skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The healthcare thing is more nuanced, and is part of the problem with any sort of centralized decision-making around it. On an individual level it's not usually any sort of tradeoff -- your choices don't make anyone else live or die except in imaginary fantasies. [...]

Really? What about your choices regarding people you have power of attorney over, or, say, minors whose guardian you are?

Should a family bankrupt itself to pay for treatment for a child whose life expectancy with treatment is only a few years anyways? Should a family bankrupt itself to pay for an elderly member's care who has no assets left and little life expectancy? These are difficult decisions to make if you should ever have to, and god forbid you ever have to. But they do come up in real life, and implicitly or otherwise, people do put a value on life.
Ha! I just added the "Italy didn't defeat it" caveat. Great minds or something :)
I selfhost gogs and like it. And the releases link is at the top like many ppl wish here :)

Only thing I really miss vs. github is there's no code review built-in.
> We locked down _too soon_ in many places

Or maybe the real answer was a coordinated national response.

Why wasn't the NYC cluster confined to NYC or NY state? If the initial lockdown succeeded in killing community transmission in Oregon, how did it start growing again? Most likely from external sources.

Only a national strategy could have made these individual state-level lockdowns worthwhile. Since we didn't have that, the states implemented a haphazard, patchwork of lockdowns that weren't coordinated.

> I doubt anyone will give a shit what the Governor says. Goodwill has been burned through and then some.

Unfortunately you're right about that.
Well it's also what Scott Aaron's on says about the story, as he explains in this post, he knew the writer and knew the story he was working on.
Wouldn't it probably be one request per icon instead of just one request for a while font?
Have you ever read Windows Internals? Or MSDN? It has more documentation than any Linux system, ever. Even Microsoft's documentation of Apple's SDKs is better than Apple's. Windows Internals books are extremely extremely detailed.

I've ran Windows since 3.11 and have never ever had to reinstall Windows to fix things. Perhaps you should take a look at Event Viewer in more detail to see why things are broken.
Yeah I've long held that the NYT serves the purpose of any right-wing rag, by dressing up mostly right-wing arguments and misrepresenting them as being left-wing. I think tech people tend to lean libertarian and thus consistently fall for this ruse.
This is a really good point, and it all goes back to treating US or even a state as a European nation.

The US is not like that at all.

What is appalling that the CDC seemed to be completely clueless to these basic observations, as if it weren't their job to make sane recommendations beyond the "everyone everywhere immediately shut yourself indoors for a few months" (a recommendation imported from China FWIW)
When the feature people discuss about a new OS release is whether or not it makes a noise at startup, methinks we've veered off on a very strange timeline. Of course that's not the only clue...
I'm pointing out the words he literally wrote on the page because there's a bunch of people in this thread who are doing what you're doing, which is making a blanket proclamation that Cotton wanted the military to essentially attack protestors, which isn't true. That actual quote is all over this thread.

The rest of your argument is a careless strawmanning, or projection, since the words on the page have actual meaning, words which you can put in front of your nose at your own pleasure.
> Just a quick very unscientific glance at twitter regarding this "attack" produces 10 right-wing types for every 1 centre-right

You're surprised that right-wing types have a beef with NYT? The "Fake News Media" NYT?
It's on page two, I'm guessing because HN prioritizes newer articles with higher upvote/comment ratios.
Tesla veers into oncoming traffic, killing three
When you npm install a single package like vue or react, it drags in a dependency tree that sources a thousand random npmjs packages. Each of these packages may specify a postinstall script that executes at install time. Time and time again, some random leftpad-like dependency might lurk five directories deep and spring a surprise script on you, either because the author is malicious, or they handed over (or sold out) to someone else, or perhaps most likely their npmjs account was simply compromised.
> Nobody living in the Western world has been spared exposure to the ideas he is so in love with.

Where might a person acquire such knowledge? It implies that someone would have had to compile all of JP's ideas, and then compare it against the knowledge of all Westen people. That sounds like quite an undertaking.
Recently we've been going through the browser stats on our websites, and while globally apparently IE is dying, it's certainly not dead yet. In the specific industry I work in (Heavy Automotive Retailing, eg Truck Sales and Servicing), we see upwards of 30% of our users on browsers <= IE11. All of our sites are getting poor lighthouse scores on performance with the main suggestion to be changing to webp, but that would exclude 30% of our customers.
Yes. Right now, there is large spread in a community in eastern Oregon around a church. Lets do phase 0 lockdown in that community. Let the rest of Oregon be in a different phase. If it breaks out in Portland, Portland restricts for a while etc. Not just "I am scared lets just close everything".

