skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need to do what Bedford himself said is necessary and lobby for it in our circles, even if authorities themselves refuse to act:

> The author of the analysis, a computational biologist named Trevor Bedford, said there are likely already at least 500 to 600 cases of Covid-19 in the greater Seattle area. He urged health authorities and the public to immediately begin adopting non-pharmaceutical interventions — imposing “social distancing” measures, telling the sick to isolate themselves, and limiting attendance at large gatherings.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/washington-state-risks-s...

So, practice social distancing as much as possible and encourage your friends and family to do the same (especially if you know them to be in one of the high risk groups or frequently). Similarly, advise against mass gatherings. There was just a 100,000+ person comic convention that planned to just barrel through in Seattle, but was forced to cancel because artists and attendees pushed back against it.

But I’ll add that there’s mostly also agreement from the two sources. Per the above article:

> Bedford said Seattle faces a stark choice — take aggressive actions to slow down the spread of the new coronavirus now or face the type of outbreak that engulfed Wuhan’s health facilities and led to a lockdown of the city that remains in place six weeks later.
Smart move to invest in production capacity for batteries developed in house. There are now several car manufacturers securing large amounts of battery capacity and several that clearly have issues with this. VW announced they have secured enough volume for 1m cars until 2023. That sounds like a lot until you realize that Tesla volumes are probably hitting that a lot sooner. Hence their other announcements that they are merely trying to keep up with Tesla as opposed to beating them (which is not a realistic goal for them short term).

Basically there are several companies who at the same time are trying to secure battery supplies while still peddling hybrids and hydrogen as well because they know they don't have enough batteries. E.g. Hyundai and Honda have a few popular EV models that are pretty hard to order (long delivery times/waiting lists) because production volume is limited. The reason is not because the manufacturer doesn't want to sell more but because they are unable to produce more; mainly because of a lack of access to batteries.

GM making this move means they mean business. They announced lots of different EV models a few days ago and to ship them in volume, they'll need batteries. Obviously they seem confident about their technical ability. We'll see. But getting production volumes up is going to be key for them. The demand is currently being served by their competitors (Tesla mainly).
Lawyers are good tool in our business. If someone gives me a one page "mutual NDA" I can handle it myself.

If I get 9 pages of "our standard contract" and I read it through, ask if I can make changes and if they say yes, I give it to my lawyer.

For that contract I actually wrote back this:

Who signs these “standard contracts”?
How do they guarantee the purchasing power of legal tender? Serious question, I thought the health of the economy and the need to pay taxes was all that did that.
The first in a series of articles, a list of which can be found here https://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/lazy-eval.html
I thought more about adding a few stories on average everywhere, and less a few skyscrapers.

What does temperature have to do with skyscrapers, though? Those Italian cities you mention ain't colder than London, New York or Chicago (or Beijing); and they build tall building just fine.
China's Local Governments Are Faking Coronavirus Recovery
I believe they're referring to the preview browser, not the current one. The preview is only starting to support extensions again.
On the Benefits of Anthropomorphizing
One of the things i like about listening to old jazz etc records is that sometimes, you suddenly hear a moment you've heard a thousand times in a hundred hip-hop records, and now you know where that came from.
Having your phone in the same room as you is known to be distracting. Try tucking it in a drawer in the kitchen or somewhere else that you won’t be tempted to look at it until it’s time for an official break.
"On its face, readfile() adds nothing new; an application can obtain the same result with calls to openat(), read(), and close(). But it reduces the number of system calls required from three to one"

A little surprised they didn't also roll in an optional lseek() offset in case you wanted a specific area of the file. Then it would roll 4 syscalls into 1. The somewhat similar sendfile() accepts an offset.
Except that it's more like: In addition to the locks that they can access anytime, they're also installing CCTV, microphones and other sensors so they can be sure you're fully compliant at all times.
> Do conditions of perfect competition obtain in this market? Is there perfect information for all market participants? Are all offerings in the market perfectly fungible? Are entry to and exit from the market frictionless? Are all other conditions held equal? If these are not true, then your model of supply and demand is uncoupled from reality and will give wrong results.

This is a red herring on the strawman's shoulder. Good. Grief.

I really think you would be much enlightened to listen to Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics audio book. It's really long, but covers this sort of thing just oh so well.

It will help you to answer questions like: how come people in the Soviet Union were starving to death while crops rotted in the field? Among many others...
Best Methods to Convince Your Boss to Work Remotely
A hoe is a very simple tool. You could say something equivalent of `cat`: the software is pretty much done, no need for particular maintenance, and it will work in 30 years time. If we still use UNIXes in 100 years time, I don't see `cat` failing either.

