skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> More than three times the number of known Covid cases? C’mon, man.

Actual cases being three times the number of known cases sounds reasonable to me. I protested when the Swedish CDC (Folkhälsomyndigheten) claimed it was 1000x, then 100x and finally 75x. But 3x sounds very reasonable to me, perhaps even a bit low.
What's the point of arguing if companies are able to limit free speech in theory when they just did so in practice?
Yes, Signal is a nonprofit charity.
And just skipping over the running out of money thing.

Old enough that ATM's were a big change.

Before that, it was a Friday trip to the bank to get cash for the weekend. Credit
It’ll all be wasted. When gasoline prices plummet, everyone buys 8mpg SUVs. If power & performance gets cheaper, it’ll be wasted. Blockchain in your refrigerator.
1. It's not literally "c'mon man" it's "look at these graphs, then 'c'mon, man'."

2. They stipulate that lots of people didn't get tested, but believe it to be an order of magnitude less than the CDC estimates.
That being said, C# 5 code can be retrofitted with most new features simply by listening to the IDE which suggests refactorings to make use of them.
There is no ambiguity there. The ambiguity arises for parameterized types.

type A[T] int

Is that a parameterized type named A with a type parameter T, or is it a definition of an array named A whose length is T?

Separately, it's nice that type parameter lists use the same syntax as non-type parameter lists.
At a minimum the last few on the mood list (depressed obsessive thoughts, apathetic, very self-critical) seem like great indicators of when someone might be the most receptive to advertising for SSRIs.
It's funny that a lot of their acquisitions were in spaces that had the potential to exceed the market cap of their core product (which is currently stuck at 9B) had they been more successful:

- HelloSign for esignatures, compared to DocuSign which has a 48.29B market cap

- Zulip for chat, compared to Slack which has a 24.30B market cap

- Carousel for photos, compared to Instagram which is estimated at 100B market cap

- Paper for documents

- Mailbox for emails
Agreed, the beef needs to be with Apple, developers targeting the platform are trying their best, and to say that they shouldn't support the platform if they can't deliver a quality product is disingenuous; you can have a quality product and Apple's policies and restrictions can absolutely destroy your UX; I've experienced this first hand.

It's not that Apple doesn't budge, if people shout loud enough; their Push/APNS change deadline was pushed back twice, it can happen again if enough people push enough for them to start treating their 3rd party developers like first class citizens.
That was the lamest web page I ever had to open.

Please learn some decent web design. And not create your own weird style.
It's from mid November. Since then, at a near 200k/day rate, another 10M+ diagnosed cases have been recorded.

In other words: that article extrapolates from the CDC report of 10 million cases in November, and that is now sitting at around 23M. If anything, the estimate should be way above 70M.
> Do you think planes were falling out of the sky left and right before those air safety laws came into effect? No.

That is exactly what was happening. In 1924, prior to the introduction of the first federal aircraft safety regulations in 1926, there was 1 fatality per 13,500 miles for commercial flights. Between 2000 and 2010, the average was 0.2 fatalities per 10 billion passenger miles.

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2016/03/03/early-aviation-safety...
This question may be a tad premature. We are at the very beginning of a potential education revolution. What we are waiting for is the next 'Google'. This is an app/platform/system which will be so intuitive and accessible over remote tech that it will instantly change the way we look at teaching long term. It will come. The big unknown is...when?
I don't want to speak for the parent commenter, but I think the concern is that the local app could be exfiltrating the contact list (and then by the exact same logic, message content as well) in some side channel unrelated to anything seen in the published source code, unless (a) the user builds the apk from published source code themselves, or (b) if there's some way to prove that the apk received via the Play Store is identical to one built from that source code.

Is (b) achievable by all users who have this concern?
Who Is Intel’s New CEO Pat Gelsinger
Secure access over the internet is a limitation of self hosting.
The post was given like 9 upvotes in the first 5 minutes. I frequently go to "new" and this is a highly suspicious behavior.
Thank you for the list.

