skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaik those make for a 2x performance hit. And they don't necessarily protect against buffer overflows; if you overflow out of data addressable from one pointer, but into data that's legally addressable from another pointer, that's still an issue, but it won't be caught.
I've been checking for updates on the virus several times a day since it first started being reported in Western media around Jan 20 (in part because it's been a fun distraction, in part because I have friends in Wuhan). I like to think I'm generally an optimist, but I think it's been clear for several weeks now that this is going to have a significant worldwide impact.

There are just too many factors in favor of uncontained worldwide spread at this point - within the 1st week of reporting it already looked like China's numbers were incomplete (and potentially manipulated) and the scale was greatly underestimated.

Untraceable transmission all over the place, relatively low-traffic countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka seeing cases very early on, extremely long incubation periods with airborne transmission without symptoms, false negative tests with people either catching the virus after leaving quarantine or not testing positive (both really bad signs), governments demonstrating weak and ineffective containment of potentially infected travelers (Japan: "no symptoms so they can go home!"), more infections than SARS in a small fraction of the time, the US only testing ~400 people thus far, entire families in Wuhan being wiped out. Basically everything is in place for this to be a serious pandemic.

I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best. Countries without authoritarian governments likely don't have the means to effectively quarantine major cities and shut down massive portions of their economy immediately without major problems arising. Given a couple weeks, sure, but by then it will be too late.

As an aside, BNO has been doing an excellent job of posting timely and sourced updates that make it easy to keep up to date with every new confirmed case (scroll down to the Timeline section):

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...

Hopefully I can look back at this comment in a couple months and chuckle at my paranoia!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Summer_Olympics
Zoox was supposed to announce a new funding round by the end of last year, and still crickets. The further into 2020 we get the more I think they might not get any more money.
It does make sense. Because SwiftUI creates special constructs for regular language features (if, foreach) despite those features, you know, being available in the language.
Any news source on this? UEFA seems to be saying there is no chance of cancelling the Cup... which I find believable, as the governing bodies for the various soccer leagues and competitions tend to be more money-hungry than other sports.

Edit: grammar.
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/25/study-finds-brave-to-be-th...
Medical tests can also be counter productive. Hear me out. There's studies that regularly show the optimal age for i.e breast cancer screening. Screening too early can cause an increase in misdiagnosis I believe. There are other such cases for not just cancer screenings - I know not exactly what you're talking about. EEG and blood test make sense. But for more advanced tests, you could be right in saying "there are legitimate safety reasons" - maybe not so much from the test itself but from the impact of a false positive.
As a Go programmer, it doesn't really seem that notable or surprising to me that Go isn't considered the best language to use for implementing an operating system.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring a product designer that's excited about developer tools
> Why does that statistic mean anything in a highly fragmented contest?

Why does that statistic not mean something in a highly fragmented contest? The 1972 and 1976 Democratic primaries both started with 16 candidates; the 1996 Republican primaries had 12 and the 2000 Republican primaries had 13. Being the only candidate in 11 cycles to win the popular vote in the first three primaries/caucuses isn't an automatic ticket to the White House, no, but it's not nothing.

Assuming Sanders is even a close second in South Carolina, he's going to have tremendous momentum going into Super Tuesday, and historically it's unwise to write that off.
> china didn't lie with the 2% death rate

Keep in mind that 2% is just a guess, of people officially diagnosed the death rate is supposedly 4.8%:

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f9134d/48_fatality...
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> As an option its a super super quick temporary solution, just because your body and mind is working on other things.

There are no permanent solutions for depression other than long term maintenance on anti-depressants. A couple nights worth of sleep deprivations seems to be miracle cure compared to the effects and lack of efficacy of anti-depressants.

> It's not a treatment at all, just a distraction, like drinking, so I agree with you there and I think its bad advise to promote such, same way as drinking..

I fail to understand the why it is a distraction vs. a cure? Sleep deprivation cures some forms of depression temporarily without use of drugs. Why is that a distraction?
Already a big discussion about that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409838
The article omits the size of the company. Apparently 54 people were employed at some point[1]. LinkedIn now lists 36 employees[2].

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=company+info+starsky+robotic...

2: https://www.linkedin.com/company/starsky-robotics/
So pen and paper is your alternative? Ultimate faith in standardized testing, and suggesting pen and paper in a digitally-dominated economy seems delusional.
Sorry, Formula 1 gran prix.
Or is it that all the office cloud revenue is being lumped in with Azure and no one is actually using azure?

I haven't seen a breakdown where they split out office 365, active directory, etc vs their pure cloud offerings.
>I'm curious how other folks who work at large tech shops in the valley feel about working from home for a while.

