skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that helps i.e. Docker how?
Build Simple Corona Tracker Discord Bot with JavaScript
> Masks and social distancing and banning birthday parties are not about speeding up or ending the pandemic but slowing it down (to minimize deaths) until a vaccine is ready. This is what 'flattening the curve' is all about.

Not quite. NZ took the route of hard lock down early, 30 days (2 infection cycles). They basically managed to get covid to burn itself out, so they're just dealing with imported cases, and contact tracing the heck out of out them to bust any potential clusters.

Canada's lockdown isn't nearly as long, and people didn't take it nearly as seriously. PHAC dragged their heels on mask use; and now on rating COVID as potential aerosol risk. We did it all half-assed, the province didn't use the time to really amp up contact tracing, learning techniques from jurisdictions that had success, such as South Korea, or Taiwan; nor did we really make testing work during the summer lull. The Feds didn't / can't squeeze some kind of national standard in dealing with things, in part because of the minority government, and in other parts of not knowing when doing the right thing matter more than dealing with idealists bitching about divisions of power.

We get cold faster and longer, and people tend to stay inside, so there can be more clusters. I'd expect things to get worse.
Especially jittery on notification center for me.
I'm with you. I'm not going to support this crap.

We might be in the minority at the moment but the harder Apple makes it to repair their machines by 3rd parties the less likely people are going to buy such an expensive machine in the future where a broken key means $500+ in repairs.
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Unfortunately mask compliance on this side of the pond has largely been a result of government intervention:

"As rapidly growing case counts strained health care systems across the South and Southwest this summer, more Republican leaders ordered citizens to wear masks to help slow the spread of the virus. In July, President Donald Trump wore a mask in public for the first time and urged Americans to do the same, marking a change in tone from earlier in the pandemic."

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/27/more-americ...

"A tidal wave of new mask requirements has been issued in the last few days, amid surging cases in many regions, including more than 75,000 new coronavirus cases across the country on Thursday, the most in a single day. Face coverings will be required at stores like Walmart, Target and CVS, and in a growing number of Republican-led states where governors once resisted such mandates."

"More than half the states have issued statewide mask requirements, including Arkansas, where Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, announced a face covering requirement on Thursday, after previously taking a more hands-off approach. Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, a Democrat, also issued a mask order on Thursday, after questioning whether such a mandate would be enforceable."

"But there remains firm resistance in many circles, including from some Republican leaders who view mask requirements as a threat to personal liberty."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/coronavirus-masks.html

Unfortunately (I've been using that word a lot lately), Trump endorsing masks would have conflicted with his somewhat perplexing political strategy of gaslighting his base into thinking the virus wasn't anything to take seriously.

'Speaking on Capitol Hill on 10 March, Mr Trump said: "Just stay calm. It will go away."'

'Nine days later, after the White House declared the pandemic a national emergency, the president told Woodward: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."'

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54172311

And, of course, then he got it, and even with the best care in the country, and cutting edge therapies not available to normal people still had a hell of a time.

If he had done a photo-op standing in front of a pallet of N95s in NYC during the worst of it there, and pumped federal cash into making sure the country was up to its ass in PPE, this election would have been a cakewalk for him. He would have looked heroic and decisive. But, he didn't. For some reason, he took a different approach. I'm not really sure why, but 2020 is just a year of head-scratchers.
Minor quibble - HIPAA and HITECH are not the same thing, but many people lump the two together.

HIPAA is the general policy. HITECH is what regulates how that policy can be implemented in technology.
One, this is repeating the iPhone vs Android comparisons. iPhones with 4GB RAM feel faster and get more work done than Androids running Qualcomm ARM with double that amount of RAM. The faster IO becomes the cheaper paging becomes, and macOS and iOS have a lot of work done to handle paging well.

Two, this is the entry level processor, made for the Air, which is what we get for students, non-technical family members and spare machines. Let’s see what the “pro” version of this is, the M1X or whatever. We already know this chip isn’t going to go as is into the 16 inch MacBook Pro, the iMac Pro or the Mac Pro. I’d like to see what comes in those boxes.
There is some cost/effort to building a better browser engine. They might believe that the same cost/effort would better benefit the business if put elsewhere.

You see this at companies when engineering teams get it into their heads that they need to rewrite in a new framework. There's a trade-off between that work and building new features for customers. The benefits might be worth it in the long term! They also might not be.

That seems to be the call Mozilla made. I don't know if it's the right one, but it seems to be what they did.
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Leaving about 0 plug and play options left...
By now, html is totally designed to be good looking.
Look at all the amount of work, that went into CSS and co.

Things that cost me a line in CSS, like text-shadow, probably would require me to implement a shader libary in swing.
>Passive voice isn't bad but it's primary purpose is to allow flexibility in word order.

