skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's useless to argue the numbers

With very few exceptions, those "arguing the numbers" present a systematically biased and intentionally deceptive view that this virus is not dangerous and systematically hamper the collective action necessary to slow its spread. Instead of merely presenting a "balanced view", it's a rather irresponsible level of misinformation by...let's be frank...rather uninformed armchair epidemiologists who often have zero background in medicine, zero background in infectious diseases, and hardly any science background at all.

The virus is killing and maiming people worldwide. It's highly infectious. Basic shit like wearing masks is now political.

I don't mean to unload on you, because you are making a meta point, but seriously, most people arguing "the numbers" are completely full of shit. Listen to experts on infectious diseases, and shun internet crackheads, no matter what research papers they think they understand, and don't.

You should take this seriously because people are actually dying.
Did your brother have any underlying health issues prior to contracting covid-19? Incl family history of any of these disorders, obesity, diabetes, etc?
when I started coding my mentor told me: "it doesn't matter if it's 2 lines of code, you are still contributing". I'll always remember that, a contribution is a contribution :)
Between remote work becoming much more of A Thing and mortgage interest rates being six feet under, this is not surprising at all.

I share everyone else's concerns about what happens if the economy keeps going on it's downward trend, and foreclosures start to happen again. I'm really hesitant to speculate on that.
Attack of the SPAC
How SPACs enabled an unknown electric vehicle company with no revenue to become more valuable than Ford overnight
> Either way, I think SexyCyborg (well-known Maker) is quite right to call out HAM license as a vector for getting doxxed.

The ham license process itself is the doxxing, not a vector to it. The FCC is the one doing the public publishing of identifying information.
Vaccination is likely an option for long term COVID-19 herd immunity. The mutation rate is shockingly low, so a nationwide focus on containment was the best option early on. It’s still possible without wrecking the economy.

The US seems to be using the worst off all possible options. However, several countries have succeeded and demonstrate it’s possible to succeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption

First sentence:

> Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain

That's what corruption is.
The Troll: A fake flag burning at Gettysburg was only his latest hoax
Ask HN: How to get started with UI in 2020?
My entire experience has been with backend systems and systems in general. I am comfortable with this. But, I have very limited experience with UI. Though I understand javascript to some extent, I've been always intimidated by UI layout, floating UI elements, z-depth, etc.

I want to build a decent UI for some hobby projects. But, when I look around, there are so many frameworks ranging from bootstrap to react to angular with more coming everyday and it is super confusing.

What would be a recommendation for a good place to start?
I'm not endorsing the simplistic and punitive Trump Administration spin that is at issue in your story, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Both the “reopen without significant investment in safety” and “stay closed” sides are both grave health risks and education failures, as the original statement itself implies and the further elaboration makes clear.

It's probably the case that, reduced to those options, “stay closed” (to in-person schooling, continuing distance learning) is best for teachers, so it's understandable that with governments refusing to offer more when it comes to reopening that’s their stance. But even when it is reduced to those two bad options, it's far less clear that that's the best for kids (especially since a lot of the private internet access subsidies from ISPs, that were given with no obligation by providers, that mitigated the inequities with distance learning have expired.)
Eclipse uses a special compiler that can compile code even if it's got errors. Parts of the code that don't compile get compiled to just a stub that throws an exception.

Some devs really like this. I never really encounter it as a problem because for any refactoring, I prefer to use IntelliJ's refactoring tools that ensure all code (that's in your project at least) gets rewritten in the same moment the refactoring occurs.
Thus it's easy to distinguish the guy that made a single perfect call from the crowd of imperfect one. The only solution for them would be to lose as much as much as everyone else from WSB... at least they wouldn't have to ever pay tax again right?!
Merck CEO says raising Covid-19 vaccine hopes 'a grave disservice' – report
the vehicles are rentals
Thank you for this, I will look into your suggestions. Much appreciated.
It's a time of change. Many things are shifting.
Hash Shucking
I hope Trump wouldn't actually be able to nuke anyone while throwing a fit, and I think it's unlikely that he could.

