skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NYT uses docs to author interactive articles that don't fit nicely in the CMS.

I've missed that workflow a lot (comments and edits are amazing!); I just open sourced a tiny library that saves a doc as a text file.

https://github.com/1wheel/doc2txt

npx doc2txt 1StMiAtcY6bY6yEIQp5pVSGdIHSnZG-kFspdmsSzAJdE --outpath gettysburg.txt
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infec...

> “One reason is that nearly everyone there is wearing a mask,” said De Kai, an American computer scientist with joint appointments at UC Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also the chief architect of an in-depth study, set to be released in the coming days, that suggests that every one of us should be wearing a mask—whether surgical or homemade, scarf or bandana—like they do in Japan and other countries, mostly in East Asia. This formula applies to President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence (occasional mask refuseniks) as well as every other official who routinely interacts with people in public settings. Among the findings of their research paper, which the team plans to submit to a major journal: If 80% of a closed population were to don a mask, COVID-19 infection rates would statistically drop to approximately one twelfth the number of infections—compared to a live-virus population in which no one wore masks.
It is really not a mystery why the market has done so well and will continue to do well. Corporate profits, especially in the tech sector, are at near record highs, much higher than during the 90s. Companies like Walmart are printing cash, and that money goes into buybacks, dividends ,or shareholder equity. Either way, shareholders benefit and this is magnified by very low inflation, so the real return is even higher than it was compared to the 80s and 90s. If huge, multinational companies generate 20-30% profits or cash flow, that is $ that will go to shareholders one way or another. Great time to be in the stock market. Added to positions in April at a discount.
People thought the virus would hit harder, and so the long-term impacts would be worse, than they do now.
The guidelines your comment broke include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say."

I'd never refuse to tell you, or anybody, anything you sincerely want to know about how to use HN as intended. You do have a long history of breaking the rules egregiously with many accounts, and it isn't the best use of resources to explain the same things over and over in such cases. If you'd like to change, though, that would be quite different and we'd be happy to help.
The demand curves and supply curves are constantly shifting.
Finding some physics
Good luck importing any animal species to Australia. Also keeping bees alive and prosper would add another layer of complexity.
Is the ten-year outlook better now than it was one year ago?
Also, what if people don't want to be part of the very system which causes wealth inbalance?

or is the stockmarket a "the only way to lose is not to play" kind of deal?
> Obsession with dark, unreadable text colors are much more destructive to my eyes than cursives.

I disagree. When working at night, even with indoor lighting; pastel colors and lower intensity of darker themes reduce eye-strain significantly. Daily eye-strain takes its toll at night even if you didn't code or use screens during the day.

I personally don't like ligatures as much too but, it's a choice after all. People shall enjoy the work they do, shall customize their working environment to reduce friction as much as possible for them.

This is an extension of desktop customization and I look some of them with awe. I don't spend that much time customizing my coding environment and terminals. I also don't share some of the choices they make but, as I said, environment is a personal thing after all.

> Whoever came up with the idea that blue on black was a good color for displaying code on a screen, or dark green on black was a good idea for comments should just stop using computers together with everyone who installs and uses those themes.

Instead, we can use the themes which we like and suit us best, can't we?
It's a really cool idea Google codelabs has been using for a few years to provide a unified way to write development tutorials[1].

1. https://github.com/googlecodelabs/tools/
It is soooooo easy for something that was just an experiment to get published somewhere, that I have learned (the hard way, multiple times) to never commit any secrets to a git repo. Well, intentionally that is... but if I do it by mistake, I treat them as compromised and change them.

Instead I just create a .env file and put them there. It's a bit more boilerplate but it is worth it when I don't need to decide between keeping secrets and having code history before publishing. And env vars are supported everywhere afaik.
Ouch. Or no words, long intake of breath, while hopping around on the other foot.
Markets can stay irrational longer than they can stay solvent.

"The wisdom of the markets" doesn't exactly have an inspiring track record.
I don't think most people would describe their relationship with their parents as a "best friend" type relationship. It's not that surprising you don't have much in common with them. How many other friends do you have their age?

If you don't actually enjoy talking to them, I wouldn't frame it as an "obligation" or "duty", but whether you care about them.

Especially as they get older, they may need someone to look out for them. For example, I had to call my parents almost every day for two weeks to convince them to take COVID-19 seriously. Normally I call about once per week.

Also, try putting yourself in their shoes and imagine what it's like to raise a child you love more than anything in the world, and have that child grow apart from you and want nothing to do you with you. I imagine it can be heartbreaking.
Once investors become truly forward-thinking, snp will hit $30 quintillion 8^)
“It’s like trying to find your car keys in a field using a pair of binoculars.”

