skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The power is out on your boat, again. It’s 3am. You suspect that, again, the alternator housing has come loose.

You duct tape a flashlight to the bulkhead so you can work hands free and actually see what you are doing. All you have on you is a broken pocket knife but it’ll do because all you need to accomplish right now is to tighten the housing screws enough. You know this for a fact because you’ve done it three times already in the last 24 hours.

It’s not even a documented procedure — you’ll replace the housing mounts entirely when you’re back at port in three days’ time. You guarantee it — this is the first thing you’ll do even, when you get back to shore. You have my word on that, captain!

The duct tape came unstuck. It was damp and doesn’t work so well (at all) when it’s wet. The flashlight survived the fall. More tape this time should do the job. Tape mount version 2 will still unstick of course, eventually. Nothing stops the damp at sea, but if you use enough tape then you’ll have fixed the power by the time the tape fails. That’s your plan B and you’re sticking to it.

Sure, you could do this job better if you had an impact driver with an automatically illuminated bit chuck, but buying one of those is further down the todo list than fixing the power on the boat, making it back to port, and ensuring the power doesn’t fail this way again, as promised. Or at least won’t fail for the next few shifts.

On your days off you relax by programming in Bash.
COVID-19 doesn't kill on its own, but weakens your body that other diseases kill you. The most common way of killing is pneumonia, which is basically done after it weakens your body other bacteria that you otherwise would be safe from steps in and kills you. Another common symptom is causing blood clotting, so some people died of stroke.

Yes, maybe that stage 4 lung cancer patient would die anyway, but then there are other deaths that are covid-19 but aren't counted. In fact no one would count is as covid cause in such obvious scenario.

BTW: also it's exactly the opposite to what you're trying to imply[1].

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200701125506.h...
eh - standardized resume 'format' (file format)? 'scanning' is just stop gap because recruiting agencies have no incentive to play nice together.

edit clarified to file format
Discord may be the closest, with its voice chat rooms. It's not designed for work chat per se, but can work ok as a Slack replacement.
>>Moses famously parted an entire sea to take a walk with a few friends.

:D
If those were significant, we’d see an uptick in countries that introduced restrictions early on and avoided the epidemic.

In Poland we had quite serious restrictions introduced very early on and we don’t see any excess deaths in the stats - march and april were actually below average in terms of mortality.
Similarly in other countries with similar scenarios.
Couple of things:

* Crawl apartment listings and get notified a lot faster than the official notification channels take.

* Monitor the inventory/promotions of some vendors, e.g. for bikes, that are currently out of stock

* Get notified when there's an peak of interest in a specific topic on twitter. I use this to monitor my employer, my project, and any stocks I own.
Take a look at the trajectories North Korea has used in their missile tests. Their leadership may well be as loony as claimed, but whoever is picking parabolas knows how to speak softly and loft a high apogee.

(similarly, no matter how loony their current CINC may be, whoever in the USAF redeployed B-52s from Andersen AFB to Minot AFB also understands aposematism)
The initial example with curl looks very compelling. I like that it's not a replacement for the CLI, just a graphical way to build the CLI commands. Seems like a much better way of learning arcane command line arguments than the searching through man pages that I do now.

Some of the other examples like changing directories and the git client are less interesting for me - if I wanted to actually replace the CLI with a GUI there are better options.

I signed up for early access.
56 Florida ICUs are at capacity, with a further 35 are above 90%[0]. Five days ago the largest hospital operator in Houston, TMC announced that they were at 102% [1]. There’s a little bit of flexibility there; TMC can get that down to 72% by converting every possible bed to an ICU space[2], but they are now operating above official capacity.

I agree that there’s a lot to criticize in how NYC handled their hospitals, and that in a pinch hospitals in Texas and Florida can scrounge up extra beds. But those hospitals are filling up.

0: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday...

1: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5efcd4b7c5b612083c5618d0?...

