skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's an election year, might as well try to link all this to Trump! (although, as you've noted this has been happening for quite a while across all parties)
There have been reported problems with the CDC tests.
Bravo. This is essentially the most important stuff YC produces.
Once you decided what kind of startup you want to make, how did you actually find a problem that fits that criteria? That's the part where I'm stuck now.
Interesting. Back when I did it, it was piecework. Maybe one to three dollars per household, depending on whether it was a short or long form, and whether you managed to get someone to fill it out. That was around minimum wage, though if you hustled (or pencil-whipped things), you could probably make more.

Also, I think I heard that these days you have to produce your draft registration number in order to apply, which sucks.
Probably to not have to consult the lawyers every single time someone creates a new analytics aggregation.
I’ve spent about $300 to prepare, that includes paying a lazy fee ordering some stuff off Amazon, and optimizing for things I’ll eat in April if this all blows over.

Food and water:
Added 25 gallons to my normal water delivery

Protein bars, jerky, dehydrated cheese

Peanuts, trail mix, peanut butter

Big sack of rice (save for earthquake kit after April, don’t
usually eat rice)

Canned chili, canned stew, canned beans (Carry over to earthquake kit)

Canned tuna

All of this (sans water) is boxed and in a closet.

Supplies:

Already have plenty of n95s

9x12 plastic tarp

Duct tape (specific for this use, not relying on the roll in the drawer)

Bleach

Extra soap and toilet paper

Big thing of hand sanitizer (noticed a lot of out of stock on Amazon)

I already have a significant medical kit.

I’m mostly optimizing for people panicking and it becoming hard to get supplies for a week or two.
> The marker of the arrested mind of the libertarian.

Personal insults are against site rules, and that comment comes mighty close.
You can see options individually for each chain, or just look up consumer protection laws in your location to know your rights because the movie chains near you will be operating within those parameters.

Here's one with a 30 minute window for refunds, I don't know about watching the whole movie that is not strictly required to decide you don't like the movie:

https://cineplex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/235232068-How...
What led you to believe I cited the news? I cite the WHO and CDC where I could. If I am interpreting that information incorrectly based on my previous experience in epidemiology, please educate me.

- SARS case fatality rate = 15% (WHO - 1)

- MERS case fatality rate = 34.4% (WHO - 2)

- COVID19 case fatality rate = 2.3% (WHO - 3^)

1- https://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/WHOconsensus.pdf

2-https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers-cov/en/
MERS case fatality rate =

3 - https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

^ estimation efforts are ongoing and may change.
a rushed vaccine that has poorly understood side effects like say cancer rate differences or is fatal for people with some other disease is more dangerous than the disease itself. Many more people will end up taking the vaccine than just those having the infection.
I think he might have meant "political correctness" less in the sense of "extreme sensitivity about denigrating homosexuals" and more in the sense of "arbitrary rules of social etiquette that people get extremely upset at you for violating".
>Given that her proposed tax is for wealth over $50M, I'd guess there is not much impact at all on people who are "becoming" wealthy.

It's the corporate taxes that hurt the most because in a globalist society those taxes are taxes their competition does not have to pay and therefore can undercut them in price in world markets.
We have dozens of customers worldwide for our software packages, and each package is highly customised for each customer's business. The severity measure lets us compare release quality across customers using an objective measurement defined and managed by us. The priority measure lets us refine that comparison per customised packaged. Generally, a release with a lot of high-severity issues will have a lot of high-priority issues (since by a default an S1 is a P1, an S2 is a P2, etc.), but some customers have different requirements, different custom features, and some are just more fussy.

If a base release that was customised for multiple customers has an expected number of P1, P2, P3, P4 issues for most customers but a high number of P1 and P2 issues for one particular customer, off of the same number of issues in the base release as measured by severity, then that will stand out in our measurements and we'll dive deeper into that customisation to see what's going on.

(Edited mid-stream... accidentally submitted too early.)
Wow neat, thanks! Happy to have helped spawn this little thread here. Will definitely check out Rigol.
“Hey honey, come with me...”
>Refill your medication(s), that's the biggest one.

I take a prescription medication that is a controlled substance. I feel like a criminal each time I fill it. I'm only given exactly the amount I need for the next 30 days and it routinely causes problems when I need to travel out of state around the time of my next refill.

I really wish there was some way of saying "I've been taking this stuff for years, I've clearly never abused it, please give me some buffer for emergencies."
Major Chinese firms donate USD 800M during coronavirus outbreak
Covid-19: Summary of a Report of 72k Cases from the Chinese CDC
Optimism is arguably a form of error, just as pessimism is. And yet it is one of the most valuable qualities you can have when undertaking ambitious projects.
Really cool idea! :)
That's not something they say you can do.

In my case the correct answer was to do nothing, then cooperate with the enumerator on the short form questions, which as I said was fine.
That's still attributing a single negative cultural trait to an entire continent, and using it to shallowly dismiss the effects of centuries of one-sided exploitation, enslavement, massacres, genocides, mass limb removal, debt slavery, literal slavery, etc etc. with "but what if it was their own fault?".
WHO can say what they want but considering how the virus popped up in Italy tells a different story. Something has been overlooked.
I think most people agree that operator[] is a big footgun for containers, but rigorous use of const helps at least prevent surprises.
GOG already offers this exact functionality, two different ways:

1. Add a fourth SKU. There are no files associated with this new SKU, but if you own it, you can download the files associated with the first three SKUs.

2. When you pay for the products, if all three SKUs are in your shopping cart[1], you get a 25% discount. Otherwise you pay full price.

If I'm reading you right, you're saying that if you bought bundle #2, then refunding the $10 item should obviously get you $7.50 -- because that's what you paid for it when you bought it -- but there's just no way of determining how to refund the same $10 item from bundle #1, even though bundle #1 and bundle #2 do not differ in any way at all.

(In fact, GOG bundles usually price the last item negatively -- it is cheaper to buy the whole bundle than it would be to buy all-but-one of the bundled items. These are still all formally individual purchases covered by the return policy, and I feel pretty confident they're not going to refund you a negative amount if you return an item you bought in one of these individual-purchases-with-discount bundles.)

[1] Technical note that doesn't affect the discussion: if you already own an item, it counts as being in your shopping cart for purposes of bundle discounts.
That's not "by default". The compiler doesn't provide it, the language provides for you as the developer using the language to implement your own (or use a third-party) GC and utilize it. D and Rust both offer the same amenities and are not "garbage collected" languages.
Thanks! What were you thoughts on the demo?
> There is nothing dark about helping a user using single opt in.

Someone thinks my email address is their email address, and keeps filling it in in various places as "their" email address.

They seem to live in France, and so the things they sign up for are in French.

Sometimes, these are double opt-in, and I can just ignore them.

Other times, I suddenly have to figure out how to unsubscribe from a newsletter that's in french.

Often, the "unsubscribe" link is just a mailto link to their customer service, and now I have to hope they can understand my English as I ask them to remove me from their list.

Also, this same ne'er-do-well has taken out loans with my email address as one of their few pieces of contact information. So now I have a loan company trying to get money from "me." Obviously, loan companies aren't going to be very accomodating when you tell them they have the wrong address. That's what they all say, no?

(It's not quite identity theft, as the loan people really are after the other guy, not me. It's not my credit score being impacted. They just emailed me because mailing the address on file, phoning the phone number on file, etc. didn't work.)

Wouldn't it be great if I could contact this person to tell them to stop? Well, think about how I could accomplish that for a moment. All I know about them is... my own email address!
Would you be willing to say more? Inquiring minds want to know.
Conway's Game of Life on a universal scale. Entertainment for Olympus, or a simulation to find an answer / stave off an inevitability?

The laws of physics and mathematics as the author sees them provide the substrate that seems to imply hard determinism; chaos theoreticians revel as the chaos of the now is reduced to causal determinism predicated on initial conditions and the base laws of the system, all interconnected.

But why quantum uncertainty? Why does observed light exhibit particle behavior while unobserved light exhibits wave behavior? Why does observation collapse the waveform? Are the quantum and classical reconcilable into a theory of everything? Einstein would hope so, but who knows what's really going on. In the end, it seems human knowledge is still, ultimately limited, with a vague sense of having experienced an indescribable "oneness" as the big kahuna of the panaceas.

What if it were fractal? What if there was no "end" but just an infinite regression with deeper and deeper questions with ever-escaping answers? An infinite game, consuming disorder, systematizing into local order - life's eternal war waged against entropy, helplessness, meaninglessness until ending and recurring. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing; pure comedy, where the only thing that seems to make us feel alive is the struggle to survive - whether through religion, philosophy, or mathematics. Still makes for some great art along the way; life as a beauty-generator in the void. /rant
That C code wouldn't work if the strings in the map are mutable (which they are in C++). It wouldn't work if the strings were allocated dynamically either. Once you write all the code required to get it working that way, the C starts comparing less favorably to C++.
And once you get to the hospital bed there will be no effective treatment for you.

And you will be quarantined in the hospital section with all the rest of the coronavirus patients, reinforcing your infection.
> But I'm still on Facebook because I have no other option for effective communication with my globally distributed family and with the local tech community.

But this speaks directly to the crux of this issue mentioned in the article that you take issue with.

Growth team tactics got people on the site and kept them engaged, and having a large and mostly comprehensive network makes it valuable to users. So when you find it valuable that your family and community is there, well that’s the point.
> Still barely any mention of this case in the mainstream American or UK press.

Remember when Assange was a hero to these people when he exposed bush era war crimes?

Isn't it funny how propaganda works. When we think of propaganda, we think of what is being said. But many times propaganda is what is not said. What is covered is just as part of propaganda as what is ignored.

Another interesting aspect is when it comes to superificial issues, the mainstream press can be adversarial. But when it comes to certain issues, they all sing the same tune or are equally quiet.

Why the hysterical focus on the protests in hong kong and not the ones in bolivia? Why the hysterical focus on democracy in hong kong but not bolivia or venezuela? Why the neverending focus on the muslim ughyurs and hardly a peep about the suffering of the muslim yemenis or palestinians?

Why does foxnews/etc and the nytimes/msnbc/cnn appear to be so antagonistic while moving lockstep when it comes these stories? The nytimes/msnbc/cnn claim they care about democracy, but they hardly had anything negative to say about trump's invitation of his hand selected and unelected "president" of venezuela to the state of the union.
When it's cheaper to keep refilling an MRI scanner that boils off lots of helium, than buying one that loses only a little bit, then yes, you use a lot of helium.

It's not like we haven't discovered higher temperature superconductors that could be used, even if we didn't have helium.

EDIT: You can permanently fill 100 of these[1] per year with the boil off of one shitty MRI. Is uses about 1kg of He, so one year of world helium production would be enough to make one MRI machine for every 200 people. We are not constrained by helium.

[1] https://images.philips.com/is/content/PhilipsConsumer/Campai...
Every house has the basic materials for a bomb, and many houses have the basic materials for a big bomb (especially if you use fertilizer). The difference is understanding how to use it.

Every computer is capable of building software that can bring society to its knees, but most people don't know how to do it. Software is just algorithms, after all.

The problem is that law enforcement pushes the bad uses of something without weighing it with the good. If fertilizer can be used to make bombs, should be ban fertilizer? No, that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Unfortunately, many voters don't fully understand what the baby is WRT encryption, they just see child porn, human trafficking, etc.
Why Housing Is “The Wickedest of Wicked Problems”
Single opt in is great and preferred when people (other than me) don't put in my email address.

I don't want to be single opt-ined to random crap, but apparently lots of people want me to be.
Brilliant, not a reddit user so didn't think to check there. And there is so much great stuff on there aside from the bad news about closures. Thanks!
Those are almost assuredly awful projects when you are interested in learning a new language. Obscure software likely is laden with domain-specific knowledge that you don't have (otherwise you'd likely know about the commercial software). Known commercial applications with no open source equivalent are likely that way because it is difficult to build a replacement.

When learning a new language, you're almost always better off picking a simple problem so you can focus on the ergonomics of the language. Trying to learn a problem domain and a programming language at the same time is really hard, and is a common reason why startups picking niche programming languages run into trouble
I also applied, but I also got good feedback.

The problem was that they wanted me to refactor their permission layer as part of the interview and submit it as a contribution when it was done.

I abandoned it because the merge conflicts came in faster than the feedback and while i surely fucked up on my part, so did Gitlab. They wanted the contribution and the ability to say no.

In retrospect and after the news over the last year I think I dodged a bullet. Of course I dodged into a different one but I don’t wish to engage with Gitlab again.
It would be better to do this when you launch. Right now it looks like just a signup page, and Show HN requires that there be something for people can try out: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
I'm not surprised, since the CDC stated that everyone should prepare.
But that’s true for literally everything. If you have a cpp code base and are building new stuff in rust to interop then you still have legacy cpp code even though rust has fewer problems.
Hah... The guys on the scox message board automated this pretty well; there was a user named warmcat who even opened sourced some of it.

The Reddit comments usually aren't long enough to be meaningful, and I think that there are now organised p&d teams, so that level of investigation isn't very useful anymore
Tailwind is fantastic. Everyone goes through the initial shock of complaining about the "ugly markup", the violation of separation of concerns, etc. But I've worked in enough large codebases to tell you that the ones that use Tailwind have a more consistent UI, with much less handwritten CSS. Bootstrap sites inevitably devolve into a soup of custom CSS and Bootstrap framework. You end up with lots of verbose class declarations like "btn btn-link btn-primary btn-xs danger", but you still need lots of little `margin-left: 3px` rules to push and pull things into place. Most other CSS libraries suffer the same fate.

On the other side of things, sites without a framework generally opt for a convention like "BEM" (block-element-modifier). BEM seems to be the worst of both worlds, both abandoning the "cascading" part of "Cascading Style Sheets" and still requiring verbose class names!

I've been working on a Tailwind project for the last six months with a team of around 8 people. We did a bunch of initial work getting the Tailwind config just right and some base styling in place, but since then we've barely written a line of CSS. Yes, the templates are verbose, but they are also incredibly readable and easy to reason about what classes are doing what. On-ramping new people has been easy as well, since they don't have to learn some custom system, instead they can just read the docs on the Tailwind site.
Regardless of the virus, now is the cheapest I have seen ammo in 15 years. Ammoman has 1k rounds of brass 5.56 for $289 shipped. I’d stock up before the election run.

https://www.ammoman.com/
I suggest you look at algae that live in highly alkaline lakes, like soda lakes in Africa. The high pH means the water scrubs CO2 from the air, which is then available (as carbonate and bicarbonate) for the algae to use.

(Mass transfer is an underappreciated limit on photosynthesis. A corn field in still air becomes CO2 limited pretty quickly in bright sunlight.)
Listen y'all there's a lot of comments in here about dress and culture and it boils down to the 'no true Scotsman' argument which you can look up on Wikipedia

No true professional can be casual period and casual culture doesn't scale anywhere beyond the bullshit we're seeing all over the tech industry

A lot of people will try to use silly outdated counter examples about people who dress professionally but aren't and people who don't dress professionally but are

Put that shit on a two by two matrix and find the fucking golden quadrant you wannabe software specialists
Even 'healthy' age people can get hit hard. One of the first people in Italy to be diagnosed with it is just now coming out of intensive care.

If those beds start to fill up... people that might otherwise be helped through the worst might be in trouble.

https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2020/02/27/news/coronavirus-...
What Is a Pandemic?
I have no first hand experience with cyanide.
Ok now do year 2 and see how that $50 turned into a net loss of $146,998.73
The Uncrowded Country of the Bomb
> It didn't seriously change anything about the business of the parent company.

It sort of did, though. Easier to define your own standards when you don't need consensus from peers, no?

In either case, I think it's funny to consider the Roman Catholic Church as "the parent company". It's a little dismissive of all other Apostolic Sees and sort of rewrites history a bit to imply that Roman Catholicism was the root of Christianity. Technically, you'd want to use the pre-ecumenical council of Jerusalem (year 50) and that nearly all modern Orthodox churches and the Catholic church share a starting date.
Speaking of overwhelmed health systems, here's a comment from Dr. Bruce Aylward (renowned expert who led the team of experts on the ground in China)[1][2]:

"The bottom line is this virus kills people... it kills our elderly and vulnerable... but this is not always the case - young people do die of this disease even in industrialized countries.

People are looking at this saying that but in China they don't have this, they don't have that, etc. If I had COVID-19, I'd want to be treated in China.

We'd go into these hospitals, how many ventilators do you have? 50-60. A scale we aren't used to seeing. How many ECMO systems do you have? 5. We don't have that in Europe.

When we look at how dangerous this disease is, we have to be careful looking at the China data. China know how to keep people alive from COVID - they are super committed to it and they are making a massive investment in it. That is not going to be the case everywhere in the world....

It is a serious disease and I worry that people are going to look at the China numbers and get a false sense of security."

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/f9mxwn/for_tho...

[2] - https://youtu.be/-o0q1XMRKYM?t=3058
Do you know they (the Chinese presumably, if not who) restarted old lines, or are you guessing that you think they did?

It would be great if chloroquinine is back in production.
Cameras are not entirely out of the question:

https://www.futurity.org/streaming-hd-video-wireless-camera-...
> If you want to stock up on some extra water and food - cool beans

Honestly, more people should be doing this anyway. If you live in an earthquake zone and don't have an emergency preparedness kit, you're in trouble if significant infrastructure damage happens in an earthquake. Likewise for snowstorms, floods, power outages, etc.

It's probably not going to happen, and it's probably not a big deal, but if there is an emergency at some point I don't want to have to tell my neighbours they're on their own for a week because we (minimally) prepared and they didn't.
Sweet summer child.

It is precisely because so few feel it is worth the effort, that the effort is worthwhile.
There is no law of averages.
Doesn't it say that it has to change to a different wifi channel?
I had a lovely strategy of signing up with the stock promoters of Vancouver and South Florida and trying to short all of it. Worked nicely until someone published a paper on returns of spam stocks, at which point it died instantly.
He actually reiterates the definition he had in the GP comment but then edited out:

"Political correctness is a right-wing term used when they want to call somebody X, but may face social consequences for doing so."

He thinks terms like 'political correctness' and 'victim culture' are some sort of right-wing slurs for virtuous attributes. He doesn't seem to be aware that this notion doesn't exist for 90%+ of the world's population.
This is what I was looking for. I mean... Twins right. Sources are great though. Sauce?
- Use the proper type of mask. Wear the mask correctly. Some masks are effective only for a limited amount of time.

- Cover your eyes.

- Wash your hands.

- Do not touch the area around your eyes, nose or mouth without washing your hands first.
That's an interesting topic, but I think the article fails to address it and instead resorts to enumerating the long list of well known cliches. I'd be more interested to learn about the evolution of complexity in software projects in general, what role OOP plays there and functional programming is different.