Going quickly through the companies there:

- Rackspace was sold to private equity and restructured and made public a second time.
- LogMeIn was sold to private equity
- Kaplan is part of bigger company
- Ultimate software merged with Kronos
- Shutterfly was acquired by private equity
- Wirecard is a scam.
- Grubhub is going to be acquired by a bigger competitor
- Travelport, Expedia and Bookings are 3 very similar companies which bought all the smaller competitors.
> See why you can't make huge blatant overgeneralisations?

I think you've (deliberately) overlooked where I clearly said it was one experience:

> in my experience ... My North American company ... My friends at British companies ...

If you don't want to hear people sharing their individual lived experiences what's the point in joining a discussion? Why are people like this on this forum?
Adding more reasons:

Europe as a single entity is problematic, there's a north-south gradient, the cold war east-west divide, and EU/non EU.

* Switching jobs was less common, there used to be loyalty from both sides.

* It's easy to get competent workers from outside of "western" europe with a matching culture and timezone. I've seen a switch from outsourcing to poland(former east) to the ukraine(non EU+east). This is good for the polish guys, they're almost at our level now.

* Residence requirements for people outside of the European continent are low, and on base wage mostly lower than for any other sector.

This makes the wages more internationally competitive from a business perspective, and hooks into "Individual contributors in Europe are not as valued as much as managerial professions" Because you can get the work from somewhere else cheaper.
Show HN: Listen to any web article in your podcast player
It's not that easy.

Even if you already work for a US company, and that company is willing to sponsor you, and you win the visa lottery, it can take years to move to the US, and many years after that to get a green card. And at any point something could go wrong, your company screws up paperwork or something, and you get sent back to the start.
For PostgreSQL and Go, here's a package to spin up a temp in-mem PostgreSQL: https://github.com/rubenv/pgtest/
What do you mean when you say “the Unifi itself required...a router?”

The Unifi Security Gateway is a router.
In Java it's worse, for SimpleDateFormat (the most often used date formatter in Java) YYYY (uppercase) is "week year" (strftime %G), the correct way to get the year (strftime %Y) is yyyy (lowercase). It's very easy to get it wrong; the correct way to get the full ISO timestamp is "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX".
I've seen [a] on HN three times in the last week. Don't know if it's recency bias, Baader-Meinhof, a legitimate increase in common popularity/knowledge, or a sign of the times.

edit: after a quick algolia search, it has indeed been posted much more this year than years before.
Great post, though as a disclaimer, it mirrors my own biases and thoughts on Elixir. I'm happy for its success, but I too find it a step backward.

On the positive side, I don't think we'd have gotten rebar3 without hex guiding the way.

That being said, I wish hex.pm did a better job at distinguishing between elixir packages and erlang packages. It's always super disappointing when I try and stay pure Erlang to have to sift through Elixir packages for what I am looking for.

It's amazing how far Elixir has come in 10 years. I've always hoped it can become a gateway drug for Erlang. I don't think it will, and I guess that's okay, as it pushes Erlang forward in its own way.
>EDIT: Why is the downvoting? the post was give like 9 upvotes in the first 5 minutes. I frequently go to "new" and this is a highly suspicious behaviour.

They are popular people so people submit the link. Once duplicate links are submitted there is an upvote on the first submission. No duplicates.

Source: I was the second upvote.
Being upset does not make them right, does not justify their behavior, and does not mean they have a right to be heard.

In fact, most of the "outrage" experienced on the right is intentionally drummed up, based on almost nothing, for purely selfish reasons. Consider the constantly inflamed talking heads on right-wing media outlets, who abide by the simple rule to always, always be angry.
How is this number two on the front page
Again, this is well-documented and has been reported on and researched (with public research) by professionals who specialize in this. You don't have to take my word for it, but if you use your favorite search engine and some of the quotes upthread, you will find some nice entry points.

