skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two different concepts as I see it, please correct me if your definitions differ.

"stateful": A function that has state, i.e. can store data

"with effects": A function that modifies data outside its own scope

Normal JS functions (as opposed to arrow function) already do this:

function foo(){};

foo.state = bar;

Generator functions take it a step further, where the function remembers internal state between calls.
You are assuming only a single input, which is this app. R_t can be - and is - reduced through a multitude of methods, including but not limited to, closing of large public gatherings, high compliance of mask-wearing, increased disinfecting protocols, etc.
I don't think so. They can use a decentralized approach, the Google/Apple APIs, and still call it the NHS app. They can even put additional random opt-in features in their app if they really want to, why could they not?

Plus it won't be practical at all to use a centralized solution on iPhone and it may be less practical to use it on Android, so this won't be just a slight reduction in usage, this risk to be a major one.
You're skirting the question every time it's asked.

The question is whether you have obtained permission from each individual whose original work you have copied.
If you have a geothermal heat pump, you can install a "desuperheater" [0] to recover the excess heat for hot water during the shoulder seasons. It doesn't work so well during the winter, so you need "backup" heat such as an electric element, or a more traditional fossil fuel hw heater (and you might also want one of these as a backup for the geothermal loop depending on where you live).

[0] http://www.geojerry.com/desuperheater.html
(sorry, couldn't find a better site)
Not really. Wild animals mostly live in the environment they are adapted to. Most birds survive just fine out in the world. Chickens are not adapted to anything, but rather selected by us, and they certainly weren’t selected for toughness.
I know I've gotten bitten before by go Makefiles, and took me a few projects to get things sorted overall - So I wanted to do this differently about Rust, by getting feedback and looking at some good templates and tooling options first. Have any suggestions?
Exercise hasn't been banned, so unless you absolutely can not exercise without a full gym, there shouldn't be any reason to think people will be gaining weight, or having decreased testosterone. Even if you don't want to leave the house, you can still do things like Yoga, lift weights, or any number of other physical activities that need little or no equipment.

I'm not sure what the concern about CO2 is - at least in the Bay Area, we're in prime keep-the-windows-open-all-day weather. And the status quo would be working in offices or other buildings that tend to not even have openable windows, so even if the weather wasn't nice, indoor CO2 shouldn't be a concern.
> I think the value of hiring more experienced folks to run social media (i.e. not an intern, someone with any amount of experience) is that they can actually point out how ridiculous this will come off, and argue against this type of tweet.

Is this idea--that major brands let interns run their social media--ever going to die? It's like a decade out of date, at least.

It's a lock that social media at Disney is led by at least one senior official and probably maps down to multiple teams--marketing, comms, customer service, research, etc.--and probably at least one outside agency. I guarantee that Disney has people with experience in social media.

From Disney's perspective, this is a positive thing for their fans because it makes it easier for the fans who want to engage with them to do so--as opposed to the usual thing for user-submitted content, which would be a "microsite" web form with similar terms and conditions.

And there is very little downside. A few grumps will performatively mock Disney on Twitter for a week or so, which happens basically whenever Disney does anything. Knowing which complaints can be ignored is a good example of the benefit of actual experience with brand social media. For example, Apple had the same terms for their Shot On iPhone campaign, which no one seems to even remember:

>1. How to Enter. To enter the Shot On iPhone Challenge (“Contest”), upload the best photograph that you’ve taken on your iPhone within the six months preceding the start of the Contest Period (defined below) (the “Photo”) and Tweet, post, email or upload it, as applicable, with the hashtag #ShotoniPhone for Twitter or Instagram and #ShotoniPhone# or the Chinese localized hashtag #⽤用iPhone拍摄# for Weibo, along with information indicating which iPhone model was used in the image caption, via one of the following methods:

>(i)Via Twitter: Log onto your Twitter account and follow the links and instructions to become a follower of Sponsor’s page on Twitter, located at @Apple, and Tweet the photo with the required hashtags and other information. You must be an active holder of a non-private Twitter account and be a follower of @Apple to be eligible to enter this Contest via Twitter (i.e., you must make sure your tweets are set to “public” and not “private”). You must have a Twitter account to enter via this method. If you do not have a Twitter account, you can create one by visiting www.twitter.com. Twitter accounts are free.

> Providing a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish and display such Submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed for one year for purposes of implementing the Contest.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/au/pdfs/passions/photography/...

Meanwhile the folks who like Disney will feed them content and data for their campaign, which is what they wanted.
I created a CI monitoring Mac menu bar app (replacement for CCMenu)
Doctors are now social-media influencers
Not a ban, but I wish my doctor didn't tell me I could drink all the coffee I wanted.
Appreciate the response. Any good readings on that? And where do I go from there?
> I'd bet that plenty of whitehats and blackhats have bots automatically crawling domains belonging to tech companies searching for subdomain takeover opportunities.

