skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was prescribed chloroquine from a doctor specializing in travel medicine. I received "TEVA-CHLOROQUINE 250MG TABLET"[0] from my local pharmacy. That's chloroquine phosphate.

Note: it had very odd side-affects: sweats, mild fever, nightmares, nausea.

0 - https://www.tevacanada.com/en/canada/our-products/generic-me...
Svelte components compile to vanilla javascript plus a small runtime (a dozen or so functions that track state for context and the developer tools). It's much lighter weight than React or Vue's runtime and a side effect is that integrating Svelte components into other frameworks is a breeze (especially if you compile to web components). The author refers to it more as a separate language.

I've had a great experience with it recently developing a smart tv app - which are dog slow even with a quad core ARM CPU due to the resolution so I decided to learn Svelte for the project. The big downside is another templating language to learn and as you said, the community is tiny, but the surface area is small enough that it hasn't been a problem regarding tooling or debugging. Pulling in other frameworks into a svelte app is also relatively easy so it can be part of a slow incremental rewrite, although as always it devolves into a webpack/rollup config mess.
And, now, we know why we have an explosion of libraries that do the job badly OR end up with bloated binaries by including LINPACK when a one-liner would have done the trick.

You triggered a conversation thread that made me understand the ecosystem dynamics a bit better. Thank you.
Raising the price of natural gas is good for wind and solar, but moreso utility scale battery storage, which is what is competing against natural gas for firm capacity ("power on when you call for it").
It’s a long standing problem with these kind of rapid diagnostics for respiratory illnesses:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rapid-flu-tests-only-50-to-70-p...

Doing two swabs helps mitigate this, as does comparing anal and oral swabs. Here’s a more thorough breakdown:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2020.1...
Yes it’s strange that everyone’s so eager to say work from home, don’t shake hands, don’t go to parties, don’t go to sports games, as if these were just arbitrary aspects of human life that we can discard. In fact, these are important social structures that evolved in human society for a reason. There is a real danger of unintended consequences here.
Memcached 1.6
No where does it say they are still a recommended metadata format. The only recommended format that they list on their website is JSON-LD:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/sd-policies...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivism
yes they are database engines, but in many if not most of these cases there is only a single instance that is shared across all products at the company. it is very different than the rds model. of course there are access controls and abstractions such as schemas and tables but there aren't silos between data from different services
I've been working from home for 8 years. If you really desire the commute, just go drive around. Or, better yet, take a walk or bike. I do this every day in the summer. It's much more enjoyable than being packed in traffic.
This is actually a good point. The mortality rate for the coronavirus is lower if ventilators or supplemental oxygen are available. But we have limited numbers of ventilators.

So if we can blunt the peak infection rate, more people will survive, even if the total number of cases is the same.
GTK backend is in a fairly good state, albeit lives in a separate development branch (which you are encouraged to check out).

https://www.reddit.com/r/redlang/comments/dzobh0/latest_gtk_...

https://static.red-lang.org/dl/branch/GTK/linux/red-latest

https://gitter.im/red/GTK
Fair enough. I've noticed a lot of south-coast WA people are cold-acclimatised (even more so than south-coast eastern-states, ie, Melbourne) and also see the occasional 48.C day.
People are dying near the equator. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
QQQ is tech heavy, if you want more general consider SPY or for oil consider XLE or VDE.
This poorly written op-ed, rich on bombastic proclamations and backed with absolutely no research, getting to the top of HN is a (chef's kiss) testament of a what a giant circle jerk this site is.
You can download the episodes with https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer
That's certainly helpful.

However, both the original memo, and the reddit update have the same sort of condescending/arrogant tone. That probably was as much a factor in why people jumped to conclusions as anything else.
No, the CDC created a defective first kit, delaying EFFECTIVE national testing a month. Congress should investigate the reason for this failure. We'd be far ahead if we bought test from Germany or Korea.

NPR had a story about genomics lab that repurposed some of it research equipment to provide some testing resources. Apparently about 70 other labs, including Gate's, did similar and provide backup resources. But a month delay seriously damaged the US response.
Should Transgender Students Be Allowed to Compete in Women's Athletics?
lots of fake news out there
> Most benefits are unused and people prefer cash that they can spend on their own needs instead

How did you come to this conclusion, and what do you mean by ‘unused’?

I‘m guessing you mean that a majority of people receiving health care benefits are healthy and thus don’t ‘use’ them enough that the amount of money spent on their health plans is larger than the amount they would spend out of pocket?

Even if that is true, that’s not really the point of insurance. Insurance exists to protect you against an eventuality that you don’t necessarily expect to occur, but would be catastrophic if it did. People don’t buy liability car insurance because they expect to cause a terrible accident and want to come out ahead financially. There is a value to being insured whether or not you have to actively take advantage of the plan.
> Individuals who are unable to work due to having or being exposed to COVID-19 (certified by a medical professional) can file a Disability Insurance (DI) claim.

> Disability Insurance provides short-term benefit payments to eligible workers who have full or partial loss of wages due to a non-work-related illness, injury, or pregnancy. Benefit amounts are approximately 60-70 percent of wages (depending on income) and range from $50 - $1,300 a week.

This isn't going to be enough to cover a lot of peoples' monthly expenses. After taxes, $1300/week barely covers my rent, much less food and other necessities.

Edit: does anyone downvoting care to actually explain why they disagree? Or, are y'all just offended by the statement?
I suspect you can get equal or better flavors elsewhere. If it comes from the clover, couldn't you just get them from the flowers?

I'm not suggesting honey flavors have no benefit, but it just seems odd that we have chosen those specific flavors as being tasty (honey and maple), when their primary attraction was that they came with sugar which was otherwise scarce (but no longer is).
> All the diamonds and gold in the world is irrelevant to the wellbeing of the common people if they are repressed... And if they are not repressed, the relative value of such resources is diminished as other economic activity should be available as well, then.

You are leaving out the fact that a lot of natural resources is a huge incentive for someone to try to repress a population.
The simple answer to this question is that all mature data stores have extremely sophisticated tooling for multiple concurrent access. Namespacing, views, access rights, concurrency/locking, migrations, stored procedures, etc are all things you end up poorly implementing at the app layer that you get out of the box at the data layer.

Every rdbms left on the stage was built with the assumption that lots of disparate systems would be coordinating within them.

I’ve yet to see a SOA system with half the tooling to support this. That’s before you get into the performance advantages.

If you’ve done a bad job coupling your data tier it’s because you didn’t know/follow best practices we’ve had for at least 30 years. Don’t blame the architecture for that.
Well keep in mind for COV19 that your survival rate will be much higher if there's enough beds/people to treat you. Looks like with an overburdened medical system the lethality for those going to the hospital is somewhere under 5%. For hospitals not overburdened it's under 1%.
> never had so much funding as they do now.

"Now" is the operative word.

You can't just put a government agency in cold storage and thaw it out when you need it. If the budget and leadership get slashed (as they were in 2018), people move on, hard-won lessons get forgotten, and they take a while to get back.

If this happens repeatedly, you lose the ability to attract talented people for a long time.
When you work in SV its really common to ask a question on an internal company mailing list and get a reply from the developer contributing that feature to the kernel / filesystem / DB

It was a bit unnerving the first time it happened but you have access to so many people like that and you are around it daily.

You constantly find out about new things from your buddy over at the other company who tells you about something they are working on that is a completely new product.

Not to mention when something hits mainstream outside SV its aging in SV and soon will likely be obsolete

Example you might not know this but k8s is googles borg lite and everyone who has been around the valley has ran into someone who worked on it for years.

You simply don't have that experience outside SV...Not to mention things considered common knowledge in SV isnt common outside... eg I still have to explain to people why ITIL doesnt work with Agile DevOps ever since I left.
You know, that's pretty much exact same argument for liberating those poor Iraqis, let's see how well it went.

(Except that liberating Russians would have gone a whole lot worse. You would end up liberating half of Eastern Europe, and probably the whole Germany, along the way.)
Absolutely. Many economical government interventions have terrible unintended consequences due to creating bad incentives, but one time fixes for emergencies completely outside of the domain of the businesses in question do not have that drawback. Nobody would structure their business for maximum pandemic bailout.

PS (edit): oh, and it also wouldn't really keep businesses from preparing for a pandemic, because of pandemics strike one once in several decades this will be long enough for market forces to have preparing companies displaced by those who don't. The market favors the optimist who bets on no pandemic happening in their lifetimes.
So you’re just going to test yourself constantly?

If you experience symptoms for any illness and you care for seniors, you should remove yourself from care.

No need to test.
Honey sells at a premium, sure, as does flavored sugar that people think is honey.

I think you're missing my point but I don't have time to elaborate.
The current version was developed from scratch.
So why do bees go to so much effort to make honey? To please humans?
Politico has a good piece[1], but with no real answers.

But neither the CDC nor the coronavirus task force chaired by Vice President Mike Pence would say who made the decision to forgo the WHO test and instead begin a protracted process of producing an American test, one that got delayed by manufacturing problems, possible lab contamination and logistical delays.

This seems to give some kind of explanation of what was going on:

But there were additional problems with the administration’s approach to testing, according to experts and former officials. From the start, the White House focused on containment, trusting that a limited ban on travel to and from China could somehow force a fast-moving virus to stop cold when it hit the Chinese border. But, while containment might have helped buy the U.S. some time, without aggressive domestic surveillance through testing, it was an incomplete strategy.

Except that doesn't really explain why the CDC didn't do it's job. Surely the White House wasn't actively stopping disease surveillance?

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-testing...
> At the other end is the Middle Eastern countries. Monarchs and despots have largely enriched themselves and their families at the expense of their country and their people.

You might want to look into who propped up these monarchs and despots.

If Norway wasn't a european nation, it too would have been toppled and destroyed by the US or european powers for their oil.

> So it's sad to me that not only are people so easily manipulated through religion but also what a huge lost opportunity this was.

Religion had nothing to do with it. It's geopolitics. Also, middle eastern nations have some of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.

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

> Now, Russia, Venezuela, Norway and the USA are huge producers

The US and Russia are. Norway isn't ( not in total volume at least ). Venezuela could be but due to US sanctions they are not. Not to mention the US led regime change venezuela is about to experience which will once again destabilize and impoverish venezuela.

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

> Solar in particular will continue to bite into oil demand so long term

Solar hasn't made much of a dent and won't make a dent anytime soon. Oil demand has increased while solar is just a tiny blip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/medi...
I read Sirens for the first time just recently, and I'm now frustrated with myself for not spotting the similarities... but then it's been nearly two decades since I last read H2G2...
If you experience symptoms you should self quarantine. If the test comes back negative, you’ll just keep testing yourself until you find out you have it?
If you want to be any more direct why not just sacrifice old people on an altar to mammon?
A collapsing healthcare system doesn't?
What advantages do/did microformats provide over microdata/schema.org/ld-json?
"when your mind tells you" what does this really mean??
> While trains and planes are still operational, and running on time, the government is forbidding people from leaving unless absolutely necessary.

No, there is no forbidding, there are no road blocks, there are no checks. People are free to come and go as they like.

The "severe travel restrictions" fake news is, in reality, just a recommendation.

Here's the central train station in Milan, where it's business as usual: http://www.ansa.it/sito/videogallery/italia/2020/03/08/coron...

Source: I live in Lombardy
Numerous articles about $4000 fees if test done at ER.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/02/why-are-we-bein...

The new fed law and my state make the test itself free, but dont address the high service charge at some medical centers. Sick people might be reluctant to test as early as they should.
While I certainly agree a Standard ML compiler can be quite useful(and huge respect for the author!), I noticed the compiler is purely written from scratch, and the question remains when the quality of generated code can be as decent as BuckleScript behind ReasonML. Unless SML fits well with the model of WASM(which I believe is not the case), significant work will be required to tweak the compiler.
I see your point, but as a person that get bored easily when I read, I like how it give context and narrate a story instead of writing only the technical facts. Even if it's lengthy, it's a commit message I will finish reading.
> DON'T use any web technologies.

How do you think that would have worked for Gmail's success?
Yes. Not frequently, but when sometimes git bisect saves my day. That's why I don't allow rebase or squash in my repos – code's history is valuable information, and I don't want to lose it.
All sorts of devices with some kind of UI are using a browser in some kind of kiosk/headless mode.

STBs, Smart TVs, IFE systems are or were web based.
> But the web is about presenting content first and foremost

Surely this just translates to user first ..? Devs moving from "it's about me" to "it's about you", perhaps with a bit of a shove from google, et al.
The US also explicitly rejected the working German tests, adopted by the WHO, and continued pursuing their own kit, even after they failed the first go around, putting ourselves even further behind:

> But German researchers were devising their own test, which was quickly adopted by the World Health Organization for distribution around the world.

After the C.D.C.’s version turned out to be flawed, the agency continued to pursue it, despite the fact that another diagnostic test was already in wide use.

With F.D.A. approval, the agency could simply have embraced the test used by the W.H.O., Dr. Mina said. The government could do so even now.

“It’s just a very American approach to say, ‘We’re the U.S., the major U.S. public health lab, and we’re going to not follow the leader,’” Dr. Mina said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/health/coronavirus-testin...
That's a rather bold claim. What you call cryptocurrency is an ERC-20 token intended for experimenting with community economy (e.g. tipping contributors, voting for features, app market, etc). It's an untrodden path and the idea is quite interesting in its own way.

Regardless of the blockchain involvement, I encourage everyone to stay open-minded and judge the project on its technical merits.
Don't forget bolivia last year. The first native american president got ousted by a international bankers/cia led coup. And of course, the coming overthrow of venezuela in the coming months led by the same culprits.
Ask HN: Returning to School in Mid-30s?
Hello HN...
I am considering a career change into cybersecurity and would appreciate any guidance and insight those of you who are in the industry might be willing to offer.

I'm a mid-30s attorney living in south-central U.S. I currently represent large corporate clients in the healthcare field. I have a Bachelor's degree in Business Admin and a J.D. from a state university.

I am considering returning to school to pursue a career in cybersecurity. It has been a field I have been heavily interested in since I was a child. I have attempted to keep up with the evolution of cybersecurity throughout the years, maintaining general knowledge concerning current tools-of-the-trade, etc. However, I am admittedly a script-kiddie (I have spent far more time attempting to read/interpret code than write it) when it comes to being hands-on. I can complete the easy hackthebox challenges but typically have trouble with more difficult stuff.

So, I am contemplating returning to school to pursue what I often feel is my true calling. I admit that my primary concern is that I will be significantly lagging behind most others in the field who have held jobs in cybersecurity since their early 20s.

I also wonder how important it is to graduate from a top-tier school. When it comes to lawyers, graduating from anything but an Ivy league practically guarantees you will never be presented with top-tier employment opportunities in any large city. Does the same apply to cybersecurity? If so, to what extent?

I wonder whether the skills I've developed over the past 8 years practicing law might be beneficial in the cyber arena.

Finally, I wonder whether my love for this stuff would soon fade after it became "work." Have any of you experienced this?

I would love to hear thoughts any of you might have regarding the above. Thanks in advance!
Gmail is literally a document browser. I think Google Maps might be a better example.
This is an important issue that is critical for the future of FOSS and the sustainability of the tech ecosystem in general.

At a basic level, the ESD group represents bureaucracy, and the bureaucratization of FOSS. It is importing an intolerant minority into the FOSS community to hijack it for other purposes.

They should fork their own distributions and produce things people need, and when nobody wants them, they should consider whether they are in fact just or virtuous at all.
You suggest we send them to their god?
I think this statement dramatically underestimates the scope and the size and the banking industry, as well as how much debt banks keep on their books. 200 billion will be a ton of pain in localized areas for banks, but they will not be writing off the whole loan, and will have assets - the same oil fields - come over. This happens every ten year or so.

On the other hand, if this oil war really does do enough damage to hurt shale, it will also bankrupt Saudi Arabia and Russia. Given both of their recent actions on the world stage, even a 200 billion dollar write off might not be the worst thing in the world.
beyond some fairly large size of company it's less that it makes data warehousing easier and more that it makes centralized data warehousing possible.

fortunately this type of environment is available today as a managed service in a few different offerings. gcp has spanner and vitess is available as a managed service on multiple cloud providers from planetscale.
IIRC most ME budgets are in the red with oil below about $65/bbl. Some economies can last longer than others though. SA has been trying to kill the US fracking industry for a decade but so far no luck.

Once fracking came online in a big way it put a price ceiling on oil below what most ME budgets could tolerate. Once that was in place OPEC was doomed and here we are.
Curious ones can find a brief explanation of this core idea in a Github wiki (shameless plug!).

https://github.com/red/red/wiki/%5BDOC%5D-How-Red-works:-a-b...
Supported, but not recommended. I switched to JSON-LD last year after using microdata for years.
Squirrelmail is a GNU licensed webmail client. If you get a domain and hosting and they provide webmail for your domain, it's likely through Squirrelmail or one of a handful of competitors
Give me my own cube and a < 15 minute walk/cycle commute and then for me office would be better.
Torrents.csv – a Git repo of torrents, consisting of one searchable CSV file
Defecits don't matter, until all of a sudden the ability to sell debt is limited. While the US continues it's current policies, I don't see that in the immediate future.

However, one day soon that will stop... and then people will notice that sovereign debt far outpaces any other form of non-secured credit.
You are the problem the virus is not under control right now. What background do you possess to make such claims? What scientific references can back up your no-matter-what? You might be expert in other fields but that doesn't give you the qualifications to decide matters on public health. No I'm not here to present evidence that what you said is not true. I'm just angry. You might be intelligent, you might be following the news for all those days. And that won't make you qualify to make public health claims. It's almost like in any climate change discussion someone would say: change of climate will benefit certain species obviously. It sounds logical, yet just a shitty conjecture.
You have got to be kidding me. Melting precious, finite fossil fuels to spend time going to your job because you need time away from your family? How can you sincerely sit here and type this?

I’ll take the downvotes- this is absurdity.
Yeah you definitely need to moderate how much energy you give your job if you want to have a life and also make investments in yourself.