skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool, got a real Tron / cyberpunk vibe to it. Not really sure what you do, but I'm curious now and might go check out your website - which I guess was the point, amiright?
To be fair, many of them are just bots.
There's ActivityPub (https://activitypub.rocks/). Not that it's perfect.
Wondering if they could have like 950 people in the crowd still and auction off tickets. Would be surreal, but kind of a once in a lifetime experience to be watching an NBA game, at or near courtside with so few people in attendance.
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If it's wider than Fira Code then it's too wide for me, personally. I often need 4 panels open side by side.
Mosquitoes are also vital as they are a food source.
Wuhan Municipal Government != Chinese Central Government

You're not conflating actions in US states as reflective of the US gov either are you?
Throw in some nationalized healthcare to keep these same now-uninsured people healthy.
FYI for anyone else who was wondering, the WHO declaration has no impact on whether or not pandemic bonds default.
No thought experiment necessary. On my first job, someone created Python scripts (hot & new then) to initalize our warehouse databases. Checked in, too (good!). Became a huge maintenance hassle and forced everyone to learn Python on the side. I fail to see why you would not check in a script, no matter what language... And yes, I would, have and do write database initialization "scripts" in my main language all the time.
* Moderately well-run companies who care about retention
Since Typescript is mentioned, might as well mention the awesome io-ts[1] library. It gives you both runtime validation and static type safety with very simple syntax.

[1]: https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts
I'm sorry, but I sincerely question your understanding of addiction, the program, those closest to you if you genuinely believe "the cure comes instantly by a decision from within." If this were true then chronic short term sobriety followed by relapse wouldn't be so common.

My impression is reinforced with, imo, your trite "we're ALL addicts" platitude. Yeah, we all get distracted sometimes and get hung up on the bit of cleaning. That doesn't mean we all have ADHD and OCD. There are ways to establish a middle ground without downplaying legitimate disorders.
They were asked about this in their briefing a few days ago and made a multi-point response:

1) There are no objective criteria for calling something a pandemic.

2) They did not feel they knew enough about the propagation pattern to make the subjective call.

3) They were deeply worried that calling it a pandemic would switch government strategies from containment to mitigation, resulting in higher contagion and loss of life.

They especially emphasized the last point. The only question in my mind is whether (1) they decided containment was no longer viable or (2) they decided not calling it pandemic would be seen as unserious, even if containment could still potentially have benefits.

Source: https://youtu.be/OJQTM4QbTsg
Yup; a month ago, they were saying it wouldn't be called a pandemic until it had (secondary) community transmission in a second country.

My reaction to this push alert today was "wait, they hadn't called it a pandemic yet??"
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm#table1

2% of those infected with influenza (estimated, 4% of those who sought medical intervention) in 2017-2018 required hospitalization.
You've claimed this three times already. Do you have a substantiating link? Furthermore, saying "six point oh one percent" instead of just "approximately six percent" gives a false air of precision that could not possibly hold -- even you admit the estimate is still in flux.
This whole thread? The basis of the argument is that China is authoritarian regime that we should not be doing business with.
Awesome advice!

Would love to know what you consider better than chirped spread spectrum.
I'm hoping this isn't a dumb question, but why does it matter that a public key is public-facing and unencrypted?
It's good wording that by chance I already realized last night when I was talking to our 70 year old organizer who's going through chemo and he was telling me he's coming...

I really don't want his blood on my hands. If it's decided to push forward, I'll do what I can to stop people from taking unnecessary risks.
Exactly-- you meet new teams you may want to do business with. Devs meet people who want to invest. Not exactly helpful for EA or Activision, but big help to others.
You're spot-on with this analysis. I would add to it that decades of emotionally-manipulative, profit-driven corporate infotainment have apparently conditioned large numbers of American voters to normalize the concept of cognitive dissonance and incorporate it as a function of normal daily thought and decision-making (Trump's a genius - but we can't see his grades; Trump's a billionaire - but we can't see his taxes; Trump only picks the best people - but half a dozen of his hand-picked campaign staff are now convicted felons; etc....). A specific example of the danger that this kind of thing can pose: a recent survey of Democrats and Republicans indicates that Republicans (who presumably consume their news from places like Fox, etc.) are far less likely to have an accurate understanding of the risks associated with COVID19 than their Democratic counterparts [1].

Due in large part to this phenomenon, we are now about to see in real time how a narcissistic, science-denying reality television star who has told over 15,000 false or misleading statements to the public [2] handles a serious health emergency. If we as a society are going to improve and overcome the issues that we are facing, we will need to address the extreme forms of emotional manipulation that permeate the media landscape and perhaps work to improve the education standards that we hold our students to in the hopes that people will not be so credulous.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-po...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...
I was at the talk. From having engaged with a lot of organizations working at scale, it was pretty clear they were near the top in terms of not being hampered by technical debt. They have the capability to move quickly and evolve the system in pragmatic ways to dial the knobs towards correctness or speed or functionality or whatever. A tremendous achievement and speaks volumes for the tooling.

There is no "Datomic scale" problem. Datomic transactors are just another singleton service to deploy with your microservice pod. The underlying storage can obviously be consolidated and scaled independently. I don't recall what they're using, would guess it is pg.
I'm gussing that the downvotes are because of an implicit link to eugenics and racism.

those liking scifi: Asimov explored the idea in one of his novels. "Spacers" vs "Earthers" in the novel "The Caves of Steel"
> It only applies to events in facilities owned or managed by the City of San Francisco. It does not prevent people from gathering in public spaces or prevent private venue operators who want to hold large gatherings from doing so (not that anyone with a modicum of liability insurance wants to take such risks).

I'm almost certain you're incorrect due to the fact that basketball games will be effected and those aren't run by the city - teams remain private entities.

This does effect intentional private gatherings in public spaces, so if you have an extended family with more than 1000 people in it then your family reunion would be effected.

That said, this is absolutely legal and constitutional and that clarity lies on the backs of many historical disease outbreaks in the US that have resulted in similar restrictions.
> (2) (this is the crazy part) does it actually make sense to get it now before hospitals are overwhelmed and you might be unlucky enough to be sick with something else. Basically choose the most opportune survivable situation to get it versus letting the virus and bad luck pick when you have to fight this battle?

No.

(1) If you get it, you may spread it, even if you're careful. That chain of spread may lead to additional burdens on the system, or deaths

(2) No matter your age, you may become seriously ill, and may draw resources from the system because of irresponsible behavior

(3) It's highly possible that after some time has passed, the mortality rate will drop significantly because doctors will develop a good protocol. If you get it now, you risk being treated in a system that is still figuring this thing out

(4) If you get it, you will not be available to help anyone else if needed due to the required isolation period

The only ethical thing to do is to try as best you can not to become sick and also to support your community through this difficult time with money or volunteer labor. So, if you are a highly-paid techie who can work from home and limit your interaction with others in the community, do so.
It could happen, but at least in SF it's gone the other way. The Catholic Schools were the first to close, all 90 schools are now shut down.
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I've worked from home occasionally, but only in short stretches where I could get some work done from my laptop at the kitchen table.

With the recent WFH-mandate for my company, my team is now entirely WFH. I've set up a designated space at home to work from with some proper ergonomics, and I'm interested in hearing general advice and recommendations about staying productive, striking the work/life balance, and keeping the casual/social in-person environment alive. Any specific recommendations?
As a parent to a child who missed significant amounts of school and is graduating with her class this summer, I 100% agree with you.
“Princess Diamond” deaths are excluding people who died in their home countries that where infected on the cruse ship. They had 6 deaths as of February 28th and then excluded all future deaths and cases “cases found after disembarkation” from the total.

Edit: A Hong Kong national from the ship died on 6 March which is being included as the 7th death. So, this may simply be fragmented rather than explicit exclusions.
The WHO did not call it early enough, due to political pressure. I don't trust them.
What does that have to do with inertiatic's comment?
I agree about it not running afoul of freedom of speech but I do wonder about the jurisprudence around freedom of assembly.

Congress shall make no law ...abridging ... the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
Marketing hack: buy expensive ticket, hire yeller with sign; make it onto expensive TV broadcast and go viral.
All the recent headlines read like from "Plague Inc.", I have never thought I would live in such times.
>The difference is that in the US all of this is due to incompetence

I wouldn't be so sure. Trump's stock market is his best argument for re-election. It's very reasonable to think he would want to downplay anything that could disrupt the economy in the run up to the election.
Please remember that epidemics must, by rules of reality, logistic curves, not exponential.
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> China is the only superpower who prioritizes "saving face" over world health. Nobody else would be stupid enough to falsify health data in the face of a pandemic to make themselves look better.

The US has criminally undertested and is actively hiding information (classifying meetings) by order of the current administration.
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Wer zahlt, schafft an. It's not as if they can just tell the Chinese to fuck off, is it?

They have to stay on the good side of the Chinese, or they will get kicked out.
I hate to suggest that but the only short-term solution that seems to work is large-scale extreme response measures, just like China.

Here is evidence why it works: new cases/day decreasing dramatically since February: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESywcEKUwAADhcQ?format=png&name=...

What China did is a complete shutdown and isolation of whole cities, cancellation of public gatherings, prohibition of attendance at school and work, massive mobilization of health and public health personnel as well as military medical units, and rapid construction of entire hospitals.

Wuhan, Iran, Italy have shown us that the health care system simply collapses under the huge number of patients needing hospitalization (20% of infected.) So mobilizing healthcare workers, springing up new "hospitals", and limiting spread with extreme responses is the way to go.

Unfortunately I predict that western governments are going to be less likely to suggest, deploy, and enforce such massive quarantines. Quarantines impede on civil liberties, and people in the West are very protective of freedom and liberties. I think the average American will NOT be okay with his government telling him he is only authorized to exit his house to go shopping once a week...
I'm glad they're being this assertive now. I've been concerned that many jurisdictions in the US would wait for aggressive social distancing until the case load was already into the thousands.
One of the biggest advantages of the US system is that power is spread out between the federal, state, and local governments, and corporations, and private individuals. Rampant incompetence at one level of the system can be fixed by other levels.
granted, at the street-level it is mostly not so glamorous - but gosh reading comments online makes me feel like people are still operating on an early 2000s conception of China.
I'm surprised that there is absolutely no comments. Does that mean that this project is really not interesting?
Either I missed that wording or it wasn't clear to me. I also may be projecting the mentality of other people I've heard planning to get cheaper travel even if it does result in other people getting sick.

I cannot know your intentions, so if they truly are with other people in mind, I apologize.

Do also keep in mind, though, that by purchasing them now you are inevitably biasing yourself towards going.
One remote company I applied to said they got about 2000 applications, and they interviewed about 2% (me being among them).

And it wasn't some prestigious or well known company or a startup pulling off something crazy. Just a tiny company doing a rather boring web application for businesses.
They may in extreme circumstances - the courts still will function and I'm sure we're going to hear a lot of BS challenges to this restriction - but if authorities step over the line and, for instance, close down a small political rally of 300 while an opponent's rally of 500 is unaffected, then injunctions will happen.
Correct move. Should be done statewide and nationwide as well.

Sorry about your trade convention, I had a show I wanted to go to next month as well, but this is probably the single largest move that could be done to help limit the spread. I'd even say to reduce that to 50 people or so.

Kinda awkward to have to tell people they can't go to church but even that's not the best idea right now.
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Pretty cool, the developments of getting edible protein from atmospheric elements sounds really rad, especially if they're targeting using renewables.

Personally, I think for terrestrial use it will have limited applications as Ag can deliver plant proteins with great efficiency, animal less so, but if given a choice over a soylent-green type slury or an egg piece or grilled chicken I think I'd opt for the egg/chicken every time. My diet is already optimized at a 7:1 plant to animal protein ratio, I don't think I can go any higher on the plant side without compromising my strength training as I need lots of HDL fat to recover.

However, I wonder how this tech would work on the way to Mars and once there since there aren't any external sources to derive them from? Martian atmosphere is ~3% N, as opposed to ~78% on Earth. I understand they want to create a closed-loop system with re-utilization, but I wonder if they will need to develop some sort of tech to efficiently extract the N from urea when re-processing the water and then use it that way. That';s my best guess, because its about ~6 months to Mars and there is no way a payload with Humans, equipment, supplies, water can sustain them for that long.

Either way, I bookmarked there site and will periodically check it out, thanks!
I think it is like with everything else - it depends. If you are in the high mortality rate demographic and your recovery is not fast enough then you may still have the risk of being "phased out" when the medical system comes crashing down with the load of new cases happening during your recovery.

The best is to not get the infection.
Seattle resident working downtown and living in the city. Not an alarmist but I am a realist on the situation. The situation is getting spooky and the press conference, though expected, was eerie to say the least. This is like living a movie.
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It has. About a third of the full-time SXSW staff has been laid off. (And of course, countless local servers, security, caterers, registration desk people, event hall setup, etc. etc. are simply not going to get much in the way of hours over the next number of months.)
At least in the US, companies and other organizations are hesitant to be the first ones to stick their necks out and cancel events/encourage remote work. Our federal government's incompetent/evasive/opaque response to the crisis has let the burden fall on local governments in the hardest-hit areas.

Labeling this a pandemic would have given cover to organizations that wanted to be more cautious but were afraid of "looking stupid".
That seems more reasonable.
If only, sadly it looks like that won't be happening in the near future due to primary developments.
A lot of the syntax was borrowed from C++ for better or worse. It does make the transition from C++ a lot easier but of course if you're not familiar with the language there'll be some friction. Beyond that there are things that Rust needs syntax for that simply doesn't exist in many other languages such as the Trait-based generics, modules (that didn't use to exist in C++) and of course lifetimes.

Beyond that I can't help but feeling that you're following this (IMO) counterproductive cargo cult that holds that sigils are teh 3v1l and everything should be alphanumeric only. Python was at the forefront of this movement but it's now very popular. IMO it's completely counterproductive, even in Python case. It's form over function. You end up with a language where you have to be careful when you refactor because indentation becomes significant and no way to scope your variables properly. Or a language like JS where somebody genuinely thought that having arcane rules to automatically insert semicolons was a reasonable idea because "ewwww semicolons look ugly". It sure looks good if you want to get them tatooed, but in practice at best it's pointless and at worst it gets in the way.

I'm all for descriptive variable and function names but the core syntax of the language is repeated all over the place all the time and benefits from concision. Having Rust spell out "function" instead of "fn" wouldn't disambiguate anything since you're exposed to it within 5 minutes in the language and you'll be super familiar with it very quickly. Having a shorthand means that it doesn't pollute the code listing and leaves more room for the actually important stuff.

A lot of people like to point out Perl as an example of "sigil soup gone wrong" but I'd argue that it's not even the real problem here, Perl can become an unreadable mess because of all the "magic" it allows, meaning you can write code that seems to do absolutely nothing but actually does a whole lot (with things like the implied variable $_ for instance). If you look at an exhaustive list of Perl operators there are only a handful I'd personally consider questionable (like `x` and maybe `<=>`. Also some of the quoting q{} qq{} and qx{} are really obtuse).
This is a damn good breakdown.

The one thing I'll add about 100% remote companies is that because they operate with much more written collaboration than a traditional company, the application and interview process frequently reflect that.

This is a big part of why you'll very robust application processes upfront. They want to see if you can effectively communicate your thoughts in writing.
That theory still alleges incompetence, because covering it up for an extra month or even two won't impact the elections which are a long time from now.
A lot of people can't afford a $400 sweater. What are they supposed to do?

Local manufacturing is for rich people who can afford it.
There were an estimated 44,000,000 flu cases in the US in 2017-2018. Assuming a worst-case-with-current-data death rate of 3.5%, that's about 1,500,000 deaths. Not millions.
And yet if they did nothing you would predictably be in this thread wondering if it was a planned release.
If you spread people out sufficiently, I feel like it should be fine?
Are these stats not accurate?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

They are saying 7 deaths and 32 critical.
And, ironically, a strong response by the only candidate with the bully pulpit, would have been the best way to ensure re-election.
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I love this.

And the video is amazing.

I love the design, especially the bizarre loading screen. Initial UX thoughts from a elfeed user who imported their feeds with an opml:

- It would be great if the enter and close buttons were in the same spot, instead of the close button jumping to the bottom, so you could open and close drawers more easily.

- It'd be great if links could be shaded after they'd been opened, or marked somehow else as having been read.

- Would love to be able to reorder tabs

- Would be great if you could change the label for all the entries in a group in one go. Eg, I set the yellow geekface emoji for my tech follows, but I want to change this to a darker skinned variant without having to do so one-by-one.

- After I've added my feeds and given them all categories, the home tab is empty and calls me to add follows. It's unclear if I'm waiting for feeds to update or something, or if I need to leave some uncategorised, etc.

- Love the graphs but I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

- As you'd expect from an emacs user, would love to have more keyboard binding. Cycle through, unfold this drawer, unfold all drawers, switch tab, etc.

Thanks for this ace project!
> Even still, my partner and I are keeping an eye open on flights to Europe (we've always wanted to go) and seriously considering taking the risk of buying a flight for in a couple of months time because they are quite literally at half price right now. And I'm not even talking about Italy.

If you do this in the midst of a pandemic, it's an unethical and selfish act.
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I'm so harmless, how can it be resolved?
Israel just banned gatherings of 100 people or more. No fans in sport events. I also wonder what would fill the vacuum of all the canceled parties and nightlife, since it's pretty popular here.
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Heh, imagine a world where the law requires the appointment of a public defender, but it's also disallowed by the bar association to serve as one.
Thanks, and that's a great question! We're targeting companies with 10 or more support agents. More generally, we're best for companies who are starting to see some amount of complexity in their customer support. Some examples include: if you're launching phone/chat/realtime support, if you have multiple specializations in your support team, if you're extending hours to the weekends.

Most smaller teams can get away with 9am-5pm weekday support for quite a while. However, once you have enough volume where you need to start staffing weekends or staffing earlier/later in the day, it becomes a lot harder to manage your team and that's where Assembled comes in.
Yup. Twitter is not reality.