skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this situation MEANS that these other countries are failing to control the infection

I never disputed that.

> Sure, I shouldn't imply Korea does just better treatment

You didn't imply that. You stated explicitly that Korea does better treatment when that statement is based on a gross misunderstanding of CFR data and said you were going to spread that misinformation. ("I darn well intent [sic] to keep pointing to this.") That's the only thing that I took issue with.

> We can see notably that the infection rate in Korea has dropped off markedly in the last few days.

That has nothing to do with fatality rate.
I'm sure that https://svelte.dev/ is not the end goal of web development, but it is the next step.

What I want to see is more support for serving svelte and integration between front end components and backends. (I.e., the backend has a list of root components generated by the front end and a route can return one of those components in a statically typed way)
In the UK you guys have very interesting laws around this stuff. Your "tabloid culture" as it is exists primarily because of the protections your publishers get, but at the same time, people in the UK have much greater recourse against such things if they choose to invoke it.

Classic example, in the UK you can have bad feedback about you removed from eBay because your laws about libel and slander are so favorable to the target of those attacks, to the point where even truthful information may not be allowed.
> Section 230 provides blanket immunity for abuses

Uh, have you actually tried reading Section 230?

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
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Server side rendering is not really that slow, and SPA is not really that fast if your bundle size is huge.

More important is that most users will not able to distinguish the difference. I have asked my friends how they feel to compare Facebook to a traditional MVC web site in term of speed difference, none of them can feel the difference.

However, the transition from page to page do affect the user experience. As a user, when I want to do a task that involve many UIs and I need to click multiple pages, I will think it is a bad experience, but I do accept to switch to another page for another task. Therefore, It makes sense to have a SPA for some rich UI feature so that user can remain in the same page
It's often true (even for brick-and-morter optometrists) that the floor models are not as solid as the frames they would actually sell you.
Author here. While the README doesn't dive in too much on how to use Ferp, you can checkout the gitbook documentation here: https://ferp.mrbarry.com, and I also have more real-world examples here: https://github.com/ferp-js/examples .
And I'm asking you, with the number of infection doubling daily in countries that don't batten down the hatches, or quarantine because everyone should just get back to work as you said -- what is the acceptable number of deaths before quarantine is acceptable?
The issue I might still have today in 2020 is disk space, and extra time downloading updates to those packages at the next update. Even today I'd be reluctant to want to pull in large libraries that amount to an entire UI or desktop framework just for one application, unless I have a really good justification to use that application.

I am also a tad displeased today at how many optional dependencies I don't use get pulled in by package managers on my systems.
Theoretically, a client could also query the record and check it against the certificate presented. That would basically be the same as a DANE CA constraint.

I'm not aware of anyone actually doing this, though. Certificate Transparency requirements are probably enough to prevent any CA from attempting to cheat with CAA.
Italy on Lockdown
Looks awesome congrats to the team. I'm hoping preview mode will also work with Contentful.
Of course don't take the money back, but at least sell your shares.
Git tip: committing with verbose mode
My network's admins block the upgrade with a program that watches your App Store use.
My 2010 Mac mini won’t run Mojave.
I am a big fan of HSLuv and I use it for generating colourschemes for lidar point clouds: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/public/colortransform/#0_2584_964...

which is used for videos such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNt8D1mfwwo
What is the target market for this tech then? I feel like grocery stores and pharmacies have already invested somewhat heavily in self checkout kiossk and may also be leery of having Amazon tech in their stores. Is the target market retail 2.0 then, where you design a store from the ground up with this tech?
European VATs are routinely much higher than any state sales tax in the US.

I can't prove it, but I suspect this is directly related to the fact that in the US system, we see the tax on every purchase.

I admit it's annoying to not have a single number to work with, having to juggle sticker price and real price sucks (the same argument applies to tipping).

But sales taxes are regressive and I don't want them to creep upwards indefinitely. A compromise would be to always display both prices, and make the price-at-register larger.
One more step to worldwide Social Credit Score.
My understanding of investing savings is that it is still diversified, not all in on the S&P500.

Something like the golden butterfly with a cash component, would allow you to spend the cash first. Then you could choose if you want to deplete an asset that hasn't plummeted, or withdraw from each category equally.

https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/golden-butterfly/

You could also use something like a Line of Credit against your stock. Both Schwab and M1 offer it. That way you can spend in an emergency, and hopefully your growth rate offsets the interest rate.

https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/banking_lending/pledged...

https://www.m1finance.com/articles-1/portfolio-line-of-credi...

