skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Bloomberg misses the basics of human psychology here.

People look for strong leadership in times of panic and fear. Sometimes to their detriment. But I would be surprised if a majority is not for stronger measures when they think of their loved ones, and themselves.
> 1 sqm

That seems awfully low for "free range". It's at least 8 sqm in Austria.
Thanks to this effect, small food companies are growing fast since the 2000s. "Big Food" is fighting back by doing local-washing: silently buy small companies, industrialize them, then pretend to be local and responsible.

Tech has exactly the same problem.
The truth is that they don't have the bidet.
How do you start taking measures if one side does't think there is a problem?
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You wouldn't need multiple leaves though? You generate your own certificate and send the CSR to the CA, no?
Switzerland stops contact tracing, reduces quarantine to 5 days
... so you're saying at the end of the day consumers got a better product that's ostensibly valuable and accessible?
it's a gesture for the americans probably. you start typing 18:00 and realize that US people will want to know if it's pm.
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> Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is

This quote is from Johan Cruyff - A football legendary. I feel it also true with programming.

Nothing wrong with the technical stacks, in my opinion: Do the right work, at the right time, with the right tool.
I am not denying that. I am simply worried when I see alarmist posts, uncorborated, that have the tendency to spread panic.

That's why call out every twitter thread like that when I come accross them. In this case it was a guy you referenced a friend of his. So uncorborated. Bad reporting, plain and simple.
WD40 is indeed great for cleaning things, including bike parts. And you can use it as you suggest, then apply another lubricant designed for bike chains.

However, there are other cleaners specifically designed for bike chains. It's just that WD40 is often in the workshop or toolbox so it tends to get used for this sort of task.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
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Or just dual boot? I hold option when starting and select Mojave. Only the system-necessary files are on that partition - all other files (like applications, downloads etc) are being shared between my two installs. That way I can download a game on steam, and if it doesn't work, I play it on Mojave.
It's worth noting that this isn't really a solution for FPGA. It just takes Java, generates OpenCL and then pushes it through the existing Intel OpenCL compiler for FPGA. The problem is that to get even close to Ok performance on FPGA with the current OpenCL compiler you need to spend months hand optimizing your code (and often the compiler too), but with this tool you can't even touch the OpenCL code.

Also, just as a separate point can someone point me to a design that acheives 5TFlops on Stratix 10, let alone the claimed 10TFlops - because my understanding is to get that performance you would need to run the fabic at 1GHz and use 100% of the DSPs - which is frankly hilariously impossible.
Large infrastructure projects with massive costs is hardly a UK-specific problem.

I guess instead of waiting a decade or more for a nuclear plant we'll wait a decade or two for these portable nuclear plants to be maybe (if ever) be commercialised.

In the meantime, we've already built the largest wind farms in the world which are proving valuable as the primary source of UK electricity https://electricityproduction.uk
$6,000 per microsecond would be $6Bn per second, big and profitable as Google is, i'm going to say it's a little bit less than that :)
The nominal voltage of a battery isn't the maximum voltage, 3.7V lithium cells are typically charged to around 4.2V.

A 4S battery (or equivalent) will have a nominal voltage of 14.8V and a maximum voltage of 16.8V, which leaves 2.2V extra, probably to account for losses.

Why 19V ended up being the typical voltage rather than rounding it up to something like 20V or 24V is beyond me (probably a matter of compliance, try checking IEC 60950-1 or related standards).
As long as you stay with low percentages, the linear approximation works pretty well: two times 1% lead to a 2.01% increase. But it starts breaking down as soon as you reach 10%.

Little trick to know (with some good approximation) the doubling time of some low-percentage growing system: count it linearly up to 10% and then multiply by 7 (which is roughly the doubling time for 10% growth). Example: 2% => 5*7=35 years to double.
A mate of mine is a master mech with Nissan, and he introduced me to Forch Black Magic S411... my life has never been the same again
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"after 9/11 and false reports of weapons of mass destruction my trust in the media has been badly tainted."

could you elaborate on this please?
https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714408985596313...

Read this thread about what is happening in Italy. That’s a preview of what the rest of the world will be dealing with in the next three weeks.
They are undertaken so that the health service is not overwhelmed with cases. When that happens (as in Italy), you need to triage infected and let some number of people die, who otherwise would not have died. So it is best avoided.

They're lifted after most of the population has already been infected and the disease has run its course (as in China).
Infections were doubling every 2 days until they stopped testing mild cases. Schools are open, border with Italy is unchecked, nobody is wearing masks. I'm here and honestly not sure what to do.
> Every other browser vendor is a for-profit entity, and as such will limit good ad-blocking measures as Safari

I thought Safari introduced support for Content Blockers specifically to avoid ad blockers from phoning home and passing potentially sensitive information to the ad blocker's writer.

Lots of people then got quite cross that their favourite blocker had been blocked.
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> is there a single known instance of the US government ever doing such a thing?

Not that I’m aware of, but they’ve done a lot worse in the past (arming opposition to democratically elected governments, then turning against them later; drugging people without their consent or knowledge; etc) so its not particularly crazy to think that they’re willing or capable to do such things.
The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Am in Germany. Everyone is acting like nothing is happening. It's infuriating.
It seems that so many of these resources focus on getting from "hello" to "yes". But I'm having major difficulties getting from a "yes" to paid invoices.

Anybody has good resources that would help with getting through legal, it, procurement, privacy reviews? How to help my customers get that new budget approved? How to efficiently find out what is the next problem that needs to be solved?
This outbreak may put an end to this "post-truth world" nonsense. There is no such thing and never will be, or at least not for long. Eventually Darwin puts his foot down. Recognize reality or it recognizes you.
Are those sugar alcohols the only ones giving you trouble? Did you get tested for Fructose malabsorption?
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Well, if they did that is more or less ground for legal action. Managers have something "Fürsorgepflicht", meaning htey have to take care employees are safe. Usually things go the other way round, your employer would not allow you to travel.

depending on how long friend is employed by this company, the resulting leal case could be rather expensive for the employer. Your friend would still have to look for another job, so...
Take a look at the calendar. It is 2020.
there are very few cases (big cities) where long queues are a thing. most of the world has no need for this
> That's a once-in-a-century, catastrophic black swan event.

It's a catastrphic event but I don't see any reason it won't happen again in the coming years / decades. The virus itself could even have worse characteristics in terms of transmissibility and mortality. Our transportation network is so great and modern society so dependent on it there is no hope stopping these outbreaks going global, only slowing them down.

In fact it should probably be fairly easy for a malicious actor to engineer a worse virus. Longer incubation period, truly airborne, super lethal. Whatever the final death toll is, I don't think it'll be the last or the worst of the 21st century.
Awarding military contracts is how fundamental R&D is being funded in the US. Because direct R&D funding is not popular with the general public you have to go in a roundabout way and pretend it’s for military use. There is no guarantee anything practical will come out of this.
That's a good shout, but you should definitely start with vanilla JavaScript. It's almost akin to learning English.

Typescript is an excellent progression though.
If they closed the office, cleaned it, and tested everyone else, it would be reasonable. But I guess they didn't do this. Which really our society is not set up for.

Actually Covid-19 cleaning solutions would be a temporary business to get into.
Maybe not necessary to close the whole shop, just make the workers with symptoms afford to stay away.
Right, but the "phone" part of a burner phone is essentially superfluous, it's the sim card that serves the purpose here. Of course you need to put it into something but it doesn't matter what. You can swap your main sim card with a "burner" sim, get the code to authenticate, then swap back. It takes 2 minutes.
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> I'd like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that's not the world we live in.

The world we live in has historically treated workers better and better, with some ups and downs, mostly for economic reasons.

The primary factor that determines worker welfare is the price of labor. If labor is cheap due to low demand and lots of people compete for jobs, they will accept being mistreated. If labor is expensive due to high demand and fewer people competing for jobs, they will not accept being mistreated. They will move on to greener pastures.

This is different across industries, of course. The plight is upon those who have little to offer to the demands of the economy. If nobody wants to eat honey anymore, having bees work for free wouldn't save the company.

What we also have learned from history, but tend to forget, is that price fixing doesn't solve the problem.

> We live in a world where executive pay is going stratospheric while employee benefits are stagnant.

This is numerically irrelevant, because there are very few such executives. Cutting into their compensation to pay the many lower-tier workers a tiny bit more would make no difference.
Fair, though I don't think the US is especially unique in that regard; plenty of other countries seem to be denying the issue until it's too late. Even China waited until right before the start of the Chinese New Year (by which point a bunch of people were already out and about traveling) to impose its quarantine on Wuhan; by that point, South Korea already had confirmed cases, and the virus was likely already in Italy (the first two cases were confirmed just a couple days later).

Hell, my folks think we all might've gotten in way back in early January on a family cruise we took; a bunch of us came down with what we all thought was a particularly nasty flu, but without any nausea (just headaches, muscle aches, fatigue, and coughing) midway through. My stepmom ended up going to the hospital when she didn't get over it after a week (but it was still well before anyone thought SARS-CoV-2 had spread beyond China, so nobody tested for it, despite testing for the more typical flus and not finding anything; they ended up treating her as if it was a flu anyway). The rest of us toughed it out and eventually got over it, me figuring "alright I guess the normal seasonal flu is just extra bad this year; next year I'm totally gonna remember to get that flu shot, promise".

The thought was in the back of my mind for awhile that "maybe we did get Coronavirus somehow" (e.g. from other tourists on the boat), especially when the reports of cruise ship quarantines hit the news. In hindsight, I probably should've acted on it and gotten checked out, or otherwise at least said something. If only foresight was 20/20, too. I still don't think it really was SARS-CoV-2 (if it was, I'd expect coworkers and friends and non-cruise-attending family to have gotten it, too, but that didn't seem to be the case; then again, maybe they did get sick and made the same assumption of "nah, this is just the usual winter flu or cold"), but still.

Not sure where I was going with that, but yeah. I think the denialism's just because of previous epidemics in recent memory getting widespread news coverage (swine flu, bird flu, West Nile, etc.) only to end up being minor compared to, say, Spanish flu or polio or measles or other "realer" pandemics from "back in the olden days" (or even current ones like HIV/AIDS, which we all were fine with ignoring 'cause "we're good Christians boys and girls and not them there homosexuals or adulterers").

And then we see the same pattern unfolding here and expect it to blow over again. For all we know we've all been getting infected but we laugh it off as "oh yeah, sure, I totally have the beer virus, guess I get to call in sick, hahaha" and work through it, hoping that there's no truth to that particular joke.
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Well, in Bavaria at least, people are forced to self-quarantine for two weeks if they had contact to people from o where in high risk areas. Same goes for children in schools and kindergardens. Some schools are closed already. Corporate travel came more or less to a halt and soccer games are most likely taking place without spectators.

So yes, just business as usual.
Wow, six years notice. If Silverlight was a Google product they had removed that from Chrome within two weeks.

That said, I don't think anyone would start a project using Silverlight these days.
That relies on looking at what's actually happening. Modern right-wing politics has no interest in facts. For them, Coronavirus is just another left-wing attack on the President: https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/123717484635584102...
Confession of a corrupted Lisper here, how to get into IT?
I have been reading about Linux, Lisp and functional programming since forever, eternally excited just reading about it, yet never really programming anything serious, just snippets of here and there, after which I get lost configuring Emacs, practicing a new keyboard layout, or worst, at the end of this crazy happy spectrum, watching Stallman lecturing about freedom of our techno landscape while trying to understand subtle beauty of a Guy Steele talk , damn, then Sussman comes along, and I could watch him anytime, his intensity is captivating. Lately I like to watch Bartosz Millewski lectures on category theory and draw diagrams, but hey I still dont understand much though its really fun and helps me feel a sort of nice meditative state.. whats my point? I have been spending my time like this for the past 15 years without even trying to get an IT job, immediately being put down by realizing I will have to work on some pythonesque imperative control flows, or scripting along en endless tube of calls. Once I met a lisper while working in a restaurant and he was amazed at how excited I about lisp, he told me its not important I do not know how to code or the mere fact I do not own a computer. Such minds should me nurtured and given jobs..well I am here now, I guess I am looking for a motivational answer that could put me on track, or am I wasting time yet again? Can anybody relate to this and how did you overcome this infinite search in constant space?
Most likely Stalin hoped that Denmark would become neutral in any future division of Europe (Finnish and Austrian Neutrality is highly useful for the USSR).

I think this is consistent with the withdrawal of Red Army troops from places like Austria.
What you say is true in principle, but your numbers are wrong. I got a rather less dramatic 50% difference after a year:

>>> 1.02**365
1377.4082919660768
>>> 1.021**365
1969.6808462403098
>>>
Get your own IP. Submit to the block lists to remove your IP. Then over time the IP will be trusted. It's pretty much the only way forward. Other services will have the same issue.

You could try your own VPS and mail in a box. But you run the same risks.
The same is true in all political systems. A king must constantly play a social media game too or their rivals may gain the upper hand. A modern despot must constantly ensure that they never show weakness for the same reasons. There are always rivals and there is always a game.

So far we have never come up with a working political system that banishes this stuff. It's a game theory problem.
I've heard yesterday Switzerland is really not prepared very well. They are relying on hospitalization, but clearly the calculation is they'll only take in high risk cases.

first commenter says when her child developed flu like symptoms they were told they can't guarantee what she has, go home and see what happens the next 5 days, wearing a mask not to spread it to others...
Still, "backwards compatible extensions to the legacy JPEG standard". So there's that.
Yes, COVID-19 is the disease caused by the virus, SARS-CoV-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
Reminds me of this article about unusual cravings from the 1940s; no mention of Stalin though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Coke
This is terrible. Was it Rysensteen Gymnasium?

