skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article tries to argue that China created needless alarm over coronavirus. That's an interesting reversal of the previous line of attack against China over the coronavirus.

What actually happened was much simpler. China was caught just as much by surprise as everyone else was by this novel virus. The government dallied for about two weeks, while the local government tried to carry on business as usual (just as has happened in many places around the world). But around 20 January, there was enough alarm raised by Chinese virologists (notably Zhong Nanshan) that the central government began taking serious action, including very strict lockdowns in much of the country (the strictest being in Hubei province, of course). Those lockdowns worked to bring the epidemic back under control, but not before several thousand people died in Wuhan. Most other countries have not been able to emulate this response, and have back and forth between locking down (often not fully enough) and opening up (often too early). But there are people, such as the author of this article, who want to lay the blame for other countries' failures at China's feet.
A friend of mine has severe allergies to many different airborne materials, to the point where he was having to get shots every few weeks to control them. What finally allowed him to get control over the allergies and not have to get shots anymore was one of these nasal sprays.
Python indeed doesn't check them. Really they're just syntactic sugar for what you'd otherwise put in documentation.
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I don't see the problem with GP's suggestion. Couldn't you still run your 15-20 year old games if Windows 10 shipped with a Windows XP VM that integrated seamlessly with the Desktop?
> To be clear, when I say "closer to a sub-atomic particle's consciousness", I mean "not conscious at all".

How could that be what you meant? You laid out 2 options, and your corrected option 2 is the same as your option 1.
Of course, "run-flat" tires are increasingly common these days and the crap jacks that are almost always the from-the-factory standard can make it near impossible to change a tire in non-ideal situations.

And you should also know how to jump-start a vehicle which is almost certainly something you'll need to do sooner or later. Also add washer fluid.

But yeah, the engine compartment isn't some mysterious magical box to me but the vast majority of things I get done for me.

(My parents also never did any car work and I didn't own a car until I had a professional job.)
> I’d wager that those who shower often get laid less.
A really interesting wager. I'd take you up on it if I could.

There has been a big trend over the last 10-20 years to add stronger artificial scents to cleaning products. People couldn't tell much difference between how well a product cleaned so manufacturers found that smell also played a vital role in our perception of cleanliness.

Since shower gels and soaps clearly overpower natural pheromones, in a side by side mate picking, I'd wager the one wearing the most fragrant scent would get laid more.
It's very hard to take toxic amounts of vitamin D:

> "Taking 60,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxicity. This level is many times higher than the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for most adults of 600 IU of vitamin D a day.

(https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...)

Not saying it's impossible, but that's the equivalent of buying the top result on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Vitamin-Strength-Softgels...) and taking 12 polls a day for several months. It's not actually impossible to get to toxic levels... but that's a serious commitment.
Isn’t Pinchai the same executive that’s overlooked Google’s “We’ll throw everything at the wall and then immediately cancel it” period?

If so, I’m not exactly enamored with his leadership as is, I don’t know why I should care about his take on remote vs. colocation.
> I think you're conflating "statically typed languages" with "object oriented languages"

No, I'm not.

I'm simply pointing out that most statically typed languages, the most used ones especially, don't particularly benefit from static typing.

> Static typing with functional programming languages works really well because

IMO it is because they are mostly used by more experienced programmers, that can already layout the types in their head.

Try to teach the average Java programmer (I'm not saying I'm a better programmer, Iḿ just intending it as "they are trying to get through the day with the tool they already know") how to effectively use types "like in Haskell" and they will be confused at best.

> OCaml, or Haskell, or F#

I do look at them but together they make probably less than 5% of Java programmers, even less if we measure lines of code

EDIT:

My position is based on the time spent reading studies about the subject.

Let's not be emotional and downvote what we don't like to hear and be more rational and look at the facts.

If you like statically typed language because they make you feel safer, use them.

Is it an universal property of statically typed languages? Id it a measurable phenomenon?

Are statically typed languages inherently safer for everybody?

The problem, at the time of writing, is undecidable.

here's a review on the literature on the matter

https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/

> Other than cherry picking studies to confirm a long-held position, the most common response I've heard to these sorts of studies is that the effect isn't quantifiable by a controlled experiment
ECC patents killed ECC, before quantum computers do it.
> The first consideration should be backups.

Useful to look at barman and see if it can meet one's needs:

* https://www.pgbarman.org/

* https://github.com/2ndquadrant-it/barman

No sense re-inventing the wheel if it can be avoided.
Do you have this process documented anywhere ?
Would like to learn it.
Well, duh? Does any company care about people who aren’t carrying the bags of money?

