skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I didn't want to seem alarmist and talk about solvency crises in the insurance market. But I would be interested what impact this might have on life/health/related reinsurers. I feel like targeted intervention in that sector similar to the auto manufacturers is a better thing to plan for and I'm not sure that a 50 basis point cut is going to help as much as you do in 1/2/4 and will be insufficient in 3.

One thing that bothers me and I don't see discussed here is how much the market moved ahead of the announcement. It is very alarming that this sort of information leaked ahead of the announcement as much as it did. I would be interested to know how that reached the market.
Anecdotally, I see attitudes among friends and family towards Coronavirus split along the same lines as whether they support or despise Trump.
The sheer greed of SXSW will push this festival through no matter what. Talk to any Austinites running local businesses and they will tell you horror stories of code enforcement, law suits, and outright bullying from the SXSW brand.
I usually do the inverse: who knows what additional data we'll want to store for each row, let's put there a jsonb column, store anything not clearly critical there, and add columns or tables as these jsons get populated and used.
link to the tweet?
While toys are always fun, in case of STEM I would focus on developing active attention. That is not just immerse but also observe the result (success or failure), think of ways to make it better. Basically developing the cause-effect pathways, letting kid identify and solve a problem. Tons of chances for this with everyday objects.

Once kid is able to scribble, make him take "notes" of observations. Say, kid plays doctor and receives teddy bear as patient, asking what bothers him and taking notes of that. Measuring temperature with beeping thermometer, then deciding if there's fever and "prescribing" teddy bear some remedy or regimen.

Look around your house, there lots of safe objects that can be used as functional "toys". After all kids want to adapt to the "grownup" world.
Nice list, thanks
There is a difference between an epidemiologist doing their job and the media over-hyping the situation to deal with a slow news week.

The medical community should absolutely be in high gear right now. That doesn't mean the rest of us need to act like its an end of the world situation.
Unrelated but usually you should place a market order usually, not limit. Limit orders take longer to fill, your idea of limits is probably wrong and will lose money compared to a fair market match, it's not worth taking the risk that your order won't be filled, etc.
I didn’t expect people to be experts in everything, and my comment says the exact opposite: non-experts could learn a little bit about the subject.
Relevant comment for X11:

> (In reply to lilydjwg from comment #30)

>> I'm glad to here that, but what about support for Firefox on X11? Is it given up?

> Hardware decoding is platform independent so it generally works under X11 as it's implemented as Bug 1616185.

> For whole playback chain see Bug 1610199 what's needed to be done fox X11.

> I was closing this one as it refers to HW decode only, not the playback.

> The overall video playback is tracked at Bug 1210726.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727#c31
Flagged also. This is pretty close to active disinformation.
Most brokerage firms will charge similar fees.
> Maybe we could compromise with "FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system" or something similar.

I think this would make the best headline.
Do you have a link to that discussion?

Like gcc has built on mac for longer than Apple (then next step) was using gcc.
>Cases have declined in China only because of the extreme measures they undertook to stop it.

I mean, you can't really say the author can't assess the situation because of a lack of expertise, and then immediately assess the situation with a lack of expertise.

I'm assuming that the quarantine helped, but also it might not have helped. That might have just been the natural progression of this disease. We don't know, and you can't claim that as a statement of fact.
I haven't got a mail (I think), and I don't see that on their web site or on their blog.

Is wading through Discourse threads now the new minimum requirement for using services?
You can't produce anything if you can't buy parts
Are you sure you looked correctly?

Newly Infected vs. Newly Recovered is the one you want.

Ps. I'm using the same site, you should check how much influence Iran has in your quick-check. Also South Korea and I wouldn't be suprised with North-Korea to popup either.

It seems to be that the WHO had the correct actions for pandemics ( I was positively suprised when looking at the actual numbers). The cases in Europe are staying pretty low.
> what a real brokerage tells me to buy

Brokers should never be telling individual investors what individual stocks to buy, at least not anyone with less than ~$500,000 in assets. If a brokerage is giving you buy/sell lines for individual securities, that's a red flag.

A good investment platform (or adviser) guides you in portfolio management. In encourages long-term strategic thinking over short-term trading highs. The former builds wealth. The latter lines professional traders' pockets.
This is interesting. Thanks for sharing. By the way, when is the new feature going to be delivered?? :-)
That means people should reevaluate the weight of the opinions of those technically competent posters - we have a screen shot that robinhood did roll their own implementation because yesterday was March 2nd and its app was requesting March 3rd.

