skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the creator bios, I have a tough time taking this document seriously.

Nonetheless there are some decent ideas in here, even if the presentation is less than ideal. My prediction is that many of these predictions are vastly overblown. Most companies and people are treating this as a temporary setback, not a dramatic change. The next time there is a similar event, I also doubt we will see a lockdown of this magnitude. Economists and epidemiologists will be studying this for decades and future response plans will incorporate economic consequences of public health actions.

Remote work is a good example. Expect to see some shifts toward working remotely, but not a widespread movement outside of tech. Most people want to physically work with other human beings, rather than sit at home all day. I imagine we will see increased flexibility and redundancy, rather than a total shift to working online.
Please show the scientific consensus that corporations are good, have almost no side effects and we should trust them.
This data is very interesting. I wonder whether it will bounce below the historical average after the peak (i.e. people dying 3-6 months earlier due to the pandemic).
The french Institut Pasteur has sent to preprint a genetic study which tends to show that the coronavirus was silently spreading in france in february, as as distinct branch from those in other auropen countries. This was sent to preprint before this other study was made public : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792... .
In this paper, another team looked back at records of patient showing flu-like symptoms before the supposed start of outbreak in France. They discovered by PCR testing archived samples that one of these french patients was positive to SARS-Cov-2 in late december
It works (in general, not sure about an airliner) because the virus does not travel in air. It travels only in small droplets of liquid, which can travel in air, but only for short distances. On long distances those droplets just fall to the ground/surfaces.

There are still precautions to take especially when touching surfaces, because the fallen droplets can then transfer onto the skin, and then later into the lungs when we touch our mouth, nose or eyes. But social distancing absolutely works in order to prevent the primary transfer of droplets from face to face through the air.
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Yes, and all three of them has very good backwards combability, one of the most underestimated features in a language for developers but one of the most important ones for building a stable business.

I recently upgraded a huge legacy codebase from PHP 5.2 (released 2006) to PHP 7.4 (released 2019) with relatively few changes, mostly changing the use of deprecated functions & misuse of variable references.
I think that's a valid position, but it doesn't justify misusing a legal instrument. Abuse of the legal system, and of the DMCA in particular, is worse than a few kids watching some movies without paying.
That's what I just said. You on the other hand, assumed that I buy from Amazon with no reason to do so.
No, they hold it just to get a return on their investment.
Mandatory line sharing is an interesting idea. We've tried it before, back in the DSL era (2000s). Not saying we shouldn't try it again, but it only sorta worked. Whether instructions came down from ATT corporate offices or were malice, or incompetence, on the part of locally contracted installing technicians; the shared boxes were the worst of the commons.

If a neighbor got from a rival DSL provider, your Internet was liable to go out until your ISP was able to get a truck out to fix the damage to your connection that the competition's technicians did.

Those laws are still around, but unfortunately, (A)DSL tops out at single-digit megabits. An upgrade from dial-up, but not competitive with todays broadband market for those with other options.
Because pop-technology is void of any sort of spirit, culture or enthusiasm. It's all buzzwords, sale pitches and wheel reinventing put in a new wrapper and walled gardens.

What restored faith in technology for me personally is libre software hacker movement. It's just so fun to enjoy technology without all of that fake sillicon valley culture.

It's fun to _own_ technology and understand it and be able to hack it and experience it with like minded individuals.

If you're burned out try to find job in libre software, it won't pay as much but as far as spiritual rewards - it's the most you can get from this medium.
You're deeply confused. It's copy protection, not copyright protection, and Popcorn Time is incapable of circumventing it. It is not one of those illegal DRM-breaking tools. Tools for copying unprotected files are an entirely different thing.
I would pay money for original media because the data will likely be in it's "best" original encoding, metadata etc. And nobody other than the studio has meddled with it. You don't get that using youtube-dl or torrenting formats other people provide.

edit: Music production evolves over time and digital content distribution is very different in the mixing business. Older formats are not built with streaming in mind and so you lose a lot of quality during upload to streaming services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc
We might have first-ever detection of a fast radio burst in our own galaxy
Most likely yes, I've had really severely bad flu twice in my life, it happens. Conversely my wife is a Nurse and she contracted Cov-19, confirmed by a test in early April, but fortunately it was a mild case, recovered ok and she's fine now just with a mild cough.
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There is an obscure Russian book on creativity and talent, “On the nature of Talent / The boy who could fly” by Igor Akimov and Victor Klimenko (1988), that explores the concept of “energy potential”-- the thing that you call “mojo”. It resonated with me 20 years ago, and it resonates now, after a re-reading.