Good luck with your journey.
Agree, but I would at least expect performance and reliability to be better than a consumer router.
"tamper". That connotation is intentional. MS wants to take control away from users and owners, so uses such language.

How about "modify" or "customise"? No, because that wouldn't fit their authoritarian narrative.
Erlang's VM is great, Erlang the language isn't imo. Elixir just did it better imo and this person seemingly can't stand that people seem to like it more. Let people like the things they like :P I'm really not sure this needed a blog post.
Sorry, the AC.
I’ve been interested in applications of visible light for a short time now, but I started watching styropyro videos on YouTube even more recently and find myself suddenly interested in lasers, even for stupid, impractical usages.
What was MoviePass's pivot? I thought they just announced an obviously unsustainable business model that turned out to be unsustainable. Wikipedia doesn't obviously indicate any pivot.
Dumping is different from bundling, but the boundary is fuzzy.

Dumping is an unsustainable business practice that cripples competitors before raising prices to sustainable levels.

Bundling isn't bad if its price is higher than cost and it's cheaper for customers than unbundling.
Wasn't [4] widely criticized for messing up basic statistics? Either way, numbers from April might as well not exist for what they tell us about today.
I have found conservative bastions to be some of the least respective of 1A rights.

Case and point, r/conservative on reddit. You literally have to be a conservative ("flared user") to even comment on the vast majority of posts, and are immediately banned if any liberal opinion is expressed.

When called out on their hypocrisy the only defense given is a super-sized dose of Whatboutism, if they bother to defend their hypocrisy at all.

But r/conservative is hardly a unique case. The vast majority of right leaning message boards I have visited, Parler included, are ran in exactly the same manner.

Conservatives don't want free speech, they just want their own speech to be the only speech that matters, just like they want their votes to be the only ones that matter.
This has nothing to do with the comment you replied to, as you have no idea what software is running on their server, so what would it even mean to reproduce it in the first place? The correct answer is merely "the server never received much in the first place so it doesn't matter as much if they stored all of it".
>dbus was Linux only at the time and solving this with dbus would cut off any BSD users from that feature

I'm sorry but this has never been true during the development of wayland. A quick search shows dbus has been in freebsd since 2004, before wayland even existed: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/dbus/Makefile?vi...

The problem with creating additional wayland-only solutions is that they tend to need good, strong implementations in the toolkits first for it to really make sense over a dbus implementation that already exists. (The wayland api is not particularly friendly for application programmers) The person advocating for the protocol is usually the one who has to implement that.
Are you arguing that granting a particular kind of same-sex union involves "subjugating" people who opposed it?

I (and most people I think) use the word subjugation to mean "bring under domination or control, especially by conquest: the invaders had soon subjugated most of the native population." Traditional examples of subjugation include occupations and forced religion.
Where are these manufactured?
Brad Fitzpatrick aside (he's done a lot more than memcached), David Crawshaw, co-author of TFA, lead go-mobile (native golang apps for Android and iOS) and NetStack (userspace TCP/IP implementation used by gVisor and in-anger by Fuschia) while at Google.
This might, impressively, be the worst Webdesign I ever saw
I like typescript, but i feel like slowly it is becoming the most complicated looking language out there.

I like that we are free to use as little of the complexity as possible, but a lot of the terse and nuanced syntax can make it difficult to read code within a team.
How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult
The biggest benefit for me has been working from home. My wife stayed home with our young daughter before the pandemic, and this has reinforced that decision. Being able to work from home and seeing her go from 6mo to 16mo and being present for all those milestones has been a blessing, especially with an accommodating workplace. It hasn’t been easy as we live in a small home, but we do what we can.

So, I wouldn't say we're necessarily thriving, but we're doing the best we can to see the silver linings and I’m thankful that I’m able to work at home.
I would note that trying to do inflation across these time period is tricky. An agricultural worker in England at this time would have made only about 18 pounds per year.
> Erlang the language isn't imo.