Maybe we're reading different things but from everything a I see, passive voice is way overused. Most writers are not deliberately sequencing their word order in the sentences which results in passive voice. Instead, most writers are omitting the active agent because it's the easier default. Unfortunately, this overuse of passive voice lacks punch.

Example of a classic passive voice sentence: "Mistakes were made."

Writers love hiding behind passive constructions like that. With no explicit agent, there's nobody in specific to point blame at nor offend. But the reader wants to know _who_ made the mistake. If possible, write the agent into the sentence: "Nixon made mistakes." or "Kissinger made mistakes."

There was a writing style book that compared 10-K annual financial reports from companies that got hit by accounting scandals (Enron, Worldcom) vs clean companies (Berkshire Hathaway & Warren Buffet). There was a significantly more passive voice sentences in the dishonest companies. In contrast, Warren Buffet writes in a lively active-voice style ("I invested in this. We lost money on that.") I just checked the BH's most recent 2020 10-K and Warren Buffet still writes in active voice.

(I wonder if there's a hedge fund that uses text analysis software to scan 10-K filings to quantify which company is overusing passive-voice as a parameter to their models.)

For technical reports like "post-mortem of website outages"... the heavy use of passive voice is understandable since it's just trying to explain the problem and eventual solution and not focus on _who_ fat-fingered the command-line with incorrect config to cause the outage.
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But that would insult Lord of the Rings. His beard and nose ring, with his smug manner, combined with the alien-looking Zuckerberg and his style, should provoke everyone's primal instincts to avoid anything these guys have built.
uber/zap is highly regarded and used
If the compiled application runs faster or similarly fast I think it's fair.

The point is to develop and run binaries. If X86 with SSE4 takes a lot more CPU time to compile binaries with acceptable performances compared to ARM, it's a win for the ARM architecture.
This barely solves anything. All public people get screenshoted and once this rolls out, I imagine someone will find a way to screenshot all tweets.

HN is a huge community and I imagine full of ex-employees of Twitter, what exactly does the organization believe the businesses core focus/value is? Like what is the framework they are growing towards?
I can't follow your argument. Above, you said -

>the solution is [...] to have police put their blackmailing asses in the jail.

But now, you're saying you don't have meaningful access to law enforcement (in this context). So, why did you suggest a solution you know isn't viable? I don't get it.

To my mind, you've just made a strong argument for publishing DKIM keys since you readily admit law enforcement cannot tackle the blackmail problem. Indeed, even in countries with "good" law enforcement, they can't reasonably tackle it since the blackmailers almost always come from overseas (or are un-traceable).
The cost is the alarming sight, causing the economic crisis. In Santa Clara/CA so far only some 400 people died of COVID-19, i.e. about 2 a day, while some 40 a day die of unrelated causes. Yet, if you step outside, you might think the Zombie apocalypse is happening.
Because you are not the ultimate decider of what to do with the machine. If you owned it, you could do anything outside of harm.
Twitter removed the wording because it was wrong. What are you arguing about?
Phobos is the high ground. Get there and plant the flag.
Your English is very good based on this comment. It sounds formal, but that formality reads as coming from your personality rather than writing textbook English.
I'm enrolled for a masters at Georiga Tech right now and last I checked the OS course is in C, I would kinda prefer to learn rust anyway so I hope you are right.
Ideally such tools should be used as helpers, not as sacred. You what to comply with when to what degree.
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FWIW the latest-gen consoles supposedly have memory bandwidth in the hundreds of GB/s. The PS5 supposedly reaches 448GB/s, and the XBX 336 to 560 depending on the memory segment.
I would still expect servo to at loosely remain "firefox shaped", at least far more than the separately-developed webkit lineage.
Re: Reversing course.. what will you replace your Macs with?
Is some of this because of those processor level flaws/exploits where the fixes resulted in disabling some processor commands making them slower and less efficient

With only a completely new/different architecture getting those advances back?
It is pure Javascript, you can use it locally after a few tweaks in the code.

There are few lines that phone pingdom, you can just removed them.
I smell an XPrize!
It is done in the name of corporations by rich people to protect the wealth of rich people. Not really sure why we are trying to speak in euphemisms.
I work a super physical job in a warehouse and the mask hasn't affected my job in any way.
Anyone else worried that while these performance improvements are really good, that this is further locking people into Apple's ecosystem? No self-repairs, no bootcamp support, etc
Cuomo already culled a vast portion of their weakest members. Of course they're are doing alright now.

