skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those things are neat. I always wondered why they were wrapped around vertical pipes rather than horizontal, because intuitively it seems like horizontal would be better, but that's not the case. I looked it up and it's because falling water in a vertical pipe will cling to the pipe wall, while in a horizontal pipe it will just sit in the bottom. It's obvious in hindsight, but I've never thought about the physics of water in a vertical drain pipe.
Indeed, my account is 2004 and has the usual ads sans adblocker. They're still not obstrusive though.
I am going to kill myself if this goes on another day
It's primarily about naming collisions and indirection.

I covered some of the tradeoffs in this post and talk:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/07/blogged-answers-th...

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/09/presentation-hooks...
Various tech companies

I don't know of a single SV tech company that employs any janitorial staff directly.
I guess I'm not privileged to have seen that and would mind a setup on my house. I'm in AZ
Lots of things about the Ioannidis paper.

A) This was published as a research paper but how much of a research paper was it? As mentioned, it selectively and fairly shallowly looked at some data (the Diamond Princess) while wholly ignoring other data (South Korea) without even providing a strong justification for its choices. It was more like "an essay with scholarly footnotes".

B) This article wasn't simply offered to scientific community. You can find a huge swath of mainstream media reports describing this paper and another large number of popular articles with by Ioannidis himself defending the positions he staked out in his article. This was essentially a media campaign.

C). The particular position Ioannidis staked out was just one of a series of positions one can find staked by a variety of figures, some real scientists, some right wing ideologues, some somewhat in between. Again, if you look, a well financed media campaign. Below is a series of link I've cobbled together I've cobbled together as documentation of this:

The American Institute for Economic Research (libertarian/right wing think tank) give it's of "significant" article: https://www.aier.org/article/vital-information-that-is-falli... Essentially a web of articles united by the need to avoid undue action on the virus (IE, not cost money).

A nice article describing the similarity of Covid-denial and Climate-change-denial: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/04/coronavirus-d...

An article on the effort to spin the Santa Clara tests befor e they were even release: https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-circulating...

What's on with Ioannidis: https://undark.org/2020/04/24/john-ioannidis-covid-19-death-...

Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, another Stanford Connected "minimizer" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-corona...

A summary of several related minimizers, with a similar program: https://arcdigital.media/what-the-federalist-doesnt-get-abou...

Aljazeera gives a broader discussion, why real scientist would do this: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-herd-i...
Vietnam is also a communist country with no free press.

If you don’t believe China’s numbers, you shouldn’t believe Vietnam’s.
What numbers are these lol? Why compare a single flower shop to all Costco locations including office workers?

There's thousands of flower shops and thousands upon thousands of other shops like flower-shops that have low amounts of foot traffic that make social distancing easy while supporting people's livelihoods.
You can't really compare Arch to Gentoo really. Arch's goal is to keep it simple which they do via a extremely robust, but easy to understand package format. It takes almost no time to create a new package and submit it to the AUR. I can get the latest version of almost any piece of software I want with Arch between their standard package repo and the AUR. I can upload a small PKGBUILD easy-to-understand text file and create a package from it. Yum on the other hand is tedious to maintain. That is why RHEL and CentOS are often years behind stable packages in their repos, and using a two-year old kernel.
Do you have a link to this new order?
Average age is much lower than 86.

Michigan has had hundreds of people in their 40's and 50's die (~13% of deaths):

https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_9817...
Hi Artic, here's a new study you might find interesting. It seems to disagree with your contention that immunity is normal for coronaviruses.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long...
Waiting in line means extended contact. Brushing past in an aisle is 'momentary proximity' and while not ideal, represents a lower risk. Also, one is easier to enforce than the other. So there you have it.
They have some things that a relational database likes:

+ Fast search (log(N))

+ Insert/Delete are fast (O(N) ... Most of the time)

+ Iteration is fast (unlike a hash map or similar)

You could have a look at [0] for a deeper dive.

[0] https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/parts/part7.html
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long...
Where did I "argue" that protective measures are succeeding therefore X? I'm merely stating that you cannot have a society of 350M people completely stop what they're doing for 6 months and not have disastrous consequences. At some point we have to choose whether the lives we're potentially saving after lockdown month X vs the emergent problems from shut down are worth it.
Downvoted? Really? How is this article any different from:

Why write all this async javascript? use PID ! {msg}
a few things they did:

> On April 15, Vietnam's "fake news" laws went into effect, which was introduced to address the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 over social media in the country.

> A fine of VND10-20 million (S$605-S$1,210) was to be imposed on people who make use of social media to share "false, untruthful, distorted or slanderous information"

> Security officials or Communist Party spies can be found on every street and crossing in every neighborhood and in every village

maybe they just didn't have super spreading situations? what if it was luck?
When my water heater last needed replacing I went and got a Propane Condensing Gas Tank water heater[1]. It was a bit expensive up front, but at 96% efficiency I thought I would make up the difference on gas while enjoying the performance. It is pretty wild - we lost power for days once in the winter cold, and it brought the water back up to temperature in under 10 minutes. Even empty it can basically keep up and heat like a tankless unit would.

It has a little LCD panel where you can check the stats of the unit, so I just took a look. We've had the heater on for 3430 days, it has cycled 15,584 times, and run the burner for 57 days. It has basically run about 1.5% of the time it has been on.

In the future I'd consider going the heat pump route if I can get solar, but given the topology and how my house is positioned it doesn't look like I'm a great candidate for it :-(.

[1] https://www.hotwater.com/water-heaters/residential/high-effi...
NYCs numbers are catastrophically worse than Utah's numbers here in the US. Utah never did a lockdown at all and New York City did an aggressive one.

The difference is obviously due to the fact that New York City is a global destination with huge inflows of people in and out of it. do you think that other Scandinavian countries are getting nearly as much travel in and out as Sweden is? I highly doubt it and I think that you are cherry picking to support your own agenda.

Sweden should be compared to other global centers of commerce not to back waters like Finland and Norway. No offense to those countries but they don't register as a blip economically compared to Sweden and we all know it.
I get this a lot and just assumed it was because I'm using a VPN.
Right could we focus that? I'm not sure how much heat it is but I dont like the idea of the fridge just dumping heat into my kitchen while the air pumps push cold air into the same room
I honestly don't know how hooks work that well but I find them easier in general to make quick reusable stuff or just plug things in without having to worry about layers deep of Higher order components. There used to be class = logic , pure function = takes data and outputs jsx. But now functional components manage their own state and somehow trigger rerenders of themselves (how do they do this btw?). So they don't really seem to be 'functional' in the functional programming sense, but more the 'we use the function syntax of JS' sense. I don't know haha.
Along with Taiwan, Vietnam is also another country that dealt with and learned from SARS in 2002/03.
Australia's Cafe culture is the closest I know of to this. Not only is American coffee gross, but the takeaway in-and-out culture is not what cafes used to be.

In Australia, there are thousands of cafes where you can buy quality coffee, have free WiFi, aesthetic seating area, lounges, music you can still hear yourself think over, usually has pretty good food too. Now sure, you're paying $4 for a coffee, but the environment is like no other in the world. Even the coffee is fairly unique in terms of quality and style compared to American and continental European (french, even Italian).
In the book "The Everything Store," Jeff Bezos mentions that the public tends to hate companies as they get bigger and that managing the company's image is very important.

All politics aside, I find it very interesting that this seems to be a law that people just think companies are evil when they are big.
Yeah I agree that is very dangerous, although that is exactly what governments and most TV channels were saying at the time.
That was fantastic! Do you know what happened with her ios project?
No. This is called copyright infringement. Get a lawyer or take it down -- what you're doing is against the law.
It was a half-assed comment that maybe the Government see's saving Costco as more important than saving the Flower Shop. 95% of what Costco sells is non-essential, yet they are open. There's more at stake. Just a lazy comment though :D
> so you think 6-18 months of SIP is going to work? I think that could lead us to a dire situation.

No, I don't. I think it's implausible. But this is what those in local public health are calling for. Granted, there's the IMHE model, which somehow fantastically thinks the virus will mostly be gone in Santa Clara County in mid-May, but it's shown very little agreement with the actual data and is nearly as bad as saying the Easter Bunny will take the virus away.

> Doesn't that rely on the individual opting in/using it? I have a feeling most people don't want the government tracing their every move (even though it already is geographically).

No, if you get the infection count low enough, you can investigate each individual case to death like Singapore has been doing it (though cases are growing beyond Singapore's ability to maintain this).
Reminds me of using a slide rule. You normally push the inner part (the C scale) to the right, line up the 1 on the C scale with the first number you're multiplying on the D scale, then look on the C scale for the second number you're multiplying, and read the result off the D scale immediately below that.

But when the result is more than 10, you've wrapped: your answer is off the D scale. So now you have to push the inner part back to the left, and line up the 10 (usually marked as 1, at the right-hand end) on the C scale with the first number on the D scale. And remember to add 1 to the exponent.

I've seen slide rules where the D scale goes slightly beyond 10 (like 10.1), so if the result was just a tiny bit over 10, you wouldn't need to wrap.
https://dzone.com/articles/distributed-tracing-with-zipkin-a...
https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger'
A quick search yielded these interesting projects.
Very interesting. I just don't have time to try it out right now.

