very different among different societies.
For example Israeli soldiers tend to have much less PTSD than Americans and the ones that have it are affected in different ways. It will be more interesting to test the theories brought here on those different societies and see if any of them make sense and what other differences might exist.
I see. Previously, those people had to compile from source, and very very recently, it moved to providing easy installation. So I think that it's not misleading, but I think a reasonable person could differ.

Nah, it was the title change. I'm a super big fan of the previous discussion links; I know they have a weird controversial history on HN, or at least they did a long time back, but I've always thought it was a nice touch.
The paper's main conclusion is accurate. Raft is more understandable because of the clarity of the paper. But implementation is very tricky. As I've written elsewhere it takes weeks or months to write a solid implementation from scratch.
I have done most of my pandemic shopping on Amazon, but have had luck with 4/5 externally run sites, most of which are on shopify. In the first 3 weeks after the first shelter in place orders, Amazon was about a week slower than the rest. Now it switched, and it seems Amazon is faster again. However I am now regularly doing business with a few other sites that have products Amazon doesn't.
On 3/16 San Francisco and some other cities issued the shelter-in-place order, and CA had 472 patients. Two weeks later, on 3/30, CA had 6,932 patients. That's 21% average daily increase, with an existing shelter-in-place order.

With 21% daily increase, it takes 12 days to go from 10% to 100% hospital utilization. And change of policy usually takes a week or more to affect the curve. Which means, we are ~5 days away from an invisible deadline, after which hospitals will be overrun no matter what.

That's not nearly far enough for my liking.
not sure they are a shining example, they are just over twice the population of NZ, they have had over 2000 deaths, we have had 19. Yesterday we had 1 new case.

Today in NZ is the first day out of our strictest level of lockdown and a large number of businesses are going back to work as long as they follow strict distancing, and safe interactions. Also public facing businesses can't open, if you are a shop, you need delivery options or contactless pickup / payment options.
> it's still, I think, somewhat unclear whether there's any kind of enforceable contract they could claim there.

What would be the consideration?
It's scary. I was laid-off this month due to COVID-19. Luckily, I am getting paid for one more month because of the WARN Act. I've been looking, but it has been difficult since I'm competing with all the more senior co-workers and peers who were also laid-off.

So how is my budget?

* I know that there will be a time gap between being able to apply for unemployment and receiving it. The unemployment systems in the US are still overwhelmed.

* Since my wife is on my health insurance plan, COBRA is going to be very expensive.

* We moved recently for my job, so a lot of the savings we had are already gone.

We have some runway, but no where near enough to feel safe. We are one of those edge cases where we took a risk, it paid off and life was great, but it didn't last long enough for us save up again so things are looking grim. So finally...

> Yet when I read Redditors talk about quarantine, you'd think everyone in the world was getting paid time off to play Animal Crossing at home or they live at mom's house rent-free. And it seems like it's this crowd that's likely to be pushing for staying in lockdown with no end in sight.

We both still are 100% for maintaining the quarantine. No we are not living some relaxing lifestyle at home. I've been quite stressed out. However, I also know that I would never forgive myself if I contributed to breaking quarantine early and that caused a chain reaction of hospitals to be overrun again and leading to my parents, a relative, or an old friend to die because they could not get the proper treatment.

There is a lot I want to rant about, but rather than that, I would like to leave these thoughts:

Stop thinking of the solution as being so black and white. Lifting the quarantine isn't the only way to help everyone who has been impacted. For example, why not have the same government bodies that enacted the quarantine do something just as drastic to save those who were impacted? What other solutions are out there?

Also, if lifting the quarantine leads to more deaths, then remember that there is an economic impact there too. Have you ever paid for a funeral? I have and at a young age too. It burned a hole in my savings. That set me back several years in saving and investing in myself. Imagine doing the same to the generation of young adults whose parents are in the risk factor group. Far too many of the comments I read, even on HN, are seeing things only through the lens of what politicians say. Outside of compiling raw statistics, I've seen very little independent thought on how to solve the current problems in society.
> precedent

and just because precedent is overturned doesn't mean it is wrong. I don't like Citizens United as much as the next person, but I think this requires a constitution change.
That doesn’t make a decision “wrong.” Lots of Supreme Court opinions are wrong, and often obviously so. There is nothing wrong with overruling them.

Citizens United was an instance of the government sliding down a slippery slope of precedent, which forced that precedent to be re-evaluated. The facts (the government attempting to punish someone for distributing a political movie about a political candidate) were so stark, they revealed the defects in the precedent that may have been obscured previously. Moreover, the government made clear at oral argument that there was no limiting principle to its position—it acknowledged that, had the Court ruled the other way, nothing stopped the government from book banning and other core free speech violations.
> 40k deaths we have so far.

You're off by at least 10,000.
These are relatively common here in New Zealand, but the upfront cost is high and there is more maintenance than a insulted electric water heater. Retrofitting one will never pay itself off so they only go into new homes.

