skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwan is especially important because they are one of the few countries keeping traditional written Chinese alive!
This is amazing, no splash damage.
> I fully realize the manner in which I speak is frustrating, and it frustrates me that people find it frustrating (and also that it will get you throttled on HN so you have to wait when replying to posts).

It wasn't so much the manner in which you're speaking, it's the conclusion being drawn.

> Agreed. But was it unknown at the time that the stage was set for a serious global pandemic?

It was, absolutely. But historically, we had managed these scenarios well ; we had a perfect storm of incompetence in the administration that set us up for failure.

It's not unreasonable to think that career civil servants would think that we would be able to leverage similar tools to those we used in the past, and it was only after it really broke in the states that we realized that this was qualitatively different than what we had previously seen.

> It is reasonable to speculate that this is one possible outcome, but I do not believe it is reasonable to speculate that this is the only possible outcome

That's correct. It was one of the possible outcomes, and based on their analysis, they deemed it to be the most likely. Considering this is a once-in-a-hundred years pandemic, it's not unreasonable they made this decision.

> I read this is: "and therefore it logically follows that", and therefore disagree.

That's correct. What I was attempting to say was "Given they believed the decision was correct, if the decision was correct, it logically follows ... "

> I do not object to this strategy in general, but I do object to the unwillingness to consider the value in coming clean about it after the fact

He said in his followup that was posted above that he didn't want the N95s to be hoarded, and this was why he gave the advice not to go out and buy masks. What it appears to me is that there is a conflation in his mind between "masks" and surgical masks/N95s.

In the 60 minutes interview, he said that he didn't have a problem with people wearing masks, but that wearing them would do more harm than good because they were uncomfortable and people fidget with them ; based on his response to the BusinessInsider reporter, I believe what he meant to say was, essentially:

"N95 masks are uncomfortable and made for use by professionals. They will grant you some protection, but because they are uncomfortable, you will likely use them in the non-prescribed way, and therefore expose yourself to risk while thinking you are safe. Please don't go out and buy them because they need to be used by doctors that need them.

"If you want to wear a mask like they do in China or Japan, that's fine, but at this point, it's likely not going to do much more than stop a cough or a sneeze and they're not needed."

I think that's what he was trying to communicate. I don't think it's wrong, but he had a failure in the language he was using, and that miscommunication is making people think he is a liar.
It's not an exaggeration to say that billions of dollars and untold man-hours from some of the smartest programmers alive have been spent on trying to make Python faster.

If it was as easy as in Lisp or Smalltalk, don't you think people would have succeeded by now?

Another example worth considering: Javascript is yet another langauge that is arguably more dynamic than Python, yet is rather easy to JIT. What's going on there?

It comes down to the fact that it's not really about the amount of dynamism in a language, but the kinds of dynamism that is really relevant for implementing a JIT compiler.
Even if they hadn’t we still would have declared war on them. It only moved up the timetable slightly.
It's about the community, not the land.

I expect you could relocate PG and Jessica and have similar results.

The trick is that you'd need to also transplant a huge social circle and startup-friendly infrastructure.

Including unintuitive things like a large collection of small café and independent restaurant owners.

Paul touched on this a bit in his writings on making cities into startup hubs:

http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
Why do you take issue with the excerpt then? It agrees with your follow-up point. People have bills to pay. It's a day-to-day struggle. They can't afford to throw away their job, so they have to compromise their principles and morals in order not to lose it.

I essentially just meshed up both your comments and it still holds.
California is now at parity

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-no-l...
I know a teacher (high school) in the Chicago Public School system.

Not only are teachers completely left to fend for themselves in a remote, Zoom-powered classroom setting now, the students themselves are completely disengaged and some of them making the situation even worse.

Students are giving out the Zoom links/passwords to people not even in the classes (or in cases, not even the school itself) and people are Zoom-bombing the classes with, what has been described as, "horrific" content (hardcore porn, violence, gore, etc).

From what I can gather, it's completely lawless and I have insane sympathy for any teacher trying to maintain order in a remote-classroom based world.
Great to see HN keeping this level of aloofness in check
I think this is the correct take on the top level comment. It is more dismissive than needed but is trying to get the point across that the data cannot speak for itself and is amplified by the voices of the patients seeking answers. Modern medicine may have clues but no single answer or test to confirm. We won't have anything definitive and applicable to the general population without proper research and an adequate sample size.
Well, hard work leads to skill, and perseverance (and optimism) leads to luck.
I've literally seen people commenting that they don't use firefox because chrome seems faster. (...and also, how on earth did you get it to use that much memory? I'm sitting over 500 tabs, albeit mostly unloaded, and 6 extensions, on a system with only 6GB installed)
"I wish there was a way of selling tasks to my brain. Something that could turn items from “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS!!” to “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to do this?” "

Keep an eye out for future updates! I know what you mean.

