skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an incredible life Freeman Dyson had. The next time you have an hour free, I'd urge you to watch this autobiographical lecture he gave in 2011, "On living through four revolutions". In it, he describes his experience witnessing and participating in (1) the development of space travel, (2) nuclear energy, (3) molecular biology & the genome, and (4) computers. In addition to being absolutely fascinating and insightful, this talk does a fantastic job of showing off his wonderfully dry sense of humor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4p2qbE684
And possibly one in the Seattle metro area - there is an 8pm PT presser with King, Snohomish and Washington State Public Health officials this evening.

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1233587757198405632?s=...
> The plan was always to expand testing, but you need a working test kit first.

I'd like to call out the fact that the impediments to testing in the US were and are entirely bureaucratic in nature.

The CDC publicly published a real-time RT-PCR protocol (including primer and probe sequences) at the end of January. Since that time, it has been entirely possible (from a technical standpoint) for any properly equipped lab to perform tests.

By properly equipped, I mean BSL-2 with a real-time RT-PCR machine - this in not at all an uncommon setup. Other types of PCR machines would require making appropriate modifications to the protocol, but any lab that already does such work will posses the required expertise (seriously, this stuff is _trivial_ by academic standards).

Entirely separate from technical ability to perform an assay is legal status with regard to testing human samples for diagnostic purposes. To that end, the FDA failed to approve any vendor-specific test kits in a timely manner. This is frankly ludicrous under the circumstances, as South Korea managed to approve and make available at least two different test kits in the same time frame - they even have drive-thru testing stations set up!
I am hearing wildly varying opinions on the severity of the covid-19 situation.

It seems like the general conversation here on HN has been much more doom and gloom than some other places.

Anyone have opinions on why that is?

Possibly the higher than normal concentration of members here on the West Coast?

Maybe the general tendency of people with stronger opinions on a topic to comment on threads about that topic?

Obviously there's a chance the concerns raised here are of the proper severity and everyone else is just under-reacting, but it also seems entirely possible that this is already way more widely spread than people realize and the percentages are just skewed because most people wouldn't bother going to the doctor for a cold.

I guess we'll find out one way or another...
Magic mushrooms as a technology for hacking consciousness
The problem with R0=2 is that its exponential. Nor saying at all people should panic, Singapore shows it can be contained, but using 《100 as a yardstick for severity is not very useful. Germany will be 》100 in today and 》1000 a few days later, they already have up contact tracing on two clusters and it seems every local mayor gets to decide if schools stay open.
Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

A study of 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 from 552 hospitals in 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China through January 29, 2020.

"The median incubation period was 4 days (interquartile range, 2 to 7)."

New England Journal of Medicine, Feb 28, 2020

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
Is it cheaper in terms of man-hours spent on each kilo of carbon sequestered, compared to man-hours spent on emitting it?
This news is being shared everywhere in game dev circles, it would be really hard to miss.
Pune telescope helps detect biggest explosion since Big Bang
The whole point of OP is that many Go-internal features shouldn't be internal.
They can and did. The issues in the US are entirely bureaucratic in nature.
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/22/why-here-costa-mesa-oc...
Why don't you use reference counting GC?
Ask HN: Licensing a CSS Framework
Hey HN, I have been developing a CSS framework for quite some time, and it is almost ready to launch.

Ideally, I would like to earn money using it, but don't really like going the ads and sponsorship approach. So I was thinking something like this:

- The framework is completely free (with source available) for usage in free and commercial applications.

- If someone wants to extend it, and sell those assets (specifically themes and templates), a commercial license needs to be purchased for a tiny amount of money, paid once. Not a subscription.

Does this make sense? Would I alienate developers by having this structure of licensing?
The output is always random, regardless how often the key has been used.

The thing is, if you know the same key has been used a second time, then yes, having both outputs (can? will? must? could?) helps to acquire the key.

But how do you know they're using the same one? Or how are you sure, they're not? All you have, are two pieces of random data.
Sure, but if you're paid hourly, isn't "sick day/no pay" true for pretty much any country in the world?
Source?

This page has a massive amount of information about evacuation problems, including a false assertion made over the intercom that the building was safe, and that people needed to turn around because doors were locked, but nothing about "go back to work" except baseless speculation by a sibling of a victim.

It doesn't even make sense, why would management of a building with dozens or hundreds of tenants care who is working?

http://www.mjbarkl.com/locked.htm
I booked a flight a few days ago. The checkbox for the airline's trip insurance had a note above it saying it did not cover canceling for Corona.
For 3 unrelated people that are separated by a large distance to have it, the number of infected must be at least a few dozen.

Any sort of mathematical models that predict this sort of thing?
Steam in Graphs
Well, you might have the Stockholm syndrome. :D But yeah, we all have to deal with some idiosyncrasies with our languages/tools of choice. It’s inevitable.

