skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But mortality isn’t the only concern. The virus can non-fatally damage the respiratory system. More importantly, there’s the problem of people passing it on to their older friends and family members
Unfortunately US culture is to keep working if you don't want to lose your job.
Ubuntu is used (mostly?) for web services. Is Ubuntu suitable to be written in Go?
I didn’t realize anybody here was having trouble understanding it. It looks like regular English but with no pronouns.
2% only in developed healthcare system. For contrast Iran's number is few times higher
I'm not familiar with either of them, but that seems like a lot more code!

How does changing the URL trigger a state change? Does the whole page need to reload?

In my system, my "Reader" knows this object so it can just call the regular setState (I also have some mount/umount logic there to avoid leaking memory). This makes back/forward transitions very snappy!

I can also use the same logic for my Server (another "Persistor" [sic]) which indeed uses POST for submitting updates, but responses come down a shared SSE stream (which I need anyway so that users can see eachothers changes in real-time).
Or they may have told the affected folks without telling the press. That would be a reasonable compromise.
This should be more widely known, as it gives some insight into the nature of scientific truth.

I understand that the explanation of this surprising result is related to harmonic analysis, such as Fourier series - the evolution of any periodic process in time can be just as correctly represented by a collection of harmonics of the correct amplitude and phase.

This does not, however, seem to lead one to gravity, while Kepler's laws do. One thing that Newton showed is that epicycles are unnecessary as part of an explanation of planetary motion.

If you were to apply the epicyclic model with sufficient precision to show the gravitational effects between the planets, I would guess you would have to include, for any one planet, epicycles with frequencies that are harmonics of the other planets' orbits. Without a theory of gravity, there is no obvious reason why that should be so.
Yup. Batch saving is a fundamental git operation.

I was trying to make it detect file change instead... But it seems the notification mechanism isn't reliable across different types of OS.
Seems like you'd want to isolate a lot of people. And that's not a decision the company gets to make, it'd be done for them by the authorities, and a lot of people would know.

Why not? Why can't Google say "Out of an abundance of caution, we're closing the office for 2 weeks and asking employees to work from home. We recommend, but do not require, that employees take steps to self-isolate themselves and monitor themselves for symptoms."

I understand that authorities could force companies to close offices, but I don't understand why a company couldn't make the decision to do so on their own.

If no details of any sort have been released to employees, it kind of suggests this case was at the first end of the spectrum.

I don't see how it suggests anything at all?
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You shut off the choke point, let things fizzle out. As I type, people are still coming and going.
FWIW, when I got my blue checkmark I had something like 6k followers; not exactly a popular account. I did it because there were some copycat accounts and I was dealing with some nasty harassment. The process was painless and it helped a whole hell of a lot in the end.
disk space is cheap, ram is expensive.
Yeah, I went and read some stuff on Wikipedia about it after posting. Apparently Composer is considered unsupported now and only gets occasional updates because it's used as the underlying html editor in Mail.

And yes, I was mildly disappointed when I downloaded and ran this as I saw no real visual difference or changes to the UI and preferences.

So I guess Composer is not much of an option for "real" work these days. Still cool to see an alternative browser out there that's at least mostly capable of handling the "modern" web...
yeah but you could make this argument about anything. For example: Bacteria can cause disease. Disease is metaphysical. Disease does not exist.

these are not generally considered to all be equally plausible!
Favorited this post. Wow this was really eye-opening for me. I think this is proof I've been thinking about implementing ideas that are too complicated in the tech space. Thank you for posting.
Google will index pages disallowed in robots.txt.

If you want a page out of the index, you must allow crawling in robots.txt and use noindex on the page.

It used to be that you could use robots.txt to stop indexing but google changed the rules a whole back.
Machine learning picks out hidden vibrations from earthquake data
> If you were using Go for those four years, you'd also see very little of the criticisms regularly leveled at Go.

That's bullshit. When I worked in the Ruby on Rails space, I saw critisms quite often... for example of the "one size fits all" way-too-large-surface-area library design (see: ActiveSupport) or the "fat model" design trend at the time... I even PRODUCED some of these criticisms myself. Heck, the bug that made me leave the space took a month to track down and had to do with nondeterminate behavior when merging a Hash with a HashWithIndifferentAccess (this was not my code, I would have not written it the way it was written, but it was a bug I was assigned to of someone else's code) because the Ruby language did not see these as two distinct "types" and simply went ahead as if they were both regular Hashes, which caused HWIA keys to get overwritten unexpectedly/nondeterministically... that was the last straw at the time.

And when I worked in .NET/ASP prior to that, I saw (and witnessed) MANY criticisms of the language and API such as how easy it was to produce difficult-to-test spaghetti code.

And while all this was happening I was also working on frontend code in JS and needless to say there have been A LOT of JS criticisms over the years and I've seen most of them.

So yeah, maybe try again with less BS. The biggest criticism I can produce of Elixir (and more generally the BEAM VM) is that too few people understand its advantages and too many people actively misinform others about it. (OK, one more criticism, but it is a more general criticism of functional immutable languages: A handful of algorithms perform suboptimally in a language that does not even permit mutation, relative to a language that does.)
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A giant glossary of mathematical jargon
People need permission from authority before they stop showing up to work.
Yes! Basically, every time I wake up because of alarm I feel disgusting.

But the most bizarre thing for me is that I pretty much always get up before the alarm (and hence feeling perfectly fine) if I drastically changed my regimen recently (which normally is pretty much non-existent), even if it leaves me with 5 hours of sleep. But once I get comfortable with it, I start sleeping longer, waking up after the alarm (even if I set it purposefully late, making place for, like, 9-10 hours of sleep), waking up tired and hating my life.
Exactly. The article is part of the farce as I see it, in that they still continue to take Twitter seriously:

>>...that a teenager using next to no resources was able to quickly create a fake candidate in his free time and get it verified by Twitter raises questions about the company's preparedness ...

Raises questions? On the contrary - it settles any questions about about their preparedness.

>>The creation of a fake candidate account is in violation of our rules and the account has been permanently suspended

So the punishment for not existing is, you get banned. That's actually their response.

Next up: teenager uploads photo of all legitimate candidates to ThisPersonIsNotReal.com and gets them all perma-banned from Twitter...
The Docker bit (which seems an obvious choice) is what makes it cake.

I just run a few bash commands and deploy PostHog + Metabase for friends on Cloud Run, since it's practically free (2,000,000 requests/mo) and has no operational burden. God bless Serverless Containers & Cloud Run.

Throwing up an open source
containerized BI, analytics, and observability/monitoring stack is usually the first thing I do for companies. It's super easy and delivers a ton of value. PostHog fits really well there.
And there's evidence that someone can be reinfected after they recover, so this isn't like a flu where once you catch that strain, you gain immunity, you can get covid-19 multiple times. And subsequent infections may be worse.

So do everything you can to avoid it in the first place -- ideally I'll avoid it until a vaccine is developed. (fingers crossed that a vaccine really will be developed)
In all of its marketing and propaganda? Constant comparisons to languages like Java bemoaning boilerplate and idiosyncrasies?

I think it's perfectly fair to say that this behavior is not in line with Go's philosophy.
I assume your company has travel policies in effect? I mostly work from home anyway but, if I were in an office and traveled to a country that wasn't on my company's self-quarantine list, I'd assume I was expected to go into the office. If your company didn't have Italy on their list (and it maybe should be) that's for your travel department to make decisions on not an individual traveler.
Sure. I can agree with that part. One doesn’t have to form corporations for each idea, but if you are taking payments and offering a service or product that may impact another person or business then being protected is important.
The response difference between the people I interact with regularly (friends, coworkers, HN people, twitter people) and I guess "the rest of the world" is crazy. I just watched a video on Fox News where they interviewed this dude with his kid on his lap talking about his experience in coronavirus quarantine now that he's released. He couldn't stop coughing throughout the interview, was sharing water with his kid... madness.
I was trying to figure this out for a re-print as well; I guess they intentionally not mention whether the person is assigned to Zurich or was just visiting from elsewhere.

Neither CNBC nor BI has any explicit information about these rather important distinctions; especially considering that folks at Google travel so much.
The best available solution is to implement WebAuthn support and allow users to add multiple devices. No backup code, no phishing.
You can still sign up, but it's a bit of a pain.

When you initially enable 2FA, you won't be given the option. But you can register with SMS/U2F/etc. Once you've enabled the first authentication method, you can go into your 2FA settings and add a virtual 2FA device. Once that's done, you can go back and delete whatever you added initially to be left with only a virtual 2FA device.
I've found this dream is not about age people just think about this differently, and some are jaded saying we will never get there.

As a 50 something it has been one of my ultimatedream, but it has proven to be hard all trough my very short history with computers. Letting the user modify their view in a GUI is always a hard task to solve.

The curl trick worked for so long[1], it's nice to see that you can get a better experience with wildcard with the div/js spaghetti today.

[1] curl https://example.com/apartment/[0-1000] -o \#1.html
This is not true and highly depends on employer.
I've been using Go for years. It works, but it's mostly despite bad design issues and because of network effects/money+time put into the project. Not impressive at all.
> that has a ~2% mortality rate.

The 2% figure comes directly from dividing deaths by identified cases. Because it takes a while to kill and new cases are growing exponentially this figure is very likely an underestimate. (not certainly an underestimate because non-severe cases are less likely to get counted)

Instead, you can gauge mortality by looking at deaths/(deaths+recoveries). With this method you get a number around 7%. This can produce an overestimate, either because recovery takes a long time or because non-severe cases don't get counted.

This question was also asked about SARS and it turns out that for SARS deaths/cases was a massive underestimate until the rate of the rate of new infections decreased. For SARS d/(d+r) was a much more accurate estimation at all times.

https://blog.zorinaq.com/case-fatality-ratio-ncov/

2% and 7% are both pretty bad, but they have distinctive public policy implications. I hope we're not making bad decisions simply because people handle exponential processes poorly.

Has anyone seen death and recovery by age? I think it would be interesting to estimate mortality by age using the d/(d+r) method, and perhaps contemplate what effect that might have on the composition of the US senate. :-/
Client JavaScript Code (React):
https://github.com/dataformsjs/dataformsjs/blob/master/examp...

Client JavaScript Code (Vue and Handlebars):
There are 3 different versions of the same demo to show the app being built with different client side tech.
https://github.com/dataformsjs/dataformsjs/blob/master/examp...

Server Source Code:
https://github.com/dataformsjs/website/blob/master/app/app.p...

Server Setup (Ubuntu -> nginx -> Gunicorn -> flask -> [keras, tensorflow, sklearn]):
https://github.com/dataformsjs/website/blob/master/docs/Pyth...
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I think it pretty simple to balance it in this situation - you need to tell. And need to test everyone who could have contact.
Considering the nature of this forum and its inhabitants, in combination with the topic at hand, there is very rich irony in this.

Nevertheless, it does prove the point: whether power user or punter, Poor Discovery Bad.
Glad you asked. The problem is partly because housing is a commodity. Everyone from the developers to the banks have the incentive to build the most luxury unit they can sell -- developer gets more rents/sales, bank considers units less risky, etc.

There is a pressing and urgent need for more housing, but there is also a huge eviction crisis in those same cities.

So what can we do?

Public housing/Public funding for housing -- fund both capital and operations publicly, paying developers more to incentivize building non-luxury units.

Tax empty units -- Taxing units that are empty reduces speculation in homes. It should not be financially possible to buy housing and leave it empty as a way to store value.

Rent Control -- Limiting rent increases tenant control over a neighborhood, limiting the amount of speculation and acting like a bit of a brake on market rate.

Build More -- Upzoning, especially with regulations that require more units per lot and require moving tenants to equivalent units while construction is ongoing. It's no good to tear down a bunch of townhouses and put in an apartment building with the same number of units.

Eliminate minimum parking -- Parking takes a massive amount of space. Especially in an urban core. Use that space for housing people not cars.

Decommodify Housing -- Make it less profitable to be a landlord. Give tenants right of first refusal in the sale of their buildings, form housing coops, guarantee tenants representation in legal battles, create stricter laws around evictions. If it's less appealing to treat housing like a commodity, it's easier to push for housing as a right. All of these things are about making small chips away from the power of landlords to extract rents.

Affordable Foreclosure Insurance -- Insurance helps ensure people can stay in their homes, upkeep their homes, and continue to contribute to the neighborhood. Reduces the amount of home flipping pushing prices upwards.

Community Land Trusts -- There are groups that buy land/houses and sell/rent them at below market rates (with the rider that the property must be sold later at below market rates.) In Seattle, for example: http://www.homesteadclt.org/ By putting downward pressure on market rates, you further decommodify housing and make it easier to push for reforms that make the ROI better for housing more people rather than more luxuriously.

Stiffer Penalties for failing to upkeep apartments -- When apartments fall into disrepair, whole buildings need to be taken offline or people refuse to live there. Requiring high standards in maintaining apartments ensures that the housing we do have doesn't get taken out of circulation too early.

Edit: I'm assuming you asked in good faith. I don't think we need to do all of the above. I don't think we can do all of the above right away. But combinations of the above I think are achievable and could lead to better communities. Happy to discuss any of them more, provide more resources, etc.
> I have 30 year old CDs that play as good as the first time, as well as older vinyl discs.

Mass produced CDs are produced using a different process than the one consumer CDR writers use, and they are thus a much more stable storage medium. The data-containing layer is literally formed out of metal using a kind of mold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_manufacturing#Ele...

CDRs are written by altering a layer of dye with a laser, and that dye is very vulnerable to chemical breakdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Physical_characteristics
https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Branding-World-Clas...
How could you possibly know if anything you wrote is true?

Are you subscribed to all of Google's internal communications?
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Better to lose 2% of your workforce permanently than lose 100% for two weeks. Why? Well, if your turnover is that employees only stay for one year on average (typical for properly managed software companies), then two weeks is 3.8% of that time: twice the man-week mortality rate of letting the illness roll through!

(A big /s for anyone that didn't catch it.)
You should always expect the link to break.
Can they not work from home?
Go will most certainly notify you if a 3rd party API suddenly returns a new error. Typically you would see an assignment mismatch.
Personally, I rarely wake up before my regular alarm goes off. However, if I have to wake up earlier than I normally do for something (dr's appt, scheduled flight, etc), my body seems to wake itself up every couple of hours out of fear that I will sleep through the alarm. So I normally wake up at 8 and sleep soundly through the night, but if I've gotta be up at 7 for some reason, even if I have an alarm set, I seem to wake up in a panic at about 4 AM, 6 AM, 6:30 AM, etc.
And BTW, is we're speaking of t_d, I never seen there anything even close to "how Jews are an evil conspiracy that run the world". I've seen this on other alt-right places (like voat and some gab areas) but never even once on t_d. Of course, I don't spent hours every day reading every comment, so maybe somewhere in the depth of the comment trees there's stuff like that - but on a casual look I can't see anything even remotely like what you describe.
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I'm impressed how far back you've managed to come in your history. An uncle of mine did something similiar some 20 years ago. He managed to get to the point by the end of 1890 where we realized that our grand-grandfather was a Kuckuckskind [1] - and part of our family immigrated to the US.

[1]: A "Kuckuckskind" (German for "cuckoo's child") is a child who's social father is not their biological father. However, this is unkown to both the child and the father, only the mother knows this. I didn't find prove if this is an actual english analogy, so... here you go.
Not in the case of possible epidemic. It would be insane not to test every person that was in close contact.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/29/facts-about...

71% of all nonfarm payroll employees, or, 107.8 million people are in the service sector. Chop out "professional and business services" and "education and health services," industries you could reasonably assume people have sick days in, and you have 43mil people who it is reasonable to assume can't take a sick day.

https://www.popsci.com/flu-season-paid-sick-leave/
Nope. I slept in a common room with 3 brothers. If my alarm went off (half an hour before they needed to get up) I got a whopping. So I would wake up moments before the alarm, scramble from bed to my desk and slap the snooze button sometimes just as the buzzer started to sound.

This guy is over-thinking it. And underestimating the human brain.
> Every luxury unit that is built lessens the pressure on housing demand.

That's true. We need to build more units. But for the price of one luxury unit we could have 1.N affordable units.

Also, building luxury units often displaces existing residents and replaces them. Yes that might be necessary, but it also should be humane -- it's not acceptable to just evict everyone on a block and shrug. We need to be aware of the impact of evicting families in the name of progress.
I thought that was hilarious.
This phenomenon is known as “sleep inertia”: if you’re awakened during certain stages of deep sleep, you’ll generally feel foggier and tired for longer after waking up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_inertia#Causes
Hm either sarcasm or putting myself in a BigCo middle manager mindset?
Agreed, the author’s main argument is summarized nicely at the end, and it’s a good one:

> It constantly takes power away from its users, reserving it for itself.
> It constantly lies about how complicated real-world systems are, and optimize for the 90% case, ignoring correctness.
> It is a minefield of subtle gotchas that have very real implications - everything looks simple on the surface, but nothing is.

“Our users are stupid, prefer subtly wrong to a more complex but correct abstraction” is core to Go, and appears everywhere.
So who actually decides when to put blue checks on whom?
Apparently some viruses go into remission then come back. I'm not sure if they know if they caught it a second time, or if they "recovered" but really didn't. Either angle has some terrible implications. Hopefully it's rare.
The funding went away so things went back to normal. Of course with any available roadspace, it will be filled up and used.

Later on with a new government transit funding increased and transit has subsequently been seeing double digit growth.

The entire exercise makes me feel pretty confident that you can close off road space and so long as you're funding viable alternatives things are fine.
> People seem to prefer web sites that render inconsistently rather than not at all because of one little issue in the markup.

Except those are not the alternatives. The alternatives are consistently rendered websites or inconsistently rendered websites. If browsers had strictly enforced HTML syntax from the beginning, noone would ever have built websites with "little issues in the markup".

IP stacks do not accept randomly misformatted IP packets. The result is obviously not that you constantly encounter internet services that you can not access because your IP stack is picky about broken IP packets, the result is that noone ever sends you broken IP packets.

> It is more robust to render something rather than nothing

No, it just isn't. You are just looking at a very small part of the consequences of this implementation strategy that indeed happens to be positive, but completely ignoring the big picture of all the externalities and other indirect damage that result from it.

> and is one big reason XHTML was abandoned.

Erm ... no? The reason why XHTML was abandoned was because people are incompetent at writing software, and there existed an alternative that allowed them to keep their idiotic practices, including all the vulnerabilities and interoperability problems that result from those, so that's what people did.

> Yes a system that no one uses is more secure than one everybody does.

How does that follow? And what does that have to do with anything?

> Postel's Law is literally in the TCP RFC [1], don't you think that makes it relevant?

Relevant ... for what?