skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't reply for the other comment, maybe because it's too nested, but I'm replying to:

> You're pretending that the economic dislocations are do to measures to combate the virus instead of the virus killing people. Countries that acted swiftly and forcefully are returning to normal right now. While countries that are handling the way you want are seeing no end to this. Meaning you are 180 degrees wrong, your way kills people from the virus. You way kills people via extended economic dislocation.

1. I haven't made a choice on what is the best option.

2. There's no "my way", all I'm saying that these aspects should be considered and math should be ran and it is possible that another option could be better, a combination of some options etc. And in order to determine what is the best way should be using calculations.

3. It should also be discussed how to do these calculations. Should we consider death as a binary or should we consider "time left", "quality time left". How do we calculate loss of life, time, resources that stems from people unable to be productive etc, because certainly there are consequences to that.

4. I'm trying to prove that this should not be binary and there should be a line drawn somewhere considering all the pros and cons from the both sides, assigning weights to those and trying to predict what is best option from that.

These discussions should still be held even if it's not about coronavirus, but other similar decisions as well.
Not OP but, if CodeStories is supposed to be an education platform similar to the Github Classroom, why is the landing page selling a Python course?

Might be easier to understand by example: I'm a user that is interested in education platform, so I land on CodeStories website (because of your comment I thought that's what it is about). I see that the landing page is instead selling a Python course => I get confused and close the page thinking that I landed on wrong page.
The question, for me, is how did postmodernism gain traction. The texts of its founding fathers are notoriously difficult, sometimes headsplittingly so, especially in translation. It does not seem to offer any immediate benefit, any obvious solutions to problems that previous ways of thinking couldn't solve. What made their peers go, aha! This is new, interesting and important stuff that I want to spend time learning and teaching to my students? How come it did not remain just a fringe cultural phenomenon?
Honestly defunding the force doesn't solve much if the underlying issues are not dealt with. I saw a Vice Special about police training nowadays. The so-called consultant kept referencing the community as combatants and his approach for most confrontations was overpower the 'opponent' at any cost.

Nothing is going to change if the police training and punishment for violating basic freedoms is not addressed.
Yeah or put your unqualified son on the board of a foreign gas company for millions like Joe Biden did.
^this right here
All current satellites are in 550 km orbits. They had plans to also launch in 1150 km orbits but they made some FCC filings requesting to reduce the altitude.
No clever currency manpulation tricks will help when the things you want to buy don't exist and no-one could sell you to them if they could. We're also seeing rioting all over the world, children aren't getting vaccinated[1], that kind of thing. Currency manipulation tricks probably can't help that either. There doesn't even seem to be much they can do about the fact that a lot of smaller businesses simply won't exist soon.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52911972
That's amusingly written and I agree with it, but how is the second father, the non-authoritarian one, being postmodern, exactly? Zizek is the postmodernist here—he's the one offering a postmodern analysis. More precisely, this is pure Foucault: power that forces physical compliance is lesser, while power that reforms your own relationship to yourself is more insidious. Zizek just describes it with a more earthy example than Foucault ever would. Real postmodernists don't do earthy.
Artificial General Intelligence isnt a goal its a fear. We reduce everything that we try and program into computers into simple rules because complexity is too hard for us to think about. ML has allowed us to move up a level of complexity but we've had to give up understanding the mechanics of the machine as a consequence.
AGI using machine learning techniques needs a function to optimise for. If someone can explain to me how you'd even, in theory, go about teaching an AI about EVERYTHING rather than one specific thing I'll take it seriously.
We think the game of Go, because it displays chaotic and complex patterns and is difficult to predict, somehow this 'models' the real world. What it actually shows you is the bewildering complexity the universe is capable of given only very simple rules. The actual complexity of the world is on a different scale. Go has an aim, you can measure if you're getting better at it. General intelligence does not have a defined goal, understand everything perhaps? Even in theory how do you tell if you are closer to this goal or not. In a game of Go you 'nearly' won or lost. How do you get close to AGI and know that you were closer than the last time you tried?
Modeling the state of a game of Go in a computer is trivial. What is the model you use to teach a computer about the world or the universe?

Imo not only is our software nowhere close to AGI, neither is our hardware or our ideas.

That said having a fire alarm to tell us the terminator is coming seems like a great idea in theory. As long as the sprinklers spray something that melts metal
>>>It's amazing how a population that suffers heavily from wide firearm availability (the only civilized country where you semi-regularly have school massacres) thinks that the solution to anything can be "more guns for everyone".