Why not?
Electronics of the Future
Hi, you’re mention of s3 piqued my interest, how are you using it?
I am a very average American, born in 1983, and I’ll admit that I have only the vaguest idea of The Troubles. My first real concrete memory of hearing of Ireland’s issues was the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

If you were born after 1990 in America, I am doubtful you have much knowledge of that era at all.
I think the [Provisional] IRA is well known in America. Every other American seems to think they are 'part Irish' and I think the average American's awareness of The Troubles is high, at least compared to other foreign conflicts (at least for Americans old enough to remember the 90s at least anyway.) Furthermore 'Irish car bombs' are a tactless but popular bar drink in America, which indicates an awareness of the conflict.
Also, antibodies often don't linger more than a few months, and the immunity is handled by memory cells instead. So that 15% is just a window.
In IKEv2 it’s optional but IPsec NAT traversal (NAT-T) uses UDP port 4500.
May or may not be of interest, but I’ve been working on a platform for behavior management. It’s data, graph and rules based, which you define habits and objectives on top of (along with your reminders and likes). It has time tracking baked in (one of several data types). Web and app, API coming shortly along with Zapier support. Site is https://conjure.so with most progress updates and screenshots being posted on Twitter https://twitter.com/ConjureSo
The pipe operator seems silly until you learn to pipe into IO.inspect. for vscoders I use this snippet (https://slickb.it/bits/70) which also labels with the line numbers, meaning you can multiline select a bunch of lines in your pipeline and when you're done ninja them out with another multiline select (usually line numbers have the same number of characters around each other). In combination with triggering single tests, it's invaluable for isolating errors in code.

In action: https://youtu.be/WMYc3VzOSpg&t=23m20s

I suppose the problem with this snippet is that it keeps you from using more powerful tools like tracer and recon.
Will check it out, and am looking forward to your writeup!
Signal has reproducible builds for at least Android: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/master/repr...

You compare the result you get compiling the app yourself with what you downloaded from the Play Store. For iOS this might be harder
If your current work is no longer serving your needs, maybe it's time to find another. Don't let anybody tell you how to live your life. Do what works best.

> 200 to 240 hours a month was pretty typical

It also seems very normal. I do 210 a month at least (without overtime). That's not counting lunch hour during which I'm mostly still at my desk, and which would add another 20 hours a month.

> (I doubt it's out of real concern for my health, my workload hasn't been reduced).

I don't know your work or your boss, but it could be they expect you to manage yourself and are waiting to see how the work piles up before deciding what to do about it. If they complain it's not getting done, just quote them. Less time = less work gets done.

Also see my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25767160
Technically the best mitigation is to use a decentralized service that cannot be censored.

Socially the best mitigation is the same as always, be honest and peaceful.
There is a lot of pushback on Levitt's predictions that keep moving the goalposts. Let's just say his Nobel Prize wasn't in curve fitting.

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/the-lethal-nons...
I believe that no-code is the right solution in some areas like building quickly a website for those who don't want to hire a developer. I have another use-case in the cloud management which is a product I developed https://www.brainboard.co that generates Terraform code from a drawing and I think no-code will be present in more and more domains.
For single thread performance.
Ok Then
The author makes the point that the assumption behind that number is that people test for Covid-19 at the same rate as they would test for the flu. I know of very few people who have tested for flu but many who have tested for Covid-19.
I use i3 window manager and have it highly configured.
It has made so many things easier for me as I have setup key shortcuts to access my most used apps.

I usually keep my notes in markdown and plaintext and use tools such as grep and cat if I want to find something from my notes.

Furthermore, i force myself to use terminal for almost everything, as this allows me to find the tools I have never used and find ways to do things quickly.

