skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original rotavirus vaccine caused intussusception. Vaccines are not magical risk free things, even if they don't cause autisim.

There's a reason we say "risk vs benefit". Current vaccines clearly fall under the reward part of that. A new vaccine? Who knows. That's why you have to test.
> Why aren't there enough masks available for everyone for inevitable outbreaks like this?

I don't know anyone who has conclusively demonstrated there are not. What we have right now are runs on Home Depot and the like buying out respirators and dust masks faster than the stores can restock them.

> Why don't we have the industrial capacity to manufacture masks in the US, leaving us reliant on foreign imports?

We haven't and aren't. 3M manufactures their masks in the US.
In that case, it seems like an even weirder affect to take on - none of the nicotine, all of the bad breath and mouth cancer.
Syntax is not that different from Java. Someone who knows Java could be productive in 1-2 days. But it sounds like you agree that your leadership in that scenario was not rational.
To be fair, it's possible that we discover that an existing, already-approved drug or treatment is more effective at reducing the death rate of people experiencing the worst symptoms than what we're doing now.

A vaccine is probably very far away, though.
It’s fairly understood as a rule to capitalize non minor words in titles. Secondly, nouns are to be always capitalized in titles. Decision fatigue taken together is a noun.

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitaliza...
I'm pretty sure the figures I read were 1% mortality with Covid19, 1:400,000 for flu (in UK). It was that order of magnitude.

So perhaps like saying chlorine is harmless because people drink it. It's a "well yes, but no ..." situation.
Just use old phones from eBay :). More like 50 Euros, but still rather cheap and powerful enough for any IoT use.

Reminds me of that guy who used an iPad for a wall mounted information panel (weather, transport time, traffic conditions, some other stuff). Pretty cool.
If I were writing a linter I'd do the exact opposite: complain about a lack of parens if it might be confusing.
I don't know if a / b * c is (a/b) * c or a / (b*c). Don't tell me, no matter how many times I'm told I'll forget 5 minutes later.
Someone is probably going to quote that study where they say decision fatigue doesn't exist, and I'm going to head you off right now: It exists, everyone on HN has experienced it, and one of the best tools a successful businessman has is being able to differentiate between which decisions actually need their input, and none of us use that tool enough.

Case in point: it is 2 pm, I am on HN replying to this.

Also, someone is going to probably recommend reading "Thinking Fast and Slow". It's not at the top of my list of books to read, but you should read it once just so you understand the references to it.
Hmm - have you considered a tool like Terraform or Deployment manager for creating the clusters? In general, it's best practice to capture that configuration as code.
r/personalfinancecanada for Canadians, lots of great information here specific to Canada.
It's summer in Brazil, and other southern countries, so we can just watch them and see.
Hi!

I would love to help.

http://djalbat.com
https://formalmethods.co.uk

The BBC work was React based and I've done more work recently.

Many thanks and kind regards,
James
When you have an infection around the nose area you'll be immediately put on strong antibiotics, because the danger of the infection spreading to the brain through the nose is so big.
can't laugh when you are breathing with your mouth, my friend :)
White label, yes, I forgot that term :)
Well, you are a pedantic, prejudiced kind of person hey? How about this rewording instead...

"Hemp is not the same strain of Cannabis that produce THC in levels found in Marijuana type plants. Also the THC is harvested from the flower and so you don't typically get a meaningful harvest quantity of seeds, because the flowers are taken before seeds develop."

Maybe I am wrong, but your attitude sucks.

Edit: I guess you are just an angry person - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22187216
Hard to understand how it would be legally challenging. ISP's do it all the time when differentiating their business plans from residential. Both services run over the same infrastructure and you typically get the same/similar speeds, but a key difference is an SLA with the business plan.
I like to use PowerShell for scripts (sometimes), while I use fish as a interactive shell. I'm a SW developer familiar with .NET, and it's reasonably easy to call any .NET functions from PowerShell while it's also easy to call any external program (do pipes and all this unixy things). Mostly, my use cases are things other people would use Python rather than Bash. PowerShell is a compromise between the two, in my view.

For example when I wanted to create and keep btrfs snapshot with exponential decay on their frequency, that would be quite tedious to write in Bash (I think, at least).

I used to like that I can run the same thing on Windows and Linux, but I stopped using Windows and got used to programs that would have to installed on Windows, so it's no longer an advantage to me. But in theory, it's still IMHO easier to run PowerShell script on Linux than it's to run Bash scripts on Windows.

I have not seen the nushell, thanks for posting that! From PowerShell I'd expect more online material and more stability.

It also has quite a bit of disadvantages:
* Sometimes it's called `powershell` and sometimes `pwsh`, breaking shebangs
* Startup is sloow. May be issue for some scripts that run often.
* Linux people sometimes look at me very strangely :D
* Installation size is significant if you count .NET into that. So not a good fit for setting up docker containers :/

(btw, it works on Linux for quite some time already)
Not picking your nose.
Not that I invested much in GCP but this was just what I needed to completely stay away from it myself and my clients. Really awful decision. I'm sorry for those affected who trusted them.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14176195
The next question is, how did pg become pg? His essays are how I learned of both HN and YC and from founders I've spoken with the very same essays played a critical role in getting YC off the ground in the early days.

Of course he was already a (relatively minor) entrepreneurial success through Viaweb, which gave the essays a boost. But when starting Viaweb, he was just a smart 30-ish guy who had published a couple of books on a niche programming language.

It's easy to see how this would feel like a lucky chain of events and that a random person could have jumped in at any given point and done as well, but I'm very skeptical of that hypothesis.
Hmm ... I guess it could have been designed with a stand that tipped it back to almost horizontal? Try going flatter than 30 degrees and you'll really slow it down!
> Business success is users and growth and revenue

Nope, it's net profit. I know there are fashionable exceptions like Uber/Amazon that grab market share in a winner take all market before focusing on profit but for 99% of companies out there, unit economics are still the measure of success.

I've been part of companies with insane growth, crazy fund raises etc that eventually died because revenue didn't keep up with costs.
Those sound like unrecoverable errors. Exceptions only make sense for recoverable errors, otherwise why not just call abort()?
Just remember to hold off on the gloating until after the self-driving cars stop occasionally driving into trees.
It just seems to be a docker host hooked up pull requests. Unless I am missing something there doesn't seem to be anything fancy or new.

Main things I see missing

- Ability to clone live database

- Ability to run any sort of tests

- Yet another yaml file with docker configuration in it, slightly different then every other docker configuration system.

Also seems to be twice the size of docker compose?
In the US we have "Fee-Only Financial Advisors": https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarotta/2012/06/11/fee-onl...
I know this is kinda against the guidelines, but just to highlight what an ideological war is being fought, at this moment, my parent post has received 5 upvotes and 6 downvotes, with the last 4 downvotes all occuring in the last minute.

On the content, RMS chose a colorful (insulting) language, yes, do hold that against him, because that is wrong, but in my opinion, at the core, his statements are quite legit.
You should be the one wearing the mall though no?
Excuse the pedanticism but I assume what you meant was "YC portfolio companies showing HN what they have built"
I guess you are right. End users should be clicking buttons :D
There are patients that have been hospitalized in Wuhan for weeks or potentially months.
Will they ever recover? Will that compound the already-critical lack of medical infrastructure?
As also a security person (:wave:), you can use dedicated node pools and workload identity to isolate workloads in the same cluster.
It's considerably cheaper than EKS. Looks like $75-80 a month vs I believe around $200 per EKS cluster.

Everyone's having EKS cost problems while I'm just sitting over here paying nothing for ECS control planes.
don't worry the facial recognition technology has been perfected to track through face masks / bandanas

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-china-tech-fi...
Just to be clear, a 2% mortality rate does not apply to everyone. It hits the sick and old way harder. As a healthy person in my early 30s, my best guess for my own mortality rate is 0.4%. However, that does mean it is extremely dangerous for the elderly or otherwise compromised.
How did you jump to this conclusion?
Fake audio, such as deepfakes, could plague business, politics
Yeah cause screw that person who died.
The next generation of RF communications always clusters around RF spectrum that the previous generation considered undesirable. From shortwave radio to 2.4 GHz, this has always been the case. It's not a huge stretch to suspect that it might be the case for 60 GHz as well.
We use Skaffold and it’s great. I’m talking about very minor unforeseen stuff that causes outages, not that we do it manually.
I'm a little sad about this. My dad works in computer storage and had access to lots of computers doing nothing. He's now at "just about 11 quintillion flops, 99.12% ranking vs all other users"
interesting. do you have an example of a Show HN that was an YC incubated company that the time of the post? (I believe you, I just can't find one as an example).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It looks like Launch HN has been a thing for at least three years:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-... is quite good, WHO.int have publications on it if you want a more trusted source (but this one seems good to me).
One of my coworkers, who is a staunch supporter for wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, wears an N95 the entire time he's in the office. Yesterday he claimed he's having chest discomfort (which is what some people will feel when they wear N95 24x7 awake) and went to a hospital to demand a test for coronavirus infection. Needless to say his request got declined and he's doing just fine but I am simply speechless at the irony.
That's is the most underrated comment on this entire, horribly derailed thread.
I get 5% interest on up-to a $20,000 balance in a high interest checking account. You'll see higher returns using a high interest checking as opposed to savings account if you can find one you qualify for.

High interest checking accounts: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/...
Automation for meeting minimum spend requirements: https://github.com/jakehilborn/debbit
Personally I think the main issue sociologically is that the implementations are "half-mirror" society instead of fully transparent. The half mirror is inherently abusable.

Imagine a sci-fi world where anyone can view anywhere in the past at any time and any depth. It would be disconcerting but it would put people on equal footings and prevent many forms of deception and abuse as well as making criminal trials binary but fair. Corruption would be harder to get away with when every backroom meeting could be audited and verified by everyone. It would force some very uncomfortable questions about social norms and laws as a society in withdrawl from expected hypocrisy.

Compare that to one with it just in the hands of authorities to abuse.

Obviously not the same but the analogy should be clear how even if both are disliked they are quite different and one is worse.
Yeah, this is also why 60 GHz FCC power limits are higher because they don't expect you will interfere with anyone. I thought it was usually thought of as an "in room" transmission medium.
I've seen very different estimates. I'm gonna go off on a limb and say that there's probably more misinformation out there than real information. People should remain calm, take [0]reasonable precautions, and make decisions based on the latest information from credible sources such as the [1]CDC - rather than the media.

[0]https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1235247642814214145

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/related-stig...
How many fucking names does this thing have?
The amount of time I've eye traced the code looking for the possible culprits for the NullPointerException and then debugging it later .... This feature should be there day one;
I believe that's what he meant, not [licensed] in the US at least.
Compile Svelte in your head (pt 1)
Indeed they are. And manufacturer plants are expensive, so competition is kind of cut-throat to get high volume orders. Also capacities used to be largely under utilized in the last years. This forced prices further down, eroding more margin. No wonder all big manufacturers, with the exception thin film, are in China where it is easy for them to get financing.
HN was founded in 2007, so per the Lindy Effect we should bet on it being around until 2033.

I don't know what your over-under on self-driving cars being prevalent is, so I don't know if this supports your point or not.
This is NOT true. N95 is needed for health professionals in an active care environment. THIS DOES NOT IMPLY MASKS in general ARE NOT EFFECTIVE for individuals in public spaces who may run into someone who’s infected.
Why use exceptions for unrecoverable errors? The only reason would be to do proper stack unwinding, and if the proper response to an unrecoverable error is to terminate the process, I don't see the point of cleanup.
That's awkward, why did Yang tweet and go on TV saying how awesome Bloomberg's operation was?
How The Other Half Lives [0] really is a worthwhile read, if you're at all interested in the history of NYC or of social reforms, or just want a reminder to be grateful for your own modern middle-class living conditions. The poverty described can be deeply overwhelming.

It's also basically the American counterpart to Engels' classic The Condition of the WOrking Class in England [1].

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm
[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17306/17306-h/17306-h.htm
Little thing I put together over the weekend to aid in rubbberduck debugging. Uses some basic NPP/AI stuff to match responses to replies
To correctly analyze the morality rates you have to take a lot of things into account: hardly anyone is being honest (South Korea is better, but not perfect), testing is rate limited, death rates are a lagging indicator, etc. etc. etc.

Lots of experts have made guesses with these assumptions factored in, but at this point, there is so much uncertainty it's hard for anyone to tell.
Not pedantic at all! Very confusing typo. I've fixed it.
Both lack of regulation as well as weather, road condition, and road layout. Most of the Phoenix metro area is a grid, fairly modern as streets are constantly redone as we've grown so new-ish signs that are largely unobstructed by trees, etcetc.

As a motorcyclist with a 45 minute commute, I'm on the cautious side when it comes to self-driving tech on the roads, but I have to say that anecdotally it's been fine so far. I'd be willing to bet I see ~10 Waymo vehicles a day. I've had plenty of issues with normal cars/drivers, have never had nor seen an issue with Waymo.
The larger the die the greater the likelihood of defects. Also the larger the number of defects per mm/sq.
Cache Oblivious Datastructures
but it isn't a title in the journalistic sense
This makes no sense to me.

The point I was making is that we do not know what consciousness actually is. Until we do, we have no way of telling whether my impression of my own consciousness has any reasonable relation to the reality of it. It is meaningless to try to determine whether or not it is an illusion without first having an understanding of what consciousness is.

More directly to the argument I was addressing, the point is that whether or not the commenter I replied to is right and there'd be no "me" that could live on forever, that is really rather irrelevant to the "me" that believes I am conscious.

In other words: While I need clarity in what consciousness is to be able to even begin to address whether or not what I have is truly consciousness, it really doesn't matter to the question of whether or not whatever I am sees value in a process that'd let me live on.
My smartwatch runs a fat Java stack. My thermostat runs full fat Linux stack with a ton of services. My lightbulb runs fucking HTTP server for its REST API that controls it.

None of this is operates in any way remotely close to "malloc up front and never touch again." Nor do they operate with any sort of significant constraints vs. the typical app.

There are definitely things that do that. But even in the world of embedded it's a subset of things that do that.

Heck, the most software-constrained thing I have is probably the controller in my monitor. But then again that also runs Altera Arria V GX FPGA with 768MB of DDR3 RAM, which also definitely classifies as a niche area with highly specialized demands.
Good point - I can only imagine that there is a lot of optimization possible for seeds if cannabis becomes used as a food source.

I'd argue that the genetics of cannabis/hemp for use as fiber have been relatively more explored than seeds by selective breeding of Cannabis Sativa during the milleniums in some cultures when hemp fiber was the fiber of choice.[0]

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-teenage-mind/201...
operation != philosophy...
Decision fatigue is one of those things I am inclined to agree with my confirmation bias and just disregard studies that claim it does not exist. It just makes a bit too much sense.
Interference: Open-source distibuted database with complex event processing
I believe reading that 14% of cases are severe, so it sounds roughly accurate. I think a lot more show symptoms, though, even if they're mild.
I would think this would actually increase the odds of infection via that route since it would tend to dry out the skin in your nostrils and remove some of the natural defenses we have there.
There's no reason to bake tools like this into an OS or tie them to OS versions. Download the tools you need. If you need to "bake" them anywhere, bake them into your containers.
HSAs are a no brainer if you can afford to spend the out of pocket maximum. Either you pay the insurance company more in monthly premiums for a lower deductible, or you pay a lower monthly premium and invest the difference in an index fund and you keep the returns. Which grow tax free in an HSA.

Your probability of having a healthcare expense does not change based on the type of insurance you choose (high or low deductible). Only the timing of the cash flow. But the government gives tax advantages for using an HSA. It's an IRA with the ability to withdraw penalty free any amount you used for healthcare anytime you were covered under an HDHP.
No, the alternative to exceptions is a language that forces you to explicitly handle errors at the call site. See: Rust.
That's... actually impressive. I've built a point to point WiFi link before, with 802.11g.

I was under the impression 60GHz is for extremely short range applications, like wireless connectivity in a living room and such.

Really surprised it works that far, even if it needs LoS and perfect weather.
The 40-70% number is from a Harvard Professor of Epidemiology

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-people-might-one-perso...

> “I think it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic,” said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “If a pandemic happens, 40% to 70% of people world-wide are likely to be infected in the coming year. What proportion of those will be symptomatic, I can’t give a good number.”
One of my favourite movie quotes ever. Up there with “the only winning move is not to play” from WarGames.
Smartphones are a relic from last decade. They were revolutionary when they arrived, and in a few years completely wiped out not only competing phones but also compact cameras, GPS gadgets and more.

Since then not much has changed. Apple invents something and Samsung etc, rushes to ridicule them and then copies the feature. Apple does the same (minus the ridicule). The smartphone innovation for the past 4-5 years has pretty much been limited to a missing headphone jack and a screen notch. Everything else has been incremental upgrades.

Still, the first iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the 3G model had an App Store but no apps in the beginning. And people still bought them.

The iPad was ridiculed when it was unveiled, and yet it seems like everybody has a tablet these days.

The smart watch was curiosity until Apple launched the Apple Watch, and it was ridiculed for being ugly. Millions of people bought them, and today they’re pretty well underway to disrupting the fitness tracker and health monitoring devices.

Bring the right technology along with a developer friendly environment and that could easily happen again if the technology is disruptive enough.

As for competing with chromebooks, you’re essentially replacing X devices with a single device.

Of course you’d still need some kind of external display/monitor, but if connection to those can be wireless you could start seeing some really great combinations.

How about a screen you can fold/roll up and keep in your jacket ? Or just a “notepad” that is a monitor ?

Or in a few years when everything with a processor is probably 5G enabled, and every wall panel is a potential display ? Point your device at the wall (using existing technology like the U1 chip in current gen iPhones) and suddenly your dining room wall is a 4K Cinema Display being broadcast to from your phone.

Your kitchen wall or office wall could become a desktop display, again broadcast to from your phone.
For long haul you'd still want someone riding in the cab who can do basic maint I think, plus off loading the truck a lot of the times is the duty of the driver. Some companies advertise 'never tarp again!' because tarping your load on flatbeds is the driver's responsibility. Also for in-transit maint airlines need repair, trailer power needs to be checked especially for reefers. I'm not sure about otr truckers but for ltl the driver is offloading trailer.

I can see the training and responsibilities shift as things become more automated, but for what a driver costs, I can't see them getting rid of an incab person for otr trips which leave the city. The response time and costs for fixing minor maint like a broken air line would be crazy. Also someone gotta fill those tanks up.
I don't understand the worry.

As of yesterday, China, a country of 1.4B, had 80,000 cases and 3,000 dead.

Last year, the US had 36M infected with the flu and 34,000 died.[1]

Are you panicking about the flu?

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html