For the record, I really love Elixir but it’s quite easy to swallow/ignore errors there as well. (To translate one of the Go’s criticisms.)

So I get what you’re saying. But IMO the outsiders’ perspective is valuable because it outlines stuff we have gotten used to, and they might not be willing to do that.

So such criticisms might be minor for you and me but they add much-needed nuance in the long run, I believe.
The expert on NYT's The Daily podcast suggested that the load of the infection you are exposed to can influence the severity of the disease, in which case a health worker working with inflicted patients would presumably be at greater risk. However, I have neither the expertise in immunology or the time to look up sources to verify whether his statement is true. (They also suggested that he could just have been unlucky...)

One fascinating thing they mentioned is that a large number of people in China smoke, especially among the elder generation that is experiencing the highest mortality rate. On the podcast, they mentioned that this is essentially a comorbidity, because your lungs are already partially shot by the time you get Covid-19 (and then viral pneumonia).
> I'm extremely concerned this isn't being treated with an appropriate level of hair on fire urgency.

Or, the actions are to be given more weight that the words. That is, perhaps the response is actually appreciate.

Let's recap: The CDC has made a couple statements. The POTUS has down played things. On the other hand, the mainstream media has pinned the sensationalism meter.

Fact: It's been a fairly active "traditional" flu season. Plenty have gotten sick. Plenty have died. Coverage? Zero. Comparison between the flu and this corona virus? Again, zero.

There's disconnected and mixed messages, and plenty of misinformation. I'm not dismissing the threat. Just the same the signal to noise ratio is ridiculous.

Full disclosure: I carry a lot of contempt for the mainstream media. My level of trust, close to zero. The coverge of this issue does more to deepen my mistrust more than gain it. Based on discussions I've had with peers, I'm not alone.
Bill Atkinson: The philosophy behind Hypercard [video]
Yeah but this is the United States where we've rolled up and stowed away all the social safety nets should one lose their job which is going to start happening soon if this economic disruption continues. In short, bad economy equates to lost lives. So it really isn't a question of economy over lives.
Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey
Allergy season? It's hitting me as of mid-week. In the bay area here.
With the api provided by libgit2 (and therefore git2), it's not possible to get the error without closing over mutable state somehow.
The problem is construction firms "encouraging" their employees to work without proper PPE. This is illegal, but...
Miranda, a non-strict, polymorphic, higher order functional language (1983)
> The output is always random, regardless how often the key has been used.

The output of any _one_ use of the pad is, yes, but the point is to consider all of the data that an attacker may have. If you re-use the key multiple times, then the entirety of the cipher texts an attacker has is not random. (See also: https://xkcd.com/221/)

> But how do you know they're using the same one? Or how are you sure, they're not?

You'll be able to tell because you'll see patterns in the data: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Tux_ecb....
I only started using vim constantly around a year ago because I wanted to get used to it in case I needed it. Now I only use the shell for development and haven't touched an IDE or graphical text editor in months.

This is a treasure trove, there are quite a few tools I wasn't aware of that I shall start using consistently now.
Because the blue checkmark is a political tool wielded by twitter. This much is obvious.
It could be taught within the context of economics:

> The asset bubble of the late 2010s was finally popped by a minor pandemic, initiating the Final Great Recession of 2020. The Final Great Recession led to the abolishment of all Central Banks and the outlawing of all public stock markets. Strong nationalist economic policies characterized the remainder of the decade.
chuckle at the ironic title, better prep yourself if your country's CDC still listen to WHO for advice
Huh, 350K for $3 is good?

I'm handling Millions for $0 :/ with my https://github.com/amark/gun .
If we build it, they will break in (AG Barr and encryption backdoors)
As much as I love Ant design for the aesthetics, I find the performance to be seriously lacking. In my last job, our front-end team used Ant Vue, and some form elements were horrifyingly slow. For example, we loaded 200+ school names into a multi-select box, and the whole page became unresponsive if that box was ever opened. Hope they fix these issues in the future.
In Springfield and St. Louis, MO we often referred to the cities by their airport codes SGF and STL. But those are both more plausible abbreviations in their own right than SFO.
News report says that the first community spread case came from a woman near Travis Airforce Base, where evacuees where brought for quarantine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnCvvVS2tPQ
Your timing is auspicious. You might reach out to Adam Wathan, who just launched the paid component to Tailwind CSS. https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233134358388781080?s=...
> Wikipedia is not science.

That Wikipedia article has 158 sources cited. You? Zero.

> Repeating it won't make it so.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/acorn-sat/#tabs=ACORN%E2%...

I mean, you can go trawl through the data yourself. The graph is in the last expandable fold. The page describes the data collection practices, peer review, the entire god damn thing right there. But you know what? You don't care. Because it's gonna be another bullshit thing, one after another---oh that's not real data. That's not science. That's fake news, lalalala, you don't wanna hear it, and on and on and on.

> Why? What possible benefit would that have

Well TBH trolls like you have a net negative effect on the entire discourse and the culture here. I generally don't think it's good for the culture for people to engage trolls, but egad, I stepped on a landmine and here we are. It's not good when the community has to spell it out in black and white, but what I am basically saying is, stop embarrassing yourself and don't bother commenting if you can't offer anything positive. You haven't offered one goddamn source or citation, just your feelings. Please spare us!
Doom and gloom as compared to what? I would say it's Doom and gloom before I'd call it a "hoax". If anything, I see a lot of people on here making flu-like comparisons. I'd say I'm more doomish than that, too.

Because so many people are trying to conceal information to keep tourism going, stability, re-election, GDP and so on, we really don't know how bad it is.

But when's the last time a flu caused a 13% sell-off? It seems pretty serious.

After reading The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, I'm really starting to be convinced our collective willful ignorance is becoming problematic.
I think this type of model would be very difficult to enforce. You'd have to have lawyers and enforcement as part of your monetization strategy, and that would just encourage people not to use it.

If you're going to do something like a CSS framework; I'd say just make it open source. There is already so much prior work; it's something you should really only do if you're going to use it for something yourself and maybe contribute back in some way that others might find useful.
I think you're getting downvoted because logging is basically doing:

def log(fmt, *args):
print(fmt % args)

Hardly a huge change.
If your coworker is a danger to you then your whole office was exposed and should be quarantined also.
I’ve never been a SeaMonkey user but I’ve always been impressed that it’s still being developed and used, it’s really cool in a time when we’re moving to a new age of browser engine monoculture.
> It's only in recent months that I'm beginning to get anything resembling what I wanted all along out if it.

What did you want out of it?
Show HN: Code Search on Local Directories
Most likely a lot of people have the mexican beer virus, but very few have severe enough symptoms to go to the hospital to get tested. I mean, do you go to the hospital every single time you cough or sneeze?
If you compare what we know about it now to the flu, it’s 20x more lethal than the flu at current estimates with many of those who get it severe enough to go to the hospital requiring intensive care to recover. It’s legit.
Masks don't but respirators do. You can safely read "mask" as "respirator" in this thread.
I'll allow it as a mind altering substance, along with other HDL's.

Both let you think about the same problem in structural, behavioral, or dataflow styles. Taping out hardware is optional.
CDROM bit rot is mostly the paint flaking off, but the real data is stored in the plastic. DVD should be even harder to bitrot because data is entirely inside the plastic. Burned disks are another story.
Hmm you are right, it would be impossible to enforce.
It’s webscale, too.
Forget leap day, there's a serious plan to replace it with an extra week
Many do. With protocols around not having travelled to infected regions.
> Haskell is still stuck with most of the wrong decisions they made in '88

Which ones?
Oregon Says First Coronavirus Case Result of Community Spread
Archive.org is a library in the state of California, and legally has a little carte blanche when it comes to copyright.
I think Slime for Emacs was the first to think of it, a looong time ago (at least it was the first place I saw the idea in action).

Edit to clarify -- Slime was never meant for general use across many languages. But Slime had the "smarts" in a separate process and communicated with the editor via the network.
This approach may indeed be smarter. Make the core fully open source under MIT license, but have a paid license with extra goodies.
Basics of Data Cleaning
Record-Breaking Explosion by Black Hole Spotted
I think F-strings are bad for i18n. It sucks to use them with a database of string localizations because the variable name is now embedded in dozens of translated F-strings and basically becomes immutable.
This. The idea of actual flat-earth believers should be met with at least the same degree of scepticism as they supposedly demand of round-earth believers. Mind that merely having someone claim to be a flat-earther or arguing in favor of flat earth does not distinguish between them actually believing it and engaging in some sort of Socratic rhetoric (so as not to say trolling)
The point of my response was that fear mongering and rapid information spread might be a reason that we haven't seen that many deaths. The whole point is to minimize how many more deaths there are, and it's the potential for disruption and death that matters right now, not the existing number of deaths except as indicators of what the extent of the risk might be
Well exactly. You and your parent's comment are in agreement: languages like Rust that give you less ways to shoot your foot, encourage writing a more correct code.
Allergies got me rubbing my eyes all the time. I'm screwed
these counts have no relationship to actual emails sent

These domains wouldn’t have MX or TLSA records unless they were doing email.

Even if a zone is pre-signed, an admin has to intentionally create DANE records, which they wouldn’t do unless they were hosting SMTP servers.

But it does show the statement that DNSSEC, DANE and TLSA aren’t used for secure email to be utterly untrue.

