skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that the disease has only been around for a matter of months, we might not yet know what long-term damage COVID-19 can cause

Statements like this, are quite disingenuous, especially when taken out of context. Using qualifiers like "Might" and "can" in the same sentence is par for the course for the propaganda I have seen over the past few months. Headlines and reports are repleat with what ifs and every sci-fi pathogen trope you can read.

Coronaviruses are not new to science. Pick any pathogen and take the rare cases of odd symptoms and spread it on every network. See how the public reacts.

Give me science! Few if any of our politicians are going on stage talking up the need for randomized studies. They scare us and we panic.
They haven't seen any benefit to their economy compared to other nordic countries at all.

Partly because they are export dependant and nobody's buying & partly because enough swedes are staying home (not going to pubs etc.) for the economy to tank but not enough to avoid 10 times as many deaths as their neighbours.

So, yes, time will tell. But for now they are getting the worst of both:

Many dead and no economic benefit.
yeah i can totally get it. But how do you expect it can be improved. Auto scanning of Resume and importing the fields from it should do the job?
Why is the ecosystem important when you can just use pyjulia to call any python library you want? In regards to pay, many Python programmers aren't actually paid to program.

And regardless, I wasn't aware that getting paid to program in a language made the actual language itself better.
I remember back before the ad algorithm was changed to be more favorable to ~10 minute videos, there was some complaining about how YouTube was all short, stupid videos and long form more substantial content was not viable.

Personally I prefer a YouTube where the meaningful 10 minute content is viable, even if it means there's some lame content which extended to meet a minimum time.
Suspected by whom?
I feel like there’s a weird god of the gaps element to covid harm. Instead of recognizing that seemingly an overwhelming majority of people are fine and don’t suffer much adverse effects if any, there’s this automatic dwelling on extremely low probability extreme “invisible damage”. I’m increasingly convinced people are unsettled by the possibility that this could be anything other than civilization ending and the mask averse amongst us aren’t murderers. The desire for moral condemnation is too strong.
As mentioned by a sibling comment, Apple's stock split 7-for-1 in 2014. Historical charts generally adjust for this; $80.86/7 is ~$11.55.
This whole article is about an innocuous channel that was deleted for no reason.
> there's plenty of amazing Marxist literature, academic journals, etc. from well-meaning people.

Road to hell is paved with good intentions, clearly. Having grown up in the Soviet Union, I want absolutely no part of that shit here in the US. None whatsoever, "well meaning" or not
South Korea, Taiwan, Japan etc. have all done so much better that comparing the responses of “the west” is just nitpicking extremely flawed plans and executions. I know who I’m going to look for guidance in any future outbreaks
"Four on the floor" makes an appearance in the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe"

She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar
And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid
There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy

I had no idea what Lake Pipes were:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_system#Lake_pipes
Uber drivers to set own rates in parts of California
A Goodbye to Golden Muzzles: Benefitting from Internal Dissent
Google will never post a list of clear rules. It would restrict their ability to take down content that goes against their political ideology. Facebook and Twitter are the same in this respect.
US Police Brutality Map
Porter: An Open Source Load Balancer for Kubernetes in a Bare Metal Environment
Relevant to HN:

It is worth noting that Alexander has republished SlateStarCodex blogs in books using his full name.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-eli...
Outland and Opus. Neither of which were great. He also came back on Facebook for a time to poke fun at Donald Trump. Who could resist? But that wasn't really great either.
Someone who considers trangender women undeserving of feminist support
Covid-19 Is Causing a National Coin Shortage
I was trying to be gentle in saying it's wrong. Consider https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019. Python is the second most loved language on a survey where the majority of respondents have 'developer' in their title.
By visual indicator, I specifically mean a visual indicator that showed when your phone is locked, and the screen may be off (like an LED, as iOS is apparently enabling). To be clear, that's not only not an app's responsibility, and in fact it should not be something an app can change at all, so I don't really think Firefox should worry about changing how it indicates this.

Because part of this has to do with security/privacy and at the device level, this is really something Android needs to tackle. None of the solutions I proposed are really appropriate for an application, since that would imply an application has control over them, and they are useful only if an application can't change them so you can have assurance they work as expected.

This is less an issue of trusting Firefox, which I do (for the most part, but it does have a large security surface to be aware of since it runs remote code), and more an issue of trusting something like Zoom or Tik Tok, which I don't really.
If you run a fairly discretionary web app, like perhaps a game where downtime will cost you lost revenue for the time period but that's it, it's probably not worth it.

If you are running a communications platform like Slack or Gmail, it's hella worth it.
There is a LOT of anecdotal evidence COVID affects the neural system (it's even been found there during autopsies). The challenge for scientists is they need to raise the concerns during emergencies before the final 99.999% confidence 3-year double-blind studies are completed.

