skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you live in a tech bubble, but people still have to physically go to a thing called work. You're telling me that some car accidents go down that will offset aids, tuberculosis, malaria. Not to mention cancer treatments, cancer not getting caught early, etc. You really do live in a bubble. While we cry about not having internet or that a face mask isn't covering someones nose completely, millions of people die around the world due to very preventable or treatable diseases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberc...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...
lol, I think it might have more to do with the fact that humans are inherently social creatures.
I’d like to mention that DuckDuckGo’s backend is not open source.
@dang there's a typo in the name: should say "infrastructure", not "infrastrucure"

It's missing the T, as-in: infrastrucTure
Extensive discussion 4 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792119

As per the HN FAQ, an article should not be reposted if it had "significant attention in the last year or so".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I mean, you still need to convince people to buy the cars to get any profit, so I'm not sure what your point is.

>If you’re Google and you can only find N top notch software engineers, do you want to put any of them on marginally profitable projects?

Presumably this depends on what kind of work is needed. I've never worked at a place where profit is correlated to engineering talent, including and especially at Google.

Again, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Clarification: You can still get infected by viruses after you receive vaccines for them. Your severity of infection will be lower, but it's still possible to get sick even with a vaccine, just less sick than you would've.
I've seen some other comments echo this sentiment. I was never "stunned" by how lethal this virus is. Though I have read plenty of stories to realize it can be (and in a lot of instances) was brutal for people who had it. I did, however, have a breakthrough in my understanding as to why they shut everything down.

Everyone, as far as I'm concerned, has a right to proper healthcare. The medical professionals realized early on that based on how easily the virus spreads and how it is plenty more lethal than a common cold, they knew letting everyone catch it at the same time would've overwhelmed the healthcare system. There is no chance most people would've gotten proper care, thus more people would've died than had to.

I'm still not fully convinced of what the doctor had to say. Let's give it a full-year where we've gone through all the seasons to see if he really is right about the fact that Sweden did it the right way.

EDIT: Also, during those first months medical professionals learned more about how to handle it. They took those learnings and applied them to the next group of patients. That knowledge would've never been put to use (in theory) if everyone had the virus at the same time.
Does Julia webstack have middle-ware like authenticators etc etc?
The CCP could have all the data they want on you but there is almost nothing they can do about it because an ocean and a military separates you, outside some fringe cases

Interesting, I’m sure you’re aware of the CCP coercing critics (who are US citizens) by threatening their families in China?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-wray-idUSKBN248...
How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own
I don't know, I'm generally happy with the way modern OSes (Windows 10, Linux 5.4) do kernel scheduling.

OS queues rarely expose methods like size() or empty(). In their multi-consumer queues they normally only expose variants of enqueue() and dequeue(). Peeking or checking for empty size is only there for single consumer queues, like win32 message queue.
The judiciary’s fiscal dependence on the popularly elected bodies is by design and a necessary check on its power. More independent state organs habitually trend towards tyranny. In theory, a deeply unpopular, but principled stance may result in funding cuts, but will survive those; whereas an unprincipled power grab will run into a Congress ready to curtail it.
How are sports teams a ghost of what they were? NHL playoffs are incredible right now. European soccer is wrapping up and play is great. NBA is just getting started. Most of them just canceled games or took a break, which, for example, the NHL used to do every 4 years for the Olympics. The only sport that seems to be having real trouble is the MLB, who just had a terrible plan. I admit, I have no belief the NFL has any chance due to team and personal size but that is just life. Not to mention esports which has barely slowed down after the first few months where they had to cancel in person events.
A lot of websites are now generated using static site generators and it is much easier doing so inline, than have to duplicate the content which also makes the pages much bigger. Like I said the issue is more about lack of transparency about how it may effect ranking.
I’ve been had
California spends about $65/citizen.[1] $90/citizen seems to compare favorably to the U.K., at least in terms of outlays. It could also simply evidence that the U.S. judiciary is underfunded.

I'm assuming the Ministry of Justice figure is exclusive of prisons. If the figure includes prisons, which cost ~$85/citizen in the U.K.[2] then court system expenditures would be greater in the U.S. (~$90) than the U.K. (~$65).

[1] $2.5b over a population of 39 million. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4097#:~:text=The%2020....

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/298654/united-kingdom-uk...
I am working on something like this myself. I started by reading the Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, which uses Scheme to teach Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics. And it's much more effective than an ordinary math/physics book. Normal math is a kind of code, except that the VM that executes it is your brain. You (or I, anyway) can only progress if you understand absolutely everything down to the last detail. Programming is much easier. If you don't understand something you can put together a little simulation to poke at the edge cases.

