skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a choice. All of my friends, coworkers and family are on proprietary platforms with no way outward; what you call "choice" is really just an illusion of choice if we're being honest to ourselves.
That's my biggest hope honestly.
> or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident

Well there is your loophole big enough to drive a truck (lorry?) through even on an amber light!
I hadn't previously thought about it, but it appears that Gboard is the default on my phone.
It doesn't say anywhere that it's infallible. https://support.google.com/android/answer/2812853?hl=en
> trust only works in retrospect.

Seems somewhat odd to abide by this kind of principle instead of considering the real changes which we believe have been made, as Zoom seems to have cleaned up their act to some degree in response to the backlash, though you might think not enough.

In any case, if you're being watched, you're not likely to cut corners, and Zoom is being watched. I'm not surprised if the 'suspicious public' effect averages out over all cases to account for the chance that a company is still keeping some unsavory practices under the covers.
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Unicode is full of whole blocks of weird sets of lines and borders. As far as I’m concerned adding the symbol just to make it easier to style links makes total sense.
I think you’re missing the ZWJ
> It seems to me that without easy deployment for non-technical users, self-hosting will never be a viable option for most people, only for a tiny minority of technical users. Agree or disagree?

Agree. You'd have to come up with a very clever idea to get non-technical users to self-host software without a sys-admin. My idea is close to one click app marketplaces, but this time it is done on a physical in-house NAS which is ready to buy. Thus, it should be possible to self-host apps like, Bitwarden, Gitlab, etc on the NAS and it is already accessible from the cloud login (Western Digital optionally does this). But in most cases, it is done for them.

This is why technical support exists in general. For consumers, End users pay for support as part of a package to help them with setting up software tuned to their requirements, including self-hosting. For companies or institutions, they have IT departments that do all of this in-house for them.
Especially if your sprints are four seconds long
No. Because just scrapping the economy won't do.

I know there are many people out there that firmly believe that "less is more" and "growth must be stopped". But these people do almost definitely do not live in countries where children die because of poverty.

Our economics might be perverse in some regards, but they are the most efficient way to generate material wealth that we know of. And we need material wealth. As an example, just think of what is necessary to mass-produce a hypothetical Corona vaccine.

So what can we do? Swing away from CO2-emitting energy generation as quickly as possible, plant forests, prepare for inevitable climate changes (drought, storm, ocean rising), and plant even more forests.
Connections on Zerotier itself often survive roaming. I was amazed when I went from tethering outside to home Wi-Fi and ssh session was still responsive. Although it can freeze and definitely can timeout. I'm yet to try mosh.

I did not hear about Live Share, but was planning on using Visual Studio Code Remote Development. For my current work ssh -CX is often enough for me. I also intend to use Xpra, as I found X2Go a bit more rough around the edges.

It could be interesting to measure the effect. Probably they did some testing already, but probably as you said - placebo ;)
The pieces of the puzzle of Covid-19’s origin are coming to light
"remdesivir’s polymerase inhibitor mechanism can reduce viral load, experts said. However, all available data is still empirical in nature, and load reduction may not translate into clinically relevant outcomes like reducing hospital stay or decreasing mortality (https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/gilead-rem...)

Remdesivir is an element similar to one the cells use to create protein chains. When used instead of the real element it stops the chain. This limits the ability of the virus to create new copies.

Remdesivir is difficult to make. About 8 liters of starting material is used to create a milli-liter of product which is about 1 injections. It appears that each patient may require multiple injections.

Remdesivir is not a vaccine.

Remdesivir might reduce viral load (number of virus particles). The relationship between viral load, which is high in the beginning but less later, does not necessarily translate to sickness or death.
Yeah, the Salah one was a situation where United were 1-0 down at 90' and prodding desperately for an equalizer.
This. This is super important to keep in mind.

Thank you for the reminder.

We have to remember that often, articles of "information" present themselves as such, when in reality, they're intentionally manipulative (in terms of misleading titles, etc.) simply to profit from human behavior (manipulates attention -> clicking). Sad that this is what the news & media industry has devolved into.

They are driven by their own needs for people to click. Not needs to share accurate or new information... but rather, they must simply do enough to keep their lights on, regardless of presence of merit.
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Thank you for your comment.
I worked about 600 hours on the project, i'm retired, so i have the time. The links to the installation files and screenshots will be included in the readme. Good idea, Thanks!
Google announces Chrome Web Store crackdown for August 2020
Are you saying GDP necessarily causes a high energy usage, that we can't be more efficient and prosperous at the same time?
> If it was actually covid-19 community spreading in December, then we wouldn't be talking about a few thousand deaths now in April, we'd be talking about millions.

That's assuming the death rate is as high as it is estimated from known cases. If the actual death rate is a magnitude smaller due to huge amounts of undocumented cases, then the curve is wrong.

Going by some of the antibody tests performed, this seems to be the case, but the antibody tests might be erroneous as well.
"Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled by people, either directly or indirectly; blockchains invert this power relationship, putting the code in charge."

Great way to explain the concept. You could nit-pick all morning if it was strictly "true" in every which way, but this kind of selective simplification is what drives understanding. I'm sure many things which are well understood today, if you look at the way they are understood now, the mental models involved: many wouldn't have been generally be accepted in an initial pre-understanding phase by people with insight.

Can you easily accept this explanation of blockchain?
I'm not opposed to the backspace symbol, but by that logic you could include anything in unicode as anything could a symbol you'd like to refer to.

I mean, you might want to say "External links can be identified by their □ marker" or "The Windows key is marked □ and can be found to the left of the space bar"
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But if you use agent forwarding with other keys loaded into the agent, how does hat help?
Also, pollution.
Only 8%? I was waiting for news on this but 8% is on the worst-case side of my hopes. We're going to need so much more to even get close to neutral.
meet.google.com is Google Meet, yep.
This is hilarious. "It's a banana, how much could it cost, $10?"
>Car centered cities are awful for human beings, we should reclaim some of this space for us.

This might sound shocking, but cars are driven by human beings. When a human being is driving a car, the space taken by that car is actually being used by a human being.
N95 masks are used as part of a package of PPE. That includes eye shields, gloves, and gowns. There's a complex protocol to put them on, and to take them off.

Without the rest of the kit, and without careful adherence to correct donning and doffing, there are at best marginal benefits to mask wearing.

There's some concern that those marginal benefits are eliminated if people wearing masks go on to engage in risky behaviours. These behaviours include increased touching of their face (often without immediate handwashing afterwards), reductions in distance between people, increase in frequency of leaving the home, etc etc.
Unless you were planning on going to Subway anyway:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/that-figures-prof...
That study studied 20 people.
Which AAA games are web apps?
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And this is assuming we don't emit extra to make up for it whenever the economy ramps back up...
Are we too busy to enjoy life?
oh, its just cryptocurrencies not cryptography..
In this case, I don't think anybody is fooled.
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I'm pretty happy with it as it works (even though I'm not a fan at all of the way it's developed/organised). I was just as happy with upstart though.

No more crazy init scripts, no more pidfiles, better templating, cgroups integration OOTB, better handling of restarts, isolation integration (private tmp, capabilities, ...), etc. I enjoy what systemd-the-init-process provides. I see it as a standardisation of what everyone did in a slightly different custom script into a known key-value format.
The Saudis are perfectly capable of organic home-grown stupidity.

MBS has an impressive record of investment failures. It's possible he's part of a secret plot to destabilise the entire region and bring the reign of the House of Saud to an end, but it's just as likely he's a privileged playboy fool who has no idea what he's doing.
Turn Auto-Correct off by default, and you're set. It's really insane how many places auto-correct sneaks itself in and replaces what you type as you type stuff correctly in the first place.
In this case it doesn't matter, because the tracks are long since abandoned and there are no trains coming. Once the UN updates their "facts" to reflect the actual facts and no longer promotes climate hysteria, will you stop screaming about the impending train coming to mow us down?
Clearly other people are smarter than me. I'm not that smart, and I'm a parent, so I take quite seriously the act of choosing which stuff I need to learn to use. If you're young and smart, that probably doesn't matter, you have lots of free time to learn new things.
Right... Look, Facebook's interface looks 10x more confusing than WordPress to me. If I could manage to learn it, someone using Facebook can manage to follow a few step by step guides on WordPress.
> The main thing that gives me some doubt is it seems plausible that we'll retroactively find that the deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 were somewhat overstated, in the sense that my understanding is a presumed COVID-19 diagnosis is accepted in lieu of having a positive test.

Looking at the total number of excess deaths (for all causes, ignoring if it is COVID-19 or not), I would say that it looks more likely that it is severely undercounted.

You can find the graphs here: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest (look for excess mortality rates for New York City).

I guess you could argue that the huge increase in deaths was caused by side-effects of the lockdown, but that does not really jive with the results from countries like Denmark, which did an early and hard lockdown, and as result show almost no extra mortality.
I believe this is a similar situation with the founder of Snapchat (majority voting power).
I've seen *correction used extensively among my non-technical peers, the sed syntax is more common across technical ones.
> Nobody considers the carbon impact of building a 400sqft / 350mp home today, the lawn, the asphalted driveway, etc. They'll build it, drive a Prius or a Model X, and sleep thinking they save the world one car at a time.

