skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of my friends are nurses. Couple years ago during the last flu season they said they were barely able to deal with the number of seriously ill flu patents. I also know that hospitals in the US have a minuscule number of rooms for people with infectious diseases.
I use about four different windowing workflows (macOS/Windows single/multi-monitor) regularly, and don't find switching between them to be a hassle.
Sounds like Erdos to me.
Ask HN: Would mastering teleportation make us gods?
I had an interesting conversation with my spouse this morning where we speculated about the possibility of teleportation.

I explained that one of the proposed ways to perform teleportation is to take the transferred object/subject into apart on the one side and transfer the information about the composition and then compose it on the other side.

Then I continued that possibly the most plausible variant of this is not only using ready made atoms for the composition but creating the needed atoms during the process.

Implications of this would be the that we would be able to create any material item just from energy based on its model.

My spouse then followed with the question, would this make us gods?

I suppose, I answered, at least semi-gods.

What do you think?
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Ok maybe 'shipping' was the wrong word. I understand the criticism here, but unlike many posters that disappear at the slightest criticism, OP stuck around and at least had a sense of humour about it. That counts for something in my book
“These sort of regulations would be very painful for the economy in the near term, “

I am not even sure about that. Companies would adapt very quickly. That’s what they are good at.
While we are at it - how do you refactor a mid-sized/large Clojure project?
The link goes to a video converter. The PS2PDF got submitted by the same user 2018 already, so it's not brand new. Together we have wrong title and wrong URL.
There are definitely confident cyclists who profess to be comfortable in some areas of the US. Ask them if they'd be comfortable with a relative who's 8 or 80 biking around independently in the same area and they usually become a lot less confident. Then look at what the actual data shows: how many people bike there? The numbers are nearly always dismal: even supposed cycling champion Portland has half Munich's numbers, and Munich isn't even trying very hard. Portland is quarter-assing things at best, and it goes rapidly downhill from there.

Or if you want something more concrete to work with: how many mile lanes of protected bike lanes or off-street bike paths are there in your town? How does that compare to the number of mile lanes for sidewalks or general vehicle lanes? What percentage of controlled intersections use a protected design? How wide are the roads? What's the speed limit, and how fast do people actually drive? How common are pedestrian islands? How sharp are the curb corners? How many of the painted bike lanes in the door zone? How common are walk/bike cut-throughs? What percentage of intersection lights have a marker for bikes?

Most cyclists who talk about how comfortable they are in the US don't realize just how bad it is there. Yes, you can still often get by; I certainly managed, in the bay area, and Seattle, and Utah, and even Alabama. But it was still total garbage compared to the places that take biking seriously (which is exactly why so few people do it in the states).

We live in an area that is, by most Americans' standards, fairly dense, and yet we started having our son bike to school a mile away, by himself, when he was 7, and he started biking alongside us to a kindergarten 2 miles away when he was 5. He's 8 now, and he sometimes bikes himself to a friend's house, or a park, or a grocery store or bakery for an errand. That kind of thing is almost unheard of in the US these days.
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> I don't think anyone thinks we're all going to die from this. But preventing this disease from becoming a permanent addition to the routine illnesses we deal with is a big deal, and people are worried about the necessary social distancing required to contain it.

With 55% of people asymptomatic based on the WHO report, I'd say that ship has long since sailed.

> Let's say Covid-19 is equal to influenza in every way. That is a disaster.

It's not ideal to be sure, but it certainly doesn't mean we should be enforcing lockdowns of cities with drones and tanks. The reaction is way overblown. People are hoarding supplies over the flu.
Some of the smaller American cities are also the best for bicycling. Davis and Madison come to mind. Most mid-sized or large cities are outright hellscapes, including most of the cities in the SF area and even most parts of SF itself. A good way to identify a decent bicycling city it to find demographic data on mode share and break it down by gender and age. If your bikers are all 25-year-old males, it’s probably not a great bike town.
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know if there are adaptations of GTK out there that are usable on embedded? I.e. full-screen EGL-based apps, like Qt Embedded.
I’m not posting this study because I find it immensely useful, but because I feel confident someone else will post it soon enough and it deserves caveating:

1. Health care staff using N95s self report lower compliance. Which of course they do, because N95 is uncomfortable (I expect many incoming posts about how N95s are dandy.)

2. N95s only work when appropriately fit. They are rarely that. So where this trial fails to find superiority, it’s worth noting that what it shows is “N95s as often used - that is, incorrectly - are no better than surgical masks.” Which, sure, yes, could’ve told you that.
B-trees, with their trade-off between slow disk seeks and fast in-memory scans, make just as much sense for slow memory accesses and fast in-cache scans.
Ann Arbor is a bit of an outlier in that as far as Michigan cities go, it's relatively bike-friendly. It's still remarkably suburban in most areas, though; good luck biking to a grocery store that isn't out in Pittsfield Township.
I did but this would be a very complex setup as each projector would need their own support, and would need three blank screens and I would also need to have space behind the desk.
This source is highly recommended in addition to https://covid19info.live/

I would strongly to study subsections like https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba... and https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

It is heavily backed by relevant reference material.
I briefly had a Rocket/IRC bot that talked to a postgres instance with the HIBP DB loaded into it, and yes it worked great.
It's still like that and everything you might want to do is disabled by default. You have to go through a sales/contract process to get each feature turned on inidividually.

They should just set the price for each feature and charge us based on usage. We're actively migrating to CloudFront because we're sick of playing these games.
The previous site, for comparison: https://web.archive.org/web/20200209181217/https://www.gtk.o...

I think it's pretty strange that the code example widget defaults to showing JavaScript code, considering that C is GTK's native language.
> If all inputs were handled by the server then everyone would agree on what they see, but delayed by their latency to the server

It's sort of like that already (server being the canonical state), except the link isn't gummed up by video streaming.
Also, Glade looks ugly with Windows theme.
Yes, the original bonds expired, but the Fed has actually resumed buying short-term treasury bonds since Sept 2019. This has offset long-term maturities (e.g., 10Y) rolling off and actually has resulted a net expansion in their balance sheet: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Australia had a similar thing during the gfc and they managed to dodge a recession.
My eyes get taxed wearing my glasses while reading and I usually take them off to see my monitors. I feel like this solution would make my eyes very taxed.
> I... don't even know what to make of this advice. Have you ever worked for an engineering organization with more than 5 members?

Yes.

> Without a clear, business-first reason for an engineering project of that magnitude, it's not ever going to be a priority or a realistic option.

I'm not suggesting that there is any realistic solution. I'm simply stating that the cause of your pain isn't py2 to 3, but bad development practices that existed independent of language or migration. These were going to cause you pain at some point no matter what. It just happened that py3 was the forcing function, as opposed to something else next year.
How? This is a question of policy, really.
I think this is a wake-up call for these grad students of how the real world works.

> Instead of firing TAs who are standing up for a decent standard of living for themselves, UC must sit down at the bargaining table and negotiate a cost of living increase.

Sitting at the negotiations table where you hold none of the cards means you are not getting the pay increase you are asking for. Striking is for workers who know they hold some cards and the other party is not listening.

Striking without any card means you are going to get fired; which just happened here.
Obviously that would get wrapped up in a user-friendly UI. My point is that the backend would be straightforward.
Apple makes a big comeback in India, but will it last?
Shared hosting doesn't really make a lot of sense these days. If you don't need much you use Wix or hosted wordpress, hosted ecomm, etc. If you know enough to keep your server updated and locked down, you use DO, Linode, or similar.
Italy unveils €3.6bn stimulus to tackle coronavirus
They can identify the market but not have the right way of reaching it. Two of the biggest changes in the past few decades:

1. Everything can be shipped online, so niche targets have more options. I have a memory of craving Yoo-Hoo in college, in the mid-2000's and seeing no local outlet for it, and therefore I went on Amazon and purchased six boxes of the stuff. I got what I wanted, although by the time I was done with those six boxes, I was very much over Yoo-Hoo.

2. The move towards stocked-fridge offices as seen in every SV tech campus, which make more of these items a B2B purchase, and therefore incentivize developing and marketing products on the basis of productivity-enhancing qualities. In the not so distant past it was more common for a campus cafeteria to be relatively modest, putting things in the hands of the culture more generally...

...and there is evidence for a "big sugar" industry conspiracy in the late 20th century pinning the blame for heart disease on high-fat diets, and therefore shifting the culture for a whole generation, but primarily in North America. Other countries did not have the same kinds of trends. And since that marketing position has gradually decayed they are forced to start selling water minus the sugar, indeed they anticipated that happening when they started bringing out diet sodas in the 80's.
A year or so back my son and his friends built a muon detector as a high school project, and then flew it from London to Germany and back to measure muon rates at altitude. Basically two metal boxes glued together, with some hand cut holes for display and power. Inside, a large block of solid plastic scintillator, wrapped in foil, with a bunch of hand-made electronics connected to it. Suspicious? Only a bit. I wrote a letter on headed university paper, explaining what it was, and with contact details in case they needed to phone.

