skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their "list" is basically just a list of states with debt, that completely ignores their ability to issue new debt and generate revenue (i.e. that people actually want to live in California and not Kansas), while ignoring the fact that many of these states with "balanced budgets" provide basically no services and are liable to getting wrecked in times of crisis. I mean, the fact that Kansas is so high on this list should tell you all you need to know.
Even better. Prosecute 'em.
You shouldn't be too surprised: C strings are null terminated.
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I think the future will continue the trend of better and bigger building blocks.

I don't think that programmers can manage more complexity. Part of the answer is better designs and architectures. But I think even more of the answer is better pieces to build from.
I'm not going to dive into your full post, but suffice to say that you are advocating a policy of capital-c Containment. Your implicit assumption is that we can avoid infection sufficiently long enough such that the future utility of vaccines and as-of-yet-undiscovered treatments outweighs the cost.

My position is that the cost of lockdown massively outweighs the cost of COVID-19 itself, and furthermore I am suspicious of the belief that we can effectively contain it without boarding people in their houses.

> The reason for the lockdown is to maintain healthcare capacity in the face of a virus that is highly contagious.

And yet the lockdown has, overall, scaled _down_ our healthcare capacity amidst the most serious pandemic in a century. Why is that? I can already foresee an argument of "oh well, the lockdown is fine, we just need to pass government regulations that pays hospitals to maintain this extra capacity". And my argument to that is, beyond a general distrust of government incompetence, paying somebody to sit around will not maintain their skills in the same way as paying them to actually perform the preventative care that we hired them for in the first place.

> The OP provides no suggestions on how lockdown might end

But I literally provided a proposal. The proposal is to have at-risk members of population - and yes, we can identify who is at risk really quite easily with the data we now have - quarantine as we've all been doing. Meanwhile, the rest of society is no longer forbidden from transacting and producing value.

Again, if you look at the fatality rate data, you will see that if we can just protect everyone over 60 - and especially everyone over 70 - we will mitigate probably 80% of the deaths. Unfortunately, even _with_ the lockdown, we have utterly failed to do so thus far in many parts of the country.

In particular, I strongly oppose the moral panic around people going to the beach, public parks, etc. Unlike our politicians, I strongly believe that these activities can be done safely and that there is insufficient evidence to show that they were ever a serious transmission vector in the first place.
Age is relevant here. I don't recall the numbers, but I read that a disproportionate amount of younger people who have died from covid-19 or had sever cases, were healthcare workers. And the theory was that viral load plays a part.

The Chinese doctor who blew the whistle on covid-19 died from it, and I believe he was an otherwise healthy 30-something.
Don’t worry about it. You have something that works so you are already ahead. Following every trend just drives you crazy.
How do you keep the files you are working on in your head when programming?
I find that this is the biggest pain point for me. When I am working on a task, it usually ends up spanning several files. And I just don't have very good memory.

I struggle to remember if I had some new variable in the Logger or the Worker, etc. It's usually trivial to see the list of files I'm working in and check between a couple, but I'd love to know if anyone has a memory palace kind of technique they use for programming.
And why should NY or CA residents fund most of the federal budget?
> So worst case if I use a heater it is 16% not renewable.

As a choice as an individual: The heater is off. You turn it on. The extra demand you added usually comes 100% from gas generation.

> In any case, electric water heaters in nz are ripple controlled and only heat at the lowest demand. So any electric water is using as much hydro as possible.

Our lakes are like batteries. If you choose to take an extra long hot shower powered by hydro at the moment, but 3 months later the lakes get low (because there is not enough rainfall) then extra gas generation is used 3 months later which matches 100% of your extra power usage due to your hot shower choice.

Reducing your power usage works similarly, in that you save gas generation.

As an individual, your choices 100% affect how much gas is used, because we are assuming others make no change. This is the key to thinking about marginal usage. Marginal economics are critical to understand when running a business too, since it is similarly confusing (and we all naturally make simple mistakes when thinking about it).

There are times when your extra usage comes only from hydro, but it is usually not simple to know at the point when you are adding power usage. Reducing power usage can only ever help, so different.
What would you like to happen in the short term instead?
thanks for this. Have nearly identical situation. 2 days shy of 6 weeks. The fatigue/lethargy is probably the worst part.

Also, I tested negative 5 weeks ago, but given issues with testing, I have self-isolated anyway.

edit: never have found a fever, though i had pretty intense bouts of chills in the first week
> An argument can be made that physically addictive substances violate a person's agency.

Are the substances immediately addictive? Should we violate the agency of those unaffected? What if people consent to having their agency violated?

Make no mistake, I'm not defending tobacco companies, I'm against the notion of my body's inputs being subject to someone else's control.
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They aren't paying for pensions. They are paying for a massive lack of tax revenue due to COVID.