Perhaps if you create and publish a simple comparison solving a given problem with Promises vs. CaSync it would show that CaSync takes much less code?

That could convince more people to take the time to try it out.
Building a Meaningful Network
It seems straight forward to interpret (which means I'm probably wrong.) Since the motions are impossible they didn't happen. Either:

1) The objects were much closer and the high speed motions were apparent motions; or
2) The instruments were being spoofed by:
A) DARPA experiments;
B) The Chinese;
C) The Russians; or
D) Some other party (Israelis or ?
The original order was never based on any sound science to begin with. That doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad policy. But it was a faith based policy, not evidence based.
On Japan's stretched frontline, doctors and nurses DIY a coronavirus response
No, go fire up DOSBox and watch it in realtime! Watching demos on YouTube takes away a lot from the spirit of what makes productions like this one special.

Also, your Pouët link is wrong. I think you actually meant https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227 instead.
>So once again: absent this, provide a plausible way Rowling could have made money on her first book.

The way she made money was extremely implausible.

This is like arguing we need the NBA because it provides a job for LeBron James.
Copyright has the force of the state behind it obviously it's going to beat out any solution that doesn't.
In Amazons case that is what happens.
I think you can make an argument for viewing it that way, depending on exactly what you mean by "you".

But IIUC, one of the remarkable things about MWI is that it would be a local hidden variable theory!

This is a very important property to have because the principle of locality is deeply ingrained in the way the Universe behaves. Note that (almost?) no other quantum interpretation is both realist and local at the same time.

Maybe you wonder, how is it possible that MWI can be considered a local hidden variable theory if Bell's theorem precisely shows that local hidden variable theories are not possible?

I think that it was Bell himself who said that the theorem is only valid if you assume that there is only one outcome every time you run the experiment, which is not the case in MWI.

This means that MWI is one of the few (the only?) interpretation we have that can explain how we observe Bell's theorem while still being a local, deterministic, realist, hidden variable theory.
I heard that Zig sidesteps this, but I'm not aware of the details.
You just made me think of a chill coffee house on the Ohio State University campus that I always loved to study in late at night, back in the 90s, named Insomnia. It had a culture all its own. Lots of great people, lots of great conversation over checkers and chess. I never found another place like it and I completely forgot about it just a couple of years later. It's a shame that they didn't survive, though I'm not surprised. The rent is too damn high, and all of that.
Threat Actors Repurpose Hupigon in Adult Dating Attacks Targeting US Univs
There was a Saint Patrick day party with around 20 people end up getting infected with Covid-19, and 2 or 3 more close calls situation, but in general the government handles the crisis well. It was surprisingly less draconian than expected as well.
That depends on the cost of electricity, which varies widely across the continent. I ran the numbers a few years ago for central Ontario (napkin math), and natural gas was 2x or 4x the cost (I can't remember). Anyway, definitely not worth it, especially since it falls back to pure electric heat when it can't keep up. And the house is heated with NG anyway, no point in making that energy transfer even less efficient.

(NG fireplace heats the air, air heats the hybrid water heater coils, which heats the water via refrigerant and a noisy compressor. Instead of NG just heating the water directly.)
For ACA, policies, the grace period is forever. Job loss is a "life event" that lets you jump in any time, not just an arbitrary open enrollment window.
They’re complaining loudly, begging to go back to work. And they’re being shamed for it by people who are in a position like yours.
I believe ucsc has (or had?) a distributed systems class in erlang, and correctly implementing each of those features would be about 3-4 days for a skilled erlang programmer and maybe a week for an undergrad, so that's doable for a team of 2 or 3 undergrads in a term.

Maybe out of scope for an undergrad are things like testing high latency/unreliable/jittery connections.
I'm gonna be that guy... given that people are starving, isn't immoral to ask that money be donated to keep shelter dogs alive?

Surely they should just be put to sleep, no?
At the end of the day it is going to be a judgement call by someone - hopefully informed by scientific fact - but ‘science’ doesn’t say when to reopen, just provides the data and context help make a decision.
Yup, my sister said she is making two times as much here in MO. She was blown away. Honestly I thought it was a mistake in her favor until I read this.
Parients being "murdered" ... but both the nurse reporting this to her NP friend, and the NP, are not reporting it...or naming the hospital...for "fear of being fired." Got it. smh.
China Issues Measures on Cybersecurity Review of Network Products and Services
It's money in the same sense as the money that was created by the loan in the first place is money - it's not physical currency, but the insight is that the money created by financial means like this bids up prices in the same way as literally minting extra physical currency and distributing it would.

When that loan asset is written down the bank has to make up the difference from its equity - this ends up reducing the amount of loans it can write, so you get a contraction in the monetary supply.

