skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now there are people sitting in their doctor's office, hearing that they have a terminal disease. They only have a small amount of time to live.

This is about as negative as news can get, and it's been happening ever since there have been people and doctor's offices.

This is a horrible thing to have to bear, and many commit suicide or have a terrible time with the news. By and large, however, people go on with their lives, finding hope, arranging their affairs, and getting ready to both fight and enjoy the time they have left.

What they don't do, by and large, is have a continuous public meltdown, even though their life might look as bleak as is possible.

Negative news is great. What's needed and not provided is context. In a world of billions of people, with millions of people able to imagine and prove to various degrees that some horrible thing is about to happen, the amount of negatively-tainted news is for all intents and purposes infinite. It always has been. We've just had shitty communication systems.

People love to consume and share negative news. They love to slow down at the car wrecks to see if they can see bodies. They love to socially-gossip about how bad something might be and how so-and-so might be taking it or not. That's wired into our systems, probably as a survival behavior. Hominids who worry about lions tend not to get eaten by them, whether or not they live near any lions or not.

In this environment and evolutionary configuration, then, some sort of filtering mechanism is required so that the things we're hard-wired to do don't take over most of our life. To admit that isn't to want to live in a pollyannish world, it's simply to grow up and start consuming a media diet instead of a shitstorm firehose. There are real problems, yes. There always have been. To solve them requires precision, emotion-free discernment and slow progress. Most folks aren't getting any of that today. They're just getting the lizard brain stimulus over and over again. Because money.
> why they had to even do this in the first place?

Because they wanted stuff like Watcher<T>, but Go does not have generics.
Perhaps we should wait to get the whole story to discuss. Didn't we just go through this with the "Apple doesn't return 30% on refund" fiasco last week?
Thanks for the info and good luck!
Your refusal to believe in magic rolls of toilet paper is the reason you will never know true comfort.
they definitely aren't. no libchromiumcontent.so to be seen anywhere.

$ ls /opt/visual-studio-code/**/*.so
/opt/visual-studio-code/libEGL.so
/opt/visual-studio-code/libffmpeg.so
/opt/visual-studio-code/libGLESv2.so
/opt/visual-studio-code/swiftshader/libEGL.so
/opt/visual-studio-code/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so
/opt/visual-studio-code/swiftshader/libvk_swiftshader.so

And running `strings` on the `code` binary obviously prints the name of classes covered by the LGPL.
> if they don't have their titles changed or URLs swapped, for not being exactly what certain people want, and other posts resurrected because the founder didn't get sufficient traffic.

Disingenuous headlines are a huge problem and are part of "spin" (aka marketing or propaganda effort).

All available research -- plus tons of anecdotal experience on /. or HN or reddit -- shows that people never read the links that are posted, and, if they did click the link, probably won't read 100% of it. Most people share links without reading articles as well.

The headline is what generates the controversy, and should reflect the actual or original content of the piece. I am okay with mods changing headlines to reflect that. I have no doubt this is a SV echo chamber -- but it's a news aggregator run by Y-combinator, what the hell did you expect?

See also: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2018/09/study-con...

https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/how-people-read-online-...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-we-do...

http://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-facebook-commenters-on...
> You are tripping over the Recency Illusion.

Maybe, or maybe it is an unprecedented recent spike. We're both guessing, I suspect.

[5 minutes research later] Well, there is this measure of the frequency of 'literally' in books in English since 1600. (Although I meant in speech and online comments)

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=literally&year...

Which does seem to possibly support the 'unprecedented spike' hypothesis! A huge surge since 1990, the largest ever, the word is now used twice as often as in books in 1990.

Looking at examples from 1800-1820, during the 2rd biggest surge, which lasted around 100 years centred on 1840,

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22literally%22&tbm=bks&tbs=...

- none of those on the first few pages of results appear to be the general intensifier kind of 'literally'.

Compare with 2019-2020, where most examples in the first few pages are the kind I've gotten so sick of lately:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22literally%22&tbm=bks&tbs=...

I eagerly await further research in the field. :-)
> willing to kowtow to an authoritarian regime

It's not about kowtowing. It's about sticking to principles of free trade and the rule of law. It use to be the good guys vs. the bad guys, now it's the bad guys vs. the at-least-we're-not-that-bad guys. What is the point if we show that, if push comes to shove, we're willing to be just as authoritarian?
Unfortunately, your fellow mask and quarantine non-compliant & self-entitled citizens, putting their own ego above the health of others, disagree with you.

In an infectious disease situation, your following the rules is meaningless when many other US citizens seem to think the rules simply don’t apply to them.
So I currently rent data center space which includes 100Mbps (95th%) on a 1Gbit drop in a full rack with 4kW of power for about $500/month. Interconnects within the building (an IX where CloudFlare resides) I think cost maybe $100 a month or in that range.

Since CloudFlare apparently doesn’t charge for peering, does that mean I can rent the fiber for $100/mo and get a interconnect into CloudFlare’s backbone, and gain access to publically routable unmetered 10GBe with my own IP cloaked behind CloudFlare?

Obviously at some point they have to charge for bandwidth, maybe I’m just wildly misunderstanding the offering, but where does pricing come in?
Why, When and Where Do We Need AWS Snowball?
Can You Design a Website for the Five Senses?
Thank you, I will add it to my list.
There are so many factors here, poor health can exacerbate worm infestations and healthy individuals with a good diet can live with parasites for many years with no adverse symptoms.
Then there are the visits to clinics that give default deworming pills as part of any consultation.

Is going from "deworming children make less poor" to "the worms cause poor outcomes" such a stretch?

Sure, it is likely.
Perhaps it made them more empathetic? When I visited the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain, they took us out to the Atapuerca excavation site and told us they’d found evidence of a Neanderthal with a life-threatening tooth abscess. Apparently he would have been in incredible pain and his tribe(?) mates managed to keep him alive by pre-chewing his food for him. They also found evidence of disabled Neanderthals who were helped/kept alive by the group but I can’t recall the specifics of the disability to remember whether any pain may have been involved.

I would think pro-social behaviors like that have a serious evolutionary advantage.
Don't know why you are downvoted since you are completely correct. It is unfair to the developer but we wouldn't even have this discussion if people rejected app stores.

I like that more developers just reject software certification processes. There is zero benefit aside from lock in.
I was at Pycon - even at the MS booth! - when the Remote stuff was announced. There was a lot of pushback on why it wasn't open. At the time the story was, opening it didn't provide much benefit at the start, but was possible in the future; I recall the all-over-the-place nature of the code was stated as one of the "there's no benefit" (eg they don't want 100 pull requests to fix trivial things or formatting or issues they already know about).

They may never open it. Open source isn't magic pixie dust you sprinkle on software to make it better, but it does make for a weird experience to see them open some things and not others.
How is "knowing" about the daily Corona virus data from around the world good for you? I get the basic idea: know to wear a mask, keep your distance, avoid groups of people in areas that aren't well ventilated. But what how does the number of deaths in some city you don't live in or near help you?

> People don't need to be experts about everything to become relatively well informed about many things, nor do they need to try to solve every problem at once.

My impression is that people are generally not well informed on anything. They know some factoids, they can repeat some headlines, but they don't understand half of it. And how could they? Even the journalists don't. Read the daily news about a topic you are an expert on and assume that they're as correct about everything else you're not an expert on.

Kony wasn't stopped by people knowing about him and his crimes and everybody spreading Kony 2012 and other Clicktivism. It doesn't change anything, other than your state of mind, which will be in a much, much worse condition.

If you do something, that's great. But it's obviously not connected to watching the news. Almost everybody watches the news, but almost nobody does anything.
Clang compiles awful linear time isEven to constant time assembly code
ok, doomer.
FiveEyes is an awful lot more than social media observation. Don't need to care about social media if you've tapped email services.
there is exactly an example of that in the github comment thread.
I’ve encountered this misunderstanding many times, usually in the context of creating a rotation matrix for a given direction and “up” vector. People look baffled when I replace their elaborate Euler-rotation algorithm with three lines of code:

z = direction
x = up.cross(z).normalized()
y = z.cross(x)
M = [x, y, z]
> Maybe people just focus too much on the negatives ?

Basically, yes.

Source: Wikipedia [1], and, also, every newspaper since pretty much forever [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Lodash: Understanding the vulnerability and how we can rally behind packages
A. I agree that treating politics as sports is ruining everything, but I don't agree that "going to college" is a reasonable thing to point to as the source of the problem.

B. The pros and cons of "higher education" is a drop in the bucket of reasons US education is "bad". All the years prior to university are much more important. Having gone through the system in "good" schools, I couldn't agree with the parent post more. However, none of it can begin until the generic stigma of "more education = bad" is destroyed (which probably first means destroying the one real thing that is fueling that image, which is the price of college and subsequent class warfare).
Awesome, thank you! That's exactly the reason I originally built them, I found myself going back to old projects constantly or looking up how to define the manifest, use the Chrome APIs, or integrate React into an extension again. If you have any suggestions for additional starting points, I'd love to hear them!
DEF Con: Safe Mode
The skills of a poet and the soul of.a weasel. I could do this job.
Linux Is Generic; Your Application Isn't
Liquid Bit Token Presale @ICOAnnouncment
What's an allowlist?
If history shows a trend, the speed of communication will continue to increase exponentially. The interface between two brains may remain language-based, but it's inevitable that we will "jack in" to get higher speed.
Look into seq. It’s free for single user deployments.
Disconnect entire network. Factory reset all devices. Reinstall latest everything.
Yeah, which is of course not part of the “whole SV mindset”.

\s
It sounds like your waitUntilResolved() function is effectively asyncio.gather(), which due to the nature of Python’s async implementation is not something that could be used in a Django view prior to this release.
The original paper A mechanistic model and therapeutic interventions for COVID-19 involving a RAS-mediated bradykinin storm [1]:

> ...our results indicate that the pathology of COVID-19 is likely the result of Bradykinin Storms rather than cytokine storms (although given the induction of IL2 by BK, the two may be intricately linked).

> Several interventional points (most of them already FDA-approved pharmaceuticals) could be explored with the goal of increasing ACE, decreasing BK, or blocking BK2 receptors (Table 1).

[1] https://elifesciences.org/articles/59177
Amazon: Reasons AWS Is No Longer Jeff Bezos’s Growth Engine
I think one of the most impacting decisions you can make here is what kind of environment setup you want. Do you want to only have a production environment? Dev and production? Dev, stage, production? Depending on your answer there will change the level of investment you need for moving that culture.
Microsoft won't be open sourcing their new Python language server pylance
Can surveillance AI make the workplace safe?
"downie"? could it just be the name? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Downie

though if it was that you'd think they would just pull the app and ask him to rename it...
the compiled version of chrome is not Free Software or Open Source. only a version from sources only is. you can't build chrome from those sources, only chromium.

now it is possible that VSCode is different in that regard. but if that were the case then VSCodium would not need to exist. so i guess that it is not possible to build a full version of VSCode from those sources either. i'd love to be wrong on that though
For those not fearing the Truth: "neanderthals" were normal humans that lived a long life (about 400 years).

This was totally normal, about 4000 years ago. If you live that long, some parts of your head bones and also noses and ears never stop growing, this is why they seem a little strange compare to our max. 100 years ages current population.

There will come a time (maybe soon) where people will come back to believe the above, like it has been till ca. 70-80 years ago...
Postgres allows you to create an index on keys within a JSONB column[0]. It may be the case that Django doesn't offer support for this but I would expect you can probably get around that with raw SQL.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html#J...
Very interesting. We might make real progress as a species if we can leverage this more generally as a society.

Also, I expect the "machines" to disrupt the film industry in a very similar way.
If I'm understanding this CNI + Magic Transit correctly, it seems that Cloudflare is moving towards becoming a fully-fledged ISP.
Is the bootloader still going to be unlocked so we can expect (and pray to devs) lineage for these?
blind to the history
of scientific racism

Slavery is much older than the period that the term "scientific racism" refers to. Older slave holders had no trouble justifying slavery.

Interestingly, the many slave rebellions of antiquity (and after) by and large did not seek to abolish slavery, only to switch who's a slave, and who's a slave holder.
Would it help if the work itself were also done fully remotely using only text? I'm with miki123211 on this.
There are two kinds of doomer news in 2020. The first is “the virus is going to kill us all”. The second is “the things we’re all doing because of the virus will kill us all”.

The former is fear-mongering, but the latter is true.
The only viable way to avoid an endless while loop or overly heavy operations is to have a worker do the eval(), though it would defeat the meta-programming aspect and isolate execution making it pretty much useless. It's still possible to proxy local objects via comlink (or implement your own worker proxy) but it would limit communication to POJO's so no dynamic module imports and access to non-serializable objects.
What do you have to hide? Nothing? Ok then, let's give all your data and social graphs to marketing companies, who will be careful custodians.
This is the best I can find https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/ there used to be a better doc on this but I can't seem to find it again.

Runtime scheme and the k8s machinery can be pretty awkward. Scheme is just a way of registering the available datatypes by group/version/kind so the client can look at any given object and figure out if it knows how to decode it.
> the question is: how should we write code today?

The only thing that matters today is how fast the code works on today’s hardware. To illustrate, see how I have emulated neon’s vst3q_s16 with SSE: https://github.com/Const-me/DtsDecoder/blob/master/Utils/sto... However, not all of them can be emulated in a fast enough manner.

> specifying the memory-moves explicitly, and then working on a "pshufb compiler/optimizer" of sorts is what we need.