I cannot remember where this quote came from, but I think it was something to do with a missing Russian cargo vessel in the Atlantic.
I am right with you, I've never understood what the actual purpose to owning shares is other than "their price goes up when the company is expected to do well" -- but what do you get for that price being higher?

Without dividends the whole idea of stocks makes no sense to me.

With dividends, I would think "I'll buy this stock for $100 with the expectation that I'll get a $10 dividend next year, a $12 dividend the year after that, etc etc, and eventually make my money back!"

In the case you buy a bunch of stocks and just hold onto them, they generate value by the company doing well. I could buy shares of a bunch of companies and wait 30 years, and if most of those companies are still doing well, I'll have made a profit from dividends, and I can then sell those to some wide-eyed young person who is hoping the company will continue to do well so they can get their payments for the next 30+ years. If the company instead does well for 20 years and then abruptly goes out of business, I still would've gotten lots of payouts from them, but now I can't sell those shares to someone who hopes for future payouts anymore.

But if there are no dividends, none of this makes any sense -- I'm buying the shares, making no money for the 30 years that I sit on them, then selling them to some wide-eyed younger person for a higher price who expects to also make no money for 30 years, but to be able to sell the shares to some new younger person? There's no endgame with a payout here, but there is an end where the company goes out of business. So what value was the share providing the owner over those 30 years??
The devil is in defaults.

If at anytime ostree or Nix-like distributions will take over, then I would expect more "channels", "repositories" or other wie-heißt-ers, than distros.
>The can-do, "what hard thing shall we tackle next" attitude is one that's frankly difficult to find elsewhere. They'd just throw themselves into a challenge without even stopping to think about what could go wrong; the sunshine of the state was like the sunshine in their minds.

Amazingly good insight. I originally started working for a Bay Area company exactly because companies elsewhere have a tendency to shrug their shoulders and give up without trying, when faced with difficult problems. It's maddening. Half the battle is thinking you can beat a problem - if you give up before trying, you've already lost.

I'm also not exactly smitten with the area, but the attitude is unbeatable and in part why SV will continue to lead the world.
Aging is not killing hundreds of people in short succession in the same hospital. The only option to avoid much more significant disturbances in our daily life then we see now is to isolate for as long as possible, and then work tirelessly to perform contact tracing of the newly infected and catch outbreaks while they are small.

And I believe that a vaccine can succeed where natural immunity doesn't. For example, there are viruses where you only gain partial immunity from contacting the disease, but can end up with a worse form of the disease if exposed again, like with chicken pox (varicella) leaving the door open to shingles (zoster).
Monetary stimulus almost completely explains the irrationality of the equity markets.
Very interesting link. I hadn't seen this before, this helps. Thanks.
For a short time, the market envisioned the apocalypse. That’s what the media was selling, and enough market participants bought it to temporarily cause a sell-off. Also, consider that a very large percentage of market trading is algorithmic. In this sort of situation, they often amplify the panic by detecting human panic in the market and automatically selling.
An introduction to viral reproduction numbers, R0 and Re
Bullshit is a technical term...
Thanks for the insight. That makes sense. Cheers.
thats not really relevant, I don't think anyone assumed it was always a drop in replacement for sql
That's not true.

> Want to serve web applications?

apt-get install nginx

> Want to work on penetration testing?

apt-get install nmap netcat

> Want to develop embedded systems?

I don't even know what you need for that besides ssh and busybox, honestly.

> Creative arts?

apt-get install gimp
Not saying you're doing any evil :). Those might not be yours to fix, but one could argue that if copy/pasting is such a problem in your current environment there are deeper issues at hand.
Nothing that carbon will fix, and nothing that accessibility will helps with in any case. Good luck!
Headless CMSs (That Marketers Won’t Hate)
Oh yeah. In fact, that's exactly where there needs to be more research.
I work at a big tech company. One of the big realizations we've made is that WFH is not killing our productivity - it may actually be increasing it. If that is widely true, it has huge implications, and points towards an enormous amount of value that can be unlocked, by allowing professionals to work wherever they want (presumably in lower CoL locales). This article indicates that the housing crisis costs the US economy 1.6 trillion a year, so we should be able to recoup that immense loss (about 2x the military budget) by exploiting remote work tech.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/05/the-urban-housing-cru...
I realize it's /s, but there are people who talk exactly like that, most of the time. It'd be simpler if they just said "calm down, doesn't matter."
I mostly downvoted for the uneven indenting TBH
I'm a big fan of Phil Anderson's article, More is Different[1] where he argues why he things this reductionist view (the view that the physics most worthy of understanding is the physics of the smallest things) is flawed. The fact of the matter is that at all sorts of scales regularities in the laws of nature emerge, and understanding the smaller and smaller building blocks is only one interesting path for physics research.

Condensed matter physics is, in my opinion, a far more interesting and varied field of study than high energy physics. Not only does it contribute to society in a way high energy physics no longer does, but in many senses it takes on a fundamental character like HEP. Every material in the long wavelength limit acts like its own little universe with its own set of fundamental particles and quantum fields.

The universes Condensed matter physics studies have supersymmetry, Majorana fermions, magnetic monopoles, dualities and any other genuinely interesting physical phenomenon you could want.

What's more is that by understanding the physics of these phenomena, we can create new technologies that really matter.

[1] https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_differen...
I'd hope that he was just joking with that list
A friend is someone that I enjoy being around, share ideas and interests, and be a good companion. By definition, my friends cannot be lame, can they?
Why is Nitrogen fixation not mentioned?

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

Anyone who worked at a farm or golf course or landscaping knows this elementary fact of science, having a hard time understanding what qualifications Geoff Manaugh has to write about science.
In the end what really counts is the health of members of society as a whole.

Providing everyone with basic life necessities would be a good start.
Regrets are hard. No one knows how yours feel and getting over them is almost impossible. Sending you some Universal Love
Sounds like the 'sufficiently smart compiler[1] myth.

1. https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
> "I've patented the design, the greenhouse and the trellises, but what I'd like to be able to do is reduce the production costs, make it very much available to a lot of people to actually buy these greenhouses and grow them for themselves."

Hmmm..
I'm not implying that Arch is time consuming once you set it up... but if you can't see how installing Arch is more time consuming than installing Manjaro you're just being intentionally dense and contrarian.
Bad Concurrency: I Heard a Rumour
> Isn’t there some quote, maybe even from Steve Jobs, about apps early in the day of the App Store, that went something like this? “iPhone apps should be so easy to use that they don’t need Help.”

We are so far away from Steve Jobs's original vision of the iPhone.

In my estimation, the iPhone was originally envisioned as a physical version of Mac OS X's Dashboard[1]. See also: developers were expected to code everything in html[2], the screen was only 3.5", and early iOS borrowed a lot of Dashboard's UI elements.

The original iPhone was intended to be versatile, to be sure. It could become "an iPod, a phone," a compass, a map, or a camera—but never anything that couldn't be described in one word. A "special way to send and view pictures that self-destruct after ten seconds?" I don't think so.

I am, to be quite honest, quite nostalgic for the iPhone's original vision. Were someone to make a modern device which follows that philosophy, I'd be interested in buying it, as a way to get me away from my phone and increase my presence in the real world.

But the iPhone being sold today is very far, philosophically, from what Steve Jobs presented on stage.

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[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CBkEfNx1bs

[2] Remember, there was no app store at launch, and reportedly no plans to add one later at the time.
I assume you're ignoring the discount rate entirely for simplicity? It doesn't seem like money ten years from now should be worth the same as money today.

But I guess that implies that interest rates should go up eventually.
This was mostly applicable to older generations of EC2 instances (C3, M3, etc.)

EBS is now the default when creating an instance, and instance types of newer generations generally don't have instance store at all (except disk optimized instance types, and those with "d" in the name.)
Maybe what you say is true. Tell me about your situation.

I know that when someones parents are toxic and abusive they need to be cut off.

However, for many parents when the situation is reversed they do not have a choice. The love is too great and the parents have to stick with the child until the very very end.

If you murdered someone, a good number of parents will never abandon you. They will give up everything to help you including their own lives.

Do you have a friend or someone other than your parents who will stick with you no matter what? Tell me about it.
What's with all the typos on the web site? e.g. "Unfetter Discover: Analyze seucrity gaps and explore adversary tradecraft" or "Unfetter Disocover".

If the goal is to foster adoption these tells scream "disorganized and unprofessional".
The thing is, in the formula, you have to use the rate "r" to discount the future profits. If the "r" decreases, the monetary value of stocks in the present increase, even though the cashflow has not changed. So, even if coronavirus decreases short-term profits, the effect it has on the global economy can lower interest rates, causing the present value of stocks to increase.
Do you mean the CS231n materials?
Hmm, does the token provide signing without the PIN? That seems like a very big oversight, but mine doesn't sign in without the PIN.