That at least means that some portion of their stack used roll your own datetime library. That would not actually be a problem as long as the entire stack got the same library or the same rules for datetime. The problem is of course that it probably did not so the libraries were not bug compatible which of course caused errors and those errors need to be handled, preferably every fast.

Error load and error handling is the least tested part of every system because it can only be properly tested in production and, unless your company embraces the Chaos Monkey approach to testing, the C-level would have a heart attack when anyone proposes doing it.
> Hell, I'd even prefer to get it, so I'm over it ( 32 years old)

32 years on Earth and you're unfamiliar with mutation?
> How exactly does the body figure out how to configure the variable part of the antibody so that it binds? Does it just try countless variations until it finds a match?

Not a biologist but IIRC, the body produces cells with a shuffled sequence of DNA. Then this specific cell produces one specific variant of antibodies, located on its surface. At this point the antibody is just a random sequence that matches with nothing.

If one day a virus (or anything else) happen to match with the antibody located on the surface of the cell, the cell will then multiply and most of the new cells will specialize into antibody-producing cells (released in the body, not remaining on the surface of the cell) and a small amount will not. The one who aren't producing antibodies are kept in the body for a long time, and they are here to provide quick specific response next time you meet the pathogen again (that's where immunity comes from).

So yeah, it's basically brute-force until a matching antibody is found.
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Does VNC or RDP work now? That's what is keeping me back.
Six week task list:

- Train my replacement.

- Register down at the jobs office.

- Lie on the floor and cry. Have a nice cuppa tea.

- Write ransomware targeting Maersk, using insider knowledge of networks and procedures.

- Short Maersk stock or buy put options.

- Release malware.
TypeScript: Should You Spend Time Learning It?
I'm not quite following. Are you only expecting experts to comment here? If so, are you an expert in the frequency and type of textual errors and how that relates to expertise?
Do you guys measure cycle time from Jira tasks?
I think it's the point of OP. Because there are reports EVERY day, even every hours, it looks worse.

(I still haven't decided if this point is true or not)
Apparently China will have a massive economic cost to this.

"New data on China that has trickled in over the last few days suggests the damage coronavirus has wrought on the world’s second-largest economy could be worse and more prolonged than previously expected, despite a decline this week in the number of new infections in the country."

[0] https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/five-signs-t...
Common lisp was never about minimalism. It was about lisp dialects like scheme.
DIY projects to recycle a CD/DVD reader
There is a dilemma. Nobody knows beforehand how bad things are going to get. Perhaps this is just a cold, perhaps an aggressive virus that can kill a lot of people.

For public institutions responsible for health, you would never say that things aren't that bad. There is nothing to gain here. If it isn't too bad, you would have been too careful, no big deal. If you are downplaying the issue, you can get in a lot of trouble because you are suddenly responsible for every single person who died from this if the outbreak is worse than previously assumed.

Of course there are some other options like hiding the outbreak completely. Those fail as the information cannot be contained anymore.
I agree - ran into this problem with my dad. He had a rare cancer that quickly stopped responding to hormone therapy (the only kind of treatment known to work), and deteriorated rapidly. We called Sloan Kettering to see if there were any clinical trials he could enroll in, but since my dad had recently become bedridden, he wasn't eligible for anything. I don't know if there was anything else I could have done - it seems like the argument of "he's dying and wants to try anything that has the slightest chance of working" was completely expected and unconvincing to them.

Then at his normal oncologist, a brand-new drug was recommended that only worked on cancers caused by NTRK gene fusion - but my dad would have had to get a third biopsy to confirm that and get the prescription. Why didn't they get enough material the first or second time? Nobody could say. Every step of the treatment process was done piecemeal and ultimately my dad was in no condition to get yet another biopsy. I wish there was some process by which he could've just gotten the damn pills in the off chance there was a response.
No, not everything is orthogonal. When you have sementic structure, you're gonna display it in responsive and adaptive way. That __breaks__ the design intent. For a designer, WYSIWYG is godsent. the parent comment is right - PDF is like a Docker container for designers - people who work with media.

If you have opposing thoughts, please elaborate further instead of simply saying "nothing to do with it". HN works by explaining and arguing about issues to get to the bottom of something.
> I mean, you can't really say the author can't assess the situation because of a lack of expertise, and then immediately assess the situation with a lack of expertise.

This is the assessment of the WHO, not mine. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...
Are you hiring engineering interns?
The Terror of Teen Drivers: Parents Track Their Kids Without Being in the Car
While I think this is an interesting and important topic, and a complicated judgement call, I'm trying to figure out why a random internet poll is playing a serious role in the conversation.
Head of Let's Encrypt here.

We have an on-call rotation and a system for getting others notified and online quickly when necessary. We make sure not to bring too many people online so that some people are fresh and can rotate in later if the incident lasts longer.

It's not often that staff have to put in time at night or on weekends, and when it happens we work hard to make sure the problem doesn't happen again.
Robinhood has disputed this

https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434
The same thing goes for ImageMagick, but that seems unfair because it's more that they have created a command-line language for describing multimedia transformation pipelines.

It's not as much that the arguments allow you to run a program under variant configurations, but rather that you create completely new programs for each run.
Point them to situations like this. Maybe small e-commerce sites can get away with it but financial and health tech companies should always double, triple, check everything. Move fast and break things is fine for new startups but once you have a significant amount of users, the reliability of the product should be the main source of pride for the company.

I know not every company needs it. I was the second QA engineer at a food-tech startup in Boston 5 years back. QA got laid off after 10 months but they are still successful without QA right now. They hire great devs and have a great process. At the end of the day, if the site stops working, people will just get some late food deliveries. One the other hand, I've a friend working at Ford in Michigan and he says they have no code. You have hundreds of engineers and everyone manually tests their own code. He says sometimes he will test for a couple of minutes and just push his code. I don't blame him. Devs are great at writing code. Let them write code but have someone else test their code please.

I've a small options position open on Robhinhood. I'm not too worried about it but I imagine some people have tens and hundreds of thousands. I've read some rumors that this outage was caused by the leap year timing and it happened 4 years ago too. This is just unacceptable.
Anyone who doesn’t think this has the potential to be a big deal and worth worrying about doesn’t understand numbers. Couching this in some facts about the seasonal flu is all you need to reveal those that are ignorant. I’m not even going explain why. The comparisons to the flu have been eviscerated so many times in the month or more.
This isn't like the common cold. There have been cases of reinfection reported already.
If this is a leap year problem, apparently similar issues happened 4 years ago and they never fixed it...

Thread from exactly 4 years ago, March 2 2016: https://old.reddit.com/r/RobinHood/comments/48mep4/robinhood...

Thread that pointed it out: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fcoaev/and_...
Is there any way I could convince you to stop clogging up the internet pipes with comments that seem to solely focus on 'pipes' and 'warehouses'? Surely there are other things that you care about and could contribute to HN?

At this point it's literally spam.

EDIT: Literally figuratively speaking, of course.
The issue there is it removes freedoms from your end users. Now there's a multitude of binary distributions of LLVM, and users can't mix and match pieces of them.
It’s funny how much we limit our understanding of the past by our own current limits.

Back in the days I had quite old teachers who knew few dozens long poems by heart and most of them learnt in their youth.

I think that the way we manage our memory and the context as well as the ratio short/long term memory demands scoped to that context is totally different and is diverging from old times.

As for the writing, there are many instances of long novels where the author radically changes the style even nowadays.

Last but not least, we have inherited a disfigured version of those epics. The originals sung by their authors are long gone. Thus the iterative divergence by the following generations of bards in terms of style and even in addition/deletion is inevitable.
This is a big mistake. There is nothing the Fed can do revive the economy from the Corona virus, because this is not a demand problem, it is a supply problem. The economy WILL slow down because the major parts of the economic chain have been considerably affected by this virus. You cannot use more money when there is less to buy and sell. This will happen simply because whatever solution to the virus disruption will take time to be implemented.
To be fair, within the Constitution there is a clause where the Gold standard is required for all debts and tender (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_Clause), of which Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority. Even if he didn't say it himself, the sentiment was strong enough between all parties that it was included in the beginning.
Study finds parrots weigh up probabilities to make decisions
As a regular linux user should I switch to wayland from xorg? will I notice performance improvements?
Like Zimbabwe.