If Microsoft had one of these, they could've caught this before it was exploited.
What is Disney stealing in your mind? the tweets or the hashtag?
The futures market is notorious for things that are definitely illegal in other financial markets (e.g. the stock market), and every so often you will see news about the CFTC prosecuting someone for market manipulation. Banning onion futures only served as a reminder to everyone that the most extreme forms of bad behavior will not be tolerated, but plenty of less extreme but equally bad behavior is pretty pervasive. Algorithmic trading in the overnight market is rife with malicious tactics (bots try to discover and exploit stop orders, and in some cases bots are just trying to "trick" other bots).
Well, I was trying to be a bit clever. I thought that by removing the colon after "Show HN" part, I could use it as a subject. The original title was "Show HN Trends on Hacker News."

But that caused a lot of confusions indeed. Glad that dang has changed the title to be a more appropriate one.
Without social distancing or contact tracing. The Bay Area's r is probably around 0.8 at this point with Santa Clara even lower (EDITED - see notes below). Some restrictions can be relaxed.
I think the problem at this point is two-fold:

1) Schools are about to be done for the academic year, so they're effectively shut down until August anyway. It wouldn't make sense to re-open schools for less than a month.

2) For better or for worse, we've conditioned people to be wary of contact with other people. A movie theater that's 10% full is still hemorrhaging money, perhaps worse than if it was closed entirely (no payroll costs/etc).

I'm not sure what the breakdown is, so this could certainly be hyperbole, but it's entirely possible that people will just feel uncomfortable doing things with groups of >10 until a vaccine is available. A restaurant with 25% of its normal business will likely still need to shut down, reduce staff, etc.

Sure, we may not have 22MM people filing for unemployment but it might still be 10MM, which is still extremely abnormally large.

All that to say, there's a real possibility that gradual re-openings don't actually accomplish anything because the root fear (i.e. catching covid-19) hasn't been resolved in the minds of many people, especially in dense urban areas.
Unfortunately, I'm relatively sure that field corn isn't harvested the same way as sweet corn, and so there might not be a way to collect those cobs before they dry.
You can mitigate the risk of dying in a traffic accident unilaterally in ways you can't with a virus, and C19 is probably already killing more people than car accidents by a significant margin.
I'm not an expert. I'd lean towards loosening restrictions on non-essential businesses, imposing strict capacity guidelines, and adjusting the strictness of the guidelines by region at fixed intervals with a fixed lead time. Add some worker protections so people who don't feel comfortable working don't lose their jobs during when they reopen, and don't exempt them from receiving unemployment so reopening doesn't turn them into a burden for the nonessential employer.

I'm lucky right now, to be an 'essential' employee making roughly twice minimum wage, working for an employer with deep pockets. I'm not coming from a place of personal inconvenience, because my job's gotten exponentially easier since people became afraid to go out. Most of our part time staff is gone, and I'm worried that SMBs will soon start dropping like flies.

We've proven that lockdowns work, really well. now we need to find a balance in order to prevent the economy we as a society return to from being a small collection of megacorps wandering through a graveyard of small businesses and unemployment.
I get frequent failures for various reasons on multiple connection types, including Google Fiber. Referrer seems to be part of it. Mobile does seem much worse (WiFi or cell network) which makes it feel intentional.
But you can copyright the most efficient implementations.
Just because someone isn’t incompetent doesn’t mean that we should assume they are right. Highly competent people are often wrong. Questioning things is good.
If I am reading the data correctly, considering total number of cases, and current rates of growth, the Bay Area is doing really well compared to the rest of the USA in terms of preventing the spread. [1] There will inevitably be areas that will recover sooner than others, and I could see the Bay Area being one of those places. How is the Bay Area going to handle that? Are these places going to station cops on county lines and screen people wanting to come into a "recovered" region?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...
This crap happens all the time on small cap stocks

One of the main subreddits for stock speculators (wallstreetbets) had to ban mentioning penny stocks or small cap companies because having all the Reddit gamblers pile into something would act like a pump-and-dump

> As the swashbuckling day trader’s imprint on the market becomes more pronounced, moderators are getting stricter in their policing of the board—or “sub,” for subreddit. One user, who’d been a member for three years without posting, laid out the bull case for Lumber Liquidators Inc. and promised another pick the following morning. Call volumes in the company jumped to 71 times the previous one-month average, with shares rising 18.6%.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-26/reddit-s-...
I'd argue Angular does, in the form of RxJS.
Ask HN: What's the difference between science and technology?
Open ended question... but I would say that science is occupied solely with conceptual mechanism, while technology is occupied with production of goods.
It's called a lattice.
Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream
It's better but it suffers from the same poison aspect all async/await implementations do.

