skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robotic process automation adoption looks strong in a post-Covid world
The code should at least log the error because it means there is something wrong somewhere, eventhough you can't do much about it it helps understand some other issues.

The only way to log the error is to handle it in Go.
That sounds like a good thing, but realize that some day industry will build an application based on your ideas and patent the result. Patents are a monopoly on technology, and working for a university, probably the last thing you had in mind was that other people would monopolize your inventions so that their use would become limited.
NASA names newest space telescope for pioneering female astronomer
Thats because your use case isn't real. In js, its usually used to generate select option (example in react):

for(let optValue of Object.keys(options)){
optDom.push(
<option key={optValue} value={optValue}>{options[optValue]}</option>
)
}

Of course array also works, but with json object, it guarantee that the value will be distinct and you don't need specific array object type.
pats you on the head you're adorable. If I were to say "water is wet" would you want proof of that too?
Come+Eliminare+un+Errore+400+Bad+Request+(Cause+e+Soluzioni)
Ask HN: Leave job in covid19-times to start new business
Hello! I started working a side project 5 months ago, it was just for fun, motivated by a serious injury in my ankle. Today I see it could become a good profitable company. In any other circumstances I am pretty sure I would leave my job and give it a try.

However, this Covid19 global crisis might be changing everything, I am worried of leaving a good job, that pays well every month, and later having problems to find a job just as good.

I am 26, no kids.

What would you do?
> I have no doubt that there are some cleaner interfaces in PowerShell but my concern is the reason for the clean interface is because it's a walled garden with Microsoft as the gate keeper

This is simply not true. Many third-parties have powershell modules to interact with their product. Anyone can write them.
DFM Yedek Parça
DFM markasına ait Succe, Kamyonet, Panelvan ve diğer tüm araç modellerine yönelik toptan ve perakende oto yedek parça ticaret sistemi.
I wonder if there is a correlation between people refusing to stay at home and those driving recklessly. It seems that neither group is that concerned about the safety of others.
> If you get all numbers on it, you still have nothing usefull.

Does that also apply to online purchases?
Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
One of my friends was working in call center. Now due to stay at home orders, he's been asked to stay home without any pay.

Please suggest some ways to generate income.
Not necessarily. r0 can be much more reliably measured than severity. hospitalization and death rates give pretty clear picture of doubling time, but could represent wildly different percents of the overall infections
Which is incredibly charitable! Opponents to UBI only oppose the income source being tax; which is a forced wealth transfer (opposite of my money my choice).
> Basic error information to help determine whether problems your device is experiencing can be addressed by the update process.

And the government uses this!? What the fuck?! How is this even legal? Some judge fucked up....
Firejail: Increase security by restricting applications' running environment
US centric opinion:

Social Security and Medicare are already UBI at large scale, but age tested (62 is the minimum age, 70 the max for social security benefits, age 65 qualified you for Medicare, US universal healthcare for seniors). Caveat: you needed to have worked and earned certain amounts to qualify for Medicare and your benefits level.

To test at small scale, you'd need an endowment that would use the investment returns to pay folks their UBI, and then payroll taxes that would include OSDI so they'd gracefully land onto Social Security and Medicare when they reach the age that qualified them. Pick small cohorts: students in their early 20s, some middle age folks mid career, and folks near the end of their career in dead end industries (ie coal). Observe and report.

If you can "cross the chasm" (see: companies going remote first after being forced to see if it can be done with COVID), it then becomes PR getting an audience with the Fed and Congress to rejigger monetary and fiscal policy to print and distribute accordingly. Can't see we can't print, money printer is running exceedingly fast right now [1], but can we put that money in the pockets of average citizens instead of simply inflating asset values of the richest Americans? That's the question.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
That's an issue of pilot error, not a difference in the physical airplane.
No, but we can pretend they are a good idea.
I don't see at all how not being able to type certain non alphabetical symbols means it isn't good for English. Half you quoted are general math symbols that have nothing to do with English.
Is it the same price everywhere in the world though?
"Less-density-and-easier-to-speed-and-be-reckless" vs "cheap-gas-so-let's-go-for-it" vs "stir-crazy-in-lockdown" vs ... "rage-over-losing-my-job-or-having-to-work-in-risky-situations-while-the-rich-folks-work-from-home-while-saving-even-more-of-their-income" -- I think the latter feeling would contribute a lot to risky driving.
I never understood why music publishers care so much about licensing for old games. Are they worried people are going to put on GTA3 to avoid buying a couple songs? It makes more sense to me that playing old games would encourage those song sales.
Just want to say this is my experience. I’ve tried a few times to set up a Matrix server and federating with and joining any room that’s larger/has more history is an exercise in frustration. High CPU usage, frequent timeouts. And this is with years between attempts; nothing really seems to have improved. And I’m still getting Matrix-related HTTP requests a month after taking the server down, which is a little annoying.