Edited: Just found the article (Malling Skole i Østjylland)

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/skole-sender-klasse-i-kara...
But my point is that surely these additional 60,000 people (and probably many more who recovered) must have gone through ICU.
And the trade war between US and China could it be the everything bubble and the virus is being used as their leverage and excuses for their actions now and the time being?
That'd definitely be more than USD 6k.
In my experience, this always comes with vetting the customer and asking the right questions. It's important to ask things like "what's your buying process like" or "what's the procurement process like?" for enterprise type deals.

If the direct customer doesn't know, ask for introductions to the people who might. This gets you ahead of any type of issues that could possibly pop up in these types of situations.

In the end, always start by listening to the customers needs and asking the right questions to understand everything you need to qualify the deal.
more than 80k confirmed cases world wide, and two with a secondary infection.
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A good offer which is hardly usable due to the suggested deployment method: "very simple to setup through our web interface. There is no software to install and it just works".

It would just work if it could be installed on a machine.

Big Brotheresque deals from Mainframe era? No, thank you. I have my own computer for that.
Yes, and this is a huge problem. Countries like Singapore which have managed to control the coronavirus have done so using travel restrictions much stricter than the US ones. The Washington Post found a solution to this though. They ran an op-ed "Coronavirus testing might have stopped it early. Now it's too late." pointing to Singapore's success as proof the coronavirus could've been contained, but completely omitting any mention of its use of border controls and pinning it entirely on aggressive testing. This went viral on social media, turning Singapore's success into a confirmation of people's existing belief seeded by the media that Trump's obsession with travel restrictions had screwed up the US coronavirus response.
That's what you need to do when the country is unprepared, and the health service is overwhelmed.

Similar situations will play out in the US unless strict protocols are enforced now.
No, they should not. What they could do, so, would be to share the raw data with external bodies that have the proper domain knowledge and certification to actually work with it.
Not a single comment calling out this article's complete lack of scientific references, including the "iron smashing our brains at relativistic velocities" quote?

I think it's great to consider other planets we can colonize, and indeed a thick atmosphere has a lot of benefits, but it's hardly rational to state Mars has "a deal-breaking problem" without providing any hard evidence to back up this claim.
> What I mostly wish is that citizens could throw some sort of flag now to say "This crisis is being poorly handled. If this goes badly, let's have a review, figure out why, and correct the problem once this is settled."

The election season is in full swing and you should have the opportunity to vote on how well you think the crisis has been handled by November.
Thank you for initiating Guake, I use it every day and like it
Ohio State Cancels In-Person Classes Through End of March Due to Coronavirus
I'm in Berlin and people are making zero effort to alter their usual patterns.
Like a life-long Maxell commercial but with acid rain.
Converted to a webm file[0] and it's less than 700kb (a bit less than the size of the binary).

[0] https://giant.gfycat.com/LikelyDescriptiveBrahmancow.webm
This had been bugging me all day in the back of my head... turns out shuffle is enabled by default. Both in sklearn and in tf.keras (also original keras).

On a separate note, I think there may be a source file missing in your notebook. I kept getting an error when trying to load "GSE87571_series_matrix.csv". Might just be me.

[sklearn ref](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.mo...)

[tf.keras](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/keras/Model#fi...)
Counter-datapoint: My employer (SAP) has had one case of COVID-19 among their German workforce. The entire office building has been closed down for disinfection and the employees there are asked to work from home for the quarantine period. All other employees (worldwide afaik) can work from home without informing their manager beforehand (as is the usual policy). All non-essential business travel is prohibited, with exceptions requiring high-tier management approval. Only two examples for exceptions were given: travelling to a data center to access physical hardware, and travelling to a customer site to access intranet services.

EDIT: I realize that this response is easier to do for SAP than for the average company since we are all working in front of computers anyway the entire time, with only 1-2% of tasks tied to physical objects (paper forms, server hardware etc.).
It's going to take a couple of weeks. We really need to serve the onboarding emails now - updating our backend to another service will only take 1-2 days.

However, I have started the warm-up process in SparkPost for the long term, Thanks.
Considerable. All of the three biggest car parts manufacturers here in Germany have announced redundancies, two of them have announced factory closings.

https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/autozulie...

https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/zuliefere...
Why not delete? This way they legally keep your data and it would be naive to assume they don't find a way to keep following you...