There may be a big difference thought: you build your home once or twice per lifetime (even less if we look at it on a macro POV), whereas you spit C02 in the atmosphere every single day by commuting to work. I won't do the math, but I'd bet the second scenario as a far more CO2 cost that the first one.
I think an issue with the arguments here is that each side is making its arguments based around quite different standards. Unicode have two standards for inclusion of symbols, one for adding new symbols and one for merging in characters from other character sets.

The rejection is based on the first standard for adding new characters.

The arguments against it seem to be based on taking the second standard as precedent. But I think as far as the Unicode committees are concerned, arguments based on the precedent of whatever random crap was grandfathered in from preexisting character sets do not apply to characters that are not from preexisting character sets. I think any argument that relies on “you already allow all this other random crap” must also argue that this symbol exists in some other character set which ought to be merged into Unicode, or that the standard for new characters should be more precedent-based/different, but I don’t see any such arguments other than some implied “common sense guess as to how one expects Unicode to work”
Oh, that's why mine got locked! I've been wondering about that. I hadn't posted a single tweet, yet got notified that my account was locked for suspicious activity.
Worse, each person can have more than one device.
> Its about a 4% drop each year for 30 years. Or a Coronavirus every 2 years.

This is an incredibly misleading way to put it... there's no compounding effect to be had here. If a coronavirus drops by 4% from pre-coronavirus times the first year, it's still going to be only 4% lower than pre-coronavirus times after 30 years.
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Thanks for the article. HN basement dwellers out in full force means you’ve done well. Keep writing!
Isn't that called remote desktop?
Having briefly worked in the industry for one of their competitors, you wouldn't believe how they treat their staff and customers. Also all the cars are leased.
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Thanks for this, seems then things aren't quite as bizarre as the article makes them appear.

Any more background info? Mostly in terms of the takedown request. A successful suit giving the right to get anything directly based on the source material scrubbed elsewhere seems fair enough.

But how is an entity like Google supposed to supervise the validity of such claims? Seems ripe for abuse and no-questions-asked compliance lest they be sued.
Clear ground rules as in the EU seem like the only answer here.
I wonder if it was possible to establish a para-web. It should be designed to work with very low bandwidth and have a mashable infrastructure - like based on smartphones, rpis, generally cheap and buildable by competent independent folks.

The appeal of the low bandwidth - which should be enforced by design - would be a very text-based communication which would attract user-profiles similar to those prevalent during the early days of the internet.

This would also prevent/discourage abuse for exchanging c/p or movie torrenting.

Also the mashability would make the network resilient against infrastructure breakdowns, government censorship and corporate copyright abuse.

By keeping the specs open all sorts of interfaces could be created by so-inclined users. Amateur radio people might use that network for hops and interface it via antennas. Utilizing electric infrastructure might be possible. Bluetooth repeater. Simplex where necessary and duplex where possible.

I'm not really competent in this area at all. But it seems doable to me if there are enough people dedicating to it.

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I'm very privacy conscious but I can see how society perceives the internet no longer as something compatible with the values of the open web but instead as infrastructure which requires protection and regulation. Yes, I think the gov should have the right to execute search warrants (assuming the we're talking about democratic processes at play) and read through letters and documents. And disk content, mails, chat protocols are just that - only digital. But every power needs a balancing antagonizing power. And with surveillance getting more and more capable I fear this is going to get progressively difficult to do on the conventional internet.
> "Freedom isn't free, and never has been. But it's always been worth striving for."

Surely we ought to be able to recognize this claim as culturally dependent. While the Western tradition has been deeply concerned with the concept of freedom since the Greeks, that does not hold for other cultures which are currently ascendant. If anything, they might see an unfree state as the natural order of things, and "striving for freedom" as a source of social instability which is a net negative.
Well, vitamin D actually reduces the cytokin storm, so I don't really get why his/her doctor advised against it in the first place...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...
> they still persist with the idiocy

Also, according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

is Belgium at this moment, except for San Marino of only 30,000 inhabitants, the country with the highest death rate in the world from coronavirus epidemics, per million of population:

San Marino: 1,208

Belgium: 655

Spain: 519

Italy: 458

UK: 384

France: 369

Netherlands: 275

Sweden: 244

USA: 186

Germany: 77

Greece: 13

I believe, if the rest of the world is not much aware of that fact, that also says something about Belgian politics. I'd love to read more about the perspective of Belgians here.

Edit: see also https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps which I explain in the later post -- that independent, different statistics is, approximately, not disproving the ratios for the European countries, except for the UK, where it seems there was some kind of underreporting of Covid-19 related deaths.
"People who interviewed me were so arrogant and clueless. They had no clue how to calculate time complexity. No clue why provided unit tests were not enough and etc. They were just looking at the solution and thinking they know everything."

They were probably running through a standardized interview with you, with the goal of making it a more objective process and to allow comparing results.

Such interviews can appear to be about technical tasks, while actually some other things are evaluated, e.g. how you approach solving issues, how you interact with others, how opinionated you are, etc.

If they had "no clue how to calculate time complexity", I'd guess the interviewer played this role and expected you to explain how to do it, patiently and without any judgement. How did you respond?
Is T4 templating still a thing with C# ? - this would have been useful with it a decade or so ago to avoid painful non-deterministic builds.
Show HN: Game of Life in 32 bytes of assembler
(source included in the link, writeup will follow) To my knowledge, the first implementation ever in 32 bytes. This builds upon the 65 bytes version of Vladislav Kaipetsky, Tenie Remmel and Mark Andreas from 1998.

Edit: The writeup is now available :
http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Game_of_Life_32b

Capture : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqiLf19og4
Sure, but they have already delivered about 400 of them and have another 400 built and waiting to be delivered. At 100 million a piece, that's 40 billion they will probably have to refund in some fashion if they scrap the ones delivered, and another 40 billion in sales waiting to be realized. Granted, they probably could get some money back by scrapping all of those planes, but I cannot imagine them losing more money training some pilots than refunding and scrapping all of those planes (at least for the currently built ones).
The one news item about Tesla I've heard of is that Elon Musk has gone full "LIBERTY & DEATH!", including something close to the sort of nervous Twitter breakdown that seems to be the (literal!) rage among people in leadership positions these days.

While Musk always had this strange quirk where he's both supremely successful and prone to superficial, belligerent forwards-from-grandpa-style opinions on unrelated matters, his current state seems distinctly worse than ever before.

My theory is that Tesla is hurting really bad under the current circumstances, putting enormous pressure on him.

Tesla also has the problem that, unlike traditional car manufacturers, they don't have much of a lobby in Washington to bail them out, especially under the current administration. And even in California, they probably have neither the numbers nor the strong unions with long-established political power that GM has in and around Michigan. Plus California has far more other business further diminishing Tesla's standing in comparison.
SwiftKey generally does a good job with multiple languages, although it will sometimes replace an English word that I typed correctly with the Spanish word (which is spelled the same but has a stress mark) in an otherwise fully English sentence, with me unaware why it's making the distinción.
Converting everything you do to monetary terms is not a mindset I recommend having. It might make sense for some decisions, but everything does not have to be about money.

If by the end of the day you feel accomplished and happy about what you have achieved then I would count that as a win.
Truly? How many Trillions of dollars have we spent to slow the descent of the stock market in the last few months? How many more are we planning on spending?

We aren't on the gold standard, we're on the idea standard. As such, our money is worth what we say it is worth and we can have as much of it as we want. If we said tomorrow "Here's 100 Trillion USD to fix climate change" we could do so.

Yes I'm ignoring the inflationary effects for this example, but ultimately it doesn't matter. If we don't have a world to live in we'll have much larger concerns than inflation.
I've given up trying to keep track of Google services, as odds are they will be replaced by something completely different in a year or two.
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>>You (probably) disagree, but I'm not really interested in debating over differing core philosophy.

I do, rights and liberty are easy to protect, defend and discuss in times of peace, prosperity and normalcy. However it is in times of crisis were protecting rights and liberty is most crucial
Can someone tell me the difference between Google Meet, Google Hangouts, Google Duo and Google Chat?

Multiple of these support video and chat. I’ve used Hangouts and Chat and Duo before. Why the new brand “Meet”? And why have competing - even more importantly - confusing products at Google who seem to offer the same features?

I would like to, but cannot be bullish on Google as a video communications platform for this reason.
Do you really expect it to say “Google Play Protect is infallible”? It’s obviously pitched as anti-malware and the fact that it’s not working is an issue despite them not saying it’s perfect.
In the end, do you remember what tools you used to confirmed that R11 was overwritten? The tools and the path to the root cause are also quite interesting.
> If you don't have a fever, it's probably not covid 19.

If you do have COVID-19, you're statistically more likely to not have a fever than to have a fever.
Why doesn't science learn from its failures?