At Stansted, the kid carrying it got the third degree, eveything put though the explosives sniffer, and so forth. The security person afterwards told him it ticked all the boxes except one for a bomb. Would love to know what that one was! They did eventually allow it on the plane though, and got really good data from the flight.

On the return flight, security at Cologne didn't look twice - just went straight through the x-ray machine, didn't even get pulled aside. Must have been asleep on the job.
When I was a UC grad student, it appeared to me that the UAW preyed on idealistic students that the UAW could take advantage of. I agitated for having them ejected but was told something along the lines of "we're not allowed to talk about that." I would have liked to continued questioning, but I lost the floor at that point.
It's not like that. If you want to be hired as a staff scientist, you need a PhD. If you have an MS you can't be a staff scientist. If you have a BS you can't be a staff scientist. The most you'd get with those degrees is Research Assistant or Technician, then you will hit a ceiling in your career unless you step away from research and step more into business. This is true in academia, government labs, and the private sector, both in the U.S. and internationally.

It's like if you want to be a General, you are going to have to be a Private first. There is a progression in the sciences.
What the fed do will matter little this time, I think. This crisis have been managed very badly by most Western countries, and the markets have started to price that in. I think we're 1/4-1/6 of the way down before this bottoms out. Sold all my stocks at the end of January.
I checked my receipts (email, easy to find). I purchased the ShieldTV in December of 2016. So just over 3 years ago. GeForce Now launched in October of 2015, but maybe just for Shield TV owners? Apparently they did a relaunch in 2020... not sure what that means. Better I guess?
Running a simple cli application written in clojure with the help switch ensuring it doesn't do much beyond print text.

With and without -client 1 second

Built with graal 22 ms
Most schools will kick you out of the program if you take on a job during your PhD.
Based on levels of pollution China has still not resumed production as of Feb 20-25. You'd think if it was discovered that it was just like the flu, they would have resumed production by now.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146362/airborne-nit...
> Could a US person explain who pays for the test/on going healthcare if an uninsured person rocks up to the ER with relevant history and flu like symptoms?

They don't. They keep working because there's no way to afford the time off or the sick child care, even if the taxpayer does foot the bill for the ER visit.

Kids keep going to school and adults keep rocking into work.

That especially goes for food service workers.
I don't have experience with GTK and I stopped working on Desktop apps since 4 years ago. If you target Mac users only then use the Apple tools, if you target Windows only I would use .Net (C# and WinForms or WPF) for cross platform depending of the target users I would use Qt or Java.

My choices are more on what is better for the user and not on what is cool for the developer. Also if you have a small tool that the user will use it a few minutes he will not complain about it's look the functionality is important. As an example the games Sims 3 runs on Windows and Mac(not the latest Catalina) and community made tools for cleaning save files. Most popular tool was .Net and Windows only but someone made a Java tool that was cross-platform, the users were happy/great full and not entitled to demand profesional looking GUI for such a tool.

My advice , if you need a simple UI, buttons, labels, inputs then you should use the thing that has the best support for the language and platform you target. If you need to embed a uptodate webview or a video player or you need to draw graphs, customize widgets then you need a different tool.

If you can provide what you need in details, what platforms, languages and features you need then people could help eliminate the bad choices.
According to the latest status update from a member of the Clojure core team [1], we may see improvements in startup time with the next version of Clojure (1.11).

[1] https://insideclojure.org/2020/02/28/journal/
If the virus has been spreading undetected in Washington since mid-January, that could mean that anywhere from 150 to 1,500 people may have it, with about 300 to 500 people the most likely range, said Dr. Mike Famulare, a principal research scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Wa., who performed the analysis. These people “have either been infected and recovered, or currently are infected now,” he said.
Baguettes are not really healthier than chips. The same can be said for sushi (well sushi got some other stuff that's good for you, but let's just think weight loss). They're mostly just carbs.

If Americans had sushi and baguettes they wouldn't be slim like the French and Japanese, they'd eat sushi till they are 110% full (the Japanese aim to not stuff themselves at meals) and then carry around a bag of baguettes for in-between grazing (the French prefer set meals).