I’ll consider that approach when I’ll see that compiler/optimizer working, and producing output comparable to manually-written code. Until then I think that’s a “sufficiently smart compiler” class of problems. These are rarely ever solved, IMO. For example, we don’t have generally useful auto-vectorizers in C compilers despite two decades of R&D, even the best of them (clang, intel) are still very limited.
What's low relative to the height of the driver in the kinds of vehicles that typically come equipped with fog lights can be quite high relative to the kinds of vehicles that typically don't. Also, a lot of fog lights don't, from what I can tell, seem to be anywhere near as focused as headlights.

Granted, I'm no expert on fog lights, so I could be misunderstanding the details of the situation. I've never owned them, so I haven't had occasion to know how they're supposed to work. All I really know about them is that they regularly blind me when I'm driving at night.
I guess you're right, I only knew him from the iPod era onward and was basing my statement with that context in mind. Thanks for pointing this out
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347560

Basically they needed to enable monetization since [I assume] Google was taking a non-negligible loss by hosting all of their content for free.
Why Markets Don’t Seem to Care If the Economy Stinks
Isn't silently revoking a longtime mac developer's certificate bad practice, regardless of the justification?
I moved off of fitbit when the deal was announced. The volume of data google collects on users is terrifying. Glad to see this is getting looked at with more scrutiny.
Yea I would agree, Rust is imperative with some functional concepts baked in like a lot of languages have.
Funny. Only some months ago I needed to figure out how to represent unit vectors of (a rotated) coordinate system in another coordinate system. After some days of drawing on the paper I came to the conclusion that actually the rotation vector columns are just that. But found no way to verify that claim in the internet. Thank you for this.
Another option would be changing the legislation. I wouldn’t hold my breath in the case of USA but rest of the world should certainly limit the monopoly of walled gardens as it limits the competition.
45 minutes is pretty good. People might be able to integrate that into their morning routine (assuming it's cheap enough and easy enough to use). Wake up. Spit. Eat. Get dressed. Check results before heading out.
> Since CloudFlare apparently doesn’t charge for peering, does that mean I can rent the fiber for $100/mo and get a interconnect into CloudFlare’s backbone, and gain access to publically routable unmetered 10GBe with my own IP cloaked behind CloudFlare?

They don't charge for peering with their network but you won't get access to the Internet.
> how should we write code today?

Write in a GPU-style "compute shader" language and let the compiler pick the fastest ways of doing things on each ISA?

https://github.com/ispc/ispc
I think the problem is intrinsic to the market model.

Free markets deliver what consumers want. But not necessarily what's best for them, and certainly not necessarily what's best for society.

For many markets we can gloss over that to some extent, for example food. We have cheap, abundant, and generally high quality food, but it's often addictive (because that's what sells), and unhealthy, and imposes a very high cost to our health as a society, and to many individuals.

But news/information is even more fundamental, it is the blood of democracy. And it seems to be in rather ill-health of late.
Apple also has the ability to remotely login to EVERYONE's Internet-connected Mac computers and monkey around (removing software etc.). Of course, they only use this when THEY feel it's really necessary. Does not matter if you subscribe to any of their paid services, does not matter if you bought a used MacMini for 50 dollars or paid 50,000 dollars for a MacPro7. Some would say "great, wish we could do it to real viruses" but others would say "what if they make a mistake trying to fix things, or if this awesome power is misused like Twitter credentials".
Isn't keeping the 30% on refunded apps bad practice, regardless of the justification?

Well, yes, if it's true, which it wasn't.
Apparently it is ready to go! The specificity is much lower than usual PCR, so regs will need to change to allow it - but basically lick a piece of paper every day!

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
I've been working on a project using schema.org objects (100's of types of objects) in postgres in a graph/tree like structure. While structured the objects are not consistent enough for me to want separate schemas for them. Using JSONb in postgres allows me to index separate fields within the JSON while still having all the objects in a single graph.

If I couldn't use JSONb with indexes (and triggers for custom foreign key checks) it'd be much harder to do this in in a relational database (and the data is relational, it just isn't consistent across all types).

Perhaps this would be better in a Triplestore but there are a lot of features of postgres that are not available in them.
Yea agree, if your looking at it to just understand what writing a CLI in Rust is like, there are a lot of use cases in which a CLI can benefit from performance, but this isn't one of them and he doesn't call that out.
Not sure if joking but to serious users this is really important - you can just plug in your headphones and it works - you don't need to worry about which device the phones are connected to this time (I pair my bt headphones with many devices) or signal noise (I still have this problem when using wifi and bluetooth at once). There are even Android devices dedicated for audophiles like new Sony Walkman!
I'm no fan of that either, but where does the national security risk come in?
Changing racist words in tech is not enough
It is indeed, anyone should feel free to use it.

I work at @cdr
More precisely, the Python extension is open source but the Pylance language server is not:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python
https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release