It is important to remember how the US launch system actually works, though, and that it's theoretically possible he could.
Sell to cash in on equity. Buy to get a better house.
I guess the lesson here is do background checks when hiring a PA.
Because if they didn’t, they’d get pushback from teachers unions demanding schools provide masks (and soap, sanitizer, etc.). What most of America does not realize is how little money American schools on average spend on school supplies. Most teachers pay out of pocket for the majority of school supplies (on top of their already low pay). So as with most things that make no sense, it’s enforceable because there are people with significant sway up top that realize how much more money will be needed if they didn’t enforce it.
I meant by putting money into index fund.
Ways to make a web component
The problems could be related with the fact that pangolins have an unique and strange immune system. Reduced in comparison with most other mammals (but I'm speculating...)
I prefer a combination of reset/normalize, but because of that I agree with your statement re: learning from what you are using. Then you can make informed choices about how you are using those things.
Beneath a Steel Sky
CPI is by Transparency International, and it has basically nothing to do with corruption, it is a public image index: nothing more, nothing less.
Guns are selling out across America
It is quite easy to counteract the virus. The challenge is not causing more collateral damage to the body in the process. We also do have other mechanisms.

One of the simplest treatments is convalescent plasma, where you take blood plasma from people who have recovered from a virus (and presumably have antibodies) and give it to an infected patient.

This is not telling the immune system how to react in the way a vaccine does; it is bypassing the immune system to provide anti-bodies directly (of course, after the anti-bodies attach, normal immune system responses take over).

A team of Isreali scientiest have produced artificial anti-bodies that serve the same function without relying on someone else's immune system to produce [0].

There are also a host of anti-viral drugs designed to interfere with with various processes used by virus.

For instance, ribavarin resembles adenoside, which is a one of the building blocks of RNA. It can therefore inject itself into the virus's RNA during replication and cause fatal mutations in the virus.

> it seems they are nothing more than mechanical devices.

Chemical devices would probably be more accurate. Even determining what shape they have is an difficult computation problem (protein folding). Even if you know that, you have to consider how it would interact with every other chemical process in the body that it comes into contact with.

[0] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200505/Israeli-scientist...
Coronavirus Could Accelerate Automation
Saudi Arabia and other oil countries treat their citizens very well. Many of them collect a fat paycheck from the government without having to do anything. Unskilled migrant workers however do not have it so nice.
I wonder if the small contributions I made to the WebGL implementation in Mozilla will go in there...
Do you know any way to build .MSI installers from VS Code?
rewrite it from scratch
> I will get tested first before making my kid go through that. If I test positive, only then will I test my child. If I test negative and we are both sick, I will presume we caught something else.

If you test positive, why make your kid go through that? If you test positive and you are both sick, you can presume you've caught the same thing.
Yeah, the inclusion criteria are pretty broad:

The snapshot will include every repo with any commits
between the announcement at GitHub Universe on November 13th
and 02/02/2020, every repo with at least 1 star and any
commits from the year before the snapshot (02/03/2019 -
02/02/2020), and every repo with at least 250 stars.

from https://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault
The right line in the right place can save the whole system.

Especially if the line is a consistency check.
#techlead get's banned from Facebook
We shouldn't legitimize the mindset the parent is pushing, that riots have swept the nation.

Protests swept the nation. Many cities had increased vandalism. A small number had anything approaching riots.

I am renting a house very near the city center. Were it not for the home prices, I would love to own here... though another poster made a good point. All the good reasons to live in the city (night life, people watching, proximity to friends and services and hobbies) are closed down. At least I can walk to the grocery store.
I know 2 people with older relatives who died. My wife's grandmother caught it in a nursing home and remained asymptomatic the best we could tell (she has dementia). Other people around her in the nursing did die from the virus.

I know of multiple people in their 20s-30s-40s who have said it's the worst sickness they have ever felt. Some others who were really sick for a day or 2 and now seem fine.

I'm not a doomsday person, but it's something I'd like to avoid rolling the dice on (and I do have fear of older relatives catching it). Then there are the possible long term health effects still unknown. Unfortunately for whatever reason people have to be scared into taking the simple, basic precautions.
ikr! No WebRTC without his code somewhere.

This one time at Startup School Meetup @ YC, I was having random discussion about my country and the other person says something like "Do you know Muaz, he is from your country, if you search for WebRTC, his demos are the only thing that pop ups everywhere"

So yeah, Muaz is awesome.
With Balaji Srinivasan it is even worse. He is open supporter of Modi current prime minister of India(BJP party) and supports caste system. My advice is if you are not from upper caste(brahmins) do not waste your time with him.
This is really fun, thanks for sharing this with the world. Kids should find this so I'd try to make sure schools/teachers find out about your product. Thanks
Microsoft didn't try "Very Hard". They made some easy sacrifices on their ad-starved, money-losing search platform, then piled some money into advertising it, ran with it for a year or two, then gave up. This is historically one of Microsoft's biggest[1] weaknesses, they have no conviction. Their effort didn't touch anything outside Bing (or was it Live then?) and it certainly didn't extend to their APIs or anything challenging like this.

