skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is turning a flawed study into a conspiracy theory and ignoring important related epidemiology. The fact is that the large number of asymptomatic cases led to initial undercounting of infections so the virus appears to be less deadly when looking at numbers that include previously missed cases. This doesn't make the pandemic any less serious.

At this point we have data from places with no lockdowns, mild lockdowns, strong lockdowns, and recently ended lockdowns. All of this verifies the long held epidemiology that points out that once a highly infectious agent is loose in the general public lockdowns have extremely limited benefit. This is not a political issue and does not relate to managing airlines or running clickbait web news sites.
That makes sense. I guess that seems to somewhat conflict with the concept of the exchange as a service, at least for how laypeople understand currency exchanges in general. It wouldn’t surprise me if most people with exchange accounts don’t understand that coins not in their own wallet aren’t actually theirs. The exchanges don’t really make that clear to their users either, at least the ones I’ve used.
As Jeff Goldblum would say, "Life finds a way."

I'm avoiding Covid conversations as my self-esteem is too fragile to tolerate downvotes. ;) But, if I were opining on the subject, I'd say that masks, social distancing, lock-downs, etc. are absolutely and utterly worthless and unecessary. But, if it makes some people feel virtuous to wear their placebo masks while cowering in the apartments, so be it. As for me, I'll be at the river this weekend tubing with several hundred others, drinking a Corona, and thinking of you all.
> The best data point I can find is that Google spent 13B on datacenter and office construction in 2019

It’s hard to do a fair comparison like this between high growth companies and normal companies - for example what fraction of that cost for Google is growth based vs to maintain exisiting services?
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> This is false. A more accurate statement would be, "masks help".

Actually, the accurate statement would be "Masks may help protect you a little bit, but they're much better preventing you from spreading the virus to others."

The best production you can have is if those around you are conscientious, and you are likewise.
Podcasts are getting pretty popular as well. I think just in terms of sheer available time to listen versus watching videos, podcasts could gain a sizeable market share.
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I wonder whether those common, $10 PIN diodes for UHF/microwave can be used.
Agree with the other poster, not an insult at all. Think pop-science books or discussing Mayan art over beers.

I'd personally be thrilled if more people were intellectual tourists. In my professional technical life, I'd far rather talk to people with a superficial understanding than people who's mental model is part TV-hackers, part magic.
that's super interesting! would you be open to chatting more? i'd love to ask you some questions about your workflow and hear your feedback on cadence, seems like you've got some great opinions. my email is melissa@cadencework.com
> There are no key servers for signify. No web of trust. Just keys. The good news is the keys are pretty small. As demonstrated. We can stick them just about everywhere, and we do. They're on the web site, they're on twitter, they're on the top side of CD. 56 base64 characters. You can read it out loud over the phone in under a minute. Wide dispersion makes it harder and harder to intercept all the ways you may get the key and increases the risk of detection should anybody try some funny business.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html

but if you really want to have a central public place for keys, then the recently discussed https://keys.pub should work, just needs minor format conversion: https://keys.pub/docs/specs/keys.html
Most of those extensions work by just inverting the colors of the entire page. Pretty unideal, compared to an intelligently-written dark theme.
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There may be third party solutions to this. The management around here is very conservative about changing things and explicitly has policies to "Move slow and preserve things" (as opposed to "Move fast and break things"). So, as a guess, the answer to that is probably "No" or, at best, "Not any time soon."

But the management is very tolerant of and even warmly welcomes the fact that the membership includes a lot of programmers and we tend to get a lot of third party solutions.

Off the top of my head, I don't know of an HN reader thingy in dark mode, but asking if those exist is much more likely to get you an immediately available solution than asking management to alter the appearance of HN in some specific way.
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Ah, so the eviction/priority algorithm. Thanks!
It’s dynamic dispatch because the decision about what code to call happens at runtime (via the switch statement) rather than compile time.
The Scylla is scale, if you aren't big you can't do search at all, and only a behemoth like Google can do free-form AI assisted questions.

The Charybdis is trust. You can't monetize search directly, or it becomes a bunch of transparent lies that nobody wants. You can't be a rapacious predator that has already tried to eat the internet several times (sorry, Microsoft). It mattered that early Google said "don't be evil". You have to monetize something else, but weave it into your search so that you aren't bleeding money.

Only Google has threaded the needle. It may never happen a second time.
It will never get out-of-sync because TCP guarantees that the bytes will be delivered in the same order they've arrived.

The best approach is typically put a length in front of every message. The good things about that approach are:

1. The receiver can allocate buffer that is exactly the size it needs to fit the message.
2. The receiver can check whether the message is too long before seeing the entire message.