Here are some quotes from that book. Please excuse my rough translation:

When the creator is larger than the task, he is OK -- he has no need to exercise his willpower or to spur himself.

When the creator is equal to the task (e.g. the shape of the chair he is designing causes him discomfort but he cannot figure out why exactly), the willpower wakes up and stands behind his back, expecting an assignment. If the creator has enough energy, the willpower just states, “here’s the task, no need to rush -- we’ll solve it, no need to worry”. But if the creator has low energy, the willpower rolls up the sleeves in order to gather up missing energy.

When the creator is smaller than the task, he’d better step aside, or the task will crush him.

If the creator’s energy is depleted, peace of mind is a godsend to him.

The ability to solve problems (the structure of the creator's soul) is not affected by any external conditions, nor by time. That’s why no matter how hard life tries to crush the creator, he cannot be crushed. To uplift him, there’s no need to pump him up with energy externally. All he needs to do is to muster up just a bit of strength to lift his eyelids -- and notice the task. Seeing the task is his salvation. Squash the smallest task -- swat! and it’s gone. No problem that the task was small: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The subsequent task will be easier for him -- because he’s already moving, he has some momentum. And so his energy level begins to rise.

But if he wastes his energy potential, he loses himself. No protection: he is vulnerable all around, and even if nobody is intending to hurt him, he sees malicious intentions in every word, gesture or action, however well-intentioned.

Our energy capacity increases in only two cases:
1. When our energy is expended during creative labor.
2. When our energy is expended during physical exercise, resulting in pleasant tiredness.

Means of increasing our energy potential:
1. Positive emotions.
2. Motion / movement.
3. Solving problems.
Service providers are not required to comply with a DMCA takedown notice. If they choose not to comply, they forfeit the safe harbor protections and could potentially be held liable for the infringement in a lawsuit. It's a risk assessment on the part of the service provider, but the law gives them strong legal protections if they choose to comply, so usually the only reason not to is that complying with a bogus takedown notice is bad PR.
1. Waste of time and mental cycles: forces the programmer to do the parser's job because the language designer was too lazy to build in the logic to recognize variables.

2. Carpal tunnel syndrome, especially on keyboards where "$" can only be reached via shift.
Negligence is not against the DMCA rules, and they can always claim they were being negligent, so no.
> Have you ever thought about them and gave them time/money for their suffering? No, you only cared them inso far as they can cook for you. This is how others saw you.

Well, actually (and I'm deliberately using my sock puppet account to say this as this is one of the things one should just do and not brag about):

For some of us, many of us, but not most of us I'm afraid, we buy stuff not necessarily because we need it or even want it but partially because of who is selling it.

Every time the kids come to sell the newspaper on the weekend I buy it, read two pages that I coild have read online and leave it on the table in case my wife wants to read it. She doesn't so it ends in trash.

Meanwhile I've been part of teaching one kid the value of honest work. My brother-in-law paid for his first Mac using money he earned from selling newspapers in the weekends. He is an amazing producer now and has been working both as a singke man production team with a local TV station where he lives, at international conferences and sometimes with at least one if not two national TV stations.

Maybe I'm giving another brilliant kid a chance now? Based on the fact that they show up every weekend there might be some potential :-)

This could have been a Scandinavian thing, but I know kt exists in the US too. I think I heard about it in an audio book named something along the lines of "400 things cops know" or something:

<something along the lines of>

> As a police officer if you walk by a lemonade stand or (something else I can't remember) you should buy! Even if you aren't thirsty!

Personally, even as a grown up I've had customers telling me in no uncertain terms to raise my prices, and I've heard my boss (or technically, the operations manager, two steps above my boss) telling me again to tell a vendor from a less fortunate country that the contract was fine but the operations manager refused to pay the ridiculously low price they quoted.
Todo list, with deadlines.
Hmm, those big projects like btc or eth are NOT at all decentralised, that is just a meme. It is more like proof-of-materialism. That alone is a good reason to keep on searching for other decentralised solutions. Btc is allready ruled out by the majority of people on this planet.
It’s probably just the general HN crowd I think.
The vast majority wear masks and the operators wear gloves - and this is when there's not an active epidemic.

You get the impression that a lot of people in Western society would rather risk infection than be seen wearing a mask - defies logic.
This article might need a date added. It mentions Ruby and Perl as "hot right now"...
A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI
At best people are voting for who has the best product or service to solve their immediate needs. I don't buy Apple products (and I'm fully in the Apple ecosystem) because of Apple's great vision for how society should develop. Democracy operates on a different plane.
In the doc, the doc creator self-described as "Middle school dropout"

I'm sure the person is no dummy, but I have to wonder what is the value of highlighting this? To show they are contrarian? Does that make the doc more trustworthy? It feels like a lot of contrarians feel compelled to highlight personality traits rather than let their ideas grow root
It's the equivelent of saying "9/11" in the US.
School is for kids, it's not the same thing at all. Kids need development guidance even if it's relatively forceful.

