skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, again, your particular argument is - we shouldn't try to do anything about covid, because people already die from things?

What a complete nonsense argument.

What is different about covid that means we shouldn't try to treat it? We treat cancer, and genetic diseases, and the flu. We actively try to avoid death for a million other reasons. Why should we just throw our hands up with this one and act like it's not there?
Beyond Dynamic vs. Static Types (2015) [video]
It "sucks" because we're constantly changing stuff and making new stuff. We do this because we want new stuff. There are plenty of industries where things don't change quickly and people complain about everything taking forever.

To use an analogy, you can have things work like NASA's SLS Rocket - expensive, slow, well-thought-out and reliable. Or you can have things work like SpaceX - impressive pace, bleeding edge, occasional explosion. There's no happy medium, so careful what you wish for. I'd rather deal with all the author's problems than deal with a Nokia phone.
Congrats on discovering Wikipedia.

Notice how those two companies were broken up for abusing their positions in different ways? Weird, huh? It's almost like the issue was them abusing their positions, not how they were put together?

I'll save you some additional wikipedia searches:

Microsoft was under significant legal assault for bundling its browser with its operating system. It paid out billions of dollars and was forced to allow computer manufacturers to bundle other browsers.
My own suggestions:

Game Design and Design Criticism:

Design Doc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNOVwMpD-5A1xzcQGbIHNeA

TB Skyen https://www.youtube.com/user/TBSkyen

Game Development

HeartBeast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHQNOyU1q6BFEfkNq2CYMA

Brackeys https://www.youtube.com/user/Brackeys

Sebastian Lague https://www.youtube.com/user/Cercopithecan

GDQuest https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxboW7x0jZqFdvMdCFKTMsQ

Javidx9 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-yuWVUplUJZvieEligKBkA
My experience is that windows 10 spends more time on scanning for viruses and serving ads than useful work. Maybe your experience is different.
"The hypothesis that COVID is man-made is an inevitable result of already existing conspiracy theories about Chinese communist plots and "globalist/NWO" population control programs that go back decades. The only novel aspect of this is the degree to which it's been normalized and adopted as part of mainstream Republican identity politics."

And people are willing to believe conspiracies due to fear. The US elected a president who has a trail of failed businesses and marriages, as well as, a moral system that would make hardened criminals squirm. But, like any good con artist, he projects confidence and makes complex topics simple by ignoring details. Scared people cling to those cults of personality like a life preserver. The fear started long before the 2016 election. The US is changing demographically and with it comes change culturally. Some people fear their place in a society in which they're no longer the majority.
Imagine you are on the highway in self-driving mode and there's a plastic bag flapping around on the road ahead.

Probably best NOT to stop in that scenario.

It's the millions of "edge cases" that humans are pretty decent about making quick decisions on that make self-driving cars really scary to me.
MS is a catch all. Multiple causes can result in demyelination even if the mechanism is the immune system. You have MS if you have demyelination products detectable in your spinal fluid and have lesions on the spinal cord. Whether it's a genetic, environmental, or some other underlying condition clearly varies, for instance the version that I have is almost certainly genetic because of family history but plenty of other people get it with no family history.

But I think people are pretty sure that certain B cells are the easiest to interrupt culprit, my current medication literally just kills a specific B cell and that treatment last six months. Take from that what you will.
Slides for this talk available at http://www.jnthn.net/papers/2015-fosdem-static-dynamic.pdf
Stupid article.. complete with the stereotypical "programmer" depicted in a hoody..
This specifically hurts foreign PhD students, because it routinely takes longer than four years to graduate from a PhD program. Considering some graduate students are overwhelmingly foreign (81% for Electrical Engineering, 69% for statistics, even Agricultural Engineering is majority foreign), what will this do for science and engineering? Will these students study someplace else, will they continue to study in the US regardless of this change, or will they simply be less educated.

