skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karachi Hospitals fake coronavirus cases reported in Karachi
That's not true, there's a completely offline mode. The quality of terrain will obviously suffer.
Randotron, stop the procrastination!
I don't know anything about email software, but would it be difficult to add a popup after hitting the "Send" button that would appear only if there were more than X recipients (w/ a user-configurable minimum and sane default)?

Something like: "This email will be sent to 5,000 people. Are you sure you would like to send it?"
After five decades of deliberately severing worker compensation from worker productivity, the stock market is now just a barometer for rich people feelings. When they're feeling good it goes up, when they're feeling bad it goes down.
To conclude that a lot of covid victims would have died anyway, you would have to show that the total number of deaths is up less than the number of covid deaths.

In fact, we see the exact opposite: total daily deaths has increased by more than the known covid deaths. This appears to be partly from missing covid deaths (e.g. from people dying at home), and partly from heart attack and stroke patients delaying trips to the ER from fear of covid.

But wait, you mentioned that "the timeline is different." Well of course, we're all going to die eventually. That doesn't mean we should just lay down and die today.

Epidemiologists strongly disagree with you about delay and testing. If you lock down enough so the replication rate goes below one, you can get the virus down to manageable numbers. If you cautiously open with lots of testing, you can isolate the cases that show up, and tests all their contacts.

On the other hand if you shut down without bothering to build your test and trace infrastructure, then you're right, the delay didn't help at all, because you were incompetent.

The idea that we can just open up and people will happily go back to work and shopping while the bodies pile up is unrealistic, to put it mildly. We're actually extending the economic crisis, not shortening it.
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Could it be that it is not so much the stock market rallying but the dollar plumbing?

Money will be printed to keep the economy going. If people assume that this will devalue the dollar then stocks are a safety heaven and demand for them increases which drives up prices whether the dollar is falling or not.
I generally disagree with broad brush strokes of articles and books that make such cases. I find this to be a watered down variant on Phrenology[1], but rather than using physical skull measurements, people invoke the existence of two X chromosomes to offer explanations of differences.

I've worked with/for brilliant female scientists and engineers before. I personally believe that what makes a good scientist or engineer is a profound insatiable curiosity, and a drive to understand. I've seen this in both females and males.

My point was, when you encourage this, and you help the person understand and adapt to challenges they may face, society is often better off, as we have added to our scientific and engineering pool of talent. If you discourage this by saying "your brain is different", or "you are more interested in feelings than quantitative science", we wind up with a discouraging environment for 1/2 of our prospective scientists and engineers.

I don't see how the latter is a good thing. Damore had a right to author his text. I'd argue that sending it out to others in his company was a bad idea ... generally one should separate personal politics from corporate life. But I disagree with numerous things in the text (I read it when it came out).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
The book he quotes also explores a related concept: irreducible complexity.

They go hand-in-hand as you reach the endgame. Once you’ve reached a level of irreducible complexity this law comes into play.
Along with Xbox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_(20...

Edit: I have this feeling that Microsoft's marketing normally oversells their games. In this case the game has been developed by an outside team:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asobo_Studio

Said team "only" has 140 employees, and they've been busy with releasing other major games every year so far.

I'd be cautious.

Edit: Revenue per employee is 50k EUR per employee. That is kinda low. To be fair, I compared 2014 revenue numbers with 2018 employee count numbers.
Show HN: Tracking stock trading by US Senators
If it doesn't flow, try rearranging your thoughts to make them flow. Throwing stuff out isn't a great idea most of the time :)
A car or any other motor vehicle imported to Germany from outside the EU is normally subject to a 10% import duty and a 19% import value added tax.
Yes but the mechanism that makes the disk form from the general cloud is physical collisions, two "particles" that have opposite inclinations compared to the average hit each other and end up closer to that average plane. But basically nothing can hit a black hole that size so where would it get its momentum from?
It depends on what you mean by "Enterprise". My Windows development VM currently runs Server 2019, which doesn't have the issues described above.
We don't quarantine everyone, not remotely. Best estimates are that about 20% of the US economy is halted right now. Hyperbole doesn't help.

Why is trying to minimize a US death toll on the order of hundreds of thousands[1] at the cost of a 20% GDP hit not a "rational" choice? It may not be your personal choice, but it seems to be to most people. And it's absolutely a well-understood tradeoff by everyone involved. No one went into this blind to the costs.