It was never going to work and people were screaming that at the top of their lungs in March. We were called ghouls or accused of supporting genocide. I am not kidding.
You are quite persistent on Mac hardware. Why?

It is hostile platform, it should be rough. I use 14" Dell Latitude - no problems at all, beautiful machine. Probably would stay on it or try Asus ZenBook.
Why CoinDesk Respects Pseudonymity: A Stand Against Doxxing
Why would people do this? https://repo.git and shallow clone...
Places where people concentrate inside during the summer.

The virus doesn't hang around outside at the open bus stop. It goes with the people.
I've heard from some long time pear consumers that there is no point in continuing to eat them following the discovery of the apple.
> MPEG (like it or not, MPEG represents the industry)

Not so much anymore. The licensing fiasco with HEVC has reduced MPEG's relevance, particularly for web video. Here's what Leonardo Chiariglione, founder and chairman of MPEG, says about it:

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

https://blog.chiariglione.org/stop-here-if-you-to-know-about...

And they're shaping up to make VVC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding) licensing just as bad.

Leonardo says there is no longer a united MPEG:

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-future-without-mpeg/

Why would anyone waste their time on a format with complex and uncertain licensing when they can just implement AV1 with its simple, royalty-free licensing?
> We only had uncontrolled community spread in a few areas in New England, MI and LA.

NY/NJ are not part of New England. And what's your definition of "uncontrolled community spread"? [Other places like Louisiana surely qualified. Edit: never mind, I didn't parse LA as Louisiana.] Would you say it's now "uncontrolled" in say Arizona or South Carolina?
I have had to deal with bugs in the past caused by people using incorrect case for paths to dlopen(), etc.

Lots (I wouldn't be surprised if most) osx devs use case sensitive filesystems, but the default in case-insensitive, and so dlopen(path) fails if you have (say) "/system/..." instead of "/System/..."
Everything from voidtools.com is a great search tool.
Bias-Free Communication Writing Guide at Microsoft
Bogus Racism Charge Melts Down Elite Progressive Listserv
The old Github was honestly a terrible UI. Not responsive at all, making it awful on big and small screens. The information density feels the same to me; it was low before and it’s low now, but at least diffs fill my screen (though improved responsiveness is something they added within the last year tbf). Unlike Jira, shit loads without a horrible amount of pop-in, and I don’t really realize I’m using a SPA. They didn’t rearrange the core UI much, and I don’t feel like I’m having to relearn anything. So overall, some ambiguous buttons are my only complaint. Feels like a big improvement that was long overdue.
Was just chatting with a friend about this. It makes no sense.

The Quest is the perfect machine to share with others. I can take it to friends or family (well, pre-covid I could). VR _needs_ to reduce the friction to trying it out.

Even just a generic "guest" profile would be a huge step forward.
The death of the private citizen?
"We never got wet... these umbrellas were useless!" :-)

I tend to agree with your point, though. Many many areas could likely have been just fine by only restricting large gatherings (concerts, etc), requiring masks, strongly encouraging WFH, and so on. But keep open hair salons, local shops, restaurants (with precautions), etc.

Even in the Bay Area, I can't help but think we shut too much down.
Grifters calling or walking door-to-door and asking for money, for some made-up charity or organization. Especially targeting older people.

It's extremely frowned upon to begin with, but at least the laws make it illegal.

(Not that it necessarily hinders those that really want to scam someone. Some of these BS "organizations" just contract their work to foreign call-centers. Every year a lot of young European people are lured to some low-cost country in southern Europe, where they'll have to work for some call-center at below minimum wage - and these centers will sometimes work for anyone...)
> The original post shifted the discussion from Scott's worries--which were chiefly related to the dangers of working in psychology--towards the more general discussion about censorship

If you read Scott's post, it says that blog readers have tried to get him fired and sent him death threats. That's already happened, before his anonymity is completely broken by the NYT. He's written on a variety of political topics, including feminism and racism, which are now self-censored as the blog has been taken down. Censorship is very much a feature of Scott's post.
State border closures are unconstitutional in the United States, we could never have a national lockdown. The interstate commerce clause prevents it. Among other laws I am sure.
So 70% that could be infected rather than 100% is "running out of people"?
Thank you for checking out the project. That's correct it's for browser only apps with no back end. Browsers are now capable of doing so much of what you want from an app.

My guess is there is a large class of users for whom client side apps are good enough for the job they're doing. Some of the use-cases where Excel is used today for example, and video games too, which are often self contained. Clay Shirkey's "situated software" article explains these ideas very well.

Even data storage and sync is possible fully client side using WebRTC peer-to-peer tech.
I don't think that's quite right. I believe that humans are essentially born as blank neural networks; it's the structure, and the graph of connections between brain structures and sensory inputs, that is effectively primed for learning certain tasks that we find to be intuitive.

A baby is not born with the knowledge of body movement, for example, but through natural exploration of the body and environment, almost all physically capable humans learn to walk.
This only effects the system libraries - not any of the libraries from other applications or tools.
> What, then, is a good way to compare languages?

With genuine interest and curiosity.

With the understanding that any conclusions will be provisional.

With incredible focus on the context that matters to you.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> Recent analyses have shown Neanderthals have also contributed to Sub-Saharan DNA.

To what extent?
Insufferably pretentious with the petty, unsubstantiated jabs and pretending not to understand why someone would want multiple domain names.
There is a popular expression in French that explicits a worthy distinction: “Politique politicienne”.

It literally means politician politics, or politicians' politics (a politician is a political figure, like an elected official), and it very derogatorily qualifies all the noise, the blablabla, the unimportant chatter in politics — Wherein politics speaks of egos, not ideas; the part that seldom leads to actual or worthwhile "policy".

When a leader is said to be making “de la politique politicienne”, it basically means that's degree zero of intelligent discourse, and solely aimed at tackling political opponents. Cue false claims, supporting opinions you provably don't believe yourself (but party line prevails), etc.

It's an old expression, before my time (1980s). It's fallen out of flavor. Probably because 99% of politics has now become de la politique politicienne...
Good story.

Reminds me of a great story by Neil Stephenson about his experience of learning by doing the experiments:

https://youtu.be/_J4QPz52Sfo&t=4511
Yeah, slamp biggety, and gosh damn, of course, I just noticed A COMPUTER flying by our apartment. Goggedy Goops. Gosh damn. I can just swear it happened. Giggety gloops. Did anyone get that. God swearn. It just flew past over. G'd'mohn. I just don't know what to say. It's just. Uneasy to explain.
Yes, NY and NJ are in New England. MI is Michigan, LA is Louisiana. Sorry if I assumed state abbreviations were known. I forget that I am speaking to an international crowd at times.

I lied! NY and NJ are not in New England. The USA is annoying.
I think the focus on Haskell is missing the mark a bit.

Haskell is about programming language researchers and enthusiasts having a excellent example language to try out ideas. Over the years it has turned into a production ready platform.

As the PDF shows there are many languages spun off Haskell and it doesn't even mention them all. Then there are language features in C# and Java, Typescript etc. that are coming across from Haskell.

I think the problem with Haskell as a language as a mainstream thing is that it requires a lot of upfront investment to get used to. C# -> Ruby is 10 hours to be productive, 100 hours to be reasonable. C# -> Haskell is ten times that.

A lot of stuff to get your head around. There are complex topics from category theory to metaprograming. Sure you can ignore it - until you want to use a web framework that uses those concepts, then it's on you.

Instead of Haskell we should be thinking of programming language research and how to get the best ideas into our mainstream languages. How do we make immutability easy and ergonomic and get rid of nulls in C#? Can we have guarantees in our program. There are even features not in Haskell proper like Liquid Haskell that would be interesting to have in C# or Typescript.

This is what is needed if we want the Haskell ideas to be popular. That might not be what other people want.
There's no evidence that any of the things mentioned came from SneerClub. As far as I know the original doxxing came from some alt-right dude with mental issues on tumblr who thought he was shadowbanned and posted in response to a SA reblog on tumblr 'Care to comment, Scott Alexander [Real Surname], working at [Actual clinic] in [Actual location]?' to which SA replied with 'No one's shadowbanned, you're banned for doxxing me though'. This is all relatively easy to look up and check.

SneerClub was always ever about venting about rationalists when the dumb speculation about evopsych and the IQ of black people went out of hand, and people who have attempted to doxx Scott on there have been banned. (Doxxing people at all is against the rules of reddit anyway.) Yes, it's a circlejerk subreddit, yes it's petty etc. But it's not the evil den of terrorists rationalists think it is.
This is something that people often forgot - even if hospitals do not reach their full "paper" capacity, you can easily burn out or even kill your irreplaceable (in the pandemic timescale) medical personnel, if they have to deal with constant influx of infected patients over long periods.

Not to mention hospitals usually shutting down elective procedures once the amount of infected patients in their care crosses a certain threshold.
I disagree; I don't think LetsEncrypt is tedious to get set up on your own.

Here's what I recently did when I deployed a new site [0]:

{dnf,yum,apt-get,whatever} install -y certbot
certbot certonly --webroot -w /srv/_default -d systemd.software -d www.systemd.software

Certbot went through the registration process in the terminal window. Enter in an email address and read over the terms of service and then it goes and does its thing and finally spits out a success message telling me where the certificate and private key are on the filesystem.