So they couch their terms in language that allows for understanding the lack of absolutes.
Of course he would close borders - he thinks trade wars are easy to win and it’s an easy sell to his racist base.

Of course he’d sign The stimulus bill - it made looting the country even easier.

Of course he’d have a task force - he’d liquidated those who could bring him to task (and incidentally do the rest of the country some good) and a task force is an opportunity to sell appointments on hand and then dispose of them with little ceremony later. Oh yeah right that task force that isn’t exactly setting policy these days.

When you have no shame, no decency and make every decision as a means to win the zero sum game immediately in front of you, well, you don’t have to be smart, you don’t need to have a plan and the most opportunistic scum will leap to your aid as a means to facilitate their own graft.

This political mistake is little different than all of his other shitty, petty, and unpardonable catastrophes. Treason big and small.
How is security going to be handled with Shared Channels? Eg, there is a ton of private/proprietary information that may not want to be shared between companies/partners/vendors. Now I can just send a file through chat to a vendor (presumably, not sure what will be allowed and not be allowed) ? This makes me nervous. But I guess this could always be done via email between companies/vendors/partners, so the onus is still on the individual to be responsible and follow internal company policies in making the determination about what to share at the end of the day.
This sort of reminds me of Tesla's higher capacity battery via software. The fact that the whole battery is there and it's just a software lock makes me kind of angry.
Eh. There's the odd fun strip or sequence now and then. But it's mostly stuck in the 90s Pac Bell cubicle world where Scott Adams worked. There's so much fresh SV material to mine that Dilbert really doesn't. (And that's leaving aside Scott Adams' personal persona.)
This seems like someone whose life this doesn't affect wondering why everyone can't just "sit above it all" and approach the topic without emotion, as if it isn't calling their identity and humanity into question and completely emotionally exhausting them
Ripples in Spacetime Keep Revealing Bizarre Occurrences in Space
And Youtube let's fraudsters who claim to get you money for free run channels. I tweeted to them about the recently fraudulent ads that I see, but they take no action. I still see the same ads over and over again. they seem to be targeting the gullible people who want 'secret pubg level' or 'get cashback of 500 in one hour' or get '10000 subscribers within one day'. all of which are fraudulent, that I am sure.
A single instance of a self-hosted chat application would also result in unbounded hours investigating some obscure bug that affects 1 in 100,000 deployments, etc; while the developers don't know because they don't have enough ability to remotely dig in and investigate.

Self hosting is not a pancea and I would not think it would be more reliable.

There's also limited reason why you really want your servers in your city, 5ms of latency savings isn't it,instead of economies of scale in large datacentres with good network uplinks and centralized reliability teams.
Concrete Mathematics was recommended to me as a fresh grad by my first mentor, and it had a profound impact on how I approached problems and improved my mathematical literacy immensely. It is probably the most approachable "high level" maths text I own, and after spending some of my career doing technical writing involving mathematics the one thing I've learned is that it takes a masterful mind to be a communicator of the abstract, and Ron Graham was one of the greatest masters of that skill of our time.

Truly a loss.
Hey, let's not be hasty, it sounds like you've built a bespoke autoscaling backend that intelligently predicts future usage and dynamically allocates compute resources to match customer needs.
How can a self-taught individual such as myself begin to learn the theory presented in the academic computer science world without enrolling in a college or university?
I normally don't comment on identical or similar stories I've submitted earlier, but in this case find both the subject and the flagging sufficiently interesting to share:

The Ayn Rand Institute Takes a Loan from Paycheck Protection Program https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762937
> I get it that mathematical notation is nice and compact and a quick way to communicate an idea but pseudo code would quite often be more clear.

Isn't that only becuase you already know how to code, and don't know mathematical notation? I doubt looking at code for most non-programmers is that much easier than looking at mathematical symbols.
The big wildcard here is massive stationary storage, such as Tesla’s megapacks. They’re contracted to start on a 1MWh project with PG&E in California this year (Moss Landing). Renewables with stationary storage, in some cases, kill the economics for these “peaker plants”.
Well, you can use a user script to add back whatever links you want, I suppose. I don't use that link, but would like chronological sort order for everything; it can't be done on the client side so easily when there is pagination involved.
To be clear, I didn't write that comment. I don't blame you for thinking that though, I actually almost added a postscript immediately after I commented to note that I wasn't the original commenter since the usernames looked similar, but figured I would just let it go and respond/edit if someone made the mistake. :)
I use Go daily and one of the aspects which is always a challenge is equality checking. From the post,

> There is one subtle way a new field can break user code unexpectedly. If all the field types in a struct are comparable—meaning values of those types can be compared with == and != and used as a map key—then the overall struct type is comparable too. In this case, adding a new field of uncomparable type will make the overall struct type non-comparable, breaking any code that compares values of that struct type.