The only disadvantage is that you have to know the length of all messages in advance.
The zip file format itself, and the compression algorithms, like deflate...all seem set up to encourage low memory usage. The directory, for example, is at the end of the file.

Also, most places in a zipfile you might not have context to write in a streaming fashion are predictable in size/position so you can throw in a placeholder and seek() back to it later.

Kind of a shame someone has to specifically implement a low memory usage library. That implies other implementations went the lazy route.
Let us imagine that there are options to disable or exclude these "features", i.e., silent behaviours.

Here is a question for you. Would you prefer that these options be

a. only run-time (hopefully not set to defaults that suit advertising and tracking),

b. only compile-time (imagining further that these browsers could be compiled with less resources and in less time), or

c. both.
Exactly. If I may add: We (as humans) don't get to choose when and where god flips the coin. Any claims to the contrary fall in the realm of esoterics.

For a similar reason the measurement problem and the question of whether the presence of (conscious) observers makes the wave function collapse should not be misinterpreted as "You can influence reality with your thoughts alone" or "If you believe in something strongly enough, it will happen."
$20K per user is only 20x worse than Quibi with 1.3 million active users and $1.75 billion spend making it ~$1.3K per user, or even legendary Broadcast.com acquisition by Yahoo that made Mark Cuban a billionaire. Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle made a !brilliant! decision to pay $10K per user! $5.7 billion dollars written off in less than two years.
> I truly do not understand why so many jumped from Coffeescript

You clear up your own confusion right here:

> console.log [ i if i % 3 and i % 5, 'fizz' unless i % 3, 'buzz' unless i % 5 ].join '' for i in [ 1 .. 100 ]

And you said:

> I would not publish things like this, though :)

You just did though ;)

> I still use it and still believe I can be more concise and expressive in Coffeescript. Typescript and ES2015 picked up a lot of wonderful things, but I find myself writing a lot less boilerplate in Coffeescript

That boilerplate that you imply hinders conciseness isn't just boilerplate. It's code that helps you automate getting rid of certain classes of bugs. It also in most cases makes the code more readable IMO. And if the problem you are trying to solve is having to type less, I believe that's a job for your editor and tooling.
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It seems to me GP is talking about using TCP, not implementing it.
Is there a list of all the permissions they stopped asking for?
There are tools that intentionally insert failures into the network streams of applications. A few of them are described here: https://medium.com/@docler/network-issues-simulation-how-to-...

The other linking/OS problems can probably be automated with some simple integration tests and a bunch of different docker containers to compile the code in. Should be possible to squeeze it into a CI/CD flow somewhere with some clever tricks.
Of course there's a difference between smoothing and forecasting. It's the difference between interpolation and extrapolation.

But I can't figure out what anyone in the original discussion is really saying, if anything.
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> It's unfair. I want restauranteurs to be good at restauranting.

Restaurants have to pay an arm and leg (often around 1/3 of revenue) for prime real-estate; or pay higher wage in more prosperous places.... is it fair?

In the end, restauranteurs who are good at this business will thrive and those who are not good at it will falter. Google/Yelp/DoorDash just provides additional dimensions for restaurants to compete in. And as always, when new technologies emerge, there are winners and losers.

In this wave of change to restaurant industry, the winners are actually smaller restaurants at cheap locations who are previously invisible to most potential customers but now are on equal footing with restaurants at prime locations in terms of exposure. And in the long term, it'll shift restaurants' expense breakdown, and those who pay too much rent will struggle because they don't have the budget to pay for online exposures.

It doesn't mean the restaurants paying less rent will be more profitable, the money simply goes from landlords to tech companies. And as long as restaurant industry is a fiercely competitive market, profit margins will remain low.
Google and Facebook benefitted the most from GDPR and grew in size, fyi.

Google helped write GDPR.

I am tired of hearing this troupe of putting more and more regulations to stop shit from breaking when exactly this caused monopolies in many traditional sectors that haven't been changed since like forever because the red tape to do anything requires a team of expensive lawyers.

If you are for more regulation, please at least come up with a way to regulate that seems practical.
I watched that video early on about handling your groceries.

One part mentioned how long covid could persist on things.

- aerosol form - 3 hours

- on cardboard - 1 hour

- on plastic/metal - 3 days

Later in the video they mention heat and cold

- heat in microwave - kills it

but then...

- some coronavirus species can live frozen for up to 2 years

https://youtu.be/sjDuwc9KBps
Just typing /giphy <search term> is so easy though.
And how’s not reading books working out for you?

Most information on the Internet is observably crap. The thing about books, especially books that have managed to remain in print for a long time, is that they contain considerably less crap than a well curated set of websites.

