skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh for sure. PDF is tough for so many reasons. Remember that article about the apple programmer trying to implement the "fit text to screen width" thing for PDF a couple months back? PDF is sooooooooo challenging as a medium. Even something that reads and looks identical, but is different under the hood could be big improvement, apparently (I don't actually know how PDF works under the hood other than hearsay of "it's difficult"). In the spirit of chesterson's fence, maybe not though.

I totally agree that additional media could be good. I got caught up on the "most papers could be compressed to < 50 lines" line and misunderstood the premise you were presenting.
> I don't see any indication whatsoever that the US will realistically give people enough compensation to stay at home or can afford to do so.

It seems to me that is the problem that people should focus on, instead of arguing for lifting measures aimed at protecting people.
If you have a baby and two young children around who you also have to homeschool for 8 hours a day then you're not going to be "productive" working at home.

People who slack at work by hide it by having lots of meetings / playing politics are useless whilst working-from home because they don't know how operate when their productivity is more visible.
Please more details - I can not find any feature on the OBS website similar to what we see here. Do we need some plugin / extension? Please give us some urls, thank you!
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I’m struggling to figure out how this is news that a hacker would find interesting. I certainly don’t.

Celebrity death news is banal. If there has never been a front page article about someone’s lived actions, we should not have one upon their death.
It does not:

"On this occasion, we believe public-facing communications regarding the scientific view on the balance of risks and benefits of widespread uptake of face masks have exceeded the scientific evidence base. Efforts to communicate a position so strongly in favour of widespread use of masks in the community, against current WHO advice and in the face of persistent evidence gaps and debates, risk promoting
policy that is based more on eminence—the track record, credentials and status of the authors—than on evidence."
Has anyone tried it? I've been trying for a while to find a way to 3D scans stuff to 3D print but the quality of the final file has always been so crappy that I didn't even want to waste time and filament printing it
I've seen this effect often in various forms.

If Bob and Ted start at the same point, and Bob becomes more successful than Ted, Ted will try to undermine Bob's success. The reason is Ted blames circumstance for his failure, and Bob's success makes it hard for Ted to blame circumstance. By undermining Bob's success, Ted can comfortably continue to blame circumstance.
Is there language server support/is it planned?
That's not the case in CA or at Tesla:

"First, I’d like to be super clear that if you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please don’t feel obligated to come to work. I will personally be at work, but that is just me. Totally OK if you want to stay home for any reason."

https://electrek.co/2020/03/17/elon-musk-tesla-coronavirus-p...
ML Papers achieve similar results when disregarding hyperparameter tuning
I don't disagree with you per se. I think it's debatable how they differ. If you just search Tegnell and Herd immunity you will find that many news sources has interpreted the Swedish model as herd immunity.

Herd immunity is horrible word, and none wants to use it anymore. But because flattening the curve does leave the virus linging around, it in many practies is same as "flatten the curve" as pointed by epidemologists:

> The "Flatten The Curve" plan was touted by every public health organization, while the United Kingdom's original "herd immunity" plan was universally booed. They were the same plan. The UK just communicated theirs poorly.

[1] https://ncase.me/covid-19/
Update: updated the stat to 0.25%, based on the official fatality count of 21,045 and a population of 8.4mil.

In 2018, NYC’s premature death rate was 189 per 100,000, or 0.189% of the population. In a single quarter COVID-19 has already surpassed all causes of premature death combined. And that’s before the epidemic is done, and before we’ve had a chance to re-test earlier deaths to adjust the numbers properly.

You’re not wrong that some people will die from otherwise treatable heart attacks, and that’s tragic. But to assert that more will die from staying home than not requires some pretty extraordinary evidence.
Next you're gonna claim OSHA is fascist, because they prohibit people from deciding for themselves which place is safe enough to work.
Put another way, elegant code is not always good code.
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...but gmail isn't that ubiquitous! A large majority of the emails I receive are from non-gmail addresses. True, most of these are related to where people work, but still, it drives decentralization, and I think most people understand that email ≠ gmail.
Well, in Feudal system you don't really own the land. You can tax the peasants farming it in exchange for military services for the state. But for example you can't parcel it to small farms and sell those for their owners to keep, or anything like that. You can't use the land as your own capital, with all the financial potential of an asset.

I'd love to hear counterexamples, but that's the general gist of it in the large scale I think.

Land ownership is not a silver bullet but in general smart parcelling policies have made nations wealthier. So basically, most wealthy states today at some point in their history have issued a parcelling policy that has distributed land ownership among farms. This has made the economic basis more vibrant and more durable. And, probably also affected the evolution of their political institutions to be more inclusive.