Most homes in NZ use electric water heaters with gas becoming more and more popular. Gas is only used for heating tap/shower water and cooking, not for heating the home.
Hmm? Plenty of countries that did shutdown did experience "a few thousand unnecessary deaths". What's your point?

OP's and/or TFA's point, as well as many people's who talk about this, seems to be that Sweden is faring as well as its neighbors that did shutdown. That's a big deal.

And did Taiwan shutdown? IIRC they did not. They were able to get way ahead of everyone and stop the spread of covid-19. Since most other countries did not, it's not fair to compare Sweden to Taiwan.

Some people are bent on there being shutdowns no matter the cost, no matter the cost-benefit analysis, no matter if there is no real benefit.
I would not suppose that. Some commodity futures have very low trading volumes and periodically there are prosecutions for price manipulation. Even for high-volume contracts like crude oil, market manipulation happens (see OPEC) and quirks in the mechanics of the contract can trigger enormous price swings (see WTI last week).
If you made $7000/hr since the birth of Jesus, you'd still have less money than Jeff Bezos.
If you have a Bluetooth receiver logging the different IDs you've come in proximity with and when, its easy to deduce who the positive user is by who you were in proximity of at that time.
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The main difference is that MoCA is designed to run over coaxial cable, and G.hn is meant for use over power lines.

They have similar use cases ("route data over wires that already exist in your homes"), but different problems (MoCA: avoid interfering with your cable/satellite/cable modem feed, G.hn: deal with the absolutely abysmal signal quality on power lines, avoid accidentally broadcasting in the FM bands,...)

From a modulation perspective, G.hn wave 2 and MoCA 2.0 are broadly similar. They both use OFDM as the main modulation and LDPC as the FEC. They both are scheduled networks (like 802.11, unlike wired ethernet) where a master node allocates transmission time slots to other nodes. The devil is in the details though and I'm not as familiar with the G.hn wave2 spec as MoCA, so the detail I can give you is limited.
There are some other executors too such as async-std, smol and bastion, but Tokio is the one with the largest ecosystem.
> much less useful

depends on who you are. If you live in the UK, sure. If you live anywhere else, this article is not very useful.
I'm not sure how any of these are not already searchable / discoverable by someone abusing the cellular system that already knows phone locations all the time?
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Reinvention is ok in term of copyright. Patent would prohibit it.
That's silly. Making money is not illegal. A contract simply cannot permit something that is illegal, such as murder.
I'm not suggesting having no metrics, I'm talking about hard targets. Acknowledging that there are things we don't know about the problem and that we're not overcommitting to a course of action based on some specific target is reasonable.

At the same time, to your point, I would like to see clear explanations of "these are the aspects of the disease we are trying to understand (virality, mortality, etc)," these are the constraints on our healthcare system, these are the economic effects, here are the tradeoffs we're trying to make. All of that stuff is good, but it's a complex problem and assuming that we know enough at this point to set a clear numerical goal seems wrong to me. Describing general parameters for our data gathering and decision-making is good, though, and I agree that I'd like to see more of it.
Smol: A small and fast async runtime for Rust
Disney's strategy here will obviously be to just honor any and all complaints and take that content down.

They gain nothing from a fight, and there are plenty more Star Wars fans out there who would be happy to have their tweets promoted by Disney.
You can only copyright the text of the source code, as if it was literature. Write your own source code to implement the same algorithm using the same efficient techniques, and you're fine (as long as it isn't patented.)
thanks, adding it to my watch list !
Investors Want a Cure, Not a Winner
Compared to some Western European countries, the US are looking pitiful. Italy went from 5000 cases/day in early April to 2000 now and Germany from 7000 cases/day to 1500 now. The US continues with 25000 new cases every day and no downward trajectory in sight. This is community transmission, not imported cases.
Then, when it inevitably breaks, your house is cold, you have no hot water, and all your food is spoiled, all at the same time.
Just chiming in to say this looks really cool. Especially good for a personal laptop where you’re going to be using it for lots of different purposes.
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Yes. Engineering is all about tradeoffs. This is a downside, but it is made up for by all the upsides.
@DangitBobby Making money off of someone else's IP is illegal though.
Why would I be scared of Google/Fb/Amazon or other companies ? They don’t have power and can be sued effectively. Government departments cannot and have privileged acces to my data and keep getting caught letting their agents abuse it for the most trivial of reasons.

If Amazon violates my privacy I basically get better suggestions for a birthday present for my daughter a week before her birthday.

What I fear is the government passing my medical file to health care, police and insurerance companies. What I fear is an incompetently recorded and therefore wrong home moving record getting passed to the IRS and that resulting in an investigation, blocking my accounts. What I hate is a wrong camera match to my face resulting in the police wrongfully arresting or convicting me. What I fear is the police agggressively investigating me because they have some random tiny bit of “evidence” such as my cell phone being close to a crime, or because I dialed a wrong number that was involved in a drug case.

I therefore want the ability to permanently edit and erase my own medical record, as well as any other government record on me, from school data to ex spouses when a divorce is final. The ex spouse is allowed to have proof. City hall is not. I want the government itself to be liable for passing any info even to the police. I want contact tracing to be impossible even if it makes police 5% cheaper at the cost of allowing for great abuses. I do not want laws that cannot be enforced against government departments, I want it to be erased.

Compared to those threats, I don’t really care about private companies knowing I watched porn yesterday evening. Without effective protection for the Crown Jewels of my privacy I don’t care about tiny details.
Rt of .88 according to https://rt.live I agree some restrictions could be relaxed. Hospitals were a good first step. More of the outdoors could be a good next one.
I would not be surprised if > 10% of people are unable to figure out where they downloaded it.

The Downloads folder is a scourge that never should have been allowed to exist.

Where should something be after I request it be moved to my machine? On the default view! (Aka Desktop)

Why? Because I literally just interacted with it!
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I should also note, for balance, that this isn't perfect today. There are still some missing bits to make it truly "plug anything anywhere," but it's pretty close.
That margin of error is so large as to render the paper's conclusion meaningless or even downright fraudulent.
Just nitpicking, but that's not how a modern CPU works. The microcode does not execute the micro-ops, the microcode is used to generate micro-ops to be executed, and in fact most instructions don't even go through the microcode, which is used only for complex or rarely used instructions. Simpler instructions are decoded directly into micro-ops.
The difference is that with a shutdown mandate, many people are in the same boat, which necessitates a solution. It's not uniform ("essential" and remote workers), but it's better than putting even more people in the position of having to choose their health or eventual homelessness. Especially say, to just work in nearly-empty movie theaters.

The tax revenue is a red herring. Print the money, as was quickly done for the corporate bond bailout. Or better yet, do the sustainable thing and just suspend rent payments and mortgage interest, so that the debt black hole actually unwinds a bit.
I'm not a fan of copyright law, so don't take this limited factual response as an attempt at a general refutation of your points.

>When was the last time some copyrighted work entered the public domain?

January 1st, 2020:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_public_domain
By this logic, what could ever be considered "huge" departure? Any new language construct "converts" to something lower level unless that language is a set of assembly instructions. I mean, Elm converts to vanilla JS but few would say it's a small departure from it.
As I understand it, Lisp was originally expected to be a teaching or proof language with no implementation, then it got implemented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Hi...
Two things here:

First... you're not the target group for integrating with Alexa, G Home, Siri and friends; the vendors want (and tbh, probably need) only the "big brands" such as car makers, Sonos, Sony, Samsung etc., especially as they likely pay a hefty chonk of money for the privilege of accessing official SDKs and documentation plus support - they'd feel ripped off if the vendors would give away all that stuff.

Second: support itself. Assume that you're Google which is notoriously different to get support from a human being. What would you like more to support: a couple dozen highly skilled developers from huge companies or a bunch of thousand "hobbyists"? And who will the users blame if their 10 $ gadget doesn't work with Google Home one day, the gadget maker or Google?

tl;dr: we'd all like more open access but as long as Google and friends don't allow us to pay money to talk to a human able to solve your problems (did I already mention Google is extremely nasty to get in contact with?) that won't happen.
The JSX is just a bunch of function calls, all the complexity is in React the library - you can do a very light JSX to DOM library with zero of that complexity.
I require San Francisco to spell out what their goals are! I fundamentally reject the idea that it's our duty as citizens to shut up and do whatever London Breed thinks is best. If she's not willing to explain why these emergency restrictions are necessary and how we'll know when they aren't necessary, we shouldn't comply.
I had this problem maybe once in my life using eBay. The other 99% of the time it has worked great, but I'm sorry you had a bad experience :(
For example Angular templates, stuff like Razor in .NET, etc?
A very apt and unfortunately true characterization.
PR copy aside, the claimed performance differences relative to RocksDB and WiredTiger are typical of many storage engines, the performance doesn't stand out. I don't think either RocksDB or WT has made a serious claim to prioritizing performance in their designs in any case.

Also, I have to wonder how narrowly "open-source storage engine for SSDs" is being defined here such that it excludes so many earlier storage engines in claiming the title of "first".
This is a big deal. When I moved into my current apartment, the thermostat had two settings, "Heat" and "EM Heat". I didn't know what they meant, or what the difference was, and I never bothered to ask. But then one month by mistake I set the thermostat to "EM Heat" instead of "Heat". And I got a $300 electric bill instead of my usual $80. "Heat" means heat pump, and "EM Heat" means emergency heat, which means direct heating, which as the article explains requires several times more energy. I won't forget that again.