We've had by far the greatest firearms proliferation in the Western world for centuries. In the 1920's you could buy fully automatic Thompson sub-machineguns from a mail-in catalog. ( http://www.nfatoys.com/tsmg/web/coltguns.htm ) Yet school shootings are a relatively recent (~30 years) phenomenon. Over that same 30-year period we've also had an increase in single-parent households as well as an increase in SSRI drug prescriptions. There doesn't seem to be anywhere near the willingness to attack those social issues or investigate their impacts on murderous outbursts.

Firearms proliferation seems to work well for Kennesaw, Georgia.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/06/us/kennesaw-georgia-gun-o...

But the data for everywhere else is a mixed bag:
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/concealed-...
I think this is what the "serve" in popular US police mottos like "protect and serve" that some departments use was intended to convey. I suppose the message got lost (in more than a few cases in the US) somewhere between painting it on the car and training and managing officers inside the car.

It definitely feels like the police in the US are generally less trained than those in most western European countries (or at least the one I live in), and while this doesn't necessarily make them more violent, it does seem to increase the variance in attitude and behavior I've experienced among cops in the US. There are those I wouldn't trust to use physical force even when necessary, and clearly others I would not trust to use force as a secondary or last-resort option. It's rather concerning when you don't know what you will get.

This is definitely not equally true of every department. I've lived in some smaller towns where the police are noticeably more compassionate, as well as some cities like SF where the presiding strategy seems to be avoiding the overuse the police partly because of their inherent unpredictability, an overly punitive justice system, etc.
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/04/your-statement-is-10...
I'm not 100% sure, I saw him talk about it in a YouTube video a while ago, the name of which I can't recall.

I typed some keywords into Google and found the full quotation here: https://www.lacan.com/essays/?p=184, but I'm not sure if he expands on it further in any of his books.
On a caravan, with one of the Sahara's last European explorers
Does anyone know of any minimal TUI libraries? Something in the spirit of a VGA text buffer, that allows the user to manage their own cell buffer as a block of memory, and allows them to blit that to the terminal -- and ideally have that work across a variety of platforms and terminal emulators?
When I clicked the link, I figured this would be a research paper from MIT. It took me a bit of reading to figure out it was just a student project report. That's why I posted the GP.

I stand by my comment that there doesn't appear to be anything particularly novel about this work. Especially with crypto it is important to stick with well-studied and well-understood primitives. There's a danger that someone looks at this and assumes it is being endorsed by MIT and implements it in their system.
Painting targets with lasers by ground troops was one of the main ways to target without radar and was an approach for many stealth missions for decades. Though to what degree over alternatives today, I would not known.
Distributed PKI vs. Traditional PKI
Right, and it had nothing to do with Tegnell’s resistance to the idea of asymptomatic carriers and hence his guidance that care workers were free to go into work as long as they didn’t show symptoms.

Edit: Also, your comment basically justifies the lockdowns in every other country. Tegnell’s whole argument was that the enlightened Swedes didn’t need a mandatory lockdown because they would simply do the right thing without the government telling them. And there is some truth to that in a society that is wealthy, well educated, and highly trusting of its government. Despite that, it’s citizenry failed to achieve what Tegnell said they would.

How in the world would you expect other countries’ citizens to voluntarily do what the government was recommending when Sweden couldn’t? His criticism of lockdowns in other countries was completely unwarranted based on his own reasoning for why Sweden didn’t need a lockdown (which also, as you point out, turned out to be wrong).
There is a strong culture of reaching for consensus, and to (in most cases) follow rules and recommendations, but it's nothing even close to a taboo to criticize public figures.

We generally criticize everything, and everyone, but there are very few screaming matches. What is scalding criticism in Swedish eyes might not always register as such unless you are aware of the culture.

It's (probably) to some extent down to how written Swedish works in concert with our predominantly protestant culture.

Swedish is reasonably good for factual discourse, and quite awesome for writing a dramatic epic with words that soar. Hitting the space in between, without sounding ridiculous, is rather hard.

Most love songs and poems written in modern day Swedish are very indirect because of this, as they would risk sounding ridiculous otherwise. Life is rarely epic on the scale of the sagas.

This also makes public discourse sometimes seem a bit odd, because as the last thing you want to do is to make yourself and your criticism sound inane. Scalding criticism might look more like a slight disagreement if you read it in a newspaper and considered the words at face value.
I keep seeing people saying things along the lines of "but the official statistics massively (under/over) estimate the true count" depending on which particular point they want to make.
Flawed data casts cloud over Spain’s lockdown strategy
India is building freight corridors which will be using electricity except for a couple of remote links on hilly areas.

This will bring economics of scale right. When all emision will be in couple of power stations, it can be scrubbed and treated better and cheaper than going after individual diesel engines of trucks and locomotives.