Also most modern schools offer a lot of options.
http://archive.is/Re1Mp
Good to hear its useful to you. :)
I do not do PHP and only have done a bit a long time ago, but I chuckle at the statement that nobody starts any project in PHP, only to find that a huge amount of new sites are wordpress sites, and they are a gateway to PHP. And do not discard WordPress, because it is amazing in how you can have a productive web site with no programing knowledge. After your site actually generates value then you can hire programmers to create more value. Bam, PHP to the forefront.
I do asp.Net core for personal projects these days and I am so jealous of the fusion theme builders for WordPress plus the huge Eco system of plug-ins.

My day job is in embedded and systems engineering, so web is not even my thing, but I find it incredible a workhorse tool like PHP gets so much disdain. Reminds me of the answers Theo de Radt, gave to the enthusiasts: nobody cares about how cool a tool is if nobody is using it. PHP is used by a lot of people, so it is more important than my new favorite darling Nim. Even if Nim sounds awesome its useless and irrelevant from a non enthusiast point of view.
Palantir’s contract for this is £1.

Google [palantir £1 nhsx] to confirm.
Real high end options only. Apart from the 1920X, that is a steal right now, but the board it needs is not cheap, it's a legacy platform, and Threadripper 1 did not work well for some workloads.

I'd not ignore Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9. If you can work with 128GB ram (and especially if you just want a regular strong system with the usual 16GB) 3700X, 3900X and 3950X are really strong processor and apart from the last one a lot cheaper. Most developers don't even need to go that high, not even on a workstation, one based on the Ryzen 5 3600 would not be weak.
I found it equally tough because while there are a lot of resources to cover the basics and get you coding in Haskell there isn’t much to bridge the middle ground from there to the level the deep enthusiasts and experts are at. All I can say is keep trying and reach our for help on IRC channels or at a local functional programming meetup (and by local these days you could remote in to any meetup you like!). They’ll be people happy to help.

It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled with Haskell but I believe type constructors take a type and return a type (like List takes Int and returns List Int) so an abstraction over them might be an m where say m is a monad and it takes an a and gives you m a. m is an abstraction because it could be anything. A List, or Either, or State etc.
I'm only curious about why they need the Phone Model, could be to determine the best crypto library to use for the keys or whatever.

Otherwise, how do you identify specific people with this approach? First part of the postal code is mildly specific. You only send back encounter events when you "feel ill" which links your ID (not your person) to other IDs (not other people). I'm sure you could deduce more information from that graph, but only if you connect the data to other systems, something they specifically deny intending to do. This is in my opinion the most important aspect to verify and monitor.
Show HN: I made a Chrome Extension that blocks your social activity
Hi all, I and my colleagues are testing the various product and primary goals Are to provide real value with a Browser extension.

What we notice and what is obvious today is how much just social media
1. distracts you,
2. takes your focus
3. fill our heads with a ton of disinformation among others

and it just impacts our lives in a way I think we can't imagine yet.

This extension will monitor where you navigate on social sites primary but you can add other sites.
You can limit your daily time on any site.
When the time is out, we just put an overlay over that sites with the notice that you spend too much there.
You can close it if you want.

We find that it just works for us.

We would love to hear your feedback.

If we find that there are people there that share our thoughts and like the app, we will continue to develop it according to community feedback.

Goran
The best example of this this week.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/gd3o3...
You can get a cheap android phone and a faraday cage bag for the cost of a night out at the pub
Note that this is not the vaccine made by the Jenner Institute and currently in Phase 1. These are preclinical data of a different vaccine candidate.
Not OP, but No, looks 100% legal. We need to not get into the trap of arbitrary and ridiculous "grey" zones of legality. Yes, we know that set can be used for illegal things, but they can also be used for legal things.

Next up: Mandatory Registration and "licensing" for locksmiths. Because that becomes necessary if we start going down the path of legislating lock picking tools.
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If you think k8s is too complex for you, you don't need it.

Not to sound cocky, but there are probably below 1000 companies on earth that need it.
Try AngelList, lots of small companies and startups.
So a democratic system that ignores property rights when it suits the mob that is not actually Democratic.
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I have no love for VCs. But let's be real honest. Doesn't the vast majority of startup wealth come from lying? I'm not talking about VCs lying to founders, but founders lying to their customers (selling ads, giving them "free" services while pick-pocketing their data) or exploiting people on the bottom of the food chain (the "gig" economy)?

In other words, everyone should be looking in the mirror.

> You blame everyone but yourself for becoming "soulless". Your very use of this word reveals a great lack of soul. You misuse it to describe working like a machine, an automaton. The nurse who is working like a machine to save lives at great risk to her own has the most wonderful, beautiful soul. What makes you soulless is that you're only thinking about yourself and "new products" (ways to make money) without any hint of a conscience troubled by the decisions made and actions taken in pursuit of those profits, and what that says about who you are. Or maybe the depression was a conscience trying hard to speak out, but it got snuffed by drugs rather than getting heard.

From https://gist.github.com/mGBUfLn9/7cadffcf7c3c23b7376350165a6...
I think the logic is that those served by PHP are better served by platforms. Those with advanced needs are going to use a different language.

PHP isn't being replaced so much by Python, Go, and Rust as it is being replaced by Medium, Wix, and Squarespace.
> Excess deaths as of today are maybe 50% higher than usual even at the peak

They're still higher than usual, and so any 'even at the peak' appeal to curves acknowledges that epidemiologists were probably correct and numbers of cases rose very rapidly from near-negligible levels, before slowing due to social distancing measures. If the disease was widespread much earlier, excess hospitalisations and deaths during that period ought to be much higher than they are now with aggressive social distancing having been place for nearly two months. It's not like France has limited access to healthcare or was more likely to chalk a surge of hospital inpatients with severe respiratory symptoms off as something else in late Feb or early March than in late April, when despite lockdown they were much higher...
>Can someone please explain to me how a “libertarian” like Peter Thiel could start and run one of the most anti libertarian companies? What are his beliefs, exactly?

None. He is a slimy character with no principles or morals besides his own selfish drive. He wants to make money, period. Other considerations don't factor into it. Make no mistake, he (and people like him, the capitalist sociopaths that hold power in our society) would kill your entire family for a handful of pennies if they would get away with it.

If there were any justice in the world these kinds of people would be shunned and censored by society. Yet it's precisely the opposite. These are the behaviours which are encouraged and rewarded.
> Most people want to physically work with other human beings, rather than sit at home all day.

I'd have to wait for this to be substantiated with data. A dubious data sample, but on Blind there was such a poll floating around and most participants said they prefer remote
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I also use KDE Plasma, but even the experimental Debian repository does not yet have 5.18. Otherwise, I would just use Sid.
To be fair to his critics: birds, bats, and bees exist.
Some of it is still true, some of it isn't true anymore and some of it simply isn't very relevant.

Comparison still isn't transitive. Not very relevant in the real world because you simply don't use "==" unless you know what you're doing.

json_decode still returns null on invalid input, so you either have to use the JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR option to make it throw an exception instead or use json_last_error().

Both are unfortunate, of course, but it's hard to fix mistakes made 25 years ago.
I actually mentioned the work directly, it's hooked on research starting in the 1800s that she appears to be replicating. We know that Mimosa Pudica can learn, we've known this for over 100 years at this point.

She is selling her work through the story, the story is full of holes and requests to just believe in spite of those holes. It detracts from the outcomes because she's being openly untrustworthy.
The John Snow pub is great, it's so cheap!
I'd put it this way: It could be made to work, but IMO all current RDBMS have the same problems with terrible worst case guarantees. Query planners have not enough degrees of freedom - maybe with a new concept like automated indices it could be made to work with acceptable average and worst case guarantees.
An argument I've heard advanced for both PHP and JS is that their evil is well-documented and well-understood (e.g. one of the Facebook efforts was to write an extensive spec for PHP). Contrast this with, say, Python, which is much more nicely designed, but implementation-defined and with some gotcha areas with poorly understood and documented behavior - rarely encountered, but when encountered, hard to grok or avoid, also because they can readily keep changing from version to version (some of the corner case details of slots come to mind as an example).

I can see a pragmatic point there - anything has warts, the warts you know and don't move are easier to contend with (and lint for). I'd still pick Python for most projects in that comparison, but at a certain scale of effort I'd possibly begin to wonder about the trade-offs.
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Logical conclusion of the tech world’s obsession with dropping out of college. “Jobs, Zuckerberg and Gates are dropouts, so if I’m a dropout too, it means I’ll be just as successful. I’ll even beat them at their own cargo-culting status game by dropping out of middle school, rather than college.”
Thanks, I did not know that bit of history.
I took the chance to chat to Luca Guidi at ParisRB 2020, where he did a talk about Hanami. Didn’t seem stalled to me, although I don’t expect 2.0 to be released « tomorrow ». This is not JS-land where frameworks pop up and die every day, which has a strange way of setting expectations...