High five, I guess.
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I think it's part of a larger trend of infantilization of the end user, which I find disturbing.
Not the original poster, but I would imagine it echos what I have seen (and believe myself) in that it’s not a hoax as is normally defined, but a mass hysteria fueled by a media that needs clicks to survive. The risks are real for certain demographics, we need to take precautions to help vulnerable people, etc. however the unintended consequences of drastic policies are economic hardship, creating a new generation of homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, and deaths of despair.

I have been called a denier, and have had my beliefs references as “believing COVID is a hoax”, which is far from the truth. From what I can tell a huge portion of the United States is engaged in a mass delusion, and is actively handing over all the prosperity for the next decade to large corporations who benefit from COVID, while risking the future of kids with mostly worthless remote learning.

Focus the effort required to create lockdowns / restrictions on providing relief for elderly, unhealthy, immunocompromised people, etc.

If some misguided old people in the Midwest want to pretend they are not at risk, it’s their life and their body to do that with. Sucks for the healthcare workers tasked with dealing with that, but you can’t legislate away life, risk, etc.
Wouldn't present progressive be "Now we are engaging..."?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_continuous

Either way, active can really change the meaning:

"Now we fight/pursue/battle in/confront a great civil war..."

The passive voice (combined with the weak verb "to be engaged") emphasizes a future without the war ("we" and "endure"), not riling people up to fight it.

As you imply, passive voice is a tool humans can use to influence other humans. Of course, any tool can be abused, but that's no reason to yank it out of the box.
I wish someone would use GPT-3 to generate automatic replies to comments based on previous HN history. I'm sure discussions repeat themselves a lot.
> the state has the power and push to get people to do it

> this is why we need Biden in office

You know Biden is running for national office, right? Not state government?
There already is an insider build :)
A note for anyone who is thinking of switching from ranger, to customize key bindings you need to recompile the application [0]. The developer is not interested in maintaining custom keybinding support. For more insight into the reasoning behind the current keybindings see this issue thread [1].

Also mentioned in this thread, lf a ranger clone written in go [2].

[0]: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Advanced-use-cases#custom-...

[1]: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/issues/422

[2]: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
Oddly enough, pianists not knowing how to tune a piano is an anomaly in the music world, as most other artists know their instruments inside and out. The Times did a piece on this just the other day: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/arts/music/piano-tuning.h...
> if you don't we'll assume you have a health condition...without a mask in sight.

I suppose it was assumed everyone had a mental-health condition.
I was full stack until 2020. I choose to do frontend for now, because there isn't much stress in comparison with backend. Also to earn more money you have to specialize.
<pedantic>
I think you meant "without a predicate".
</pendantic>

As far as I can tell, "Sometimes more succinct than it needs to be" is grammatically incorrect because it lacks a predicate.
Doesn't really change anything because you are pretty much out of the Earth's gravity well by the time you get to the moon.
Why are cases important? Assuming PCR, can get whatever result you want with the cycle threshold (discussion begins around minute 3:50):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Vy6fgaBPE

Want more positive cases? Use a higher threshold. Want to scare the population into compliance? Use a higher threshold. Want to demonstrate that person X or policy Y was effective against stopping spread? Use a lower threshold.
Does anybody know of a good docker compose alternative?

I absolutely loathe using it for development environment or testing because of awful design decisions like this wait-for-it hack https://docs.docker.com/compose/startup-order/
You know, I've had some bouts of that but I talked myself out of thinking too far into the future. Our children are better off if we don't have anxiety, if we are present and somewhat confident. I am aware the situation is not good but it really won't help at all by being anxious.
Is there any move to get a Kindle app on this? I suspect the market is not big enough for Amazon to care but maybe they'd be open to some partnership where someone else does the work?

I mean they ship readers on Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and Web so it's not like they care that you buy a Kindle.
> Chrome. Slack. VSCode.

VMs, especially since you need one to run docker on OSX, IntelliJ, Firefox, ...
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Imagine trying to hold people accountable for disinformation when they just start spreading everything with fleets.
I don't see this as paradoxical. For babies past a couple months old a lot of cries are actually manipulative, and a more empathetic person can better distinguish them. I think my wife and I started sleeping training our son at around 12 weeks old, and quickly learned to tell the difference between a "complaining" cry that meant he was unhappy but he could probably soothe himself, and a "real" cry that meant he was really upset and needed our attention. Both of those were quite different from the sharp cries that indicated physical pain or something very distressing.
The Constitution was ratified before anyone accepted that germs cause disease. Even if it weren't, I doubt they'd have had the foresight to predict the vast number of radicalized buffoons who would demand the "freedom" to needlessly expose fellow citizens to a virus that's killed 250k people.
Sure, the lockdown situation is worse than things are currently. You're likely to need per-device hacks that unlock it and enable freedom for users.

Even in that scenario though, ARM devices use standards too. There's a reason I can generally pick up any Android device and know what needs to be done to build my own OS for it. We just lack tooling that makes that incredibly easy and lack maintainers who want to make those devices work with the mainstream linux kernel.

Having open devices though (outside of Apple) is still my bet. We still need to make that process smoother but that just means there's lots of low hanging fruit :)
Well, you get rid of the need to know git stash, but now you need rebase -i, amend, the idea of squashing, probably git reset if you're not happy with a commit... Whichever way you look at it, you need to learn quite a few more commands (and concepts!) than what the initial list claimed.
Happy to see new developments here, though FWIW, I've mostly had a good time with JavaFX, especially in Clojure, where there's a neat Reagent-style (a React wrapper) library called cljfx[0].

It's true that Oracle has mostly divested here but I'm excited to see what teams like Gluon do with it, especially for mobile development. It's nice (though perhaps a mixed blessing) to be spoiled for choice in Clojure land, since you also have great access to the React Native ecosystem.

[0]: https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx
Apple has been optimizing the compiler for a decade for iOS.
The Boox devices are pretty nice. The Note Air is a bit larger and close to the reMarkable 2 in form factor.
> Not a chemist, but AFAIK current market available 'biostarch polymers' (AFAIK always PLA; which may be marketed as made from corn, sugar cane, etc.) are actually extremely environmentally unfriendly because of the massive embodied energy required to create the industry-ready polymer from the bio-waste material. Their single benefit is nominal biodegradability.

Also not a chemist, but this is reminiscent of "bamboo" fabric that is just Rayon made from bamboo cellulose instead of wood pulp cellulose.

As such, it can be a bit more environmentally friendly to produce, and amenable to production in a closed-loop facility, but isn't any more recyclable or biodegradable:

Eg. From 'Abundance of microplastics in the world's deep seas'[0]:

"Rayon -- a humanmade non-plastic polymer used in personal hygiene products and clothing -- contributed to 56.9% of the total fibres seen, with polyester, polyamides, acetate and acrylic among the others recorded."

Which isn't at all the same thing as fabrics made from actual bamboo fibers (often called 'bamboo linen').

The whole 'greenwashing' thing is super annoying to me, because even when regulating agencies are doing their job properly, so much wiggle-room is left for what marketers are allowed to imply with entirely true statements.

eg. The label lists the fiber content as 'bamboo rayon', and the marketing says "made from environmentally friendly and biodegradable bamboo!", Which glosses over that the process used to turn the bamboo INTO rayon may not have been environmentally friendly, or that while rayon is biodegradable, sort of, if it's in a landfill it's going to stick around a long time.

And then I try to imagine consumer labelling requirements for all materials, sources, methods, and lifecycles, or summarizing these into a simple environmental score, and despair.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141216212253.h...
I think I was going for more like: strpbrk and friends can't use a multi-byte sequence as a delimiter. And if a delimiter appears as part of a multi byte sequence, you may see strange results.

In a localized world searching for delimiters also starts to make less sense. Eg. I have been told it doesn't make sense to break on whitespace for Chinese text.

To be clear, I am not saying these functions are bad or evil or to blame for their limitations (a bunch of the problem space wasn't invented yet when they were introduced), just noting they have limits. A bunch of more recent languages and libraries have the same or similar issues, too.
Overjoyed to see this, and best wishes to the team. Looking forward to seeing the future of Servo, and possibly contributing.

I see Servo as a great Electron alternative. And I think eventually it could become a browser, though I understand that at least as of a few months ago that wasn't the plan.
Really depends on what you’re doing. If you’re working with large amounts of data, being able to put it in memory is super helpful.
Has anyone tried Cobalt? It looks like something based on it could be an alternative to Electron.

https://cobalt.foo/

It's meant for embedded but that probably just means it's easy to build and uses low memory.

A high-performance, small-footprint platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS to run applications, including the YouTube TV app.
“Every program attempts to expand until it includes disappearing daily stories" - zawinski's lesser-known eponymous law
Grocery stores even are employing someone to just stand there and either hand a cheapy surg. mask or tell them to put one on.

In the more advanced countries, such as Thailand, this is automated.[1] The store entrance gate won't open until the automated face scan has seen a mask. Hikvision has a mask and temperature detection system integrated with their face recognition systems.[2] If you already have a face recognition system, adding mask detection is a software update. And yes, face recognition now works on people with masks.

[1] https://twitter.com/i/status/1312668730791403520

[2] https://www.hikvision.com/uk/solutions/solutions-by-applicat...
That is a stupid reason. Put your smart devices behind a Tor Hidden Service, so that they're basically invisible to anyone but you, but still accessible from everywhere. Generate a keypair for every device you want to allow access from and you're safe from most credible threats.