The old way is in fact superior because it is Lindy.
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Google ought to scare you a lot more than the other companies you listed. One not need bring politics into the picture to understand why surveillance capitalism-based companies may require distinct scrutiny.
Instantiation and teardown aren’t hard, or at any rate they shouldn’t have to be. If you roll this stuff by hand, it can often indicate weak areas of the design -- unnecessarily tedious boilerplate that can be cleaned up.

To me, DI frameworks are usually an example of the tail wagging the dog. You make your code more complex, slower and harder to debug just for the sake of making it more testable. But if you avoid leaning too hard on the framework, it’s usually possible to keep the design clean and get good test coverage. In fact you can often get better test coverage, by using real components rather than being tempted into relying on mocks.
Average body temperature seems to have been dropping for a long time now.

Also, validate that yours give consistent readings. There's been some evidence of a bunch of them going out un or poorly calibrated recently and being off by a couple of degrees, and we're not talking about low end models, either.
William Barr is an extremely contentious pick for DOJ. It's hard to understate this. Just read his bio, it's nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr

> Barr is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of nearly unfettered presidential authority over the executive branch of the U.S. government.

> Barr as attorney general in 1992 authored the report The Case for More Incarceration, where he argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate

> Having criticized the Mueller investigation before taking office, Barr did not recuse himself from overseeing the investigation as attorney general. After receiving Mueller's report he issued a four-page letter to Congress, describing what he said were its principal conclusions, and adding his opinion that the evidence presented did not establish obstruction of justice by Trump. Special counsel Mueller privately responded that Barr's letter had misrepresented the report.

> Barr intervened in the criminal case against convicted Trump associate Roger Stone, recommending a lighter sentence for Stone than the career prosecutors who had worked on the case. In May 2020, the Justice Department under Barr announced the dropping of charges against ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn despite an earlier guilty plea by Flynn, which he later filed to withdraw.

So yeah, he's a hatchet man for the president, through and through. This is just revenge for tech's left leaning donations and stance, at the bidding of Trump of course. Big tech has long been in the sights of conservatives and this is just another shot in what's been a growing conflict.
I worked for a restaurant reservation company I don't feel like naming.

Anytime the user had gone to the restaurants website, or used their website to make an online reservation, there was a significant reduction in our fee (like ~75%). That's because the user DID NOT use our network for discovery.

Using advertising like that to drive to a generic page where you show competitors first is really underhanded. I get that you want your kickback from Applebee's but c'mon.

A lot of this crap is just not fair to restaurants, and taking that HUGE of a cut from a restaurant AND gouging my ass in fees and then stiffing drivers in bullshit policies where my "tip" goes towards their minimum wage is horse shit (looking at you doordash).
That doesn't work for sites that then process filled PDF forms, unfortunately. And it incredibly time consuming for some forms that have dozens or more of checkboxes and fields to fill in.
That's interesting. Do you know of any hard stats comparing to other countries?
I remember needing this 5+ years ago, I used a branch of a fork of python-zipstream https://github.com/longaccess/python-zipstream/tree/streamin...
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Often the reason for having the user and password fields on separate 'screens' is to facilitate federated logon.

I.e. if someone has an account where they 'Logged in with Google' or it is connected to an IDAM solution like Okta or Duo, they don't have a password for the site so shouldn't be prompted for it.

As for the delay and any other nonsense, I'm not sure. Perhaps design winning over usability?
We are seeing the usual criticism of the Ferguson model: a mound of poorly documented C. But Britain is two months into the epidemic, and after much initial bungling, new cases are still very high but dropping, and R_0 is < 1.

If there was something seriously wrong you could by now point at the discrepancy between model and data. That doesn't seem to be the case, because the worst they can come up with is the shape of the code.

It's a bit like the computerized proof of the four-colour theorem from UIUC that at that time mathematicians were deeply uncomfortable with. If there was a counterexample you could show it, and all the discomfort would suddenly vanish! But there isn't one, and we have to live with the uncomfortable fact that four colors suffice.
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My fond memory of CoffeeScript was an interview I did way back when at Olark. It was a full day 'paid work along' interview that was popular at the time. I'd never touched CoffeeScript prior. In less than the day, I was proficient enough even navigating a foreign code base to build out a small feature within the Olark platform. (I think it was managing chat operators as groups?)

Fond memories!
I don’t care about search. This should be about chrome.
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To begin, if the curve doesn't extend into the future, it can't forecast anything.
My guess is that the Intel Ethernet drivers are seen by the customers as very tried-and-true, and how to tune them is well-documented. AMD's Ethernet drivers are relatively unknown and unproven, and it's easy to imagine that they could perform worse. That could easily make up the difference in cost between an external PHY vs an external MAC+PHY.
As an American, it baffles me, too.