From experience, this is non-trivial to avoid in a long lived codebase.

It’s telling that 99% of the codegen tools used in Go, e.g. protobuf, thrift, Gorm, etc. all output an isEqual method of some kind.
Walking is one of the most overlooked forms of physical activity. It costs nothing, burns calories, allows you to multi-task, all the while doubling as a mode of transportation that doesn't leave you sweaty or needing time to recover.

I was about to say that not being able to walk to work - either because you live in a car-centric suburb, or because it's dangerous - is a nigh criminal failure of city planning.

On second thoughts, though, that's probably unfair. It's probably a case of demand driving planning, not the other way around. I can't blame city planners if people mostly prefer a large house in the suburbs, and are willing to pay for it with a 45-minute commute.
Analytics show how Covid-19 changes music streaming habits
What's with the spacing of the navigation on the left sidebar? I'm curious if that's just because the window was squeezed small.
The future is an amazing place to live:D
It's all I could think of while reading the article. The spiraling-down into complexity and service names had me smiling all the way. The "we should have predicted this" in last paragraph sealed the deal. And the HN comments saying they should have known better and used ZingBing from the start had me rolling.

"You think you know what it takes to tell the user it's their birthday?!"
It could very likely be a placeholder.
I probably would call Ericsson a tech company honestly, though that would be a little iffy.

However, I definitely would call a hardware company (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc) a tech company, and their software all sucks.

That being said, you have certainly made your point, and with your definition here I can see why you would think that way, even if I disagree. In addition I agree with the sentiment "It's a type of company that probably knows more than it should about a lot of things." Though I don't necessarily think this defines "tech", or that tech is the correct label, I do think these should get there own label.

As for your other comment, eh no big deal. We all make comments more aggressive then we intend every once in a while.

EDIT: I do think there is a difference between "tech" and "big tech", I think that "tech" would be as I described before, and "big tech"/"big data" is what you were describing.
This is a much more sensationalist piece than it ought to be. When a patient has a stroke, they will obviously develop brain damage. That is the definition of a stroke - a cerebrovascular accident. The title should be "brain injury causes brain damage".
SymPy is the best!

In addition to the already-excellent official tutorial https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html , I have written a short printable tutorial summary of the functions most useful for students https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...

For anyone interested in trying SymPy without installing, there is also the online shell https://live.sympy.org/ which works great and allows you to send entire computations as a URL, see for example this comment that links to an important linear algebra calculation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158095
Show HN: Thought process on Creating a 3D Framework using VueJS and ThreeJS
BattlEye Client Emulation
It doesn't have to be a customer impact to bring down a service or parts of a service (if it's designed correctly). But even if it was a customer impact, you can do it at the same time you'd schedule regular maintenance (there's always something that needs maintenance, eventually) and throw up a maintenance page.

It's up to the business to define SLAs and SLOs that the customer will be satisfied with.
Not a dumb question at all. Hotswappable switches are becoming more common but many keyboard enthusiasts still are iffy about them. Hotswappable switches tend to have a bit more wobble that their soddered counterparts, but in my opinion the benefit of being able to change out the switches outweighs the wobble.

Those who are confident in their switch choice will prefer less wobble, and probably have multiple keyboards anyway with different switches.
How is it sensational? The linked medical paper [see other parent comment] shows a link between COVID and brain inflammation, stroke, etc.
Apple is working on QR Code payments for Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals
Julia is pretty great and has significantly saner package management.
Hire my mother as a speech teacher.
> It seems obviously wasteful to keep such businesses open where most the paying customers won't be showing up during a pandemic anyways

In Sweden people still seem happy to go out to bars and restaurants, even in the middle of a pandemic. It's non-stop work for the government to shut down venues that are crowded beyond the allowed covid19 congestion regulation.

This whole "even if restaurants and bars were open, nobody would go to them" narrative just doesn't bear out in reality.

We're seeing the same thing in the UK now as well.
> Something has fundamentally changed

That right there's the problem, see. By then, it's usually well past the ideal time to sell.
It's not 50000 times. It's 131 times. Paper bags 3 times.