I actually had to-doist and it was one of the things that inspired me to want to make this app. I hate pushing to-dos back over and over again.

If I know I'm going to push something back a bunch, I'd rather just mark it "This Year."
Facebook AI Wav2Vec 2.0: Automatic Speech Recognition from 10 Minute Sample
And it is laying bare the wildly divergent visions of what the appropriate role of government is in society. On one extreme you have intense advocacy for elimination of government programs, taxes, etc. On the other extreme you have advocates for major expansion of existing programs and creation of new ones. I do find it interesting that many of the biggest issues facing us have already had decades of government involvement, ostensibly to solve the issues of long ago. Yet now we find ourselves in much worse shape. Things like education, housing, and medicine are already heavily regulated and interwoven with the government at all levels.
The Enduring Influence of TextMate
Hasn't the pro-Apple argument centered around everyone pays the same amount and people knew what the rules are so stop complaining and pay?

The anti-Apple argument has been that the policy hurts smaller developers and is being applied unfairly.

This at least validates the latter argument while suggesting truth to the former.

Regardless, it's an interesting development.
While I agree completely with the concept that alarms are almost worthless, I believe its automated when a sensor/camera alerts it flies to that area.

For the record, I would never allow this in my house. A dog is a much better deterrent than any alarm.
> Why would I be proud of a country where people beg on Facebook for donations when their family gets cancer

So asking for charity is bad, but forcing the government to use it's monopoly of force to take money from others for you is good?
Check out Wahls Protocol.
Technology usually only sucks where there is no immediate consequence of this. For example I am currently working with some tools related to robot control and machine safety. Crashes are expensive and errors in safety can get you sued. That part of the software works perfectly. Similarly, your engine control unit, airplane avionics etc. all work well because if they did not, the producer would be punished monetarily.

User interface stuff is crappy because it does not matter in the sense that you can immediately break expensive things. Unless people raise a stink to the point where the producers are scared for theri bottom line, this will not change.
It’s not like the machines to make the base materials for PPE are magical items brought down from olympus to be used but never recreated. Literally everything I’ve said applies to those machines too. We could use the DPA to create more of those machines, but we’ve decided not to. The issue isn’t that any step of the chain is insurmountable, the issue is that we’ve decided as a country to just ... not bother.
At the scale of the US, those numbers can be highly misleading. Public schools in high-income areas are likely either receiving less from the government or it simply makes up a tiny percentage of their budget.

I suspect that the percentage is a bit higher when you look at low-income areas (either within states or even at the state level).
Remember this idea whenever you see people online talking about other open source projects.

9/10 people are doing exactly this: parroting what they heard with no research done.

Especially on hacker news, remember this idea so the next time you enter a thread, you won't be the one parroting things you heard from other people.

Calibre itself is awesome. I've been using it for over 10 years and it's a testament to its software excellence (which reflects on its owner/creator) that it's still an excellent and useful piece of software.
Talking about to provide a platform for conversation of a phenomenon to understand it or talking about it to push the conclusions because they think they are valid? Genuine question as I haven't followed that podcast.
I mean, who actually does need an array of security cameras? Traditional alarms work well without the need for cameras, specially when cameras are simply defeated by a face covering. At that point, the camera is just a glorified motion sensor.

In the case of the drone, it's just a geeky toy that will be inevitably marketed via fear-mongering, so they can collect even more data on you.
You haven't answered my two questions. They are simple yes and no questions.

Yes, legitimacy comes from people, but any dictatorship or authoritarian government does require some amount of support from its people otherwise it will not last long (the number can be significantly smaller than 50%, but usually quite substantial). There are a lot of people in Syria who sincerely support the government (you can call them brainwashed by propaganda, but it does not change the fact) and any state has a sufficient amount of people who are unhappy about its government and would like to change it as soon as possible.

Is the current US government a legitimate one? Can Russia start covert support of the BLM protests by supplying means to confront police forces and embedding intelligence officers into the movement to help with coordination, while being justified in your eyes? What gives the US right to decide that Syrian government is not a legitimate one, thus creating a justification for such crude interventions, which only destabilize situation further?

The point is: one internationally recognized government can do deals with another internationally recognized government (with some restrictions, such as non-proliferation agreements, UN sanctions and others) and such deals are not equivalent to military support of foreign non-state actors and active attempts to overthrow "oppressive" governments (list of which by a very strange coincidence does not include Saudis and similar countries).
I love REPLs! Both in Ruby and Elixir.

And I have to say that the Elixir one is pretty slick. If you happen to try Elixir or you are curious what its REPL can do, I wrote "8 + 1 things to get you started with the Elixir's interactive shell"[0].

