skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the author turned into an adult.

No, that's not it. We don't have a vision of the future any more.

Here's a well-known vision of the future: Futurama.[1] No, not the cartoon. The 1939 World's Fair exhibit. Yes, it's General Motors' view. Note the expectation of unlimited progress. Most of what you see there as the future was achieved.

GM tried again at the 1964 World's Fair.[2] There was still optimism, but what we see there - huge moon bases and undersea cities - didn't happen.

The big moment of disillusionment was the end of the US moon program in 1972. Going into space was just too expensive. That was about the time when science fiction turned dystopian. "Silent Running", the first "dirty future" movie, came out in 1972, and set the pattern for most later SF films. Crystal spires out, grunge in.

For about a century and a half, manufacturing and transportation changed the world and led to the future.
Then what?

Well, we got computers, and that carried us for another half century.

What's next? There's nothing obvious in the near term. Eventually biology may be figured out to the level that organisms can be designed and engineered. But that's not close. Fusion power? Not going well.

We have enough technology and resources to provide a good standard of living for everyone on the planet. Nobody seems to have a scalable political system able to make that happen. This isn't a technology problem.

[1] https://vimeo.com/329901114

[2] https://youtu.be/2-5aK0H05jk
Large animals, and while the area is acting as somewhat of a refuge for them they depend on mobility from surrounding areas with more ordinary ecology.

Smaller forms of life have been profoundly impacted, and microbial life is so void there organic matter does not break down at regular rates. This has resulted in a buildup of petrified, dead organic matter that poses an elevated risk of wildfire. If/when it happens, radioactive material will be ejected into the atmosphere from the site once again.

Long-term research is showing that some medium-sized forms of life which we expected to do badly, such as mice and voles, seem to have some inherent resilience to radiation exposure in the area. On the other hands similar sized animals such as birds show a significantly higher rate of abnormalities.

'There's wildlife in chernobyl' is often mentioned to argue that we overestimate the harm from nuclear incidents - The reality is more complex.
What nonsense in C makes it comparable to JS? JS today is more like assembly language, other high-level languages are translated into JS.
If we cannot shut down criminal banks because they are too big to fail. Then we certainly cannot shut down Github.
> but looking at the data I’m having a hard time understanding why this is still a topline global concern

Same reason as "Summer of the Shark". (When US media exhaustively covered shark attacks, during a year when shark attacks were a little below average.) It's news, so there's a lot of coverage, which makes it news.
Correct. A company cannot not comply with a dmca takedown. When the law was written, the supposed safeguard against copyright holders filing tons of frivolous claims is that a counter claim can be pretty serious. Of course history has shown that this didn't work out as planned.
This comment reads like a lazy ad hominem attack with no rational explanation for its position.
"learning superpower" = A learning technique so effective so as to be sufficient for all kinds of learning, to the exclusion of all other learning techiques.
Please note that being clued in and being a zealot are very different things. Which is probably the greatest issue of our times - if you don't scream your support for something at the top of your lungs, you must be against it.

Nothing parent says suggest he's clueless. He just made a rather common sense observation that investing in a very niche hardware company has a very poor ROI if your goal is getting accounts. But by doing this he BETRAYED THE CAUSE, so you must call him clueless to put him in his place. Bah.
Fossil fuel usage will end itself once other more convenient energy sources become relevant. You can't possibly suggest leaving vulnerable people without shelter, heat or food because there's an impending apocalypse brewing. Fossil fuels be banned sounds like a quote from the nutcake realm. You're probably using ICE engines for transportation, gas and electricity for indoor lighting and heating like everybody else. Imagine if these were turned off for your own good and the survival of modern society.
I know nothing about Gulie. That makes me think it is some niche language with no ecosystem, no frameworks and limited number of packages.

Go is good, but my point was not about goodness, but about language being free and community-driven.
That's why I used separate terms, ie millionaire and wealthy. Being a millionaire requires that you have more than 1m as assets after taking into account your debts. That is easy but being wealthy is more subjective. Polls have shown that people consider 'being wealthy' if you have a wealthy lifestyle or in excess of USD x million. Currently x is about 2.6.
Ngl, heard a similar story about Konosuke Matsushita at Panasonic. I think it's a cultural thing, but why would Haier do it in the 1980s, I don't know. Chinese products were known as being shit well into the 00s.
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I agree that there may be longer term consequences to a lockdown, but the way I read OPs comment was that they were implying that the current excess deaths were in fact attributable to these effects.