For example, see the parcelling in my country Finland (which was Sweden at the time) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Partition_(Sweden) and earlier in British enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Yes, and there is no reason you can't have a cow as a pet because they have pointy ears and a tail, like cats. It seems you've lost your way, my friend.
Just tested that premise with a 300MB text file... Kate loaded it no problem in about 3secs... textadept didn't load the file, gave an error.

From textadepts FAQ:

Q: Why can’t Textadept handle HUGE files very well?

A: Textadept is an editor for programmers. It is unlikely a programmer would be editing a gigantic log file. There are other tools for that case.
Never underestimate the power/money/lobbying of legacy auto dealers.
how are crime statistics racist?
honestly can facts be racist?
When you walk around outside, are you also carrying an umbrella? Because cloth masks aren't that effective at protecting the wearer and I don't see how else you can prevent someone else from getting close to you.
please give us urls to other open source tools the industry uses for this kind of work, thank you very much.
I haven't found the results of WFH to be surprising.

The self-motivated people are getting just as much if not more work done.

The people who are chatty in the office are more unproductive at home simply because the main reason they stopped chatting was because the boss walked by. I don't think they are more productive as shirking work in the office is equally easy. Just claim to be doing "background research."

Work from home just removes the outside influences, causing people to become more like who they would otherwise be.

In my case, I ignore meetings and just have them on in the background. I am barely in attendance. I can't do that in the office as my managers/team are watching. That is my one behavioral change.
Hi, the author here,

That's the read-only scope that's required to query a single spreadsheet on the user's account. The API doesn't allow listing queries unless you also ask for drive permissions (which I don't).

See more info here:
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/authorizing
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IDK how to respond to that. It's an industry that pays better.

In my career as a software dev, my options have fallen into three categories:

- Projects interesting and challenging enough to devote time to, but subpar pay.

- Good pay but absolutely boring, career ending, mind numbing work.

- Go to Fintech, work hard, get to work on interesting things, get paid well.

At least as far as finance in software is concerned, the smart people go into it because it's one of the few fields where there's a better chance that there are interesting problems to be solved. Finance is the only industry I've worked in that paid more than lip service to scaling and high availability.

Admittedly, at least part of this is because of my location in the USA, and C# as my language of choice.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Yes, it's obvious why Stockhausen didn't get much “air play“ - but how is this relevant? Are you suggesting a correlation between air play and musical quality?
The ownership of Ellis and Liberty Islands, between New York, New Jersey and the federal government, has been the subject of multiple skirmishes, treaties and Supreme Court cases.
Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
Also, some people are terrible at written communication and just can't do without face-to-face conversations.
Comparing React and Ember Octane
rm became low orbit ion cannon?
In the future of land transportation, there will be walking, self driving cars, and high speed rail. And nothing else.
> The biggest advantage of touch screens is that they are infinitely reconfigurable

Not sure I buy this line of thought. A computer keyboard is an example of an infinitely configurable physical interface
William Hamilton has an interesting variation of Euler's Seven Bridges puzzle [0] which asks whether there is a path visiting every vertex of a polyhedron exactly once. Strangely, while the complexity of detecting Eulerian paths is linear in the number of edges [1], the complexity of detecting Hamiltonian paths is NP-complete [2]!

Hamilton (who was also fond of crossing bridges [3]) developed some interesting algebraic structures to study the polyhedron problem [4]. I recently became interested in Eulerian and Hamiltonian paths after taking a class in Graph Representation Learning [5]. In it, I learned there are many interesting connections between algebra and graph theory [6] and started writing a library called Kaliningraph to study some of those connections [7].

[0]: http://eulerarchive.maa.org/docs/originals/E053.pdf

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_path#Hierholzer's_alg...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Bridge

[4]: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/EMIS/classics/Hamilton/PRIAI...

[5]: https://cs.mcgill.ca/~wlh/comp766/

[6]: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/spielman/sagt/sagt.pdf

[7]: https://github.com/breandan/kaliningraph
Thanks! This will make things a little easier for me as I move in to sysadminning and JS development.

Surprised it didnt exist already
If they're only meant for access by residents of the apartments, then no.
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Yeah obviously lifestyle should be a first course of action. In my case, no lifestyles changes helped. Which makes sense, since the underlying cause appears to have been allergies.
Yep - this has a very 1990s-internet feel about it that made me smile :)
It does until you need to do video calls. Then it tells you to either download Chrome or download the Slack app aka Chrome. :(
> the hydrogen electron shell is what's important in chemistry, not the nucleus

H+/K+ ATPase is literally a case of a proton pump that pumps protons. It’s in a class of proton pumps that pump far less efficiently, biologically-meaningfully less efficiently, with heavier isotopes. The nuclear structure is relevant.

“Hydrogen pumps” would be inaccurate. “Hydrogen ion pumps”, while practically fine, would be less precise.

General use of the term proton for hydrogen ions is debatable. But this is ironically a case where it isn’t.
Contrary to popular belief the SuperFX and ARC cores are about as different as can be. RISC back then was a buzzword and applied loose and fast; today we wouldn't call SuperFX a RISC chip if not for the decades of describing it as such. ARC is very much a RISC design though.

Totally agreed on how impressive it was though, despite the differences in nomenclature.
Have you ever tried to marry two APIs? It’s almost never as simple as it should be. And Zapier isn’t just two, it’s hundreds.
While working in an office, I considered myself one of the more productive members of my team, and one colleague called me the most productive team member. Now, working from home, I am often standing up, walking around and dreaming for hours. I am glad I was allowed to return to an office alone this Monday. I am not 100% sure it is all due to WFH because my assigned project changed at about the same time but I can only hope I'll recover when I'm in an office again, even if nobody else is there to watch over me.
> Zapier is doing something complex?
So asks a commenter on the Internet.

Essentially, you are implying that enabling no-code integration with thousands of 3rd party services is easy.

Classic case of: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
>does it force him to swim?

This is more or less how how most animals learn to swim or how birds learn to fly.
You are not a mod. The same can be said for your comment.
> This article is discussing the hope that immunity lasts forever

Nowhere is this stated or suggested. Why are you saying that it is? The only point it makes (contrary to all your claims) is we don’t know the duration of immunity and the situation is unpredictable, based on what we know of other coronaviruses. From the article:

>What I have been telling everyone—and no one believes me, but it’s true—is we get coronaviruses every winter even though we’re seroconverted,” says Matthew Frieman, who studies the virus family at the University of Maryland. That is, even though most people have previously developed antibodies to them, they get the viruses again. “We really don’t understand whether it is a change in the virus over time or antibodies that don’t protect from infection,” he says.

> After testing different scenarios, the Harvard group concluded that their projections of how many people end up getting covid-19 in the coming years depended “most crucially” on “the extent of population immunity, whether immunity wanes, and at what rate.” In other words, the critical factor in projecting the path of the outbreak is also a total unknown.
Advertisers love to advertise to kids. This is in no way what the advertisers want.
With Postgres that's because SQL has been a standard for decades now. And with idiomatic React the changes were largely not because of what you claim: not anticipating needs well enough. The changes in what is idiomatic were largely around discovering better ways of doing things, along with JavaScript itself changing. You can still write a React component using idioms from five years ago and it's still easy to read the code. React is very focused, and very simple. The main motivation for moving to the newer idioms is that you can make the code even shorter and more readable. It seems to me that they anticipated the need to keep up with the JavaScript language evolving quite well.
One implication of Tesler's law appears to be that it is impossible to increase the total complexity of a system. But this feels intuitively wrong to me after looking at the source code of any ERP project.

Maybe it only comes into play if you try to decrease over all complexity of a system. After a certain point complexity can't be reduced but can only be redistributed.
People actually use Slack for calling? Color me surprised…
How do you know management is wrong and you are right? More likely you and your management have different priorities and assumptions. You or management, or both, may suffer from certainty bias.

Accept the learning experience. Sometimes you have to go along with decisions you don't understand or agree with. Do your best and offer helpful suggestions and alternatives.

You can't always get what you want, as one famous person put it.
We have video meetings, though. WFH hasn't really changed the amount of written communication in my work.

My closest collaborator falls pretty squarely under "terrible at written communication", but we still have sufficiently frequent face-to-face time to be about as productive as before.

I'm in agreement with the general sentiment elsewhere in this thread, though. I've found nothing about people's WFH productivity that's surprising. People with kids are handicapped, but are often determined enough to find a way to make it work. For everybody else, it seems like the inequality in productivity just goes up, and it's harder to mask non-productivity by socializing well.
Our solution is that I go to bed at 8pm and get up at 4am and work like mad until breakfast which is around 9am. Thats 5h of uninterrupted coding time, which is about the max my old brain can handle anyway. The hard part is doing 'working hours' business, but hey, I just email everyone from the potty.

Sorry, ahem, bathroom.
Fully agree with you that if we do nothing, we're heading for a world of pain. But I never said we should do nothing.

In fact I pointed out we already have other options. Real ones, today, that we know will work. Eat less meat. Drive less and smaller cars. Use less packaging, clothing, etc. Build smaller and better houses, that need less air-conditioning and heating. Put a price on CO2 and let the market figure it out.

But no-one likes them. So sure, if we keep sticking our heads in the sand we're heading for megadeaths. Sure, it would be nice if technology could help us get out of this mess without sacrificing our way of life.

