skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying with earnest to wrap my head around the answer to your last question. I saw the writing on the wall 4 weeks ago when the initial numbers started coming out and the cell phone videos of the CCPs response leaked through the firewall. I've been telling my friends and family what these numbers mean and what the implications of this are both medically and economically. The response I get is either "Stop watching fox news", "if it was really that bad big companies would be freaking out", "its just a flu", etc.

I've come to the conclusion that, at least in the suburban USA, our lives are just so routine and comfortable that most of us cannot fathom any circumstance that would change it. We relegate such thoughts to the realm of fantasy with zombie movies and the like. It's either business as normal, or a situation you have no hope to prepare for so why bother. Not a mindset I share, likely because I didn't grow up with the guarantee of core needs.

4 weeks ago people would say "why would I keep a stock of n95 masks" like we used to all say "why would you bother locking a cockpit door".
There are some annotated examples [1].

[1] https://github.com/rofl0r/order-pp/tree/master/example
I am not getting it either.

"It infected 500 million people around the world,[2] or about 27% of the then world population of between 1.8 and 1.9 billion, including people on isolated Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been 40 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history"

500 million infected, 40-50 million deaths. Isn't that 10% death rate?

Perhaps it was 2% for people who were treated in hospitals.
> I think Facebook is known to have more interesting jobs.

If influencing democratic elections is your idea of interesting, sure.
Numbers could also be differentiated in Rust. For example, to make sure your "16" is an i32 you could write

> let x: i32 = 16i32;

Otherwise, it's a very comprehensive article. The only missing parts are the async/await keywords and the sync primitives (like Mutexes/RwLocks).
Being the first to start remote working
I have a visual alert on my computer to remind me of drinking water every half hour. After a couple of weeks, I regularly noticed myself feeling thirsty and reaching for the bottle a mere handful of seconds before the alert went off. I think our bodies are more capable than we believe to adapt to habits and tracking time, with or without environmental cues.
They do, but it only matters if you're working in a region with very low wages or you have a lot of people that only work for a few hours.

I see those tools mostly like a fast computer, good internet, drinks and snacks etc. They really aren't that expensive compared to the employee but they will help the employee be much more effective.
I can see it now. Swift will be the first actually code-less language. Just @pile @up @all @necessary @magic @keywords, and your program is complete.

Seriously, instead of doing things actually worth mentioning as programming language development, they kill time with collecting cute magic tricks? Swift could have been interesting but featurism and mission creep make it a bag of complicated magic even worse than C++. At least C++ templates let me build my own magic. I have a strong suspicion that I will never use Swift voluntarily.
You'd want to make a list of all contacts of the last days to test and quarantine those as well if they show symptoms of any kind. At least that's what other countries do.
FWIU Step 1 is developing a vaccine, Step 2 is making sure it's safe for humans in both the short and long term. It appears that step 2 is the obscenely time consuming part. Keep in mind we still don't have a safe SARS vaccine after..what..15 years?
We just need more unions. They are historically the only thing that actually worked to level the playing field between employee and employer.
I've never seen it before, but it appears to be inflation notation. It's a subscript on prices, so the year is the original year of the price, and the cost above it is the inflation-adjusted equivalent in present-day dollars.
It's only an half an hour if you are familiar with these concepts (generics, traits, pattern matching, error propagation, etc...). Some concepts are exclusive to Rust (lifetimes/ownership), so I doubt you can get it in 30 minutes if you have never written code in Rust before.
I think your comment is doing the opposite. It is using conjecture and false comparisons to downplay the seriousness. And using those false comparisons as a heuristic for justifying a continuation of common practice. You may well be right. But you are not providing any evidence to justify that.
The 2% mortality rate of the coronavirus is likely greatly overestimated [1]. Early mortality rates of diseases are generally estimated to be too high because only severe cases are tested. The exact same happened with H1N1 (Swine Flu): initial studies showed a 2-3% case fatality rate, but afterwards it was found to have an actual mortality rate of around 0.15% [2], close to that of the flu at 0.1%.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/2/12/21134718/coronavirus-china-dea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
It is not AIDS, you aren't going to out someone this way. Just get their permission, 99% they won't mind.
This could swing both ways alas.

The optimistic case would be how swine flu played out, where initial estimates for fatality where in the percentage range but ended up in the per mille dimension.

However, for SARS 1.0, it was initially estimated to have a fatality of 2% - the final number was over 10%.

It's simply too early to tell.

Unfortunately, the latest WHO report suggest there isn't that big of an iceberg of undetected cases, which would sadly mean a higher CFR.
Common sense is not so common.

But I should admit, I do have problems with it (Ray Dalio's "Principles" and daily meditation helps, though, at least I can see some progress).