So I finished SICM and I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if I could keep learning physics like this?" And so now I've gotten in touch with some physics postdocs (who are paid shockingly little). I pay them to learn Scheme and encode quantum mechanics, general relativity, statistical mechanics as scheme programs. I work on this about 10 hours a week. In a year or two I'll have knowledge equivalent to an ABD physics grad student, plus information that can take other people from modest beginnings to the same level.

One thing this project has taught me is that students have shockingly little power in their relationships with teachers. I am a major source of income for my postdocs. Some of them may be prioritizing me over some of their other duties. And it really shows. I'm a good self-learner, but there is no substitute for having someone work really hard to anticipate all your questions.

Another thing I've noticed is that everyone (except, increasingly, my postdocs) is a terrible teacher in academia. I have a friend, a fellow grad student, who is scheduled to teach her first lab in her first semester. The lab meets Tuesday. The one-hour credit-only class that will supposedly teach her how to teach meets Wednesday. On day one she'll be going in completely unprepared. And she's not atypical. I suppose that, since students have no power, few people care whether they learn well or just adequately, so people (administrators, professors) prioritize other things. The glaring exception to all this proves the rule. The one person who has done the most to make me successful in graduate school has been my advisor -- and his name will be on every paper I publish. (I like the guy a lot, but self-interest plays a role)
When I taught an algorithms course, Erik's 6.006 and 6.046 lectures were one of my main sources for lesson plans and other inspiration.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075855

(Same article on a different site.)
Confused by this:

> Shutting down completely in order to decrease the total number of deaths only makes sense if you are willing to stay shut down until a vaccine is available.

Wouldn’t shutting down completely for a month or two effectively end covid ?
Orgot to add ‘f’ to your f-string? PyCharm 2020.2 now auto-enables
Most of it isn't new, but David Chapman is better at explaining nebulosity and putting it into perspective than anyone I know, so I recommend reading more of his stuff.
What's in it for the tech giants? Google is merely interested in peddling its ads to its Chrome users. Use Brave instead.
I'm not sure that comparison is really apples to apples. How much does it cost to run Congress? The presidency? That may be more apt a comparison than the budget of one of the departments
I know that feature! That is the one feature that makes users actually consult the help documentation.

(and I would love to see how that is done - how the menus and their contents, were implemented to make them searchable!)

Here's to 2 more billion upvotes :-)
"Only" 80k died from flu, without needing a shutdown, but 150k have died from covid-19 even with a shutdown, so how is that an argument against the covid-19 shutdown?

At best it's an argument that we should do more to stop flu deaths, but at worst it amounts to "If someone ever dies of any preventable cause then we should never take any measures to prevent any other death".
It is the clause that literally says ridicule (“defame, libel, ridicule, mock, stalk, threaten, harass, intimidate or abuse anyone”).

No mocking anyone, political leaders included, anywhere on Discord, per the TOS.
This is a really intriguing artefact of specific cultures. Clearly, there are benefits to 'Failure is Not Tolerated' cultures, it is interesting how people can pull rabbits out of hats when they have to.

That said, if they are up against a real wall, they will be pulling the rabbits out their rears (ie fraud) and it will be a problem.

But then you get a secondary effect: a kind of 'coverup cancer' which spreads through the social system, nobody willing to let it surface.

The European CEO of Japanese Olympus has a pretty intriguing story about this. Uncanny stuff about the depth of the fraud, like being in an episode of Twilight Zone.

The corruption is way, way more than just a few leaders - it's entire networks of systems and leaders, everyone covering for one another.

I suspect there are vast systematic hidden problems in Japan.

Germany has a little bit of this.

For some cultures, it's hard to understand the actual value of 'Chapter 11'. It's really an amazing bit of commercial policy that bankruptcy protection.

Someone needs to write a book on all the various ways we hide problems. The US Fed takes on Trillions of toxic assets. The Canadian economy prints money to new migrants buying homes as a form of 'spending the future now' in a giant Ponzi scheme. China makes up numbers willy nilly. Japanese hide it inside private networks. Etc..
That’s what faith is in the context of religion. Faith is how completely you believe the lies. Hypothetically the more complete the delusion, the more content you will be.

To end with another platitude, ignorance is bliss.
Speaking of USDS, how come in August of 2020 we _still_ don't have a government COVID19 website that doesn't suck? One that's trustworthy, that has accurate data, and decent statistical analysis.

Maybe you guys should look into doing your jobs instead of "fighting white supremacists" on taxpayer dime?
Yes, with so much context missing from the results it's pretty confusing.

Ideally for this to be useful I'd want date on HN, date of article (although I see that'd perhaps be hard to extract from unstructured pages) and also the HN points, as those are a major proxy to quality usually.

As others have said it has a nice crisp UI and i like that it's so quick.
Granted most countries are probably far more well-behaved than the US, but I don't know if you read any of the articles that clearly showed people weren't even happy with the kinds of restrictions they were asked to practice. Let alone locking down fully for an entire month all at once?
Starting a sports blog in 2020 does not require any technical knowhow
Look, there's a reason China gets the brunt of our ire, and it's not because US based companies are particularly laudable. It's more that China is notorious for its international campaigns to infiltrate foreign institutions, surveil its diaspora, its dissidents, and its political enemies, and use tools like blackmail and threats to apply pressure, using any means possible, to achieve its policy goals, often on foreign soil. China is also noted for its campaigns of systematic repression. When you are in the business of rounding up an ethnic minority for genocide, it does tends to color the discussion.

You can arrange words that make the US and China sound morally equivalent, but when you actually look into it to compare the realities in detail, you see how vapid and empty this approach is.
I loved my Satellite Pro 4600 - circa 2001-2003. But then I was finally able to afford the ThinkPad of my dreams (a maxed out T42p).
> (requires the setting "Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls" which can be found in Keyboard -> Shortcuts.)

Can you turn that on without a pointing device?
I wish I could play soccer but that'd be incredibly stupid during a pandemic and everything is shut down anyway. Running yes. Contact sports hell no.
This is one reason you need to look at all cause mortality. Another is that COVID specific counts don't catch all related deaths and include possible unrelated deaths.
> She has a manager who (apparently) has a low tolerance for risk. He probably got to where he is by spinning situations so that it's not his fault. He was upset that she contacted the FBI about a situation and took on more risk than he was comfortable with.

I get that this appears to be the conclusion the author wants you to draw. But what's missing, to me, is that she has provided no evidence whatever to support it. The only evidence we have about her boss is his reaction--and I can see a boss with a high tolerance for risk saying exactly what she describes her boss as saying, as a kind of whimsical recognition that the very thing that makes her a valuable employee is that she will take on these things that none of his other employees will take on. So on the only evidence she gives us about her boss, it could go either way.

What I expected to see (and apparently you did too), at some point later in the article, was some kind of follow-up to that specific story she told--some way in which either her boss did or didn't support her in some subsequent development related to what she had already told. And there wasn't one.
Actually, yes. Screenshot I just took: https://i.postimg.cc/bNX4Bw5s/0-C84-E133-7003-4867-8-F28-F84... (it goes through the normal IAP flow if you hit a button)
Thats why we switched from Hipchat to Slack. Slack's client for the Mac was so terrible at the time but we couldn't deal with the outages of Hipchat. I remember you could see the underlying browsers context menu if you right clicked in the original Slack app.
Why do people think taxes pay for the USPS?
On a side note, is Microsoft acquiring Tik Tok?
Why do people still use the term white supremacists to imply some nefarious group? The term has lost all value and is now used in mainstream best selling books and media to describe every white person. It literally now has no meaning and whenever anyone uses it I just think they're hunting the boogey man.
That's....my point.
Sorry I meant like go shoot basketball or run with a soccer ball by yourself. Whatever is fun to get out.
99% of our thoughts are shitty but they still control our life
Breaking up physical infrastructure is a lot easier than breaking up something like Google's monorepo, and that's not to mention all of the physical infrastructure Google has all over the world that would have to be divvied up as well.
I mean, help sounds like it would be helpful, but all it's used for is to do Help/About, and IIRC, Apple put About somewhere else. So what is an average person doing in the Help menu?
Mediterranean lifestyle won't be convenient for the corporate world. They rather have slaves poorly fed with quick meals and overworked that won't slack entire summers. I wonder when the occident will come to the realization slavery wasn't abolished; it just got revolutionized.
“People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should afraid of their people”

https://nypost.com/2020/08/07/nypd-backs-down-from-bust-of-c...
I want, as a taxpayer, to be paying the bill for government functions. Taxes are much easier to apply progressively against the citizenry than fees, which are regressive.

Encouraging agencies to self fund is how you get asset seizures; ticket traps like Maricopa, CA; regulatory capture like the agency that oversaw oilrig safety before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and many others. It leads to the worst form of monopolistic rent taking.
this is where NIST or a similar agency could step in.
It just looks ludicrously pretty given the circumstances, however blind adherence to the letter of some rule is almost certainly the explanation here.
Alaska Airlines Launches “Buy One, Get One” Sale for Travel to 100 Destinations
The components part of Fast has moved to Fluent. See https://github.com/microsoft/fast/#fast-components-msft

"This package has been moved to FluentUI and has been renamed to @fluentui/web-components"
there has actually been renewed interest in hall effect switches recently. See here https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keybo... and https://wooting.io/lekker

not quite readily available, but that may change soon
Maybe the opposite?
Well this sounds nefarious. A group buddy buddy with governmental and NGO agencies owning ancestry. What could go wrong...
Id like to think that if younger versions of sergey and larry (and other relevant eng working with them) suddenly time traveled to our times they wouldn't think its impossible to build a good search product that doesn't involved "mammoth code base"
She’s probably holding back for various reasons, despite the sensational title. You have to read between the lines.
Thanks for sharing. Do you have any resources that I can look at regarding partitioning and structuring data? Right now I'm thinking about using RDS running Postgres.
Some introductory coverage of China's international kidnapping campaign, which affects foreign citizens, is available here:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...

"Oh," but you might be tempted say, "that wasn't just for a Google search! And many of those who are citizens elsewhere? Like the Chinese government, I don't believe that citizenship is valid." You will of course understand that the parent poster did not phrase the matter in those specific terms, and that in any event this is not a comfort.

Google may have more of an opportunity, but Beijing has a stronger motive.
Even simpler: Stadia is the remote desktop rebranded. Want to run your own Stadia? Buy a bunch of VMs on some cloud hosting provider: a few for the game server engine and one per user with game client code (those need GPUs); then let users remote desktop into the client VMs. Did I miss anything?
I think it's quite a bit more than bending in a bad direction. Many countries are still under their emergency authoritarian restrictions - to this day, troops are patrolling the streets of Melbourne to make people stay inside.
Yes, yes. CCP China very bad. But US bunch of hypocrites, historically speaking. In my opinion, this is a great opportunity for the world to use the situation as leverage to keep them both accountable, rather than defend one over the other.
awesome! would be great to have a submissiondate/votes/num comments/link to the hn submission in the results!
Funny I came to the exact opposite opinion from that.
It’s worked better for me in teams that work on open source. Such projects tend to be intrinsically asynchronous and conducted via email, chat etc which is what you need to make a distributed team work well.
So Bill Clinton invented n-categories huh
Thanks, that is a convincing article.
They're self declared socialists. And not medicare for all type socialism. They hold just as disgusting an ideology as breitbart.
I read this, but it seems incomplete.
Where Deer Stroll Peacefully Past Computers
The Libretto! I had completely forgotten about my Libretto 100, which I carried with me to class and took notes on, as well as used in the field to debug HW issues, using the small dock and connecting field HW to the serial port. I took that quirky little laptop all over the world with me in my travels. It was thick and sturdy, so I wasn't too concerned about protecting it, as opposed to the ultraportable laptops nowadays, which are so thin and wide that I have to mind what happens to it. There was also a small and friendly community of Libretto owners which would share tips; I recall disassembling the laptop and soldering on more memory, based on some guides from people in the Libretto mailing list.
Show HN: A script to check if Benford's law applies to GitHub stats (it does!)
Do you have any plans to publish those scheme programs?

More generally, "theoretical physics software" seems like an area that many people are interested in

The list at http://www.theophys.kth.se/afsinfo/software/official.html
is tragically bereft of software that relates to Physics (except Mathematica)
I want a map-reduce over their content that turns them into a canonical “master guide” of their topics.
I wrote something similar to this a year ago (though shabby looking by comparison!): -

http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/

I abandoned it when Google deprecated the WebRequest API, but the code's still available on GitLab. https://gitlab.com/ksangeelee/cfs_build

It allows article score and uBlock Origin 'hits' as search criteria.
Publishers are testing their own versions of Prime Day
"NHL playoffs are incredible right now"

No fans. Playing in two bubble cities in Canada.

"NBA is just getting started"

No fans. Playing in one bubble city.

And I was talking about NYC. Zero NBA or NHL games are taking place in NYC.

In an average month in NYC, pre-COVID, there are dozens of enormous sports events. Hundreds of concerts. Tens of thousands of significant parties. If social interaction were on a scale from 0 to 100, and 100 was the before, right now NYC is at a less than 1. So when someone looks at NYCs current infection rate and presumes that means there is some herd immunity or the like, I don't think they're fully taking into account the reality on the ground.
What makes it truly hard (speaking from US location) is having a team in both directions. If you’re an Eastward team, or Westward team, but not attempting both, there is enough overlap that with some flexibility you can have meetings when everyone is awake.
Trump's sycophantic governors with the most deaths:

New York 32,817 Andrew Cuomo (D)
New Jersey 15,924 Phil Murphy (D)
California 10,083 Gavin Newsom (D)

58,824 of 160,976 of the US total

https://covid19info.live/us/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_...

The next few (Texas 8,817, Massachusetts 8,709, Florida 8,051) are Republican, then Democratic governors of Illinois 7,822, Pennsylvania 7,364, and Michigan 6,524 put it over 50% of US deaths so far, and then some more Democrats, then more Republicans.

Plenty of blame to go around.
I read on the internet somewhere about a strategy to fake it until you make it. Basically you would approach a number of startups acting as a VC LP. Talk to early stage start ups and start to put together a round. Bring that round to established VC firms and show them what you would do if you were backed by them. It seems like a good way to burn some bridges in a tight knit community but it might be worth a shot.