Then just point an nginx configuration file to the two [1] and tell nginx to test and reload its configuration.

cp nginx.conf /etc/nginx/default.d/systemd.software.nginx.conf
nginx -t && nginx -s reload

Then, LetsEncrypt will send an email to me notifying me that one or more certificates are about to expire (20 days, 10 days, 1 day ...). I even decided to test that and make sure that works (on a different site a couple years ago) [2]. The certificate can be updated using the certbot-renew service:

systemctl start certbot-renew.service

Google searches show several examples which put the renewal service on a timer.

That's it! I'm not sure what you think is tedious about that process. Would you care to elaborate?

[0] https://systemd.software/index.html

[1] https://github.com/inetknght/systemd.software/blob/44c584c68...

[2] https://knightoftheinter.net/img/LetsEncrypt_Expiration_Warn...
Yeah the $5k match seems easy to game
GPT-3 eloquently defends the possibility of Trurl's Electronic bard
What to consider when visualizing data for colorblind readers
This is running on a single AWS c5.metal instance. It has 196GB RAM, but we are using only 40GB at peak. The instance provides two 24-core CPUs, but we are only using one of them on 23-threads. So far, it's handling the flow of connections and requests from HN fine. We over provisioned just in case as we were not sure what to expect :-)

Storage is an AWS EBS volume.
Very informative slides.

I do not have real-world experience with Haskell, aside from little toy projects, but I have a lot of experience with other functional languages in the ML family and Scheme.

Idris 2 looks appealing, but they should have also mentioned other approaches like Fstar, Lean and Z3. I quite like Fstar since they are delivering a big verified code base, as implied by the name of the effort: Project Everest [1].

While theorem proving is the most general approach to verification, manual proofs are tedious and full automation might never be completely possible in the short term.

I would love to see someone pushing for a different approach. A toolkit where you can create DSLs with limited expressiveness, which in turn make it easy to build and verify things. The equivalent to Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research Institute efforts to build a minimal computation system, but with some verification guarantees.

[1] https://project-everest.github.io/
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Go stand with an umbrella in the Atacama. We literally had no "rain" here when we locked down. That is my point.

Now that it is raining in the Atacama, we have no political will to do anything.

Edit: I was sassy before I saw your edit :D. High-five on agreeing in principle!
We will all get used to it all right. I use Arch Linux, free in every sense, and couldn't give a damn about OSX fuckeries. Get over your pussy free lives. Get arch linux-
NEON doesn't, but SVE/SVE2 does: https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/server-and-hpc/...

Apple might not be using this in their first ARM Mac chips, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them use it in future chips.
Arizona in the PHX suburbs
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

It can take weeks after infection to start showing symptoms, weeks more to be sick enough to need hospitalization, weeks after that to die.

These days, many people won't even go to hospitals, even when they're dying, and when they die at home they may never be tested for the virus at all, so won't necessarily be counted as having died from COVID-19.

The direct repercussions of the highly irresponsible mass gatherings that have been taking place over the last few weeks may not be evident for some time.

All this doesn't even take in to account all the people who did not attend any gathering but got infected by someone who did, and yet further infections from the first-order indirect infections, and so on.

Those later, indirect cases (which will still be the result of infections spread during these gatherings) will take even longer to be noticed.
Of course given a large enough sample size process wins out! People's capabilities and knowledge differ. The issue is in determining _what_ good process _is_ given the vast environment that is a globalized economy.

That is why socioeconomic status is so important with respect to success. There's a difference when you can play a thousand hands vs. ten.
you cannot eradicate this disease unless you turn the nation into China.

The viable model is the Swedish model, schools are open, restaurants are open, nobody wears a mask. What they do is voluntarily keep more distance between people. That's it. that will do it.

The sky has not fallen, they are exactly on the same track as the US.
The lockdown is causing deaths too which also need to be considered.

We shut down cancer screening and gyms for 3 months in Ontario; that’s almost certainly going to kill more people than COVID did.
Before learning Go, I've always used frameworks. Go's standard library is good enough for lots of things. For instance, I feel like the experience of building a REST api in Flask is comparable to building one in Go without a framework. Flask provides similar functionality to that provided in the Go standard library (very rough comparison here, please don't kill me anyone).
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Not the hero you want, but the hero you deserve.

Best cheesy outro ever:
https://youtu.be/6c_H45kt1_8

Greatest in group contrarian ever?
That is true, I don't really know what the answer is. You could do something like show half code/half readme, with extra code hidden behind a fold.. but I'm sure that would annoy devs working on those additional hidden files.