But the technology does not exist today. And certainly not one that has a better chance of being accepted than the other measures I've already listed.
That's a really good point and I never thought about it this way. It just makes me think how powerful is for US the world relying on dollars as an international currency.
That's a complicated question you're asking. It belongs to differential geometry, which I specialised in 15 years ago.

So, you're looking for interesting 4 dimensional manifolds. Problem is, there are many of those. Too many to count, iirc.

Contrast this with the 3 dimensional manifolds, of which there are only eight (and simple compositions of these eight).

Now, unfortunately, the Klein bottle is a 2 dimensional manifold (it's surface is the manifold, and that is locally isomorphic to a R^2). It's interesting because it does not have an embedding into 3d space, unlike most other 2d manifolds, so you need to embed it into R^4. I don't know if there is a list of these.

I can look up more details and give more pointers if there is interest.

Interesting side note: the Klein bottle was originally called "kleinsche Fläche" (Klein surface). When saying this German word with an English voice it'll sound like "Kleinsche Flasche" which translates to "Klein bottle".
That's also the difference between raster and vector modeling of virtual geometry. There is an area on a graph where one literally takes less space on a computer's memory than the other, for representing essentially the same information.

But there are other trade-offs.
That's what I meant with "unless it has type hints" but thanks for the link :)

Blue ocean python I pretty much start with hints and interface definitions, the logic follows. Helps me through writing the logic when I have autocompletion of methods.
Some people need to go to a gym to do their exercise, some people are okay with a home gym. It's little to do with diligence or anything, people have different styles of motivation or drive.
You're responding to something he never said. He explicitly said any employees who don't feel safe coming to work don't need to.
Tech bro is, by and large, an oxymoron.
>I’m struggling to figure out how this is news that a hacker would find interesting. I certainly don’t.

I'm struggling to find how this type of comment is considered interesting. HN is a social voting site for startup guys and hacker types. If enough users upvote a story within some time frame (and nothing more involved happens with the moderation), it goes to the front page. Simple as that, and has been discussed at least a hundred times.

So whether someone can "figure" why hackers would find this news interesting or not, hackers did find it interesting and upvoted it.

And why not? Hackers are not one-dimensional computer geeks. They have curiosity, they care for music, they care for pop culture (not to mention movies, comics, etc), they care for games, they care for science, they care for a thousand things...

It's also not about the fact that some "celebrity died".

Little Richard for starters is hardly a current celebrity. Obvious as his figure is to oldsters, most 20- 30-somethings today would't even know about him, except in encyclopedical terms ("some old rock n' roll guy from the fifties?") - if that.

He is celebrated by those who know about him not because of some contemporary popularity, but for what he did 65-70 years ago. Which included significant contributions to pop culture, rock music, gay representation, and other things besides. Things hackers can, and apparently do, find interesting.
I don't think they do have a range. I saw a slide a month or so ago that showed how long antibodies last for various viruses, and the range was something like 3 months to life. We simply have no idea how long SARS-CoV-2 antibodies will last.
Sure, but people also just used up what they had.

I had a box of mini hand sanitizer in the closet i purchased 2-3 years ago, I brought it out at the beginning of march and began to use it. I ran out and there was no more to be found in any store. Still have only seen it once or twice in a store, behind the counter now 2 months later.

Even if we had all just tried to buy 1 bottle of hand sanitizer each that would have been 330 million bottles, I don’t think store shelves had that many in march.

(Edit: It’s the same thing as happened to stuff like toilet paper - we usually make just enough toilet paper for everyone, between commercial and retail toilet paper sales. Suddenly commercial toilet paper became unsaleable with industries shuttering their doors, and the existing supply of home toilet paper wasn’t enough anymore since now all the bum-wiping that would have been done with commercial toilet paper needed to be done with the different rolls that are sold to home goods buyers)
What are Musk’s views on climate change?
There was a infamous spreading event in an apartment block in Hong Kong where due to faulty plumbing some sewage went "backwards" from the sewer to toilets and a single person infected dozens. That was SARS
> won't permit him to expose ten thousand people to an infectious disease.

How low of an IFR would it take before you accepted that exposure? Would incidentally exposing them to the common cold be ok?

It's not the infections that matter - it's the deaths. And, with Tesla's 10k factory workers and the assumption that they're heathy people between 20 and 60, you'd see somewhere between 1 and 50 deaths. (Assuming that Italy's health care worker CFR is representative) Is this worth it? I don't know. But there's a point where it would be.
I would rephrase that to say that "safe space" should be the term for such environments, but in practice that's problematic. The term was specifically invented to describe spaces where certain discussions are forbidden because they could be "triggering". It was not invented to describe a space where discussion is possible without unilateral escalation to unrelated third parties.

I suspect that a healthy society needs both kinds of safe spaces.