[0] https://nts.strzibny.name/elixir-interactive-shell-iex/
USA donates a lot since it is tax exempt compared to paying money. Donating to your local church to keep it running so you can keep attending it isn't really a charitable donation for example.
What does "occasional" look like? There are millions who can't find work due to the pandemic. How often should they ask for help?

More importantly, why aren't we collectively falling all over ourselves to help those people?
The two phenomena probably coevolve.
I'd love to learn more and see about incorporating this concept. Contact me on the site if you'd like to contribute suggestions.
Except that there is a big difference: If a rich person loses his job and 50% of his savings, he will still go on to be rich and well off for probably indefinitely as long as the stock market works. They will also have an easy time finding a new job.
If a poor person loses his job, that's now a homeless person. And the chances of getting a job after that are slim.

Bottom line: Yeah we are totally all in it together, except that for people who are well off, COVID is nothing but a minor bump on the road to early retirement, while for poor people its a life disrupting, potentially fatal calamity.
I’d be perfectly happy to buy tons of gadgetry like ring and nest products just so long as it doesn’t need some kind of cloud service, and it doesn’t need any kind of subscription.

The drone looks really well designed and practical (compared to buying dozens of separate cameras you can have just a couple, and a drone).

Yet most things that come to market are exactly this. Cloud services, subsctiptions and integration with these “smart speakers” (I’m not getting one of those either, so long as they are connected to whoever sold it rather than just to the weather web service).

I wish someone who didn’t have an interest in knowing everything about everyone but could actually make money from hardware would do this.

Is there really no market for that?
>BS. If that was the case, then YC would be a non-profit and they would accept everyone.

I could see the argument for the first (non-profit) but not the second (accept everyone). Filtering down to a set of folks that they think they'd be able to most effectively help would make a lot of sense regardless of reason for doing.
Fastest way to log all JavaScript events to the console for debugging
Couldn't this be done over BLE?
Wow that's a great idea if they can do it well
My idea was that the US is fulfilling the ally obligations towards these governments. ISIS itself is not a recognized sovereign, so it cannot be declared a war to, thus no congressional approval.
If both are looting, then how is someone being "played" on social issues?

I'd rather at least have my freedoms while being looted than not.
The embedded video [0] in this post is the star of the show for me.

I watched it for the first time a few months ago, and its what really got the idea of REPL driven development to "click" in my head.

Being able to interactively build functionality from the ground up was an eye-opener.

[0] - https://vimeo.com/230220635
Thanks!

Already tracking the label issue here https://github.com/Etwas-Builders/modfy.video/issues/88 will resolve that tonight

I think that's another great thing for me with this product, is that it almost costs nothing to run it (Thanks netlify)
and the ability to open and close doors...
I don't understand why people have so many issues with charity... you want the government to forcibly take money from the rich and give it to the poor- but when they do that organically- it's somehow worse?
A more cynical me would say Facebook just set Apple up with this, but the realist acknowledges it's just about money and control.

Either way, it would seem to help Epic's case.
I dunno man, it sounds like you're arguing in favor of SOCIALISM!! /s
The UK isn't in the EU
Have you checked out Karabiner[0]? I've read[1] about how you can do some pretty neat things with it.

0: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

1: https://blog.jkl.gg/hacking-your-keyboard/
I don't know whether you're being sarcastic, but if that's your genuine attitude towards your own vocation I wish you all the success you feel you deserve.
Just put a gun on it and it will kick ass!
I’m sure you’re right. I’m probably projecting issues I see in my own organization since we switched to agile. Or attempted to. Or are continuously trying to attempt to.
The 2008 recession crashed the stock market and the housing market.

The poor don't have stocks or houses, largely renting their space. As such, the 2008 recession felt like "everyone was in it together", because both the rich and poor were affected.

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This 2020... recession? (or whatever we're in) is seeing a high-flying stock market and housing market for the most part.

The PS5 / XBSX / 3080 launches were completely sold out. Amazon is flying high, etc. etc. Tech is getting a huge boost at the moment (for good reason: home-offices need to be built for WFH, video games are a good opportunity to play with friends while socially distancing, etc. etc.)

This sort of thing makes it look like the rich (or really, the tech world) is doing great. Selling out $500 consoles and $799 or $1500 GPUs in seconds: clearly the people at the top have money to play with
Don't pretty much all drones need internet access in order to confirm it is not flying in a restricted area? Unless you baked in the maps beforehand, I suppose. My brother bought a drone to inspect my parents' roof for damage, but then he couldn't even fly it until it updated the maps and after that there was baked in DRM saying the current GPS coordinates were restricted (likely because of nearby military base) and the drone refused to take off.