Am in the UK and not the US but given that I'm healthy and relatively young I don't really see the point. This disease is scary in the aggregate, i.e it imposes huge economic costs. The average case of it is basically having flu symptoms, and I never stayed at home unless I got sick during bad flu seasons.

I'm not really sure why people paint being infected with this like the bubonic plague or something, there is already a bunch of corona viruses raging around all the time anyway.

edit: lots of downvotes because I don't lock myself in because of a corona virus? People here seem to love hysteria a these days.
>If an extra charge of $10 / month for everyone in Europe would 'solve' the problem, why don't we do it?

Considering how much excise taxes Europeans pay on their gasoline, you would think that climate change would already be a solved issue. Taxes are a larger part of the cost of gasoline than the gasoline itself. Yet somehow there isn't enough money to fight climate change?! The Netherlands pays $3.53 per gallon purely in excise taxes.[0] Bulgaria, a country with an average income of $9000 a year[1], pays $1.61 a gallon in excise taxes.

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-europe-2019/

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/wages
I wonder if he’s scared about coronavirus?
Japanese Gov’t seems yet to decide whether to go cannonball or call it off entirely, currently bit on cannonball side which is how this deadline story came up.

If cancelled, this’ll be the second time an Olympic Games in Tokyo is cancelled, that I personally find hilarious, but a lot will be fuming embarrassed, especially if historians later likely is to mark it an uneducated overreaction.
> Ultimately, the strategic evolutions of iterated games is a ridiculously deep and nuanced topic, making it difficult to really get into the meat and potatoes in forums. Maybe I should make a blog post or something, but I don't know how interesting it would be.

I'm interested, and if you do end up doing so, I would love to give you feedback on it before publishing it, if you want.

I played SC2 at a "semi-professional level" (read: good enough to take games/series off of pros, but not good enough to make a living).

I find a lot of truth in what you said, and agree that the nuance in strategic evolution of iterated games is super fascinating.

I was a young teenager when I played SC2 "seriously", and now that I'm in my early 20's, it really struck me how much more of an advanced mind for strategy I have now. Back in the day, I was a very mechanical player, but also had some really innovative play at times, particular with respect to a "macro aggressive" style (aggressive, but not just going for all-ins).

For a short while I received some coaching from my team's coach, and it was incredible how even just an hour of casual coaching drastically improved my understanding of concepts like map control. And mind you, my coach as an actual player was like plat-diamond level (by a pro's standards, total garbage basically), and I always found it fascinating how the best players don't make the best coaches and vice versa.
Glad you found a workaround, but please file a support ticket for this. If you don’t have support: (a) consider it and/or (b) send me an email with your info (contact in profile) and I’ll file a bug.
> When I was in a mild emergency one thing the experts did that stood out to me was forcing us all to take a break and cook a warm meal. It made a significant difference to perceived energy level and judgement, even if it wasn't strictly necessary.

It does wonders for morale, otherwise it's really not that necessary unless you're running exceptionally low in the adipose department to begin with.
Meh, I’ve been warning people about the coronavirus for a couple weeks now. And our prepper contingent has been on it for years. The silver lining is by this time next year, we should have ~20% less throwaway accounts being created for comments like these.

Many years back I read The Coming Plague about epidemiology and the disease cowboys who fight it. There is always a coming plague, known or novel. It was only a matter of time before we got a repeat of the Spanish Flu, or the Black Death. If not this time, then someday. Thinking otherwise is folly.
But they do make you feel like you're doing your part. I wonder how many people are just satisfied with that and whether it wouldn't have made more sense to push other solutions instead.
It's not just americans. No matter where we go we find humans with some sort of repressed aggressiveness in desperate need for an acceptable target to lash out against. Seems to be connected to authoritarianism.

Rehabilitation implies they want the criminals to be part of their society to begin with. They most likely want to keep dehumanizing and exploiting those groups.
That's absolutely nonsensical paranoia. It's the equivalent of making $1000 month one of your startup, $2000 month two, and immediately claiming that by month 24 you will be making over $16 billion.

Make no mistake, COVID-19 is likely to become an annual community disease. But it's not going to kill 30 million people until like 2120.
Decisions are entirely arbitrary and can be basically described as: "we only use languages that we know and that management wants to promote".