Fwiw I can also imagine long term consequences like PTSD in people from heavily affected regions like northern Italy.
Yeah, except this summer of shark is being used to drive people into poverty and has caused non-COVID deaths and harm to many more, such as the deceased babies unable to receive medical attention in Australia due to the interstate border closures.
In the UK if you get a (sizeable, asset) gift from someone and they die within a certain number of years you then need to pay inheritance tax on it. Could be the same mechanism here? Date has passed so turn off the ventilator or whatever?
Not an expert by any means, but on a quick Google, it appears that the most aggressive estimate of how many people have gotten the virus is 10%[0]. Herd immunity requires a much, much higher number than that -- especially if we want our lives to go back to normal -- which is why you see the Rt rates[1] and rate of new cases going up very sharply, even if you account for the reporting lag.

EDIT: This thread is already getting brigaded by people who apparently think of this as a hoax or some kind of conspiracy so I'm going to leave and take my citations and facts from the article with me.

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/covid-19-may-have-infecte...

[1]: https://rt.live (US-centric)
What was sent was not a DMCA notice in the standard sense; I encourage you to read it. It’s designed to look like one, but lacks critical elements (such as identifying an infringing URL).

The infringement described in their notice is hypothetical, not an actual instance of infringement, which is one of the required things in a DMCA notice.

GitHub can indeed leave the repo up, as this notice is insufficient to trigger the part of the DMCA that forces them to remove it.

More info from Parker Higgins in a tweet thread:

https://twitter.com/xor/status/1319755776043384838
I think the long term solution for this problem is the developers of open source software like the bit torrent client, youtube-dl and other similar software will have to host their code outside of the reach of DMCA regualation. That will usually mean something like Github like site hosted in Russia, China or some other bloc where DMCA does not apply.

Right now, lots of users in the US scientific community use Scihub or how millions of US students use libgen, millions of users of open source software will have to get used to a non US controlled domain to get access to their software. Also development of these software will be done in the shadows so as to avoid the reach of the DMCA.
Google Docs exports pretty well to docx, pandoc can handle it.
Don’t ever break a URL if you can help it. Nor the title on an HN submission
Your fatality rate number is too low. Tens of millions of people would die a preventable death if we let it run its course, and many more would get disabilities from the disease. The economic cost would be tremendous.
How do any of those qualify as statements? Statements represent actions in imperative programming languages. Declarations and definitions are not actions.
My understanding is that the virus is a pretty tricky one: Its fatality rate is low enough to spread rather unnoticed, but high enough to kill vulnerable people. Given its exponential spread, there is a risk that letting it completely uncontrolled will very quickly fill hospital beds and that's when fatality rate becomes high.

Edit: I'm unsure why OP was downvoted. The question is legitimate and deserves an answer.
Only for a few days, critically.

GitHub may be the single source of truth, but it’s not the only copy of the data.
I fail to see how can anyone expect anything else at the quite high roof ledge than air.

I think article is missing part of him being either drunk or high, where there would be clear wisdom to stay sober when you are on the roof, there is no other explanation unless he is few years old toddler.
In that insurance is a game of hidden information, yes.
Is it legal to file a DMCA claim when the motivation is retaliation? (Assuming that the person filing retaliatory DMCA claim can satisfy the good-faith requirement, that is.)
I believe it does allow this, but it required reauth which the password was lost and could not be reset since it was the wrong email.
That's pretty much it though.

In all honesty, we need a GH alternative hosted outside the US, in any place where absurd laws like DMCA don't exist.
I absolutely love Pandoc, I use it in my Makefile based static site generator. Pandoc is probably one of the most valuable pieces of open source tooling next to ffmpeg and imagemagick.
There's absolutely no need to do all the cards for the day. The option to limit cards per day is just for psychological effect because completionists get demotivated by not hitting 0. Just do as much per day as you can and ignore that number.
Without a vaccine, the only option is herd immunity, regardless of lockdowns.

Note that our reaction to Covid has caused many deaths, such as from people avoiding treatment for other diseases, efforts to control other deadly diseases like tuberculosis being shut down or set back, economic devastation, etc.

I haven't seen any analysis yet trading off:

1. the Covid deaths from waiting for a vaccine

2. the risk of releasing the vaccine early

3. the other deaths I mentioned from our reaction to Covid

with the metric being a combined "minimum number of deaths".
Let the record show that I'm burned-out veteran of the Great Northern War and its aftershocks, and haven't played Eve since 2012. My kit is mostly in 5ZXX-K but I left my heart in Tenal. No you can't have my stuff.

In my opinion it is not a game, though. Eve:Online is a job.
Wow. 7.5 months in and people still just spreading absolute nonsense on this website.