100 Trillion Dollar bill anyone?
the main trophic target of this virus is lung tissue.
a nebulizer would deliver the mRNA-Fc complex to the lung tissue.

the other way around would look a lot like a classic vaccine delivered by injection, and encapsulate the mRNA into a vesicle that targets antigen presenting cells in the lymphatic system
which then presents the mRNA product as an antigen-MHC complex to specify what antibody to generate.
These are great! I'm in a position where I have to teach people about query optimization often enough and using some combination of these visualizations will help get the point across in a more friendly way. So far screenshots of the explains and then walking through them have been okay but I think its more of a passive acknowledgment that explains are a thing versus actually a deep understanding. Hopefully this will help me cross the gap.
My cert is affected, and I didn't get an email.

Check your domain using the linked online tool.
I think GDP is pretty much meaningless and GDP per capita is a much more useful statistic.
Healthy doctors your age have already died from it.
Which way does the split go? Trump supporters are panicking about the virus, or not panicking?
If you are investing in ETF/indexes then RH being down is not really an issue... and if you are looking to trade at those dollar amounts, then its a great deal. I fall into this category and RH being down has affected me in no way.

If you are trading much more frequently/short term, or WSB style options, then yea, I think that a proper brokerage (IB) is likely better for you.

Also perusing twitter --- lots of people were planning on executing that _perfect trade_ if only RH was up... lol
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Relativity now operates one-third of the tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center
Well, the simple answer is: not likely.

In order to run Firefox under Wayland, you have to be able to run Wayland session in your compositor (Clutter in case of Gnome). AFAIK, currently no compositor has working/stable Wayland support with NVidia proprietary drivers due to GBM/EGLStreams thing[1]. At the same time, open-source Nvidia driver Nouveau is in a terribly poor condition. Which, hopefully, may change soon[2][3]. Thus, if system is running off the Nvidia graphics card with proprietary drivers, there's no way to use Gnome Wayland session and Firefox 75 acceleration at the moment [corrected and specified]. Please correct me, if I'm wrong.

A separate case is where the system uses Intel/AMD graphics card and drivers, and NVidia is used for render offloading (Optimus/PRIME/Bumblebee). This may be a laptop with discrete GPU or Virtual Machine setup with GPU passthrough. Since I don't have such a setup, I can't check if it works with Firefox 75 [corrected]. But there're some discussions[4] on the matter and experimental works on implementing NVIDIA VDPAU-VAAPI wrapper[5].

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/04/03/preparing-for-fedo...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/12/06/nvidi...

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-O...

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/a94zzj/state_of_...

[5] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/vdpau-va-driver
The medical community is asking us to prepare. You should be changing your behavior to reduce contact with other people, learning the necessary sanitation techniques, and preparing to be self sufficient in your home for a few weeks.
If that were really the consensus among traders, it would be priced in, by definition.
I use a screen reader, so of course some kind of text extraction is how I read PDFs all the time. There were some nice gotchas I've found.

* Polish ebooks, which usually use Watermarks instead of DRM, sometimes hide their watermarks in a weird way the screen reader doesn't detect. Imagine hearing "This copy belongs to address at example dot com: one one three a f six nine c c" at the end of every page. Of course the hex string is usually much longer, about 32 chars long or so.

* Some tests I had to take included automatically generated alt texts for their images. The alt text contained full paths to the JPG files on the designer's hard drive. For example, there was one exercise where we were supposed to identify a building. Normally, it would be completely inaccessible, but the alt was something like "C:\Documents and Settings\Aneczka\Confidential\tests 20xx\history\colosseum.jpg".

* My German textbook had a few conversations between authors or editors in random places. They weren't visible, but my screen reader still could read them. I guess they used the PDF or Indesign project files themselves as a dirty workaround for the lack of a chat / notetaking app, kind of like programmers sometimes do with comments. They probably thought they were the only ones that will ever read them. They were mostly right, as the file was meant for printing, and I was probably the only one who managed to get an electronic copy.

* Some big companies, mostly carriers, sometimes give you contract templates. They let you familiarize yourself with the terms before you decide to sign, in which case they ask you for all the necessary personal info and give you a real contract. Sometimes though, they're quite lazy, and the template contracts are actually real contracts. The personal data of people that they were meant for is all there, just visually covered, usually by making it white on white, or by putting a rectangle object that covers them. Of course, for a screen reader, this makes no difference, and the data are still there.

Similar issues happen on websites, mostly with cookie banners, which are supposed to cover the whole site and make it impossible to use before closing. However, for a screen reader, they sometimes appear at the very beginning or end of the page, and interacting with the site is possible without even realizing they're there.
You know that's a unit of electricity as well, right?