So in the end, I guess the shorter answer is that a default destroys money in the same way that writing a loan creates it - you might well complain that no actual currency has been created or destroyed, but the argument is that it has a similar overall effect.
It’s naive to think this works for everyone. Independent contractors are getting screwed. Small businesses are getting screwed. Sure, there are some solutions on paper, but for a lot of people they have not come to fruition yet.

Edit: People downvoting me are proving my point about being naive. I’m giving my input as someone who is in a much different position than most of the privileged commenters here. Feel free to ignore it, it just grows my disdain for the stereotypical tech worker, a well-paid sheep that’s never faced any kind of hardship yet thinks he knows what’s best for people who have.

Not everyone fits into a perfect little box of “job” or “no job.” I personally am an independent contractor who’s been burning through (minimal) savings while building a startup that doesn’t exist yet. I’m eligible for the $1200 check, but I have no idea where it is and the IRS website is a blackhole. I haven’t tried for the PPP loan yet but it’s not helpful.
Back in the 90s, the documentation for a fighter jet, if printed out, would weigh more than the jet itself.
The problem wasn't the fact that components were classes. The problems were the React lifecycle methods. People did some crazy things with instance variables, shouldComponentUpdate, and componentDidUpdate, and especially the deprecated componentWillReceiveProps.
Anyone using douchetags is a tool anyway.

Talk about regressive.
But unlike China, Vietnamese have largely unfettered access to the Internet and post extensively on social media. If there were corpses piling up in the corridors of hospitals, we'd hear about it.

Of course, like the old Soviet joke says, just because there's freedom of speech doesn't mean there's freedom after speech, and you definitely can get in trouble for saying the wrong thing online. But again, unlike China, I haven't heard of Covid bloggers in Vietnam suddenly disappearing.
$250k is indeed not big money in DC / NYC / Boston. Consider that such a single income, after taxes, would be just about adequate to quality for a mortgage on a well-appointed toolshed in Nantucket.
Thanks, but as mentioned in the post, without a good understanding it's really difficult to choose tools.

I'm looking for materials that put these tools into context & perspective so we can make a more informed judgement call.
No, not at all. There are very clear very specific cases of what constitutes fair use in the written word case such as a book. Look it up.
Can you lay out the chain of events you imagine (or have been told ) will occur for refusing to pay your leases, or at least pay in full? I’m genuinely curious what would happen if you say, “sorry, not paying.” beyond an eviction. It seems like if eviction is the only consequence, it may be worth considering a partial payment as I’d imagine the prospects of replacing you as a tenant are near zero in the short term. (Obviously I’ve never signed a commercial lease so please excuse my lack of knowledge on the terms)
> > The above legal language applies ONLY to replies to this tweet using #MayThe4th and mentioning @DisneyPlus

> Couldn't replying to their tweet be considered sending it to Disney?

Is replying to a column in an opinion piece sending it to the author or the newspaper?
I quit recently, and had all of the withdrawal, and positive experiences that you mention.

I got the 24 hour headache and it was horrific. But more importantly I have been getting a headache, once a week at least, for years. I haven’t had a single headache in the two months since I quit coffee. This is remarkable!

The craziest part is waking up and going to sleep are like switches now. On:off. So crisp.

One thing I had to relearn was how to drink enough water to stay hydrated. As I was drinking a lot of my daily water in my tea and coffee cups.
You might find it valuable to make some simple games without using an existing engine. For example, a simple action platformer game is nice because the physics can be pretty simple.
You are supposed to call fs.write() etc. But you do it only under certain logical conditions. Those logical conditions do not arise like you would expect because of logic errors elsewhere in your code.

So your async function never calls fs.write() even though it was your intention that it should. Is that an error? Definitely, the file was never written to, it now has wrong content. But the problem is, as you run your program you do not get any error thrown at you, therefore you don't even know there is a problem. Later on you may, or may not, realize that the content of the file is wrong. And then it's hard to say what caused that error.

What "caused something not to happen" is a difficult question to answer because you can't pinpoint the exact location in time and code where it did not happen. Why? Because it did not happen anywhere, ever :-)
Nothing impossible about those motions, any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic.
My biggest frustration with most link aggregator communities, or even most things is that they inevitably end up serving the lowest common denominator of knowledge. I don’t think I need to spell out the mechanisms for it.

Hackernews has been pretty stellar in this regard as the lowest common denominator is pretty high. Some technical links send me on a backtracking journey until I get to a topic I actually know which eventually allows me to understand the original link.

I’m not sure if this is a problem which could be solved somehow. It’s debatable if it’s even a problem. The reality is that anything “advanced” is also niche by definition.
I like your approach, need more articles like this !