What can someone with the handle do? They can't log in without the USB token, right?
An increasingly large % of the economy is concentrated in a handful of highly profitable, efficient tech companies and multinationals such as Walmart, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Stimulus $ is pure bottom line growth for these huge companies as smaller businesses close. Also, huge growth in business to business commerce, bypassing consumer spending altogether. Facebook and Google selling ad space to other big businesses such as IBM. Microsoft, Nike, or Proctor and Gamble. Also, the wealthy are more impervious to economic weakens than the lower classes, and consumer spending growth from the top 10% is enough to offset loses in the bottom 90%.
>It seems like you're having trouble either understanding or believing how bad some mothers actually are. What about the ones that leave their baby in a dumpster? If that kid grows up does it have an obligation to try and maintain a relationship with its mother?

Your assumption is incorrect. Where in any of my posts did I say that people are under obligation to maintain a relationship with parents? I absolutely NEVER said this.

This is what I said and I quote verbatim:

"I think it's absolutely worth it to try and establish contact and maintain a relationship if you feel that the relationship problems are superficial and underneath it all your parents do love you."

This was the situation I was in. This is the situation the person in the NYTimes article is describing. I'm just keeping on topic here.

Look there are definitely horrible parents out there. I'm fortunate to not have had parents that would beat the shit out of me or torture me. I'm just keeping in line with the topic of the NYTimes article. If you don't feel "your parents love you" then absolutely do not open up a relationship.

Basically bad relationships with parents who still ultimately love you is the theme that the article and I am targeting.

If you don't have that underlying relationship with your parent then don't try to reconnect. You be the judge, I'm not trying to ask people to reconnect with parents who are psychopathic. I'm asking people to reconnect with parents who mean well and actually do love you but have ultimately made grave mistakes in the past.

Never did I say every parent and every situation is like this. I am saying for THIS situation and the situation described in the article it is appropriate.
I actually find that a bit, I'm not even sure of the word I'd use, not quite creepy, not quite disturbing, but not something I'd want to do.

I'm not sure if my mom would have liked that much either. She didn't want us focusing on things like that after she was gone. She didn't want to be buried so we wouldn't waste time going to a grave stone.

>Everything we do for the dead is a ritual for the living.

Yup, that it is. To help people come to terms with loss and generally confront the idea of mortality. Personally, i've gone through lots of different feelings towards it over the years. I'm not sure if it's something you ever really deal with, you just learn different ways of thinking about it over the years, and it's not always a steady progression of, feeling bad-being ok or something like that. Sometimes I feel like I dealt with it better when I was younger than I do now.
I'm finishing up with a simplistic template for Zim wiki. That will enable me to have a website with nice Wysywig interface divorced from web bloat and limitiations, but also some of its convenience.

https://zim-wiki.org/
yes because if a company goes bankrupt it’s future profit goes to zero
Over here having contact with mom, evern briefly, every day is quite normal
Perhaps in this particular crisis, unemployment may be a leading indicator instead of a lagging one.
I'm new to reading paywalled articles and the HN FAQs said it was ok to ask for help in the comments. Can someone please help me out? I really want to read this article.
You can look at employment rates in countries with generous social welfare and unemployment benefits, and notice that the percentage of the population sitting idle who are not sick is minuscule, and not significantly different format the idle population in countries with weak unemployment benefits.

It is true that there are systematic exceptions - especially people born rich.
The first sell off was emotional, the rest was forced margin selling. It was beautiful.
I love it! I think the rendering could be improved by projecting the image to compensate for screen tilt, in addition to rotating the head.
The Visitor pattern is not much more than a CPS-style transform that lets you represent sum types in a language without them.

A CPS transform for a computation of type `X` gives a computation of type `forall A. (X -> A) -> A`. That is, instead of evaluating to ("returning") a value of type `X`, you take a function that you deliver a valid of type `X` to, and return whatever it returns.

CPS-transforming a sum type `X + Y` gives `forall A. (X + Y -> A) -> A`, and if you distribute over the sum you get `forall A. ((X -> A) * (Y -> A)) -> A`. The visitor is the pair of functions you pass in, `(X -> A) * (Y -> A)`, and the value decides which method to call. In either event, it returns whatever the chosen visitor method returns.

(Dropping into Java syntax, this is the type of the `visit` method: `<A> A visit(Visitor<A> visitor)` -- and the Visitor is `interface Visitor<A> { A onX(X x); A onY(Y y); }`.)
> Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April - Also Musk

The chutzpah to call that highly credentialed health official ignorant after making such a claim that was counter to what essentially every epidemiologist in the world was predicting for the USA at the time. I'm seeing some pretty interesting similarities between how Musk is communicating and treating people, and a certain other individual..

We shouldn't be cutting people slack for behaving like this; whoever they are.
if it's ok to poke, can I ask what type of equipment and licenses? Is it like a home tech stack to test new infra setups on?

p.s hope you're staying safe from COVID