You wouldn't say the same things about a tractor, or about, say, Firefox
Brilliant post. This reminds me of the classic "What the British say / What the British mean" dialectic:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/web...
Was this on some sort of glowing screen? Or white paper surrounded by a lot of black ink?

Like anything else, you would have to have sufficient practice with light on dark to be able to be good at it. Light on dark is known to be better for people with contrast decreasing visual problems. Black on white is generally lower contrast as the large bright areas tend to bleed into the tiny text areas.
The geek version of “Seinfeld is Unfunny”....

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
Perhaps FED could intervene buying lobsters to support this important asset class..?
My friend in his 20s said to me 'You are old, but useful', and I responded with a gee thanks. At this point he realized I misheard him, and claims he said 'You are old, but youthful'. Anyway, it's now a joke between us and perhaps it is the best we can do:
Old, but youthful and by intention or accident - useful.
Lithuania, Slovakia and Indonesia also have 94105 as a valid post code.

Post codes are not particularly human friendly (though British ones like N1C 4AG are a bit better than just numbers; it's easy to see the N, N1, N1C prefixes in that).
This is getting a bit worse, I think, but it's always been that way.

Go further back than your ancient 2004 Anchorman references and you'll get Blade Runner, Star Wars, Princess Bride, etc.

One step further and you'll get 2001 (Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Blue Danube / Hal quotes), Citizen Kane ("Rosebud"), Gone with The Wind ("Frankly My Dear...") etc.

Sometime after that you'll get people quoting from Shakespeare without seeing the plays (still happens, of course), and soon we'll end at Bible quotes (naturally, as practically no one could even read it), or Roman authors. And I bet someone can point me at writings by those exact Romans where they complain about the youths not being up to par with Plato.

I rarely feel odd about a lack of knowledge, as there's just too much to know. Also, you've got the two issues where this is a) just used for meaningless gatekeeping anyway or b) a "cargo cult" meme already.

The latter will get more and more common: Quotes and references, where the reference binds you together, not the shared knowledge of the original source.
I came to ask about this too - the nerves.

The article briefly explains how the doctors did the surgery - The hand of the donor was first attached by bone, then arteries, veins and tendon muscles before the skin was stitched to Shreya’s upper limb. But says nothing about the nerves. I had read that nerve damage is irreparable. Then there is the fact that that the human body also attacks transplanted organs.

So I am really curious what happens in such cases - will she ever have full nerve functions in the transplanted hand and will her body start rejecting her hand?
I agree. I actually switched to the new Chromium version of Edge with uBlock. I still have Brave on both my iPhone and desktop which is permanently set to block all scripts. I use that for sites with paywall pop ups.
No. You want to keep your investment portfolio diversified. Putting even 20% of it in a single piece of real estate is a huge risk.
Are there any science museums that have something like this? When you look at this, you think that surely you can make that last gear spin. After all we've all spun gears, we know how they work. But it would be so counter intuitive to spin one of those gears by hand and basically see nothing happen no matter how much you spin it.

I know that would blow the minds of some kids (and adults).
And, in the end NYU Law don't learn their lesson, at the very least they could've pointed their visitors to watch said videos somewhere else and not on yt. So long yt doesn't loose users this will just continue and likely will get much worse.
Would love to see your notes. Thank you!
People love Slack because IRC is loveable. People use Slack because its advantages over IRC are in areas that favour it being installed in corporate environments, while benefits of IRC (such as being free and open, simple and extensible, running in a shell) are neutral or even negatives for that environment.
> I remember a paper decades ago now about a way to reduce RPC call round-tripping by sending something akin to promises back and forth, so you could pass the result of one remote call to another one without transferring it across the network. Kinda think something similar might be useful here.

Those shortcuts are generally about the ability to batch independent concurrent operations though e.g. instead of

call(foo)
call(bar)
call(baz)

you can

multicall(foo, bar, baz)

which goes from 3 sequential round-trips to 1, without increasing "instantaneous" server load as much as performing concurrent calls (promise-style) would.

Here this is more of a pipeline desire and the issue there is it requires some error handling and adaptation between the calls, as the various functions are not always compatible (you often can't feed the output of one as the input of the next).
Show HN: Dumbass – get over your front-end ego and keep it simple, stupid
Can someone link me some "llvm4retards"-ish kind of tutorial?

Also which language has best llvm wrapper libraries except cpp/c? would be it possible to do it in c#/go?
You can cash out through Uphold. KYC rules apply.
The graphics seem very similar to what is available in Whatsapp and FB Messenger.

If this is popular, it makes me wonder why not every email client offers these. Probably because of the decline of email for personal use.
Not being one will earn you more in the long run, if you can fend off all the axxholes who fare better at short-term gains.

Unfortunately, our economy is now based on high short-term gains, there's plenty of axxholes everywhere.
Thanks! That's really valuable feedback!
I'm confused. If you don't want people to touch a railing, why have a railing?
> Indeed, a mere 10% of users were responsible for more than 80% of posting activity, and 20% of the users accounted for almost 90% of posts

This is true on almost any forum.
The current rise in global temperature is faster than anything seen before.

That's the big problem, it's too fast for the normal adaptation mechanisms.

So while there have been rather elevated temperatures before in geological history, the temperature changes have been very gradual, not the wild rise we've seen in less than 100 years, which is a mere instant in geological terms.
> It's not fake money. It's getting paid to view ads.

It's getting paid with fake money to view ads.
Funny, I would say that's probably the most powerful and impactful thing a person could learn. Better then being force-fed every math concept in existence. And how would people learn to self-study without incentive and opertunity?
I am using this in production inside a docker container. It does the job pretty well.
Seems like a good way to reach people interested in your ideas. I need to try it one day :D
I've apparently earned 103 BAT since last September. Something is up, though, because I earn way more than estimated at the end of the month.
Never had the printer, but that big tall black box graphic card yes!
There's another, unofficial, client for slack that I know of but I've never tried it: https://volt-app.com/
The MIT museum has one
But surely, if people want better housing and can't afford it, the right thing for each of those individual people to do would be to save their money until they can, not load up on debt and buy something they don't want as much.

Granted, that would cause unemployment in the industries that people would rather give up consuming from, but maybe that would free up some talent to go into building houses - isn't that how the capitalist system is supposed to work, that things people don't want don't get produced?
We are a smallish B2B SAAS company where new clients (whales) can add 5% to our revenue and enough load to our servers to need to monitor and add resources.

The first few weeks before and after a major go live, especially if there is new functionality, management will expect their team leads/single responsible individuals to respond immediately. Even if they don’t say it. The CxO’s, sales, and implementations folks will send you an email then immediately send you a Teams message asking you did you get the email and if they don’t hear from you, call you on Teams.

On the other hand, most days if it isn’t a major client issue, it’s mostly like you said, there isn’t a real expectation of an immediate response.
The price of the Wirecutter’s #1 recommended forehead/ear thermometer on Amazon has changed from $30 between 2016 and February 2020 to $100 since February.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/iProven-Thermometer-Temporal-For...
So many near sighted comments.

Many buildings have little space for solar panels. Most building need to reglaze every thirty years. Many building have no optimally oriented glass.

This does not mean that PV Glass is worthless. If efficiency and cost work out then there may we’ll be a place for PV glass.
A vuln in NordVPN's payments platform allowed anyone to view users’ info
Brave is indeed very fast and particularly on mobile it is useful that the ad blocker is built-in. Thigh I think for most normies the fact that no plug-in is needed is underrated.
I haven't opted in to ads. They pop up as notifications on mobile and it is very annoying.
A Nationalist Project Without a Nation
Most software development companies of any size, even small companies, have some mixture of people in office, working from home, remote workers, separate offices etc.
So from your linked study:

>"The remission rate for combined treatment did not differ from that for CBT alone (P = .42) "

With the conclusion:

>Children and adolescents with OCD should begin treatment with the combination of CBT plus a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or CBT alone.

Basically they didn't find any difference between patients on SSRIs and therapy, to those doing only therapy.
Ironic racism is simply racism. Edgy teens on 4chan are racist edgy teens on 4chan, and they promote extremism.
I have the opposite problem that the author does. I don’t like it when people share the same interests or hobbies that I do. It just feels like a cheapened experience when the masses and normies start to enjoy it too. Invariably they start to ruin it as well.
Meh, I am +/- 2 years within the author's age, and although I grumble here and there about young people practices (latinx?? yikes) I think I have an OK understanding of popular culture, including Internet things. Come on: memes, dabbing, dubs,tik tok,fortnite dances, Pewdiepie.Most of them are silly and funny things, not the exact solution of GR for 2 neutron stars colliding.

I will admit that there are things I believe, but I am not 100% sure if they are true because of my age. For example, although I hate nostalgia, I am convinced that modern mainstream music, let's say after the 2000s is severely lacking compared to what happened in the previous 60 or so years. There always be great musicians, doing great music, but right now the current popular stuff have been homogenized and sterilized to make it pallatable worlwide.
This substance already exists: biter nail polish.

Apply it on your fingers, and you'll want to avoid touching your mouth at any cost.

On a side note, so many buildings still put doors at the entrance of toilets forcing you to touch the door right after cleaning your hands (or to use a napkin to touch the handle).
I've tried a bunch of X servers, but with a 4k display, they're all too slow to be usable. I'm settling for running WSL inside Alacritty for now.
More info on the method

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/show-your-...
I tried to look at it from the writers perspective and lost most of my humor in the process. Let me try describe the feeling in a way you could understand..... I felt an overwhelming emptiness inside and thought, this must be what daemons feel like after the exorcism. (just trying not to have my malice misinterpreted as incompetence here)

If I see people lacking the strength (both mentally and physically) to accomplish something I always suggest screaming as loud as you can. There is nothing as funny as leaving the room to scream in the hallway. Preferably loud enough that everyone inside the room can hear it.

While it was b.. bad, I really enjoyed the article and the author is right. It is important to teach other people see things from my perspective.
Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music
Everyone is doomed to gradually rediscover QNX while never reinventing it.
They’re speakers, they should last longer.

My decade-old desktop PC would still work fine with Windows 10, and it’s far more complex than a speaker.
Interesting - I'll file that under 'common misconception'

From the former employer's point of view not giving a reference is probably a better use of time, unless they especially wanted to torpedo someone
Spent 5 min. Did not see any landscape or structure. Read big words. Left.
This is at least 5 years out of date.
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

I really like this balanced sentiment at the end of the article. It's easier to feel different or weird or out of touch when you affirm for yourself that you're being weird by your own choice - to the extent that you _want_ to be different to everyone else.

It's a nice mean between the two extremes of going full conformist or going full hipster.
I came here to post the same comment :-D
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
Rather than covering everything with dirt, you just have to make everyone believe it. In HK, this has been quite successful. Pretty much everyone refuses to touch the buttons on an elevator, handrails on escalators or the MTR etc.
If you look at the thread, readfile() would be pretty specifically for extremely short files e.g. procfs and sysfs.

It would not be intended as a convenience API for slurping an entire file but as a performance API for very short reads (straight open(); read(); close() where the syscall overhead is enormous).

The implementation(s) by Greg Kroah-Hartman don't even bother looping until read returns empty or the buffer is full.
This article doesn’t really have much technical information, unlike what is promised in the title, but I just wanted to hijack this thread and mention how much I love the recent Mickey Mouse shorts that this ride is based on. They’re like Mickey Mouse by way of Ren and Stimpy—delightfully weird and clever and experimental in a way that I never expected Disney to be with their most valuable IP. Plus there’s a bunch that take place in other countries—and so they’re all spoken in foreign languages, completely untranslated, trusting that kids can follow along anyway. They’re all on Disney+, and lots of them are on YouTube, and get a lot done in 4 minutes. (My personal favorite is Feliz Cumpleaños)
Dominance Friction
When the internet took off in the late 90's, the information bandwidth allowed everyone to access "the long tail" of available culture and interests, and find their precise niche. This lasted about a minute, in generational terms. Now we're all living in the long tail. Now, the long tail is all there is. THIS is why music companies have suffered; not piracy. And news; not because of ads. Business based on scarcity and promotion are dead or dying. This is why popular culture peaked in the 80's. There will NEVER be a time where the majority of the population is caught up in the same thing, where one fashion trend or one genre of music dominates.
Guess there's a time lag. I was in China 35 years ago when they didn't have ATMs or anything like that and the west did. Times change.
They’re generally required by law, even at your house, but especially in public places.
A man launched a new ISP from his garage (2018) [video]
> I have heard SSRIs are hard to come off of

SSRIs can have unpleasant discontinuation effects. These don't affect everyone, and they don't affect people in the same way. I know people on low dose venlafaxine who struggled. I was on high dose venlafaxine for years and stopped almost overnight with no problems. Currently we think only very small numbers of people ahve severe serious enduring problems coming off SSRIs. It is, of course, totally fine for you to examine the risks vs the rewards of taking medication. Personally, and this is only my opinion, meds saved my life and I am glad they were available to me.

You may want to look at an evidence-based talking therapy as well. Cognitive behaviour therapy has good evidence (especially if you do it face to face, one to one, with an experienced therapist). It's a short form therapy so the maximum length of treatment is 21 weeks, but most people need less than that.
You don't believe it, because you consider some acts fundamentally unacceptable, in your moral framework.

That doesn't have any bearing on other people's moral frameworks, in which relativistic calculations may be the right thing to do.
Wet clothing is a life threatening situation in the backcountry.

Intentionally venting excess heat is common and not at all a concern for snow walkers.