Funny I never hear the argument from red states "We don't want your federal money for all the poor, sick, disabled, in our state!" considering CA and NY pay WAY WAY more out than they get back in federal money
Yes this! I probably picked some bad phones to give this a go. I had a Samsung Captiva for a while and I flashed hundreds of times on that. Lots of different roms and it took a while for the Cyanogen Rom become stable.

Then the whole Drama with Cyanogen the company also was weird.. kept me from messing with cyanogen specifically for a while.

Over all felt like playing the lottery. I'd do tons and tons of reading through xda forums and had to do things exactly right if misunderstood even a single step some of these phones were bricked.

Kinda like anything at some point you just need a break and it just needs to work :)
The addition is simple. As soon as you tell someone that 62 * 20 is the same as 60 * 20 + 2 * 20, you lose them. Try it out and see for yourself.
You have a point - the state's authority to arrest people is a huge hammer that should never be brought out unless absolutely necessary. That's why Bay Area officials aren't using it. Nobody in my county has been arrested for not staying at home, and last I heard only a single person outside of Santa Cruz has been.
NVIDIA's employees seemed to largely be using desktop computers rather than laptops, and many of their roles require lab equipment, it seems. They were one of the slowest to WFH, and it doesn't surprise me they'd want people to return faster.
Interesting. So if you are driving on a road and come across an intersection that you don't have a stop sign for but the cross roads do, you treat the intersection as an all-way stop?

In all my decades of driving I have never seen anyone drive that way. I think I'd believe it with dashcam evidence only.
If you’re not a biologist, it may have flown under the radar that there’s quite a bit of stem cell work going on already.

The development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can be made from adult tissue rather than embryos, sorta sidestepped much of the ethical debate. They’re not exactly equivalent, but iPSCs have opened the door to a lot of exciting research because you can culture tissue that’s very similar to a patient’s. A few clinical trials were starting to get underway too....
Thanks, that's interesting. Given an infectiousness period, it seems you can relate R0 to doubling time.

Like, if R0 is 2, that means each patient (on average) infects 2 others, but during the period of time they are infectious. So that would mean 2 others over the course of 10 days (8 days post-symptom, 2 days pre-symptom).
UV rays penetrate clouds, but the clouds do filter some of it, so you'll likely need to increase the amount of time you spend outside depending on how cloudy it is.
The thing is, this can only happen federally because of the Contracts Clause, and fixing certain states' problems isn't a national issue.
I miss having a job that required SSH'ing into a server to get work done. Nowadays everything is abstracted, push your code to the magic cloud and pull in 1000x other stupid little APIs. It's so boring...
Don't rethrow `new Error(error)` in JavaScript
Looks kind of similar to Sococo: https://www.sococo.com/
So do we have any data showing that the presence of antibodies equals immunity? What exactly is the test telling us as of today?
The whole "lets define end-to-end to be whatever we want" thing is getting real old.
Vaping is far safer than smoking - and there are countless studies and piles of evidence that prove this.

As evidence - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...

Now, I'm not saying it's safe. I'm not saying Juul didn't market unethically - just "vaping is better than smoking"

And if you can accept this overwhelmingly clear evidence - the cynic in you might ponder why there's an outrage over vaping, whilst cigarettes are still happily sold/taxed/lobbied.
Elon Musk launches into expletive-laden rant calling quarantine measures fascist
I'm surprised that the number is that high and very skeptical of it, but I don't have time to investigate at this exact moment. Regardless, they all have vacancy decontrol, which is a gaping loophole that nullifies the effectiveness of the regulation.
People forget that every year around 60 million people die worldwide as the normal course of things. Death is a fact of life. Like stupid chickens, people panic when they hear that a few thousand people are sick or have died. This whole shut down of the world economy is ludicrous. It's exposing the fallacy of the over-protective nanny-state. It's just another excuse to pay out trillions to their cronies and further enslave the world. People are being fooled by the numbers because they can't grasp how many humans actually exist on the planet. So what if 200,000 people have died out of 7.7 billion (.003%). Net ~85 million more will have been added this year.
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> Some people are looking at antibody studies that show that large parts of the population are somehow affected and then doing back of the napkin math and deciding that this is really not worse than the flu in terms of death rate.

i feel like a lot of people are ignoring that a ton of people have relocated outside of NYC. i don't think the 25% antibody positive study in nyc is accounting for that
...and time. DuckDuckGo is 11 years old and just getting started.
The Mind-Boggling Madness of Social Distancing
Digital Contact Tracing: Limitations, Implications and Recommendations
If you use gitlab for code reviews, it's actually the opposite. Each comment thread prevents a merge unless you hit the "Resolve thread" button. It's configurable, but AFAIR it's Gitlab's default.