2: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...
I worked on this idea in 2003 [1] and we envisioned it to help a lot with discoverability and consequently learning curve. Our idea was more interactive in that editing in the UI would immediately be reflected in the terminal and vice versa. A power user would just type the whole command from memory but still have the ability to click a checkbox to add that rare/elusive switch. Beginners could do everything in the UI but quickly learn from seeing the command line string being built.

We worked towards automatically generate the UI from man pages (prioritized from examples found online) rather than manually developing each tool. As a student project we did not get very far.

[1] http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/wiki/pub/SE/ThesisCommandLine/Ski...
Not to mention, it being Electron could[1] mean a memory hog. Granted, not all Electron apps are, but after seeing a GUI git client which ate up 800MiB+, I'm very skeptical about this technology.
I don't want a shell, a chat client, a git client and an editor to take up 3-4GiB of my RAM...

[1] I can't claim that without testing, but it's a good possibility when it comes to Electron.
There's a lot of overlap and there are syntactical differences. SymPy is included in the CoCalc image. SageMath is now conda-installable.

Things that the SageMath CAS can do that SymPy cannot yet:

- solve multivariate systems of inequalities
+1 - countries that introduced strict lockdowns early on have no excess deaths.
I would be really disappointed if any of this would stay in the About box. Regarding alternative text I like Comment 25 [0] best, which suggests this text:

> This software is developed by a team of volunteers and is supported by the community.

> LibreOffice is Free Software and is made available free of charge. Please consider donating: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

> For professional support services for LibreOffice, see https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/

[0] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486#c...
Why should someone expressing their honest feeling get downvoted? Just because it looks like his sympathetic with the "evil" Chinese?
B&H also has a stellar reputation for service, support, and selection. Lots of people will choose to wait another day in order to do business with someone they trust.
Windows: the NSA is going to be able to access your computer if they want. You have to explicitly opt out of data collection for advertising in the windows 10 setup.

Linux: There is still data collection in chrome(ium) but not like windows. Typing stuff into the start menu doesn’t automatically try and hit their hot garbage search engine that they want to trick you into using (bing) and setting as default.

Windows is a service, they literally say this in their update dialogs.

Your eyeballs are the product to be sold at a price depending upon age/sex/race/location/income for a calculated price to Microsoft’s advertising “partners” to make them money. This is also agreed to in their terms and conditions and set as default when setting up windows 10.

With that said lots of people grew up with Windows and excel and vscode, probably why it’s so popular.
Its easiest to point out an issue by first pushing it to the extreme, and then re-evaluating whether the middle-ground does not exhibit the flaw (in lighter fashion)
All of the neighborhoods built in the 50s near me in California had sidewalks, no mandatory setbacks, and zoning that allowed corner stores, making them pleasant to walk through.

The zoning didn’t seem to go to shit until much later than the “post-WW2” generalization.
> muscles? upper body strength?

The original post was about technology.

> that in no way follows.

Scenario A: No one has a weapon. Five people take control of a grocery store. How many people can take back the store without anyone dying? The answer might be as low as five. Certainly 10-15 people could do it.

Scenario B: Everyone has an identical gun. Five people take control of a grocery store. Same question.

The answer is that there is no number of people high enough to plausibly reduce the risk of death to zero. Someone with a gun can kill much faster and at greater distance.

Long story short: technology amplifies power. Sufficiently amplified power cannot be countered by equal power quickly enough to nullify the danger.
Forced recantations and blacklisting are not new things or something that require strained analogies to Chinese history. In my view shouting "hey, look over there! A slippery slope! We'd better watch out!" takes away from a more serious message about how we are currently repeating our own, very serious, mistakes of the past. (although to be sure, there are some genuinely new aspects of how things are playing out in social media)
Any coherent explanation of this pandemic is going to need to explain why some countries that didn't do very much (e.g. Japan) ended up with far fewer deaths per capita than countries that locked down (e.g. EU countries and the United States).