If they study someplace else then the US loses some competitive advantage of attracting highly educated and motivated individuals into the country where they often stay.

If they simply don’t become as educated then the entire world suffers as the envelop of science and engineering isn’t pushed by as many minds. Having more PhD electrical engineers in the world is a critical piece to having more and better electronics in the world.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/11/foreign...
Ring Always Home Cam an Innovative New Approach to Always Being Home
Not sure about the quality of these findings - especially the uniqueness to covid19.

My Dad contracted SARS (Swine Flu) 2 years ago and was knocked out for 2-3 weeks and needed at least 2 month until full recovery.

Also, I contracted common colds 4-5 times over the last years every year due to my 3 year old going to the daycare. I got a chronic sinusitis out of that. Am I long-hauler now?
Paracetamol has the nasty feature that the therapeutic dose is quite close to the lethal dose; water does not.
AWS Extend Switch Roles
Extend your AWS IAM switching roles by Chrome extension or Firefox add-on
tl;dr the "robot" is a mannequin, and "vaporized" is merely being struck.
> I feel he removed some of his legal protection by being so actively involved in hunting for government secrets.

> I don't believe that, because I think the actual case against him has merit.

> He broke his own operational "security" code of staying above the fray by being such an active participant in the acquisition of state secrets. The manning case in particular is an area where I believe he crossed the line and was actively assisting and encouraging Manning.

Enough with the hand waving. This is a technical forum where you're writing for people who are familiar with things like NTLM and hashing. Let's talk facts. Assange is being charged due to the following instant message conversation.

> Manning: any good at lm hash cracking?

> Assange: yes

> Assange: <continuing conversation, goes off on a short tangent about wikileaks funding>

> Assange: we have rainbow tables for lm.

> Manning: 80c11049faebf441d524fb3c4cd5351c

> Manning: I think it's lm + lmnt

> Manning: anyway...

> Manning: need sleep :yawn:

> Manning: not even sure if that's the hash... I had to hexdump a SAM file, since I don't have the system file...

> Assange: what makes you think it's lm?

> Assange: its from a SAM?

> Manning: yeah

> Assange: passed it onto our lm guy

> Manning: thx

Then, 2 days later after a long discussion about wikileaks and intelligence agencies and other leaks.

> Assange: any more hints about this lm hash?

> Assange: no luck so far

And that's the end of it. Whole conversation here: https://emma.best/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2010-03-05-to-2...

Is this a CFAA violation? No hashes were cracked. No additional access was had. He maybe put in a half-hearted attempt to crack a hash. To me, this is not being "actively involved" in "hunting for government secrets."

edit: I think it speaks volumes that this is the best thing they can find to stick him with.
Thanks! Never realised there could be a per-program setting to fiddle with!
Hand washing won't help, we've always known this.

It will do something, in a very complicated way, but compared to things that really matter that we haven't been able to push like mask wearing(you disagree) and social distancing and being outside, hand washing has been a huge distraction, which is the same as saying it's helped increase the spread.
Learning from videos never really worked for me. Plus on top of that, youtube probably has more distractions than a platform dedicated to educational videos.

In my case, I just pick up a book and start coding along with it.
Even if it doesn't move its arms like a prototypical walking human, shouldn't the car still stop, rather than ram into an unidentified large obstacle / skateboarder / pedestrian carrying something?

If it's driving in a parking lot rather than a busy city street, shouldn't that have meant it can also safely swerve away from the obstacle in almost any direction?
For those interesting in game programming, One Lone Coder is a great channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/javidx9/
This article is flawed in numerous ways.

"missing the compounding effect"
- What about the compounding effect of numerous people putting a plague vector directly on their respiratory system?

"Mistaking Absence of Evidence for Evidence of Absence"
- The argument isn't that because there's no evidence it's guaranteed to not work. The argument is that without solid evidence constitutional rights should not be infringed.

And on and on.
> and all hormones need prescriptions.

I don't think that's quite right; vitamin D is non-prescription in the UK AFAIK.
It is not abusing, it is trading. The world is not zero-sum.
> Why do you jump straight to social media?

Social media is literally the catalyst for the loss of institutional trust. Maybe in the long run this is a good thing, and we will rebuild our institutions in a way that we can trust them in a hyper-shared hyper-aware world, but currently i just see no way that it can possibly work out.

> Maybe if we had leaders that were less hubristic and lead with uncertainty on scientific matters and are careful to get buy in on nonscientific (i.e. ethical or self-serving) grounds this would happen less.

In all honesty, I don't believe this is possible. It's the same problem as how people end up cancelled on twitter for the smallest reasons: humans are flawed, and in our hyper-shared hyper-aware world a single human flaw (or a single systemic flaw in our instutitions) becomes a gigantic crack that makes everyone outraged.

While outrage culture exists I don't think it is possible to have high-trust institutions that are run by human. Period.

And I don't know if it's possible to get rid of outrage culture, any suggestions are welcome.

(NOTE: just to be clear, I'm not saying our institutions are in the right. they are frequently wrong. But any wrongness you find, as in your example the way we communicate science as a closed book done deal, is one single flaw in a massive sprawling institution. I'm saying that statistically any large institution WILL have flaws, no matter what, thus in our new world we CANNOT have trust in these institutions the way things are now because any flaws will get blown up into a full model of distrust by social media. That's simply the new world we live in.)
If someone can successfully build this jalopy, it would be nice to get a version compiled with optimizations for modern processors (>= core2). Maybe run the address/memory sanitizer over it.
Yeah, it's weird how they stated that. It sounds like it's for the lifetime of the device, which means a device could theoretically use up it's allotment in under two hours...
You are going to get downvoted into oblivion once the American contingent of HN wakes up, but before that happens I wanted to say thank you very much for making this statement:

EU countries, especially Germany, France (I have less hope for Eastern-EU or Sweden) need to stop extraditions to US of A stat. Also these US terrorists dressed up as politicians need to be sanctioned (I understand this is a pipe dream) and prosecuted at the ICC (another pipe dream).

It is true. The US needs to start being sanctioned for its war crimes, its crimes against humanity, and its anti-democratic behaviour. The failure of the American people to reign in their heinous war machine needs to be brought back to them. It is feet-to-the-fire time.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me tw... can't get fooled again.
It seems we had it right around 2006-2010 or so, then decided it's too boring and perfection doesn't bring in money anyway.
> Adults with severe illness who spend weeks in intensive care, often intubated, can experience long-lasting symptoms, but that’s not unique to patients with COVID-19. What’s unusual about the long haulers is that many initially had mild to moderate symptoms that didn’t require lengthy hospitalization—if any—let alone intensive care.

“Most of the patients that I see who are suffering from [post–COVID-19] syndrome were not hospitalized,” Jessica Dine, MD, a pulmonary specialist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said in an interview. “They were pretty sick, but still at home.”
I try to train my systems to behave just the way I like them. It's no different than coding: you are bending tech to your will. I don't see the difference in configuring a brand new Virtual Machine and that of coding a new piece of software. For me, the definition of non-sucky technology is the ability to configure, tinker, and otherwise mess with systems to make them do your bidding.

This is why I love computers, because no two computers are in the same state, and I always laugh using other people's computers because you can be sure they have configured it in a weird idiosyncratic way, entirely different than one's own configuration.
A big part of the problem is how new everything is. We keep improving it and rebuilding it. You can many of his examples would have all their bugs removed if we heavily constrained the features added and didn't migrate to new platform. Of course real people also want new features! We can probably expect increased quality when the rate of change decreases and we either see more stability and incremental growth or stagnation. But if new technology is be invented (not just new applications or iterations) we are going keep seeing issues. I'd rather just ride the tech-accelerate curve myself, but does come at a cost.
For me, part of the "suck" is the sprawl of so many different technologies and specialization areas. Back in the 70's, there weren't so many technology choices, and there weren't so many different job titles and roles.

So, typically, a tech team had a pretty clear path on what technology to use. And, you could get 3 or 4 "tech lead" type people in a room, even for a huge application, and between them, they knew the system from top to bottom. And they all understood who was responsible for what.

I understand we can't go back to that. But it's hard to deliver quality with today's sprawl.
The whole enterprise of writing software, from top to bottom, (historical) beginning to present day, has been based on the fallacious, machismo idea of perfect execution by the programmer of writing correct forms. This is actually impossible thus our software is terrible.
Currently, student visas are good for “duration of status,” meaning students can stay in the U.S. indefinitely if they remain enrolled in school and otherwise abide by the rules relevant to their immigration status.

This is an asinine proposal. Visa != status. An (non-)immigrant can stay in the US as long as their status is valid, even with an expired visa. They only need a valid visa to come back on departing the US.

Rather than affecting frauds and overstays this will disproportionately affect the honest students who travel to their home country during vacations because they will now have to keep applying for a new visa more frequently.
You could share revolutionary texts like the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Das Kapital at least.
And all this happened while those substances were highly illegal, and any possession/manufacture was relatively severely punishable. Yet they got so much of it for such a long time that they damaged their health.

Drugs are like prostitution - they will exist and people will want them no matter what. The idea that you can ban it from existence is laughable and sad at the same time, something about unability to grasp reality of who we humans are.

There are no easy solutions to complex problems like that. What might work better is give addicts controlled safe environment, and a lot of counseling help with getting back on their feet. Not everybody will make it, that part is hard to accept but that's how life is.
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback.

> It feels a bit clunky to attach a csv, and what if I want to send attachments?

This is a fair point and it's probably the source of the most friction with this solution. In the future there will probably be a way to maintain a subscriber list outside of the inbox so this step won't necessarily be a strict requirement.

Re. attaching other files. You can still include other attachments and they'll continue to be sent with your email. We only strip out the attachment with the recipient list.

> Who is this aimed at?
> Maybe this is for small non-techie business owners?

That's exactly it. The small business owner who doesn't have the time, technical know or enthusiasm to learn a full baked marketing suite like mailchimp.
Nowadays most software doesn’t let you tinker with it. Want to tinker with your chat client? Too bad, everything (that any of your friends actually use) is closed source and proprietary now. Frustrated with social media? Unless you can convince all your friends to switch to mastodon, you’re stuck with whatever Facebook/Instagram forces upon you. Excited about the future of virtual reality? Hope you don’t mind playing by Facebook/Oculus‘s rules. Want to fix an annoying issue with how your email client categorizes email? Well there’s no way to integrate with that system, google barely supports standards like pop and imap anymore, and outlook is transitioning away from a powerful plug-in system to a silly new web-based model.

A very specific example:
Something that’s been frustrating me for years is Google photos on iOS does not synchronize whether I have starred/favorited a photo on iOS‘s photos to google photos. I tried fixing this myself with a helper program, but the Google photos API does not let you set whether a photo is marked as a favorite, and you cannot manually add photos to the favorites album via API. I’ve tried several hacky workarounds but I simply cannot build the simple UX fix that seems obvious to me, nor can I get anyone from Google to acknowledge my many suggestions to them to implement this obvious feature. I looked into trying to use Plex or Microsoft onedrive as an alternate photo backup system, but they are much worse than Google Photos in terms of reliability and UX. I’ve looking into open source solutions to replace this whole workflow, but the amount of time and effort and money and compromises required for a system like that simply isn’t worth it. So I put up with the annoyance, since there’s effectively nothing I can do about it.

I used to love programming because it made me omnipotent, I could change things as I wanted and tie together systems exactly the way I liked. But now I keep hitting brick walls, most of which are imposed because of business models and not for purely technology reasons. The frustration adds up, to the point where I no longer enjoy bothering to try at all. Now I am only involved in technology to the extent that I make money from it, and I’m in the process of transitioning my career away from tech altogether. So much potential squandered.
Gmail Replies on iOS are adding extra spaces
Oh damn it's the same guy who made Kitty? That is one fine piece of software
DST schedules change several times each year, often with little prior notice. They changed in North America in 2007, which caused a lot of pain for software that thinks DST is predictable, such as Microsoft Exchange.
> Am I long-hauler now?

no, because this article is about covid-19, not the rhinovirus. you are offering debate in bad faith.
Simplified and traditional characters are in perfect correspondence right? Could maybe translate on the fly?
There's a project working on exactly that, improved trackpad designs. Support varies between trackpads, but from what I've seen there's a lot of progress in this area.

As far as I know, shortcuts are already pretty much global. Keyboard navigation, copy/paste, open/close/save, it all pretty much follows the same Windows standards. It takes time to learn to use all the shortcuts though, and a lot of them aren't intuitive. I've had the same experience when I tried macOS, none of the shortcuts made sense and behaviour was often non-intuitive coming from a non-Apple platform.

If you're happy with macOS you should totally stick with macOS, but luckily there's people working hard on solving the most glaring issues with modern UIs. Once trackpad support improves, a lot of people might feel a lot better at home than they do right now.
I guess I've just given up on having a sole first party maintaining a sane system. It makes more sense to me to have something like Linux/BSD vs a first party system that falls apart worse while still being closed, despite being a consistent maintainer.

Which I guess brings me back around to where you started.
In the US, the law is heavily tilted towards inaction, by design. To pass legislation you need 50%+1 of the House and 60% of the Senate and the Presidency, and after being passed it can still be challenged judicially. Any one of those can block legislation. It's actually quite rare for a party to "hold power" -- and even when it does, it would take a unanimous desire with in the party to wield it.

A notion can have very widespread support and still not pass, or get much serious work done. (It's common for the party in power to bottle something up in a committee without giving it a full hearing.) So lack of action isn't evidence one way or the other. It just means it's nearly impossible to do anything via legislation.
Burr grinders are a big help as far as making the coffee taste better. The other large change I made as far as "leveling up" my morning coffee was using the 15:1 water ratio, which is alot more coffee bean per ounce of water than the normal back-of-the-box "Use 1 tbsp of coffee per 6oz of water". Actually measuring your coffee and your water precisely yields a big difference. Buy a small scale for measuring the bean weight, and either use a precise measuring cup for water volume, or just weigh the water as well.

I make my morning coffee for my girlfriend and myself via French Press, and so I also tweaked the measurements a few time to account for the fact that 8oz of water + ground beans will not actually yield 8oz of coffee, due to the loss of liquid that is retained by the ground beans even after pressing.

If anyone wants to use my ratios, I've listed them below:

15:1 water to coffee ratio

1g == 1 ml

12 oz coffee:

340 ml water: 22.66~g beans

17 oz coffee:

482 ml water: 32g beans

20 oz coffee:

591.471 ml water: 39.43g beans

25oz coffee:

740 ml water: 49g beans

Again, my own tests suggest you lose about 2oz of water to absorption, so my 12oz measure above is when I want to make a single cup for myself (yields about 10oz of drinkable coffee), and I use the 20oz marker above in the morning when I'm making a French Press for myself and my girlfriend.

Strictly my own preferences. Others might have different ratios, particularly since this is geared at French Press where there may be more water loss than a pourover.
For your information, I was asking to expand my own knowledge on the subject. Top level commenter was adamant that masks were effective, so this being HN, where people typically know what they're talking about, I assumed they had a good reason to think that way. I have researched this a great deal myself, and have not found anything except flawed or inconclusive studies, like the majority of links submitted in this thread. Have a great day.