Apple's been pushing this for more than 5 years now, slowly working it pushing it through their stack and quietly[2] messaging about it for that entire time. They made it a company-wide priority, to the point where advertising companies and developers on their platform are complaining about it. They've been updating their APIs to block out this kind of crap for more than 5 years while gaining only small amounts of good-will around this.

So yeah... people take Apple's efforts here more seriously than Microsoft's half-effort.

[1] Pre-Satya Nadella. Seems like Nadella is quite a bit more focused than Ballmer, but still a bit hard to tell.

[2] Ok, maybe not too quietly, but they didn't make a big embarrassing advertising campaign either.
Yes, the API can only get the most recent tweets but the script above can be used with the tweets.csv file provided within your downloadable Twitter Archive. You can delete tweets of any age via the API.

I had to use the archive initially to delete most of the old stuff but now I never have more than a few tweets to delete.
> I try to avoid getting too anchored to incidental aspects of the present.

Many aspects of the present are not "incidental", they are based on choices that people made in the past in the context of expectations about the future and what options would reasonably be available to them. A sudden drastic change in the actual options available in the present vs. what options people reasonably expected when they made significant choices in the past (like where to live and where to locate businesses) is going to have a drastic impact on people.

Yes, a new equilibrium will need to be found and we're not just going to go back to the way things were before, but to say that the drastic change that has happened "can only be a good thing", as the post I originally responded to did, ignores the large negative impact of the change on people who made significant choices in the past that they would not have made if the future they had expected then was the same as our actual present now.
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled
Traffic problems in Software vs. daily life
Yes it's great... I also use other adblocking methods (DNS based) but uBlock Origin remains king.

Only thing I really really miss from FF Mobile is the pull to refresh. I so wish they'd add that, because every time I open a tab with a news site that was already opened it shows stale information, and I have to open the hamburger menu to do a refresh. 2 actions instead of one.

An option to have sites auto refresh when switching to the tab after xx minutes would be great too. Right now it's just too inconvenient.
In Germany at least there is a correlation between density and cases per capita. How is it in the US?
I don't see how that could be true. On my server right here with a Xeon Silver 4114 it is measuring the power consumption of the memory at ~75W for 256GB.
It's ironic, but Google's monopoly was already well in abuse when Windows Phone was around, and being used to block Google's competitors. Gmail required you enable "less secure apps" to let a Windows Phone connect to it and they continually blocked Windows Phone from having any access to YouTube as well. Even when Microsoft invested their own development resources in building support for Google's already monopoly-scale platforms, Google would just find excuses to block them.
Generating multipart MIME email from markdown
I've been semi-closely watching the rural RE market in NorCal lately (both empty lots and very "off-grid" locations) and all I'm seeing right now are price cuts, some very dramatic. Nobody can predict the future but something is definitely changing.
Good luck taking off without fuel and any ground equipment, not to mention any consumables that would have to be replaced after prolonged stay in a desert.
Trojan Malware Analysis
Good comment, thanks for sharing.

It's an interesting topic. I agree with you that identifiers can be intended for humans or machines, and there's often different features to optimize for depending. URIs are the strange middle ground where they include pitfalls of having to account for both humans and machines.

In an interesting way, each individual website has to come up with its own system for communication. It may be a simple slug (/my-new-blog/), or it may be an ID system (?post=3). It could be something else completely.

There is some value in offering that creativity, but a system where URIs are derived from content also makes a lot of sense to me. You mentioned a hash which I think is the right idea.

It seems reasonable enough that URIs could take inspiration from other technologies like git, or even (dare I say) blockchain. This leads naturally to built in support for archiving of older versions, as content is diffed between versions.

There's some fun problems to think about like how to optimize the payload for faster connections, then generate reverse diffs for visiting previous versions. Or if browsers should assume you always want the newest version of the page, and automatically fetch that instead.

This solves some problems, and creates many others. Interesting thought experiment anyway.
Longtime user of bootstrap & tailwindcss for pet projects. I've looked at the 'What Problem Does This Solve', but I'm not sure where Shoelace could fit into my workflow.

Bootstrap is great for when I just want to quickly prototype and build a decent looking interface, but it feels confined when I start wanting to style things myself. When designing MPAs I typically use Bootstrap.

Tailwindcss is great for styling anything and everything, but I find sometimes I waste too much time styling little things that other CSS frameworks already have nice defaults for (and I am a terrible designer so this compounds my dificulties). I often use tailwind for SPAs.

Forgive me if my question is a little naive, but where could I fit Shoelace in for pet projects? Do you see it as being a suitable replacement for one of these usecases? Complementing them? Does it lie somewhere in the middle?
The vast majority of vulnerabilities used for jailbreaks and for Android unlocks are not attacks on code running in ROM and can be fixed OTA.
It's worthwhile pointing out that being "censored" and being a moron feel subjectively pretty similar at first blush, especially without some introspection. With no introspection, the odds are stacked heavily to one side on that.
So... if he hadn't pushed for copper and instead did the 'better for society' fiber solution, the company wouldn't have been worth nearly as much, possibly much less.

And those stock sales would have been much less profitable.

Not direct cash bribe but definitely far more motivated than just incompetence.
"Children aren't typically the family index case during lockdown" doesn't really tell us much about non-lockdown spread.
Most are from very respected people to help others benefit from their knowledge and to avoid the pitfalls they ran into a various levels of scale. Do you need BEM for a brochure-ware site, no, styling by IDs and tags would probably work just fine. But a web app with 1000s of lines of code, while I don't specifically endorse BEM, some sort of pattern and methodology will save you a world of pain in the long run.
I'd be guessing that very early in the quest towards herd immunity the medical institutions would be overrun and the end result of that would be a whole lot more dead people than the lockdown scenario.

From what it appears we know about the virus so far, a vaccine is the only sane way to possibly hope to reach herd immunity.
The alternative - hiding people in homes until vaccine is widely available - means death.

From alcohol & substance abuse, from increased suicides, from domestic violence, and so on. Extended period of being prevented from running your business (or out of employment) without steady income, and bottled up at home is a major stresor and silent killer. The hospitals already reported significantly elevated suicides.

There is no magical strategy to stave off all the problems; balancing the risks and managing precautions as our knowledge expands is the correct, if hard to politically sell, way to go.
This isn’t breaking windows, there have been people murdered and millions of dollars in damages. What was improving?
The problem is that this is incredibly hard to do. It’s much easier to protect the vulnerable if the routes for community transmission are reduced or eliminated; if society is acting as normal it’s really hard to stop those specific transmission vectors. Given that we can’t convince people to wear masks, I’m dubious about any plan that requires more planning and communication.

We also have no idea if herd immunity will work, or for how long. Lots of coronaviruses confer either no immunity or a short term one; remember that a lot of common cold cases are coronaviruses too, and you can catch those repeatedly. Also, pursuing herd immunity involves infecting basically 20-50% of the population, a strategy that might kill 500k to 1.5mil Americans (assuming CFR stays at 1%, an optimistic assumption in this scenario)

We also have no idea what the health impacts for non-fatal cases are. Lots of patients are surviving with heart & lung damage; long term impacts TBD. Crippling an entire generation from the get go would both be tragic, and would put lie to the idea that not opening schools is “letting them fall behind”.
> Gmail required you enable "less secure apps" to let a Windows Phone connect to it

Wait, what was that about? Microsoft was incapable of building a Windows Phone email client that used OAUTH?
Citation to the Remote ID proposal, for those interested. The comment period is closed, but the proposal received over 50k comments: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FAA-2019-1100
Anyone interested in Shannon might enjoy reading Fortune’s Formula, a book that ties together Claude Shannon, Bell Labs, and information theory with horse racing, Vegas, and the stock market.
> By CHRISTINA SMOLKE JULY 16, 2020

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> Christina Smolke is the CEO and co-founder of Antheia, a synthetic biology company based in Menlo Park, Calif.

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> There is the old scientific method which was falsifiable, repeatable, frequentist, and it involved directly observable quantities.

> ...

> There is now the new scientific method which involves models, paradigm shifts, bayesianism, and it may not require a control variable when measurements are constructed from multiple, indirect observations.

This doesn't make much sense to me. How can there be a new scientific method?

Shouldn't these somehow boil down to the same thing: hypothesis, experiment, evidence against the null?
Unrelated to the fonts, but I really love that CSS they're using to emulate the ANSI interfaces of my youth. Perhaps it's just a product of my age, but I find it a lot more usable then a lot of similar website interfaces.
Why would any country want herd immunity from infection when nearly every developed country has demonstrated the virus can be contained without such a large loss of life? It's not as if the specter of maxed out hospitals on the news for months on end is going to help the economy.
John Preskill: Quantum Computing May Help Us Study Quantum Gravity
The way I understand it is that this is partly a mechanical property as well: the chest cavity expands/contracts while breathing, which impacts how much room organs have, which can then stimulate nerves etc.
Is it inspired by element ui [0] in any way ? The look and feel is very similar.

[0] https://element.eleme.io/#/en-US/component/installation