You can use a cloth bag 131 times easily.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable

If like you assume the bag will not be used more than 1000 times, it beats it's target to be better than plastic bags by a factor of 10.
A nature article with 7 references from medical journals scientific enough for you?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01403-8

It is still too early for conclusive statements. However, it looks like there is more to this than fear mongering.
christ what a load of crap.

doesn't even take into account that other resources equal time multiplier.
"Wray related a case in which he said the Chinese government sent “an emissary” to visit a family in the United States of an unidentified target who could not be located. The emissary left a message that the target could chose between returning to China or committing suicide, Wray said." … this sounds disgusting and unfortunately believable :/
I see your point, but in let's face the fact that Ayn Rand has always railed against what she called "mob rule" - for her I suppose the ideal democracy is one where we vote with our money.
This one always cuts too close to home

https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U
At least since the 90s, Windows has been THE platform for gaming. In 2020, the tools and drivers for Windows are better because its the primary platform.

Linux has been getting slightly better support for several years now, but it has a long way to go.

For example, the latest Ubuntu release supposedly has a ProtonDB update that claims 70% of the Steam Library is rated GOLD or higher for compatibility with Linux.

To a non-technical user that hasn't tried gaming on Linux, that sounds amazing. Its actually a meaningless statement though.

So what is a game rated as "GOLD" or higher?

That basically means it might run fine if you install it, but it alternatively might not even load or run at a playable level if you don't install additional 3rd party tools and/or mess with configuration files. Most people would go back to Windows at that point and never try using Linux again as long as they live unless they worked in a technical field and needed it.

Gold implies good. IMO its not good until I can just click install and reliably play a game after it finishes downloading.

As another example, many of the biggest money making PC games are competitive online games like MOBAs and Shooters. These games can't thrive without a decent anti-cheat solution. Anti-cheat software is frequently implemented at the kernel level. Its difficult to make software like that play nice with translation layers/emulation/whatever of Windows in Linux, and for the most part the developers are too busy supporting Windows to care.

Windows is going to continue to be the favored platform of game developers for the foreseeable future. It has the massive install base because developers target Windows and developers target Windows because it has the massive install base.

So that's why you see favoritism towards Windows in the game dev industry.

Inside the web dev/system admin industries you'll likely see a strong bias towards Linux and maybe MacOS (dev surveys show Linux being far more popular though).

I think all 3 OSs are pretty great and I use them on a regular basis. Its hard to objectively prove that one is better than another in general. Its easier to prove when yu pick a specific use case.
As an example, one of the patients had a fever for 14 days and began doing odd things. This is not new or unique to covid.

Long fever alone causes a whole host of problems.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944485/

> Neurological and cognitive dysfunction may occur acutely after an episode of hyperthermia and may lead to chronic damage, reported to occur in 50 % of survivors discharged from an ICU after heatstroke [87]. The pathophysiological mechanisms are presumed to be similar to those described above, but, in addition, the integrity of the BBB is disrupted allowing translocation of systemic toxins to enter the cerebral circulation. If neurological symptoms fail to improve after the acute episode, cerebellar dysfunction predominates. This is thought to be a result of the sensitivity of the Purkinje cells to thermal damage.
I'm pretty sure outcomes are inversely correlated with class size. That's why people pay for individual tuition. Smaller class sizes necessarily cost more per student. It's not a huge leap to conclude that more money per student spent on reducing class sizes will improve outcomes across the board.

What happens, though, is that money is spent on small group or individual lessons for the special ed kids while any kid who's capable of doing so is left to fend for themselves.
Julia looks more like Python than a fp language tbo and that was why I staed away. The most elegant fp code I've seen was written in Scala.
Additionally, tuning/optimization when dealing with high-latency networks, possibly with more frequent packet loss than you'd get in a local data center (think data replication from Hong-Kong to London in a global bank, etc).
Are we talking about the article posted or the research it refers to?
Elegant, but then it's no longer a basic shell-script as it requires python installed.

If you can live with additional dependencies, then I like the node [1] commander package, which is very readable and nice to work with in my opinion.

#!/usr/bin/env node
const { program } = require('commander');

program
.command('clone <source> [destination]')
.description('clone a repository')
.action((source, destination) => {
console.log('clone command called');
});

It also automatically generates the --help output for ./script -h

[1] https://github.com/tj/commander.js/
Are Todo Applications a Waste of Time?
A UI prototype is not a product, much less a viable one.
> I’m increasingly convinced people are unsettled by the possibility that this could be anything other than civilization ending and the mask averse amongst us aren’t murderers.

In just the past couple of months, COVID-19 has racked up a body count of 130,000 dead Americans. For perspective, that's forty-five 9/11s worth of dead people. Asking people to wear a mask in public to curtail the spread saves lives. This has nothing to do with "desiring moral condemnation." The "mask adverse" can likely bear the burden of at least 1/45 of the deaths America has had compared to it's less "mask adverse" peers.

I absolutely hate wearing a mask, I'm "mask adverse" like yourself, but I wear one since this is a trolley problem where pulling the lever means I have to be uncomfortable for a few hours.