Case in point: Dart is approved for use throughout. Go and Rust are unapproved.
We had parent teacher interviews here in Australia this week and my boys 3rd grade teacher suggested we could work on his typing because by year 5 and 6 all his work will be done on a chrome book. My other boy is 1st grade and his teacher suggested some typing practice too, apparently the whole class was hopeless logging in to their Reading Eggs app.
What does that have to do with the discussion?
What the article leaves to the conclusion is what needs to be stated up front and center: it's virtually impossible to do this efficiently, cheaply, or effectively because there's so little CO2 in the air, meaning

a) adding even a little bit more greatly affects the CO2 levels
b) with a global ppm of ~400, it basically means that you need to filter 2500 molecules of air to get a single molecule of CO2, and that's assuming perfect binding and effectiveness. There is no magic powder we can mix that'll cause CO2 to precipitate out of the atmosphere and fall to the ground like snow; it's a grueling energy intensive process to filter that out of the air around us.
I love this library! ;)
Tesla owners are paying to be beta testers ... imagine if a company like Toyota released and marketed such a "feature" and somebody died because it ???.
The thing to watch is the southern hemisphere.

There are very few cases right now in South America or Australia -- and so far I can't find any evidence of person-to-person transmission on either continent.

If the outbreak continues to fail to take hold there for even just a couple more weeks, then it seems likely that the northern-hemisphere outbreak will die down when the season ends.

Other coronaviruses and most human respiratory viruses generally exhibit very strong seasonality. It seems likely that this virus will too. But, again, watch the southern hemisphere.

Of course, the flu is seasonal -- and returns every year. Even if this does burn out in late spring, it may be back next year.
We need to take into account also the asymptomatic people that will never report the disease
I get paid and the work gets done. I don’t have to be passionate about it. It’s just work.

I recommend introspection as it relates to life choices and identity. Nobody cares about their job on their death bed, only wishing they had prioritized more time with friends, family, and loved ones. Work backwards from there, and optimize to be happy with what you valued and how you spent your life. A job generates income, but is not who you are as a human.

TLDR Treating work as just work, and not something of significant importance, is not toxic IMHO. On the contrary, it is the healthiest way to address it as a necessary (for now) part of our lives. YMMV. Good luck.
Seconded! I've been using brave since before you could install chrome extensions directly from the chrome extension page. Brave is no-frills for me. Especially in Android.
> all sugar as fat and protein prevent hunger from subsiding

I think you've got that inverted.

People easing into intermittent fasting are often recommended they start with keto to get fat-as-fuel adapted and begin their intermittent fasts with a few days of keto for the very reason that it gets through the hunger pangs while still being able to eat, just avoiding carbs.
links in calendly are impersonal... this is cool that it solves that issue with a human touch ;) nice one!
I'm not an epidemiologist, and while I do not like to use argument from authority, I trust this guys because is their work, they do it in top institutions and they won't jeopardize their reputation for some fear-mongering tweets.

They can be wrong, but they are not going to lie.
The problem is that many of the measures taken in the name of "containment" (travel restrictions for example) are likely ineffective and are explicitly disrecommended by public health experts. They are just easy measures to implement quickly, and are effective politically because they play to the population's pre-existing tendencies toward xenophobia.
Batch Inserts in Spring Boot Style and Batch per Transaction
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If it's inactivated at only 30 degrees (86F), that suggests an unconventional combat strategy of just heating buildings to that temperature—that's basically a hot summer day. We're not talking an autoclave here.
I'm absolutely not an expert in this. I personally perceived a benefit to focus, concentration, and problem solving in addition to morale/group enthusiasm.

My belief, however, (without experience) is that after a few days of no food the physical feeling of hunger will start being very distracting, and you'll start feeling lethargic. I believed that was the case even if you were well nourished before. Not because you run out of fat to burn but because your body starts minimizing usage. Is that totally wrong?
Prepare for the virus or the economic damage caused by the extreme measures taken in response to the supposed risk of the virus?
This makes a lot of sense.

Even outside of centralised, command political systems many of the responses seem to be in the vein of "what can we do to show we're taking it seriously?" Many actions such as the travel restrictions have gone directly against public health advice, but are easy to implement and politically very successful.
A friend suggested sharing "Carbon Removal 101" on coda.io, so here's a link:
https://coda.io/d/Carbon-Removal-Reading-List_dpKG8YbDWIn/Ca...
Make Your ATS Fall in Love with AI
I actually loved what they were (and still are doing).The only thing that concerns me about them is this:

1. Ousted one of their CEOs the day they got funding (something dirty like this)

2. Making their own car (which I guess isn't too far fetched, but Cruise seems to be much further along even though they did the whole thing in secrecy)
Yes, but forests capture carbon quickly until the average age of the trees starts increasing. So zero to 50 years is good, but after that things really slow down. The amount of wood becomes relatively constant.

So slowly, very slowly leaves fall/get eaten by bugs, break down, and get absorbed by new trees. But there is a net gain, just a very slow one. Then things like continents collide, mountain ranges come and go, and significant biomass gets buried and under pressure and time turns into oil/gas.

So for scale we could cut down all trees and bury it and take 638 gigatonnes out of our ecosystem. Not sure of the average tree age, but assuming it was replanted we could likely repeat that every 20-30 years.

The annual oil consumption looks to be around 36 billion barrels. Each weighs around 300 pounds. If my conversion is right that's about 4.9 Gigatonne.

So burying all trees every 30 years would be about 21.2 gigatonne a year or enough to offset all oil consumption AND decrease our current levels to pre-industrial levels.

Or we could just use less oil.
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We should be so lucky as to have these problems.
80 years ago, in 1940, Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics for the first time, but it was canceled due to the outbreak of WWII and Japan had invaded China.

80 years after, in 2020, Tokyo Summer Olympics could be canceled due to outbreak of coronavirus from China.
There is no "changing the code". That's not how smart contracts work. The code[1] as it was written and deployed is on the ether blockchain and will remain on the ether blockchain in its current form so long as the blockchain remains existent. It is set in stone.

Brave could make a new BAT token and point their browser to use it, but they don't get to do anything with the original code controlling the tokens everyone is already using. It cannot be disabled, modified, or deleted, by Brave Inc or by any person.

[1]: https://etherscan.io/address/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb...
This was really insightful. Despite being South African and having grown up and lived around Cape Town most of my life (the last three decades) this article is quite illuminating.
Your base case scenario should be that this will be globally widespread. The tipping point was when Iran became an epicenter. This is problematic because of its porous borders with countries with weak government.

The good news is the virus is not too risky for an individual, excepting those who are old and with pre-existing conditions. The bad news is that there will likely be a lot of deaths in aggregate, globally. The other bad news is that the virus has been highly disruptive socially and economically in every country when the infection rate has started to climb.

The best we can do is calmly make preparations for how things will change.
Reflektor is doing some great & innovative WebGL work.

Shameless plug: this was using canvas-sketch[1] to build out some of the sketches.

[1] https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch/
I ran the tech team of a startup in a third world country (bullet lending $100 bucks to people) we were cheap and it was always a problem to convince finance to buy technology instead of throwing more cheap labour.

Still, those $100 monthly we paid for aws support were worth their weight in gold.
Go back to 1.0 and we still had two ways to write strings ("abc" and 'abc'), and two ways to write not equal ("!=" and "<>").

The last died with 3.0.

But my point is that the Zen of Python must be seen as a post hoc description overlaid onto whatever the actual Python philosophy is. Aligned, certainly, but at times only roughly aligned.

So I don't see it as having sailed (with string formatting, or other specific even) but never having been there in the first place. More like, sailing in the same waters.
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Huh! That's news to me!

Do you have any citations supporting your statement?
Unless you have the developers submit source code, it's not really possible to determine what language the source code was written in (if the developer doesn't want you to). For example, if there is a C API, I could write my code in Rust and with only a little effort, have it compile to something which could also have been compiled from something written in C. Even for languages with a more substantial runtime, you could "transpile".
The problem with sprinkling operator overloading all over the place in non numerical use is that you as tje reader don't get the context hints provided by method names. I think this change is bad in the overall balance.
It's amazing how "properly dressed" everyone is compared to current standards. Almost everyone, including young adults, are dressed in a suit and tie with a hat.
I am not a fan of Vivaldi being closed source. At least Brave, like Chromium is Open Source.
Starsky was definitely hiring. They posted on every "Who's Hiring" on HN for a considerable amount of time.

Unsure if it was ever 54, but they definitely were aggressive in hiring (job postings also kind of reflected that).
My experience is that the Linux audio APIs have been so volatile that I often can’t run older audio software, even when I have access to the source code.

I have actually composed and recorded music with open-source software, but the cost of doing so was very high, so I switched to proprietary software. Even worse, the open-source software for various reasons has had interoperability problems—you can’t export in standard formats, or that kind of thing. With proprietary software, I was less tied down, since I could export data from one program to another and continue working.

So I’m slowly working on converting the old songs I wrote with open-source tools into standard formats.
No. It's orders of magnitudes.

Look at the SARS timeline, it was > 100 times less at this point -

https://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_07_04/en/
On the other hand, if I have fuel, then I may be able to get water in the form of rainwater or other potential water sources -- boiling the water for safety. For me, that's one of the big things that people overlook when they are preparing for disasters.

But I would say definitely store food and medicine. Keeping your energy levels up is important for maintaining your health. Getting ill is just another way to die.
Will the tech sector fare better than the general economy during this? After all, no physical contact is the norm there.