skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to stop saying this. This looks very dangerous and we should take very precaution possible to slow transmission. All nonessential travel should be avoided, don't touch your face, wash your hands. Slowing this virus down makes everything so much better.

[1] Estimate that the case to fatality ratio is between 5-8%. The transmission rate is between 2 and 3. Both of these numbers are similar to the earlier SARS outbreak in the early 2000s.

[2] The death rate in Wuhan is significantly higher than that outside. We want to buy time so our healthcare facilities can handle the volume of patients.

Take precautions everyone! This may not seriously affect you but you can help prevent the spread to people you love.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/523

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023630v...
During flu season.

That line is always left out of this: the CDC doesn’t want to test just anyone with cold and flu symptoms ... during flu season.

The false positives are basically guaranteed to absolutely swamp the true positives at this time, and demolish any attempt to target the sick.
Covid-19 – Navigating the Uncharted
> These people get banned from everywhere.

At least you're admitting it. It's called persecution.
I think no-op is a bit misleading, and throwing away is more precise, since Rust has strict evaluation.

let _ = timeConsumingFunction();

Still needs to spend time performing timeConsumingFunction(). It might not move, but it still did the work and produced a result, you are just not using it (and hence not need to move it).

If you you had lazy evaluation I would agree with your argument for the no-op terminology.
Another case of Google not following their own rules. But they're happy to hang others out to dry when they exceed 90 days.
Frankly it's your tone that sucks. People initially thought you were referring to the generic medical masks, which are useless unless you're already sick. Being clear in your initial comment would have helped with the confusion.
Good idea. This does change the optimized assembly, but it doesn't seem to make a measureable difference in performance on my machine.
Math Books you should read in 2020
Whether they want to or not, they are now being forced into running a large scale experiment of only conducting interviews over VC. Should at least yield some interesting data.

I personally hate doing VC interviewing. It's already hard enough to make a decision from an hour long in person meeting, but VC complicates that more.
I'd pay to see Bryan Cantrill's reaction [0][1] to this: A seemingly mysterious firmware bug of a secure element / trusted-execution-environment but there's no knowing if there are more bugs (or, shudder backdoors).

Since the source code isn't available for scrutiny (though Google has promised firmware transparency [2]), it is kind of difficult to tell what really went wrong in the current reported case and what else possibly could go wrong given the use-cases for it are far-reaching and sensitive: Google has advocated StrongBox as a trustable companion that could be used to attest user actions on medical devices [3], for instance; or for use as an Identity verificafion for documents such as Driving Licenses and Passports.

[0] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/30jNsCVLpAE

[1] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fE2KDzZaxvE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uG_RKiDmQY?t=33m

[3] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/android-pr...
Zeynep Tufekci (the author of the piece) also wrote an excellent book, Twitter and Tear Gas, about modern protests and social movements in the age of social media. It’s available online under a CC license: https://www.twitterandteargas.org
Why no mention of the race of the victim? I'm just asking...
As someone who doesn't have to do business travel very often, I enjoy the trips to go meet with long-lost colleagues. But at the same time, it's pretty clear at least to me that most of these things are a waste of company money and don't really move the ball forward much compared to typical electronic collaboration. Selfishly, I'd be sad if business travel suffered a large permanent reduction. But it would be better for the business and the environment if it did, even ignoring the risk of propagating diseases.
While it may work for some hearing damage can be permanent, both for the child and adult.

Though I suspect shushing in their ear is based on a similar phenomenon.
I agree...simple credit card fraud shouldn't be counted as identity theft. There are plenty of ways for people to get your card numbers and your basic information that won't allow them to go on to more serious impersonation fraud.
In my case I had someone file a tax return in my name and try to open credit accounts at a later date. The incidents were probably all unrelated but I had to put a 7 year fraud alert on my 3 major credit bureau accounts which required a police report, a report to the FTC, and letters to the credit bureaus.
Any numbers on how this impacts evacuation in an emergency?
Lots of hogwash words.

People who don't IT are unable to contribute, don't understand business is now IT, and often sacrifice good for org for selfish gains.

People who do IT should contribute every day, need to learn the business domain every day and stop playing victim to random authority of the week.
I think that different kind of programming languages can be suitable for different purposes, although I do have many ideas, anyways.

Some of them are:

- Macros (both hygienic and unhygienic)

- Bitwise manipulations

- Less confusing syntax for types than C has

- ASCII based (not Unicode, although you can write programs to work with data in any character set, including Unicode)

- Meta-programming

- Low-level features

- You have enough ropes to hang yourself, and also a few more just in case

- GOTO and GOSUB

- Direct dealing with the stack

- GADTs (without runtime support)

- Control over optimizations in different parts of the file

- Better namespacing

- Binary include files

I am sorry I did not write more elaboration of this. Also, I have more ideas too, but did not write them on here right now.
Hopefully it encourages innovation in the space. 17 years after Skype came out we'd still all rather prefer to be in the same physical room than a laggy, compressed, low quality virtual call.
> "I think the politics of billionaires attempting to take control of the engines of discourse is quite relevant, especially given the current political landscape where no less than two of them are dumping an enormous amount of their own money to attempt a brokered DNC convention and push out a progressive candidate."

Progressives have repeatedly assured us across countless HN posts that traditional and social media businesses have the right to publish or deny publication of whatever they desire so they should have no cause to complain if businesses start shifting political discourse in whatever direction their owners prefer.
Surely there are a number of people with severe pneumonia all over the US right now. Maybe they just started testing them for coronavirus.
This appears to be a concept design by an industrial designer. It's a pitch to airliners.

https://vimeo.com/394558118 shows (from 00:33) how it works in more detail. Ladder pulls out from between the seats (although see http://www.zephyrseat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Zephyr-... for newer built-in ladder design), and arm rest holds upper chair passengers in place. The cushion that completes the bed appears to fold out from just below tray table.

Luggage goes to upper right of seat, so is securely stored and accessible during flight, a win versus traditional overhead lockers. Seat appears to be a little lower than normal. It looks like there is some additional storage space to the right of the footwell.

Main issues I see are slightly awkward banana shaped sleeping position, and the safety issue for evacuating top deck. The updated built-in ladder design might be sufficient for able-bodied passengers to evacuate quickly enough.

This would be much more attractive than existing premium economy to me and would compete well with business. The main differentiator of business that interests me is the lie-flat bed; the enhanced service and food / beverages, lounge access, and priority boarding and luggage delivery is less important.

More details at http://www.zephyrseat.com/, a few additional videos here http://www.zephyrseat.com/about/ and further pictures here http://www.zephyrseat.com/work/

An alternative flat bed in a premium economy cabin with half the density is described here https://thepointsguy.com/news/new-design-premium-economy-fla...
And they have ONE case:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/coronavir...

Panic is one of these binary things. A group of people can go from normal to freaked-the-hell-out-panicked at the flip of a switch. Pulling them back to normal is nearly impossible. That's why you want to get ready before the switch flips. Because, if you don't, you might just have to be out there with them, and things can get ugly fast. I have zero interest in that, less than zero, actually.
My gut feeling is that you can solve this with dynamic programming faster than this.

There will be lots of ways to split any given prefix into letters. But all of them leave the same suffix. You don't need to repeat the analysis of the suffix.

You could avoid repeating the analysis by memoising the result. But when you're memoising results from leaves of a search tree, that's a hint that you're close to a dynamic programming approach.
Why would reversing 겁 into 벅 make sense?
If I asked someone to reverse the string 예제, I'd expect 제예 and not ㅔ졩.
They provide no /self/ protection. As I have said in multiple threads on this topic: we wear astm3 masks to protect /patients/ from /us/. A lot of hospital PPE is oriented towards /patient/ protection.

And N95s are heavy and uncomfortable. No one can wear them for long. But if anyone wants to, they’re welcome to it.
I think I’m going to start working from home.
Meta point but when NYT introduced their paywall they said access would be free during emergencies. Certainly this qualifies.
yawn. Again, the argument was "it's okay if it helps my side". It's essentially "I'm fine with throwing the code of law out the window, but only if my side does it".
a lot of people will walk about with pneumonia [of various origins] and its no big deal to them until they just suddenly pass out or cant walk 2 steps without taking a knee
Interview questions should be trivial examples so you can see if the candidate know what programming is or how to program on the language, not what libraries he/she knows. Ideally nothing that depends on any particular OS std libraries as well. Of course this does not apply if you are hiring someone for a position where knowledge on a particular library is a requirement, but in my experience that is usually not the case for either junior nor senior positions, maybe only for in-between.

If you need anything more advanced you should do an assignment to allow time for proper design and reasoning, otherwise you'll never be able to fully evaluate what the candidate really can do and how he/she approaches problems.
If by “race to the bottom” you mean making flying more affordable for everyone, then I agree.

Tickets are a fraction of what they were in the 70’s due to deregulation. And in terms of comfort, based on how full flights are, it seem like airlines have struck the right comfort versus price balance.
We need to shut down mass transit (trains, planes) and shut down group events including elementary school (which is almost like a bioweapon in terms of its ability to exchange viruses).

Honestly, we should probably all start working remotely as well until this is better understood.

We need to slow the transmission of the virus.
HN has turned into the obituary pages of the internet. Every day the top post is some random person who died.
I think very few countries woke up to take things seriously enough/quick enough.

Really, it seems like most (western) countries just started taking it seriously this past week.

Meanwhile, it was kind of obvious what was going to happen already a month ago.

It's such a tragic missed opportunity.
> I don't see why Twitter should all of a sudden be saddled with the responsibility...

The problem is that Twitter made a big deal about verifying candidates and partnered with a third-party organization to do so. Because of that, people believe that if a candidate is verified by Twitter, they are the genuine article. There is no need for them to be suspicious because the Twitter account has been professionally vetted already.

No one forced Twitter to take on that role. The problem is Twitter claiming to verify candidates, but doing a shitty job of it. The better alternatives are (i) Twitter not claiming to verify anyone or (ii) Twitter doing a good job of verifying the identity of candidates. What they are doing is the worst possible course of action.
Why are you asking?
I think this is a great problem to give someone, but the output you measure is the approach they take to it - are they methodical, logical, insightful, etc - not whether they solve it. Evaluating someone on the latter is indeed deeply incompetent.
A reliable wiki with a newsfeed like feature - pretty much Confluence (on-demand or on-prem)
Slack or Teams for live chat.
But more important than tools, process. People have to use them consistently for them to matter.
> I prefer to bring people in and have them pair with people on real things, that are really happening, that are entirely representative of the real work and the real team dynamics.

That should be the most important test, but most of the daily realistic work is really a matter of practice. By testing it you really test how much practice with that particular toolchain and workflow the person had, not how smart or good programmer they are. Brainteasers are unrealistic and relying just on them is stupid, but they give you some insight in how good in quick thinking someone really is. If I was looking for a newbie to train, I'd always prefer someone who can't finish the real world test, but knows how to think technically, to the opposite.
The article leaves more questions than it answers:

> A person in Washington state infected with coronavirus has died, according to the Seattle and King County Department of Health.

Was this one of the reported cases on Friday, or yet another new one?

Unfortunately, I suspect we've already moved past the point of worrying about individual cases.
Even when assuming the worst, if an attacker filmed you while browsing adult websites at most they would have a movie of you making some funny faces, unless you have a habit of watching that kind of stuff with your laptop lid half closed.

Even if they managed to make a compromising movie, there is a small chance it would be seen by your friend, family or work colleagues unless they have a habit of clicking links in their spam folder.
Any post that fails to distinguish between N95 respirators and ASTM 3 surgical masks is too ignorant on this topic to make comments worthy of an upvote.

The Surgeon General, on the other hand, does understand the difference and made an appropriate comment.
The lack of airlines' willingness to experiment is bizarre to me, considering they have large fleets of planes and could easily A/B test new technologies with minimal investment and disruption of their regular business.
Do you honestly think society is going to become more responsible with their private data? Because I don't.
you dont get immunity to it. you can re-catch it, at least according to certain sources. woman in japan got it again, or at least it seemed to have gone away entirely, and then came back.
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The fact that symptoms are mild in the vast majority of cases and there have now been a couple severe cases positively identified basically guarantees that we have widespread community transmission at this point.

Even among people with health insurance, the costs of visits combined with the likelihood of being told "it's viral, just wait it out" mean that many people simply won't bother with going to get a diagnosis from a doctor.
What happens when coronavirus cancels all the tech conferences?
stop uploading your pics to internet then
Founder of one of those cloud-hosted POS https://www.waiterio.com
Yes having no internet or slow internet with a cloud hosted POS is big trouble.

I foresee the cycle of innovation will be:
1) offline (PAST)
2) cloud-hosted (PRESENT)
3) cloud hosted but with full offline support (FUTURE)
This way we'll have the best of both worlds.

What's good about cloud hosted POS you ask?
Well they do update easily. So you are not stuck with the same system with 90s UIs.

Also by upgrading faster and being connected to the internet the POS is able to interface with external systems.
Currently 99% of restaurants use a separate tablet for each online delivery service (deliveroo justeat foodpanda...).
Having ubiquitous, reliable access to good VC doesn't eliminate the need to travel. Humans communicate so much better face to face.

Source: I work in Google, spending up to half of my working time in VC. Still need to hop in a plane when something is important enough.
I've proposed (and been rejected) where I work that we have both high and underperformers go through mock interviews for their roles, to see if our interview questions could distinguish who was who.

I understand that this is going to be awkward, especially for the low performers, but at the moment I don't think our interview practices are based on anything. We ask questions and then later have a conversation about how and whether or not our questions revealed the presence of the attributes we were supposed to be assessing for and it feels very made up and make believe. Plus, people could be given incentives for going through the process and bonuses for passing the mock interviews to encourage them to try

If we could get people where we already knew how good or bad they were to rerun the interview process then we could start to figure out which questions and which evaluation methods were useful in separating good candidates from poor ones.
> This looks very dangerous, fatality ratio is between 5-8%.

We're better than this at HN. There are stats on the mortality rates, and given you are younger than 50 there is a less than 0.4% mortality rate.

Furthermore, recent autopsies have shown this is a virus that hits the lungs more than anything else. China with it's incredible pollution, might have skewed mortality rates that are higher than we may expect in Europe/US.

Yes, we should do all we can to prevent the spread. The biggest risk is health facilities not being able to handle the amount of patients. This is very contagious. So please don't spread panic, more people going to the ICU without case doesn't help
It was not one of the reported cases on Friday, the person that died was a 19 year old male.
Have movies changed, or have we? I recall movies in the 90's also being mostly terrible.

However, since the internet has grown its even easier to narrow our interests and diverge from the mainstream, developing more niche preferences. Movies still cater to widely accepted tropes.
> In reality, server-based protocols such as HTTP/DNS are insufficient for decentralization

That seems to be true but I’m unsure as to why. What’s your take?
That class is always full because they bid the price lower and lower offering upgrades to existing passengers and then, if all else fails, they will upgrade status fliers to it for free.
It's not particularly tempting to A/B test seats which will cost you $500k per aircraft to install. Plus you can't conduct real world tests on equipment which doesn't have the relevant certifications.
I agree. Reminded me of this quick start for pandas that got me quickly up-and-running!

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/getting_started...
There has been speculation I've overheard that the virus is particularly deadly to Asian people.

Seems like a bogus theory to me, but I suspect that was the reason for the question.

Largely plays into the "escaped bioweapon" theory.
One thing they will have to consider for turnaround times is how much slower is cleaning with this design? Maybe it ends up more ergonomic to reach some of the trash on the ground up there, but I would think something like vacuuming would be slower.
Except for the 2013 "Oh shit" slide from the Snowden dump. At least part of Google wasn't on board.
I can definitely accept twitter as a company not using its potential. Even if they just fire lots of employees, make their pages load faster, stop making their pages break on two thirds of every external links and sprinkle some lightweight ads here and there they could be substantially more profitable.

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with twitter where mobile, desktop, VPN or not, chrome or firefox, they still have 'something went wrong' messages or throttling messages (from a mobile IP!) on the majority of pages loaded from external links.

Twitter is gross to use and has thousands of employees, I could see someone buying in and trying to smooth it out.
"Nonsymptomatic people or people just mild flu symptoms will go on in the US infecting others."

I believe this is part of why it spreads so swiftly. Even when people get the symptoms under control, some of them seem to continue on as symptom-free carriers for a while afterward. Being symptom-free doesn't equal being bug free. I imagine it gives people a false sense of health, with an immediate impact on those around them.
A 777 has a lot of space up top that isn’t being used for anything beyond crew breaks; overhead is also rarely a problem on long long hauls (the planes are bigger, have plenty of overhead space per seating, and people don’t carry as much on when they have to go through immigration and customs anyways). I don’t think space is really as much as a problem as weight, which shouldn’t be an issue here.
It’s way past time for that. Meaning I agree with you.
So a couple of questions.

In terms of control flow, why do you need GOTO, why GOSUB instead of a normal function call, and what do you mean by "direct dealing with the stack?"

This sounds a lot like a version of C++ without the cruft and C backwards compatibility. Which is a fantastic idea, and I know it's been attempted many times. Which languages out there today do you think fit your criteria the closest?
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Yes, that is one possible solution. One of the overhead lockers makers is already demoing a locker with weight sensors and colored lights intended to be part of a reservation system, where premium passengers or those paying a fee would get reserved space in specific locker locations.

Of course, enforcement is hard. Airlines moving toward "basic economy" without access to lockers is becoming a thing -- and this can be enforced by making them board last and in a separate group, so the agents can check for big/multiple bags, and if a "basic" passenger does manage to cheat and find space, since they're last, they're not taking the space from a "paying customer"

Airlines are moving toward an increasingly price-continuity model, where you can buy a ticket at whatever price feels acceptable to you, and there will always be another enhancement of upgrade available at a modest cost, pushing you to spend more to feel less discomfort.
Targeting open source contributions to support science for COVID19?
It does make one question whether that change is "evil" if Mozilla agrees with the UX assessment.
Ok, we've put premium in the title above.
As we are several decades into an equally serious—or perhaps a far greater—catastrophe with globally rising temperatures—in part to blame by human activities that are now hindered because of this new immediate emergency.

I love that it took a global virus outbreak for these companies to take these actions that they should have taken long since in an effort against the climate disaster.
I tried it before and found it absolutely amusing because it would find tons of doppelgangers of any person.