"With M1 Borrow, you can borrow up to 35% of your invested portfolio at a 3.50% interest rate instantly (2.75% if you are using M1 Plus). There's never been such a low cost, convenient, and flexible way to borrow money."
Skip [0] lets you scan and pay for items with your phone, so it doesn't require any infrastructure be installed but isn't as simple for the customer.

[0] https://getskip.com/
There's no way a cart full of goods will scan properly if you roll through a scanner. RFID scanners don't handle RFID tags being stacked very well.
~3.5 hours. One 2 hour weekly department meeting. 10 ~ 15 minute standup each day, and finally a 45 minute sprint review & sprint planning meeting.
I downvoted your comment because it lacked substance, invited a flame war (whether or not it was intended), and ended with an idiom I associate with low quality discourse.
They are only good because Ebay is pathetically bad.
It's been a slow process, and hence perhaps underappreciated, but it's very gratifying that over the last 15 years patent-unencumbered media codecs have won. The companies that contributed to this --- Google, Mozilla, Cisco, and others --- and especially Xiph that got the ball rolling --- deserve a lot of credit.
Don't expect too much. Browsers can't even display punycode to avoid being scammed.
Pretty timely, LTT has published one of their appropriately-named "Compensator" builds, where they make the most obscene off-the-shelf PC possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkfbg-sHwDo
Don't apologize. It was a beautiful typo. In fact, I may steal it for deliberate use...
There is no market separate from society that has any “interests” such as not being manipulated. We get to design such systems in whatever way best serves us.

It’s funny how this “ideology of the pure market” has become popular. This idea here is essentially the same as the outrage when obviously wrong transactions are rolled back. The number of people willing to, or entirely oblivious of the possibility not to, let (others) be harmed by fraud or mistakes, in pursuit of some romanticized purity is astonishing.
> getting stuck on an idea and overlooking better alternatives

Care to elaborate on this at all?
Only 2 other devs and 1 sysadmin. I've only been in this job for a few months so it hasn't worn on me yet, but it is definitely starting to.
I am not aware of anything that is a sequel to The Phoenix Project itself. In many ways, it seems to be almost the conclusion of the idea of agile/lean software development borrowing from the classical ideas of ToC, Lean, Toyota Production System, etc.

If you want more readings that are not novels, but cover translating the ideas from manufacturing/production to IT and software development I'd suggest any books by Mary and Tom Poppendieck [0] and to explore their "bookshelf" [1]. The bookshelf is in reverse chronological order, so don't take the order to be an indication of anything positive or negative.

[0] http://www.poppendieck.com/people.htm

[1] http://www.poppendieck.com/reference.htm
It is happening right now. PM Conti havin press conference. Full lockdown beginning in few hours just anounced.
Simplified integration with some host environment? But now I am wondering what it would take to run "regular" code on a GPU -- even if it's super inefficient -- just to avoid the need of a "host" environment / CPU?
Absolutely, large swaths of the population can't do simple mental arithmetic like this at all.

The US system discriminates against those people, no denying it. That said, I'm sure our European friends are absolutely drooling at the thought of a 7% VAT...
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Even OpenCL for FPGAs was too much of an impedence mismatch to be useful for the vast majority of cases.

And getting Java to even run on these is going to remove so many features that there's no real reason to pick it anyway. It's sorta like how JavaCard that removes keywords like "new", "long" and "throw". Like at that point it's a stretch to even call it Java.
So the language isn't really amazingly fast from certain benchmarks I've seen like fibbonachi, but the entire integrated database solution for analysis purposes is very fast. I wouldn't do high frequency trading or high performance scientific computing in it, but data analysis is great.
Wow, this is incredible! I'll have to try it out.
For the First Time, Scientists Found How Coronavirus Infects Human Cells
The entire pipeline isn't in China. Taiwan seems to hold some of it and they're doing just fine. They've apparently managed to contain the virus quite well.
While I agree with you totally, you would be surprised the extent to which RFID has permeated almost every market.

It's often not consumer facing, or simply invisible (there's a very good chance your shoes have a chip embedded in their sole...) but there are wide scale, functional examples in retail of exactly what you describe today.

Decathlon, for example, a very large EU sporting goods store has this technology: RFID tags are baked into every product. You fetch your products, throw them all into a basket at checkout, and it instantly "scans" them all.
Sounds just like the situation in the west after 2008.
I too, have a box N95 and some P100 I bought in preparation for California fire season way before this crisis. On the Internet, everyone is super concerned with insight porn style stuff. So "actually X won't" or "actually Y will". Well, they're welcome to that.

If the masks were useless healthcare workers wouldn't wear them because they do hinder working. So that leaves me, with my stack of masks from before the crisis. Yeah, I'm not going to throw them away.

EDIT: I'm rate-limited but I feel the same as user lvturner below.

Here's a fit test video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdqcKHSIrrM

The following things are true:

* Masks are fantastic

* If you have them, use them

* The distribution of masks should prioritize healthcare workers for public health reasons

* Healthcare workers will not take a half-opened box of N95s and P100s.

There is precisely one conclusion: If you have masks, use the masks. They are great.
China shut down it's economy for two months. Mecca is closed. 8% of Iranian parliament was infected as of last week and two were dead. Democratic nations are putting millions of people on lockdown overnight (see Lombardy, Italy and the 2AM press conference).

This isn't the god damn flu and its irresponsible to say so at this point.
It's interesting that they rolled this out as a thing, but didn't start retrofitting all of their Whole Foods with it. Does it have problems with grocery stores? How does it handle fruits by weight, etc.
Understandably, as you are in a risky position. But that doesn't mean everybody else is to. Nor does it mean that panic will do any good.
A Bill Gates program will send at-home coronavirus tests to Seattle residents
Mass surveillance is a nightmare for political activists, key figures in grass root movements, journalists and political opponents.

And that's what makes it a nightmare for the rest of us.
Paperwork is not a solution at all. Porn performers must have right for anonymity because it's not safe to be porn actress/actor.

Old U.S. story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei_Lee_(actress)

Citing concerns of personal safety, Lee requested to testify under her stage name; the prosecution objected, arguing that allowing her to do so "gives some air of legitimacy to the porn star" (which Lee later called "incredibly insulting") and that "she shouldn't be treated any differently than anyone else in this case".[35] The case was ultimately dismissed on July 16, 2010,[36] before Lee was scheduled to testify.

New Russian story
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lindemann/comments/f8ao8w/more_on_t...
Families and friends recieve threats, members of the public get dragged in: After identifying the girls, families and friends of the girls also began to recieve threats. Home addresses of the girls were also posted online. Also, girls which had simply had selfies taken with Till Lindemann while he was travelling through the city of St Petersburg at the time of the shooting (but who had not featured in Till The End nor Platz Eins) began to recieve hate mail and threats online after being identified through their selfie photos with him on Instagram.

Porn actresses are often deanonymized and threatened death and you offer paperwork.
See: Netflix
Whatever happened to the RFID concept where they (not Amazon, but others) previously envisioned attaching small, cheap RFID badges to all items and then you would just do one big, quick scan at the end and it would read all the RFID tags in your cart at once and you could walk out?

I like that idea better, honestly. It's more accurate and doesn't require video monitoring and all sorts of AI/ML/DL algorithms. Though, I don't know the practicality of attaching RFIDs to everything, nor the cost. And I assume some people would try to just rip them off, which I imagine would be the biggest concern, in addition to having the staff attach them to everything.
Oh thats reassuring I just thought since its similar to native code my bad
There are RFID based shopping experiences, but I think it's too easy to hack. An RF-shielded shopping bag makes theft too easy. I'm also not sure how accurate the readers are when tags are all piled together.
try talking to a jeweler?
Did they also warm up caches before open?
A lot of trading is indeed done by minimally supervised computers, i.e. a human only looks at the computer if alarm bells ring. Source: was one of those humans
The Amazon Go I used to visit was maybe 200 square feet in size but had 4-5 people stocking and moving things around. And apparently there are others in the back assisting the cameras and making sandwiches and whatnot.
I work for a hedge fund that inverses the market.
I'm mostly buying properties offshore, and trying not to get divorced.
My thought exactly.

Also, if companies stop requiring 4 years of experience in a technology that came out 3 years ago in their job description that would also help. Instead, let people transfer from similar technologies and let them learn it on the job.
> If the markets are like this when there are a few hundred cases in the UK and US, what will they be like when there are tens, or hundreds of thousands of cases and major cities are in lockdown?

Some conservative predictions are arriving at millions of cases in a couple of months. There are too many unknown variables for an accurate prediction but, without really drastic measures, it's difficult to argue with exponential growth.

At some point it will plateau and become another seasonal flu. And we may even get vaccines. But I agree that things are going to become way worse before they improve. Most worrying is the strain on the health care system, which may by itself worse prognosis on other, otherwise unrelated, diseases.
The entire country of Italy is quarantined, starting from tomorrow morning.
A: I am aware of this. But they provide the tool.

B: They did not bring down any government. But the question is: is the tool named Facebook powerful enough to do so? And if true: did they do enough to prevent this?

C: Maybe they are biased. That's up to a judge to decide.
It will be interesting to see what other types of new technology (good & bad) emerge from this.

Such as: New rfid (or image) spoofing tech, etc.

-or-

Stories "Just walk out" store forgot to activate rfid tags on some product and customers walked out w/ (x) number of items for free.

This will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Interested to see how this works with allowing people to pay with cash and other non-credit methods.

A few regions have started passing laws banning cashless establishments for being exclusionary towards people without bank accounts, or who use alternative banking sources (In NYC it's something like 11% and 22% respectively). I would expect that trend to continue.
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Thee next big cancellation will be the Cannes Film Festival, with ~40.000 foreigners invading this town for two weeks. This will cost a lot of money.
If all you're going to do is just securely delete data without drawing suspicion, that's a good plan.

If you wanted to hide data in an encrypted partition that looks like random data, that's not going to work.
The implication from the parent comment is that these individuals are going to go through some emotional strain.

My point - it's difficult for me to feel the same anxiety someone might feel in this situation when they equally ignored the risks of something that is easily identifiable. They very likely felt elated when they joined because the company was seen as cool, hip, and by all objective means is/was successful (valuation, # of users, etc).
Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country
Not clear how to add or notify anyone to add. Missing Prisma (https://www.prisma.io/) and Postgraphile (https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/) in the Databases section.
Thank you for the article.

I agree on shifting the peak. I was mostly aiming to get other nerds creative about tiny habits that can help lowering R0. The slower it spreads, the lower the graph, the lesser the queue for breathing machines.

Behavior changes the R0 and the most powerful behavior alteration is through environment. So if we could set up an environment where you would less likely contract something even if you're being clumsy, that'd be the best.

Like an UV light room where you leave your stuff for half an hour to disinfect.

Or a bleach spray box :)

Or an Apple Watch app which would detect when you want to touch your face and vibrate. I guess I'd have to wear 2 Apple Watches then :)
This is great. I have to admit I usually "bake" my colors when using JS so I have not been hit by the performances, but if it can be done in a performent way, it can open new applications in the browser.
You absolutely can build a plugin for Firefox (and Chrome? Maybe? Sounds like some APIs needed are not finished) to add this UI feature for people who want it.

Experience shows that if everybody wants a UI feature from a plug-in it won't take long until the people you were plugging into implement it natively and you can choose to take that as praise or shake your fist at them for "stealing". I recommend the former.

But I doubt your new "Freedom of the Press of the CA issuer of this site" UI will be very popular because it's not at all obvious what anybody can do with that information or how to even interpret it.
A transmissible disease that has already overwhelmed hospitals in another country and is spreading uncontrollably in yours seems a good criteria.
I'm in the market for an SSG for documentation of a larger project (and therefore I'm looking for something quick and easy to maintain). Hoping to keep it within the JS ecosystem so that would rule out Hugo and Jeckyll. Is Next.js easier to use than Gatsby, or is there an even simpler alternative I haven't come across yet? Ideally I'd be able to point this library to a glob of .md files and generate HTML + RSS.
Are you really going to steal from a store that requires you to sign your credit card and surveils you throughout the shopping process? If anything I could see significant improvements in typical loss prevention numbers paying off pretty favorably.

If there is a crime, would they know exactly who took the item and didn't pay, without you having to get "rounded up"? If not, can they really say their tech works?

Related to this post: I wonder if retails aren't already applying algorithms to browsing habits / security footage. Understanding whether large displays or end caps are working could be valuable.
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In many cases I'd agree, but the author I'm referring to has a neat example. His APL GPU compiler doesn't have modules and multiple layers of abstractions. He has few named variables. Just a few pages of entirely data flow/parallel APL where you can see everything at the macro level. He did a show HN and several YouTube lectures on this. The abstractions hurt the ability to understand the code and made it take longer to make changes.
I am sure you read the article, so I am sure you know that this was the advice of her primary care provider and the coronavirus hotline.

The author's whole point is there are contradictory approaches being taken.

"Just in case, I went to my primary care practice...When I said I wondered if I had the coronavirus, the nurse told me I should have gone straight to the hospital."

"A few days later, I developed a fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, and tremors in my hands."

"Last Tuesday, after a night fever of 100.8, I called the new New York State coronavirus hotline. I was told to go to the hospital for a test."

"But the attending doctor came in without a mask and offered his bare hand for a shake. He assured me that I was low-risk because I hadn’t been to an epidemic country like Italy, South Korea, or China. The hospital would not test me, since I did not meet the hospital’s criterion for testing, travel to one of those countries...If I felt sick, stay home, and if I felt well, go out. I should only come to the hospital if I felt sick enough to need hospitalization."
Hmm. It might also boost Sanders with respect to Biden...
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