As far as I’ve seen - companies only care about the whales because any other mentality is a money losing one.
It might take an open-minded judge to accept this, but attorneys often fall back to common-law negligence when there are no stronger legal theories to rely on.

All the elements of negligence seem to be here, except probably for duty of care. A judge would have to find that Facebook owes a duty of care to its users to protect the integrity of its identities, and that Facebook breached that duty.

I can foresee Facebook and other information service providers fighting vigorously against such a legal conclusion, but maybe it's just the kind of law we need.
Why do you think people are bad at recognizing people of another race? When you rarely meet people of some race then maybe, yes, but I think it must be a matter of experience and you will get better. Think twins for example, after a little time with them you’ll differentiate them easily.
When people talk about different language, they mean more than just notation. For example, I can write "2 | 4" as "4 = 0 in Z/2Z". There is more than just a notational difference here.

A more non-trivial example: Say you want to say that 2 x 4 = 8. One way is to just write 2 x 4 = 8. Another way is to say that a finite set of cardinality 8 is the product of a finite set of cardinality 2 and cardinality 4 in the category of finite sets (in the sense that 8 satisfies the universal property of 2 x 4).
If the new owner is imposter trying to be the old owner, it would be identity theft and fraud. If it's just giving the handle to someone else there is nothing. If you don't pay for a account, you don't usually own it unless there is something I'm missing.

If you want to own your identity in the internet, get a website you own and don't rely on shady social-media networks that give you something free.
Check out https://ycadvice.com, especially the Product and Technology sections.
You can't assume your conclusion like that.

If you define consciousness as "something a child has that a sperm doesn't have" you are muddled up right at the start -- maybe thumbs are the essence of consciousness.
The water that comes out of my tap comes straight out of the ground, without any filters or purification steps. It tastes great, although it does have a moderate iron content. I live in the Great Lakes watershed, where water really is abundant.
what more could a man desire ?
think of the cost savings on massages and yoga classes and espresso machines!
My local DNS server can't resolve certificate verifications so I need a public DNS server anyways.
By that argument my home security system is conscious.
and your job
FYI: The is the hell of a commercial endeavor.

The usually accepted baseline is $1 per 1000 views on Youtube (raise to 2-3 for a respectable channel with a US/EU audience).

It's a myth that Youtube doesn't pay. Creators with millions of views can earn a living. Actually a pretty good living outside of the most expensive metro areas.
Yes, but overall static typing is trending again in the sense that more and more static typing is being used... just a little less strict because of the trapdoors as you say.
We're not talking extreme-luxury clothing here though. We're talking Ralph Lauren vs H&M, or something similar. What the British aristocracy wears is probably hand-made stuff by world-class artisans. What Ralph Lauren makes is mass produced in either Europe or China, so it's a much closer comparison to H&M (not to mention still within the reach of an average person in a rich country)
That would only really be relevant if the US was the only market that existed (or if the industry was really balkanised, I suppose). As it stands, the US is the third largest electric car market, and proportionately shrinking fast; the behaviour of the US market isn’t super relevant to market dynamics as a whole. If the US market is stagnating but the global market is growing fast, the demand for batteries continues to grow fast.

To be clear, I don’t think it’s at all inevitable that the US continues to stagnate, but even if it does, he global market should be expected to grow.
> open the windows if you prefer fresh air, or you can enjoy much more efficient AC/heat

How can something powered by electricity/natural gas/etc be more efficient than simply opening the windows and letting Mother Nature do the work?
It is, but is_number is not, which I am replying to. Probably should have mentioned, my bad...
Kodak was the undisputed king of digital photography from the moment they invented it until about the year 1999, when Nikon finally came out with the D1.

The idea that Kodak somehow ignored digital is a weird silicon valley fairy tale. Kodak shipped a 6 megapixel digital camera in 1995, years before anyone even came close (arguably, the Nikon D1X was the first comparable competitor, and it hit the market in 2001). What killed Kodak was not resting on their laurels, it was actually overspending on R&D that went nowhere, like their disastrous entrance into the pharmaceuticals market.
>But,Windows having WSL means that Developers can target Linux only without even considering Windows

I've been using WSL1 and WSL2 regularly since they were in beta. They have both exceeded my expectations. I still SSH into my local development box I use for webdev and the like because it's still faster, less limited and more powerful than WSL/2. Again, I think WSL is awesome and I use it all the time - to do a few linuxy things here and there on my windows box. It's nice, but it is in no way a production-grade replacement for native linux.
In the Clojure world we use clj-kondo, maps, and spec to solve these problems

We get editor time feedback of mistakes with optional type hints + light inferance via clj-kondo and a data modelling system that we can export out as database schema, JSON schema etc

And dynamic enough constraint system to express something like all human names must be "Tony" only on Tuesdays

The same constraint that can be shared server side and client side without writing it twice without learning more syntax

Additionally check what the expected inputs for a function are by checking the function specs I think guardrails pro will make this more ergonomic when released

And finally ask the constraint system to generate valid examples of the constraints great for mocking data

I don't miss type systems but I also understand if you're not using solutions here then you're in trouble
True - but I’d also say that part of good etiquette is to make an effort to learn the basics of the culture in which you’re participating. If I’m traveling to China for business it’s incumbent upon me to learn the order in which people should be introduced, how to exchange business cards etc.
We will have this back and forth pull over working from home and on premises. However the needle has irrevocably moved on the scale towards working from home and that is not changing. What I mean by that is its universally acknowledged that WFH is not an automatic "slacking off" and "not productive" and its on par with working in the office. So yes there are other reasons execs will say makes on site is better but productivity is definitely not one of the reasons any more.
Giving further evidence to this study that came out in preprint about a month ago or so:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

“Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study”

This one was actually about giving some patients calcifediol/vitamin D doses as part of the treatment, and comparing what happened to those who received the vitamin injection and those who didn't.

tldr: "of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 %).")

Performed at Reina Sofia University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain.
> This applies to every domain name though

Say I own "throw0101a.com", and then use "dev.throw0101a.com" and "prod.throw0101a.com". (Or you own CydeWeys.com.)

Previously, when .dev and .prod were not TLDs, it was fairly safe to type "ssh websrv01.dev" and "ssh dbsrv02.prod" because if the queries leaked onto the Internet they'd fail.

Now, with the post-Google TLD changes, if you type one of those things, and the local DNS happens to not be configured properly (i.e., the resolve.conf 'search' options is not present), then strange things can happen.

Further, if you put "websrv01.dev" in a browser now, it may go off into the Internet and try to be clever about auto-complete instead of just doing a local query.
Any good reasons for using hex over decimal for RGB colour values in CSS?
Maybe that’s because 90% of the time it turns out the company did do it?

I’d be interested in knowing what thread that was though.
Running Dialyxer in VSCode usually tells me if I pass in the incorrect arguments. Sometimes it’s a chore figuring out precisely what isn’t working given the complex typing dialyzer uses (essentially unions). In F# I spent a lot of time trying to make the compiler happy. Some odd invariant that the error didn’t explain well. So there are trade offs both ways. I like the Elixir way, just enough typing to help catch dumb mistakes but dynamic enough that I don’t have to convince the compiler to do something.
I would highly recommend reading the article for a fuller picture behind this idea.

But if you want a shorter primer, you can check out this one that gives a short summary of this concept: https://planflow.dev/blog/ux-planning-starts-with-informatio....
Some scripts:
https://docs.particular.net/persistence/sql/postgresql-scrip...
I tried that and it failed miserably: \* produces \
I tried finding out what usage terms would be with content posted to the site. I don't think I want to use it because I still don't know. I only found the this section in the terms:

> Content and postings
>
> You may print a copy of any part of the Website and Services for your personal or non-commercial use.
>
> You may submit new content and comment on the existing content on the Website. By uploading or otherwise making available any information to Ankhbayar Batsukh e.U., you grant Ankhbayar Batsukh e.U. the unlimited, perpetual right to distribute, display, publish, reproduce, reuse and copy the information contained therein. [...]

https://trueq.io/legal/terms-of-service

Consider adding an overt statement like Stackoverflow does:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

Because I don't want to guess around about this. And if you keep the "non-commercial" in there, I'm gone. Because that's a huge can of worms I don't like the taste of.
My favorite is the HP 28S. Mine still works perfectly and lives right under my monitor so it is within easy reach all the time.

I also have a HP 50g, but it's not as fun.
I think GP's point is that there are many other sources of contamination after the water is placed in the splash pool.
I suspect you haven't driven any small cars for a long time, would that be correct?

I have an Opel Corsa (supermini/subcompact) rental car right now, and it's both roomy, quiet and comfortable. The little 1.4L engine gets to motorway speed a lot faster than you'd think, plus it's quiet and smooth, really very little vibration felt at all, not even at 50kph in 5th gear.

The front seat pulls back enough that I literally cannot reach the steering wheel or pedals, and I have plenty of headroom (178cm/5'10").

Modern cars in all segments are generally comfortable and quiet, because that's what people want.
Part of the answer to that question involves (Ctrl-F) "Reproducible builds" and "Verified reproduction":

https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/
Blood work?
Maybe they've got other stuff on their main account they don't want their employer to see.
Well, no one is taking over my instagram account because I don’t have one, but it does indicate some people are taking over accounts with no recourse.
There are some parts that’ll cause the plane to fail in obvious ways, like the fuel tanks and engines. The tricky thing is that there are parts that’ll work with holes in them for a bit, but eventually if enough holes get punched in them they’ll fail under load, causing the plane to crash.

Or, there are events that’ll cause the parts, say a wing, to fall off, and then the pilot will fly it home still despite the manufacturer swearing that their plane can’t fly without a wing[0]. Aerodynamics are hard.

0: https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...
I’m with you to a degree, but if most anyone’s email account vanished, or worse was stolen, I’d be pretty confident guessing that they’re screwed.

For more typical social media, losing a decade of pictures is pretty harmful. It’s not about the value of the @danny handle, it’s also about the account being gone. And the privacy issues if the new person got all the DMs and private info.
Are you sure? According to this data, global EV sales volume was down annually in the first 6 months of 2020, down 28% for H1 2020 vs. H1 2019.

https://www.ev-volumes.com/
In some Northern hemisphere countries we are not allowed outside.
Instagram has poor customer support.
The software saves log of the interactions for debugging and finding pain points - so I have a good idea of what they really do and its consistent with my expectations.

As for what happens after one month - how would I do this? Send out an email asking why they have stopped using? Asking what would make the site better? What features to add? Responses back are usually very low (about 10%). Anything I can do to improve this?

Thanks
A bunch of us have that kind of white skin that in adult years doesn't tan.. it burns in clearly unhealthy ways.
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And typescript? Is it better to stay away also?
> Java is an extremely poor example of a helpful type system

My point exactly!

Most of them are.

Java is not special in this regard.

C? bad

COBOL? bad

C++? bad

Pascal? bad

Rust? better, but somewhat confusing

Go? not particularly good, but at least it's very simple

C#? same defects Java has

etc. etc.

Statically typed languages IMO are like turbo charged engines, if you are an expert driver you could go way faster, granted the road is in good shape, but if you are not, you'll crash, possibly in a horrible way.

> The fact that a statically typed program compiles gives you important assurances - especially post-refactor.

The only assurance in most of the statically typed languages is that code compiles, not that it works.
Or you could just turn off some solar panels for a while.
Would detecting the smoke 1 second later have made the difference? (I think that's the essence of GP's comment.)
This is where it's good to have a life partner. My mother didn't when she died, but was lucky enough to have her siblings and son nearby. She did leave this world completely broke, as dementia care is extremely expensive in the US.

Without family or wealth, once one cannot work here in the US, I think most people go where it's cheapest and eventually become homeless, then die.
They don't for standard picture but they do embbed their own metadata

https://iptc.org/news/what-does-facebook-do-with-your-photo-...

https://www.carlseibert.com/facebooks-hidden-metadata-codes/

You may be thinking of PhotoDNA which is used for different purposes

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
Exactly. They can bring a case before having proven it beyond a reasonable doubt.
In your estimation, what percentage of Facebook employees know about such extremely well known schemes?
I got something like that once but my ad blocker apparently screwed up the functionality and I never saw one again.
I've been doing Blue Apron and then Sun Basket for years now. Definitely very different than bob1029's plan - I spend 3-4 hours per week cooking, and something like 4x the price. (My main reason is choice / planning fatigue).

In the beginning, 2 serving meals would take me ~hour. Now, 4 serving meals take me ~30m, and I usually end with a clean kitchen.

As bob says, key to that is "very few tools". Generally, cutting board, knife, pan, metal spatula (love it), sometimes mixing bowls.

Another key: Plate (or store) everything immediately, and then rinse it all. Bonus points if the pan's still hot enough that it cleans itself when you rinse. Basically no mess this way, it's amazing.
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> This has stopped so many dumb errors of mine.

I take this one step further: Having a language with rich-ish types and good error messages like rust means I can very often rely on the compiler to tell me how to fix my dumb mistakes. In other words I know where I can be just as if not more sloppy than in an interpreted language and actually get away with it for little effort. I spend a little time getting the parameter and return types as I want them, quickly write an implementation without thinking too much about references and lifetimes then let the compiler work out the details pretty much automatically.
This comment from another thread may be helpful to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606686
I've only seen execs continue to trot out the productivity line. What other reasons are you seeing?
You might be interested in Carp: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp