skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I have trouble describing how bad the cough and lung symptoms were. At one point I remember saying "my lungs itch" and wishing I could find a way to scratch them from the outside.
Are we forbidden to even ask this?
They could do focus groups though. Build a few different seating arrangements, pay people to sit in them for a couple hours, and collect their thoughts afterwards.
Now having arrived at these conclusions, it would be interesting to run these exact same experiments on split-brained people, as well as on synesthetes and even people under the influence of certain psychedelic drugs.
Almost certainly not. If it had been around for three months, with no control at all, it would be extremely obvious by now.
Yeah, you might as well get two $50k jobs for better redundancy.
Your first problem you need to solve is that you have nothing else to talk about except your job / programming. To fix this, you need to pick an activity or hobby. The less "you" the activity is the better. Your current state of activity has been not satisfying your desire for social interaction. You can say your current way of choosing activities has given rise to your current state of activity. Therefore, change the way you choose an activity.

I was in the same boat a few years ago and I chose improv as my activity. Choose something that you do with other people live.

Once you choose your activity. Be the guy that's always down to do stuff. Be the guy that is always willing to host a get together or hang out after the activity.

I highly recommend improv just because it's so social and it's lots of fun. It also takes everyone out of their comfort zones and everyone starts off on the same foot which gives you a sense of family.
Or, upload your pictures, and misname them.
Possible source of the data https://opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat/data/en/dataset?q=...
I don't think weight will be a major problem here, given the stated focus on it.

I couldn't find weight specs for units of Zodiac Z535s or Recaro PL3530 seats, which are two of the major competitors in the premium economy market to compare with the "under 50kg per unit" claim on the Zephyrs. If you have the numbers, I'd be interested
My wife fractured a rib from coughing just to give a sense of how bad it was.
Deadly 1918 flu pandemic’s lessons ignored in coronavirus response
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm

Seems pretty straightforward. They look at which strains people have been testing positive for and how successful the previous vaccines were.
If by "balance" you mean that they found the maximum amount of pain they can inflict before mob violence breaks out.
Just evacuating the top deck? Because the moment a single ladder is in the aisle, no one can move anymore, so it's really a matter of "even having a single one is going to fail FAA regulation".
Never. However the time to take it seriously as something that has already transmitted throughout communities in the US, has passed, and you should do that starting now.
> The concern is people have not been taking this seriously for the past two months. This has resulted in the US being on the back foot and only acting in a reactive manner. The CDC has fallen flat on its face and now state public health departments need to try to pick up the slack. I hope they do.

Oh please. There's likely absolutely nothing the CDC could have done to prevent it from entering and spreading within the US, given the nature of the virus. What would have been an ideal situation in your mind, have the CDC order a complete halt to domestic/international travel early January?
Figma is pretty awesome. I’m on the free licence but deffo see the value. You can collaborate on designs, hand off easily to devs and build quick prototypes.

The tool pays for itself pretty fast.
There's a lot of knee-jerk reaction going on in this thread, and yet I don't think this bill would actually apply to anyone complaining.
> If twitter was created as a tool to influence politics, it would drastically changed who signed up for the platform, and it's influence and reach.

That's assuming you have to start with what you want to eventually achieve. Startups don't work like that in business, why should they in politics? You invest money to buy growth and market share before you monetize.

I'm not suggesting that Twitter was created to be a political tool, but "political apps don't work, Twitter worked, therefore Twitter wasn't meant to be a political app" falls a bit short I think.

> While leftist, this still allows people like Trump and other conservatives to use the platform...

Isn't that mostly because they really don't want to open that can of worms by banning the US president? Do you believe that, if Trump had lost to Clinton in 2016 but just kept on playing the politics game instead of tweeting about how great his new show will be, they would've tolerated that? I seriously doubt that.

> Whereas Singer (may--we don't really know his motives) seek to turn Twitter into a political weapon that he can use to battle liberalism.

Burning it to the ground, wasting his money, because of his personal politics? Doesn't that sound a bit strange for a hedge fund?
That's a funny way of stating it's a great example of 2(?) people coding a sustainable service to hundreds of thousands of others.
The HN crowd likes to share anecdotes and bikeshed on off-topic topics like this one.
Google keeps refusing to remove videos of my daughter’s 2015 murder
Aside from emerging international geopolitical consequences, I would not be so quick to discount Trump's reelection. As it happens, many of the policies he's ostensibly been pushing for align with containing 2019ncov and mitigation the various weaknesses it has exposed.

If Trump plays this right, this is a massive opportunity to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., possibly under subsidy. Borders are already closing and protectionist sentiment is likely to rise at least in the short term because of virus fears. China has been brought to it's knees and may back off from the trade war that we've been waging. Assuming the majority populous doesn't totally lose faith in Trump for completely screwing up the response to the pandemic (a very real possibility), I think he'll have an even better chance of winning the election, regardless of my personal feelings about him. Don't forget that he is an incumbent and incumbents are rarely voted out during times of crisis.

That said, both sides are already playing political games over preparation for the pandemic, and I'm not looking forward to the upcoming shitshow.

Edit: those who are silently downvoting need to look at this objectively and stifle their hatred for Trump. The fact that this could work in his favor is just politics - it doesn't help to ignore it just because you don't like him. Sometimes incompetent/evil people succeed with the help of circumstance.
It is not growing exponentially.

Think about what exponents are and what an exponential curve looks like.
Because sometimes paid content is interesting to a lot of people on HN.
These comments are being voted down. But I think it warrants some justification. These actions are just and rational, however in the wake of the climate emergency they are just as just and rational. I do believe governments and companies should answer for why they haven’t taken them before, and if they revert after this outbreak is over, they should have to answer for why.
Did this get upvoted to the front page because it has disaster in the title? If you follow the link it’s just a German banner you can’t get past
Panic is not helpful (it should go without saying, but apparently not...). There is a huge gap between inaction and panic. There is no inaction at the moment, whether more actions should be taken is another issue.
This is very interesting. I have worked in and around music for a long time and one of my favourite questions to ask people is whether, when listening to a song, they here the lyrics or the music first. I really struggle to hear lyrics without concentrating very hard. I thought everyone was like this until I started asking people. I’d love to know what drives the difference.
The eye gouging on this case is a metaphor to stand in for "doing awful things that the software should never, ever do" which allowed them to be less specific about the exact nature of the problem that the software was having. This is because the specific problem with the software is not a detail of interest. Rather, you are supposed to take for granted that the software problem is very serious and being ignored by the superior. People will commonly use exaggerations and ridiculous metaphors to gloss over something as an unimportant detail so you, the reader, know that isn't the point they are trying to make.

I just rolled with it because it was GGP's example.
Exactly. We’ve had long-distance telephone for a long time, and it actually works much better than the audio of most internet teleconferencing I’ve experienced. It’s not a complete substitute for face to face communication.
this is a great resource!

I visited Granada, Spain recently and learned from a guide how a particular type of tree is planted along Gran Via specifically to absorb radiation and pollution off the streets. I cannot recall the name for the type of tree.

I sure hope Urban Trees can expand to include more and more cities so that we can learn more about the plants in cities across the world and some of the interesting perspective on urban planning!
Mars Needs Leap Days Too
A CT scan is fairly standard procedure for diagnosing many things. Why do doctors and hospitals need CDC permission to use it to test? This seems like a bad movie where the CDC is not doing much due to political pressure. Why can't doctors act in their patients' best interest on their own?
I don't get this perspective about the GPL. Look, they are giving you something for free, including the source code and the right to build upon it and publish modified versions. You can do basically whatever you want with it, as long as you pass on the freedoms that were granted to you. Is that unfair? Enjoying getting freedoms but not passing them on is not nice.
Modern business class gives you that, plus true lie-flat seating without anybody over your head. Most airlines are installing either reverse herringbone seats or suite-style lie-flats -- but either way, increasingly with aisle access for all passengers.

Some airlines are still doing 2-2-2 layouts, but that is rapidly disappearing on long-haul service.
It’s so weird to read comments like this. It’s like people can only parrot media FUD and have lost all ability to think for themselves.
Last winter in Cambridge, UK, both me and my wife went through something labelled the Queen's Cough. In theory, that was an adenovirus: apart from the brutal cough that got worse if you rested and layed down, it regularly resulted in inner ear inflammation.

We suffered from it for nearly a month, we had to take mild tranquilizers - valerian extract - to fall asleep, only to get up coughing for 10-20 mins non stop in tge middle of the night.

There are loads of nasty chest infections out there.
U.S. Signs Peace Deal with Taliban
Considering how contagious it seems to be, I think if it had been circulating in the U.S. for months under the guise of flu, there would have been a mysterious number of deaths of young, healthy people from flu that would have been recognized in hindsight as Covid-19.
When is the point at which freaking out will help?
Same thing with our family here in the Bay Area, although it happened in mid-February so we're still recovering in some degree or another. Everyone had flu tests across multiple days and all came back negative for both type A & B.

Doctors thought about a coronavirus, but since we didn't travel to or have direct contact with anyone who did travel to China, they knew the CDC wouldn't approve the test.
I think it was also around December when me and a number of coworkers at the cafe I was working at got sick like this too. I don't know what they did, but I was out for a few days to recover and never went to see a doctor since I don't have any health insurance or provider. I recovered after about a week or so of rest.

I no longer work there and am looking for a new job now, but these are tough times. I couldn't have picked a worse time to be looking for work. I wonder how things are gonna go for people such as me who work in jobs that inherently need people at a physical location interacting with people. We can't just remote into work and make coffee for people.
Personally, I believe most people should just accept that they are going to get COVID-19. It's going to get spread around, and it's not containable. You're likely going to get it. That's the bad news, but the good news is that we have immune systems and we know how to take care of each other and ourselves. Yes it's going to kill some people, no it is highly probably not going to kill you. People will be sick and going on with their lives and doing their jobs.

It feels like we're teetering on the verge of hysteria, but a little acceptance about the situation would go a long way.
I don't want GOSUB instead of a normal function call, but in a few cases it is helpful to have it in addition to having normal function calls. In BASIC, a subroutine called by using GOSUB can RETURN either to where it was called from or to a different label (but, unfortunately, RETURN to a label is not allowed inside of a subroutine with SUB or FUNCTION). Also, subroutines called using GOSUB are in the same scope as the caller. (Usually, normal function calls would be used. But sometimes, GOSUB is helpful.)

GOTO is sometimes the best and clearest way to make something, although usually it will not be needed. Ideally, other flow controls such as FOR, WHILE, etc would be defined in terms of GOTO by use of hygienic macros, rather than being built-in features. You can then define your own flow controls too if you use some pattern a lot that giving that pattern its own name and macro is useful.

Direct dealing with the stack can be used to do some stuff normally done only in assembly language (although GNU C has some stuff, such as reading the stack pointer). But assembly language is specific to the target computer, and many libraries are not designed to be used with assembly language programs. However, some direct dealing with the stack might also depend on the target computer. Macros producing inline assembly code may be used if needed.

I do not know which other programming languages do such thing.
To be clear, Nouriel Roubini has a reputation as a "permabear"

He correctly predicted the 2008 crash because at all times he is predicting disaster.

Thus, he gets every one! (Even the ones that never pan out)

Maybe he is right this time. Maybe not. But him predicting it doesn't really provide much information.
In developed countries that have done lots of testing the ratio of infections to deaths is about 50 or 100 to 1. This death implies that there are a lot of undetected infections.
It absolutely doesn't need to lead to negative outcome... if the government simply lays out rules for fairness and enforces them. The problem is when they get themselves so bureaucratically involved in something that there is no freedom left to do anything "free". Healthcare and ISPs are great example of this. One should have the goal of patient outcomes. The other should have the goal of high speed, highly available access. Both of those are things the government should entice through it's regulatory framework. However, the least of us always choose to become politicians... So that doesn't happen.
No; that's just you picking an absurd example rather than being practical.

Pick a reasonable domain for each input field, considering what kind of input is useful, and what kind of usage in output (i.e. plain text output is likely much less risky than rich text). There's rarely a reason to ban < in plain text; but retaining stuff like zero-width joiners or rtl-ltr-transitions is likely less valueable, and potentially an issue with in things like usernames or email addresses (because they make it trivial to make apparently identical usernames). Similarly, if you're storing a telephone number and want to retain spaces - are you going to retain nul-chars too?

Not all input should allow arbritrary plain text. I'd guess most don't, and lot's of input is at least rich text nowadays (not to mention images and other media - you think it's a good idea to just reproduce an arbitrary image exactly?).
One wonders if the flu metagenome is evolving to evade our primitive strain selection 'algorithm'
No one should be freaking out but we should all be preparing by stocking up on essentials to stay home as much as possible for a month or two.
A model release form gives the right to use a photo for most purposes* including things like marketing literature, e.g. the classic happy smiling diverse workers found on company websites and in promotional brochures. However, if I just take a photo of you in a public place I can upload it to Flickr, post it on my website/blog, sell it to The New York Times for editorial use, etc. You have fairly limited rights to photos of yourself taken in public.

A video is just a sequence of still frames so I don't know why that would be any different.

IANAL. Added: I'm primarily familiar with the US. Your mileage may vary elsewhere.

*subject possibly to what I wrote earlier about misleading or defamatory purposes, e.g. if I use a photo of you to illustrate an article about neo-nazis.
We should always demand this, yet not count on it happening.

It would be nice to find ways to take these weapons and use them for self-defense as well. I wish I had a clue of what that would look like.
LOL.

Twice the passengers; same number of restrooms.

I wonder if the extra airline profits will cover the possible payout of a lawsuit where a mother's lap baby twists out of her arms and plonks six feet down onto the hard aluminum floor.

I can't wait for the first flyertalk post asking how many air miles they should get as compensation for being urinated on by a passenger overhead, or dealing with a gassy passenger overhead.

Too funny.
Presumably there are also many cases that are mild and will never be tested or reported.
I think the “truth” is likely somewhere in the middle: Be cautious and take precautions like washing your hands, avoiding huge crowds, and having some extra supplies on hand, but don’t panic. It’s not completely out of our control but completely freaking out and melting down won’t help anything.
If this gets adopted, I give it <10 years before someone has the bright idea to return seat size to current values while doubling capacity by adding the second story.
Mr Roubini should publish his portfolio allocation so we know if he really believes what he says. I know a large set of folks worldwide are hoping for a schadenfreude moment wrt Trump, and I hope they are betting a ton of money on it, too, so they lose it when everything comes back by July or so.
I worked for Trader Joe's for seven years before I finished school. It was a great place to work and although I make a lot more money now I miss things about it. TJs and Costco were always in the same discussion about great places to work in retail and as such it seemed to attract "high performing misfits". By this I generally mean really smart and hardworking people who didn't or couldn't go to college. Joe Coulombe built a very good company that I'll continue to shop at for a long time!
I clicked "accept" and was able to read the article.
What you're talking about is fine. We could construct an argument that it's also within the site guidelines, but really the rules aren't meant to be treated so formally.

The only thing I'd add is that it makes a huge difference to use language, where possible, from the article itself, rather than come up with words that aren't in the article. There's nearly always a subtitle or representative phrase that is suitable. A title that consists of the article's own language makes for a much better title than one that the submitter made up. We stick to that principle when editing titles. It's not always doable, but 90% of the time it is.

In the case of 22229101, though, I'd go for the subtitle: "The technical backstory of Retroactive". It's true that it doesn't explain what Retroactive is. But it explains what the article is, and it implies that readers will find out what Retroactive is. Indeed, the very first thing you see if you click on it is "If you need to run Aperture, iPhoto, or iTunes on macOS Catalina". It's a great HN submission, so I've changed the title to that and emailed you a repost invite.

p.s. I don't mind having these conversation on the site from time to time, but it's random whether we end up seeing a post like yours or not, so if you want to be sure to get a response, hn@ycombinator.com is better.
What you're saying isn't entirely untrue, but there has also been at least one other paper from about 10 years ago floating around which, following SARS, looked at genetic markers for ACE2 receptors and found that they are significantly overrepresented in Han Chinese and Japanese genes. So there is still some credibility to the speculation.
For production or for local use?
> Humans communicate so much better face to face.

No, they don't. They communicate more, but not better.
Sure, you're not wrong about any of this. But in GP, the commenter was essentially saying that if the CxO was not listening, it was because they didn't come with proof and business impact explicitly outlined in a convincing presentation, while I am arguing that in an emergency software-behaving-dangerously situation, it should not necessarily be the duty of the person bringing the claim to write a full report and presentation ahead of time.
I worked there briefly after leaving the Navy. I worked in nuclear power on submarines, both of which have incredibly high standards for QA. During my short time at SpaceX, I was fairly shocked by their QA process and ultimately their failure analysis “procedure.” In June 2015, they hadn’t had a catastrophic failure in something like 8 years. We all went in on Sunday (happened to be Elon’s birthday) to watch the launch from the Hawthorne campus. Coming from the Navy, I was expecting weeks or even months of “stand-down” and review. Ultimately, the failure was quickly attributed to a failed rod end bearing and if IIRC we are back to business as usually by Thursday. It was that response (or lack thereof) that prompted me to seek alternate employment. I wish SpaceX all the best, but can’t imagine being there as they move closer to manned flight.
I disagree about him hand-waving away quantitative arguments.

I’ve watched a number of relatively lengthy interviews and presentations he’s given that have been about or have touched on the topic of climate change, and he consistently references measurements of carbon’s effects and emphasizes the importance of real world measurements. His criticism is of abstract models of climate that attempt to make long term predictions.

If you’re most familiar with his positions through quotes and third hand reporting, I encourage you to listen to videos of him. I found him quite enjoyable to listen to. He was not the partisan he was sometimes painted as, although he was interviewed by people that were, but rather seemed genuinely curious and interested in truth and exploration.

Here are a few videos.

https://youtu.be/5hswLwqRIW8

https://youtu.be/8xFLjUt2leM

https://youtu.be/-mmI6DorL_Y?t=3m07s

His core claims appear to be that A) Increased CO2 has measurable, beneficial effects B) CO2 is one of many factors contributing to a complex system effecting climate that we don’t fully comprehend C) The positive or negative effects of climate change we’re observing depend on the region D) It is better to create a wide range of practical engineering solutions to deal with the effects of a changing climate than to think we can fully control it or know what effect our interventions or lack thereof will do in the future.

Some of those claims might be wrong, but I think it’s inaccurate to say they weren’t scientifically based.