Seems like the golden age of drones for hobbyist pilots was before all the regulation kicked in, but in this case perhaps Ring could get an exception to restricted areas since they are indoor drones.
Mob thinking and hopping on the bandwagon are just fallacies to dismiss how Apple operates as a business.

If you poison the well, and it's just by one actor, do you not think that's enough action to warrant a response?
There's not a good word for this shape: -<

So "they" seem to have settled on "K" for it.
> Why bother stripping them? Any decent reader should have settings to either override individual styles or ignore the stylesheet (FBReader has both, iirc it should be available for ios as well as Android)

Fonts are usually the biggest culprit in making epub sizes huge which on typical e-ink devices seems to affect load and page turn times.

> Because that's how books have _always_ worked.

Not really a reason to perpetuate it now we have digital media.

> My problem is more the huge number of images used in section breaks (and worse, occasionally used in chapter titles). Instead of using an image for a flourish or a section break, _please_ either find a character in your currently used font, or add a subset symbol font; using black images on a white background grabs my attention every time I change pages in dark mode, and even in light mode I can clearly see the difference in background color. Then there's the fact that a good number of them are low resolution, which, depending on reader and styling, causes them to be either pixelated, blurry, or too small to be useful in light mode.

In my experience stripping the CSS (and the fonts and images that are no longer referenced) fixes all of this.
The blinking is a nice touch.
> Higher taxes and government provided safety nets are less biased than charities.

They also incentivize problematic behavior. When there's no chance in hell that you won't get the money, you have little incentive to change your ways to become a productive member of society. Moral hazards are a thing.
This article notwithstanding, I don't think the right mental framework to approach TLA+ is to think of it as a way to verify your code. I view TLA+ as a formal design language. It is there to verify and explore the consequences of architectural and design decisions. It is also there to present a formal design document that engineers can refer to as a common artifact when discussing various design decisions.

Now architecture and design is a very vague domain. It could be anything from specific algorithms all the way up to entire distributed systems (and indeed TLA+ can be used for any of those), but the point is that it is a separate entity from code.

I also think in the current formal methods environment this is where TLA+ can make the most impact. It is a far less risky business proposition to use TLA+ to record design decisions where the maturity of its toolchain has minimal impact on your actual codebase vs using a formal methods toolchain that directly affects the code you write, where the maturity of that toolchain is an extremely important business decision.
SciTE (also based on scintilla) has worked for me as a good, light-weight Notepad replacement.
> there was baked in DRM saying the current GPS coordinates were restricted

seems like you've answered your own question there
US+Fintech+Platform+Remitly+Secures+$38M,+Expands+into+Latin+America
I left 8 years ago! I loved it there, but left to start ReadMe.com.

But I still love the people there (and created https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135032 recently)
Thanks for the feedback! Really like the idea of This Weekend.

Btw are you suggesting different colors or just fewer colors overall?
At least in my state, the department of education reports spending more per pupil (25-50% more) in schools with more than a 50% black population than in majority white schools. I would suspect many or most states are similar.
If YC were a non-profit, they definitely wouldn't have been able to raise money from LP's to scale the program, and would therefore been able to accept far fewer teams than they do now, certainly not everyone!

I agree that there's nothing wrong with wanting to make money AND help people, but I also want to add that strictly maximizing the positive impact does not mean strictly minimizing making money either, sometimes making money enables you to help a lot more people too...
How is this relevant to the discussion here?

Is this action targeting students from those countries?

Is anyone claiming that the UK, Australia or NZ are abusing US student visas?
Sorry about the confusing branding haha. We heard a lot of software developers express interest in a tool that provided easy access to all their frequently used symbols, but didn’t want the messiness of a cursor-controlled freehand. Curious, do you enjoy freehanding as opposed to structured symbols?
That’s exactly what I want. Just like “wouldn’t a doorbell with a video feed connected to your own computer fulfill those purposes?” for a ring doorbell. Yes!

But I want a product, not tinkering. The appeal of this isn’t just what it does but that it does it right after I unpack it. I want it to fly by itself using some wizardry that a person at a huge company cooked up. I just don’t want it to phone home to do it.

That’s what I want in the “standalone” one too. Mass market product appeal. No tinkering.
> Hasn't the pro-Apple argument centered around everyone pays the same amount and people knew what the rules are so stop complaining and pay?

To me it's looked more like the argument is: it's Apple's store, so Apple gets to make the rules. And that they don't have anything close to a monopoly in mobile hardware or mobile OSes, which is one argument for not allowing them to make their own rules.
Neither party is perfect, but there's no contest if we're going to add up the cumulative negative effects of each party on public institutions (especially those that are most useful to lower income citizens).