skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can't be world police

Off topic, but the whole concept of "world police" is just spin. A police force is one that enforces equally laws established by others. You cannot be at the same time the one who establishes the rules and who decides when and where to use force against those who break them. This is just arbitary use of violence.
Hyperbole and precision can get tricky in human language because different cultural groups have different language encodings for the same sets of words.

For example, if you live in London then "9 in the morning" means when the world synchronized clocks agree that, locally for you, the time is 9am. But if you say "9 in the morning" to someone in Belize, it means "first thing after you are finished with your morning and ready to start your day," which can mean 1pm in some cases.

Here's a lovely article on these kind of time-keeping differences, around something that you might expect to have a precise meaning:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-under...

More to the point at hand, however, you suggested that people not speak in hyperbole but instead speak accurately. Although you can request that others adjust their use of language while in your presence to better meet your needs for a certain kind of precision, policing other people's language isn't possible. However, re-interpreting what people say into what they mean is somewhat possible for an astute listener who understands the context.
Five eyes wont like it to be so easy to disable your tracking device. Removing the battery or other kinds of signal blocking is the only way to know it's off / not transmitting
I’m in favor of companies being fined for their screw ups, but why does only the government get the money? When do we, the victims, get our compensation?
I know this is a fast moving topic, but the kerfluffle from last Wednesday about the person not tested for 4 days has caused testing to become much broader. For example, on Thursday, Santa Clara County ran a local test that confirmed the community-spread patient that's in a hospital in Mountain View. So a lot more testing is going on than was the case Wednesday and earlier.
1-2 sprints, which for most teams is 4-6 weeks. It really depends on use cases... generally startups don't have any need to support old browsers and can enforce current Chrome+Firefox only.
> instead of having to invoke the REPL from your editor, your REPL invokes your editor--honestly it seems like the right relationship and now I'm fairly confused why other REPL focused languages don't commonly support this.

That is originally how REPLs worked in Lisp and APL systems in the 1960s. In BBN Lisp/Interlisp (see http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/bbnlisp/W-...) and APL\360 you called the built-in editor from the REPL. There were not really any stand-alone interactive editor programs around back then, and the operating systems BBN Lisp and APL ran on mostly did not properly support running multiple processes to run editors anyway. Maclisp on ITS had job control, and you could call external editors: http://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/edit.html

Doing it the other way around is better for projects written in multiple languages, dealing with multiple implementations, running processes on remote systems, and IDE features.
You can season it in the oven, or on an outdoor grill. That's a pretty infrequent thing to need to do.
>At my company a lot of meetings start with 10 minutes trying to make the phone conference work.

You are most certainly not alone. In one Joshua Fluke's video, he accurately describes the feeling [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrQyUIQkiY#t=7m55s
Even if they don't know the tools or languages, which in our case they're almost certainly not going to (Rust, Agda, TLA+, etc.), you get to see how they interact with a situation where they need to be able to direct some of their own learning by seeing if they ask questions, if they can synthesize insights despite lack of deep familiarity, how they react to having naivety exposed, etc.

Most of the challenging work is collaborative problem solving, not exam proctoring, and it's important to see how a person interacts with that. You'll see how much direction they're likely to need, if they can navigate and contribute positively to team dynamics, and so on.
Replacing the battery for a phone here in Germany would set you back about 50-100€. A somewhat usable smartphone costs 85-115€. Hm... I'd rather get a new phone.

If I could replace it myself, I'm quite sure I'd find a no-name replacement part for a maximum of 20€ on eBay. Hm, I'm sticking with the old phone for now.
If anybody were to produce such a model, they would be utterly destroyed.

If anybody were to even attempt to apply for grants to do that work, they would be expelled from the university community, and their professional reputation immediately destroyed.

There is no incentive to even look to see if you can find a flaw in the orthodoxy.
One of the biggest red flags is when a company starts throwing you these trick questions. Run away, fast.
At this point, it's much more likely that these residents and staff were exposed to Covid-19. We know of two confirmed cases at this facility, and no confirmed cases of influenza. Given our knowledge of the contagiousness of Covid-19, it would make little sense to assume this cluster of respiratory illnesses is not Covid-19.
>Well-equipped state or local labs can use these—or come up with their own—to produce what are known as a “laboratory-developed tests” for in-house use. But at the moment, they’re not allowed to do that without FDA approval.

Wow this is frankly insane. Pretty much every biology laboratory in the USA should have the tools available to perform these tests. More than that, RT-PCR is a routine assay that any self-respecting wetlab biologist can do. If they are struggling to produce these kits they should be letting people order their own primers. Even if less reliable, at least then they would be able to test patients properly.
IIRC that's called "associated type" and is mostly used for shortening the function declaration inside the trait through using e.g. "Self::Output".

E.g. the definition of the real std::ops::Neg trait: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Neg.html
One story that comes to mind is the difficulty of change management. It’s possible to configure Aloha locally but beyond a certain number of locations a configuration tool called Configuration Center is used. It basically stores configuration information on a server (as a tree with the rough idea of inheritance) that stores connect to and pull down into the various configuration formats used.

In the tool there isn’t a concept of approvals. We had an admin disable receipt printers at all stores. There wasn’t a reliable global refresh so we had 10 people logging in remotely (through another horrible tool that was a front end for a reverse VNC connection) and calling stores to reset their configuration which brought their system down for 2 to 10 minutes during a Friday lunch rush.

We fixed this with process but NCR made it easy to shoot oneself in the foot.
> even with IP68, there are tons of replaceable-battery-operated waterproof devices out there.

Buyers would also rather keep the solid slab with no hatch form factor, than see the phone be 2mm thicker I assume. A lot of other devices don't have a size budget that is as extreme as a modern smartphone.

Put the other way: a slightly bigger phone (because of some separating compartment, gaskets, battery in a plastic cartridge and so on) could instead have been a solid slab with a slightly larger battery, so several hours extra battery time or higher performance at the same battery time.
My response was largely from my own wondering about my situation. I live in WA state and I fly to CA every week. I was super sick -- fever, chills, respiratory issues, etc... I just came to the conclusion that it is far more likely I had the flu, but I really don't know.
Why? The world is full of people doing an honest job at their level without believing in the direction their industry, as a whole, is taking.
I'm not an expert, but I think the sea level rise is going to be quite crappy in another 30 years or so. Sounds plausible that it could lead to people being displaced and pricey waterfront properties and adjacent losing a lot of value.
You can test for influenza. In that article I didn't see, "tested positive for influenza". I did see "tested positive for coronavirus".

So no, I don't think it's statistically more likely that ill patients around a highly contagious disease randomly picked up something else.
Russia made it quite clear that they would defend the Assad regime, and ending that was the only way to realistically end the refugee crisis. Turkey has stepped in to fight Russia in Syria instead. I'm not sure how many Russian aircraft NATO intervention would have been able to shoot down before Putin explicitly brought up the nuke threat?

The US is currently quietly supporting Saudi Arabi in their war against the Houthis.
There’s an RNA based test procedure that can differentiate Covid-19 from the Flu, I think it’s what everyone is using.
You really can't see the contradiction? I'll try again: Many fans of capitalism believe it superior to communism because free markets and high individual initiative produce better outcomes than central planning. However, they also believe in the awesomeness of corporations, which are generally run with central planning and no individual initiative.

Is that clearer?
lsyncd: https://axkibe.github.io/lsyncd/
The most important takeaway is to stick to the 90-day disclosure policy. The deadline is only credible when it's enforced, and on a number of occasions Google have stated they believe so themselves. [1]

1. https://www.google.com/search?q="deadline+exceeded"+"automat...
That guy has some level of seniority so he can work an average of 11 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you lower that to averaging not working 5 days every 2 months (so still working 56 of 61 days every 2 months), he’d be averaging 12 hours a day.

This possibly makes the case even worse for janitors than help showing how they fare.

Roughly estimating. If a person has 2 days off per week (weekends) and either 12 or 24 total days off a year from federal holidays, sick days, vacation days, that is an average of 20 or 21 working days a month.
You should consider telling your doctor.

edit: I now see you said 3 weeks ago, so that may not be helpful.
Show HN: All-in-one peer tutoring management for schools
I can give you hundreds lately. If you didn’t notice you’re probably part of the problem.

I'll give you one for free, the rest you're going to have to bother googling by yourself:

https://www.gq.com/story/coronavirus-trump-conspiracy
I criticised the initial response, largely from ~mid December 2019 - ~21 January 2020, specifically attempts to shut down any and all discussion of the outbreak initially, as well as downplaying reports. See from three weeks ago this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22274827

In terms of the actual epidemiological response, most especially since ~22 January, limiting travel, events, large congregations of people, and shutting down workplaces and schools, has been absolutely appropriate. Those measures have received some criticism, including by Chinese citizens. I don't feel those criticisms are at all warranted.

The information environment is difficult to navigate. I'd argue that China's erred on the side of too much control, as it tends to do, but in general, after 22 January, the process as a whole has worked, judging by results. The challenges are certainly staggering, particularly at China's scale. The avoiding of mass panic and protest is commendable.

The fact that other governments -- Japan, Korea, Iran, and the United States, notably, and all but certainly North Korea, are repeating many of the same mistakes (or multiplying them several-fold, in the case of Iran and PRK) -- shows that this is highly typical.

I'm also quite disappointed by the international response, and that of the United States quite specifically.

One of the first references I posted to HN following news of the Wuhan outbreak was Albert Camus' 1948 novel, The Plague. The story it tells, of society, government, and individuals, in the face of pestilence, is timeless. And contains valuable lessons:

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/the-pl... (PDF)

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22150237
"Twitter's good for ... putdowns. That's about it. "

Fixed it for you man! Really, the only purpose twitter serves is as the comments section people removed because everyone in the comments section was slinging poo at OP. And they're removing this, the one truly useful thing twatter does, because journalist types are head cases who think larping and carping on twitter is real life.
First Covid-19 outbreak in a U.S. nursing home raises concerns
I can't shake off the thought half of the comments defending Apple are written by people working at/for Apple. Or earning 300k+

1 - 2 hours are required https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+11+Battery+Replacement/1...
That's 2 hours of a technician + 2 houurs + driving there/back.

115,00€ https://www.ifixers.be/en/repair/smartphone/apple/iphone-xr

105,00€ https://www.ifixers.be/en/repair/smartphone/apple/iphone-8-0

For newer models battery replacement is not even offered.

Samsung is not any better at €95 https://www.ifixers.be/en/repair/smartphone/samsung/galaxy-n...

Cheaper at the original store https://www.samsung.com/be/reparatie/mobile/

With Note 4 battery replacement took 10s and involved popping the plastick back off the phone.

Tangentially, changing a H7 lightbulb in my Ford involves taking out the front harness and the whole reflector - meaning light realignmen at the shop is needed. Replacing the car battery is even worse, cant imagine doing it myself. At some point some manager must have invented a user story "as a user I want to spend €500 in car service to change the battery instead of the usual €0".
Part of it might be that when the experts try to lay it out for us laypeople, their explanations are sometimes simplified to a point where they clearly make no sense, which creates concern. When an expert says that "it is the case that A because of B" but we already know that B is false or impossible, what are we supposed to believe?

For example, when China changed the definition of a confirmed case, the new definition caused a big spike in the numbers. Later they changed back to the old definition (lower numbers) and the new number of old-definition cases was still higher than the new-definition peak, but with a lower rate of growth. The WHO called this an "encouraging trend", which was very confusing. The trend would look encouraging if you didn't know about the change in definition, but with the change in definition in mind it didn't look encouraging at all. Were they operating on a level beyond that where it does look encouraging again?

It would put many people's minds at rest, I think, if the experts would explain their reasoning better. "It looks encouraging. Now, I'm not talking about the superficial encouraging look of this graph here, which is just an illusion because ..., but if you look deeper still it surprisingly turns out to be encouraging nevertheless because ...".
or just... don't bring your phone with you?
I've come to the same conclusion as you: Keep time as a purely monotonic integer for everything and convert that as needed to display to humans.

This also pushes all the madness to the edges and out of the business logic.

That being said, this works well for applications that are not "date intensive" so to speak. If your business logic has to deal specifically with calendar dates, e.g., monthly events, then you have to deal with calendar months and all that this involves, including explicitly dealing with the 29th February.
Another plausible explanation is that Dyson’s generation of scientists mostly ignored climate. It was a “yin” problem when these men were looking to make their mark on a “yang” problem — new physics, thinking machines, conquest of some new domain.

Now the yin problem has revealed itself as an existential threat to the growth-centric way of life built upon the work of the great minds of the 20th century. Unsurprisingly they and their disciples are reluctant to accept this.
That's only "dishonest" if your only concern is to estimate your own probability of dying and you are a young person. However, if you're trying to estimate the proportion of (confirmed) infected people that will die, it's a pretty good guess.
Not to be too snarky, but your response could be seen as precisely the kind of dismissive response you’re trying to prevent.

Now is the time to be vigilant. I’d rather have too many people thinking they have this and self isolating/getting tested than too few.
> They are used with little modification to correctly model climate of Mars, Venus, tidal locked exoplanet and previous historical eras on Earth.

Never heard that claim. Could you back it up?

Side note. I did a calculation of PV=nRT on Venus which has a 96.5% (965000PPM) CO2 atmospheric concentration. Assuming RT is close to equal on Venus & Earth, P~T.

Venus has a surface temp/pressure of 7.96 K/bar vs 287.15 K/bar on Earth. If Venus had a runaway greenhouse effect, the K/bar on Venus should be significantly higher than on Earth. Would love more feedback & critique on this calculation, particularly a relevant PVT diagram for CO2.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mn4yuh2TUKWeMtMpZkDN...

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Heres a PVT phase diagram for CO2 but hopefully theres better ones wrt Venus. Note that theres a bend in the liquid/gas border. 1 to 10 bar has a lower increase of K/bar than for the 10 to 90 bar region.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-phase-diagram-for-CO2_...
Bellevue, WA here; I had a very bad case of the flu in early Feb (worst I can remember) and it took 3+ weeks to fully recover. Many cow-orkers were also affected (some meetings with 30+ people were down to a handful of people . . . not a bad thing under the circumstances).

Our "patient zero" was a dev who came into work for a day with a cough.

If you're sick, please stay home.
It's not only about writing your own library though. For example, it's often not reading the documentation properly.

In Python, if you take a datetime, and call .replace(year=X) on a datetime for Feb29, it'll throw a ValueError.
If you have a fever it is probably best to avoid exposing yourself to others anyway. There are plenty of other bugs similar to COVID-19 that can kill the vulnerable and there's no need for you to help spread them! Stay home, chill out, wait for the symptoms to pass before going out and you can help stop the spread of these illnesses :)
The secondary effects could go far beyond productivity losses.

If the health care system gets overwhelmed as we've seen in China (and as it already nearly does in the US every year due to seasonal flu), then even those 15%-20% (according to current estimates) with severe symptoms that could have been saved had the health care system not been overwhelmed are likely to die.

Also, people with other life threatening illnesses that could have been kept alive may die when the health care system gets overwhelmed.

Here[1] is a recent post from a doctor expressing his concerns:

"The hospital beds are most of the time at full capacity. Usually I had to send on Friday 30% of my patients home to make place for the new ones that were coming over the weekend, and this without any major epidemic. The reserves of protective gear are low. A lot of doctors and nurses don’t want to work in these conditions and most probably won’t show up at work anymore after they see how many people are going to die ( especially if young ones are also gonna start dying left and right ). We don’t have enough personnel. We don’t have enough beds. We don’t have enough machines. I expect that the CFR will be around 10%."

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fbbr3b/r0_betw...
ACK. i am still curious if this got implemented because of the consent dialog and legal requirements to deliver a service in case consent is declined... maybe it is the first time i see it properly implemented somehow?
HN is really buying into the media hysteria on this one. I would have expected more.
Yes, he is awesome, so engaging. I'm in the UK, I would really like a similar channel localised to the UK if anyone has suggestions?
A third option is that the statement simply isn't true / that it was said to attempt to reduce panic.

I think pretty much everyone expects additional positive cases. The statement is so vague, with no definitions of when, where or by what metric they mean "expected".

There has been significant misinformation around coronavirus, especially from US gov't officials - although not so much at the state level yet, from what I can tell.

Whoever is doing the 'expecting' on how there will be no future positive cases (whatever that means...I give it a couple hours/days before news breaks of an additional positive case near this location) is either intentionally misleading people, or the quote was taken out of context, or something.

I would certainly expect 'additional positive cases' to appear.
Yeah, I don't understand why it's literally illegal to take a swab and run a PCR against the known, published viral sequence. Forget "any self-respecting wetlab biologist," I'm pretty sure an undergrad with a year's worth of lab experience could run the test, at least under supervision.

Edit: I suppose you do need a "self respecting wetlab biologist" to synthesize the primers, but running the test itself is pretty simple.
Can you explain where you see that? In the post itself it says that Google offered coordinated disclosure at 90day mark?
SpaceX’s Starship SN1 prototype blows up during pressure test on its Texas pad
It’s more like 79 $ for the new generation of iPhones, at least if you want to have it changed by Apple with an official battery (https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...).

I did it for my SE and think it’s worth it, I still find it overpriced though.
Since nobody knows what consciousness is, we're all going on opinion here, including yourself. So, unless you converse with the fridge in your house and cry a little when it brakes, there's no point in bringing up the lack of scientific arguments in parent's post. You seem to make some assumption based on electric signals and complexity, but they're just assumptions.
After reading that section of the book i think the language property you're after is 'highly synthetic':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language

There's a spectrum between synthetic and analytic languages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language#Synthetic_a... ) and those closer to the synthetic end are the ones giving you trouble.

Polish will be subtype of synthetic called fusional/inflected which means things need to be adjusted to fit together, agglutinative languages are those that use mainly agglutination where morphemes are stuck together as is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language

Since it's a spectrum / categorization based on features, all languages will show these features to various degrees. E.g. the famous "anti|dis|establish|ment|ari|an|ism" in english and "anty|samo|u|bez|przedmiot|owia|nie" as a similar example in polish (both from https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglutynacyjno%C5%9B%C4%87 ), or more humble "houseboat" or "bitwise".

There are also polysynthetic languages, which is the name for the extreme of this spectrum, but there are no familiar examples of these (Mayan languages, Ainu, Inuit, Aleut are only i recognize from those mentioned on wikipedia).
This has been a recurring theme in history. If you want to overthrow the world's largest best equipped most powerful armies, build a small guerilla force of ragtag rebels. This also applies to startups, research, engineering and other facets of life.