Thanks!
Could not have said it better myself. Leaders will only do other things if they help the two drenginian pointed out.
In order to prevent this I bevel my week. M, T, Th I set my alarm for an hour earlier. W and F I set my alarm for the latest I can reasonably wake up and still make it to work on time if there is a minor hiccup. It prevents me from getting used to a particular schedule and waking up ahead of my alarm. When I wake up ahead of my alarm I tend to turn it off, thinking I'm awake, and subsequently fall back asleep, making myself late.

Sleeping in on Wednesdays gives me a burst of energy just as everyone else is experiencing the mid-week "hump." And doing the same on Friday keeps me from checking-out an hour before the week is done. It's a good system.
It sounds like a few simple rules would help - you don't need complex procedures and forms, it can be as simple as "if you want to buy new software, ask the CIO or CTO, and in most cases they'll say yes/no on the spot".

I can't help but think this is a symptom of being awash with VC cash - I can't imagine this happening in a bootstrapped business.
>>I've mentored and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and small businesses over the last few years and I mention this to all of them but it's not a case of "if I wait around I'll get lucky". You still need to be active and work hard and fix the right problem with the right solution and then, if you get lucky, you'll succeed.<<

Basically "keep trying and working on whatever until you either get lucky, run out of money or give up hope". (Ultimate failure being the act of giving up and trying something totally different.)
As long as you have enough intensive care units with a lung ventilator that 1-2 % might be correct. But 10% develop pneumonia and require ventilation. If only about 10% of the population gets infected the health system would be overwhelmed. After that, even a simple flu might become a live threating experience.
I did before I posted my comment. It says "After crunching the numbers, he arrived at the figure of $70,000."

"Crunching the numbers" does not give details as to how he arrived to 70K. The article made a reference to report by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, but it is not clear.

Have I missed something?
Wait I thought Gates was in on this with the Chinese and released this as population control? Have I been getting my news from the wrong source?
I'm really surprised by this as well. From what I can tell, the estimate that was named is "above 2.5%". This could be simply by calculating how many people died compared to total population in the world. If 2.5% of total world population died, assuming everyone was infected, it is at least 2.5% case fatality rate and depending on how many people were not infected case fatality rate will go down.
Assuming we are talking about companies, then any value at all is derived from somebody using it. Ideas are fundamentally worthless without an implementation, but that's just because they are both needed for any value whatsoever.

Also writing code and getting to MVP is a prefilter for dedication
You don't need both of those "i32"s. Rust has type inference, so you can just write either `let x = 16i32` or `let x: i32 = 16`.
He's not even scratching the surface.

'Heart Surgery' used to be a really big, scary ordeal. Now they do much of it on an 'outpatient' basis - home the next day.

Putting the brakes hard on a car from the 1970's might mean you slide the thing into whatever you were driving towards. The sensitivity and intelligence of car control these days makes old cars seem like horse and buggy.

A woman doing a more classically male job in the 1980's was a big deal, a statement, and they would be told constantly 'they didn't belong'. My younger nieces doing research have never met with any such resistance, just the opposite (They're still younger though, this will change a little later).

Vinyl, CD's, tapes, whatever: you had to collect them and physically go to stores to get music, video or any content. The content revolution is mind-boggling.

You generally did not know or communicate with people from other countries. What you know about Russia came from books in the library or a few scenes on TV, or maybe a ridiculous Hollywood film.

Clothing was something you bought for 'durability'. It was expensive and unfashionable.

And this since the late 20th century.

Those who have been alive for a long time, say Queen Elizabeth who's 1st Prime Minister was literally Churchill ... it's almost impossible to fathom the change they've seen in their time.
I hear you, but the only times I have seen the balance work is via a "committee" of DevLeads. Senior devs work with the trees everyday but are also able to see the woods. They are at the perfect position to make intelligent future proof decisions, and the second job of senior management is to ensure the DevLeads (or non tech equivalents) across the company are meeting talking discussing and deciding regularly and frequently (no a slack channel is not enough)
We got the same catty comments from prospective customers about Uberconference.

Eventually we moved to webex, not because it's the best (it's not), not because it's the cheapest (it's not), but because many corporate customers seems to use it internally, and because it's what just about all corporate customers seem to expect.
Depends on unit. My extended team got a recommendation to discuss with managers if uncomfortable with travel. Same mail also pointed out (inaccurately) that the WHO stated the situation as “low risk”.

Considering most of MS who travels are either sales or on-site consultants, this “discuss with manager” thing is extremely ambiguous. Are you going to be the one saying no to a large enterprise customer and halt a 50M deal?

I also it particularly self-serving in the sense that it pointed out that since there were no sick MS employees yet, the “risk to Microsoft” was low.

No mention of remote working or families in the e-mail either. Biggest risk is to elderly relatives, not necessarily young turks who might just be carriers, or the f*cking company.
A number of people genuinely believe in "young earth" creationism. But flat earth is at a different level since it is disproven by everyday phenomenons like people flying around the earth.
I can't stand argparse. It's like they tried their hardest to force you to be imperative and prevent composability. For example, instead of being able to define a parser for a subcommand and build a top-lever parser from that, you need to do this:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers()
a = subparsers.add_parser('a')
a.add_argument('bar')

A better API would look more like this:

Parser(Subparsers({
'a': Parser(Arg('bar')),
}))

On top of that it has a number of bugs in edge cases they refuse to document or fix. For example, you can't have a subcommand that always collects all the remaining arguments as-is. That's a pretty basic use-case when you want to pass those arguments to another program.
Yeah but that doesn’t block in-app ads
Great for him, but here in China things haven't been easy on all.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/to-hell-and-ba...
> How could we expect the population to fight for a country that didn’t look after them in return?

One of the benefits of serving in the US military was free medical care for the soldier and his family.
Birds and Frogs, Dyson, 2009 [pdf]
I use it mostly if I'm passing arguments to another function. It serves as some sort of code documentation.

> my_function( 44i32 );

That makes it clear from the code that function accepts an i32 and not any number.
With any luck, this pandemic will reveal to US companies, voters, and state+federal legislators how perverted the current incentives are and make some of the incumbents think a little more about their mortality and what health system they leave behind more than who will primary them from the outside next cycle.
https://kaffeine.herokuapp.com/
Well threads weren't that well done, hence std::jthread.

And lets not start with the whole concurrency soap opera, that might be done by C++23, and the mistakes in std::async design.
re the ILP argument ("app continues running with no delay because it already has the random number it needs"): can't any RNG take advantage of that by caching the next value to return? ie. turning this

state_t s;
uint rng_next() {
X;
return Y;
}

into

state_t s;
uint next;
uint rng_next() {
uint n = next;
X;
next = Y;
return n;
}
You reminded, my times at boarding school.
Also: Boltzmann brain
This is fucking gold. Thank you.
It's the same response to climate change. Talk shit until its too late.
Single human beings can no longer report.

The internet means they can be fact checked immediately. Which means they immediately will be found in error, large or small.

No one trusts any reporter anymore, that time has passed.
Just like Go only matters mostly to Docker and K8s shops.
Two points. 1) Currently, the code could be written with normal overloading (one for int and one for unsigned). No traits required. 2) The current code relies on an implicit cast to int or unsigned int. I’m not sure that’s good.
I keep hearing about this- is there a source for this? Or drumf is inolved so must be true?
SoftBank invested something like $24bn in WeWork, which went to the real estate bubble plus free beer for techies. There is an astonishing amount of money out there. In the case of the Saudi investment through SoftBank, it's practically a moral imperative to relieve them of it.

Enjoy it while it lasts. Voluntary redistribution through loss making startups is the comfortable alternative to wealth taxes.
>that once you've checked off all the pomodoros ... the task is supposed to be done

Not really. I manage tasks in a todo manager (Trello), pomodoros are just for time tracking (100h+ working hours per month, 6h+ per working day, so it's 200/12 in a 30-minute pomodoros). It really helps to estimate my progress and schedule stuff, planning free days, limiting working hours not to burn out, etc. Or at least it works for me.

Thank you very much for all your points and suggestions, all of them have sense and are helpful! I really do appreciate it.
The individuals in aggregate may be toddlers, but unfortunately the C-suite as individuals are often also toddlers, at least vis a vis their responsibilities. Tasked with providing IT infrastructure that works for the company, they seem to largely shirk their responsibility and choose IT infrastructure that best serves them, the needs of others be damned. CIOs will seemingly gladly choose something that provides a good UX for one central administrator even if the UX for hundreds or thousands of others is "the software literally shoots knives out of the monitor and gouges out your eyes". Reports that the software gouges out everyone's eyes are roundly ignored.

I'm not sure to what degree this corporate disdain for quality of work environment is intentional or simply inability to grasp how other people may have different experiences using something, but I'm even more unsure how to solve it. What do we do when attempts to explain how shit sucks fall on deaf ears? Bring back pistol dueling?
Ask HN: Databases with data for Testing?
Do you know any service with databases (different types) with generated data available for testing?
Lackrack is magnificent. First time i am seeing this.
Also known as "business as usual", and "natural state of markets that aren't regulated strongly, correctly and responsively enough".

A free market isn't the equilibrium state. Even if a particular idea - like adding or removing some regulations - looks like it would create a free market in some sector, that's only a static picture of conditions just after applying the idea. When you look at that market evolving over time, you'll see it rapidly shedding its "free" status.
Haha, yeah I wouldn't say parenting is child's play. Pretty sure that's an NP Hard problem.
I think that's deprecated. They dropped support for UWP apps with JavaScript in Visual Studio 2019:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ebb5e04b-d00a...
Senate would quickly confirm.

