skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's good about cloud hosted POS you ask? Well they do update easily.

This doesn't require "cloud" at all, just network connectivity. Software auto-updaters are no more complicated than zero-downtime cloud deployments. Especially in fully controlled environments where issues of users randomly switching off autoupdates or blocking Internet connectivity are probably nearly non-existent.

I'd argue that the software is more resilient if it runs locally. One can argue that cloud can be updated "in realtime" but live code updates had existed since forever (at least since eighties, with Erlang/OTP), and running locally makes things robust against network outages (or degradation) - which is probably way more frequent issue than getting the latest updates immediately.
The number of cases per day outside of China is still growing exponentially:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...

Until that changes it’s a fair assumption that a lot more people will get it
> We just assumed flu because what else could it be?

The by far most likely scenario? Not the flu, but any one of the numerous upper respiratory viruses (hundreds but likely rhinovirus) that cause the “common cold”

Notably absent from your description of symptoms is fast onset weakness and body aches. Colds can cause short high spiking fever though.
Airlines try to increase margins by selling this (premium economy) already. The reason they can’t sell many of them is because they don’t offer much in return for the added cost. Airlines can offer a better meal and maybe a tiny bit of extra legroom, but airlines can’t charge much for it. For being able to somewhat flat I’d be ready to pay quite a high premium on a 10-15h flight.
Over the last 3 years the CDC funding for participation in international epidemic detection and management programs was cut by 80%. In addition the several most senior positions responsible for pandemic preparation and response were cut. The budget proposed just a few weeks ago again included significant cuts in CDC funding, so the governments eye has not been on the ball for quite some time.

Having said that you’re right that the CDC and health systems in general have mainly and advisory and coordination, rather than a direct role in preventing the spread of a disease. However they need to have the funding, focus and senior representation in order to do that quickly and effectively.
N95 masks are used in many industries to protect their wearers from particulates, including wet particulates. Many of them have check valves that make them useless for protecting other people from the wearer. We don't yet know how much protection they provide against SARS-CoV-2 infection, because we don't know how essential saliva droplets are to contagion, but they probably provide some.

Although there are different kinds of N95 masks, the most common kind weighs a few grams; this is not uncomfortable.
I will look into that, thanks. Grammar and marketing is not my strong suit. Finding patterns in markets, stocks, options and future that is where I excel. Does anybody know where I can find a good writer/editor.
Ok, we've put rust in the title above. Hopefully in an accurate way.
Because it's spreading exponentially and its incubation period is up to 1 month. You should watch the CDC press conference given a few days ago[0]. Officials are not talking in terms of "if", they're talking in terms of "when."

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNV8HYI126U
Note: I tried reading the article:

Wired.com
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Speaking of learning about nature, Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YT channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA

It sounds like this app will be different and useful, which is good.
If it's for local use, I would go with sqlite.
It's not that it's impossible to communicate through GVC, but most people interact very differently with those they only know through a screen vs. those they've met in person.
unified l3 cache is next which will be a big deal
A CT has a pretty high radiation dose. As far as I understand, for every 2000 people given a chest CT we expect 1 person to get a fatal form of cancer due to the CT.

Compared to the natural incidence of getting a fatal cancer in your lifetime (about 400 in 2000), this is a very low. And for serious conditions, a CT can literally be a life saver.

But if you apply chest CTs to screen for a disease with (let's say) a 0.1% fatality rate, the side effects of your screening increases the fatality rate by 50%.
How about C rtos? How should that be handled?
Medical statisticians are not tards, and the math used to estimate CFRs is reasonable. Yes, there's uncertainty, because when something is massively growing, it's not meaningful to test the population at large and ordinary surveillance mechanisms are not effective yet. We also don't really have serological testing (allegedly Singapore has a good serological assay?) which doesn't help.

It's worth noting that the real issue is that CFR skyrockets when the medical system saturates. With good medical care available, the CFR is still much higher than the flu but less crazy. The problem is, COVID-19 can create enough severely ill cases to saturate medical systems with uncontrolled spread.
> you'll be leaving a mess behind for your loved ones.

I don't have any loved ones.

> advanced medical directive

My country doesn't honor those.

Yup, I'm about as prepared as I can be.
Care to explain what "on the ball" would realistically look like for this specific situation we are in right now? Because everyone else seems to be avoiding the question.
Hillary doesn’t run twitter. Trump used twitter for 8 years to attack and spread conspiracy theories about Obama. I would say the character of his tweets are unchanged since he became president. So I see no reason to believe he would have been banned on year 9 of his behavior.

Besides there are plenty of other conservatives on twitter. Then and now.
Say what you want, but 2% is not negligible. That's 1 of every 50 people. With 330,000,000 population that's over 6.5mil people.

Yes, the mortality changes with age younger people are about 0.2% but older are close to 15%.

Having health issues such as cardiovascular or diabetes increases the risk further, and Americans aren't the healthiest people.
Sure, but just trace the exponential growth curve China started with two months ago, without the flattening out due to quarantine measures. If this were true, we would have more infections than China by now, people would have noticed.
This keeps being repeated in this thread, and yet the opposite is true - long haul business today is flat beds and single seats. It’s like first class was 25 years ago.

Would be interesting to hear where you saw business that was just bigger economy seats with better food. Is it simply old planes?
Aldi (in Germany) is a special discounter who optimized processes extremely early on and takes optimization much further than everyone else.

For example, I'm usually shopping at Edeka (higher tier, more SKUs, more expensive; a full-sortimenter).

Every time I shop there, there are several articles their bar code scanner does only recognize after two or three attempts, often the cashier has to try a handheld scanner, sometimes he must enter the digits by hand.

Every five or so times I shop there, an article is not recognized by the system, and the cashier must phone the department and ask for the price.

Aldi has larger bar codes on their packaging, often one on every side. Aldi barcodes are usually black on white, not black on transparent (with the content confusing the scanner). There is never an article missing in the system.

That's why the cashiers handle your articles faster than you can bag them. Because scanning works on the first try, every time.
funny, i knew it was rust by just looking at the title. i am by no means a rust user but Async_executors tells it away. rust has that careless and inconsistent casing that has always bothered me. but maybe it's just me...
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It's debatable which is why the snark of "guess email isn't cool anymore :(" is such tired commentary, suggesting everyone is just an idiot lemming for not having email enlightenment.
Randomness involves streaks that don't feel random. That can make it feel like the system is going off the rails, even when it's stable.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Here's mine:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/commit/e0be9dcd8e96f9...
Since fixed, but this was Thursday: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/health/coronavirus-testin...
not at all. the point is that we really don't know enough yet to draw definitive conclusions either way, and it's erroneous to make (strong) assertions otherwise.

a reasonable response for individuals is to keep monitoring the situation and taking basic precautions (e.g., washing hands) but not becoming paranoid/spreading paranoia.

if you live with elderly or immune-compromised people, you might be a little more cautious, but there's no need to barricade yourself in your house with a stockpile of n95 masks at this point.

(btw, 1 american death was reported this morning)
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Some years ago, shortly before my manager asked me to join the company he was working for, they embarked on a mission to find an implementation partner to get their Salesforce system off th ground into a new level. So the business owners and him discussing how they'll pick the right consultancy. My manager says: we'll take those who will tell us that we talk nonsense instead of nodding head after every single word we say. I then joined the company and ended up in the meeting,where initial plans were discussed. My manager says: we want x,y,z,etc. The consultant says: OK, let's be realistic first: let's learn how to walk and then we may discuss whether you should be launching rockets to space. All these SAP, NetSuite and other corporate software get bad name because of poor implementations and not because the software itself is bad.
When in doubt, don’t blur it out
Unexporting Kallsyms_lookup_name()
Like what? Just curious
this is one of the problems with research or any sort of policy. we all have different physical properties but we all have a human consciousness in common.

So some people may have different constituative expression of particular properties such as a cellular receptor protien [eg ACE2] and this information could be used to predict the degree of deleterious effect a virus may have for any one person.

with that being said, there is no need to suspect this is a bioweapon, as a serial passaging of mutable pathogens will begin to create a selective effect [naturally of its own ].

ordinarily communicability is the direction of drift as lethality or debilitating morbidity inhibits communicability [in the simplest scenario]

a bioweapon cant be quite so communicable to everyone that has ACE2 receptors as it must be strategically controlled so its lethel effect will only go so far.
SQLite is perhaps a little easier because you only have one file to think about, backups, etc.

I use both but give preference to Postgres/PostGIS if I have to do mapping things.

MySQL is never a consideration for me.
What's ludicrous is the assertion of fantasy here. Some context:

* Google's current hiring process lag from first contact to start date is 4-6 months. That's based on reports in Blind and a couple of recent hires I know. That lag is double that of large competitors. Google wants to make candidates wait in order to appear more exclusive. "Projects need staffing"-- clearly not as much as Google needs to maintain its brand.

* "You're going straight to the bench." This is based on a variety of comments, some posted here, some from former Google PMs and SWEs I know. It takes more than a year to get a project that most people consider meaningful. Some have different expectations upon joining, though.

* "you are almost certainly being used to aid in the retention of somebody else." I used to work with an ex-Googler who had a large role in Google's Ads team. He couldn't code very well, and routinely struggled to have accurate assessment of senior engineers. It's questionable how he passed the SWE interview bar at Google. But he was "good looking" and "affable" (he once appeared in a vanity magazine in a shirtless photo shoot). He routinely claimed that his female Google superiors hit on him. Other ex-Googlers told me there where many people in the office who seemed to be "fluff" for everybody else.

The bottom line: Google prides itself (excessively) on having a uniform brand, yet is large enough today that the long tail of "out-of-brand people" is quite large. When you submit your resume to Google, you're feeding their index and ranking of all-of-SWE humanity (literally-- they heavily apply ML to their resume pool). Don't get brainwashed with the brand, and think critically before letting a _company_ have this sort of power over people.
100 - (3.5 +/- epsilon) is 96.5 +/- epsilon.
An analogy I like to use that seems to work well is fire, where the basic reproduction number corresponds to how dry/flammable things are.

If there are very dry conditions, all reports of fires require an emergency response, even if they’re just a couple tiny little camp fires.
So this is built on Slate—what does it bring to the table that you can’t do with Slate out of the box?
It’s part marketing, part functionality. For example, with Slack you can filter sign ups based on email. That being said, I would still love a discord for work where chat and invites overlays on top of a working document.
The array is length N, and it says it contains the integers 1 through N inclusive, as in, all of them. If there were any repeats, then you'd have an array of length greater than N.
This kind of looks like the POS that Fry's uses. Always found it fascinating that they used a terminal-based app in like the 2000s
https://bugs.python.org/issue26460
Yeap. I help my mom get onto aircraft because she's semi-disabled. She automatically gets Pre check and a wheelchair for the jet bridge, and then walks on the plane. There's no way she could get into either of those seats because they require too much mobility. Furthermore, there's no way I could sit on the bottom or the top because there's just not enough headroom as I'm very tall in the seated height measurement.
I tried it with a picture of me and the top half dozen photos were, in fact, pictures of me. I was originally thinking there were also bizarrely a couple of photos of signs and then I realized I was standing next to a sign in the photo and that's what caused the algorithm to stick a couple of signs in there.
I agree about avoiding hysteria, but IF "most" people got the virus...

Let's take "most" people to be 50% of the population. The Seattle Metro area had ~3.9 million people in 2017. The virus death rate is currently estimated at 2%.

So just accepting that 3.9m * 0.5 * 0.02 = 39,000 people will die in the the Seattle area alone seems a bit extreme
Why is it some sort of nefarious scheme to "convince" white people that other people invading their countries is bad, but also white people invading non-white's countries was also bad? People have a right to their countries. Immigration is being forced on people against their will. This is wrong.
I strongly agree with the author about the importance of having a mentor/manager who is a great technical sounding board. I need the help understanding what the business direction is, or else I will spend my energy working on a problem that the business doesn’t care about. I want to know that if I figure out an improvement for area X that area X is important enough to merit work. And getting to the end of a project only to discover no one in the business cares about what I did is the most frustrating thing.
I totally agree with you it's just the story that is funny.
I don't believe that applies here. I remember seeing on another thread that you would expect to see lots of 20-50 year old deaths with CRS, like the Spanish flu. From what I've seen, COVID mortality seems to be proportional to age, with a lot of very old people succumbing.
Assuming they actually have one and not a fake one from amazon
I replied on a whim from bed and cannot delete it now.
From what we can tell, SARS-CoV-2 has a 2% mortality rate among those diagnosed. That seems like a pretty decent trade in odds if it accelerates early stage treatment.
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I have to disagree, unless you're talking about black swan events, which are different than the conversation at hand: They're instances of bad luck ruining otherwise-certain success, rather than success being created via good luck.

What's an example of a company that had great execution, great product-market fit, and also had solid pricing and distribution strategies, but ultimately failed?
Layouts seem broken. Dialogs that are mostly empty space and icons that overlap borders.
As someone who interprets CTs, the findings described in that paper are totally nonspecific and just indicate a pulmonary infectious/inflammatory process. The takeaway I have is if the CT is totally clear, COVID is unlikely. Otherwise, you need confirmatory testing to figure out what is going on with the lungs.
You shouldn't be writing literal HashMaps in your code very often anyway; you should use a function that pattern matches on a string for the day-of-week-to-number example (returning Option of course). Most other cases where you might want literal HashMaps are well-served by either pattern matching functions or structs. The point of a HashMap is that it has keys that you don't know at compile-time; if you use a HashMap literal, that's basically saying that you do know the keys at compile time.
No More Pink Mustache
this preprint needs a pass with occams chainsaw to get rid of some loaded terms that verbally modify the data
Zinc + vitamin c
Realistically—if this ever gets approved by regulators—airlines will just sell this as business class.
Whoa. This is a lot of potential. It’s definitely unique and feels powerful. What would you see as the applications?
I’m not sure how old you are, but as a late-20s person, you grow into adulthood quite quickly. FICO scores, time and financial management, mortgages, bills, etc...all of those are (rightly) complex when you just enter into adulthood, but their difficulty quickly fades away.
Both actualy i am freelancer and these two are sort of interchangeable.
Is there a particular reason why you never consider MySQL?

I am honestly thinking of reworking my project (for the 10th time, lol) to convert a bunch of interconnected list-of-objects in Python into SQL databases. I'm talking about data on tens of thousands of political candidates, data on hundreds of thousands of political committees/SuperPACS, data on hundreds of federal elections, etc.

I also just remembered that I have a MySQL server already installed on my computer.

Given that I am working with several gigabytes of highly interconnected data, would it be worth installing PostGres on my machine?
It's not meant to fill the whole plane, just a few premium economy rows.
So the U.S. lost, like the Soviets, like the British, etc.

Graveyard of empires.
whats up with the "text only" version? is it somehow required to deliver any service at all if i decline the consent dialog and this is what they came up with?
What is the value of Figma ($24 / month for Designing product mocks..)
Why not just get the Adobe Suite with Illustrator, Photoshop,...
I am really curious, as I am trying to create a design tool too. What is so great about it? Is there some USP?
What problems do you find? I can't find any.
This is unclear to me. How is this 90% perfect, 100% of the time?
Srain – Modern IRC Client Written in GTK
Bizarre rich-people secrets I learned undercover at Canyon Ranch Spa
I'm a huge fan of Seek. It's not perfect, sometimes it can be tricky to get just the right combination of zoom + lighting + angles to get a good match, but I've been impressed at what a good job it does. It's great to take on local hikes with kids.
Core contributor of Edtr.io here:

Slate works well for editing text. Anything with a more complicated layout / UX gets really messy though, since with Slate, you always have to deal with the DOM / Slate's wrapper around contenteditable. And at least before Slate 0.50+, we (& the developers of Schul-Cloud independently of us) ran always in bugs, etc. This is why Edtr.io (similarly to ReactPages, fka ORY Editor) builds it own state management & layouting outside of Slate. And let Slate do what they do best, editing rich-text.
I work on a POS system at "a big software company" and a primary selling point is that your transactions flow up from the POS, to an optional in-store server, to the cloud, and if any point experiences a temporary failure (POS -> in-store or in-store -> cloud) it will simply batch-upload at the next opportunity, seamlessly, with no impact on the cashier's experience.
Current cpu chiplets are internally split in two groups, each group has its own L3.

We know that Zen3 does away with that split. That's potentially double the L3 for single cpu, which helps some loads. Additionally, better process might mean they can also make the L3 cache bigger.

AMD hasn't talked much about Zen3 because it's a ways off (H2, potentially Q4), but from the information they've given out, we know that IPC increase is over 15%.

This will widen the gap with Intel, and it's assumed that Intel's negligible advantage in some videogames, to do with memory access latency, will be gone by then.
You can toss anyone for any reason. However, like many things, there are legal consequences. And if you do it based on discrimination you will certainly face charges, but you still have the right to remove people from your property at any moment.

for ex: If you show up in my bar. Talk crap act like a jerk,etc. You're out. Social media is no different. You are not owed access to anything.
Physicists Have Filmed the Moment an Atom Undergoes a Quantum Measurement
I'm of the opinion that the only valid type of coding question in an interview is one that tests the candidate's ability to perform the actual type of work they are being hired to do.

If you were trying to hire a mechanic, would you first give them a sudoku puzzle to measure his "cleverness" (and then use that as a predictor of their car repair abilities)?
White House OSTP Publishes “American AI Initiative: Year One Annual Report” [pdf]
> nuisance software patents have been expiring (eg GIF, arithmetic encoding, MP3)

I can't wait until the day this list includes "software patents are no longer a thing"
That strap time parsing doesn't fail under python 2.7.17 or 3.8.1
We will know more when/if widespread serology testing ramps up. As I understand it, this tests for the presence of antibodies for the coronavirus and thus gives a snapshot of recent infections across the population.
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If you're genuinely interested go read how other countries such as Singapore have been handling it. For example Singapore has done a thorough job of testing, tracing, and quarantining individuals and it's slowed the spread dramatically there. They've also been communicating opening and honestly with the public so that the public knows what is happening, knows the right things are being done, and knows what their role is to play.
Sweet, something useful and educational. The interface reminds me a lot of the now defunct foodspotting.
The CDC used to have a unit in China coordinating with local health care experts to identify and manage epidemics and new diseases. This was cut a few years ago.

Also there used to be a CDC expert on the National Security Council until 2018. Of course you can bring in an advisor as needed, but that’s not the same as having someone you know, and that knows you and how you work, and knows the resources and capabilities you have right there on staff in the NSC.

On the ball would be treating the CDC and pandemic response as national defence, not charity welfare.
what was achieved there? will anyone be held responsible for dragging us into that mess?