[1] Maybe only ("only") mid-tens-of-thousands if you use the kind of life-years-saved metric that seems to be en vogue among the "open up" set.
Betting your project development on something that might pay of in the future is not minimal risk, both for the project and for the people being financially supported to work on.
The response to it, though, the way it affects us socially seems similar. HIV caused humans to become and remain more distant and fearful of intimacy and more prudish even in their language. What behavioral changes can we expect in the wake of COVID-19?
It could also be nearly zero system calls per I/O operation. The kernel can poll the submission queue for new entries. This eliminates system call overhead at the cost of higher CPU utilization.
The bulk of the Fed intervention is in the bond market, particularly Treasuries. They are also increasing their intervention in the exchange rate market. If the Fed was trying to pump up the stock market, wouldn't they buy stocks? Instead it looks like to me the Fed is essentially financing the US government's fiscal stimulus.
While this is also false, if it we’re true I wouldn’t worry much as the last game from 2006 is still actively developed and supported.
Can we add even more pseudo-science though?
Very promising!
Keep up the good work
Should I get X-Plane now or wait for this?

Checking out flight sims is on my bucket list, but not urgent. Can anyone who knows better comment on this? Yes, I can try the trial X-Plane. But I'm lazy.

To give a sense of what I'm looking for: I tried X-plane on Android TV. The controls were extremely realistic. And by that I mean I never managed to land without crashing. :) I was ok with that.
Because for most companies, the fundamentals after the pandemic won’t be changed. Great companies are being sold at massive discounts, and as the buying escalates shorts are getting squeezed out and forced to cover.

Anecdotal, but during the pandemic my portfolio had shed up to $60k at its lowest point around March or April, and I didn’t sell anything, in fact I started accumulating shortly after the bottom. Since then, it has not only recovered but it is now climbing to all time highs.
> And as has often been the case in recent years, investors find themselves faced with few attractive alternatives if they opt out of betting on stocks. The problem is so familiar it has its own acronym: TINA, or There Is No Alternative to stocks.

Cash: Gets eaten away by inflation. Although the CPI doesn't indicate high inflation it only measures consumer goods. Inflation is there in the price of investments. If you don't invest now, it'll cost you much more in the future to own assets with positive rates of return.

Bonds: Near 0% interest rate, practically no better than holding cash.

Real Estate: Not nearly as liquid as stocks, but the price of real estate is propped up by similar logic.

International Investments: Now this could be interesting if capital flight from the US begins occurring. However, every other economy is hurting like the US's or has significant problems with transparency and whether investors can get their money back out again.

Stocks are more than just their market price. They represent ownership in a piece of the American economy and its future dividends. As of 2016, the richest 10% of America owns 86% of its stocks / future economic output. With the economy plunging while stock prices remain high, this means the fence between being a renter and a owner just got even higher.
An anatomy of an advance-fee loan scam
Try this https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/I-Ching.html - and then stick to whatever you think it tells to you.
Readily acknowledged that this article is flagrantly against the guidelines. It's political and not an "interesting new phenomenon".

On the other hand, I think it's something anyone (especially anyone in the US) subscribing to some sort of rationalist view of the world better be prepared to confront and not just write off as "politics".
5mg propranolol. Absolute game changer for me. I had no idea how on edge I was all the time until I felt what it was like to turn that knob down a bit.

Edit: Obviously, talk to your doctor/psychiatrist etc, I am not a physician.
OK, if I'm understanding this right, the argument is that because the document was not initially printed in full (i.e. with figures and citations) in the press (and had inflammatory headlines), many people got the wrong impression about it.

That seems like a testable hypothesis.

1. If it were true, I'd expect a significantly higher proportion of Googlers to be on his side than the proportion non-Googlers, since all Googlers had access to the full memo. Is that true?

2. If it were true, I'd expect a significant number of people who ended up reading the whole memo to say, I initially had a negative reaction, but after seeing X specific figure or citation, I changed my mind. Has anyone in this thread said that? If not, why not?

(Is your feeling that first impressions are everything, and after that, people's views are ossified past the point of being able to change?)
Little else to do while sitting at home with some spare cash other than gambling at the stock market.
Rallying is a relative term. It’s been going sideways around 24K (Dow) for weeks.

But the answer is: where else are you going to put your money?
Not sure why they're doing all these calculations when capitalism already assigns everyone a numerical worth.
Seems like it's 95% the default example, 4% real code/content and 1% nsfw ascii art.
I used Racket a lot about 2 months ago. I was prototyping an application [1] in three different languages: Racket, LispWorks Common Lisp, and Swift.

Racket produces standalone applications that can be codesigned using Apple's tools, in preparation for their App Store.

Best regards to the Racket team.

