skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing the coronavirus to the Russian Revolution is so overblown, I can't believe an academic would suggest it with a straight face. This fear-mongering really needs to stop.
But what about Spain? A Mediterranean country with lots and lots of sunshine.
No, you wouldn't need a shield gas, and if I remember right Jazz is forced to borrow a tank of argon from her dad so as to not tip him off that she'd be welding outside, even though she wouldn't be using it.
Hmm, the most popular C# IDEs (Visual Studio and Rider) don't have this problem - you can single step when debugging async code.

Is there something in particular about the JVM that makes it more difficult, or is it just that the work hasn't been done yet for some reason?
Gitlab is not 100% same but depending on your context it can be more productive.
Nothing in modern US politics comes even close to libertarianism. Libertarianism opposes all regulation of business unless it is in concert with the non-aggression principle (i.e. don't kill, steal, commit fraud, etc.).

Libertarian thinking on antitrust is that it's unnecessary because there is no such thing as a natural monopoly; monopolies are the result of government regulation. Eliminate the regulations that privilege certain businesses over others, and competition will ensure an efficient market.

In reality what we have in the US is a political class which constantly molds regulation to further benefit the shareholders of big businesses. Sometimes they remove regulations to this end, but much more frequently they create or alter them. There's no philosophical bent behind this at all, it's just the strong using government as a tool to oppress the weak (exactly what libertarianism warns us about).

Nobody has ever pandered to libertarians when trying to justify their policies, so I have no idea why people like to blame them.

To me a sign that the libertarians are on to something is that no government has ever dared to try it. Governments are comprised of powerful people and if they did they would lose all that power...
Perhaps W2 employees should get unlimited IRA contributions and no age requirements for distributions.
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Phabricator is great.
Will it power my house as well? Can I get some free here?
Who exactly would make that claim?

Will Serverless End the Dominance of Linux in the Cloud?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3102980.3103008
I'm reminded of the anecdote / legend that Joseph Kennedy (or JP Morgan) decided to sell his stock portfolio as the market crash of 1929 approached, because he started getting stock tips from a shoeshine boy.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/2788885-how-old-was-that-sh...
And everyone wishes they hadn't :P
Even modders that use Lua have to write code that avoids allocations, caching and reusing all the objects they can.
I can't stress enough how much time is spent on optimising code to avoid GC pauses.
The main goal of my C# coding style is avoiding unnecessary allocations at all costs. I'm not exaggerating.
> The truly wealthy have a lower proportion of their savings in cash. They preserve their wealth in assets like stock or property which pays dividends and increases in value along with price inflation.

I don't think that's really true. The middle class often have a negative proportion of their savings in dollar-denominated assets (their mortgage), and the poor usually have no relevant savings at all (compared to their expected future income).

> The Federal Reserve cannot print more supply for consumers. When they increase the supply of money to chase the same supply of assets, the outcome is price inflation. Food and rent is a disproportionately larger expense for low income individuals.

The food supply is far from fixed (and the government does have a number of levers with which to affect it). Food and rent are a disproportionately large expense for the poor because they are poor; if we redistribute wealth towards the poor we should expect it to become a proportionately smaller expense for them. Demand for food will only actually increase if people are currently not getting as much food as they want, and in that case we should want prices to increase so that more food supply comes online.

> These mechanisms are not limiting them from monetizing debts. Additionally, credit ratings organizations are subject to retaliation by sufficiently powerful governments.

Be that as it may, all of that is happening anyway. UBI doesn't change the deficit because the deficit will always be as high as politically possible.
I think they specifically mentioned it does not affect it, someone asked that question in a webinar. If it would affect it, than it could be abused (eg. just send 10k bots that spend 1 hour on the site), plus a longer session doesn't necessarily mean a better site or better user experience. Google itself is a good example, where the point of Google is to spend as little time as possible on their page, as it's just a step between the user and his destination.
Pardon me for nitpicking but how fungus on fish is bizzare?
IMO Flutter would have received far wider adoption now if it used Typescript instead of flogging the dead Dart horse.
The whole paper is here:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v...

Obesity, of course, is a major factor. It's hard to pull apart Type II Diabetes and breathing disorders from it, too, so a realistic assessment of disorders that would be mitigated if the patient lost weight might show it as the absolute major contributor.

