skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, it's a defensive reflex these days. A lot of criticisms of company decisions these days get "Look, there's this person on Twitter/Reddit/whatever saying they wish bad things on an individual at the company", and an attempt to tar all critics as being like these examples. Usually in combination with calling the reaction overblown, which is I guess why I'm very defensive on this thread specifically.
It’s easier to prune the leaves than to cut out middle branches.
Same. But then I often right-click and select open in an incognito window
The top layers of skin are already dead though. You're much more likely to break them down while washing your hands.
Georgia's cities and counties mostly put their own measures in place without waiting for the governor to decide to do something. I don't think they're waiting for or depending on the state's call on it.
Microwave-beam experiment will launch today aboard secretive X-37B space plane
[retracted] and I hope this is just a misunderstanding. As the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, 2019-nCoV is a novel (new) coronavirus.[0] The CDC defines coronavirus as a virus that was not previously known — check the FAQ, “what is a novel coronavirus?”[0.5]

They changed the name of this coronavirus to reflect the disease more accurately to COVID-19.[1]

The CDC has a list of other coronavirus’ that have existed.[2]

0:
https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1227297754499764230?s=20

0.5: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html

1:
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

2: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html

——

Edit: Since there seems to be a misunderstanding from everybody’s part on this as it’s referred to as both and often interchangeably in a mainstream setting, take a look at John Hopkins guide: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX...
Edison Mail Sync Bug Allowing Access to Other Users' Email Accounts
Wornontv.net
(I checked the javascript on the submit page. It's done server-side.)

That's mildly evil. And frankly speaking offensive. I take offense to any discussion platform that modifies the message content without at least notifying the poster. Keep in mind that people are legally responsible for what they post, in most countries. If what they post is silently modified, this breaks down.

See also: When YC alumni Steve Huffman - "spez" - decided to edit many thousands of reddit comments written by other people on a lark.

I think there needs to be an understanding that the site will not silently edit your posted comments, period. I don't want to be responsible for HN's potential coding bugs.

Cc dang.
No. Mouse down on any of the sidebar links on that site to see for yourself.
I think that you and I have fundamentally different views on what it means for a company to sell shares.
As restaurants open a bit, tables will be scarce due to distancing. Restaurants should charge a premium for their limited space.

If I could have a nice meal out right now, I’d probably spend 2x what I would pre covid! Anything just to do something nice away from home.
Some thoughts on Unreal 5's Nanite
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 release date, price and specs
Flight crews are sometimes not except from quarantine rules. Some countries were having issues running repatriation flights when they were upholding their quarantine rule for airlines, making it so that if the crews stepped off the airplane they'd be subject to quarantine. I believe Vietnam was doing this.
Not sure if it's the same, but I make video games for a large AAA publisher. We're mostly disliked, and you can't shy away from the comments about it, because ultimately, while there may be undeserved criticism and horrible things said (incompetent devs this, greedy publisher that, worst company in Europe etc;) some of the feedback is genuine and you have to look for it.

It hurts, honestly, you pour a lot (understatement) in to making something, and so do the people you work with (and grow to like) and a lot of decisions are made that are in the best interests of the users, ultimately. But people love to hate.

Which is weird, because I really hate oracle and wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt, even knowing my experience.
Well one of the problems here is that it's kernel work and not everyone has the skillset to do that work, worst no one wants to fund it.

However, the tooling is changing.
Show HN: Docup – single-page documentation for your open source projects
I'd avoid the second example since you'd need to know the return type of selectCarById to know what the actual type that will be returned is (the name doesn't help, it might return something like, say, a "ref<Car>" or something like that - e.g. in a game engine i worked on a couple of years ago all resource pointers were passed around encapsulated in a special template that handled automatic resource management - methods would still be called something like "GetMesh" but what you'd get wouldn't be a "Mesh" but a "TResRef<Mesh>", however since in other places in the engine you'd work with "raw" Mesh types, unless you knew what GetMesh returned - which could be the case for, e.g., some programmer that normally worked with at a completely different subsystem with its own rules - you'd might expect a "auto mesh = foo->GetMesh()" to be a "Mesh" but instead it is "TResRef<Mesh>").
Same way we draw the lines between risk and reward in everyday life while still managing to function. Doing that with software can be a little less intuitive than stubbing your toe and learning from the pain, but it ends up not being that hard to maintain a low resolution threat model when you prioritize well.

A user with a basic habit wouldn't need to know how to read the code for this, because there are enough signals that you wouldn't need to get that far to decide not to use it.
Feels a bit too blue. Maybe replacing the background with a darker and grayer color would make it easier to the eyes
> How do we go about proving or rejecting your ostensible claim that this how OOP programmers say it should be done?

Off the top of my head you could survey the landscape of OOP books, blog posts, and code bases throughout history. But it doesn’t really matter—even if you don’t believe me and all OOP programmers believe these are design flaws, then my question remains: what distinguishes “good OO design” from data oriented design?
At least link the original paper!

Christopher Cole is wicked smart, deserves attribution.

https://docsend.com/view/taygkbn
They thrive because people are lazy - both restaurant and their customers. Restaurants can make a concerted effort to ask regular clients to order from their own websites/apps but rarely do even when they can make an extra 10-15% after giving the customers 10% off.

Customers are lazy because inspite of all the talk of supporting local, they are too hooked on click-click-click and ordered.

The delivery apps have hundreds of millions in investment in technology and marketing, a lot of it shady. The apps can offer addictive flows that restaurants cannot compete with.

The solution out of this is an app co-op model - payment processing (3%) + 2-3% overhead. There are similar offerings in the ride-share world and this should work on the delivery apps as well. I would rather support an app that provides a healthy living to a small company in Tulsa or Talinn that subsidize rents in SF and fatten VC portfolios for an online menu with checkout supported by hundreds of millions in marketing dollars.
So capping delivery fees on unprofitable delivery platforms now means they lose more money or they cut the pay of the drivers.

The only answer is shockingly enough for both the delivery services and the restaurants to charge enough to be profitable and then people will have to choose to get out or pay the market rate. Capitalism is the answer.

On the other hand, since I am a bleeding heart capitalist, I have no problem with the government giving people money who can’t or shouldn’t go out to make it easier for them to get delivery.
Not the case on the https://instant.page website. If you mouse down links, the page changes.
You can usually find a way to make it work with any pair of timezones (e.g. North America and Europe, North America and Asia), but when you throw in a third distant timezone it becomes a huge pain.

At Mozilla, we had people working on the same project in North America, Western Europe, and Australasia. The meetings alternated between inconveniencing Europe / Australasia, but the additional latency of having all 3 timezones involved in decisions really slowed things down.
> The most annoying thing on a daily basis for me with JIRA is how slow it is.

I can't comment on the cloud offering, but I agree that the performance and resource consumption of the self hosted Jira is not great either.

To me it is not quite slow enough to negatively offset its usefulness.
Perhaps I am also too used to working with even slower web applications to really take note of anything < 1s ;)

Again, to double down on my previous point: where it can get very slow very fast, is for ill configured systems... i.e. when running unnecessary permission checks on very large groups.
Ask HN: Does a privacy first Google Photos exist, and if not, why?
I love the convenience of Google Photos, that provides the all your photos and videos from an app, always accessible.

But I strongly dislike that the whole thing is unencrypted, and with the data leak that occurred previously, it feels even less motivated to store my photos there.

Is there a privacy first alternative with great UX, and if not, are there some obvious reasons why there doesn't exist alternatives? Technical or otherwise.
"The presence of water is a crucial factor in destroying or inhibiting the growth of pathogenic microorganisms with isopropyl alcohol. Water acts as a catalyst and plays a key role in denaturing the proteins of vegetative cell membranes. 70% IPA solutions penetrate the cell wall more completely which permeates the entire cell, coagulates all proteins, and therefore the microorganism dies. Extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness. Isopropyl alcohol concentrations over 91% coagulate proteins instantly. Consequently, a protective layer is created which protects other proteins from further coagulation."

Many viruses have a hydrophilic outer membrane and the water helps the alcohol to penetrate the virus.
There’s a joke about two bankers walking down wallstreet. One says to the other: “my gosh look, there’s a 100$ bill on the ground”. The other without looking down turns to him and says: “Impossible! iIf there was 100$ on the ground someone would have picked it up!”
You don't. You can call synchronous functions from async functions just fine and vice versa. The syntax isn't identical but I don't understand this split the world meme.
Ask HN: What's the biggest time waste on your workday?
I've been thinking about things I have to do regularly, but are not worth the time.

Examples for me:

- manual tasks I didn't have time do automate yet (technical debt)
- writing boilerplate code
- unproductive meetings to discuss things that would be 1000x more efficient over text/a document

These are things I do regularly and they don't make me learn or improve at the rate of more interesting stuff.

Are these the same for you?

What are you doing that you wish you weren't?
Even just east coast versus west coast kind of sucks and leads to inefficiency if product teams are spread across those timezones. I've done some work with west coast Europe, it's bad, 8am meetings so I can catch them at 4pm, yuck. I imagine any further than that would be horribly inefficient. We're moving to teams being able to work anywhere within +/- 1 hour of time zone.
If we take the antibody test results at face value, NYC alone has already had 2+ million cases. The state of NY may have already had 8+ million. Even if there is a significant margin of error in those tests, and there may well be, the actual denominator is many times larger than the official numbers.

I’d guess that the actual number is even higher than 20-30 million but that’s as reasonable a guess as any.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/15/world/europe/...

UK was just one example. Sweden is no worse off that other European countries. You can cherry pick the neighbors but that's doing a disservice.

Of course their GDP is expected to fall. All of the countries are tightly linked together in their economic outcomes.
It is a novel virus, but not a magic virus like the press says. Take for example the brain infections: it's a feature of other coronaviruses (and I only found out by reading the literature), not just this one.

The school closure was criticized basing on current evidence in an editorial[1] on Disease and Childhood (sister publication of the British Medical Journal). They also go over the reports of Kawasaki disease saying that there needs to be more evidence to support the claim.

Also a limited test in two schools in New Wales, where contact tracing was used, there was one reported infection of a student by another out of 853 recorded contacts. There are indications that a. grave effects are rare in children (rare does not mean zero) and b. children aren't as good "spreaders" of this disease as adults.

[1] https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/05/archdischild-20...
I’m often disappointed by how disrespectful people can be in programming discussions. It’s one thing to discuss tradeoffs but ridiculing peoples’ choices or speaking in absolutes is not helpful. There’s no One True Way to program.
I have been saying real estate is not going to do well long term even before the plague. Absolutely no reason for real estate to represent > 60% of wealth in the future. Breathing the same air as someone else usually a liability, only rarely worth the risk. Once people start doing remote relationships only meeting for procreation, real estate will go to zero. Yes this might take a while, and I am not waiting for it... but it’s going to happen.
The inputs have dark backgrounds and dark font colors. Otherwise it is not that bad. :thumbsup:
Ok here is an additional idea for fun :

A search engine that shows only urls that are not indexed b google / another one that gives you the websites with lower pagerank
The traditional reading is "at the end of the mortgage" (ie, at the end of the 30 year period), not "the end of shelter-in-place". If the median age of a 30 year mortgage is 15 years, it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that borrowers will be able to pay for the payments in 15 years.

Though to be clear, there are some lenders that implementing it as "at the end of shelter-in-place", but they're in for a hard lesson.

There is also the corner case where the mortgage matures ~now, which is unfortunate, but that's not the case for most of them.
>Does the US have no absolutely mechanism at all for restricting travel if there is an emergency?

I certainly hope so. I wouldn't support such mechanism. Yes, like anything, I understand there would be trade off.
Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19
> Hospital utilization is significantly below normal currently

this is true but misleading.

hospitial utilization is down because elective procedures are cancelled, not because its illegal to show up with a heart attack or something absurd like that.

ERs are still open like normal, albeit in a quarantine-sensitive model.
If no one does this taxonomic structuring or god object design, then what distinguishes good OOP from data oriented programming? Also, taxonomic design was popular in code and in pedagogy (in Java, C#, and C++ anyway) when I was in school circa 2010.
Great, now sites can implement clicking in some confusing, subtly broken way? File this with sites that implement their own broken inertial scrolling, their own broken scrollbars, and their own broken pop-up menus.
> Sure you do. You have passports, drivers’ licenses, and various other personal identity documents, just like everywhere else.

Nobody calls these 'papers' and none of them are relevant for travelling during the lockdown. The police won't ask to see your passport. I don't think you even need to carry your driving licence while driving - just be able to produce it at some point in the future.
Chrome has at least experimented with doing it, I don't know if they currently ship it though.
Corosim – historical estimates and model predictions for Covid-19 in Finland
Yup, I think everyone goes through a phase of enjoying creating ‘elegant’ abstractions but you steadily learn nuts and bolts is way more preferable. That’s why I’m way more excited about Zig as a language to write games with than modern C++.
Yeah, this is exactly what i dislike - unless the declaration of "vec" is somewhere close by (and assuming it isn't itself "auto" :-P) you have no idea what "i" is.

Especially when that "auto i : vec" should have instead been "auto& i : vec" or "const auto& i : vec" and now you are at best wasting cycles and at worst writing to copies that will soon be discarded, ending up with a bug that can be very hard to spot.
Ask HN: Good resources for PWAs in emerging markets?
Emerging markets tend to be largely dominated by Android devices, lack of space for native apps, and lower-tier network coverage... PWAs might make a lot of sense in this context.

Does anyone have experience, tips, or resources on how to best use PWAs to serve emerging market users more effectively? OR alternatively strong opinions about why not to use them in favour of something else?
This was on Show HN last year, big discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122727
I couldn’t proof-read it but I appreciate your calculation and the spirit.

Life is irreversible. I’m curious to know what the plans are if lockdown ends asap.

On the other hand, I also feel that the commitments and policies in this society are more about protecting the elderly and their way of living (their wealth, single family homes, less sustainability, car-based city planning). Some may be debatable. But isn’t protecting each other part of humanity? I hope we are not in a stage where we have to decide which groups to sacrifice. If US is a still free country, is freedom-from-danger also a form of freedom as well?
I thought the whole point of capitalism is that you don’t have to answer “should” moralisms about any particular business. Consumers will decide and competition among vendors will drive down prices. Why do so many outsiders feel so confident that they know better than Grubhub/Uber Eats/DoorDash what their prices should be?
What if we infected people purposefully with common cold coronaviruses to help them get a level of immunity? Common cold isn't fatal or dangerous right? Could this work as a 'vaccine' or prophylactic? You wouldn't even need to test people with this test before doing that because the people with immunity will just not get sick with the cold.
Is there an option to filter out news articles?

"If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
Mark Twain
Food delivery is a complex, three-sided marketplace problem area. Balancing the needs of all stakeholders, especially during a time of consistent innovation is challenging.
I use dark reader for all browsing. I think HN looks pretty good when using the dark mode setting. https://darkreader.org/

For iOS I use Hack https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc/id1464... . The app has an excellent dark mode.
Buttons are typically triggered on mouse-up events, not mouse-down, and there's probably good reasons for that.

So you can drag the link somewhere else. Like to the desktop or a text editor or a terminal window.
Even in languages with one class/file convention I find navigating using the IDE's symbol search functionality preferable to navigating using files – especially in huge codebases. YMMV.
No length limits, huh? Now, just gotta find a novel bug...

edit: heh, you could code some nematode's dna sequence into its name.
Restaurants are a lot of things. But lazy is not one of them. Have you ever worked at a restaurant?
I've been using this greasemonkey script for a while to do this- http://userscripts.org/users/509235
Given the time zone difficulties and inefficiencies it brings, I wouldn't consider hiring anyone outside of the time zones that span the Americas. Totally okay hiring someone in Brazil or Peru or whatever, but not France or Eastern Europe especially. Which sucks for me because I recently tried to hire some amazing ML engineers in Paris laid off because of covid and couldn't get them to budge on moving to my companies time zone.
I like it, I would use this as my default.

I agree it is slightly too blue for me, I think it should be more red than blue, especially since the purpose is for low-light reading.

With that said - if I toggle Dark Mode off, and then click a link, it just goes back to Dark Mode. Probably should persist.

Edit: Also, I think the Dark Mode checkbox toggle would be better placed on the profile page, with other related preferences.

Great work!
Lazy sequences in the Scala standard library
I usually use a templating engine and just have the server insert the current year there automatically.
> It also does discovery better than any other platform.

So I went to https://git.sr.ht/ which shows me nothing but buttons for login and register. Same for https://sr.ht/. I'm really confused if I'm holding something wrong, but this doesn't look like discoverability at all. Is it better if I create an account?
That was normal even before the “apocalypse”.
That's why I watch TV instead.
Yeah, I delved into it when I was working with C, but by that time I had no interest in reproducing inheritance but only interfaces.
I've experimented with instant.page and other similar scripts and it's almost shocking how fast page loading becomes when you are used to a (slight) page loading delay. There are a couple of drawbacks that one has to be aware of - bandwidth, altered ui behavior - but for some use cases where performance is needed and the bandwidth usage is minor, preloading scripts can be very useful.
I like it!

Looks like it is missing upvote arrows?
This is the Green New Deal. Essential vs Non Essential businesses.
I'll admit I don't know much about WASM but access to raw sockets and 32bit only sounds extremely limiting.

Until those are dealt with wasm will never move past it's current status quo - malware in the browser.
Security Incident – Covve
Many companies do break that strangle-hold, deciding that saving money is more important than finding good talent. It's a perfectly reasonable and very common business model. There are niches that generate $5m per year and require exactly 5 talented engineers but have no use for more; if you find one, you can just settle yourself into it and there's no reason to locate yourself based on talent availability. There are even niches where it just doesn't matter whether any of your engineers are talented.

You don't hear very much about those companies on most discussion forums because they're not very exciting.
Sorry, don't take the Italian data as accurate (yes, I live there). Daily numbers may not be from the past 24 hours because reporting is at saturation (they can be up to several days in the past), also sometimes there are delays up to weeks in reporting cases, and many recovered people aren't listed yet as recovered because there have not done the second test to confirm they're virus free (2 negative tests within 24 hours is the current metric).

There's a widespread lack of reagents, and the government is pretty slow at procuring them.

The only reliable data there is ICU admissions, and yes, they're going down.

But don't call reporting as accurate: it's not even close (although testing capacity has increased a lot in the past weeks), and not even the testing is widespread (many are calling for increased testing regimes).
Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much