They'd also blame everything on their delicious national cuisine, rather than on themselves.
Many 2018+ TVs have firmware updates for Apple TV app and some of them got AirPlay 2 functionality too :)
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Same in Germany. The small bakeries are dying. But at least in Germany and France even the supermarket bread is way ahead of most even the fanciest US bread.
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Probably they are aiming at developers that want to use JavaScript for UIs but don't want Electron.
I think what I am referring to might be called a "news aggregator", but with extra features.
I've found that a ceiling fan can also assist in making sure there's good air flow and that the room's getting proper filtering.
They’re trying to cater to people who would otherwise select Electron or something, assuming that it is impossible to get a cross-platform GUI written in JavaScript without bringing all of Chromium along with it.
It certainly stands if you base the decision on volume anyway. And millions of people have heard of Herr's. I can only empathize with those who haven't.
For those who were curious why these could both work:

(A & B) | C differs from A & (B | C) in two cases: when A is false, C is true, and B is any value.

But in this case in particular, those differences would create a bug when A is false (the year is not divisible by 4) at the same time that C is true (the year _is_ divisible by 400). Since that can't happen, the bug cannot occur.
VR systems project the image to near infinity to allow your eyes to relax.
Because as it has been proven multiple times, the amount of volunteers that might step up won't be enough to keep it going.
If they get back together, then do they join to create the old photon? What if you stick one in a stronger gravitational field for a while and then later you stick them back together but maybe the phases of something are out of sync due to time dilation (or maybe they're in sync but just one has experience an extra second of life)? Does the resulting photon become entangled with the second-ago rendition of itself? Are we able to control an entangled photon well enough to run a process like this?

Sorry for the interested bystander questions.
If it becomes clear that containment can't work, then it no longer makes sense to disrupt the economy and people's lives with social distancing.

But let's be clear about the costs we're talking about. When we talk about the costs of legislation, we usually discuss the ten year cost. Every decade, influenza kills half a million people in the US. It has direct medical costs of $100 billion, and total productivity losses equal to almost a trillion dollars.

There's some evidence that people can be re-infected with coronavirus. If we have another influenza which people can catch again and again every year, this is an absolutely massive problem. If we can avoid that with short-term social distancing, we should, even if that's a major impact on people's lives.

If it's clear we no longer can, then we should stop. I guess our only disagreement is whether, or not containment still has any chance of working. If we believe it does not, then sure, social distancing is largely pointless, and only buys time.
Only they fired them because they were arrested for sitting in the road, not for failing to grade midterms.
It's funny you'd say that, one of the thing that has been killing bakeries for the past 5 years is the broad adoption of bread making appliances. Small home appliances where you poor the ingredients, mostly half of water and half of flour, then it does the whole mixing and cooking by itself in a few hours. The bread always comes out warm and perfect. Making bread has never been easier.

top sellers on amazon France: https://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/kitchen/57878031
I wouldn't do that, even on the vive pro, the text was way too blurry for my taste
Will that be mutual TLS (require a valid client cert) or just one way?
Conspiracy level: Tin Foil Hat

Pseudo-science level: Strong

Overall, InfoWars/Alex Jones is a crackpot, tin foil hat level conspiracy website that also strongly promotes pseudoscience. The amount of fake news and debunked conspiracy claims, as well as extreme right wing bias, renders InfoWars a non-credible source on any level.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/infowars-alex-jones
I continued to do physical activity. I think your muscles will "shrivel" if you don't use them; they won't be engorged with blood on a regular basis, thus will lose plasticity at a cellular level. Then when you do use them, they'll fill with less blood, and look smaller. It takes a lot to actually lose muscular tissue. Mostly people just lose muscular plasticity, and they appear smaller.
Coronavirus: How Can AI Help?
Look, there is an essential difference between what is an engineer and what is a technical person. The later want direction, projects broken into epics and then stories, and wants steps. Engineers can make that structure and work better in ill defined problem areas. That's not a flaw. What is a flaw is when tech never progresses to engineer. That's bad for the individual, team, company, and client. Leadership then (in the drucker or tqm sense) is important. Look at IBM pre/post gernster and Microsoft pre/post balmer.

In short rigidity on the part of individuals combined with countervailing organizational goals to combatting same is the issue.
Saying fake news to open makes it hard to read the rest of your comment which was otherwise helpful.
Took me weeks to figure out what the heck that smell was; mostly assumed we'd gotten a bad batch of MRE's