Even Vitamin D deficiency is linked to obesity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705328/
With all the work from home going on, I recently discovered Visual Studio Code Live Share which has been pretty awesome for pair programming and pair debugging. It even has built in text and voice chat. Terminals can be read only or read/write by people sharing, I can browse their workspace and folders and it knows to attribute the author of a commit to a remote editor.

We were initially very excited about it and while we don't use it as much as we did, to me its essential for doing remote collaboration / pair stuff.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
Poland locked down hard very early on and stopped the pandemic in its tracks. If you completely stop the lock down now, it'll spread rapidly and overwhelm your hospitals. But I doubt it'll happen that way. Presumably, you'll ease up on the restrictions, restaurants will be open but with fewer tables, there will be very few if any large events. Most people will be wary. This may be enough to keep R at or below 1.

Addendum: In no meaningful way is Poland some weeks ahead of the US. Poland is on around day 45 since the first people started dying, the US are on day 55. Throughout, around 10 times as many people (per capita; ie. 883 have died in Poland overall, if the statistics can be trusted) have died in the US each day from the disease, which presumably means that around 10 times as many people were infected. Like I said above, Poland has stopped the disease in its tracks, which is good! But it doesn't confer some sort of societal immunity.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-deaths-trajec...
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this is the most pointless comment genre on hn.

who really has a problem disambiguating when searching with other keywords? it's not like search engine are hashtables. have you ever been unable to find the right thing after adding at most two keywords? even more likely that google knows if you're searching for apache poi you're not interested in theorem proving so they point you to the right entity immediately.
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I am using FF Preview and in the past few days I have noticed the following extensions available:
uBlock Origin,
HTTPS Everywhere,
Privacy Badger,
NoScript Security Suite,
Dark Reader,
Search by Image.

I suspect there is a level of curation/testing going on here. As a non-release product I can understand the need to allow/test extensions in a controlled manner.
IMO, trying to understand historical processes in terms of political theories is more noise than signal.

Medieval english king alfred kept a chronicle of his time. Viking invasions such. His "political theories" were religious: righteous christians, pagans, heretics, divine justice & such. That's how they understood their history.

Biblical "chronicles" like the book of kings, judges & such offer a similar take. Sin & righteousness determine wars, invasions, usurpations & coups.... apocalyptical or otherwise.

Move into the French, American & derivitive revolutions of 1700-1800s: Reason, Industrialism, Enlightenment Philosophy & such. revolutions. Political theories. Liberty. Rights. etc. Instead of righteous & piety, radical liberals would build free & just societies.

So... French liberty culminates in a pretty vicious and vindictive early republic which soon crowns an emperor. American liberty did not seem overly bothered by an institution of slavery that was vast and cruel enough to make a pharaoh uneasy. Liberty didn't apply to native americans and often "person" meant just male landowners.

Meanwhile the theoretically opposite British, with their anti-liberal constitutional monarchy... Not really less "liberal" in practice, from a historical perspective.

Liberal or conservative commentators from the period (even modern ones) seem to think everything is derivative of the political theories battling it out. It's not that different from ancient judeans or medieval saxons interpreting every event via their religious lens.

IRL, the relationship between political theories, practice, & history is chaotic & uncorrelated.

Liberalism, socialism, communism, etc.... theory does not generate into reality, hardly ever.
Posts like this really need to specify what type of person they are talking about. 15 minutes is very clearly not enough for someone with dark skin.
Wearing masks in places like grocery stores is something we need to do if we want to limit the spread.

The main beneficiaries of that mask wearing are the employees, which sort of hollows out most of the reasons to refuse.
So very true. And I am so tired of this BS about "flow". Every programmer wants to tell you they can "hyperfocus" like it's something unique. We really need to stop pushing this hocus pocus. Being a programmer does not make you superhuman, it makes you a programmer.
That's a massive and dangerous over-simplification of the market. The market is really complex and the factors that play in determining and moving the price are inter-mingled in a very complex way.

Here are a few ones of the top of my head:

- Someone getting liquidated on a big contract and crashing the whole market with him. (see Oil prices a few weeks ago).

- Someone trading exotic/complex derivatives. His trades on the stock will not make sense unless you account for his whole trade/structure that he created. He can/does move the market in unusual ways.

- Someone trading in a certain way because of taxes. His trades will not make sense if the tax rate was 0%.

- Someone laundering money through the market by buying the stock somewhere and selling it somewhere else in a derivative market making his net position neutral and trying in the process to move proceeds from one place to another. This is, actually, a big one.

