skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Masks are prudent, considering that they are a very low risk and low cost prevention intervention, irrespective of demonstrating efficacy.

True, it takes a long time (often very long) to establish factual information that becomes widely accepted, but that is not the issue here. Also, the scientific method and peer-review process cannot be altered, and these processes (along with always following a strict code of ethics, staying updated on ethical matters, never compromising on ethics, and never losing sight of all of the above—ever) are even more important during a pandemic. Implying that these processes should be altered is unethical and unconscionable.

We have known that SARS-CoV-2 spreads via respiratory droplets, and that it was, most likely, by far, the main mode of transmission (although that would have needed to be demonstrated too, in a pandemic). Wearing a face mask to capture some of those respiratory droplets (even 10%) would at least help, and would not be insignificant if people are required to wear them in public.

We know that cloth masks capture more than that though.

Also, based on a case report, it is possible that up to 80% of COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic.

Considering that, and the fact that it is spread mainly by respiratory droplets, it is prudent to require the public to wear at least cloth masks.

Czech Republic (along with Slovak Republic—Slovakia) required people to wear face masks in public starting around March 13, and was one of the first western countries to require this. They are now easing restrictions and are doing well.

One of the countries I am sovereign to, Croatia, (US is the other one) has not had any reported coronavirus infections for 3 days in a row. You know, a former war-torn Yugoslav country, still feeling the after effects, with a relatively high and rapidly accelerating quality of life, by western standards.

Stuff like mask wearing is not rocket science.
It is not half assed, rather what has been proven since the 60's to work properly in all languages that aren't C, nor copy-paste compatible with C.

Even C++ is reducing the need to keep using the pre-processor with each ISO revision, in an ideal modern C++ world without C legacy baggage, the pre-processor will be so half assed like in C#. C++20 is already almost there.
See! I don't know who at Google has this personal vendetta but it has to be on purpose. You say "We start at three o'clock" and it just types "We start at 3" when what you want it to type is "We start at 3:00". You can sit there saying "one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock" and it just types out "1234". It knows the word I'm using but ignores it on purpose.

It's a real issue for me as "4:00" has three significant digits, it's specific, whereas "4" might mean anything between 3:50 and 4:10.
He’s literally going to attack twitter via presidential powers because they dared calling him out on lies?

I’d say that’s insane and childish but I think we’re a little past that already
I'm actually very much looking forward to seeing this make it's way to SCOTUS (assuming this is legit).
Libel for one. A publication is an entity which produces content which it creates for public dissemination. By manipulating comments and users to project a certain “ideal” is no longer a neutral platform. It’s actively pursuing a specific goal, and I think it would be extremely naive to think Twitter, Google, and Facebook do not have political and social goals. Otherwise I can’t figure out why they spend so so so much on lobbyists...
I've been fortunate so far that I personally do not know a single person who has died of covid. I am aware of a family member of an acquaintance died of covid. If the death rate really spikes, more and more people will start to have someone in their personal circle who has died of covid. And people who had someone in their personal circle die will change their behavior in some way.
I agree there's a lot of incentive to reduce the counts in states where for political reasons in party they opened up their states aggressively, one example is Georgia. Georgia has somewhat surprising overall positive counts trending down. Compare them to Alabama which has been consistently going up. Georgia has reported incorrect results and Florida fired someone working on their website. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/us/florida-georgia-covid-19-t...
Here is my attempt at summarizing the order:

1. Twitter and Facebook (and other entities that try to fact check content) will be labeled as publishers and thus can be sued in court for libel.

2. The Federal Government will be banned from buying ads from internet companies that "restrict" speech.

3. The FTC and the Attorney General will investigate Twitter, Facebook, and related platforms for any potential violations of law or regulation.
This is why half the country is willing to buy whatever the loudest voice in the room is willing to say.
If you are a conservative cheering this on, ask yourself what you think would have happened when Trump was using Twitter as a platform to raise questions about Obama’s birth certificate? Do you really want the government to be effectively regulating the treatment of every social media post as they see fit?
Slightly off-topic, but your name is a funny coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumway_(software)
Ask HN: Approach to building small SaaS products for people with min upkeep
So here's an example problem that you can solve many ways(different stacks, services, pros cons).

* You want a basic interface, that can generate custom emails and you save templates. (Existing services already). Possible this does not need to be a full blown editor that has to deal with HTML security eg. contenteditable/XSS.

* It has auth, SSL, storage. Pretty basic.

My potential approaches:

Goto email that delivers(not spam) is through Mailgun plus 10K/mo free emails that's not bad.

- WP as a base

In the past I worked at a place that used WP as a base, since it has a lot of things built into it. I'm against it because for example above it's pretty overkill, not to mention the vulnerabilities/too easy for a target(since so many people using it, seems like a bad reason) but particularly random plugins you can use and known vulnerabilities like xmlrpc. I also don't keep up with it anymore regarding what changed on it.

But it's an option, it works.

- MyERN stack(current preferred)

I personally would use React for this(why) well I use it daily/like it(separate components). Backend is Node/Express/MySQL, auth is not bad(JWT).

The SSL thing, can have that for free Let'sEncrypt. Assumes you automate the 90 day renewal.

Hosting... I personally use VPS's from OVH, which you could extend further if you containerized them.

- Basic LAMP

The main thing is after it's built, how long does it last for? I can also use regular plain LAMP as well.

And I think a lot of it is personal choice, do you care/how much time do you want to spend on it. Can use Firebase or other services where you don't have to do much "backend wise".

I don't know... it would be cool though to have random little services like this with monthly charges eg. for maintenance/hosting/etc... keep it running. What are your thoughts?

edit: you can also go super "overkill" too with regard to job queues, uptime guarantees, etc...
After crushing the Incandescent bulb to prop up Theke nascent fluorescent/LED bulb market, Like a Walmart in a small town, they leave and let the rest of us pickup the pieces.
In much of the country, you can’t get tested unless you have symptoms, which means you’ve been infectious for 2–14 days.

Even now, we’re still in single digits in terms of the percentage of the population that’s been tested.
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it is not about hammer and nail, but about infinite plane. You can wrote in one column, like in Word document, then expand on side if content needs it. Second thing is use of images, shapes, arrows, lines, circles - sometimes image is better in conducting thought than words. About plane, if you start with some thinking and it branches out, in excel there is no problem.
I feel like I can see Trump's editorial influence in this. "Put in that stuff about China yeah China and lyin' Google, don't tell me it's ranty and doesn't make sense, put it in"
NY was afraid their hospitals would be overrun, so it sent their elderly covid patients back to the nursing homes. And then the nursing homes got wiped out. I'm not aware of this policy happening in SF.
There’s really no excusing this, or blaming it on some obscure bug. “Yellow” in HK is very specific these days, and definitely political.
In most large cities, hospital infrastructure is overbuilt by a factor of like two.
I particularly like the bit about how a provider is found in violation of "good faith" if they act in violation of their own terms of service, OR, if they restrict access to material after insufficient notice, unreasoned explanation, or acting against a user who has not had a "meaningful opportunity to be heard."

Not being facetious, I really like it.

Everyone should start by mass-complaining to the White House's reporting tool the recent Twitter change allowing people to censor replies.
This is buzz feed, not exactly a source of factual news.
Don't they still use the same voting machines for the mail in ballots?

And the distributed nature is the problem. At the polls you have representatives of both major parties there to make sure nothing untoward is happening. How are you supposed to secure something that happens literally anywhere?
sections 2b and 4c are the action items; new fcc and ftc regulations that prevent this kind (or broadly whatever kind they deem relevant) of behavior.
Yeah, this is something you are going to have to wrap your head around and chew on for a bit. htmx is an extension of HTML (a generalization of it) rather than something you need to shoehorn into a JSON API-oriented world view.

It's just a different way of building web applications, much closer to the original web model. You can do a lot with it, with a lot less complexity in many cases.

I wrote some blog posts about this stuff for intercooler back in the day:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
It would make them legally liable for the content posted on their sites. Today they can claim that they aren’t responsible for it, the posters are. If they are operating in an editorial capacity, that shield is removed.
I wish we could just all tune Trump out. In this 75 years of existence his contribution to humanity is a big fat zero. His tweets are useless, only exist to peddle conspiracy theory, to deflect, to self congratulate and to rile up his base. I don't know why we pay attention to him and forget about the vast kindness that exist is our day to day life.
Wouldn’t this be a great outcome for twitter? I don’t think they particularly want to be in the role of playing fact checker / censor, but have been forced to do so due to pressure. This seems like it would, practically, tie their hands from continuing, due to the negative consequences, at which point they can legitimately say their hands are tied.
primarily, just seems like the government's pulling the 230 protections offered online platforms "safe harbor" for their user's actions. presumably this opens up twitter to all sorts of liability, such as when a user uploads copyrighted or illegal materials. not an internet lawyer or anything but that's my take.
The twitter link above does a good job. Two most important things that stuck out to me is:

1. Platform vs Publisher. Alleges Twitter's fact checks to be editorial content, and thus does not benefit from platform protections. Ditto for other large tech companies.

2. Agencies need to review sites they advertise on and report on items including "viewpoint-based speech restrictions", and restrict funding if it is not "appropriate" for that agency's speech. Presumably a way to force companies to be friendlier to the sort of politics of the person who is making the report.
this is super interesting in that I mainly use PostgreSQL and was wondering how to integrate a real-time database and sync the two for real-time stuff like comments.

My initial concern is is this stuff stable for production use?
But in most cases depression is a natural response to the difficulties of life. It's like when your immune system triggers an inflammatory response to infection. It's painful but natural; and the cause is external. Willpower can't cure depression any more than it can reduce inflammation. But in the case of mental illness, the external agent is socioeconomic hardship, family dysfunction, loss of a loved one, etc.
Some alternatives that may be what you are looking for are archive.st, Webrecorder.io, FreezePage, and ArchiveBox. There is also perma.cc, which is a project of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab intended for academic usage.
If you're Twitter, don't you seriously consider deplatforming POTUS at this point?

I understand that no small amount of their traffic has to do with him using Twitter as his primary megaphone to the world, but they are under no obligation whatsoever to continue to provide him said megaphone.

One only has to hope that if that were to happen, no one would show him the Presidential Alerts functionality on all of our phones...
Come on man, get off your high horse. European here, and lets just say that Europe has its own major problems. Italy has Salvini, UK Boris Johnson (trump mini-mi), Sweden is bungling the covid-19 pretty badly, Hungary has Orban, Poland messed up their Judicial system, Sarcozy is going a criminal investigation, and Macron had hundreds and thousands of protestors just last year.

Almost every country can produce bad/authoritarian/populist leaders time to time.

The point is to learn and not keep them in long term. Trump is probably done, and he will loose next election badly. These are his narcissistic hissy fits, as he knows he is losing badly. The US has a very healthy democracy in the long run, and term limits help on this. There is no chance in Trump turning into a Erdogan, or Hungary's Orban. He most likely will be voted out this upcoming election.

Just for curiosity, where do you come from?
Off topic but it's killing me: what is the pun there? I just don't see it.
"None of [the CDA's architects] said that there was this intent for platforms to be neutral. In fact, that was the opposite. They wanted platforms to feel free to make these judgments without risking liability..." https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700605/section-230-inte...

Can an executive order overturn this? Isn't there already precedent about this topic?
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Oh hey, look... a distraction from 100,000 mostly-preventable American deaths.
Because Turbo Pascal/Delphi was the ideal Pascal dialect (after Apple's Object Pascal) and Borland screwed it up.

If Borland had kept their indies demographic, hadn't made their half-backed attempt to Linux with Kylix, the history would most likely played in a different direction.
That's absurd. What he has built literally demonstrates he has the ability that the role requires - which is entirely what the entire interview loop is trying to ascertain. If you can ascertain that a person has a skillset without that loop, it is completely unnecessary.
It's not clear what you are implying? Because from where I'm standing, it sure looks like authoritarianism to me.
> you don’t need to build the files every time you commit.

Is this a big advantage? I write an article in markdown and push to my server. The server’s post-commit hook automatically runs a static site generator. It takes less than a second to run each time. It took me half an hour to set this up[1], https included.

Importantly, since it’s a static site with no client side JS, it’s faster and better for SEO. Anecdotal evidence - my blog is a featured snippet from google for a couple of tech related queries. This wasn’t the case earlier when my blog was generated by ghost.

[1] - https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/setting-up-this-blog/
If Twitter is going to do this to one they must do it to all. If not then they are not being a neutral platform.
That's a good point, but if I understand correctly Hackerone staff has to triage bugs before a company is even responding or required to look at it? So it's all offloaded, or is that incorrect?
It would take years to reach SCOTUS and during that time more and more damage can be done.
They didn't even "call him out". They added a link to more information on voting to two tweets. That's how fragile and insecure this guy is.
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>and he will loose next election badly

lol don't bet on it (i haven't!). you're greatly underestimating his base and greatly overestimating voter turnout.
I am sorry but you are wrong. Your understanding of the concept is not complete yet. Close but not complete.

Memory leak has a specific meaning. A memory leak is memory that is been allocated but cannot be accessed and deallocate anymore. How useful is that memory is not important. The Wikipedia article explains it much better than myself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

There are useful definition of memory leak, some software need to run for a very long time, they cannot leak memory.

In languages where the memory is automatically managed it is quite hard to generate a memory leak.

Indeed is the original article that simply used a wrong terminology.

If you got more questions let me know! Happy to help!
This seems like a weird thing to say, considering Windows Phone (specifically v8) introduced the whole flat-design thing.
DMCA (and its abuse) seems to be the novel piece.
> Trump is probably done, and he will loose next election badly.

Is there a prediction market for this? I'm willing to bet 20:1 he wins and I'm prepared to put down $100 right now.
A alleged draft of the order has been leaked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23333496
They make good TV shows, they rarely make good movies
Wanted to comment the same. Initial setup is a bit bumpy - make sure reverse dns is ok, set up dkim, dmarc, spf - but once up, is should be fine, especially if it's only to send, and not receive.
agree. however, current trend is only increasing towards taking in person tutoring go online.
Sorry for hijacking this but what happened to DeepField? I have been looking for a decent way to do named entity extraction from news articles but havent had much luck in finding decent open source libs for this but saw an old post of yours that linked to GitHub but the repo appears to be gone.
Language matters. Fascism is certainly authoritarian but way, way worse than current matters. It waters down the horrors suffered by those who lived under the yoke of it.
> I’m genuinely curious, what’s the last straw?

Well, there is no last straw for his hardcore supporters. They will support him no matter what he does.

There are many, many of us here who have been doing our best to get rid of him for the last 3.5 years, and to prevent him from having a second term. The majority of the country disapproves of him, but that's unfortunately not enough to get him to lose the election.
Which would also apply to any news outlet with a moderated comment section, including Fox News, no?
Why is a comment like this allowed?
yeah, the payload is almost zero difference, a round off error compared w/ connection latency

a lot of folks conflate AJAX w/ JSON apis, and can't easily imagine an endpoint returning partial bits of HTML that have nothing to do with a public JSON API

worse, people have been misled to believe that JSON APIs are REST-ful

we have a lot of work to do
The large tech platforms are defacto digital public squares. The recent trend they’ve taken on to censor content they disagree with is unacceptable and bad for society. And yes, it is evidence of them behaving as a publisher. This censorship trend was bad enough previously, but it has become a lot worse and more egregious during COVID-19, where only the word of certain public agencies are allowed, even though they’ve been wrong several times. Various platforms have deleted many reasonable COVID blog posts that go against the grain, even if they’re logical and worthy of consideration.

I’m glad this move from the President will shine a light on the issue. In the least it may result in viable alternatives to Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Google springing up.
The local hospital around me has about 600 beds. And the highest number of patients they had was 54. Nurses hours were cut back severely since there just wasn’t much to do in the hospital. I think the us numbers are so slow because of the highish bed to person ratio. And we had plenty of warning time to free up beds and such. I’m only aware of a few hospitals that actually had major issues.
I don't. I share my notes with some friends as a private GitHub repo. The backlinks I just use as click-throughs to help me navigate my own notes. I too admire his notes site. Making my own is too much effort for me right now, but it is something I really want...
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Nothing that I know of, but this recent news[1] about DirectX support coming to WSL is from Build 2020, 8 days ago. I’ll look more into the release history KB is out.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241040

Oh and here’s this:

‘Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enhancements

The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment. Here's some enhancements we've made in Windows 10, version 2004.

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). This new version of the architecture powers the WSL to run on ELF64 Linux binaries on Windows and adds support for ARM64 devices.

Connect to WSL apps from localhost: Connect to your WSL Linux networking applications from the local host. For example, start a NodeJS service in a WSL 2 Linux distro, and connect to it from Microsoft Edge.

Global configuration options. We've added global configuration options that you can set on the local host which will apply to each of your WSL distros.’[2]

[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/w...
as much as is practical

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-boost/
Honestly the tech innovation of AppGet while good, isn't something groundbreaking. Manifests have been used by other package managers in the past. Yes it's stinks he didn't get more credit, but IMO it's blown out of proportion.
What were his lies?
What’s new for IT pros in Windows 10, version 2004
I'm not condoning the lockdown and agree that the danger of coronavirus has been vastly overstated, my point is that the U.S. government was not prepared. There were not enough tests, masks, and ventilators, and so NYC had to go into lockdown. Anecdotally my friends in NYC who suffered from all the symptoms of coronavirus were not able to obtain tests.

Meanwhile South Korea never had to resort to any lockdown. Both the U.S. and South Korea reported their first case on the same day (Jan. 20th), and Korea had tests available in a week while the U.S. took 5 weeks.
Adding more light fixtures might actually prove to be a very good thing: always having a light source that is (almost) exactly above you is really nice. The more light sources you have, the fewer shadows you'll have to contend with. This was a real revelation when I accidentally discovered it a few years ago.