Sweden is somewhere in the middle -- they are being criticized, yet other countries in Europe which locked down have ended up with a higher per capita death rate.

Why is it that Cambodia and other nations in southeast Asia have negligible deaths despite doing very little to combat the virus, while countries in the EU which locked down have way more deaths per capita?

Somehow the models about the spread and death rate of this virus seem to differ on a geographical basis, and that needs to be explained.

At this point, any analysis of the pandemic that does not attempt to tackle this problem is selectively ignorant.
Yeah, Pyodide is great, although a bit slow.

I think the targets are a bit diferent: Pyodide is just a notebook for executing Python code and what I wanted is to transform Python code to Wasm (this implies some speedup as well).
Young people aren't just losing a few months of festivals. A generation of kids are losing a year (possibly more!) of schooling. Young adults are graduating into career-crippling unemployment which may haunt their lives for decades. People are getting laid off, burning through their meager life savings, losing businesses that they've worked themselves half to death to establish. Suicide rates are up. We're just beginning to see the economic and geopolitical consequences... the last great depression precipitated a world war that killed 3% of the world population.

All so that 75 year olds can have an extra month or two of average life expectancy?

I have octogenarian parents who I love deeply and would prefer to see live forever. I also have a young son. I would grind up my parents and feed them to my child if that's what it took for him to thrive. And I would expect my child to do the same for his children.

Stop moralizing, this isn't "right vs wrong". It's basically picking which demographic bears the brunt of an extremely unfortunate but naturally occurring phenomenon. I'm not at all sure we picked the right one.
Great feedback, thanks!!
Comprehensive enumeration of security concerns in the OAuth 2.0 Auth Code flow
Then will grab the original Covid-19 and get everyone sick with it before the deadly muted Covid-21 arrives.
I would really like to read the full paper for reason #3, but it’s paywalled. The whole article feels like a big teaser with the real content locked away.
NumPy for Matlab users:
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/numpy-for-matlab-users.htm...

SymPy vs Matlab:
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Matlab

If you then or later need to do distributed ML, it is advantageous to be working in Python. Dask Distributed, Dask-ML, RAPIDS.ai (CuDF), PyArrow, xeus-cling
It could easily happen.
The website for the plugin is full of spelling mistakes, bad grammar and has light gray text on white backgrounds in places.
a commonly used feature that has been a part of the unix standard since before "bash" only meant to hit something with a heavy object, while linus was getting his diaper changed is not an "obscure feature."

a five year old took his first aware car ride, and at a gas station saw the trunk of the car next to theirs open. he said "seriously, bmw has too many obscure features." after all, a car for him was where you put the baby seat. and why would you put that in a compartment with no windows or air, that's too small to even fit a baby seat.

did you enjoy the ride?
They were initially ineligible.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/federal-courts-side-str...
for the record, no, it can't be done purposefully. i.e. all students of jewish law no inherently the concepts of a priori and posteriori. i.e. many things are prohibited a priori (i.e. to purposefully do), but would be permitted posteriori.

A simple example example is one can't mix milk and meat at all apriori. But if accidentally mixed a small amount of milk into a meat dish (example: one wasn't thinking and took a spoon directly from a milk pot directly into a meat dish), it would be permitted posteriori. But that's only because the act wasn't intentional.
I packaged a golang project once. I had to independently discover a lot of that.

I'll also add that fetching a golang package was complicated. As I remember, GitHub seemed to be special cased. Other URLs involved an HTTP request with a ?go-get=1 parameter, and then parsing the returned HTML for certain meta tags¹. (I thought only Python was guilty of that sin!) Some URLs I ended up just re-writing, because gopkg.in packages effectively redirect to GitHub in ways that, if abandoned, allow someone else to intercept[1].

And none of this is documented anywhere particularly coherent. Bits here and there, maybe.