[1] http://www.knowledgegraphnavigator.com/
This is the inflation that everyone is afraid of. Since the money has been mostly injected from the top of the society, it has been confined to the asset bubble. If this money filters through to the bottom or there's significant injection directly to the bottom (SBA payment protection, $1200 direct assistance, basic income, etc) then we will see consumer inflation as well
The old library has always been painfully slow on large datasets, and is no longer actively maintained so that isn't getting fixed. And because Clojure people expect you to compose libraries not use frameworks, these sorts of upgrades are never transparent. Thus, a whole new library, the Clojure way.

And again, this is every year I've used Clojure (e.g. the Shadow migration you yourself went through on what I can only assume was one tiny web app). I'll happily stop patronising your 3 years experience if you stop gaslighting mine. You'll be telling people you never get type errors and you find Clojure's stacktraces really readable next, all the greatest hits. :)
Ask HN: Are you using DigitalOcean Spaces in production? Is it slow/down often?
I think if you're on DO, it's quite nice to be able to use DO Spaces since it's an S3 compatible object store with a built in CDN and it's about $5 / month to get started.

But everything I've read online says the service is very spotty. There's either routine slow downs (everything being served by it is delayed), or there's very frequent downtime.

Usually everything else on DO is amazing, so I'm wondering if they have improved this service and perhaps some of these reviews are from too long ago in the past.

If you're using it in production, what has your experience been like with it for the last 6 months or so?
At least with Go 1.14 (what I got with Ubuntu 20.04) importing net/http could add another 4.7MB to the binary size.

This might've been fixed in Go 1.15 though - see https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1256348714198654976.
Well that is simply not true. It will work, you'll have lower resolution and detailed map, but sim will certainly work.

-edit: should have refreshed before commenting :)
Sometimes it feels like a blessing to live in a country without natural resources worth killing for.
Personal experience here, not sure whether this will help. I struggled with writing until I realised that not all writing has to be professional/formal. Casual writing is usually fine. Writing how you speak is also fine. Over time I got more comfortable with expressing my thoughts, and that's when formal writing became easier :)
Super interesting and well written story. The question I'm left with is more around the illegal oil trade. Who buys that oil, how do negotiations work, pricing established, etc.
Nice! I’m happy for LEGO planet to be Earth sized, which means the rocket has plenty of dV to visit deep space objects or land on a LEGO moon.
The site pushes really hard that you shouldn't use the low-level system calls in your code and that you should (always?) be using a library (liburing).

What exactly is liburing bringing to the table that I shouldn't be using the uring syscalls directly?
You s.o.a.b., I'm in.
I was 22, that was the last mothers day my mother was alive for.
Of course I didn't know at the time, but I didn't call. Im 44 now and its one of my biggest regrets.

Dont be like me. Call her.
Unlike a capitalist state like the US, where mandatory paid vacations are plentiful?
Actual design and building of physics experiments is a lot more complicated than “just doing it”. There are thousands of places that one small oversight will cause the entire project to fail. You will never successfully make a city size particle accelerator if you cannot demonstrate the ability to design and build a tabletop version, let alone a room scale, let alone a building scale, let alone a city block scale. It is cheap to demonstrate at a small scale. It is expensive to fail at a large scale.

With respect, I have no idea what your link has to do with anything. Making a giant dish is absolutely trivial compared to a particle accelerator.

My point is that Chinese medium-scale magnetic confinement fusion research devices have not learned from 60 years of painful lessons that the fusion research community have learned and published. Magnetic confinement fusion research machines share a lot of similarities to particle accelerators. Is there any indication that China would succeed in making a particle accelerator other than “they are good at STEM” and have made a giant parabola? It’s not very convincing.
That only works if your functions require same resources. If you need different memory/cpu power you're unevenly splitting functions where ever
Thanks for the feedback, I fixed the page jump and also opened the RGB notation box by default.
And the new Edge? Of browsers from major vendors at least, I thought Edge was worth mentioning since it recently overtook Firefox in desktop market share.
If programming is a random walk or if the programmer is a fitness function. UI programming makes me feel this way especially.
Understanding that deciding to weight the choices is also a a choice and not necessarily always a useful one :)
https://xi-editor.io/docs.html
Crazy feature. Many times you are just shutting down to dash out the door, but no, windows wants to amend my schedule.
> People largely have their mind made up about it about the covid because it's more of a religion now than anything else.

Well, I'm glad we can agree on something.
So, how much money or effort would you spend to avoid a hypothetical event that kills you with a well known probability, say half percent?