Freight corridors and land ports are going to lower the greenhouse and fog generation drastically.
Demands grow for 'green industrial revolution'
Yes, because the f number is a ratio between the effective aperture vs the length of the lens. A long lens with larger f number can focus more light into the sensor than a shorter one with a smaller number, say f/4.0 400mm against a f/2.0 50mm.
As a father of a 16 year old young man, given a choice, even a "false" choice like this, he simply won't do shit. And that's _bad_, since when he grows up not doing shit won't be an option conducive to putting food on the table or providing for his family. Frankly I wish I were more authoritarian when he was younger. I bought into the "modern" parenting hook line and sinker early on, and in retrospect it could have ruined my child's prospects in life. And now it's too late to fix it - the kid has a work ethic of an inebriated sloth and only does what he wants and nothing else.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/tegnell-finns-en-myt-om-tot...
Its the reason that I still use POP. Full stop.
Well, this was an utterly nonsensical waste of time.

A much wiser and more humane attitude towards continental philosophy was expressed by the great analytic philosopher Michael Dummett, who remarked that the division of philosophy into two traditions which largely don't talk to each other represented a great failure of philosophers to live up to the ideals of their subject. It's hard to claim you are seeking wisdom when you are unwilling to listen to your brethren.

Dummett wrote a whole book about this, _Origins of Analytical Philosophy_. It will take substantially more time to read than this article, but on the other hand, it will actually leave you better-informed at the end of it. (He has a hilariously specific answer to when analytic philosophy diverged from continental philosophy: page 62 of Frege's book _The Foundations of Arithmetic_. And it's a really good answer, too!)
Eh, les gars, le postmodernisme, c'est du XXe siècle. On est au XXIer ou bien ?

We are now about as far away from postmodernism as postmodernism was from, say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism
A drone utilizing current infrastructure like cars or busses would make sense (last-mile delivery would be slower, but you could go long distances).
I took note of that part too, it reminds me of this article [1] posted on HN recently. It contrasts the fleeting and context dependent flows of posts on social media ("the stream") with enduring wiki style interlinking of posts where the context is embedded in the linking ("the garden"). It consider it in the context of personal note taking, and I feel what you mention is the garden approach to conversation, as opposed to the normal stream approach.

I wonder what the medium would have to be like to be useful for instant messaging, since not all things being said need to endure or benefit from linking. Maybe the ink fades unless new things are written nearby, proving its relevance?

[1] https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-te...
First: I use neomutt + mbsync (formerly isync) + notmuch. The local searching was at first a nerd special interest project but has actually become very useful for searching, filtering and otherwise managing my mail.

Second: the button on the article to submit to HN seems to be somewhat... off? I wouldn't mind one that would submit in the first instance and then link to the HN thread on subsequent clicks but having a button that just loads a round into the chamber for all users clicking on it seems like incitement to blogspam.
So... apparently I'm not understanding correctly haha.
Going straight to the point without smalltalk feels very weird, it’s during smalltalk that you get to know each other.
I believe stuff like this already exists on some of those freelancing platforms
it did nothing about the smoke and mirrors op is talking about. It revealed nothing on that front.
"There have been a multitude of reports from other countries on how they fail to account for all deaths, let alone all deaths from the disease, for instance."

Look here[1] to see that Sweden is the only Nordic country with under-estimated deaths for this period.

Living in Sweden I must say I'm really tired of constantly hearing that other countries are just "cheating" by under-estimating their covid death-rates. The whole thing is seen as some type of bizarre competition.

When the supposed herd-immunity rate was re-calculated by the Swedish-resident statistician Tom Britton to possibly be around 40%[2] the news was widely discussed as though Swedes had won some sort of 'race' - one of my colleagues actually punched the air and said "I knew we'd be first!" (the actual rate of antibodies is around 7-10% in the worst-affected Stockholm area)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[2] https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset/hoppfulla-teo...
two world wars
> APLers hate the successors, because "notation is tool for thought" and ASCII is a poor representation.

I'm perplexed by this one. I'll concede that the APL symbols are prettier but why does it magically stop being a notation just because you use combinations of ASCII symbols. Especially when many APL symbols are composed of units themselves.

⍲ vs *: One is 'notation' because it has the two units stacked on top of each other and the other is not because they are stacked horizontally?
> And if we extend the analogy to gender, we see that being non-binary gendered is actually the norm, not the exception.

That's interesting, but I think it's sophistry taken a bit too far.
If there is a clear sign of the mask requirement being introduced in graphs from various countries (e.g. these graphs) I can't see it...

