skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way older than that. There's very little difference between the the modern concept of Self Improvement and religion.

Except, maybe, that people change mental models more frequently than they change underwear.
Because Lua is much simpler than Python, but not in a way that makes it less powerful. You can grasp the entirety of Lua in your head, with all its semantics and behaviour, which is less easily done with Python (in my opinion).
The 'mini-redis' project wasn't intended to build a redis clone as much as it was to teach many of the asyncio concepts in Rust with an example that uses an extensive amount of code comments. Such examples have been missing from the Rust ecosystem.

If you were inspired by mini-redis, why not go the extra mile and turn it into another great educational resource?
"And I’d find myself again and again at that edge, tangent to reality, where the air is clear and the shadows are too deep."

This is such an incredibly captivating description of depressive episodes. There is a stillness and creeping greyness to depression that sets it apart from just about any other experience.

Brrrhh
This is a pretty heavily politicized article for something that is marked as "Science" by the publishers. The authors have a clear political agenda that bleeds through onto the page.
What ever the answer is (and I don’t think there’s a non-partisan one), we’re screwed. Hopefully we’ll get new data on masks giving us a 80/20 solution since I don’t think either side of the political divide is going to buy the stay-at-home order much longer. “How come they can break it but we can’t?”
That’s also a case for reopening - or better never closing the economy - an abrupt stop and socializing losses will leave scars for decades.
In Couer D'Alene conservative open-carry volunteers protected the protests and prevented any violence and confrontation from breaking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIS4C7ym5YM

If there is to be an alternative to the distant and aloof police state, it will have to be in the form of attentive and caring locals possessing sufficient enforcement power.
First I'll say I think a lot more distancing should be in place at these recent protests and even with high mask usage it is taking a huge risk with the elderly and vulnerable.

> Why did nurses block them from protesting but not one would block someone now?

I think the reason would be something like: the first group was protesting not being able to go to Applebee's, the second group is protesting systemic racism and police brutality.
For people who don't die it's still not a cakewalk, people describe it as the worst thing they've ever had and others barely even know they've had it.
Outside the US there is only derision and sadness now for a country that elected a reality tv star and clown ... Bush and Reagan regardless of their politics was at least respected.
> Why would you want to support a company who repeatedly takes shortcuts that endanger their users?

My intention is only to inform people of an option that is more secure, but one that for whatever reason is obscured by Zoom.

A lot of people don't have a choice but to use Zoom because it is what their meeting host uses.
Stealth is a 2005 movie that explores this concept. It didn't do too well in the box office but I definitely enjoyed it although the AI is a little forced.

It looks like the drone in question here is the following (quoted from Aerospace Testing International), also mentioned in the linked source:

'The “fighter-sized” 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) is 12.2m (40ft) long, a 7.3m wingspan and a maximum gross weight of 4,350kg (9,600lb). It is designed to be launched and landed using a conventional runway. The drone features two afterburning jet engines and a 95% carbon fiber airframe.' It seems to be designed specifically to stress test our own flights as target practice and doesn't seem like it's actually going to be going into combat anytime soon.
So can a missile.
A Cambrian Explosion of Consensual Realities (2016)
I don't see how this method of note taking is better than just writing note linearly. Sure, it is good if you want to recall information for writing a book, but it doesn't seem like it would actually increase your retention and improve your ability to apply things that you have learned. If anything it would make you less efficient at learning because you have to maintain this note structure.

It seems like it's only good for summarizing or collecting information for repackaging and publishing. Maybe that is all it's purporting to be, though.
Grid appears to be based on LOVE: https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/api/Game_Loop
> We also were told that Georgia was going to be a disaster for reopening too soon and that has not come to pass.

Tell that to the families of the dead. I’m sure they’ll be happy to know they died propping up your portfolios while people starve on the streets.

It’s the most american thing ever to insist on returning to work above all other values—there’s that death cult for you.

The dow demands blood!
But you're describing what a large subset of evangelicals actually do, so that doesn't really help your point.
AdGuard Pro adds DNS-based blocking via VPN, in addition to browser content blocking. It also logs tracker requests. The DNS-based blocking works on all apps, afaik.
> The upshot is crap code makes a crap product.

You took the sentence out of context. Obviously the product must work, must not have bugs, and must be straightforward enough to be maintainable.

If your code is so bad that the product doesn't work, then obviously no one is going to say you're doing the right thing.