- Someone getting out of position when it would be profitable for him not to. But he has better alpha somewhere else he is going to chase.
"84,000 Americans have died of COVID-19"

This article acts as if only the US has death due to Covid. Nearly the entire world is affected by this virus and the US actually has a pretty low death rate compared to the rest of the world.

Without mentioning per-capita statistics, any article mentioning only the total death rate is intentionally being disingenuous.

Johns Hopkins has some good stats:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

"In the early days of their fight against COVID-19, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland tested their populations at nearly 40 times the U.S. rate, per capita, and now have one-fifth the death rate"

All of the countries listed are the size of a US state. It's very easy to test an entire country when it's this small. When you scale anything up, you will have to deal with a different set of issues.

I'm also curious how they actually tested beyond a simple spot check of symptoms. Most tests were not even close to being accurate until recently and we didn't even know that much about the virus early on.

"included a revised forecast for the virus’s toll, estimating some 3,000 Americans could be dying per day by June 1—a 9/11 every day"

Every prediction so far by experts has been an order of magnitude off about deaths or completely wrong. Why is this new one going to be more accurate?

"South Korea built an innovative digital infrastructure to identify and track every new coronavirus case within its borders"

South Korea also removes the infected from their families, including children, by force. The government is also violating citizens' privacy with this tracking. I seriously doubt anyone in the US would see this as an acceptable solution.

" U.S. is now conducting some 390,000 tests a day—a major jump after a sluggish start."

There was a 'sluggish' start because none of the tests were accurate and the US government would rather have accurate tests than a 60-70% test failure rate. Many politicians in other countries pushed out these inaccurate tests because they didn't want to lose support by looking like they didn't do enough during a crises.

" in May that the U.S. should be conducting 40 million to 50 million tests every month to provide basic surveillance on the spread of the disease in this country"

There really is no point in this much testing. Since there is no vaccine, and the fact that it spreads so quickly, you would need to test everyone every day. This just isn't a good use of our resources or practical.

Until a vaccine is invented, we need to slowly open up and require social distancing while protecting the vulnerable (people older than 60, have health issues, etc).
even the alpha-spectrometer might work if soldered wisely on a regular prototyping grid. in any case, thoroughly cleaning after soldering with alcohol will help. but considering the really cheap and fast PCB productions nowadays, the hassle is most likely not worth it.
I agree. I even remember an article about an Amazon warehouse worker that could only afford diapers sold by Amazon because they were the cheapest. The irony.

But like someone else mentioned, there are countries where Amazon has to pay minimum wage and it works just fine. I think we as consumers have the responsibility to vote with our wallet but we as society have responsibility to put boundaries into laws to prevent abuse. So in my view consumers, suppliers and legislators are at fault.
It's a shame that HN has become full doomer. The virus is nowhere near as bad as the clickbait factories want you to believe because fear is such a good profit generator for them.
If it's on the New Yorker it must be true!
They're so unbiased and insightful!
Of course they're capitalists too, so there's that.
Reposting my earlier comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502434 :

> Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor.... is probably worth reading if one is seriously interested. (I haven't read much of it myself yet.) McCarthy praised Stoyan's work as better than his own 1979 HOPL paper ( http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html ): "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to have given." http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/

> (As a side-note, I'm pretty sure that the broken, Wayback-beating link to "Lisp references according to Miller" on McCarthy's page is to this http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/Lisp-Hist.... document by Kent Pitman and Brad Miller (see http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/history.h.... ).)
Cool work. I went bankrupt trying to turn similar tech into an advertising platform 15 years ago. Long before the term 'deep fakes' I had a fully functional photo to 3D avatar reconstruction pipeline and VFX production pipeline for realistic actor replacement in media. I went as far as acquiring global patents. But I was too early - no one believed what I was doing was possible in '08 (when I was pitching my working system to VCs). By '13 I was exhausted, broke and dismayed at the short sighted and entitled attitudes I'd encountered. I gave up and now work in facial recognition.
>I must have missed this. Where did you hear this? I'd love to see more info about that.

Chris Lattner said in one of the pod cast, I think it was Accidental Tech, where Swift UI started before he left Apple. Since that was 3.5 years ago, Swift must have been close to 4 years of work.
> In reality what we have in the US is a political class which constantly molds regulation to further benefit the shareholders of big businesses.

The political class you are talking about serves specific masters. They also mold ideological discourse which is where modern libertarianism comes from in the first place. Go check who's funding all of these libertarian speakers and institutes.
I consume a lot of news from US and France on a quite large political spectrum, so I think the bias is quite reduced. I also discussed with an Amazon french warehouse manager.
My decision is cold and well thought. Btw I would love to be wrong because I will miss their services.
they just found a new type of parasitic fungus via Twitter.

Sometimes, snark is thrust upon us.
Starlink can't get here too soon. https://www.starlink.com

Satellite eliminates local regulatory capture from blocking new entrants.

LEO eliminates the latency issues with current satellite.
Then why not charge people to do those kinds of jobs more? Or encourage companies to make the jobs less unpleasant and more fulfilling? A UBI means that workers have more power to be picky about where they work, which puts pressure on companies to improve conditions.
IMO it's two separate things. Both useful on their own right.

High contrast is very useful for people with visual difficulties, but might even be counter-productive for certain types of eye strain.

I'm under the impression people asking for dark mode are looking for something that will emit less light off their screens, not necessarily make it look nore contrast-y, and the two are more often than not opposite.
I like your idea, it's along the same lines as something I've been thinking about. I call it "The Web at Large and the Filters of Reduction", shamelessly taken from Aldous Huxley's "Mind at Large and the Filters of Reduction".

Huxley "The Doors of Perception" (1954):

>each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and perceiving everything that is happening everwhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.

We've all heard the comparisons between the brain and the internet. And we've all been overloaded at one point by the vast amounts of useless crap on the internet. So what about a site that allows users to customize their filters of reduction? You could have popular profiles premade and ready for tweaking, or you could go raw and witness an endless stream of information raked from all over.
I am curious, what does it take to innovate in vitamin level testing space? Being able to know vitamin level in your body at any given day just like you can measure your heart rate. Not via mailing in blood sample, but something simpler. is it too far fetched to think that we can have something like a watch to be able to measure our vitamin levels regularly?
United Nations has 193 member countries. Of those only a handful can lay claim to having one or more big open-source projects/libraries/languages. So the question does not relate solely to India.

Looking at what factors lead to such results might provide some insights as to what could be done to foster such contributions.
What mechanism do you propose for keeping any one alternative frommsimply becomming the new abusive monopoly?

Railroads begat AT&T begat IBM begat Microsoft begat Google begat Facebook begat Amazon.

What some of us who've seen this rodeo a few times are beginning, slowly and dimly, to realise is that what we'd prefer is a healthy competitive marketplace within, sa, telecoms, chips, operating systems, publishing, search, retail, and the like. Simply crowning an endless succession of new storks as king of the frogs is losing its lustre.

https://fablesofaesop.com/the-frogs-pick-a-king.html
> On ListenNotes.com, most web pages are half server-side rendered (Django template) and half client-side rendered (React). The server-side rendered part provides a boilerplate of a web page, and the client-side rendered part is basically an interactive web app.

Imagine now every time you change sever side you need to make sure you don't break client side. These dependencies are a big tech debt.

How come not using docker there is less overhead? Not using docker I need to worry way much than using it. Like do I need to install anything? Versions works? How do I reproduce my env if my machine breaks?.... You'd need to write docs and keep them in sync.
>"moved off their land"

"Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they
met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides ... they ceased to procreate. As for
the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and famished, had no
milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three
months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation.... this way,
husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and
in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile ... was depopulated. "

Bartolomé de las Casas - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Perhaps one might think most companies are either:
1) fundamentally sound, in which case buy on the dip, or
2) going to get bought out by a stronger company, in which case buy in before the sale

There might be a few companies that fall into neither group, being so fundamentally unsound that they will simply be shuttered with no sale, but that would surely be a small percentage of the stock market.
There is no excess of money "being printed." There is actually a reduction in supply, because of the way the system works. The quantity available depends on the flow, and the flow is greatly reduced.

The source of the flow of dollars is changing, because businesses are shut down, so dollars are flowing more directly from the Fed, which is trying to make up for the loss of flow elsewhere in the economy.

Gold prices are up because of the collective fiction around the idea of "assets" and "store of value."

There is no risk of loss of "reserve currency" status. There is always jostling around relative currency valuations, but the Fed has only strengthened its position as world premiere source of liquidity. And for the west there is no viable alternative.
I’ve made the same observation. The point is, though, if they were any good they wouldn’t be ex-GS people.
The Frogs Pick a King (c. 600 BCE)
There are actually so many "humorous" names of species and proteins that it's not really funny any more.