(Why not use go itself? Because this platform's package manager wanted to verify that the software was being built from the correct source, by hashing the inputs. It also, then, fetched those inputs, so that there wasn't some form of bait & switch, and there is no network at build time to further prevent silliness. I considered vendoring, but it isn't clear to me how vendoring works with go modules, since it doesn't seem to take into account the module version? / the path layout only allows for a single version.)

[1]: https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify

¹some servers didn't even return the right Content-Type, either, but perhaps that's an implementation bug. But I didn't have a spec to know.
Yes, and pjreddie seems to have concluded computer vision is mostly (or too often for their liking) used for the digital equivalent of those bad things.
A Practical Introduction to Graphs (Network Diagrams)
You really nailed what I hadn't been able to verbalize. Dilbert is still stuck in a world that no longer exists. The open hostility, hierarchy, etc. of the corporate world has been replaced with this kind of generic feel-goodyness that still has the same sociopathic corporate behaviors but cloaked in some kind of faux "meaning"... the HBO show really nails some of this while Dilbert feels antiquated.
> the mask averse amongst us

Oh can we coin a term like this for drunk driving? You know, when it’s more convenient to drive home drunk than leave your car out? That’s just being taxi-averse
That’s why we can look at excess deaths.
This is about implications - that's not the same as not realising that face is an object.
> Haven't thought very deeply about this, but FOSS doesn't seem like socialism, as the capital being competed for is user attention.

I think that's stretching the definition of 'competition' a bit too much.

First off, many people work on FOSS just because they want to, or because they believe that it's a good thing. Not because they want 'user attention'. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that even the people that are motivated by user attention don't see it as a competition.

> FOSS projects without enough capital does not gain enough developers, and falls into disrepair and obscurity.

There are plenty of FOSS projects that do fine with just a handful of developers, or even just a single one. with perhaps the occasional pull request from others.

> Not sure what a socialist FOSS movement might look like, but maybe developers would be assigned to projects as opposed to them freely choosing the projects to work on?

Maybe I misunderstand, but I get the impression that you're thinking of 'state' socialism. I wouldn't say being assigned stuff is a core aspect of socialism.

All that said, it's not so much that I think FOSS is like socialism, but rather that FOSS is a counter-example to a common argument I hear from especially the more hardcore 'everything should be market forces' capitalists, which is that we're primarily driven by competition.
SymEngine https://github.com/symengine/symengine

> SymEngine is a standalone fast C++ symbolic manipulation library. Optional thin wrappers allow usage of the library from other languages, e.g.:

> [...] Python wrappers allow easy usage from Python and integration with SymPy and Sage (the symengine.py repository)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymPy > Related Projects:

> SymEngine: a rewriting of SymPy's core in C++, in order to increase its performance. Work is currently in progress to make SymEngine the underlying engine of Sage too
on the flips side, observant jews in tech companies sometimes struggle with this in Israel, as the on call people who take over for them will still be jews. Even if said jew doesn't mind not observing the sabbath, the observant jew doesn't want them to do it on their behalf (so to speak).
Should call it Fig leaf, because you're hiding the best bits.
Contries that early lockdowns had statistically insignificant excess deaths. So all those caused by lockdowns are insignificant compared to covid.

Also, lockdown saved people’s lives in other way - less accidents etc.
Keep in mind that that strip referencing Donald Trump was from 2011. He was a contemporary douchebag but not yet a contemporary politician.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has fewer than 20 chapters.[1] They lead a small part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ibram X. Kendi doesn't lead the organization or the movement as far as I can tell.

[1] https://blacklivesmatter.com/chapters/
Thank you!

There is some (epidemiologist) Spanish guy (I am writing from Spain) telling the Swedes that they were “overconfident”.

I look at the nunbers and think: this guy is at the very least dishonest.
this is too inside baseball, but a cute joke.
This got me thinking: how far down the current human tech tree could a single person get on their own? It took thousands of years for humans to go from fire to the steam locomotive; could someone do it in a lifetime?

Obviously the ability to skip by basic research and dead ends would cut this down by a ton, but ultimately a lot of the things we’ve created in the past century requires a huge amount of complicated machinery to make, which requires more machines and more labor. Could a person reasonably start from scratch (let’s say skip the mining and just give them coal & metal ores) and make a Geiger tube? Or would it be too difficult?
I happen to work in AI research and what you are saying isn’t true. There is theoretical machine learning and applications of it. They are distinct.

The former is largely task agnostic and deals with fundamental issues such as, how to train networks in an unsupervised way, how do you do hard statistical inference for intractable models in a approximate but well enough manner, how is gradient descent behaving exactly, why does it work, are there better ways for optimizing nns, what about pruning? The list goes on.

On the other hand you have applications of AI to other fields that require their own research. In biology for example you may want to segment cells and their compartments or design better point spread functions for you microscope or classify cell types. These are applied problems.

Again, as stated in my original post, striving for more diversity is a good thing and should and is done. Why make it about AI ethics and bias though when large portions of this field have no contact point with it?
My time to shine! I built an argument parser that uses a POSIX compliant help message as the input. It's a parser generator really.
It generates minified bash that is inlined in your script, so no dependencies. The work is based off of docopt (and is docopt compliant).
Check it out: https://github.com/andsens/docopt.sh
Ask HN: Alternative to Go
With all the Go skeptics around on HN (not judging, just an observation), there must be a wealth of knowledge about similar (but "better") languages.

What I like about Go is:
- excellent standard and public libraries
- fast compile times (hot reloading is awesome)
- easy distribution by cross compiling binaries that have no dependencies

Is there anything that has similar developer ergonomics as Go?
These are great ideas! I'll add them to SheetUI's feature roadmap. Definitely reach out to me at tjchear (twitter/linkedin/gmail) and we can talk about what you need.
every single person weighs economic benefit against risk to life constantly, in civilized society.

We abort 600K fetuses in the US every year. By our behavior, life is cheap.

You are just making up some arbitrary standard of "civilized society" that doesnt exist and is meaningless.

Economists have determined that people value their lives at about 100K. The govt through policy values a human life between 8 and 10 million

Right now you could spend $100 to save a life of a child in africa, yet instead you spend that money on frivolous luxuries.
## Wider Face Val
Model|Easy Set|Medium Set|Hard Set
------|--------|----------|--------
libfacedetection v1（caffe）|0.65 |0.5 |0.233
libfacedetection v2（caffe）|0.714 |0.585 |0.306
Retinaface-Mobilenet-0.25 (Mxnet) |0.745|0.553|0.232
version-slim-320|0.77 |0.671 |0.395
version-RFB-320|0.787 |0.698 |0.438
yoloface-500k-320|0.728|0.682|0.431|
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I couldn't even begin to guess how many hours I spent playing this game as a kid (and how much I dreaded hearing "Warning - missile approaching" in the last level).
It's a survey selected by an independent factor - it's like a twitter thread, or local cafe gossip. It's not gonna hold up to a strong scrutiny but it's a valuable place to start.
I'm not sure why you're attacking OP. They have been reporting neurological loss of smell since March in almost every news source.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/coronavirus-sympto...

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lost-smell-and-ta...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/loss-of-smell-confus...

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/not-just-loss-...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-ef...
The main problem in Sweden hasn't been the rejection of a lockdown, it's not protecting the elderly care well enough. But this is what happens when there are barely any educated people within it. Compared to Norway for example that have a mandatory 3 year nursing education to be working within the elderly care. Heck the absolute majority of the elderly didn't even get any treatment once the infection was a fact.

And these country's are much in a lockdown still. Norway for example - you're not allowed to travel far north from Oslo. In comparison to many other countries, Sweden's tactic could go on for years while many others would and already have started to give up on theirs.