MTA-STS has other issues:

* Authenticates domain control via CA leap of faith

* Vulnerable to MiTM at cert bootstrap

* Vulnerable to weakest root CA, and unauthorized certs

* Open to downgrade on first (or irregular) contact

* Complex mix of HTTPS, unsigned DNS and SMTP
Anecdotally the crowd on here tends towards the anxious, with a fringe minority dipping into outright paranoia. So I calibrate for that whenever I'm reading people's takes on something.
Time to sit and home and play some Civ 6 until it blows over.
There’s a recent WIRED article [0] where this is discussed in some depth. I wasn’t a Facebook user at the time, but it’s interesting how everyone was against this and then ... wasn’t. Facebook called their users’ bluff and won. This really was the beginning of Facebook’s culture of doing whatever the hell they want and weathering the storm when users push back, because most of the time, users will come to accept it, even come to love it. I can’t imagine Facebook without a timeline anymore, and I kind of hate that.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-lost-no...
I'm sure they did. But that still doesn't make them contagious. They don't jump from person to person irrespective of whether that person is a civilian or military. I'm using contagion in the medical sense, not in some kind of contrived way to make an unstable region erupt in war because there is war nearby.

Though, truth be told, I wouldn't be surprised at all if COVID-19 somehow became a factor in wars being started.
Yeah but 5 minutes is much much easier than 3 seconds.
There are different schools of thought. And it depends on what the scope of the discussion is. If you’re talking about preserving PDF/A or PNG files, you’re probably talking about media preservation. If you’re worried that your important document written in some version of PFS:Professional Write (an obscure word processor from the 80s) being readable, conversion and access become a problem.

I recall working with a group of archivists where one camp was in favor of conversion to standard formats like PDF for certain documents, another wanted to preserve documents in the original format, and still another wanted to do both.

It’s a hard problem and purity of thought makes it worse.
>You are most contagious just prior to symptoms

Do you have a reputable source for that? The WHO, CDC, and EU state that asymptomatic transmission is minor if it happens at all
Wondering if Google IO will get "postponed" or canceled as well.
It is pretty big and has people from all over the world
Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case
Source on the 20x number?
I live in downtown Austin and just contacted my city council representative asking them to cancel SXSW, or if not to institute some type of preventative measures. For anyone also in town, I encourage you to do the same, or for those coming in from out of town contact @MayorAdler on Twitter with your concerns. The latest update (yesterday) from @AusPublicHealth was "Dont worry, we're tracking Austin residents who recently visited China." Austin residents, really? What about the 70k people from around the world who will soon be here!! Not to mention there are now major outbreaks in four other countries besides China. Inept.
IO happens in early may IIRC and is bigger than F8.

No word from Google so far though, except that they are listening to CDC recommendations.
Happy to create such a feature for you :) Just to clarify, what exactly are you looking for, just a "revenue verified" badge, or a Baremetrics-like dashboard with Paypal support?
Similar situation here. Nearest confirmed case is about 10 km from here, so I'm assuming that it is here already in one or more people.
Assume you have the OTP: 4242.

You encrypt the data ABCD -> EDGF.

You encrypt the data DEFG -> HGJI

Someone intercepts the data, and has: EDGF and HGJI

And now?

Or maybe like this: Since OTP and data are interchangeable, due to matching lengths, isn't using the same OTP with different data, essentially the same like using the same data with a different key?
It is still missing semantic highlighting (e.g. a local variable has a different color than a function parameter), although looks like things are finally moving on that front.

https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
I think a lot of it is many entering the field today are throwing components together more than optimising their work. You look at the source of pages and see the mishmash of various javascripts, CSSs, and HTML.

Then again I sometimes see a well crafted thin website, usually this is one that's been around a while (which after a few re-boots learned that just getting anyone to re-make it again is not going to fix the problem.) Look around, they are out there.

So what can I say, there is a lot of technical debt in web development lately (i.e. WordPress), and at some point these will come due. The script kiddies will not be the choice to fix the problem, but folks who care about the long term will - and with that there will be a chance to go through the cruft and refactor a more optimised web.
What are you thanking him for? It was your idea.

Wait. I mean, it was my idea. Why aren't you thanking me? Donate to my Patreon please.
What about the 60% alcohol content hand sanitizer I'm seeing?
"The Swerve" is a great name for my punk band.
It can be very close. You can get durability of data equal or greater than something like Amazon S3.

I’d be more worried about disasters and budget cuts than cosmic radiation.
> But how do you know they're using the same one?

Here's a good illustration of the principle: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59/taking-advanta...

Obviously it's more complicated with text (where you have less information filled in); for that you have to do crib dragging which is a bit more involved but not fundamentally difficult.
Discovery of a giant radio fossil in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster