skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it an airliner or just a startup trying to partner with an airliner?

As somebody who sleeps facing right (and occasionally left) I don't see how this would be more comfortable than a reclining seat.
The reason is simple: Because there is a demand and multiple companies have already built successful products through this. Companies born from platforms is nothing new and makes plenty of sense.
Sure, fair point. We don't know if this will spread to the entire population, nor do we know much about the rate it would do so, or if people can develop long term immunity, etc.

But my point wasn't to accurately model mortality, it was to get a feel for what it might be like to lose 2% of people over the course of a year. What might it be like socially, psychologically, spiritually? Most people see "2%" and have no inclination to think "1 in 50". I think it's useful to do this.

That's why I set up the simplified scenario of "100% of of the US getting infected over one year".
I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride [1] is a great read. The part about how different OS file permissions are handled in Go vs Rust is great. Even though I don't know Rust, I thought the Rust approach looked easiest since it's accurately represents the underlying systems. It was really surprising to see that Go's motivation in glossing over the complexity is to keep things simple. Is a half working implementation really simpler?

1. https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild...
Measuring the health of a project without looking at its code
Might be even a bit more cynical they’ll push it as a premium economy option and shrink the economy class even further.

I might have a strong case of selection bias but on nearly every 3-4 class config flight I’ve been on in the past 5 years had business me premium economy classes fully seated whilst economy was 60-80% full.

Business travel is now economy premium by default and nearly everyone else upgrades at the airport.

It seems that charging people $400 during booking then $100 at the checkin twice for upgrades is psychologically easier than charging them $600 when booking.
Learning Is More Complex Than We Thought
The Times obituary mentions two books that give a sense of what Dyson was like as a thinker and conversationalist.

> He appeared in John McPhee’s book “The Curve of Binding Energy” (1974), a portrait of Ted Taylor, the nuclear scientist who led the Orion effort, and in Kenneth Brower’s “The Starship and the Canoe” (1978). In a memorable scene, Mr. Brower wrote of Dr. Dyson’s reunion with his son, George, who had turned his back on high technology to live in a treehouse in British Columbia and build a seafaring canoe.

Both books are very much worth reading.
> MS has also been treating JavaScript as a 1st class citizen on Windows

Eh what now?

The ActiveSctipt host for JScript (for shell and Classic ASP scripting) hasn’t been updated since Windows 2000, and for shell scripting in-general Microsoft has been (“was” at this point?) pushing PowerShell since its demo at PDC 2003.

WinJS for Windows 8 was a huge waste of money for the company that people always seem to forget.

And their Chakra JS engine is effectively now retired given Chromium+V8 replaced EdgeHTML earlier this year.

The only places Microsoft has been using JS are for their current set of Electron-based applications (VS Code, Skype, MS Teams, Azure Storage Explorer, etc). TypeScript is nice and all (and I really love it and I hope it brings algebraic typing and structural typing to more languages) but it’s only popular because Google, of all people, adopted it for Angular.
It’s like you didn’t even read my response. No, it had nothing to do with his politics and it had nothing to do with not liking what he said. It was because he was impersonating a buzzfeed reporter while wearing a verified identity marker.
Sure but when the decision is left to employees, they will organically choose solutions that makes the most sense for them rather than what makes sense only to an individual. Treat the employees as autonomous responsible individuals; give them the freedom on how to best solve their problem and they will solve it.

Seen another way, as a manager who is not involved in the day to day you don’t deal with the same problems that they do. Quite presumptive of you to think that you know what will solve their problems.
I was pleasantly surprised at how civil and thoughtful that conversation was! I was also expecting the “flame-retardant pants” to be necessary after reading the title.

I didn’t realize how complicated the backend tooling is to achieve the same portability as C - it seems so much simpler as a consumer of the toolchain. IIRC the bootstrapping problem is still something distros are fighting with today, but hopefully one day we can have rustc bundled with all the other standard build tools.
I can't find information on that page about any extra recoveries beyond 10. So the status of 653 is still undetermined.
The work of this system does not seem different from what's known of chinese face detection and surveillance systems.
Let's assume what you said is true. In the first case, the person being diagnosed will know if he/she was in fact infected, and will be told to stay at home if so, so less potential public harm. The second case is way worse.
Hackers of the Renaissance
I remember seeing someone write that they could tell whenever a new chapter of "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good"[0] came out, because questions on that topic would just disappear from the discussion lists!

[0]: http://learnyouahaskell.com
> If you have tiling wm, why would you want tabs or especially splitting in terminal emulator?

Splitting is useful so you can see more than 1 thing at a time. You know, tiling. :D

This is especially true if you have a high resolution display such as 2560x1440 or 4k. You can fit a ton of info at once across multiple panes.

> Just don't use bad terminal emulators? And good terminal emulators are better at those tasks than tmux

I've tested dozens across multiple operating systems and haven't found one that that has as low input latency as xterm along with having a better implementation of tabs, splits, searching, being able to name windows, zoom toggle into windows, and everything else tmux does. None of them were even in the same ballpark.
Precious-metals sellers fearmonger to conservative seniors
Reddit outside of old.reddit.com is a dumpster fire. I specially dislike those JS loading icons on mobile, it's just so slow...
I’ve used many point of sale systems, and in my experience, POS usually stands for three other words.

I found Aloha great in some respects (usability on the floor) and poor in others (inventory control). Haven’t found a perfect system yet!
You can copy and paste the text
How do you infect 600 people during a 2 hr service if it's only transmitted through droplets and prolonged close contact.
Emojis are like coffee. They make doing a tedious thing more exciting.

There are parts of work that are intrinsically exciting. But there are also parts of work that are just tedious, and you just need to get through them.
Inequality and social unrest in Latin America: The Tocqueville Paradox revisited
Hoffenheim 0-6 Bayern Munich – BundesLiga – FootballGH
Luck plays a role in all things, but I can't agree with your depiction suggesting that nothing else matters, that the right knowledge may not even increase your odds, and that we can't ever really know anything.

If you're trying to make the next Google or Amazon, sure, you're going to need to get massively lucky, and do so repeatedly. There's no playbook for that.

But if you have the relatively modest goal of making $5-10k/month to supplement or replace your income, and you have some baseline level of skills and resources, I'm quite confident the right knowledge can help you minimize luck to the extreme.
Have you ever tried sleeping on a 15 hour long haul? Reclining seats don’t really work anymore and something lie flat is really appreciated. Most of this seat innovation is coming out of New Zealand for that reason, Air NZ even has a cuddle class (by three seats for two people, get an extension to turn it into a two person bed).
If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.

Well sure, if one assumes that, you can easily make yourself feel better. But is there a specific reason to believe this? The widespread contact tracing and testing in SK, Singapore, and Italy are not comforting. If there was a huge number of asymptomatic cases, wouldn’t they be finding them?
The Leftist aligned media that many (most?) on HN follow, like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc do not report on these things, so what you're describing will either be ignored completely or derided as a "conspiracy theory".
Since these are ligatures (though really complex ones) most software consider these as one "character" (try selecting part of the ligature; you can't).
>Evidence that humans, while excellent problem solvers suffer terribly at the creative aspect.

Compared to what baseline animal?
why not? they are trivial. not “trick” in the sense of poor questions which are easy enough once you’ve studied the problem for 20 years and know some trivia that is rare knowledge, but are otherwise insanely difficult.

i think these are good. TELL the candidate they are trick questions. again, they are trivial. i was actually disappointed.
My fav part is "he gave it and failed the candidate".
Where do you work? Is it at a college? Is it this college https://youtu.be/tSKEl6a-b_c
Are they sure he’s dead and that someone hasn’t erected a shell around him absorbing all of his radiant energy?
I wish all languages had this kind of page as a requirement of the language manual. Author, I will hold your beer...
Unsurprisingly this is a similar story from our customers who switch away from us, and then come crawling back due to the implementation nightmare from NetSuite/SAP. Usually it's a high level executive who wants the name recognition and the "no one got fired for picking X" mindset.
Sure but then you create a process for the change and delegate the information gathering and decision aggregation to people. Then implement whatever that process comes back with as the result.

Or in other words, rather than doing all the cost-benefit analysis yourself you teach other people to do it. That way in the future they can just do it and you can review.

edit: It's the difference between seeing your employees as toddlers versus intelligent individuals no different from yourself.
It's a fancy calligraphy version of "Peace Be Upon Him" used specifically when referring to the prophet Muhammad. There are a handful similar phrases, mostly religious in nature. The most notable one would be ﷽ "In the name of Allah the merciful and compassionate" AKA the widest single codepoint in all of Unicode.
The problem also is that Switzerland is way smaller than China.
China could shut down a whole province and have the rest of the country help them.

Switzerland is much smaller and realistically would have to shut down the whole country.
Then you're depending on foreign countries, which is outside the government reach.
This is a much more difficult choice, if they decide to keep their food or medical supplies for themselves there's nothing you can do.
Handy looking tool:)

Meta: I'm excited to see sr.ht starting to pop up in the wild like this:) I hope this is part of it starting to take off.
Function calls are very cheap on modern CPUs. The same ILP argument the author makes applies in most cases.

And both vectorization and inlining works fine with a function with modern tool chains that do LTO.
It seems you are not aware that economic mobility (i.e. ending up in a different income (or wealth) quintile/decile than you were born into is at an all-time low in the United States.
This seems like an invented rationalization given that the average person touches their face up to 3000 times a day already (up to. It is trivial to find details of this range). If you adjust a mask a few times, but in return it stops you from touching your nose/mouth constantly, that's an enormous win.

And just to clarify, again people are talking about surgical masks. N95 masks, which are still "cheap paper masks", indisputably work. This is way beyond debate.
> Doubt Amazon would.

yikes

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/31/amazon-ex...
Why I miss that aspect of VHS: In '95 I took a VHS tape that was in a pile in a shared apartment with no label and recorded my friend joking about her bakery job and then she popped the tape in and we watched it and every time I paused the tape a few seconds of the porn underneath it showed through. It ended up launching my video art career and working with Colin Campbell, who invented video art working with FARC (Colombia) tapes artefacts recorded for secret communication.
> This is a tough one. I'm an attending physician.

> Guidelines are there for a reason. As much as I despise our Commander in Chief, I don't think the CDC is compromised. Fear doesn't rank over guidelines, but I understand the situation. No one wants to be the doctor that discharges patient zero.

> Personally, I'd admit you for fever of unknown origin for the time being and monitor you for any signs of sepsis. If everything looks good from an observation stand point, I'd discharge you with strict droplet precautions until the fever subsides.

> I think your doctor did the right thing given the context.

Given the above comment, most replies here are arguing against CDC regulation saying it is too stringent. Its very helpful to understand comments in this lens, rather than that the CDC is just under-testing for unknown reasons.
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It says from 1 to N inclusive, so each offset would need to have 1 subtracted from it.

(Yes I realize it would just be an iota function in c++)
We all know that twitter would recognize satire as satire if it comes from someone whose politics agree with theirs.
Everything is in bloom right now in Santa Clara County, which is certainly going to make allergies flare up. Anecdotally, there does seem to be something going around. It’s smart for people to take care of themselves regardless by getting rest, etc. Even if you’re down and out from allergies, caution is warranted and working from home if you’re able to is a good idea.
That's because they'll tie you up and beat you with a stick if you don't obey the rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
So how far can I go in Haskell without "getting" monads? I C that would be pretty far without bitwise operators.
Theory of the Firm is a huge topic in microeconomics.
I use this website as the most effective cheatsheet ever. Forget about PDFs and all these things people put together. Pretty much every programming language is on LearnXinYMinutes and it is like a standardized cheatsheet across all languages. Brilliant, so brilliant!
The average city is swimming in data these days. Many expose it through various APIs. The Socrata platform (disclaimer: I work there) is one example of many.

For instance, here's Edmonton's tree dataset:
https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees/eecg-f...

API docs are here (there's an API button on the top right of the first linked page that takes you here): https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.edmonton.ca/eecg-fc54

Example query - 10 most recently-planted trees bearing edible fruit:

https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/eecg-fc54.json?$query=sele...
I don’t think skepticism of governments is an emotional response. It is practical and evidenced by history & folks’ experience with it.

Folks against one method of caring for the population (ie “universal healthcare”) are not necessarily against having healthcare for as many people as possible nor against helping others... they’ve just seen governments do things inefficiently and occasionally dangerously and thus have a reasonable level of skepticism for the “universal healthcare solution” to the problem.

For example, in the US, the VA has a horrible track record that immediately turns folks, like myself, off of the idea that the government should have any more control over our decisions than it already has.

In addition, the political party that is more likely to bring “universal healthcare” to fruition--the Democrat party--had trouble counting votes in Iowa recently. That level of competence does not currently lend itself to running an entire healthcare system where lives are at stake.

All that to say... it’s much more complex than “people are emotional because they resist my solution to the problem”.
The story is rather worrying, and as there is at least one news report about it now I assume at least a basic amount of checking has been done to verify it.

From what I read, in many of the publicized cases here in Europe that started with a single person travelling there were several confirmed cases in people with close contact to the original patient.

The reports from the US are mostly about single patients with no known source of infection and about denied tests. If you don't test, you don't actually know how widespread the virus is right now. It seems plausible to me that the low number of cases in the US is mostly because of the far more limited testing, and not because there are actually that few cases.
Is it the report's job to bend over backwards to prepare a series of easily digestible info-graphics to convince the manager that the decisions they've made are bad? Or is it the manager's job to follow up on decisions they've made to see how they turn out, and to investigate to see if reports of eye-gouging are substantiated? In theory, the person whose eyeballs were affected by your decisions already have a litany of responsibilities that do not cease to exist when someone makes decisions that rock a company to it's very core. Maybe instead of shlepping the responsibility of identifying the consequences of their actions downstream, they should exhibit a little initiative and attempt to take a role in evaluating whether the decision they've made was the right one for the team.
Regarding your first point about security, I see the opposite on a weekly basis. Devs, especially in startups, make secure technology decisions, but in a very narrow and entirely technical scope that essentially encompasses "their world". Once induced to see the larger picture either due to a compromised system, or table top exercises that include the rest of the business, they and leadership start to realize they've had a false sense of security.
You seem to have made up your mind about which news channel was correctly reporting. Why do you think your opinion and that of many others conflicts with the WHO and CDC?

To me it feels like the experts (WHO/CDC) are 'downplaying' while nonexperts (internet commenters who read a few articles) are doing the opposite.
I found it thoughtful and of much greater effort than your dismissal.
It is always time to buy stocks when the numbers are down. Especially if they offer dividends. They will eventually go up again, unless the company goes completely out of business. There are companies you pretty much know will stick it out through the bad times. Eg: Even if Coca Cola stocks suffer because of an artificial sugar shortage, they'll eventually get back on track. They're not going anywhere, or if they do, they'll be one of the last ones to bail.

As long as you don't panic and sell beforehand, you will most likely profit. Warren Buffet repeatedly states that you should look at the long term - and he got a little bit rich sticking to that advice.
Mysterious pink smoke over east Edmonton triggers confusion, fire calls
I believe the economics have slightly changed with the propagation of premium economy. A significant percent of long haul margins are now coming from this segment.

“The carrier said revenues per square foot are 6 per cent higher than in business class and 33 per cent higher than in economy. ”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/41866d20-11f...
Yeah, some of this stuff is going to happen and it's a hassle dealing with it. However, and this may not have been the case with you but has happened where I work: If no one is satisfied with the tools they use then maybe the selection process isn't properly taking user needs into account. You, for example, may find Zoom's meeting ID/participant ID system onerous, but if the bulk of your users need or want something else, there's a problem: Smooth comunication with potential clients through a tool they're comfortable with is rather important. Personally, I can't stand the parade of different conference tools that require their own browser plugins or installed clients or single-use download client etc.
Yeah, true. Frugality is a nice thing to have learned. And I agree, you don't learn it by bootstrapping your company. Rather your company will likely go bankrupt if you didn't learn it before.

If you have the basics already, so, bootstrapping forces you to build up that. No guarantees, so.
Ublock, select block Java script, reload.
I agree. I thought the article was interesting but it felt unfinished.
Chinese firms use obscure legal tactics to stem virus losses
On the flip side of that, we use three react libraries at my job: react-table, react-dates, and react-select.

If we had been OK just using whatever styles they gave us, it would have been fine. But we have a designer who designs how everything is supposed to look. And even the "style-less" react components have been a nightmare. Just a constant train of bugs to fix, and they still barely function.

It would have been way faster to start from scratch, in my opinion. This has all been over 6 months, so it's not like there was some initial payoff period either.
That's pretty reasonable: benefits like health insurance are expensive!
A few examples of things it adds that are not widely available in JS (if at all, or requiring awkward hacks/hints in JS), off the top of my head:

int64

uint32

popcnt

copysign

reinterpret_cast equivalent (the js hack for this is abysmal)

pthreads

SIMD

AOT compilation

To be fair, it's been a while since I was last one of the authors of the webassembly spec, so I could be missing some things.
No, it does not imply that. The facts are that the CDC followed their protocol and so the person was not tested. It could imply the protocols are too stringent, or that they are successful because the user might not have the coronavirus.

Its unclear to me where 'managing the propaganda' came out in relation to the reddit post.
There is, unfortunately, no such thing as an unquestionably authentic video in the modern era. It’s not reasonable to assume that everything you see in a video on Twitter is true.