I think there is a lot of "I believe X would give outcome Y and I see outcome Y therefore X must work". This mistake is called Affirming the Consequent.

Without clear signs of causation we can't know.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/small-town-police-chief-killed-off...
Indie hackers describe their companies in 50 characters or less.
That's a really good analysis. I never really though about it that way.
>>> Letting people get sick and die will also cause economic damage.

Quite the contrary. A few percents of elder dying might literally save many of the European pension systems that were on the hedge of collapse.

Besides there are way more people than jobs (double digit unemployment even before the lockdown). A calamity reducing the workforce would stimulate the economy and make it easier to get a job. That's quite the opposite of economic damages.
I'm not defending my country at all. I don't know how we got the good press of being the 'miracle' country in international news where other countries did much better but are seemingly ignored.

I'll also edit ;):

Austria(75.73), Slovenia(52.72) Estonia(52.24) Lithuania(25.4) Croatia(25.19)

So it doesn't seem so good, but for some reason, we are called a miracle: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/27/the-coronavirus-crisis-th...

(first result in google, there are more)
In the US, sure. In the rest of the world SMS is
solely for human-machine communication - mostly one-time login codes.
Why every team member should know the key product metrics
We often think having an analytics tool is enough to keep an eye out on our product’s performance. But in reality, it is important for team members to know the approximate value of the key metrics of their product without looking at any dashboard. In my latest essay I discuss why this is important, and how you can make sure your team is informed with your latest stats
> [...] which I'm pretty sure is fairly common in most Western countries.

It's really not, at least in continental Europe. Here in Germany Android's like 70% of the market and nobody uses iMessage or FaceTime.
Max Policing Is Disproportionate
How to add CSS to a page via HTTP Headers
My Kinesis Freestyle at home has all sorts of programmable stuff, wouldn't be a problem there - the problem is that I have to share my time with a (Windows) laptop at work, so I try to find standard crossplatform solutions. I installed autohotkey and a bunch of other things but they look a bit complicated. I'm tempted to just get a second keyboard.
Germany has been slowly opening up for a month or so and this hasn't happened: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/
This was spotted on HN 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/schollz/croc
The first question on the YC application is to describe your company in 50 characters or less, so I asked indie hackers to do the same - https://www.indiehackers.com/post/indie-hackers-describe-the....
I’m trying the same setup as you, but I cannot figure out how to use not much from within neomutt. I feel like I am missing something fairly straightforward because apparently not much is integrated into neomutt. Any pointers would be great!
I don't think you understood. You need a proof for all participants, because otherwise the statement you are trying to prove is meaningless.

There is no statement involving just the winner that verifies the authenticity of the auction. You cannot say "the winner won", because "the winner" is a term that only makes sense in terms of all the auction losers. There must be proofs involving all the participants, because you at the very least need to show that all the losing bids were strictly worse than the winning bid.

"prov[ing] just the winner" doesn't make any sense, or really mean anything.
watched them live last year in Teatro Antico di Ostia, wonderful show to see them live, worth the ticket price.
It's because they identified genuine problems and self-contradictions in the preceding traditions. That was a big deal. It was a resurgence of skepticism, but one which brought a new kind of analysis, inspired by Nietzsche and (less obviously) Freud, about how people convince themselves of things which they don't actually know, for reasons that are different from the ones they claim, and reveal all of this by contradicting themselves in interesting ways.
>Its much easier to just keep the fossil fuels in the ground!

This is what I have seen every time carbon capture comes up. It takes an insane amount of energy to burn fuels and then unburn them. Its always better to just use the energy to not need to burn the fuel to begin with. Once we have replaced all fossil fuels then it would make sense to start unburning the stuff in the air.
It started in 2006 under Bush

That very Wikipedia link clearly affirms that the operation that came to be known as Fast and Furious began in October 2009.
Yes, I definitely meant active combat.
> Async/await + the ubiquitous Promise

There's a legitimate concern about async-awaits — they don't have an inbuilt cancellation mechanism. May not be a big thing for the server; but definitely a big thing for the client.

See, for example: https://twitter.com/getify/status/1171820070538022914
But you didn't achieve herd immunity, and you're going to be in the same place as everyone else (except with more dead). There might be a marginal advantage but antibody studies show Sweden is nowhere near even the more generous estimates of what herd immunity might require.

Everything about the Swedish approach is a failure, and the amazing thing is that not only was the approach bizarre, but the Swedes have a very low testing rate relative to the number of cases - which seems like a weird move (innovate both in approach and in terms of "not knowing what's going on"). Positively 3rd world cases:deaths ratio - it's just embarrassing.