Even though I also often use Github and Gerrit at my current job, everywhere we observe that convention that a comment is considered blocking unless indicated otherwise. This is because ~80% are typically blocking.
>>Discounting the interests of future people, Ramsey wrote, is “ethically indefensible and arises merely from the weakness of the imagination.

Climate change, the federal debt, increasing shareholder value over anything else, I wonder what Ramsey would have to say about the current state of the world.
Note that this is separate from his tweet that was discussed earlier (and arguably more noteworthy given that it happened during Tesla’s earnings call today)
A lot of us actually know of the connection from previous experiences with the Flu. What it seems to really do is to clear out the cough that comes after the Flu when the cough/sorethroat tends to enter your lungs. With VitaminD, that phase of the flu is gone. I dont supplement regularly, and I start taking it the day I feel I am going down with the flu. No point recommending it because you will be seen as someone who constantly talks of the benefits of VitaminD.

The other thing to make sure of while taking Vitamin D is to take adequate Vitamin K2(menaquinone), else you land up with kidney stones. For continued benefits, I also take some amount of sodium borate and magnesium. Anyway, this is my irregular regimen and you will need to talk to your doc before you do this.

Get tested, meet a doc, get the right dose, and understand how it works.
Yes... some animals paint, when enabled by humans. but painting on its own is just an activity. The way that elephants would have painted 100 years ago is the same in which they paint now. On the other hand, paintings by humans vary according to the time and place they were made. This is culture at work.

Defined in the most general way possible, culture is ‘the way we do things here’.

I’m not saying that animals have no culture at all. But Compared to humans, it would be a trace amount.
Ask HN: What are 3 company functions remote work is not well-suited for?
Mine are: mentoring junior employees, onboarding new recruits, discussing & setting OKRs.
>A conditional right is no right at all.

This is what you stated, and now you are agreeing that there are conditions. If you now agree that there are conditions that these rights can be applied, I believe an actual pandemic would be reasonable as a condition to the first amendment.
Early morning and sunset have wavelengths that are more beneficial and it's a great time to be outdoors.
Literally no one is asking for the fed government to pay for those pensions, this is a GOP talking point.

They are asking for help due to hundreds of millions lost in tax revenue.
right click->Open Link in New Container Tab is great! Can easily pick which container to put it in.

Email was the hardest for me. But felt the most freeing also.
Yes I've basically reached the same conclusion, unless we have a major shift in how programming itself works (AI assisted or more declarative like I said or whatever). It goes further than business/marketing though, even programmers do it to themselves.

Many languages have a package repository like CPAN for Perl, but you'll still find multiple modules trying to do the same thing but slightly differently, and even when there's a clear winner there's often a lot of complexity in using it.

Some things like sending an email are relatively well handled while others like XML parsing have a lot of warts. Then you get that urge to rewrite because there's no possible reason it has to be this complicated, and you become what you hate and add to the mess :)
parent is using CDC guidelines (I think?). I agree with your take, however.
Oops! That comment should have read "Url changed from https://github.com/google-research/football, which points to this". (Edit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)

"p" is a keyboard shortcut in the software I wrote to semi-automate repetitive moderation tasks. It's short for "points to" and constructs a comment with that text based on the before-and-after URLs. I can't fathom how that "p" ended up here instead. It guess it will remain one of the mysteries of moderating after midnight and a finite amount of good beer.
There are more than a few decisions that would appear to bear at least indirectly on this situation which can help us guess what the outcome would be. In particular, the "clear and present danger" standard would probably apply; since one could tie assembly to disease transmission, a highly infectious disease would seem to qualify.

Another area that speech has been restricted has been around espionage and wartime; it's clear that during wartime, our ability to speak becomes much more restricted, at least partially for security reasons. Again, the practical reason for this is that war can be an existential risk for a country, and generally, people are more than willing to give up their rights temporarily to avoid the risk of their entire nation being wiped out.

So, while I agree (to my limited knowledge; I'm just a speculating engineer) that there is no direct case law that bears on this, I do feel that my predictions on which side the SC would fall (unless the court was packed with Scalias) are reasonable.

There is little more for me to add so I think I will terminate my participation in this subthread.
And to prove my point, if you ask someone old enough to remember a Polaroid camera to describe it, they'll describe the SX-70. It was revolutionary for how it put photography into the hands of non-photographers. The 195 doesn't even warrant a footnote in history.
> it’s been well shown that you can beat any computer game using RL.

Starcraft has not been beaten yet. DeepMind's AlphaStar is a grandmaster, but is nowhere near world champion levels.
You need to press Enter before using the SSH ~ escape key.
I cannot remember the last time I changed my mind on something important.