Obviously distributed and encrypted not an easy problem, but if this is what it is, it’s just not fit for purpose for me.
What is the actual case for Basic Income? I hear that it 'solves' the problem of automation ... except that it doesn't actually solve it AT ALL. If automation will lead to high unemployment, basic income will do nothing for that. It will send cash to people who aren't working so they can provide for basic necessities, but our welfare state already does that. And we know that segments of society that are wholly dependent on government suffer despair, drug/alcohol abuse and crime - UBI does nothing to solve that either.

And of course, UBI in rich nations does nothing for the third world, which will be hit HARDER by automation and doesn't have the wealth to give every citizen cash.

There are also major structural ambiguities with Basic Income that are glossed over by supporters, namely the libertarian-types think that it will replace the welfare state, and progressives/leftists AT BEST think that it will complement the welfare state (i.e. that segment will NOT allow UBI to replace any of their cherished social programs). So if UBI has any chance of broad support, it will not save a dime, but rather add a tremendous amount to government spending.

In the end, UBI solves nothings and comes with its own set of baggage.
As you can buy a one ray lidar sensor for about a $100 for drones, with about 50m of range, I wonder why it can't be used in full scale airplanes?
It could be used to point down at the ground, and when the lidar is confident of the range and if the gear is up, then trigger an alarm.

I get that there's more things involved for a practical implementation (weight, reliability, added complexity) but still... What am I missing?
> meanwhile Sweden just did their own thing

I'm not sure if you are just throwing this out there or if your intent is to hold up Sweden as an example that contradicted expected results with respect to models/social distancing requirements/etc.

If the later, then think Sweden is not a good example of such a contradiction: With the comparably minor-to-moderate social distancing, they have roughly about 2.5x the cases per capita as their two neighbors Finland and Norway, and roughly 6x to 7x the deaths per capita.

As you said, the data from country to country is hard to compare, but at the very least Sweden should not be the poster-child for low social-distancing mandates.
> Yes, they are cumbersome to work with, since they must always be defined at top level, but that is just missing syntax sugar.

It's not just syntax sugar. Try writing a function that takes an array of integers and an integer x, and sorts the array mod x by calling qsort. In C this is not just cumbersome but impossible.
Show HN: Positive uplifting news from the frontlines of the fight against Covid
Hello, thought I'd show you all a website I made last week!

It has positive & uplifting news on these topics: Vaccine Development, Medical Treatments, Community Efforts, Philanthropy, Corporate Efforts, Flattening the Curve, Novel Solutions, Government Efforts.

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It uses Vue + Nuxt. Algolia provides the search and the data comes from Airtable. The website is hosted on Netlify.

Please let me know if there are any bugs you run into, or if you have ideas / suggestions for improvement.
One of the two big reasons I find places like HN or Reddit much better for discussing things than old phpBB-style forums. The other, biggest one being tree-structured threads instead of flat lists.

I'm first to customize stuff for myself, but I've grown to believe that public-facing customization is best left severely limited when dealing with general audience.
I am really curious to learn more about why UBI will not drive the prices up. Could you indicate any articles that elaborate on this?
Who gives a shit?

Edit: apparently you can just buy the approval of people on this site. Plz advertise going rate of values in profile.
How complex and demanding do you expect "personalize what I want to see" to be? I remember when i used facebook how I hated when they removed the chronological timeline showing everything Im following. Personally all these "personalization" features are anti features to me. I always though they need this fuzziness to charge for placement of ads and adlike stuff
On the topic of a "Rust Foundation", there a semi-recent blog post from one of the rust core members on this:

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2020/01/09/towa...
VCs primarily care about outsized monetary returns and you don't get that from giving money to people.

Tax-deductible charitable donations are probably the closest way to incentivize the private sector but VCs was more, not just to stay flat and most businesses don't make decisions for "the greater good" over more $$.

Can you think of a way to incentivize private experiments in UBI?
The UK needs to extend its EU transition period
> moderate Democrat

What the fuck is this bullshit?

Edit: apparently people like politician dick served up by the media.
I've witnessed this - folks driving like its a post-apocalyptical world, running lights and stop signs, speeding through empty neighborhoods at double the limit, parking randomly. Aggressive drivers are matched up against distracted drivers - on one trip, two times the light changed and the first car in line sat there for 5 or 10 seconds.
The problem is that for many people, someone appearing persuasive is orthogonal to them actually being correct.
Game Plan for Athlete Resumption of Sport and Exercise After Covid-19 Infection
Exactly for this reason i am steering away from F# to python.
Learning F# from coming off C# is rewarding and fun but if you have no prior .net system/C# experiance, its just frustating.
> Add another developer and most of these points fall flat

See, it seems like that _should_ be true, but in my experience it's the other way around. If I inherit somebody else's code, I can always (or at least, I have a perfect batting average so far) make sense of how things work and usually put together why he did things the way he did even if he's not available for me to talk to. I may not agree with his design choices, and I may criticize the way he approached things, but I can always work out how/why things are put together the way they are and how to move them around. Frameworks like Angular and Spring, on the other hand, are the product of dozens if not hundreds of people and are so generic as to be like a cloud of smoke: it takes weeks just to get my head around what (if anything) the framework is even offering. That would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that the framework ends up failing in mysterious ways that require days of debugging to work out.
People don’t know what is fact and what is fiction. Giving 50/50 air time to climate scientists and climate change deniers is on one side presenting facts and on the other total bullshit and saying “hey these are both valid opinions- you decide”.
Yeah, this question has always stumped me. High-growth companies that are not showing a profit are getting their reputations hammered. But I can't discern which of these are doing this to their peril and which are effectively following the Amazon story and will come out of this successful.
With what we know of the age dependence of the CFR, it is not unreasonable to think #1. In fact, until it broke into long term care facilities, it would fly under the radar fairly well.

Remember, for #2, it is not that most people stay asymptomatic. They are usually pre-symptomatic, and do have the symptoms later. Just for the majority of folks <60, they are a bad cold. If you are under 20, not even a bad one.

And from some comments down thread, #3 is as likely to be wrong with these having more false negatives. So, tough to say.
OK I get it, makes sense.
I think that more is symlinked to less on your system, not the other way around. On my machine (Arch), they're separate:

jack@jackdesktop ~ [1]> bash -c "cksum `which less` `which more`"
3407085100 179664 /usr/bin/less
110370394 38816 /usr/bin/more
jack@jackdesktop ~>
It seems to me that many people are trying desperately to push all of these proposals, and it's been a borderline immobile uphill battle on all fronts. If any of these gain traction, we should celebrate, rather than accusing people of not yet achieving the others. It also makes sense that UBI would be the first to reach the staging phase, since it's the easiest to explain and the easiest to implement.

Of course, your concern is still totally valid if UBI will indeed be pointless without the other problems solved. I just wanted to point out how easy it is to say "start with universal health care and affordability of housing and education". That's a huge thing to "start with", and in fact we're already deep into the fight for them.
Africa's coronavirus successes is being overlooked
Ask HN: What are your favourite bash aliases?
Wondering what people use day-to-day?

I currently have:

alias dev="cd ~/Documents/dev"
alias bashreload="source ~/.bashrc && echo Bash config reloaded"
alias sleep="pmset sleep now"
weather() { curl wttr.in/"$1"; }
alias lenny='echo \_(ツ)_/¯ | pbcopy'
Chocolate Shimmering Like a Rainbow
maybe validate your idea first. Do some user study to be sure
cf. ColorForth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJoRyxRcj4A
Really? Just like Krugman's QE!

How am I going to get back my devalued savings once we find out it doesn't work, all savers have been ruined and fiat money has no value?

There's no need to test it on any scale, including small, because it can't work.
A response to what happens to markets when people have more money:

More people enter and participate in markets, which makes markets work better.

Markets behave better with more participants than with fewer participants. UBI is a net positive on this point.
You can't say that the "hodge-podge nature is most likely a historical artifact of the Unix evolution" and then say that it is "quality". You can't have it both ways. Random, unpredictable, historical quirks do not add up to quality. They add up to a mess.

It's like pointing to a shanty town and saying it is "quality housing" because it has a high population density.

I'm reminded of a recent interview with Jim Keller, who's famous for being one of the architects of the x86 instruction set, Apple's ARM CPUs, AMD's Zen architecture, and Tesla' AI chip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA

An interesting throwaway quote, but actually a deep insight, is that he thinks a lot of things should be "redesigned every 5 years or so", but unfortunately are redesigned only every decade or longer.

I totally agree. PowerShell was a clean-slate design, and was called "Monad Shell" originally. It's elegant, and is based on a cohesive concept. It's now 10 years old and starting to accumulate... inconsistencies. Warts. It's in need of a clean-slate design again.

Bash and the GNU tools are the most random mess imaginable that can still function. Its components can trace their roots back to the 1960s. Ancient code that should have been rewritten from scratch a dozen times over. Like you said, it's "evolution", but evolution gave us the trigeminal nerve and the inverted retina. I want a designed system that doesn't take the scenic route and have things back to front because it was "always done that way and is too hard to change now".

If you got sat down and told to come up with a set of composable command-line tools for a shell, the end result would have nothing at all in common with the bash/GNU tools. There is nothing there worth repeating.
> Our app designs have become soft, sweet, inoffensive. Bank interfaces use pastels, rounded corners and soft drop shadows to make mundane or unpleasant tasks more "fun.” Animojis have taken over our chats, and our productivity tools are starting to look like Animal Crossing.

This is the part of this that galls me the most. Weaponizing UI design as a substitute for UX simplicity, and using that weaponized design to bluster past the UX shortcomings of your service in your service's marketing.
Yep, that might work. But that would require significantly more work to support all browsers and platforms. Currently it's just a Java application and it works independently of OS or browser.
I believe you mean this article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19...
That's probably a function of WSL2 currently only being available in Insider, no? If you want to use pre-release builds, I think it's fair to expect that you need to enable telemetry.
I wish we had more of this going on right now. TV now is pretty much "spoonfeed nation" and reality.
From my perspective, Office 365 today has an identical experience to GSuite with respect to collaboration.

We regularly edit complex documents with large numbers of collaborators. Track changes and collaboration are different though (the former has been around since time immemorial but collaboration only came out a couple of years ago)
Switching the default apps. Sideloading. Arranging my home screens any way that I want.Tweaking the system any way that I want. Tweaking the UI any way that I want.

Allowing me to build some software and install it on the device I own without having to get it blessed by Apple.

These are all very good reasons to jailbreak.
> It’s not gonna help us understand dark matter

In case anyone wants a quick link to the LHC dark matter program, check the ATLAS [1] and CMS [2] summaries.

TL;DR: The LHC has ruled out a good chunk of a few popular dark matter variants already. There are a lot more searches in the pipeline. They haven't found anything yet, but of course nature doesn't just drop particles in the first place you look.

There are also some crazier plans in the works [3] which use the existing beams to look in other places.

[1]: https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CombinedSumma...

[2]: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SummaryPlotsE...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASER_experiment
Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots
The same happen with the Workflow app. It was a great app when it was independent but became much better when Apple bought it and integrated it into iOS.
The whole point of an insider build is to collect telemetry.
Roadway deaths fall 8%, number of miles driven falls 18%, fatalities per mile increases 14%... What is noteworthy about this? Do most accidents occur near intersections or in urban areas rather than on highways? Where is the data on where these accidents happen? There are a lot less people commuting far distances due to the increase in remote work - and now these statistics are based on fewer people taking lower mileage trips. To go to the grocery store, I need to drive 3 miles and I go through 18 intersections. To go to work I'm driving 50 miles and going through 12 intersections. Intersections create scenarios where some vehicles are going 50mph faster than those stopped or turning. With some location data added, would this show that fatalities are higher in areas where there are larger concentrations of vehicles going drastically different speeds? Fender benders on the highway aren't going to cause deaths. Being T-Boned or being hit by someone running a red light....
> opposite of my money my choice

you cite this as if it's some commonly accepted moral principle
Better question: why would it? Economics is complicated.

In a free market there's no way to distinguish 'UBI money' from any other kind. Try jacking your price up - somebody else will have a sale and eat your lunch.
https://archive.vn/Wr3xn
the best tasting diffraction grating you’ll ever see
WebAssembly Virtual Machine
Idiots, now released from their jobs, decide to idiot on the roads, since no one is on them.

Results not surprising.
When JavaScript establishes websocket connection, it sends its origin URL (I don't remember exactly where, probably that's in Referer header). So local webserver can deny connections from unwanted websites.
Visual for-loops work just fine for iterating over geometry chunks, and can even be parallelized with "compile block begin" nodes in Houdini.

High-level iteration is less intuitive, eg. iterating over random seeds for a sim and rendering preview animations, but the process is still easier than switching the entire thing to text input. The toolkit for this is called PDG or TOP networks.
> Can you think of a way to incentivize private experiments in UBI?

Contracts that guarantee the recipient will pay X% of their income to the UBI source over the next Y years. Claims are that people's creative and productive power will be unleashed. If true, their income will rise dramatically, and they'll pay lots of "taxes" back to the UBI source.
Why Elon Musk keeps raising the price of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving option
By “product design” do they mean “visual design of marketing sites”?

Anyway, trends come and go. I don’t think there’s any meaning to be derived here beyond “attractive marketing collateral is appealing.”
Ask HN: What to do with an existing hydronic house heating system?
Just moved into an older house that has an existing hydronic baseboard heating system installed. It's connected to a boiler that burns heating oil. While the system is quite old, it still works. I've never lived in a house with this type of heating, but from my research I've learned how expensive and inefficient heating oil is, compared to more modern methods of environmental control.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions or experience on how this system can be repurposed to be made more efficient? Given that all this pipe has already been run, I'd prefer to find a way to put it to use over removing it entirely.
For that 44% number, what data set are you using?

I have been idly tracking the data here in WA. 90% of the deaths have been in 60+ years of age. Just ~30% percent of the cases. In that age range, the CFR is staggeringly high. I don't know the data for the numbers from nursing homes.