skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see three lines but there are three dots in the top right corner...

Yes, text labels please or at least tooltips if on a desktop platform.

Here is an example for icons that are saved by their labels: the Windows 10 Mail app has a menu with two magnifying glass icons. One with the handle to the bottom left symbolizes search, one with the handle to the bottom right is for zooming. Now imagine that these would not have their accompanying text labels. ><
There are no incentives to improve end user privacy with those who specify telco standards.
As with the ventilators, a bungled rush for them is better than not using them at all. Obviously if they had a more ordered distribution it would be better, but any movement in the correct direction would be an improvement.
> this is especially true during wildfire season

Curious what if any effect that would have over here in Iowa. I would guess negligible, but we do get high-level haze occasionally when there are wildfires in Canada.

> If you purchase a PM2.5 sensor

I have been curious about these in the past. Do you have any recommendations? I couldn't find enough info to feel comfortable that whatever I bought might actually tell me useful things.

> Indoor air being purified is often much cleaner than outdoor air

As a more or less believer in the Hygiene Hypothesis [1], I'm not convinced that this is a good thing. But I guess also most people don't have purified air in their homes so purified stale air is probably better than just regular stale air.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
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Yes. Line art can be tough to scale properly.
It doesn’t log pm2.5. Only co2. For pm 2.5 I recommend a laseregg
Yeah, surely the product of a venture capitalist company is run by radical leftists.
discipline is like keeping promises you make to yourself
and habits are just things you do cyclically and sometimes even without thinking but which you had to learn to do at some point (washing hands after using the toilet, brushing your teeth, etc..)
appreciate! I'm not a front end guy so I take the compliment. I use plain HTML and bulma.io for the css

for the baackend it's just few lines of python (flask) reading the spreadsheet api and displaying it
On the northern hemisphere we still have a few months (actually, two or three only). That's why the article is correct, we urgently need to talk about airborne transmission.
Hey, I'm with you that small business is much preferable to chaebol hell. But, I am also worried how much small business is still possible given modern technology and economies of scale.

(But I am also aware that the fact that large business gets so much more government assistance, directly, or via financial markets and fractional reserve banking, means it is hard to tell what is really going on.)

What I'm getting at is it may be that under capitalism consolidation is inevitable to a degree that small businesses would have to be completely propped up, in which we may consider other interventions such as workers on board or co-op requirements, UBI, etc.

Basically, if no outcome one likes is "natural" (please excuse the capitalist realism), then one should look at the full spectrum of "unnatural" solutions, as opposed to just the status-quo-adjacent "let's just attract and subsidize immigrants to work 3x hard as the rest of us so we can instagram in their restaurants and bodegas".
Those on Microsoft world will need to get used to vcpkg, no matter what, because that is how Microsoft is now delivering some of their C++ libraries.
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Multicore OCaml July 2020 update
Contains an interesting discussion on concurrency, parallelism and backward compatibility
you won't find a physical hobby you enjoy because you never "just do it" enough to find out if you enjoy any of it. It's a bit of chicken and egg. People who think they have "emotional aversion to discomfort and disenjoyment of physical activity" should probably seek therapy if they really want to change.
Also, don't forget that C++ has _age_ behind it. Lots of places are still on arm-gcc-5 because heaven forbid you try to get a new compiler digesting an old code base, then get all stakeholders and customers onboard.

I dream of C++20. But my nightmares are all pre-C++14.
I got yelled at for wearing a mask while getting the mail at my apartment. Said I shouldn't scare her kids in their home. (apparently this person considered anywhere in the apartment complex to be "home")
iOS 14's new App Attest API generates a secure key for server to verify access
True. And I am curious whether things can be done in most building's HVAC systems to account for this.

The ideal would be:

- Heavy external air exchange OR heavy filtering (think N95-level filtration on the return air exchange

- Diffusers are at foot level (not common)

- Return air in ceiling

- People wear masks

My fear of school spread is that folks are basing their mental models on the flu, and if this hangs in the air for an appreciable amount of time then classrooms are difficult to keep sanitized.

Good luck out there. Thanks for the knowledgeable comment.
>> Many small businesses have signed personal guarantees on their commercial leases, meaning that landlords will come after them even after they've closed.

Yep. Just signed a 7 year lease and personally guaranteed it. More things few people are talking about when advocating for lockdowns.
I think bullying TikTok would be more likely to earn the ire of those who use it (non-voting teenagers), and the appreciation of non-users (the parents of those teenagers.)

I don't really think that's what's going on here though.
He also said, "congressional Republicans would [not] automatically spring to [Trump's] defense, if he overstepped the line," which was clearly wrong.
> What do governments do historically during sieges and plagues?

Completely disrupt the working of society to gather resources for either combat the problem or run away and have a comfortable life elsewhere.

History is not a good guide here. If you insist on using it as a standard, we are doing really, really well on this crisis. We are much better discussing what can improve than what we did wrong.
I'm looking forward to your extremely non-simplistic follow up post then!
I consider the statement of the parent to be more about not blindly believing everything the media reports, because it’s most likely a simplification and the truth is more nuanced.