But ... I try not to make a decision before I've had a chance to evaluate the question. Sometimes I find myself having to act prior to having a decent understanding, but I don't count that, because that's a conscious decision.

I also find that I have a lot of fairly nuanced positions on things. To pick some HN-relevant examples, I've been writing C++ since the late 80s. To this day, I cannot clearly state that I like it or don't; similarly, I started using Java with version 1.0 and again, I don't have a simple "Java is good/bad" opinion.

Similarly with politics: while I can usually manage to find an "on balance" position in favor of one person or party, there's never been a case where I felt an individual was 100% good or bad.

I think the apparent polarization of views is more about manufactured outrage, about knowingly taking an extreme position to provoke response, and that's become the dominant mode of discourse online, and from there leaked into RL. It's somehow more appealing to have an argument with radical disagreement than a more nuanced discussion where participants can both agree and disagree in parts.
Police hunt for person taking daily walk dressed as ‘terrifying’ plague doctor
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2016/09/post_183.html
Very strange. If you haven't seen it, they did say why they did it here: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/immunity-p...

Specifically this part:

> People who assume that they are immune to a second infection because they have received a positive test result may ignore public health advice.

So, first of all, I think the concern is on its face totally unwarranted because people likely do have immunity to reinfection for several months, but regardless the presence of the immunological memory (provided they avoid getting infected with Measles which causes immunological amnesia) means that the second infection will be really not very bad and unlikely to transmit easily.

But more importantly:

Our public health organizations (and the media) have adopted the following belief: It is worth it to either mislead the public or to outright lie in order to achieve compliance. If it's not clear from the article, I find such a position detestable, not only on ideological grounds but also because functionally it causes people to endanger their health by engaging in superstition.

This is my theory on why we've seen so many articles from previously-respectable organizations like CNN that seem to focus on the narrative that young people are dropping like flies from this. Why? Because they believe that if young people are not scared shitless for their personal health, that they will not comply with the lockdown measures.

So, the WHO is really not trying to hide their motivation here.

Now the irony is I oppose immunity passports on ideological grounds, at least when used _within_ a society. As far as being used as a literal passport, that's fine by me. If the rest of the world wants to practice containment, it's welcome to do so, but I think from an evidence-based perspective, containment seems like an incredibly dangerous proposition.
The president and leader of the GOP wanted to give cruise lines, who are NOT paying federal taxes and fly foreign flags to dodge US taxes a giant bailout but give US cities some help? Hell no!
You have the problem that too much information will just get skipped over by the user too. It has to be the right length of text if you want to try and get them to read it.
We usually point out examples of work done for clients in the same space. As for quality, the standards for paid work are unbelievably low in my opinion. My most recent real job was as an executive for a company that kept ghostwriting posts they intended to publish under my name. I found the content cringeworthy and couldn't even edit it to usable form. "Thanks for the effort but I would never use '...and stuff' in a post with my name on it.

The marketing team didnt understand my objection not because they were stupid but because the standard had been acceptably low for some time.
Many (if not most) people have "picked a team" so to speak, and they want to be correct. If Sweden's way proves to be better in the long run, many of those people will have been wrong. Nobody wants to be proven wrong, hence the passion.
The revolutionary part of React is not client side rendering, it's the composition (and reaction) of GUI through state changes.

A quick look at SmartClient shows that it still uses the old OO way of widget composition (widgets having .show() and .hide() methods, etc). This is not at all how React works. In react you render your GUI based on state, and events never manipulate widgets, they manipulate state. It's a functional way of approaching GUI's instead of an Object Oriented way.

The React way of building GUI's is now used outside of the web, for mobile apps through React Native and Flutter. This is completely different that any pre-existing GUI frameworks.
Sure the flights under the Lufthansa brand are premium. But they do have other brands like Germanwings which are more affordable (though barely I will admit).
Interestingly enough, a few years ago some scientists hypothesized the lack of selenium in certain parts of China may have contributed to the spread of the SARS 2003 epidemic, since viruses that infect organisms deficient in selenium mutate at much faster rate (although some scientists dispute that).

https://www.nature.com/articles/424121a
He's not. He'll be 77. He just DGAF.
I have to disagree, I know that HFT != electronic trading.

HFT is also not equivalent to arbing over latency.
I recall long ago playing some space game on a (speakerless) TRS-80 Model 1, which was carefully programmed to play game sound effects through any nearby AM radio tuned to the right frequency.
Juul time
Id like to welcome the author to 1998.
Clear consensus in the comments.
Tautology: 'two twins'.

Twins always come in bunches of 2. The title should just be:

"Twin brothers killed by 2 pandemics but 100 years apart"
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