There is no such world.

Remember when trump closed China travel he was called an overreacting xenophobe
Critical Apps Needed Fast to Combat Coronavirus Fall Out
I live in the USA and unlike in China certain elements of our mobile development and logistics networks are not as advanced. One thing is for certain, this virus is beyond containment, it is now a mitigation game until a proven vaccine can launch. In order to lesson the harm we need some community developed apps. Something we are likely to see next week is a run on the stores, and afterwards people will still need food but it will be more dangerous to go out and get it. In China communities worked around this by using mobile apps to bulk buy together and have food dropped off at specific designated sites in each neighborhood. While there are still some issues, especially for folks who are less digitally literate, in general this has worked. We don't have the same kind of grocery delivery penetration in the United States. It's typically a service reserved for those with excess disposable income. We should consider developing a community solution for this with the ability for anyone to become a delivery person similar to Amazon Flex. The delivery folks should have the ability to set their own minimum delivery fee based on what they feel is reasonable and take jobs they feel comfortable with. I'd like to read what folks think of this idea, as well as, andy other ideas people feel would be good to post in this thread, we may need all of them. DM me if your serious and would like to work on something I'm happy to lend my design skills.
What I often don't see mentioned in the discussion about using hydrogen power is solving the volumetric capacity problem of storing hydrogen.

One potential solution is to instead use formic acid as stable energy storage. There have been recent advances in catalysts that make it feasible to convert hydrogen to formic acid and back again. Formic acid is stable, not very toxic, and has an energy capacity of 1.77 kWh/L.

The only party I know of that is trying to bring this to market is Dens [1], formed out of a student group at the University of Eindhoven [2]. Their website is a bit high on the rhetoric (including trying to coin "hydrozine"), and their mockups looks like, well, mockups, but there are real technology advances behind this, for example their trial with a city bus [3] (Dutch).

[1] https://dens.one/our-products/

[2] https://teamfast.nl/technology/

[3] https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/deze-stadsbus-i...
Exactly. I would say it was better to go the other way: use the syngas reaction to turn H2 from electrolysis into convenient CH4. Also absorbs some carbon from the atmosphere or other processes.

Of course, that only makes sense if there isn't cheap fracked gas out there ...

At the moment, all H2 power schemes are greenwashing for natural gas.
You’d probably rebuilt it from the ground up as the architecture seems to be the problem. That’s not something a community could easily do without some kind of leadership. That would still take up a lot of his time, probably more than just doing it alone.

I’d guess it’s not just merging a few pull request and it’s suddenly fast.
2% of 2 billion is 40 million. So perhaps it was 2% of the whole population.
If you think that's a ponzi scheme, allow me to introduce you to the world of Silicon Valley commercial real estate.
We don’t have the best medical in the world. That’s just marketing.

A doctor in the US can prescribe an expensive medication or a generic, but they are completely unable to inform you of the price difference. And their employer is contractually prevented from posting the prices that an insured patient would pay. American patients probably suffer as much from dealing with errors in hospital bills, debt collections, insurance companies denying claims, etc as they do from disease. And our health care system is entirely fee-for-service rather than optimized for outcomes. Doctors may be idealistic, but I don’t see how they can do more good than harm in our current parasitic industry.
It's free.

On the "buy" button click there is a message to leave feedback/suggestions to download.

I thought it'll be a great idea to motivate people to post their ideas. Counting numbers, it's not: only 7 form submissions for 1.5k visits.
If it's not standard, it will be useless. If it is, the browser will eventually put it in the users hand.
No VS Code? Really?
It should also be noted that they did not have antibiotics back then. The Spanish flu today would have most likely a lower fatality rate than it had then.

Obviously those diseases are viral. But it seems that they can be helped by bacteria and certainly bacterial pneumonia is a common serious complication, and I believe that patients hospitalised for COVID-19 are given antibiotics for these reasons.
I think OP is trying to say they don't need to pay for the Pro or for the Team as there are just two collaborators, the free version includes 3 collaborators on private repos. https://github.com/pricing
I would presume to vast majority of the automatically generate music is basically garbage?

If we say that music (and really any information) is just numbers which can be enumerated automatically, then surely the creative action is finding and picking a number which is actual interesting out of the infinite sea of random garbage.

My point is that framing music as "just numbers" does not disprove that producing a song is a unique creative work. There may be valid arguments against copyright, but this one isn't.
The author has an article on it:

https://www.gwern.net/Subscripts
Funny and here i am trying to save 5 usd/month because my VPS is overpowered.

It really depends on where you live. 227usd is certainly not peanuts.
I found this extremely helpful. I’ve always been interested in Rust but never got around to it cause most of the source code I’ve read on GitHub was overwhelming. This is a nice walkthrough to get someone like me interested. Great work!