skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair - I meant that we'd started closing our border to China. Apparently Australia blocked tourists from China from February 1 and required other travellers from China to go into quarantine.

I'm still trying to find when the UK implemented the same restrictions on China that Australia did. Apologies for a Daily Mail link, but it suggests that a week later the UK was still struggling to implement restrictions on travel from China due to EU rules [1] (but then, the Daily Mail would say that). Deutsche Welle suggests that a Europe-wide ban didn't happen until 17th March, and even then the Schengen still remained open [2].

As for the F1 GP, I'll just paraphrase our WA Premier: "They do things differently on the east coast" ;)

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7968785/UK-ban-fl...
[2] https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-implements-non-eu-...
> diff between food farming and commodity crop farming.

What is the difference between these? Aren't crops generally commodities? I’m familiar with the subsistence farmer term of the crops they eat verses the crops they sell, but the farmers sell both here.
That's only a problem if the recorded (or rendered) date format doesn't include the timezone
The Seven Years' War (1756--1763) has been described as the first true world war:

It involved all five European great powers of the time--the Kingdoms of Great Britain, Prussia and France, the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Russian Empire--plus many of Europe's middle powers and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War
"(just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) "
On non-native apps: JavaScript doesn't suck but your app might
The amount of hand milked product in the western world is miniscule. Probably there is a niche market but eco yuppies for hand milked pasture etc.
Can WASM become the new Docker?
Maybe I am just ignorant but the article doesn't list a single reason as to why the automated tracing app hasn't helped much. There is a quote from a person who was involved in the tracing op but no comment from him/her either as to why it hasn't helped much.

This is supposed to be a "technology review". Did the writer bother to ask "WHY NOT"?

PS: Happy to stand corrected if someone else was able to read between the lines and find some reasons.
lol. this is awesome :)) :))
You say there is no safe population, but isn't the risk to healthy preteens less than 1 in a million?
Time is so often done wrong because we're using a bare number to represent time, and then just assuming what that number actually means. It's like the bad old days of text, when you'd get a "string", but you'd have no idea of what encoding it used, so everyone would just assume something. We solved that by settling on UTF-8 for everything - which is fine - but we can't do the same for time, because time zones aren't going away.

It's gotten so bad that I've made binary [1] and text [2] formats that handle all cases and have sane defaults (yes, even ISO8601 gets it wrong).

A time value without accompanying time zone data is just a bug waiting to happen. Once you add unambiguous timezone information to the time structure, getting correct time information every time is just a matter of making conversion libraries for language X. No more guesswork, no more bugs.

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time/blob/master/compac...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...
Focus changes landing in Firefox 78
Not terribly complex, but not trivial either. Yes, there are missing pieces in non-python ones. But given that basics are handled, it's often pretty easy to add the pieces which you need.
That was 50 years ago. The top rate was 75% for income over £20k (something like £250k in todays money). Now how many people were in this category, or how they managed to avoid appearing to have that much income I don't know.

I think income tax was even higher during WW2, but that's pretty much a special case.
I'd like:

- health search that excludes sellers, wellness and snake-oil websites

- news search that excludes conspiracy theories, magical thinking, political operatives, and paid bloggers

- image search by similarity, similarity to an uploaded picture/s, words, or description

- media and warez search engine that excludes link-spam and malware sites

- complex queries search because none of them do it well

- anonymity

- shopping search that kicks out disreputable sellers and phony store-fronts

- mapping like OSM but fast, practical with an app, and detail-accessible

- monetize using affiliate links that don't affect ranking

- semi-curated results (domain reputation-ranked voting)

- related pages

- inbound/outbound links search

- archive.org integration &| history page caching

- documented query syntax

- query within results

- quick query history results navigation

- keyword alerts

- keyboard shortcuts that always work
Just as Kafka isn't a database, PostgreSQL isn't a queue/broker. You can use it that way, but you'll spend a lot of time tweaking it, and I suspect you'll find it's too slow for non-trivial workloads.
Perhaps this would have been a better link: https://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/
This definitely touches a nerve for me.

Blogging, when introduced, was marvelous. People sharing their personal takes and learnings, unfettered by the desire to earn from them.

If you were into bicycles, you find a blog by a cycling-fanatic and start following along and engaging (remember inter-blog "pings"?). If you were into any topic, you could find enthusiasts writing on it. And it'd have a bit of personal touch, which is very valuable!

"Planets" were great as a starting point, and you still have those at Planet Gnome (I think one of the original ones, at least it had custom software done for it), Planet Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora...

It was the true decentralised discussion forum bliss that Internet always promised!

Alas, platforms like Blogger and Wordpress actually diminished the true essence because they promoted siloing in.

And being there from early on, I can promise you that "blogs" (web logs) were not personal diaries put public. People did that a long time before blogs and called them, surprisingly, diaries.

It was already a point where web was becoming too big, and search engines were becoming useless, so it was, imho, a "log of the web" — every early blog post was pointing to a hidden gem elsewhere on the web which you'd never reach through a search engine. It's just that the term was taken and switched to "any regularly updated set of articles" without any other constraints (technical or topical) that defined the early blogs. As if that did not exist before "blogs".
I’m always surprised finding illegal stuff on facebook.

It’s strange that

1) people think facebook is a good platform to do these things on

2) they don’t get shut down and handed over to the police

People keep asking for online surveillance to prevent this but in the places we already have it (eg. facebook) crime often isn’t stopped.
This site is centred on Silicon Valley venture capital culture, self promotion is strictly de rigeur around here :-).
So nostalgic and brings back many memories of my teenage years. I had way too much time when Windows XP was being built - would hang out on IRC and download leaked new builds every week or so. devils0wn is forever embedded in my memory (if you know, you know). It was such a fun time, downloading new builds, installing hacks to disable product key checks. A golden age.
Show HN: Cutlet – Japanese to romaji converter in Python
The downside is that that one middleman often has incorrect menus, and if there are any issues it then becomes a he-said she-said they-said juggling act with the service, the restaurant, and the driver blaming each other for any problems. The drawbacks balance out the benefits of having one central service, in that way. But that's not everything.

The best part is actually just having a variety to order from. Before these delivery services, there were only a couple of pizza places and a couple of Chinese restaurants and nothing else delivered.

For a lot of restaurants, it never made business sense to deliver, and still wouldn't. But when the delivery service is spread out over many restaurants, it works rather well. That's good for both the businesses and the customers, despite the friction added by the middlemen. It's a real win for people who couldn't as easily go out to eat, due to health or disability or whatever, but also for everyone else.
Thanks for the explanation. I can see how "not" fits this definition (as opposed to "and" and "or") by the accident of being a unary function. Whatever the author is trying to illustrate doesn't seem especially deep. Having looked at some other scattered writings, I agree with them being a crackpot.
Russian roulette has a much higher risk than a coronavirus infection.

If you're ignoring the rates then you might as well say that driving to work is like Russian roulette.

Do you have any figures (graphs ideal) for the lung damage (or other long term health effects) distributions?
Next time some scientist shares a picture of an xx discovery to their colleagues via Email, will the title of this article be "xx dicovered via Email"?
It is a good faith argument — it’s literally the whole point. Native binaries bypass all of that.
Would you accept that in a Hangman game? It beats my previous favorite Eyjafjallajökull. Much harder to memorize though.
Automating Compliance Workflow
Fancy Widgets with Conky Manager (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Kali Linux)
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You can also set a certain radius around the spawn read only in the official server. I’m not sure what practical difference that would have vs adventure mode.
Hey Zeena Amazing Intro. Are you the also a developer on the project?
Was also similarly confused
"other people interested are competitors who are reluctant to be beaten".
So this! Ed became a kind of a de facto PR for the run but his bitterness seeps through his reporting all the time...
Because you always get banned for meta drama.

That’s not even new.

That is also moving the goal posts- exactly the kind of stuff you see on Reddit and not on HN.

The point was about the claim- ‘ 5 people “controlling Reddit” ‘ and how it’s been absorbed and discussed without reflection.

Not about default mods banning people for meta drama.
Thank you for reminding me of the magic of all of this stuff. For whatever reason it's been lost to me for a long time.

This is history that deserves to be remembered.
> In a nutshell, hydroxychloroquine does not appear to be particularly useful for treating hospitalized patients.

The early reports suggested it was only useful in combination with zinc supplements, which seems to have been largely forgotten or ignored, from what I've picked up on in comments and links across multiple sites over the past month or two.
Why would you feel bad? The whole point of open source is they could have done it themselves, if they wanted some integration they needed and you didn't.

And then they could either contribute it back, fork your project or just keep it to themselves, if the license allows it. At any rate, you already helped them...
I don't understand - you suggested using the filesystem, but filesystems don't have good concurrency control. S3's concurrency handling is even worse than filesystems. Something like Kafka is a much better way to do a stream of commands that need to be transformed to eventually produce some kind of result (which is really almost all workloads).
https://archive.vn/g7Pp1
> there are no other good alternatives for your investment

said the billionaires, and continued pumping money into rent seeking, cornering existing markets.

then one of them got inpatient and built "new" things

- SpaceX [$36b] - cheap access to space, potential to revolutionise travel with starship

- Starlink [$30b] - ubiquitous planetary Internet

- Boring Co. [$1b]

- Tesla [$150b] - electric cars people actually want, OTA upgradable software, potential for autonomous cars, recover up to 60% of cities land are currently used for parking.

- Neuralink [$0.1b]

- OpenAI [?]
Take a look at Julia.
What is hard is not to choose the java version (1.8,19,...), but the JVM implementation. To choose between hotspot, openjdk, oracle. Even to find the download link without being forced to log in on oracle.com was difficult (in fact I couldnt find it the very last time).
> At least some people are going to have to be worse off to subsidise those people who are neither employed nor looking for employment

Yes, those in the upper tax brackets will pay more than they do today, to cover the situation you describe
Honestly I’ve used a dozen different conference call apps in the past few months and they all _work_. I still don’t get why zoom is popular, on Linux they want me to install a browser extension just to join a call which is unacceptable when we have webrtc already.

IMO it’s one of those situations where some software becomes popular for reasons (marketing? Network effects?) and people just use it because it’s there. No one can shop for software and that’s why we need open protocols.
That’s precisely what I have came up with and wish existed.
You can publish to a local instance of PyPi

https://www.linode.com/docs/applications/project-management/...
Self-driving cars in his age were called horsses. Those (and donleys and mules) still remain the preferred mode of autonomous all-terrain mobility in some regions.

The US Army was actively considering resurrecting pack mules fpr use in Afghanistan as of 2011, though I don't believe that actually occurred.

Otherwise, E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909) envisions much of what you describe.

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

http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20461514 (PDF)

Something of an HN perennial.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q="The%20Machine%20Stops"

Several notable postings:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490198
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20461514
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544256
Not at all. Hospitals shut down elective procedures, not because they were running out of room, but because they were ordered to do so. That freed capacity may have been necessary in NYC, and maybe not, but nowhere else was it necessary.
I pay 50% of my shitty income in taxes and then have to pay for health insurance on top of that because public health here is useless.

Public health is not a panacea, although I’m happy for the people who get a good deal out of it.
And then fintech startups like Trade Republic or Just Trade came along and...offered basically free trades (the 1€ at TR can be considered almost non-existent when comparing to the 5-10€ even at discount brokers like Flatex).

They found a third way of financing themselves: just support one marketplace which kicks back some money to them on each trade, which they in turn earn from the spread between buy and sell prices.

I thought the US predecessors of this kind of broker (Robin Hood comes to my mind first) which is still pretty new in Europe would have basically the same business model - earning some money with each trade by scraping off a few cents (or a good bunch of cents for stocks with low liquidity) from the spread?
Why doesn’t registration confirmation come to my email?
I registered here 3 days ago, but there is still no letter with a confirmation link.
Same happened with Telegram: from a crypto messenger for geeks (who were excited by new crypto – I know, I know – and promises of end-to-end encryption everywhere coming some day) to just another messenger with cool stickers and stuff.

Really sad because I personally recommended it too, and was hoping these things would work out somehow. Lesson learned: they don't. The next messenger I will promote with my friends would be one without the server at all.
> The city itself will sell you individual house lots for $100.

Sounds like a great opportunity for all the wildlife proponents in this thread to do their share and create a natural reserve where they believe there should be one. That's far more productive than criticizing volunteers for mowig a lawn.
Detroit absolutely doesn't have more homicides than Chicago, and I have no idea how you could have come to believe that. Detroit hasn't had more than 400 homicides in a year since 2007. Chicago hasn't had under 500 homicides per year since 2014 (over 800 in 2016), and we (I'm a homicide researcher in Chicago who grew up in Detroit, btw) haven't had fewer than 400 homicides per year since the 1960's.

If you meant per-capita, Detroit does have more homicides per capita than Chicago, LA, or NYC, but combining per-capita numbers doesn't really make sense/is misleading.
I was just thinking the same. It was the first platform I actually used for quite a while.
You're assuming that the "timestamp with time zone" type is always used. I've worked on an application where it was assumed/required that UTC was configured on the server level, so regular timestamps were used. Didn't agree with that at all, but it happens.
And while happily displaying the sender email publicly, it gives no indication that someone has embedded (potentially malicious) javascript in a post (why that is even allowed is another question), or that some expected 'blog posts' are actually unexpected redirects to external sites that can contain even more malicious/illegal content.

Leaving aside that a site like this is so wide open for abuse of all kinds it won't last five minutes, I don't even see the advantage of submitting a form at an email provider over simply submitting a form directly on the site.
Dr. Scott: 2/3rds of cancer screening tests re not happening on lockdown
I think this is a better post on the subject, and offers more in depth solutions https://cloudinary.com/blog/evolution_of_img_gif_without_the...
It occurred to me that this is maybe just marginally more unreadable than a Hello world for Android or iOS or other desktops after all the boilerplate code and resources has been added. And it still is easier to compile.
> Tom has also mentioned that a box of copy paper can hold 100k lines of code.

that comes out to 20 loc per 8.5x11 piece of printer paper.

I feel like that's nearly an order or magnitude too low.
There will be some retailers and airlines who do go bankrupt, and we might see a shift to more teleworking for white-collar workers but apart from that even if there is a second wave this fall it will still be remembered 5 years from now as a non life-changing event.

Spanish flu probably had a death rate >=10x covid, and even with that society did not change to much. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/covid-19-how-spanish-...

This will not stop politicians from both parties from trying to use the crisis for political gain.
GitHub and Bitbucket have private repositories and you can install from those using pip. There's nothing forcing you to make something public.
I have my doubts, having witnessed the repeated confusions between americans (who mindlessly spew out times in like EST, hey, it's called "standard") and non-americans who then try to convert using google which was not always correct, esp. when they forget about am/pm.
Oh, I guess that's true. I remember when I was a kid I didn't have any idea how the BASIC interpreter worked either, and I didn't have any idea about how to build a tower of abstractions. So surely there are Ruby programmers who hadn't thought of trying to implement APL primitives in Ruby (especially if they haven't seen NArray.) Still, Ruby is pretty big on building embedded DSLs, so I'd think novice programmers learning Ruby would encounter that idea pretty early on.

But there's always today's lucky ten thousand! I hope I didn't make any of them feel condescended to. Welcome to the wonderful world of implicitly parallel vector operations!
> windows, and most other os's, allow copy and pasting images as image data in the clipboard

OSX has pasteboard types for png and tiff, yet that doesn't preclude copy/pasting JPEG or SVG. So no it's probably not "a OS one".
Not sure why this isn't the top comment. Pretty much sums up the problem with current Web Development.
You should be able to find an appropriate one for your purposes somewhere in here (https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page). Befunge and PATH come to mind.
This task was a staple of early years of the IOCCC:

https://www.ioccc.org/1992/lush.c

https://www.ioccc.org/1989/jar.1.c (cf. https://www.ioccc.org/1989/jar.1.hint)

https://www.ioccc.org/1986/applin/applin.c

https://www.ioccc.org/1986/holloway/holloway.c

https://www.ioccc.org/1985/applin/applin.c

https://www.ioccc.org/1984/anonymous/anonymous.c

And this version, though too large to enter into the IOCCC, is not only valid C, but is additionally valid as COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, PostScript, a shell script, an MS-DOS .COM file, and Perl 5: https://ideology.com.au/polyglot/

You may not like it, but...

P.S. if you liked this comment, you'll love https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23183383!
> How many quake clan players and HN buddies are going to have that sort of social cohesion and mutual support for each other? How many will drive 6 hours to help you fix the shed that burned out in your back yard? How many will spend 2 weeks visiting you on your death bed? I'd posit a tiny fraction if any at all.

Large parts of our social group were initially met through gaming and we've had examples of all of those things (well, nobody's shed burned down, but...)

I think the issue you're seeing is with the people you gamed with, not the way you met them.
I'm happy that we are moving away from the redux-like standard. I've tried the API in a dumb example and it looks clean and easy. https://codesandbox.io/s/three-buttons-example-with-recoil-q...

Still don't like the extra naming that you have to think of for every atom/value. Or also the key: prop that you have to define for every atom. It seems redundant for me.

And also, as a bundle-phobia guy I am. I think 22kb as extra library is ok but it could be better.

Liking a lot Recoil as solution for the three-button problem. I still think that the patch pattern I use with dop is better. In terms of simplicity and extra KB. This is the same example https://codesandbox.io/s/react-dop-nhj0j?file=/store.js

But I guess I say that because I'm the creator of dop. So I'm so open to critics :)
You don't need to go to the US.

In Europe (I'm in Portugal) there are bad neighbourhoods where 'normal' people don't go. Where even the paramedics only enter with a police escort and even police sometimes are scared to go there. Maybe not so many murders as guns are harder to come by (but shotguns for hunting/home defense are easier) but the chances of being mugged are high.

Just an example that happened yesterday when police tried to stop a party and were greeted with stones and some gunshots: https://www.dn.pt/pais/agentes-da-psp-recebidos-a-tiro-quand...

I lived in many places in Europe, all countries have these 'parts of town' but you just don't know much about them unless you live near one of them or know someone that works there (police, nurse, etc).
UTC also has this problem, to a lesser degree. The length of its second is determined atomically, but it’s also guaranteed to stay within 0.9 seconds of solar time. Individual seconds are either skipped or repeated to maintain this guarantee in the face of solar clock drift.

(cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second )
An interview with Ed Fraenkel, mathematician and math popularizer
> Why even let people publish packages if they're not meant to?

I don't think GP even so much as insinuated in their post that people aren't meant to publish packages in general.
Careful people have been bitten trying to get out of free trials.
They have a well-hidden FAQ section: https://support.alpaca.markets/hc/en-us/articles/36001104717...

They list several ways in which they "will" make money. My (possibly unkind) reading is that currently they're burning investor money.