I was speaking to walking the line between good-enough code and perfect-code, not advocating that people write code so bad that the product doesn't even work.
What’s crazy though is for the first time in my life I actually fear for the future existence of the US. I watched 9/11 in real time and that didn’t feel as much of a threat to our existence as this does. There’s an actual civil war movement among the extremists now. I don’t think that existed during the civil rights movement days, even. Nor even the Vietnam fallout.
As someone who experimented with numerous drugs in college, I always remember being buzzed or drunk when the second drug was introduced. Alcohol lowers inhibitions and puts one in a "party" mode. It's also everywhere, making it easy to consume more than one drink. Plus it's fun to "stack" with other drugs like stimulants, making intoxication more dangerous. Alcohol is THE gateway drug.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/The...

at the bottom

Note: You must access about: protocol pages by typing them into the address bar. Attempts to navigate through window.location will throw — Error: Access to 'about:addons' from script denied.
Donald Trump Detector – Keras and Twitter
I don't think there are many people out there who are itching to doing heroin and crack but don't because of legality. On the other hand, there are a whole lot of people out there who already do heroin but are dying because they're getting fentanyl instead, due to a lack of quality control and unscrupulous vendors who care more about a quick buck than the long-term survival of their customers. Not to mention all the violence, which comes from criminals vying for territorial control, rather than users.
You probably don't want to be commuting anywhere in your rv. Especially if the commute is far.
Can Bitcoin Be the Successor to the U.S. Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency?
Not sure what you mean by trust the result.

Graviton 2 (single socket, no SMT) comes out ahead of Skylake (dual socket, SMT enabled) in the multicore scenario. Do you think that result would change if Graviton 2 was instead compared against single socket, SMT disabled Skylake?
Even places that stayed mostly open got huge hits to their economy due to caution from people. For the economy to not take a hit you would need to force people into Applebee's even if they live with grandma, etc.
> You eat sugar in some form everyday so it’d be pretty hard and pointless to try and ban it.

Fruit juice regularly contains a small amount of alcohol, yet I'm sure nobody counts it as a drug. Shouldn't we consider sugar similarly? An apple? Not a drug. A candy bar or a soda? Well, it does give you energy and a good feeling...
I have a text file I've been keeping since 2003 full of "things other people said."

One day, maybe, I'll get around to tizzy it up and start a blog with some witty as fuck domain name and retire on the shoulders of every else's hard work.
if they’re outside and elbow-to-elbow, then it means they’re likely not continuously spitting in each others’ faces. it’s marginally better if they stood a little farther apart but that risk shouldn’t scare you. worry about real risks, like police with riot gear.
You’re right, in this instance apparently some customs agents did not like the look of one batch. My memory is a bit hazy, and finding details is difficult.
The report is fantastic though, you can feel the disgust of the officer who wrote it:

—
The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it the article appears to consist in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or be otherwise unfit for food.
— https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/importrefusals/index....

There are actually a bunch of things that are not entirely compliant with EU regulations but get some kind of exemption because they are traditional, and usually not produced in large quantities. Sometimes they can be produced but not sold, like the casu marzu mentioned elsethread.
Sort of. Florida has seen a consistent uptick in the last week. Some other states are seeing a bounce.

I will say that 100k+ deaths is nothing to treat so trivially.
It's a very subtle concept. I do a pretty poor job explaining it to friends all the time.
I think of it as an extension of "to a person with a hammer, everything is a nail". There's only so many ways to use a hammer. There's only so many ways to use smoke signals, or twitter or a picket sign or a sitcom to convey an idea. The main takeaway is that they are all tools, each with their specific use.

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan [0] is where the phrase is first seen, but it's a dense book and tough to read at times. It's quite theoretical, kinda like he's developing an information theory of communication mediums.

Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman[1] is more specific to written text and tv, but is a much easier read and very eye-opening.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Deaths are a lagging indicator though. Daily infections are have stopped falling and are slowly creeping back up. Hopefully it’s just noise or increased testing.
People, and not only in America, is just giving up on their hope that the governments would really start fighting pandemic, like produce tests, implement contact tracing, etc. The lockdown isn't a pandemic fighting tool, it was just a timeout to give governments the opportunity to start doing necessary things. Well, it hasn't happened and doesn't seems to in the future.
> Care about something that matters and not just yourself

Maybe like feeding your family and keeping a roof over their heads?
I strongly disagree. Many people seem to believe this without any substance. Some people, as evidenced by comments here, only believe this when it aligns to their subjectively self valued concern.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly

According to Wikipedia assembly is an example of a civil liberty. The preeminent doctrine on civil liberties is On Liberty. According to John Stuart Mill the greatest destroyer, as addressed near the top of chapter 2, of civil liberties is populism whether from an aggressive majority or angry mob.

https://www.bartleby.com/130/

Assembly only really means anything, to those observing, if the participants are assembling for a purpose of individually formulated passion opposed to an exertion of social pressure. That, as it would appear, is the difference between a protest versus an angry mob.

That said I would say the most fundamental right is freedom of expression which can occur from a group or individual and be every bit as powerful and influential.
It takes quite a lot of time to prepare talk and it is not like they would pay all that impressively.

So I think that repeated talks and intro talks are to be expected. Through I did not mind them, I used them to get idea about new thing X while I have time set aside for learning.
Youtube is better, but over the last few years, I've noticed that it's getting harder to find decent reviews, because the algorithm recommends so many fake review channels. It's better than a google search, but there's still so many terrible results to sort through.

Youtube's algorithm encourages video farms that upload frequently even if they recycle content. Ann Reardon discusses this problem as it relates to recipe video's frequently on her cooking channel.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23448608.

(There was only https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436039, but given that the other thread is now at #1, it clearly belongs there.)
I recommend her memoir, Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
I support the protests, and believe they can be done safely, but we can't forget about the virus. A quick googling gives me numbers between 300 and 1000 people dying of police violence per year. Call it 1k-2k per year. If we eliminate 50-100 years of that, we match what coronavirus has done in a couple months.

However, places are starting to relax the shelter-in-place rules already, so people going out now isn't comparable to people going out a month or two ago.

I do wish it weren't an either/or. Protest with your mask, and keep distance. To most people I know, this is how the protests they've been to have gone, so that's great and we should stop giving them shit, the same way as we shouldn't label the whole movement by the actions of some looters.
The vulnerabilities here are comparable to those reported on the OS vendors and Intel but installing spyware is another level.
Deaths lag infections. Some increase in cases may be increase in test capacity etc., but to the extent infections are increasing and we haven't come up with much better treatment protocols, we should see an increase in death. One hope would be with outdoor exposure being more prevalent now relative to cramped indoor recirulating air exposure, exposure dose may be lower and result in better outcomes per infection. I don't know if there are any studies yet on how big of a difference that can make though.
Except that you also become addicted, which does not matter in palliative care. In normal cases, you can't have that
Limited evidence suggests that might not be the case.

Portugal decriminalised personal use of all drugs some time ago and it’s generally been regarded as pretty successful. [1]

The mortality rate from drugs in Portugal is 3 people per million. [2]

In the US this same measure is 217 per million. [3]

In two US states it is in excess of 400 deaths per million. [4]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

[2]
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-dec...

[3]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48938509

[4]
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
It’s a bit overused, I’m almost certain I’ve seen an article called ”Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful
The daily numbers are often misleading due to patchy reporting, lags in test results, and the vagaries of weekly testing patterns. New case numbers are often not put in context of number of tests being done. There are lots of pretty graphs but, lacking or obscuring this context, they don't provide much useful information.

When I do see or hear numbers pop up in local media, it's often offered without meaningful information about larger trends and lends itself to the same horserace/it's all sports mentality that afflicts political coverage.

I put together my own spreadsheet based on my local health agency's data to try to get a more objective sense of how things are really progressing:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSxCDL6xIQll...

It's more than an academic exercise. I've been citing it as my small company discusses whether to reopen our local office. (There's no business need to do so. Our office can operate entirely remotely -- and has been for several weeks now.)

I'm also trying present the data in a meaningful way -- relative to testing and reopening guidelines. If you're frustrated by local reporting, I'd encourage you to do some something similar for your region.
This was originally built by RedHat and they are adding support for Fedora's package manager, which should make debugging in future versions of Fedora an amazing experience. The ability to debug any application on your machine with no effort.

Debuginfod does support debian packages as well (integrating with -dbg pacages), but it does not support src packages. The documentation mentions that this is tricky.
Ask HN: How would you implement an Undo functionality on front end and back end?
I'm building a spreadsheets-based accounting web app and would like to offer an Undo functionality to my users.
What are different ways to implement this?
One way I'm considering is simply delaying write requests for a few seconds or until the user navigates away from the screen, sort of similar to the Undo feature in Gmail. The user will have a few seconds to undo the change, the app would then cancel the queued request. The drawback of this approach is that if the request is part of a flow that requires data to be committed to the database, the user will not be able to proceed to the next step until that delay is expired. E.g. imagine the user changing the currency of an invoice, which would require the server to fetch the latest fx data to update the invoice amount.

Curious what are other design alternatives out there? Any that actually write data to the database and somehow allow an undo on the data?
"Predominantly" is doing a lot of work for you there.
(originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436038 but was lonely there so we moved it hither)
It's from the Atlantic. Of course it has a political agenda. That's why people read it.
Fascinating. This means China’s numbers were actually quite accurate.
Both being built on WebKit is different from both being the same browser, and even before the Blink split, behavior observed in Safari could differ from behavior observed in Chrome. Using observations of Epiphany as a proxy for Safari is just not reliable. I've seen differences between Epiphany and Safari without even trying—where it wasn't a matter of one being too outdated compared to the other.
Somehow I don’t have your confidence—I haven’t even gone inside the bars.

Anyway I’m not worried for myself, I’m gonna be fine in all likelihood—it’s my at-risk friends and family.
N95 is overkill. You likely bring down the R0 below one if everyone wears just cloth masks. Less covid droplets in shared air. I still don’t see how will public transport for example resume in the next year. My bus was always packed like sardines and couldn’t fit everyone in it at the stop
Aye, I respect your willingness to fight for China. I fear that it may be a lost cause but that's just from the outside looking in. The iron grip the CCP seems to have just looks like it's getting stronger. I hear that Britain will offer HKers citizenship in the UK. What are your thoughts on that?
>>It's sort of like the media has extracted all the juice they can from the pandemic

NPR is not "the media". It is one media outlet out of many.

Furthermore, NPR's website (along with that of all major media outlets) still contains live updates, trackers, charts. The only difference now is they have taken a backseat to the much more immediate and relevant news, which are the protests.

edit: lmao, i guess people dislike facts. keep downvoting, it won't bother me. ;)
It should be but its not a comprehensive list and in the minds of people crystalline sugar is not something esoteric. Interesting to think about the other modern white powder and how it must affect us.
I think what you might have is correlation. On the other hand, cause does exist for preexisting conditions. I'll go out on a limb a bit and theorize that elderly parents at home is safer than a bunch of them together in (under funded?) nursing homes.

Acting quicker might help but the fwct remains that underlying cultural issue have a significant impact on outcomes.

Side note: In NY state - and perhaps elsewhere - a nursing home patient with C19 that transfered to hospital and died is _not_ a nursing home death. The percentage of nursing home deaths is high, and - at least in NY - undercounted.

Would we have locked down the whole country is NY and NJ (and Philadelphia) done better with nursing homes?
Do you have a link to the civil war movement claim? Are they being reported anywhere or by anyone?
Recently I've been trying to learn more about how to use Keras, but I didn't want to do the usual MNIST tutorial. I tried my own idea for a learning project - which is detecting whether or not a tweet was authored by Donald Trump using Keras and some stylometry techniques. That effort is described in this post.

I think this blog post shows pretty good results from the method. Not only does my model seem to recognize Trump tweets, but it also picks up people who are similar to Trump, and rates them as having, what I call, "High T-Scores".
Terminology nit: s/hyperthreading/smt/

(HT is Intel marketing term for their specific impl of SMT, like AVX is their impl of SIMD).
I think that, even after other things are opened up, they should continue to ban business travel and commercial airplane travel for some more time. This will mitigate international spreading (I don't how by how much, but it will help a bit). More testing would also be helpful. This way, you might have better data to work with.
Data API over HTTP spaghetti is surely a bad way to do microservices (some accidental exclusions apply[1]). And if you'd have to do cross-service transaction or jump back and forth through the logs, tracing the event as it hops across myriad of microservices, it means that either your boundaries are wrong or you're doing something architecturally weird. It's probably a distributed monolith, with in-process function invocations replaced with network API calls - something worse than a monolith.

At my current place we have a monolith and trying to get services right by modelling them as a sort of events pipeline. This is what we're using as a foundation, and I believe it addresses a lot of raised pain points: http://docs.eventide-project.org/core-concepts/services/ (full disclosure: I'm not personally affiliated with this project at all, but a coworker of mine is).

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[1] At one of my previous jobs, I've had success with factoring out all payment-related code into a separate service, unifying various provider APIs. Given that this wasn't a "true" service but a multiplexer/adapter in front of other APIs, it worked fine. Certainly no worse than all the third-party services out there, and I believe they're generally considered okay.
> there's a certain misery that comes with [...] watching 10,000 people pack together downtown exercising their right to free assembly, and likely undoing all those months of progress.

Yep, that's called privilege.

And I'm not even trying to be snarky. From the perspective of the protesters, taking this opportunity to protest and possibly achieve change means hopefully lowering the general mortality risk for generations to come, not just in the immediate COVID future.

If the first thing that comes to our mind is "ah shit, all that progress" or "I could get sick" and not "I have an opportunity to really make a difference," it's because that difference doesn't matter as much to us compared to the risk of getting sick, and the fact that that difference doesn't matter as much is a product of privilege.