Try getting the basic facts right. The US is a day or two away from beating our all-time moving-7-day average. We're currently setting new daily records for infection levels. The EU isn't much better off. I also already knew this just from the bare minimum amount of attention I'm paying to the news, and then sought confirmation from the CDC to back it up. If only others could be bothered.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrends... Look in the bottom left hand corner, just skim through the "new cases" and "7day moving averages" through out the last 8 months. And actually the graph is showing it visually, you can literally just look at it and see the blue spike ... the highest daily infection rate yet, and the weekly trend line is moving up too.

Basic, basic, basic facts.
I don't think anybody would be drinking the vodka and eating the caviar if it happened today.
Don’t worry. They’ll find the marketer friendly stuff they can put some super models’ face on, and run it into the ground. They just have to find the stuff that’s friendly to the normies.
It's a legitimate question that has been asked every hour of every day by some person in the english speaking world, and therefore is highly searchable.
I don't care about noise cancelling, but I can't stand in-ear headphones of any type. They always end up causing pain and/or discomfort for me.
The system always works the way a rational human who has a vested interest in the claimaint
> hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society

Nowadays archaeologists also trying to figure out what role each thing they found already played in ancient society.

Nobody really don't know why (and how) Egyptian pyramids built in such form as we know it now.

Every thing in our life is a game; Just remember that each player in real world has only "1 life" & there are NO "god mode", even more — there are NO objects which could grant user at least "1UP".

[Spoiler] «The Game of Life». RIP John Conway[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306
The article is probably from 2018 as the newest DSLRs like Nikon's D780 has about the same sensor PDAF capabilities as their Z-series mirrorless bodies.

It's funny, how in the beginning mirrorless cameras (and DSLRs in the liveview mode9 had really slow contrast based AF but nowadays the best models have already catched the DSLR PDAF systems and in some cases are better and more intelligent (like Sony's A7Riv, A6400 and A9* subject tracking which understands subject disappearing from the frame and reappearing etc).

Also, it's funnily telling which photographers have really gotten used to bad DSLR PDAF as they are using only the middle focus point with mirrorless cameras which have the same or better AF-capabilities even in the frame corners. They don't trust the mirrorless sensor PDAF and try to use it like the older DSLRs worked.
There’s no need to create that pr-8142 branch, which will otherwise hang around indefinitely which is most commonly not what you want:

git fetch upstream pull/8142/head
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
For one, you could ask for due process, or the right to defend yourself before the takedown is executed.

Right now, DMCA is an accusation AND a sentence bundled into one. There's no review of its validity, you're instant guilt unless proven wealthy.
Can you elaborate on the no-code platform? I am working on a SaaS, so the most obvious thing is to just integrate Stripe... but that sounds like it'll be very tedious.
Why would you build something similar to RabbitMQ ontop of ZeroMQ instead of just using Rabbit?
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> I think the long term solution for this problem is the developers of open source software like the bit torrent client, youtube-dl and other similar software will have to host their code outside of the reach of DMCA regualation

I'm not sure about that. I think the real long term solution is to have a decentralized version of YouTube/video publishing platform that is resistant (invulnerable?) to censorship. I'm not saying that it's not difficult, or even impossible, but I would love to see more discussion regarding true web decentralization, not legal semantics.
> Hasn’t this infection already run its course?

The US is averaging more confirmed new cases per day now than it has at any prior time, and the rate is going up. Here's a graph [1].

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...
The memrise blog has some very important info about how one should create cards. Making them ask about only one thing in isolation is one of them.

For example all downloadable Kanji decks basically ask "Kanji -> meaning, kun readings, on readings, nanori readings, translation, example jukugo, example sentence, pronunciation, stroke order, ...", i.e. not atomic at all.

I have instead made my own deck where each Kanji has multiple cards that ask for different pairs of information. One of the important reasons is that I may have more trouble remembering one of those than the others, and that should not make me have to redo those others, since SRS should ask when I'm about to forget.
They were able to receive the medical attention, but returning them would have been complicated - so the powers decided to just not do it.

A dumb decision that could have been made outside of COVID times for any number of reasons.
You are treating VR like it's another browser. It's not. With cameras in every direction scanning and parsing your environment, data on your physical fitness and the always-on nature of the Quest 2 it is far more invasive than even Google Home speakers are. You offer a whole new set of very personal data to a company that has proven itself to mine it extensively for its own gain.
> Option types are way better and always do what you expect.

No, I can implement the exact same weird functions with option types, with signatures

sum: Array<Int> -> Optional<Int>

count_elements: Array<Int> -> Int

FWIW, I personally prefer both functions to not return Optionals, but the point is that the mere presence of Option types in your type system (and the absence of null pointers) doesn't magically eliminate bad library design
What about deaths? Hospitalizations?
Did you try these:

- https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

- https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless

- https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer

- https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat

- https://github.com/MichaelMure/mdr
Original youtube-dl repo which has been taken down and replaced with DMCA notice: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
It’s like saying “make sure you lock up all your family photos in a safe, because if a burglar breaks in they could steal them”.

No, if they have access to my house they will steal my cash and TV. I fail to see why some photos of my face would be something someone with root access would care about in the slightest.
My worry is that this will look less professional, directly asking them to Venmo me. It may also look less trustworthy, if I'm negotiating a price directly with them and don't have a standard one on the website.
It will take far more than "a few days" to change GitHub-based workflows. Data loss is not the only way to lose productivity.
> Herd immunity requires a much, much higher number than that

The jury is very, very much out on that. The 70% number bandied about is extremely naively calculated, it assumes 0 pre-existing resistance or immunity (Which we now know exists), and it assumes all humans are homogenous sphere-shaped balls floating around in a gaseous society, which is also obviously not true.

There are countless reports and studies on transmission among children in school settings, and they pretty much unilaterally state that there's very little spread happening there, contrary to everyone's "gut feeling" about kids being snot-nosed petri dishes.
Not to be too coy, but gaming circles are already pretty bad about questioning marketing narratives. Anecdotally I think it’s gotten worse.

There’s a large incentive for, and a community around “hyping” things. So when they say “You’ll _never_ need a Facebook account” the outlets run with it, and the comments applaud it.

Similar things with the Cyberpunk 2077 “we will have never have micro transactions” statement. People believe what they want to hear in these communities. And it makes their emotional reactions very easy to manipulate.
Boston Dynamics vs. SpaceX on HN now is "1:1" ;)
Even in science there is a lot of knowledge that doesn't need to be understood. For math subjects that would be all the definitions for example.
Relying on other countries can't ever be a long term solution.

That pirate bay and scihub are still around, that their authors are walking around freely, is a miracle that should not be taken for granted.

We need to work on fixing these problems in our own countries. We need to talk about the freedoms we care about, put a good brand to those freedoms and win popular attention and enshrine those freedoms into law. And build a society that depends on those freedoms so much that rolling them back would be unthinkable.

That would be an actual long term solution. It is hard but if we all contribute, we can do it. Probably.
rclone is great, but it doesn't have the same level of sync capabilities as Dropbox or Mountainduck (supposedly).
Swedish resident here. I'm not sure why media keeps characterising the Swedish strategy as "herd immunity". I would rather characterize it as sustainable: i.e., find minimum and stable restrictions that keep the spread below 1. It balances fatality reduction and disturbance avoidance, because the population has time to adjust and internalise the restrictions.

Contrast that to countries having mass lockdown protests or our neighbors who add and remove restrictions on a weekly basis.

Another "inconvenient truth", thanks to good welfare, there is not "come to work sick" heroism in Sweden. You are basically paid to keep your kids and yourself at home, for as little as a running nose.
In foreign press, Sweden is always put forward in the herd immunity discussion - this is wrong. Our version of CDC agency have clearly stated all along that herd immunity is not the goal.

Life in Sweden changed dramatically with the outbreak and the number of deaths have a few reasonable explanations, IMO.

The Swedish “CDC” have pushed for long term resilience and believe that strict prolonged lockdowns will be impossible to maintain.

Other countries have had a far more political response to this pandemic.

Second wave obviously pushing forwards - other Euro countries locking down again.

This is kind of ironic as Swedes probably would put up with being locked down better than most other populations. We’re famous for “waiting in line” and following signs and directions - we would suffer lockdown, but in general we simply follow directions, so the idea was it would be ineffective.
Moreover, this 70% number is based on SIR models, which observably do not match the dynamics of our predicament at all.
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> this is certainly not true across the board.

Interesting.

> but the windows graphics stack was improved to actually use that capability in Windows 10

No, it happened much earlier, in WDDM 1.0 i.e. Windows Vista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model#V...
But remembering facts is exactly what it's for..? And even reasoning-based domains have parts that require rote memorization. E.g. "what is the halting problem?" doesn't require any reasoning or understanding. One needs to know such definitions in order to even start the reasoning part.
I understand that concept. If we acknowledge there is a well understood set of people who are unusually vulnerable to this otherwise low-fatality rate infection, why is there still such a large disruption to the general population? Why not simply take precautions only with that Relatively small vulnerable subset?
I’ve got a typescript library wrapping QuickJS if you don’t want to do the emscripten build or figure out the C API yourself: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten