skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 is only really true for long distance travel, and in the context of planes where you have to pre-file a flight plan with the route planned out in advance. This would be wildly impractical for any sort of intra-urban travel with current commute volumes.

2 is true but planes are flown by professional pilots. The skill of the average American driver is extremely poor.

3 would lead to local jursidictions banning flying cars faster than one could blink. It is already pretty much impossible to route new highways through populated areas in the US for this exact reason.
> Sweden have experienced the same “reining in” of infection and death rates without lockdown.

No it doesn't. Sweden's population density is a fraction of Italy's and Spain's, and even Sweden's largest urban centers are dwarfed by Italy and Spain's.

I mean, to start off Spain has arguably a better national health service than Sweden, and Spain's services were quickly overwhelmed by the epidemic that the country was forced to mobilize their armed forces to respond to it.

Spain's daily death count reached around a thousand deaths per day after the mitigating effects of the first lockdown kicked in. Sweden hasn't even experienced a death count that's equivalent of a single week of Spain's .

The reason why Sweden's strategy consists of letting covid19 spread like wildfire is based on the fact that in Sweden's case it's peculiarities serve as spread retardant.
Hospitals in Utah, Idaho and Texas are full. The numbers aren't nearly as high as they have been in previous peaks, but they're on a steep upward slope
https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-currently-hospitali...
Censorship resistant chat based on the lightning network. See https://www.getjuggernaut.com/, https://sphinx.chat/, or chat function integrated in OpenBazaar's Haven app (https://gethaven.app/faq/). This tech can run on bitcoin or lightcoin's networks, if I understand correctly.

Another example would be decentralized governance. The bisq.io project has built a system on top of bitcoin to incentivize and pay for their project's future development. They chose their model for censorship resistance (as they have concern that nation-states might not take kindly to a peer-to-peer permission-less bitcoin to fiat exchange) and its been functioning since April 2019. In historical perspective, the bisq network has innovated a new way for humans to work together that rivals the invention of the joint stock corporations by the English and Dutch at the start of the 17th century. There's lots of talk of decentralized governance on top of Ethereum, but so far the only really resilient and decentralized project I've seen in the space is the bisq network. Bisq is the sort of new thing that can be built on top of bitcoin's trust-decentralizing monetary technology.
> Sadly it is not nonsense to state the fact that Sweden's approach caused more deaths than what would otherwise have happened.

Counterfactual unfalsifiable claptrap. Perhaps. Perhaps not. I wouldn't be certain either way.

> allowing an epidemic to run wild creates conditions for it to mutate and change in unpredictable ways

WHO put out an estimate a couple of weeks ago that 750 million people worldwide could have been infected. And yet the IFR keeps going down. I'm gonna estimate the odds of it turning into airborne ebola at this point at 0%.
How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Python. Part 1
30 minutes later I understand that I got unsolvable combination :-)
If it helps I am seeing a psychiatrist and a therapist and know my own diagnosis. It has indeed put me ahead of where I would have been.

Sorry about the vagueness but I very much am looking for just anecdotes from other people. I don't need advice for my specific situation because I frankly don't think anyone should give or take psychiatric advice over the internet unless it's "please dial this hotline".
Work with What You Have
The E2E syncing is something I'm really looking for.

But bundling a photo viewer/gallery just seems like a bit of bloat to me. I'm love to see an app that does syncing and only syncing.
A Podcast on How to Make a Podcast
Show HN: Online Waivers SaaS App
I’m an Aussie and that's the first I heard about babies dying due to border closures (but I could have missed the memo).

Far more scandalous (and getting more media coverage) is the fact that Victorian football teams had to relocate to Queensland to continue their training.
> outside of the reach of DMCA regualation.

What's the latency to the Moon again? :)
I wholeheartedly agree! And by that same token, I gladly await Epic refunding all of my payments, since they shouldn't take the fruits of my labor just to keep using their software.

I am starting to regard Epic's legal team with the same kind of respect I have for political campaign spokespeople.
It is useful for scamming people.
Handbrakes own docs say "HandBrake uses FFmpeg under the hood".

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.3.0/technical/source-formats....
Please, letting in a more light is nothing like cranking the saturation so high that grey turns to bright red.
Hydrogen-powered planes will be commercially viable by the 2030s, says Airbus
Here is better link (sl=uk;tl=en)[0]

[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=uk&tl=en&u=h...
> it's building anything from nothing
sounds like DIY and Zen.
Thank you very much. It sounds like you've been through a lot of pain and I know what that feels like. It's comforting to hear the cold truth that "employers don't want to hear it", but it honestly conflicts with the more positive mindset mentioned in another comment. I think I could find an employer who really did understand. It would be an effort though for sure.

> If a medication or class of medications, such as SSRIs, didn’t work the first time, they won’t work a second time.

Source?
Just waiting for the DOJ TO file the suit.
> To stop the disease, everyone would need to get infected within that 6 month window.

No, they would have to get infected on exactly the same day otherwise a rolling window effect would occur where populations roll into and out of immunity.

Herd immunity simply has never happened in the history of disease without a vaccine. Typhoid, smallpox, polio, etc. never went away and smallpox was about 1 in 13 deaths in London.

Ironically, if we do achieve something close to herd immunity, we will wind up confining the disease to mostly children like what happened with smallpox.
So the life an employee gives us what matters, sure, but where did the capital come from that is ‘just a bet’? That money comes from blood sweat and tears too, it comes from work as well. It represents hopes, dreams and aspirations sunk into earning it. That’s what money is. It had to be earned by someone too, just as much as the salary of an employee at a startup. This is what naive Socialist economic analysis misses.
I speak (and write) a right-to-left language.

I'm not a pandoc user (so far); and have struggled many times in the past with bugs and lacking features in LibreOffice and LaTeX regarding right-to-left text layout and language-specific issues.

My question: How "trustworthy" is pandoc in handling right-to-left content and side-stepping the minefield of target format issues involving such content? Is this subject getting explicit attention from maintainers?
Mine catches up to me about once a year these days. Best of luck.
I don't want to malign the transporters in your business, but the chance that they actually meaningfully understand the nuance of this is slim to none.

This is a trust problem. Either people trust you, or they don't. You've attempted to increase their trust in you by creating a system that would increase somebody's trust if they had your understanding of the underlying technology. Very few people have this, and the overlap between the people with that understanding and your customers and clients is vanishingly small.
Blockchain is just a database that is 1) public 2) append only If you don't have mining, anyone can append to such blockchain at no cost, so it's defenseless against bad actors, so it must have a set of trusted appenders.
If you want trustless public database, you must have mining. Mining is costly, so you must have a currency.
> RIAA taking down all of GitHub would instantly pit them against all of Microsoft

microsoft isn't gonna fight the good fight. There's no reward (to them) for doing so, and there's only a cost. It'd be a stupid business decision.

What is more correct is to lobby legislation changes to copyright. Repeal the DMCA, or change copyright law to such that you cannot abuse it this way. And this lobbying is the civil responsibility of everyone, not just microsoft.
> finding and inoculating

There’s still no vaccine, so do you really mean identifying and otherwise protecting the vulnerable group of people? Do you specifically mean variolation [0]? If so, is there evidence that would be safe and if effective?

> war criminals

I think this is a bit much. Sure, you could argue some other flavor of criminality, but “war crimes” has a very specific meaning that doesn’t fit here IMO

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
oh sweet summer child
GNU Octave is a free MATLAB clone:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index

and take a look at Julia as well.
I am stuck in a Windows XP system for audio editing, and, indeed, you have Pro Tools 5.01 for me. Fascinating site that surely deserves a separate HN discussion. Many thanks! I think the React OS [1] people will love you as well.

1: http://www.reactos.org
I've been answering this question a lot so I'm just gonna copy paste another comment I wrote elsewhere -

>I am currently seeing a therapist and psychiatrist. I'm also not looking for general help or a diagnosis from anyone, which people tend to do inappropriately sometimes on the internet. That's why I've been somewhat vague. I'm just looking for other people's experiences specific to either starting a company or being a programmer. That's not something I can really get from my therapist.
Publishing polemics in the NEJM. Not as shocking as what The Lancet has done this past year. But gosh, nothing is sacred.
WebRTC streaming: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/webrtc/index...
The Only Four Books Bill Gates Has Rated Five Stars
I'm sad to say that your comment just reads as "I don't like that fact and it bothers me that official statistics proves it to be true".

They're all grabbing and visualizing data from SCB. You are free to disagree with their opinions and conclusions, but the numbers are correct. Sweden loooooooves statistics, which is why we have accurate monthly death numbers going back 160 years.

Here's the last 20 years from the official source, you can check yourself if those "crackpot" blogs got it right or not: https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befo...

(Spoiler: They did.)
Epidemiological Modeling with Structured Cospans and Julia
Pico Neo? :P
> Counterfactual unfalsifiable claptrap. Perhaps. Perhaps not. I wouldn't be certain either way.

I'm sad to say that your comment just reads as "I don't like that fact and it bothers me that others acknowledge it".

> WHO put out an estimate a couple of weeks ago that 750 million people worldwide could have been infected. And yet the IFR keeps going down. I'm gonna estimate the odds of it turning into airborne ebola at this point at 0%.

This statement is just purely ignorant and wrong.

Several covid19 strains have already been identified, including a particular strain that brought changes to the virus that greatly increases their spread rate, to the point that since it's appearance it outspread and became the world's leading strain

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02544-6
Fascist solidarity.

Not quite as ridiculous as China’s One Time Zone.
The Roadmap of Mathematics for Deep Learning
If a state is one entity, it should have a single vote. Instead, there is a college of electors, and those electors should at least reflect the electoral outcome in the nominal congressional districts that they represent, as in Maine and Nebraska. (I know that's not how elector assignment generally works, but I think it's just as valid an interpretation as your "1 entity" view).

Neither that per-district system, nor my original popular vote proportional system, would require a parliamentary style of government. Indeed, under a parliamentary system, the executive would be chosen by parliament itself and there would be no need for the electoral college or even the presidential vote at all.
Thoughts on Haskell?
I find the design / visual style an unusual choice: it's the same theme/style use by Google ("Material"?).

Styling the app to look like a Google-app is an unusual choice. I've developed a rejection of thing that use this style, mostly since they're always apps actually made by Google.

If you tailor to people trying to move away from google, trying to look like google might not transmit the best impression.
It works the way the law is designed to be interpreted and written. Unfortunately, it's written with the purpose of helping the RIAA enforce their will against the people's will.

So the only way to fight back is to do your civic duty - lobby against it, and/or lobby for a more modern set of copyright laws (and repeal the DMCA). But unfortunately, people don't care enough to force their representatives.
And.. that’s a negative? You didn’t want it because there wasn’t a steam version available?

I think I’ve lost faith in humanity.
There's the rub isn't it. There's a reason ffmpeg is so hard to use: it does so much. It does so much because efficient processing of media often requires you to do more than one thing in a single pass, or end up taking wayyy more resources than needed.

I'm still all for simpler frontends being available but there's going to be a limit of how many things can be covered before it is just as hard to use as ffmpeg.
Fun fact: AACS keys are still actively being leaked to this day, e.g.

0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 ; v1
0x455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2 ; v3
0xF190A1E8178D80643494394F8031D9C8 ; v4
; omit 60+ keys
0x7A4F40D8696B7B159BE8176CC9EDB85C ; v66-68
There are already emission limits implemented in EU. A next step would be to make them smaller and more expensive. This would of course harm the economic growth of some countries.
UK wants to ban conventional cars sales by 2030. We could go one step further and ban most combustion cars from driving. Of course I doubt there will be a politician bold enough to move at a rate that would upset the people. In the end, we will get what we deserve.
It is a foundation and the first step and on a long way to the service me and my friend want to build.

It will include improving of reader experience, tools for authors and, I hope, a community of likeminded people.

Any feedback much appreciated
Julia - https://julialang.org/
Lot of opinions.

Really early reports indicated that young children was not spreading this disease to any appreciable extent. This was something that caught me from early reports out of china - almost no children.

This is the real reason schools kept open.
Look at studies and data, make desicion.
Timestamping existed long before blockchains. You can just push the image to github, there is no way to change the push timestamp.
Yes. See the ION project Microsoft has led starting - its a decentralized identity project designed as a sidechain that periodically anchors its data to bitcoin's censorship resistant blockchain. See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-standards-bl..., https://identity.foundation/, or https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion.

If your project doesn't need decentralized trust, using 'blockchain' is simply a marketing move.
It looks like Julia is gaining momentum?

I don't have experience with it myself, but it looks like it should have the properties you're mentioning.

https://julialang.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)
I would say Python in combination with Jupiter notebooks. The calculus class I followed used that and it is great because you can use latex in the notebooks and make plots in python.
Look at this repo for examples: https://github.com/LucaAmbrogioni/CalculusTeachingMaterial
Racket? eg https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble-math/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/symalg/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/symalg/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/dist.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/matrices.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/number-theory.html
> They're all grabbing and visualizing data from SCB.

Then you should simply post the data from SBC, and not blog posts from random crank pots what just happened to master the art of copy/pasting.

To put it differently, people are interested in what SBC has to say, not what grannypuncher69 commented on an epidemic.
If what you want is to quickly iterate on short experimental math programs, you want an APL. Otherwise, if you need syntactic macros there's Racket.

I suggest J (jsoftware.com)
No, they just didn't fully anonymize his given name. Otherwise, he'd been called Ma Moumou, or Mou Moumou if they wanted to hide his family name as well. (One Mou per censored syllable.)

I'm not sure what happens if there's a name collision, but most likely they'd just start numbering them, or add some clarifying remark.
Didn't work for me with the shorter commit hash, but it worked with the full hash 416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f.
ActivityPub is federated like git is distributed. You can add several remotes from different servers (or peers in case of single user instances hosted at home)

Even though other sites like GitLab exist that GitHub remains a near-monopoly default doesn't bode well for attempting to migrate to a completely decentralized system as default. There are decentralized extensions of git (like git-ssb).

Addenda: Git is also not well suited for a lot of decentralization due to how branches are modeled. Patch-theory based systems like darcs and pijul would need more adoption before code repositories could be decentralized.
OCaml? https://ocaml.xyz/book/
One thing of roughly this nature is that a lot of rust code that I have read have their own types for iterators of objects.

For example, in the git2 crate there is both:

https://docs.rs/git2/0.13.12/git2/struct.Branch.html

and

https://docs.rs/git2/0.13.12/git2/struct.Branches.html

Where Branches implements Iterator.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877557
Wow this happened to me literally today.
I'd also note that if anyone feels like duking it out with the RIAA for some reason (Why? Is your goal to spend as much money as possible or something?) you can always create your own youtube-dl equivalent and wait for a takedown notice of your own.

Now presumably GitHub won't let you push forbidden changesets, but since hashes are chained all you have to do is modify a single byte of the root and replay everything. (I have no idea if GitHub would ban you for a ToS violation or if they would just wait for the next DMCA takedown notice to show up.)
Money is the first and obvious use case when you have a decentralized trust machine. But since money is only our shared language for communicating value, censorship resistant publishing won't be far behind.
Okay. Whattabout that inheritance tax situation?
There are many intermediate stages of lockdown, have a look at the different strategies of the various (smaller) European countries.

Besides, counting an integral number of deaths gives you an integral number. You'll only know the cumulative effect of whatever state the country is in, which is the result of many factors, among which the precise state of the lockdown.
Voter fraud is not currently much of a problem, because solid-red and solid-blue states don't have much incentive to allow it (since the ruling party is already confident of its majority), and swing states don't want to risk encouraging it in case the other side gets into power and uses it against them.

Once there is even a suggestion that some state might be increasing its power by encouraging voter fraud, there will be an arms race of other states trying to "counteract" this by encouraging their own voter fraud.
https://thinkpenguin.com/

https://minifree.org/

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en

But the first company (Purism) specifically attempts to change the industry, they state it as one of their goals: https://puri.sm/learn/why-purism-computers-are-better-than-p....
Why does Nature make it political in the very first line?

> Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.

This should just be a description of the scientific facts in order to maintain objectivity. Let the political people run with it afterword. And it doesn't even say that it emphatically "will bring <bad thing>", it uses the weasel words "could bring <bad thing>".

This seems politically motivated; at the very least they've made it easy to mistake this as more political than scientific.
How do you measure who is at the top? By the amount of bad press, which is easily manipulated? For me, Google is top evil, by far. You just can't avoid it no matter how hard you try.
Bottlenecks in lithium-ion battery production for electric vehicles [video]
fwiw Pandoc's author, John MacFarlane, is also behind these projects that try to unify the Markdown ecosystem:

- Babelmark, a tool to compare how different Markdown parsers interpret the same Markdown input. https://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/

- CommonMark, the first formalized Markdown standard, and now the de-facto Markdown standard. https://commonmark.org/ (He's the first listed member of the team.)

I feel like John is probably the single largest contributor to what Markdown is today, other than perhaps the creator of Markdown. Thank you for your work!
https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion
> Sweden's strategy consists of letting covid19 spread like wildfire

You’re not from Sweden right? If so you would not say something like this. It is just plain uninformed.

My whole family works in health care - doctor, nurse & in elderly care. Your idea of the situation in Sweden is way off.

We have “reined in” the spread, but we notice something of a second wave starting here as well.
- Style using CSS: Use Pandoc to HTML, and use wkhtmltopdf or chrome headless to convert HTML+CSS to PDF.

- Style using XSL-FO: Use Pandoc to DocBook, XSLT docbook-xsl stylesheets to convert to XSL-FO, Apache FOP to convert XSL-FO to PDF.
Pandoc should be usable for users of all languages and scripts. It is possible to define the documents language via the `lang` metadata field; `ltr` and `rtl` attributes can be set for individual text elements.

Core contributors are westerners or Russian (US, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Russia), and we rely heavily on user reports to improve non-LTR scripts and languages. But the goal is to make pandoc work flawlessly for everyone.
We need a rule wherein if someone ignores the source post in favor of dumping on Electron the poster has to port a windows C forms app to mac.
Well I've been guessing that github was going to get killed off and rolled into of azure devops at some point.

As for the ICE contract, do you have any idea how much money the U.S. government pays to microsoft, of course they aren't going to back out of a contract. if they did, you can bet an emergency board meeting would be held, and who ever made that call would be axed and the contract reinstated, the JEDI cloud storage contract alone is worth $1 billion a year. not to mentions the 25+ million plus OS lisc. and office 365 contracts, and the GCC contracts.

It's very possible that microsoft as a corporation doesn't even deal with github DMCA until they become a PR issue like this one. Github processed DMCA noticed before they were acquired, and their staff likely still is. Not like that is a hot button issues to convert and integrate in the grand scheme of things.

Just food for thought.
> If you are inactive you can get banned.

Do you have a source for this? I know a lot of folks who abandoned Facebook without deleting their accounts, I haven’t heard of any of them getting banned.