I don't even know a conceptual framework to think about it. For 100% it would probably be "all my money" (I'm not suicidal). Should it be half percent of my money for a half percent event?
I don’t see any mention of background testing of Tesla workers. Testing everyone combined with guaranteed paid leave and a very strong statement from executives on non-retaliation for actually taking the leave will be just about the only way that they could re-open right now. Amazon is going to do this, why can’t Tesla?
Rather they're watching what others do on their platform and then make their own products based on it, same as on Amazon.com
As far as I'm aware (and from what my doctor has told me), that's different to Clinical Depression/Major Depressive Disorder. One of the key diagnostic criteria of Clinical Depression is a state of depressed mood without clear cause.

The treatment for depression caused by other mental health conditions (e.g. ADHD) and Clinical Depression are very different, although they are often comorbid. Generally successful treatment of the underlying condition also makes the depression go away. Giving antidepressants to someone who has ADHD with depressive symptoms (without treating the ADHD, i.e. it's undiagnosed) generally doesn't alleviate the depressive symptoms.

It isn't strictly depression that's a diagnostic criteria for a lot of disorders/conditions, but rather a negative impact on normal functioning and everyday life. Some people are just rendered incapable due to their mental health, unable to hold a steady job or impulsive to the point of committing assault or other crimes. Some people just take it on the chin without getting depressed about it, but others (those with the biological underpinnings of depression I suppose) get depressed or anxious. There's plenty of chronically underachieving people with ADHD who are perfectly happy, and others who experience significant distress.
You're dismissing other roads not taken.

What is more likely to revolutionise physics - spending $20bn on an incremental increase in collider energies, on spending $20bn funding a new generation of PhDs and postdocs exploring quantum gravity fundamentals?

At this point practical HEP shows every signs of being a boondoggle. There are plenty of hard theoretical questions that haven't been answered, but with a few exceptions they're outside of the mainstream. Research into them has been actively discouraged, except at a few locations.

Physics doesn't need more hardware, it needs more ideas - more intellectual diversity, and more creativity.
Linux: sudo shutdown -h now

It does my bidding.
I agree.

Also, I know it is hip to say that Wall Street is short-sighted, but in reality it is one of the the few fields where people routinely think decades at a time.

If you run a large pension fund or investment account you were already risk-weighted and if the cash isn't needed for 10+ years you'd much rather own a slice of the world's largest companies ten years from now instead of gold or cash under a mattress.
Yes, I don't want them near a computer, and yet here they are:

$ poetry init

This command will gide you through creating your ~invisible text~ config
What I meant was, fat adds to the flavor, and blows up the calories, in turn making you fuller and thus you think you got a good value for your dollar.
My macro-level observations after 10 years spent building tech startups
I'll be that guy: Golang!
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>A protruding door handle affords to close your hand around it and pull

you could easily have a bar across the width of the door that's narrow and protrudes and affords the ability to clasp it. no the real intent is to communicate to you that amount/direction of force that you need to apply; a bar across the width communicates push hard because the door opens away from you while a handle at the edge communicates pull moderately because you have lots of leverage and the door opens towards you (because if it were at the center you would open the door onto yourself).

>But so does your browser and music player and every other app that have nothing to do with editing source code

it is obviously emulating vscode/monaco editor that the maintainer assumes most people are familiar with. like there's literally a vscode extension that produces almost the same exact images

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adpyke.c...
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
Josef Stalin
Even if there is a second wave, there will be a time after Corona eventually. There won't be any new players by then so the market shares will almost be unchanged.

Stock prices are discounted future profits for about 15 to 20 years. Those profits are still there when Corona is over. From that perspective, why should share prices fall by more than 5-10% for every year that Corona is locking down the economy?

*edit: If anything, the economy will prosper because Corona has forced every company into the 21th century by requiring remote work and digital workflows.
Half of our servers are Ubuntu 14.04, the rest 18.04.

I'll wager that it's not gonna be in either of these releases.

You should specify which lts you're talking about with a distribution that releases every 6 months
Look at the Nasdaq. It's come back much faster than the Dow.
The photos may have been edited for more contrast as well. The ingame images don't look unreal, actually; haze does reduce contrast and not every day is an opportunity to get a crystal-clear magazine-quality photo everywhere.
The dollar plumbing relative to what? Not other currencies by the looks of it.
For what it's worth, I usually find Sabine Hossenfelder to be insufferably critical and self-promoting, but I found that LIGO article fairly disturbing. As someone who has worked with complex analyses of large datasets, I know how easy it can be to fool yourself.