Last but not least I’m still newbie to vim so I’m still learning but for text editing I use sublime and vim
This is unflattering. Do keep in mind that erlangs was built in the mid 80s so for it's time it was fantastic, and erlang is relatively conservative in it's language (which is not a wrong choice) so it just hasn't caught up, and it might never, and that's okay.
In 1955 IBM mainframe users formed SHARE which grew to be one of two mainframe user groups (the other being Guide, defunct since 1999). SHARE runs conferences, provides software builds (or did) and serves as a way for MVS ("Z/OS" this week) and VM users to pool together requests and requirements with IBM.

Kind of surprised similar groups haven't appeared for AWS, Google, and Azure customers*.

* edit: I mean customers, people paying hard cash. Users relying on free services need to figure out some form of leverage and band together behind that.
I would not go down the road of figuring out what subset of SQL various database understand. You will always be surprised, and you'll be surprised in production because "the thing" you developed against sqlite doesn't work in postgres.

I used to do this and stopped when I noticed that sqlite and postgres treat booleans differently; postgres accepts 't' as true, but SQLite stores a literal 't' in the boolean-typed field. This means you get different results when you read things back out. All in all, not a rabbit hole you want to go down.

Personally, I just create a new database for each test against a postgres server on localhost. The startup time is nearly zero, and the accuracy compared to production is nearly 100%.
It's not really about the most efficient, easily consumable delivery of information from point A to B. Students are really "consuming" a bundle of knowledge, skills, experiences, credentials, reptutation and social networks. There's not much incentive to move online (Prof at a UK university)
HN typically doesn't like it when threads devolve, and users will then flag the thread as such.
What are your thoughts on VMware? It seems they are too in decline...
I am not talking about public servers. If your team/clan's voice server is being DDoSed. Bonus points if a member hosts the Mumble or TS server.
It's ok :-) I figure you have a lot to read and might miss things here and there.

> Do you know if what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711941 says is true, that they do this every election? That seems relevant if so, and the comment sounds credible.

I don't know if they do it every election, but I'm guessing they may have started to do it in the 2016 election and this one in 2021 (they have elections every 5 years), and I could see it being a trend that may continue if the leadership remains the same.
There is really no reliable evidence that symptom severity is correlated with initial viral dose. It's a plausible hypothesis but remains unproven.
I'm Irish in Ireland, I've been following the matter closely.

Ireland had one of the strictest lockdowns in most of Europe since March, no pubs, nightclubs, limited restaurants, churches, limited sports, 5km travel restrictions were on and off. We masked up early and our national broadcaster was constantly warning everyone non-stop. Schools were open however.

We were the poster boy for lockdown success up until at least November. Other nations were commenting on our achievements. You can see what has happened since.

The WHO warns that lockdown should only be treated as a last resort, to truly flatten the curve and no more. We ignored that.

It's my sincere opinion that we've tried to push back a virus through our lockdown measures and social distancing that eventually cannot be controlled.

Holding back a virus is like holding back a damn, eventually something will burst and typically at the wrong time.

If we had listened to the WHO by not locking down, gaining natural immunity during the summer (when coronaviruses aren't as prevalent) we wouldn't be in the mess that we are in now.

The median age of death of this virus is 82. Please conceptualise this. Less than 20 people under the age of 44 died from covid in 2020. With our current technology dying is a part of life that cannot be avoided. The people who are dying from covid at the moment are people who were going to die this year, remember, people have to die, most of them have already made peace with this idea.

If we didn't try so hard to prevent these aged people from dying we wouldn't have our resources stretched thin which is compounding the death rate further.

I'm sorry to be the person to tell you this but we all have to die, we shouldn't be stopping the living from enjoying their days on earth. Lockdowns are hurting the young and middle age to a drastic degree. You may not care because you work from home and are still guaranteed a paycheck. It's easy to virtue signal that you want to save everyone from the comfort of your keyboard. You aren't impacted by business closures but if you had any shed of humanity you would disagree to these lockdowns because they are causing more harm than good.
Also throwing out the suggestion of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. I listened to the audio book on Audible and found it pretty interesting.