The courts, and in particular the supreme court, have increasingly been weaponized as ways to both advance agendas and preserve inviolable causes of both parties. Since the justices are appointed by political processes, that appointment has also become increasingly political, to the point that people justify voting for a presidential candidate they dislike because of the supreme court vacancies the candidate will presumably be able to fill.

The libertarian answer would be to reduce the power and discretion of government officials so it won't be such a high-stakes, partisan process.
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That looks more like a silly error than anything else. Password managers are unavoidable and help keep users on services.
Here's my own dark theme userstyle for HN, with the colors from Firefox's dev tools.

For news.ycombinator.com - https://pastebin.com/K1KS64KR

For hn.algolia.com (the search form) - https://pastebin.com/ksH6QcV4
But in the meantime, won't the vendor keep adding more broken devices to the public internet, making the problem worse?

The longer it takes for this problem to become public, won't the more harm be caused when it does become public?
I think this is a good point. Users are the product. From a typical consumer's perspective, there are other viable options for google-like services. From the perspective of a small business trying to target a specific audience with ads, are there viable alternatives?
Better many, many years late than never, I suppose.

Good resource!
Here is my theory: it is a limitation of the medium of the web. In other software fields, one can use the tooling they like. But with the browser, JS is a must (nascent webasm may change that though). The Go people don't really fight the Rust folks, they just go off to their own camps, occasionally comparing and contrasting. But in the web/js world, everyone is forced to commingled, and so preferences collide.
The thing is that this is a CSS change, which makes it declarative, which means it would almost certainly not "break" anything. Also, if it were made optional via a personal setting or by hooking into the user's system-level setting (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...), it wouldn't even be a "change" for anyone who doesn't want it to be.

I understand and respect the general philosophy, but I fail to see how this particular request could be anything but a strict improvement.
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Those are not measures they are some of the awful, additional side effects we see due to COVID-19. I'm sure we all try to reduce them as best we can.

Here, the NHS repeatedly asks people with problems that would normally require a visit to A&E (ER) to do so. They really do have capacity to deal with cancer, heart attacks, stroke, etc in a safe way. There are entire wards and buildings that are segregated and "clean" of COVID-19 for this purpose.

Elective is a funny old word and is a bit more nuanced than you imply. Some elective surgeries here are still going ahead.

The list you provide is a starter for 10 of things that are and will go wrong for a long, long time but it is what seems to happen when a massive world wide pandemic strikes. This is a world war where everyone is near enough on the same side.
Law especially at the federal DOJ level is as much about which cases to pursue as it is about what cases have merit. Either no monopolists should be prosecuted or a select subset worthy of the opportunity cost should be. How big the subset is a question, and the proper subset could be zero, but it's not a contradiction to see selective enforcement of anti-trust. The opposite, where many big, massive cases are opened on many fronts simultaneously is almost never the methodology of federal law enforcement afaict.
I've done something similar of forcing the sends to be a single byte at a time. That's usually enough to find the obvious issues in parsing data.
I mean, Canada is essentially doing that - giving $8000 ($2000 per month for 4 months) to anyone that needs it - you do have to qualify by losing your income, but it's certainly not hard.

Australia too are paying a lot.
Yeah, I hock one up every couple months. I know I shouldn't, but something inside me makes me squish and smell it. It's always as disgusting as I know it will be, yet here we are.
Yes, two points:

1. To try to force restrictions on someone who doesn't understand the reasons for these restrictions will not magically ensure good results.

2. To try to force restrictions on someone who does understand the reason for these restrictions is just a pointless nuisance.
Um, yes.

The statistical community has not been doing well with the coronavirus epidemic. Nobody's models seem to be predicting well. Nor is the source data for anything but deaths very good.

This matters, because the current plan US plan seems to be "open things up and wait for herd immunity". How much time, and how many deaths, lie between now and that point? I dunno.
Yes, but do you not have a whiteboard in your workplace? anything an actual chinese person writes on that will be in a personalized cursive. Normal cityscapes will be filled with italicized, cursive, traditional, simplified, archaic forms. Merely learning to read newspaper and computer fonts is great for reading a newspaper or computer screen. Not so great for a fully functional life.

I lived in Asia for 15 years, speak, read, and write JP/Ch-Trad/Ch-Simp and I still struggle with handwriting and cursive. At this point, I've resigned my self to a lifelong hobby to improve.
I mean not all banks have minimum balances or any fees at all on checking accounts. Not sure what you mean by interest rates. If I have a savings account I'm getting paid interest. If I take a loan I'm paying interest in exchange for access to the capital. What exactly is the issue here?