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
I'm a Rust noob, and I don't understand the relationship of Tokio and the language's async/await syntax. Is there a "reference implementation" of the runtime? Is Tokio or another runtime required for those keywords to do anything?

I also found this blurb from the website to be confusing:

> Zero-cost abstractions
Tokio's run-time model adds no overhead compared to an equivalent system written entirely by hand.

This sounds like Tokio's impl is comparable to other impl's of "the same" system, but how does it compare to "naked Rust"?
Part of 'complying with the governments own laws' is not making bogus calls. He said himself it happened more than once a month. There's a real cost to dispatching those fire trucks.
So because of past failures, people should never try to improve?
I live in a county of little over 100K residents, one death occurred over the outbreak, a 91 year old person died of COVID19. Over the weeks we had a total about 65 known cases, all sent to recuperate at home, with a single patient in the hospital.

The hospital has an entire wing dedicated to COVID patients that did not actually materialize. No care is provided to other patients that might need it (unless it is an emergency). Every appointment was rescheduled months into the future.

Everyone must stay home on the account of better erring on the side of caution.
The question is why they didn't implement it in a decentralized way that works together with OS primitives implemented by Google and Apple. I would also install it for the duration of the outbreak, if there wasn't any effective alternative. My gripe is that there is an alternative that works 100% as well and they chose to ignore it in favor of universal population surveillance.
Mapping the Unknown: The Deep Well of Metagenomics
> https://github.com/hse-project/hse

Their benchmarks show significant gains compared to RocksDB.

> https://github.com/spdk/rocksdb

But what I'd really like to see is a comparison against RocksDB using SPDK

> https://dqtibwqq6s6ux.cloudfront.net/download/papers/Hitachi...
Based on these results, SPDK performs significantly better than the kernel requiring only 1-2 cores to saturate IOPS on an NVMe SSD (compared to the kernel requiring 16)
Great discussion, I agree with inopinatus who, if I am not mistaken, supports my position that the science is not quite out on this topic yet. Many explanations exist, none seem to be all-encompassing.

That being said, it doesn't answer the question posed in this forum: "What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?"

Instead, it answers the question: "What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone could explain?"
thats entirely dependant on the volume, when you expend 6 million, you problably are going to loose a lot of money to bots, but you are going to recup the looses from other clients. When you expend very little money, the bots can easily get all the budget.
> Can this stage individual lines, and then display a view of only staged lines and no un-staged lines?

Try ask developer or submit feature request.[0]

[0] https://github.com/francescmm/GitQlient/issues
I mean, it's not like this crisis started an hour ago. What's their plan? Like can someone write it down and post in on a government website?

We're all commenting on what appears to be an official government press release that is announcing an entire month of some of the most serious restrictions on the public ever put in place, that does not appear to even try to take any kind of quantitative approach to explaining why that policy was put in to place, and how its effectiveness is being assessed.

Broad, destructive public policy not tied to success metrics is fucking insane and I think the strong negative reactions to it are completely warranted.
And has a big probability of killing your VDSL connection, (Homeplug frequencies overlap with those used by VDSL), in addition to polluting the HAM spectrum with wideband interference.
Any idea if this API can pull a keywords searched and price paid for the report if the customer is using 'smart campaigns'?
I will dive in if it can..

The other day I spent some hours trying to find reports to show where this friend spent his adwords money and just about every report in his dashboard was blank. He has been running this campaign for about 2 months now - so there should be some data..
I only found one report that showed any data, the rest blank - so then I went to help, then chatted with adwords support - explained the problem, what I was looking for.. told to wait some days for a response cuz covid.. okay.
Got an email forwarded to me saying that you can't get that data with 'smart campaigns'...
"I would like to inform you that, you can view your search phrases performance (impressions, clicks and status) in the campaigns dashboard, however, cost option is not available for smart campaigns."

So... this is disturbing - and then there is this "You may use the search terms report to see how your ads performed (clicks, impressions, CTR, cost, etc) when triggered by actual searches within the Search Network. "

Yet I have clicked virtually every link in the dashboard and I find nothing of the sort.

I feel like I can put about 2 more hours into this - and then my advice will be to just to cancel adwords it's too opaque.

So should I spend 2 hours learning this API thing, or trying to re-learn adwords to switch off smart campaigns, or a secret how to use reports with campaigns doc or what, I don't know how to get the info needed.
Multiple counties have already confirmed they are contact tracing every case. The Bay Area has a lower per capita daily case rate than Germany who is opening schools. This should be manageable.
Coffee doesn't dehydrate, that's a common urban myth https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
>https://miniseries.opscentric.io/devops-career-success

I generally agree with:

>"Successful DevOps practitioners don't get paid to write code or configure servers. They get paid to solve problems."