I personally don’t consider it the journalists’ fault at all, otherwise we would just end up with an academic journal. It is important, however, to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism when reading the news.
Personal bankruptcy is only on your credit report for 7 years, versus being on the hook for sums you could never afford to repay. You'll be eligible for credit right away after the discharge (because you can't go BK again for 8 years), and eligible for a low down payment FHA mortgage (3-5% down) after two years (from discharge date).
Next big Covid-19 treatment may be manufactured antibodies
I'm aware, that's why I checked a few to make sure these actually scale well.
Can’t edit: co2 is a good proxy for VOC’s. CO2 is not a good proxy for pm 2.5, to be clear: this depends on the pm 2.5 in your outdoor air.

In other words co2 is a proxy for indoor/outdoor air exchange, and thus should be a proxy for how fast aerosols are sent outdoors.
> The lengths wealthy people go to outdo one another are just absurd.

I’m not sure this is limited to wealthy people. I see plenty of non-wealthy people taking 5-year car loans that they can’t afford in order to purchase a luxury car.

Pineapple as status symbol; car as status symbol.

It might just be a human trait not dependent on wealth, like ostentatious male peacocks showing off their plumage.
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Very glad Pkg is moving away from github. Hopefully, I can now use Julia in an airgapped computer by downloading all the available packages locally like I can do with conda.
> My guess is that 90% of businesses could have gone on outside, easily weathered this storm, and picked right back up where they left off if we had simply paused rent payment

You can't go home again, though. Meaning that the world pre-Covid is gone and it's not something we can return to. We will always need dentists and daycares and so on, but much of the retail was already on its way out. And then if Covid marks a shift to WFH then lots of restaurants that depended on office workers are no longer viable. The world is changing and creative destruction, while painful, is needed.
To whomever flagged the sibling comment by throwaway_drt2: they were not being crude, they were referring to the cell site simulator called the Dirtbox. [1] Don't be so trigger-happy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirtbox_%28cell_phone%29
This is actually quite informative & helpful. Thank you.
If people can't figure out how the 2008 crash connects to black people defaulting on loans and bankruptcy, they are not worth an edit.
I'm still having a hard time understanding the aggression towards people wearing masks?!

I sorta "get" why some people don't want to. But why get angry at folks minding their business. Are they just projecting their fears of being wrong?
If you are in a similar boat, it's likely that when you consider an upcoming dreaded task, there is at least a small part of you that admits the possibility that you will not do the task. And because there is, and because your brain realizes it, it expends mental energy trying to convince you not to do it. Once you are actually doing the task, or it's done, or you realize that you must start doing it immediately, you suddenly find that while plenty of physical energy may be required, there is almost no mental energy required at all.

A trick I've learned is to lie to yourself. Say you're excited to do it, that you can't wait, and that you enjoy it. Your brain is easily convinced if you're willing to let it be.

Sometimes this is not the case, because your brain entertains the idea that it can stop doing the activity it doesn't want to do. Once you are able to convince your brain that is not an option, this mental energy is returned to you as well. i.e. Pain is mandatory, but suffering is optional.
My uneducated guess was that engineering tools have a lot more hard requirements than architecture CAD. That's why architects higher engineers to say whether their buildings will fall down!
Filling multiple roles is not the same as lack of direction. D does lack direction, but that's arguably a good thing - that's why the scripting-like features can exist alongside the features which are intended for writing high performance code.

The fact that C++ is only used for performance is due to C++ being a bad language everywhere else rather than being amazing at writing high performance code. How many hours of developer productivity have been lost to slow compiles and bad metaprogramming (traits, contracts, and constexpr are emblematic of the half in half out C++ way)
>waiting for it to ripen.

This is only because of modern refrigeration. In centuries past a pineapple, or any other tropical fruit was ripe by the time a pineapple made it to NYC or London.
C++ has a policy of not making changes that would break anyone's ABI, but still doesn't have an official one.

https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/
I guess we will disagree on what is or should be obviously illegal. What your phone does is the functional equivalent of you walking down the street shouting your phone number. It does not strike me as obviously wrong for people to hear it.
Sorry, but I don't want Simon to see me as the competition. My window-diving skills aren't good enough.
Educate Americans of Bolivia’s history? By saying he supports a coup against the leader? The New York Times already did that, only to later retract their story That suggested the election was fraudulent. The tweet has no informational content which could serve to educate anyone about Bolivia.
Ideally people would be outside more if the air is good. When they have to be indoors, it is better to purify so we aren’t being exposed to ‘unnatural’ environments, i.e. lots of skin flakes floating around with dust mites, etc.

Also, many people in South America have shortened lives because they are indoors with wood burning stoves that are giving them lung cancer.
I think we're starting to see all the various ways the market can completely screw up the relationship between price and value (in my definition, that being how much an activity contributes to the wellbeing of society). See, for example, the lack of pollution pricing or the insane low price of meat. If you view value as something external to "whatever the market decides," the market is a terrible way to create a hierarchy of value. Why do CEOs get paid so much? It's not because they're contributing the most to society.

It should be very obvious that raising children well or taking care of the elderly are hugely valuable activities, yet the market almost completely ignores them.
> I wonder if this a case of lockdowns delaying the inevitable

Amazing you just assume it's inevitable.

New Zealand certainly proves it's not.

Aim higher.
I don't know much about Postgres specifically, but what I'm seeing in the tutorial does seem insecure.

> If you need remote access to the DB, then you need remote access

That's not a defence for teaching insecure practices. It's possible to configure Postgres for secure remote access.

Using md5 for password security seems like a red flag, and sure enough, the Postgres docs remind us that md5 should no longer be considered secure. [0] I don't think there's any verification of the server's fingerprint, either.

There's really no excuse here, as there's a quick and easy way to do it: SSH tunnels. [1]

> Most people in a normal setup would not have the database server ports directly exposed to the Internet

Not a safe assumption. Instances on Linode and, iirc, Digital Ocean, are not behind a cloud firewall, all ports are wide open to the Internet. (I think that's a bad move on the part of Linode and Digital Ocean, but that's not the point.)

> if you have the perspective that all servers are in the cloud, then you would also be expected to know how to keep them secure

If you already knew how to securely configure Postgres, you wouldn't need the tutorial.

> making it listen on an external IP does not inherently make it insecure, as long as you also have other firewall and user account controls

You still need to configure the crypto properly.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-password.html

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ssh-tunnels.html
This applies to so many things. It's incredible how far you can get with a simple question. Worst case scenario, you get a "no", and nothing changes. Best case, you can get something like 5K from AWS.
> Nazism was not based on scientific rationality,

How can you say this when Nazis famously "pioneered" and promulgated things like Phrenology and Eugenics? Scientific racism was at the heart of the Nazi program.

> the position you take on the nature of facts is one explicitly rejected and criticized (and attributed as a failing of the left) by most mainstream conservative thinkers,

I do agree with you here. What we're discussing really only has meaning when both sides of the discussion are able and willing to have a deeper discussion about this sort of stuff.

What Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro engage in is completely sufficient for the audience they're trying to engage with and appeal to. To get into this more abstract kind of discussion would be counterproductive in my opinion. Postmodernism is actually really harmful for people to believe in and at that point where you're lost in a world where most major cultural institutions are pushing that, you just need someone articulating an alternative view point. At that level, getting into a discussion about how they're actually similar would be a bad idea.
>> But, I am also worried how much small business is still possible given modern technology and economies of scale.

This is the opposite - the more modern technology, the more likely it is that small businesses can succeed. Barriers to entry are massively reduced on many fronts.
I've been having symptoms for years that have confounded all doctors I have been to.

About 30 - 60 mins after eating (anything), in addition to bloating and discomfort, I feel the most extremely incapacitating lows. We are talking what I can only assume a depressive episode feels like.

Its like a wave comes over me, I have no joy in my head, no passion, no desire for communication, I simply have to wait for it to pass, and eventually it does, and I feel normal again in a few hours. There is nothing I can do to make it pass earlier. Its as if the food's passage is causing it.

I don't have a eating disorder, ie I like food and comfortable with my body, but really struggle with this. If anyone has had any thing similar I would be very interested in communicating more.
Force majure?
I'd be careful trusting anything being piped from Andy Ngo, he has a history of being affiliated with, and giving preferential coverage to some pretty nasty far-right groups [1].

[1]: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-n...
I grew up in a city with a lot of Colonial buildings, and you'll often notice pineapples carved into them (above the front door, for example). My grandmother told me they symbolize hospitality, which Wikipedia confirms:

In architecture, pineapple figures became decorative elements symbolizing hospitality.

So I guess the story doesn't really end where the article does! I wonder how much revisionism is involved there: at the time they were actually carved into the architecture, were they intended to symbolize wealth? Or hospitality?
I work for a company that makes a living off of poaching Architectural AutoCAD customers.

Granted, it has also existed for a quarter century so it has its own network effects going.
I think the point is that this is easily separable from money. If tomorrow, going to space became a pedestrian affair, available to all, a sizable chunk of this interested would still want to do it. The impulse isn't as status-driven as you describe it: wanting to see the Earth from space doesnt derive most of its value from being the only one that gets to do it. Compare it to seeing the Grand Canyon. Nobody goes there because they think it's a unique privilege. They pack in amongst the Midwestern tourists because the Grand Canyon is amazing.
Well, I forgot the WHO still does not think aerosol transmission is likely. But they do have a section on airborne spread that exceeds most people's expectations.

The thing is -- why assume it can't form aerosols and that those aerosols aren't infectious? By demanding evidence for aerosol formation that is what they are stating. It makes no sense. Most viruses do form aerosols, and those aerosols do seem to be infectious.
The obvious difference is that in Western traditions, a married couple has explicitly vowed to stay with one another through thick and thin, until death separates you.

If you trust your partner to keep their word, there is comfort in knowing you are a team, no matter what crazy stuff happens.

If your partner refuses to make that promise (that promise being what makes it a marriage, IMO), well, you might want to re-evaluate how much you trust them and why.
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Well, yeah? I'd be shocked if any supported browser can run a modern SPA. That's not even necessarily because of resource limitations, it's just very, very different from the techniques of the era.