However, I'm curious how your miniseries ties this in. You're starting with what is, ostensibly, rote technical knowledge. How do you convey/teach things like:

- navigating abstract problem spaces

- owing deliverables to cross-team non-technical stakeholders

- responding to severe outages in highly complex, large-scale distributed systems

- designing operational processes to make said outages easier to deal with

Skills I've generally found incredibly important to have, but hard to teach absent the experience of dealing with them in the first person.
What is the logic behind restricting driving? (See my other comment here as well).
If you and I tweet back and forth agreeing that I'll sell you a sandwich for $5, that's a contract. No court is going to hear an argument that I was talking to Twitter and then Twitter was talking to you so it doesn't count. Anyone tweeting @Disney is clearly "sending it to Disney".

Also I think there's a time delay on seeing the reply link on replies to your own comments.
Search engine algorithms may rank this kind of content highly. If someone disagrees, then their disagreement is with the search engine, not the content creator.

One important job of a search engine is to automatically cut through the "pollution." If it doesn't do that well, then ... it's not such a good search engine.
Distributed Queries in a Microservice Architecture
I’m an American, so forgive my ignorance, but I thought GDPR required explicit opt-in?
As we all know, copyright is a Mickey Mouse law...
It actually doesn't seem so bad on looking at it. It seems like they just want to use your tweet in some kind of collage or something and they were trying to cover their bases by claiming the right to do so.

I think it would've been better to say "If you use this hashtag we may retweet you or feature your comment in promotional material" rather than asserting that you would agree to something by using a hashtag.
The definition of 'public' is not equivalent for IRC and for Slack.

IRC anope-style email verification simply requires that you are able to initiate a TCP connection to the IRC server. If you can do so, you can have a verified account. This kind of "public" is vulnerable to harassment as you describe.

Slack additionally requires an invitation by a workspace owner for all new users who wish to join, excepting only domains where the owner permits users to join without invitation using a special invite link. Anyone who invites harassers will find themselves under Slack's microscope as well. Owners who enable automatic invite approvals for e.g. @gmail.com or @throwaway.com that result in harassment can expect to find themselves banned by Slack and their Slack shutdown. While in theory this kind of "public" could be abused to some degree, it does not permit the 'anonymous' abuse that IRC's kind of "public" does.

If an IRC network was set up to require that existing users put their reputation on the line for new users, and in cases of harassment both the new and existing user were banned, then that would be a far more tenable system than what we have today. There's nothing that requires this to be unique to Slack. It just happens that Slack is willing to turn users away if they don't like it, and so as a result their network is baseline safer than virtually all IRC networks — such as Freenode.
One would think the recent swing in WTI crude oil futures contract prices into deeply negative territory (while Brent futures remained positive) would be all the evidence a person needs to draw that conclusion...
I understand you feel my characterization is unfair. But the focus on our own personal interaction with the virus without acknowledging how ignoring shelter at home orders can spread the virus to others, is selfish and egocentric.

I do not believe there is room for an alternative viewpoint to that.
Google has a stronger incentive to not let them.

Google's advertising business is built on trust. The moment there are a few scandals involving fake/robot ad clicks, big advertisers will remove their ad campaigns.
Sweden is taking a lot of death though.

I prefer looking at Norway or Germany, countries that haven't taken high death hits and opening up with higher daily case counts per capita than us.
So the shelter in place order should be in effect until we have conducted approximately seven million tests, after which we will institute a voluntary program where people who test positive are asked to quarantine and seek care?
"system" here is intended to refer to the application using tokio, i.e. if you got rid of tokio and did everything by hand you wouldn't be able to make your application faster.
+1. This argument about not knowing long term effects of COVID-19, and hence we have to keep the economy shut down indefinitely makes no sense at all. Making masks mandatory in public, keeping people at risk at home and starting to open up the economy sounds like a more sound strategy.
What's your opinion of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, in regards to them using facts and logical arguments?
Well yes you're mostly right about losing a child.

But,

> There were established societal and religious ways to deal specifically with the death of a child. Think prescribed ceremonies that grant a form of closure and which pretty much all of your friends and neighbors subscribe to. Nothing like this exists today.

Still exists today. For one thing, the religions that were around then -- Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc -- still exist today. For my wife and I, we had comfort with our Catholic grieving traditions, which are mostly the same as a thousand years ago.
How’s their economy?
It's not hard for a nation to manufacture or order millions of drones. It's also not hard to obtain enough rounds of ammunition to shoot millions of people. It was decades if not a century ago when the primary obstacle to a nation killing millions of people ceased to be "inherent technical difficulty."